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by secabeen 5y ago
But that's the problem! The cost of the grid is the same whether it delivers you 100kWh or 10,000kWh. The delivery charge should be a fixed monthly charge, based on the size of your meter, not scaled to the number of kWh you consume.
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by secabeen 5y ago
> This doesn't seem like an absurd amount of money to have power when your system inevitably goes down for a time. It's an incredibly low amount of money to have 24x7x365 reliable power. The alternative (off-grid systems) cost
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by secabeen 5y ago
> The solar panels generated enough power that there was never an electric bill other than the $12 fee to be hooked into the grid. And this was in cloudy, rainy Oregon. Yeah, this is it in a nutshell. You were only being charged $12&#x2
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yes, this model is common in other utilities in the US (both by water and gas bills are structured this way), with a large meter fee and a consumption charge in line with the resource cost. Electricity could certainly be charged this way (a
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by secabeen 5y ago
Large pillars to hold airbags are also a big consumer of window space.
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by secabeen 5y ago
For a replacement like that, it's probably worth watching for Father's Day and other sales. With cordless tools, you're really buying into a battery accessory system, and it's good to know what tools are available for t
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by secabeen 5y ago
I don't work in a small startup (large non-profit), and our SLAs are best-effort only outside M-F 8am-5pm. Not everyone is trying to build a global-scale stack.
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by secabeen 5y ago
> My favorite part of a game is discovering it. Interesting. I feel similarly, but I would place my joy in exploration rather than discovery. I'm not interested in discovery, where I take only the rules/components and try to
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by secabeen 5y ago
I don't think it's corrupt exactly, often these details are worked out in deals between the various countries or as retaliation for other unilateral increases. We lower your rate on rice to 6% if you lower our rate on chicken; if
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yeah, the challenge there is that there are loud partisans on both sides of the aisle against national-id based on freedom from government/mark-of-the-beast concerns.
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by secabeen 5y ago
There has been some motion on the democratic side towards support for Voter ID that is free, universal, and easy to get: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/democrats...
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by secabeen 5y ago
If your roommate is tagging rent as a "goods or service", you're losing 3% to credit card fees on each of those transactions. I doubt many people are doing that. If you use the "friends and family" transaction, th
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by secabeen 5y ago
It would get reported to the IRS as revenue. Since you're selling that item for less than you paid for it, and assuming that you didn't depreciate it as a business asset, you have a net loss, and shouldn't have to pay tax.
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by secabeen 5y ago
The other element is leverage. If you put 20% down (which is higher than average), you are levered 5:1. If all houses double in value, your equity goes up 5x. (Example: $100k down on a $500k house; price doubles to $1mil, your equity is
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by secabeen 5y ago
Not in America. Here's a graph of the market share of 30-year fully fixed rate mortgages between 1996 and 2010: https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/114328487/hhu060f...
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by secabeen 5y ago
Patrick also links a good newsletter at the end that goes into the "who are the losers" question a bit: https://byrnehobart.medium.com/the-30-year-mortgage-is-an-in...
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by secabeen 5y ago
The top comment from the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427068 --- This is a terrible description of what the law actually does. Let's shine some light on the FUD. The law, H.R. 3684 (as en
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by secabeen 5y ago
It's a delicate balance to find things that are rejuvenating to do when you get home from work, yet are interruptible enough that you can easily stop them when your partner needs help, or your kids want to engage. That balance changes
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by secabeen 5y ago
For which, Slack or Twilio? We have a basic twilio account, paying $1/mo for the phone number, and $0.1/msg or whatever it is. On Slack, we have a paid account at the standard level, we've had that for years. One note, both
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by secabeen 5y ago
> 2. Research shows takes less time to diffuse than you'd think, and lingers longer than you think. Since spring 2020 research has shown to wait till tomorrow if someone infected was in the space today. Do you have a citation for th
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by secabeen 5y ago
That has not been my experience. As a state employee in California, my salary is a matter of public record and has been for years. I have no idea who has looked up my salary, so I don't know what impact it's had on my friendship
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by secabeen 5y ago
> - company surreptitiously builds a profile on everything it hears, ostensibly for "training" their ML / AI I have yet to see any evidence that any voice-command device is transmitting everything it hears. The data sent
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yeah, we pass all of our twilio messages to our staff via a special Slack channel.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Interesting question. RFC1123 states that TLDs should be alphabetic, and that the first (or only) character must be a letter or a digit, which should exclude a TLD of '@'. local-parts can include most printable characters other
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by secabeen 5y ago
They may also be running into the issue that physicians and residents do: hand-off errors. I have seen arguments that it's better to have an exhausted physician who has been monitoring you for 12+ hours than a fresh one who just start
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by secabeen 5y ago
The best email regex just checks for an @ symbol with something before it, and something after it. Anything more complex is a waste of time.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Another sign of the challenges of the dealer system. Ford took reservations, but then depends on dealers to close the sale, and they can increase the price. For all their faults, Tesla held to their original pricing on S, X, and 3 for earl
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by secabeen 5y ago
Because he does a pretty good job of producing nice summaries. Why not both?
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by secabeen 5y ago
The second flight totally did get to the turn-it-off stage. They turned it off multiple times. Unfortunately, during that process, they neglected to manage their throttle, leaving it at near full takeoff thrust the whole time, and reached
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by secabeen 5y ago
I agree with a lot of this. A lot of techies are used to software and customer environments where vendors and customers work together for shared success. Finance is not that sort of space. Much of it is fundamentally zero-sum and adversa

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