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by qqqwerty 8y ago
It is highly unlikely that you will be left with no options. Under most universal health care systems, private insurance plays a complementary role[1]. Also, if we go the public option route, it would compete against, rather than replace,
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The point I was trying to make was that 2 way charging infrastructure is not cheap[1]. And right now battery storage is really only cost competitive as a peak flex provider largely because you need to pay for the electricity that goes into
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
One of the main reason is concerns about degradation. Battery capacity and performance degrades as the number of discharge cycles increases. And EV users are particularly sensitive to that degradation (see issues with early Nissan leafs for
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This show, perhaps: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/search-for-the-super-bat...
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I have been thinking about this a bit lately as I enter my 'mid-career' stage and am contemplating a minor career shift (same industry, different specialization). Also, I have some recent experience that was rather illuminating r
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
I am very sympathetic to your ordeal. But I would also like you to consider a few counter points. Consider this very hypothetical scenario. For a particular diagnosis, an experimental treatment improved outcomes compared to a control group
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FWIW, this is only marginally worse than your standard 'industry award' in that he had the nerve to give it to himself. Pretty much every industry has a boatload of meaningless awards. It is done largely for marketing and for &#x2
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
Random tangent, but the craziness around job interviews and hiring is one of the many reasons I think we need Universal Basic Income and Universal Healthcare. In a world where firing an employee doesn't completely upend their life, I f
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My non-scientific, and poorly researched understanding is that calories in/calories out is how you manage weight. But digestion itself is also a somewhat 'taxing' processes, and eating 3 square meals a day means you are prett
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
First piece of advice: Relax, don't sweat it too much. I 'hosted' my first side project on a Raspberry PI. My second was on an AWS EC2 instance on the tiny free tier. Nothing wrong with having the db and the app on the same
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It's quite possible that the 'California wealthy' are a minority of transplants (say 20-40%), but that could still move real estate markets significantly. Looking at [1], it seems like the Portland housing market does about 2
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
From my understanding, VC funds as an asset class don't perform that well. A few of them hit the jackpot, but if someone spreads their bets across a number of funds, I would be surprised if they beat the market. So keep that in mind
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I was assuming one could trickle charge at their destination. If there is a 220V outlet than that should be sufficient, but if you are doing it on 110v, then yeah, you would have to probably swing by a charging station. I agree regarding t
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
I don't think you are being totally fair here (and most people aren't when making the long distance EV vs ICE comparison). If you have a car full of kids and pets, are you really only stopping for 5 minutes in your ICE during a 5
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
There are a few factors that you are overlooking. A lot of startups (and small companies) aren't on the 'SV Unicorn Track', particularly so for startups focused on 'hard' problems. Energy, biotech, aerospace, etc..
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> companies still want high end folks and can't find them Companies will always want the highest end folks, as it makes them more competitive and productive. The question is are they willing to pay competitively for that talent. Mo
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600 miles is equal to about 10 hours of driving (very roughly). There are very few people who would do that trip without stopping at least a few times (bathroom, food, stretch, etc...) and if charging infrastructure is common enough (which
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
As a progressive, I am actually lukewarm regarding the tariffs. I think they are a horrible long term strategy, but they do send a signal to the 'world order' that something is wrong. And if we don't fix it, populism will con
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I don't think the Kochs have an ulterior agenda, but I also don't think they are being entirely altruistic in their motives. They have built a vast political influence machine to push their agenda of de-regulation and tax cuts, so
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I am in a similar boat, going to try and kick off a side project during this xmas break. As others mentioned, you should probably consider reducing scope and picking one platform to MVP on. I was also planning on doing a multi-platform proj
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This is just based on my memory, but I think they use different battery chemistries but use the same cell size (18650). I also thought it was weird that they were using 18650's when I first found out about it, but I think the need for
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by qqqwerty 8y ago
That is a fair point re existing battery scale. However I would counter, that to date, the vast majority of that development and investment has gone towards batteries for small devices (phones and laptops, basically). Compared to utility s
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Oh come on! No one here, other than yourself, has tried to claim that exponential cost reductions will continue indefinitely. But it is a fact, that solar experienced that type of cost reduction for a period of 2-3 decades. It's very u
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Well it happened in the solar module market[1]. And batteries are similar in many ways. They have a lot of government/policy support (rebate programs, pilot programs). Solar technology didn't change much during this period eithe
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Meanwhile, climate change deniers are pointing at the cold weather on the east coast as proof that climate change isn't real. It is entirely fair to suggest that the increase in heat waves that are likely caused by climate change may b
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This is what the article says, in regards to water: "Frequently, not trusting the quality of local drinking water, workers drink sodas and soft drinks, and experimental evidence suggests that doing so can lead to even more kidney damag
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From the article: "Instead of his usual fare of nephrology and diabetes papers, Johnson began to pore over global maps of climate and solar radiation. The rise in average temperatures over the last few years in Central America had been
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> it’s not likely that the skills you have on day one are the skills needed as the company scales to the next level. I don't really buy that this is a major issue. Founders and early employees tend to share very similar skill sets,