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To be fair, the cost of solar panels at the time you were considering them was what it was. Someone needed to pay for them. If that someone is Sunrun, they need to recoup those cost and make a return. You can be as creative as you want with the financing, that reality won't change. You could have gotten a bank loan too.
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And tape consume very little energy over its lifecycle compared to disks. If you keep your archives for 10 years, energy costs add up quickly.
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Woops. I guess I should read usernames more carefully from now on.
Thoughts as I read:

This is a review, not original research. It seems to also conduct a meta-analysis as part of this, however that is somewhat unusual for a review. In general, both the review and meta-analysis quality is dependent on the quality of the source material. Garbage in and garbage out.

"Some epidemiological studies have reported an increased risk of NHL in GBH-exposed individuals [[15], [16], [17]]; however, other studies have not confirmed this association [18,19]." This is why we should approach this with skepticism.

"the 2018 AHS update [24] contributes 11-12 additional years of follow-up with over five times as many NHL cases" If we look at the AHS updates conclusions they say "In this large, prospective cohort study, no association was apparent between glyphosate and any solid tumors or lymphoid malignancies overall, including NHL and its subtypes." so why are we adding in older controversial studies with less power and sample size?

The other studies used in the meta-analysis are confounded by the use of up to 40 different pesticides. The confidence intervals on those case-control studies range from 1.0-6.0 odds ratio for glyphosate significance with its association with NHL, so basically all across the board. For herbicides with known worse toxicity, the effect and confidence intervals is much more robust with odds ratios bottoming out around 1.5. Again, this relates to garbage in/garbage out, if we are combining a bunch of confounded studies with one glyphosate specific one (the AHS one quoted above), it might bias the results.

Tables 1-4 - background on the N=6 studies in the meta-analysis

Figure 2 tells the story, huge confidence intervals, and the older studies are the ones which show the effect. The larger glyphosate specific studies show no effect.

Conclusion :

I don't find this to be compelling evidence that glyphosate exposure is linked to NHL. Recent, specific studies find no effect and adding in older, less specific research will only bias and confound that result.
Possibly, but they also do quite a lot of business in package delivery, which is something customers actually still want.
> While I understand where you're coming from, consider that there were initially hundreds of thousands displaced; tens of thousands still to this day. PTSD, depression, and profoundly disrupted lives. Many lost everything, and many will never return home. From this one incident.

This was in part (or, from what I read some time ago, mostly) caused by irrational fear and overrreaction to the incident, causing an evacuation much larger than necessary.
Are saying tech workers don’t use public roads or mass transit to leave their homes?
How was he not civil? Was it the "ugh" part?

Yeah, well... I am lonely. :(
This all speaks to a calcification of opportunity in the USA where coming from a good family background (with strong educational opportunities) means opportunities abound. If you come from a disadvantaged background, you are likely to stay there.

This is essentially meritocratic feudalism.
The article is about a solar installation done in 2016.
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FYI, this has nothing to do with solar panels and everything to do with a buying a house that has stuff with transferable contracts. Save up and buy your solar outright, companies don't lease things to you unless there is profit in it.
A couple years ago, we purchased and had installed a solar system. In MA, there is an incentive program called SRECs, which is a program where the utilities have to buy MWH of produced electricity, and I can sell my MWH of produced electricity -- that's tracked as an SREC. I can sell SRECs for 10 years, I make about 5-6 a year, and they go for 200-300$. It makes the payoff on the system about 4 years, and ROIC about 17%. If, when I go to sell, the 10 year window on the SRECs haven't finished the buyer and I will have to come to an arrangement for the remaining credits.

IMO, solar generally complicates all housing related transactions, but it's worth it.
If there was no party and no art, there would be no Black Rock City. If there wasn't a faceless capitalist organization running the party, there would be no Black Rock City. I don't disagree that your story happens, it happens to me, but let's get real: It's for rich white people, just like all psychedelic movements of modern civilization. Acceptance of my privilege has enabled me to grow in ways that you couldn't imagine, although I do feel complex emotions for people who think it's more than what it is, but at the end of the day I don't think they have much to offer to the world or the burning man experience, and their zealous attitude that they are [insert your greater power]'s gift to earth is juvenile.
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Hmm, I can have debates while maintaining my love for that person with whom I am having a debate!
Note the distinction between "glyphosate" and "glyphosate-based herbicide". The former was well studied and presumed safe. My understanding is it is the actual formulations that are being claimed as unsafe now. I.e., if you ship your safe herbicide in an unsafe slurry you get cancer.
Collision insurance (which is what covers damage to your own vehicle if you are at fault) is the main thing that’s dependent on the repair costs of your own vehicle, and it’s not required in many states (in no-fault states, it is, but most states are not no-fault).

This vehicle is inexpensive enough many people don’t need to pay for collision insurance.
Yeah, it seems likely to be a mid-capacity, mid-range 757 replacement.
So your advice is buy stock? ;). Might make you some money but not sure how it will help them earn more as a developer :)
Game of Thrones Hacker Worked with US Defector to Hack Air Force for Iran
Not that I know of. There are some tools for automatic copying from YT to IA, but they all download the video to your machine and upload it afterwards.
Why do westerners treat everything as a cause and effect machine? Its such an amateur view. This is a great illustratin of "intellect" vs "intelligence". The entire western societies are based on "intellect". Also, don't consume fake anything ;)
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> much lower rates of income and sales tax and a much less smaller tax base.

