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hengestone
·3 anni fa·discuss
Late answer: we added $20k of solar panels to our roof in SoCal in late 2020. Get back about $1.8k from the utility every year, instead of $300-600 per month bill. All else staying the same, the system will be paid off in about 3 years (6 years after installation). FWIW There was a tax rebate of $5500 at the time.
hengestone
·3 anni fa·discuss
Recovering from getting the Zoster vaccine yesterday. So, yay?!
hengestone
·3 anni fa·discuss
What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker
hengestone
·4 anni fa·discuss
My brother in law works as an engineer for Tesla Palo Alto: according to him these features are all driven from the very top. Always at the expense of fixing bugs, or getting even basic things working reliably in ways that would make driving safer and more enjoyable. Make your own conclusions about buying one. I would steer clear, literally, knowing some of the bugs in there.
hengestone
·4 anni fa·discuss
Haven't seen discussed yet, but for me the killer feature would be the ability they mention to be able to pay for individual "articles". I.e. maybe a federated micropayment news feed where i don't have to subscribe to NYTimes AND WaPo, AND (many others), but only pay pennies for individual stories.
hengestone
·4 anni fa·discuss
So are Midwestern school kids just really undisciplined and badly behaved?
hengestone
·4 anni fa·discuss
Data point fwiw: the company I work for SOLD me some of their shares when I joined. I.e. not a grant. The company owns options to buy back the shares on the usual schedule of a cliff after one year, then monthly for 4 years. So no tax consequences until I sell the shares and pay capital gains. The caveat is that the valuation that they sold the shares at must be well below their last raise for it to make sense for me to buy the shares. So it only really works for early stage companies. After this early stage is over, selling me actual options works better.