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The markets and incentives are pretty screwy right now, but overbuilding solar is probably one of our best strategies at preparing for the future in the current moment. There are a number of reasons for this, in no particular order: Batteri
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This is a bad example. Students are tied geographically to their respective campuses. With a UBI, individuals would be incentivized to relocate to lower cost of living areas to stretch their UBI farther. The fact that housing is in such tig
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It is also worth comparing this to the current status quo. About ~17% of working age adults in West Virginia are receiving disability benefits[1] vs about 8% for California and New York. The reasons for this are complex, but in short it is
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"Doubling income taxes" sounds scary, but a large portion of the working population would roughy break even as the increase in taxes would simply be offset by the UBI they receive. A negative income tax is probably the best way to
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I picked up a model A for just this reason. $120 on craigslist for a 35 year old machine. It is super solid, but will need to replace a few minor parts soon. And from what I can tell they are all available for purchase from concept2, which
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Just an anecdotal note. I also switched to decaf, but I found that even decaf had enough caffeine in it to impact my sleep. I didn't really notice any sleep improvements until I had cut out all sources of caffeine. YMMV of course, but
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I quit over a year ago. Mostly for sleep reasons. I have cheated on my "caffeine fast" quite a bit though. I agree about the duller part, but that should go away eventually. One thing that helped, I used chicory root as a coffee s
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For reference, a mining rig that pulls 5kW will likely cost you around $20-30k and will generate a significant amount of heat. You would likely need to install a ventilation system to deal with the heat even in the winter months. It is also
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It would take decades just to recoup the equipment costs. It currently takes about 12-18 months to recoup the equipment costs ignoring electricity costs This assumes running the miners 24/7. If you only run your equipment a few hours a
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Check out your local Buy Nothing group on facebook as well. I have gotten tons of baby stuff from there. While we have purchased quite a few things over the past year, had I had a little more patience, and had my wife been more on board, I
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There are plenty of folks on HN who are trying to solve climate change, myself included. But if you spend enough time in the industry, it becomes apparent that it is incredibly difficult to move the needle without significant government lev
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Most software engineers know nothing about software engineering. Hop on over to any thread about hiring and you will see plenty of comments about SE candidates failing fizz buzz.
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The issue is that folks who are taking ivermectin are doing it in lieu of getting vaccinated. If you get vaccinated and want to take ivermectin for the heck of it, no one is going to stop you. But if you claim that ivermectin is a miracle
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Isn't the correct answer to wait for more reliable studies? Which is what most "anti-ivermectin" folks were saying to begin with? If your primary goal is to have a miracle cure in hand that would allow you to push back again
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Due to AC usage, electricity demand tends to be much higher in the summers than in the winters. And the demand profile in the summers peaks in mid-late afternoon. i.e You are not looking at the highest overall peak of the year, just the hou
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> why are we hung up on either/or? I agree that we should invest in both. But it is not as easy as waving a magic wand. Energy project development is a complicated dance between local power market regulators, local and federal incen
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It is frustrating that anti-mandate crowd ignores this comment, in my mind this is the singular reason that strict measures should still be required. A functioning health care system is a cornerstone of any modern society. Until we get to a
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I take issue with the cheap flips. This type of flipping is really only possible in a hot market where inspection contingencies are regularly waved. Cheap flips are basically robbing the community by lowering the quality of the housing stoc
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This is an interesting lesson in algo trading run wild. Roughly, house prices have a fundamental ceiling, and it is determined by the size of the monthly payment that banks will allow the typical homebuyer to assume when approving a loan. I
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I think you are in the sweet spot. Equity compensation drops fast for early employees. Roughly, the first employee might get 1-2%, but by employee #10 it is down to 0.25-0.1%. At that level, you would still need a billion dollar exit to get
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The number one reason for folks who won the "IPO lottery" is they fail to cash out/diversify their stock, and at some point in the future the stock price drops dramatically. For example, during the 2001 tech boom/bust a
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I don't think anyone on either side really thinks this is a problem. Look at Utah for a counter example, 75% of delegates with 60% of the congressional vote. No one on the left is complaining about Utah. When elections are winner take
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First of all, your numbers are wrong[1]. And second, thanks to Trump, R's lost a lot of seats in CA by close margins. Before Trump, the CA delegation was more balanced. It should also be said that CA Democrats are a super majority. Onc
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That is what the Senate is for. A minority party should never get control of all three branches of government with only 46% of the popular vote. Control of one branch of government is sufficient to exert influence on the legislative process
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Yes! Literally get down on the ground right now and do a set of pushups. Congrats, you just did your first workout, it took less than a minute. Do one set of pushups each day for the next week (one set of pushups for me is 30-40 pushups in
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There is probably a fair bit of wishful thinking going on, but that is essentially a perquisite for starting a company like this. The pessimists don't get very far. But something worth considering, in academic circles the "old&quo
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I spent the better part of a summer internship scrubbing vacuum chambers with nasty solvents at SSL. They were in the process of retrofitting their testing chambers, but something in the new equipment was off-gassing. After a lot of trial a
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Robert Plomin is not without controversy: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/there-i...
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k, thanks. So it sounds like the tradeoff that a founder is making between selling a small portion vs taking this loan is that in the case of a down round, they would still get something from their shares. i.e. in the your ~1mm fire sale c
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If I challenge you to a duel, and we both agree to it in writing, that doesn't make it legal even if it is consensual. Similarly, if the NFL puts a waiver in their contracts with players regarding damages related to concussions/CT

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