zhjansbnas

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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
The whole point of cities is economic agglomeration. If you don’t want that, why live in a city at all?
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Grid storage is the bottleneck today. You make the problem worse by splitting things up.
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
You just increased demand and took away the capital that I could have used to meet that demand. I don’t need a cartel to tell me to raise prices.
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
>When the stock market tops out, people will take their money out and buy real estate causing another rise. If I understand correctly, you are saying that market sentiment that the stock market has reached its peak will result is real es
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
The poles have already been built. This would only be relevant if we were considering building new construction that isn’t connected to the grid, or letting existing grid infrastructure fall apart completely. In this analogy, the wires and
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Why do we need any of this? Physics takes care of it if we just hook everyone up to a grid. Electricity pretty much finds the sources and sinks by itself if you provide capacity (it’s more complicated that that, but simpler than what you ar
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Agreed that transmission losses are real, but I would be amazed if mechanically transporting batteries down a road were more efficient than a wire. Consider the capital cost of adding miles to roads and tires vs. running electricity through
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Using electric car batteries to smooth out load on the grid is a good idea, but there’s no need for the car to be physically proximate to electricity sources. We already have a much more efficient way of transporting power through space - t
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Most people don’t know how to keep their devices secure. I wouldn’t expect that from an employee unless they are a security professional.
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Amazon, when considering whether to raise the price of prime, probably gathered a lot of information about how consumers would respond. Matte_black’s experience mirrors my own. When I order something from Prime with 2-day shipping, it’s som
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
How does the printed tether enter the market?
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Right, my point is Facebook supports net neutrality when convenient for business reasons. This is why net neutrality is a big political issue, unlike other concerns of tech activists with less business importance.
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
I found it pretty easy to switch ISPs, but it would be pretty hard for me to quit Google. Nobody expects my IP address to be static, and that’s the only thing I lose when I switch. I get that some people can’t switch. The ISPs suck, they ar
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Ability to repay is one of the top credit factors. Having the existing debt paid off improves ability to repay any future debt. If anything, the prospect of Bill Gates going around randomly paying debts makes issuing debt more appealing.
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
People with no product raising many millions just by mentioning blockchain - what more do you want?
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
No, the money materialized from the lender when the loan was taken out. Some of the money might be recouped before or upon the death of the borrower - some might never be recouped.
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Amazon has thousands of employees in the Bay. Nobody’s going to hire tens of thousands of software engineers in the US and ignore the Bay completely. It has too much of the top talent.
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by zhjansbnas 9y ago
Amazing that there is supposed to be a $100B of value here and the big announcement is a pilot program.