tardo99

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by tardo99 6y ago
There are tons of high-yield savings accounts paying much more than 0.35%. Telling people to increase their indebtedness to buy index funds right now is pretty dubious advice.
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by tardo99 6y ago
I used to get this, along with some other anxiety stuff. A low dose of prozac taken 2x per week totally eliminated it (anecdata i know, but i thought it was interesting).
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by tardo99 6y ago
I think posting what interests you makes sense; there are just a lot of us out there who are tired of reading hero worship of that guy.
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by tardo99 6y ago
Too many Elon Musk posts. No thanks.
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by tardo99 6y ago
They're long gone.
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by tardo99 6y ago
I switched to using caps lock for esc and actually prefer it now.
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by tardo99 6y ago
I've been told by some well-placed people (pooh pooh me if you want, I don't care), that a number of PE shops and hedge funds were able to get some pretty big loans to the top of the pile. Many, many, many businesses are in your s
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by tardo99 6y ago
Seems like maybe the company who leased you the car might be willing to do a deal to get you to keep the car a bit longer. It's not like they'll be able to sell it quickly.
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by tardo99 6y ago
My company has used Hangouts for years with zero problems. Zoom is mostly just hype.
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by tardo99 6y ago
Not sure I agree with the bit about Linux + Raspberry Pi not being able to handle precision timing down to the microsecond level. I'd be interested if anyone has thoughts.
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by tardo99 7y ago
Sorry for the downvotes. I'll get downvoted too bc of my username. I agree with your point. Instagram is evil.
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by tardo99 7y ago
What about the emissions involved in mining lithium, making the batteries, dealing with the batteries once they're exhausted, and in generating the electricity. Also, what about the emissions involved in building and maintaining the ro
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by tardo99 7y ago
You think it's more of a game changer than the $8500 used Nissan Leaf I bought (which, before you start, is perfect for me because I use it around town, and yes it works fine for 95+% of my car trips, including 100% of my commuting mil
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by tardo99 7y ago
Except that's not how public policy works. It's not like Tesla just happened to luck into these policies. They actively lobbied for them. There's a significant amount of "greenwashing" involved there. I think it&#x2
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by tardo99 7y ago
Tesla's 10-K shows an accumulated shareholder deficit of $6B. That's over and above money spent to buy factories which are still operating. That's $6k a car at 1M cars sold. Add to that the $7500 rebate the US was providing u
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by tardo99 7y ago
Yes. It seems like having robots colonize a planet or the moon would be a lot smarter.
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by tardo99 7y ago
Obviously I was talking about the situation where one doesn't want to sell all property in CA and wants to be able to return to CA from time to time, maybe for months at a time. Anyway, our current thinking is to establish residence in
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by tardo99 7y ago
Thanks. It's too bad people decided to downvote me. Probably because of my username, but who knows. In any event, do you have thoughts on solutions?
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by tardo99 7y ago
I live in California. An interesting thing we learned is that if we move out of the country for, say, 3 years, unless we set up our lives so we have no intention of remaining California residents, the state will continue to pursue us for in
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by tardo99 7y ago
Yes. To implement this you simply lock the overheads while in final descent, which makes sense anyway for safety reasons.
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by tardo99 7y ago
What they should do is disallow anyone from opening the overhead bins until all the people who didn't insist on carrying on all their luggage exit.
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by tardo99 7y ago
You don't think the cost of the car is at least partially a proxy for the amount of energy required to produce the components (primarily the battery)? Some pretty smart people have questioned whether, absent innovations in battery recy
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by tardo99 7y ago
I have a used 2015 Nissan Leaf that I bought last year. No problems at all with it. It cost $8000. Can Tesla do that?
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by tardo99 7y ago
My favorite is the part where the torch will be passed from baby boomers to millenials and gen z. As if there isn't an entire generation of people between the baby boomers and the millenials.
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by tardo99 7y ago
Hold a substantial amount of cash in short-term Treasuries so you can buy in when things decline. You will know when to buy when Warren Buffett (or whoever replaces him when he dies) starts spending substantial amounts of his $120B cash pil
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by tardo99 7y ago
It's funny to me that people can immediately see the issue with falling returns here as prices increase, but can't see the same thing when it applies to the stock market. In the stock market, the prevailing wisdom is "buy and
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by tardo99 7y ago
Yes it's a waste. I also find it genuinely funny. Not sure why. Just tickles me.
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by tardo99 7y ago
You definitely can broadcast packets via wifi. I mean, that's essentially what you're doing when talking to an AP. All the other wifi antennas/chips in the area can see the data you're sending. You'd have to do some
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by tardo99 7y ago
2TB of google drive is $9.99 a month. What am I missing?
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by tardo99 7y ago
I don't think I've ever been linked to a site in Iran before. Odd.

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