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by pilom 9y ago
Yes I am, just used those as the metric for meeting the $500/month landmark from the title.
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by pilom 9y ago
How did the rights for that work out? If I were an employee when I built a tool to solve a problem like that I would expect the employer to own it. Can you talk to how that conversation went?
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by pilom 9y ago
30, ~125k household income for two adults no kids, IT and teacher. Our income made it a little easier to get here but the $200k hole of combined student loans we started with (now fully paid off) probably counters that pretty evenly.
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by pilom 9y ago
I've cut my expenses and invested the extra in index funds. Currently at a nest egg of around $300k which spews off dividends of around $500/month and is currently appreciating a bit faster than that.
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by pilom 9y ago
He has a download for it on the original article that works great with Win10 64 bit. Why not link to the original article's download link: https://ski.ihoc.net/ski32.zip or https://ski.ihoc.net/ski32.ex
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by pilom 9y ago
Just out of curiosity, did you buy a license for this or is it public domain by now?
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by pilom 9y ago
Verizon does indeed provide a truly unlimited plan. You just can't buy it from them. It's the grandfathered plans from 2006-2009. You can still find them on Ebay for a couple hundred dollars up front [0]. They are still 100% truly
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by pilom 9y ago
Seeds can remain viable for significantly longer than a year. My guess is that as it got significantly colder for that same time period, most seeds were too cold to grow until it warmed up after the soot left the atmosphere.
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by pilom 9y ago
I agree with you, here are some numbers to back up Denver is great COL vs salary wise. I work remotely as a mid-level DevOps guy for about $115k and no equity. I bought a 3 br house with a yard next to a light rail station 10 min drive 20 m
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How We Get Internet as Digital Nomads(therecklesschoice.com)
2 points by pilom 9y ago|0 comments
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by pilom 9y ago
"Just call this number and give an exact time at least 36 hours from now when you will be at the gate. At that time, you will be escorted to the beach. If you are late, you will need to reschedule"
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by pilom 9y ago
Can someone explain how he ever hoped to win this? The law seems pretty clear. In California, the public owns beaches up to the high tide line. Is there some exception that the lawyers were betting on?
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by pilom 9y ago
US drivers drive 3.1 Trillions miles per year [0]. Every month, the 12 Month moving average has been going up at 5 billion miles [0]. So every month we need to install enough charging stations to charge 5 billion miles/year. Lets use a
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by pilom 9y ago
A Tesla model 3 has a listed range of 220 miles and it declines in winter and with hills. Therefore I doubt one could actually go from downtown Denver to Vail (~95 miles) for a day of skiing and back in a day without charging at the resort.
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by pilom 9y ago
That the whole "no one will own a car because self driving ones will be so much more cheaper" is hogwash.
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by pilom 9y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with you and my next vehicle will be a plug in hybrid. That said, that isn't what the author is saying. He's saying that all private cars will go away because it will be so much cheaper to just call a self d
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by pilom 9y ago
Every time I see someone make the argument that "all cars will be electric by 20XX" I feel like they are incredibly sheltered from rural life. The US is HUGE! Sure the majority of commuting could be replaced by electric cars but I
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by pilom 9y ago
Plastic production requires oil and improving power density of batteries doesn't help that. Heating houses to a US standard requires astronomical amounts of energy that will be provided by fossil fuels because they are cheap per BTU.
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How We Get Internet as Digital Nomads(therecklesschoice.com)
2 points by pilom 9y ago|0 comments
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by pilom 9y ago
Regulators will have trouble finding anti-trust cases against amazon for the same reason they'll have trouble finding against conglomerates like Berkshire Hathaway. Both get their price setting ability from being conglomerates rather t
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by pilom 9y ago
Low interest rates explain a lot of the P/E changes. Same reason houses get more valuable when interest rates are low.
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by pilom 9y ago
How much you keep in your bank savings account has very low correlation with savings/net worth. Extremely low net worth people generally keep liquid assets in cash because then they don't need to pay crazy fees to banks. High net
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Longest Lines of Sight on Earth(beyondhorizons.eu)
336 points by pilom 9y ago|155 comments
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by pilom 9y ago
Just to be clear. The Mega backdoor Roth requires a 401k that allows After-Tax Contributions. Most won't let you do that. Their software will say "that contribution percentage you have selected will result in more than $18k/y
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by pilom 9y ago
Why? My understanding was that the only reason Apple and Google did stock splits was that they wanted to get onto the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is (stupidly) price weighted and not market cap weighted so without the split, they wou
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by pilom 9y ago
Honestly I think even my number is a little optimistic because I doubt his battery lasts 2 years. Most lead acid batteries are only good for 100-200 100% cycles. I also doubt that the PWM controller or the inverter last 30 years. I've
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by pilom 9y ago
Please do not do this. For one, it's illegal. All grid-tied solar systems require either a transfer switch or to automatically disconnect when the grid loses power. This is so that you don't electrocute an electrician working on l
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by pilom 9y ago
We are very mobile, usually stay in one place for a week at a time and then move a couple hours away. You're right about weight though, we are right at our GVWR (11,000 pounds) when fully loaded. The batteries weigh 100 pounds each and
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by pilom 9y ago
Most do. The panels you see on rooftops are all generally exactly the same size but could generate anywhere from 315w/panel to 250w/panel depending on binning. No idea why that company didn't.
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by pilom 9y ago
Unfortunately it isn't a 16% return because he can't sell that system for what he paid. If you buy a stock at $300 and sell it for $348, that's a 16% return. But for him, he probably would have trouble selling all of that for

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