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by nocoiner 3y ago
It also has enormous hydro power potential. The environmental ramifications would probably make this a non-starter though. Renewable energy ought to be a no-brainer for PR, though. I just wish the utility wasn’t stuck in a spot where it has
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by nocoiner 3y ago
There’s at least one thing in the article that I’m pretty sure is incorrect - it says $33 billion in debt obligations were cut down through the PROMESA restructuring. I think that vastly understated the magnitude of the debt; I believe it w
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thank you! Sorry for the misinfo. Motivated reasoning, I suppose.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Here’s my understanding: Saab the name and the crest is owned by the airplane company, and they will never again license it out to another automaker. NEVS, a Chinese backed company that acquired the assets of Saab-the-car-company, has cease
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Please consider writing that essay when you get back!
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I mean, I think Norway has been pretty responsible with their North Sea windfall. I don’t think one can really especially criticize them too much for anything they’ve done with Statoil/Equinor or their public petroleum fund. And given
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by nocoiner 3y ago
My wife drives a fairly fancy GM and it astounds me how terrible the infotainment system is. And they’re dead set on doubling down on their homegrown software and freezing out CarPlay. Shaking my damn head. I want to root for GM, I really d
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yes. And from what I understand, they’ll never license their name to an automaker again. So even if somehow Saab-cars-the-company could be resurrected, it would be under a new identity (like, say, New Electric Vehicle Sweden or whatever it
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Nice! Definitely going to give that a shot. I don’t think we’re actively considering anything in particular yet, but a ~10 year old car from a brand with a strong emphasis on safety seems ideal for a teen driver from my perspective. Not sur
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by nocoiner 3y ago
For some reason, lately I’ve been depressed on practically a daily basis by the death of Saab (maybe due to playing a lot of DCS and flying the Viggen; also in no small part due to my first car being a Saab). Lots of their cars continue to
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by nocoiner 3y ago
For a second… for a second, I thought I heard… Singing.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
“Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault” Just beyond parody. Such expertise.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Isn’t Biden a counterexample to this point? Also, I’m not sure that this country has ever really selected leaders based on innate leadership potential (whatever that may be). Sometimes it selects for celebrity (I think GWB and Obama were ar
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I thought it might have been a transcription error of “carve out,” but your theory is more logical.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I just re-read the parent post, and was really struck by the reference to “documents filled with unstructured text.” I mean, that’s exactly what commercial contracting is - it doesn’t easily map to a simple schema outside very, very basic t
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It feels to me like where this is going to fall down is first contact with any business term that isn’t neatly covered by one of the form agreements. Not to say that this can’t be great for ordinary course arrangements that neatly fit withi
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by nocoiner 3y ago
> And is the plane really only 99 inches long? Can it fly from New York’s Idlewild Airport to the Belgian Congo in 17 minutes?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I really dislike how every corporate communication regarding an “update” now means “here’s how we’re making things worse for you.” I know honesty has never really been the fundamental value of public relations initiatives, but it would be r
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sounds to me like you’re friend is the sucker at this particular poker table. Seems like you’ve got this one in the bag, regardless of where he gets his news. Congrats on the favorable terms of your best, I guess.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The people who were paying $1000/hr were people who had selected an energy plan where they paid the wholesale rate. Normally that rate was a small fraction of the typical retail rate, but the risks should have been obvious to anyone of
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by nocoiner 3y ago
That’s just component cost though, right? Now apply Apple’s typical margins on hardware to it.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sure, there’s an arb opportunity there, until I get my Manhattan-Marunouchi neutrino beam up and running.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
LOL, an economic transaction that doesn’t create economic value is … not a good economic transaction. But obviously good for some people.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m, uh…. not sure that’s interesting at all, since they’re successive installments in a series of movies….
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I agree and disagree. I do think that the purpose of legal documents is to take a given set of inputs and dictate a predictable output. But (1) sometimes ambiguity is deliberate (for instance, to kick the can on a business point and hope th
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I wound up in that awkward middle ground where I can’t do much more than basic arithmetic with RPN, but every time I try to use a “normal” calculator I fumble around and forget how to add two numbers together. So then I break out excel and
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Pinky swear you’ll pay for the upkeep, all of it? It’s not just day-to-day maintenance (which I promise costs more than you’d expect) but also long-term building integrity and lifespan assurance. There are about 100 condo residents in Miam
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by nocoiner 3y ago
One problem is that the owner of the land, the owner of the building, and the developer are generally separate and distinct. In my experience the vast majority of property owners - especially those with the wherewithal to own prime CBD real
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sure, but it’s not like socializing isn’t necessary in business. While obviously public spaces can (and are) used for much of that, sometimes you need a private space for that aspect as well. Lots of business will continue to have some offi
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by nocoiner 3y ago
LOL, support group anyone???

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