What about property tax?

Some of California's higher budget may be explained by higher property prices - employees need to be paid more for the same standard of living, government property purchases cost more, etc.
Other than flying into a California airport, traveling on public streets, having suppport of local police, fire and other services while in California.
That said, there are some services taxes go to that he would not receive benefit from. So paying the same tax rates as a resident does not make as much sense.
Seems like one thing to make the payment schedule back-heavy and be honest about it, another thing to use unrealistic assumptions about utility price increases to disguise this payment schedule as a lifetime cost savings.
It's pretty much only "original taste" Coke and Pepsi, and a few premium/boutique brands like Fever Tree that are still full sugar.

Pick up anything else (Sprite, Dr Pepper, Orangina, Irn Bru, San Pellegrino, generic brands, etc) and they are all reformulated with sweeteners or a sugar/sweetener blend.

Even Coke has relabelled "Coke Zero" with a traditional red can/bottle and "zero sugar" in small letters, rather than the distinct black label that it used to have.
I guess the author would argue that they obviously must have inherited a talent for chess from their parents. Not that I agree.
After moving back to working on a Windows machine the last several years and being “forced” into using PowerShell, I now find myself using it for these sorts of tasks on Linux.

I now use PowerShell for any tasks of equal or greater complexity than the article. It’s such a massive upgrade over struggling to recall the peculiar bash syntax every time and the benefits of piping typed objects around are vast.

As a nice bonus, all of my PowerShell scripts run cross-platform without issue.
This is exactly what it is. Whole thing is bunk.
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Not trying to discredit or de-emphasize the conclusion, but the ironic thing here is that the utility cost escalation rates that Sunrun had initially calculated were likely based off of pre-solar boom tariff increases.

As renewables have started becoming competitive (both utility-scale and distributed), utilities have been able to avoid building more expensive fossil-based power plants and transmission lines as quickly and thus rates haven't increased as much as before. So basically the solar industry partially created their own financial situation where the utility costs they are offsetting are lower because of their own participation in the market. Ha.

Anyway, I'm glad this in-the-weeds analysis is getting some coverage. As more and more "Distributed Energy Resources" (DERs) are installed in homes ($300 smart thermostats, $1k demand response water heaters, $5k batteries, $10k solar, etc.), people should be aware they need to do utility bill cost analysis earlier in the home buying process. Also, realtors need to get more savvy on utility bill cost impact of all these new DERs so they know how to adjust pricing based on what's installed in a home or building.

Disclaimer: I have a software company that many solar companies use to request utility bill history from customers for financial analysis.
Like the air and missile defense installations in Alaska that happen to be near all the great circle routes between Pyongyang, Beijing, or Kamchatka; and Seattle, Portland, or San Francisco.
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Interesting. In the end in reality everyone is using some kind of "glyphosate-based herbicide" through and the whole discussion is about an chemical in isolation. Talk about misleading the public discourse :/

I've read that in practice the ingredients of "glyphosate-based herbicide" are often treated as trade-secrets and are not public, does anyone here have more information?
Lenovo Watch X Riddled with Security Vulnerabilities
When has there been a visual editor that wasn't awful?
>> ...in the past 2 years, % of any given project that involves ML: 15%, that involves moving, monitoring, and counting data to feed ML: 85%

As it should be. In order to have confidence in your ML you need to really understand your data and data processing.
Given the situation in the article, you might as well do this:

ls ????_A.csv | grep -o '[1-9][0-9]*'
Well, let's say there are two co-founders who start a company they are bootstrapping. They don't pay themselves for the first 3, 6, 9 months or maybe even a year. Isn't that typical?

Then let's say they have a dispute, with one having to leave after a year working together. The departed co-founder files a claim against the company for unpaid "wages."

Now, the two co-founders had knowingly worked together for that year for equity - they were bootstrapping. But the departed co-founder has a slam-dunk case against the company for unpaid wages and probably waiting time and other penalties (as well as attorneys' fees).

I think most people on here would think that's absurd. But that's the reality.

And in California, not only is the company liable, but the remaining founder may be personally liable, as well.

I sympathize with the idea that you shouldn't hire anyone until you can pay. But does the co-founder situation I described make clear the problem?
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My previous workplace was exactly like that: they wanted people to build "cool tools that would help us do our job" but would not even let me refactor a piece of ugly code (I literally just wanted to have variable names that actually mean something). It's quite a pathetic display when a manager talks about innovation when devs are stuck with ancient versions of software they work with and there is zero chance of getting the corporate machine to allow us to update and even if we had the permission everything would move so slow that by the time the upgrade happens the software would already be old.
The alternative is to write a program or script that does part of the job, run it (compiling if necessary), and see what happens. Then modify.

This loop is definitely slower than the shell or other REPL though.
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Great example. PowerShell is definitely underrated. I don’t care to use it as an interactive shell, and that likely turns many off to it, but now that it’s cross platform I think it’s massively underrated for these sorts of tasks.
We bought a house with TPO panels from SolarCity. It's been ... ok. Our monthly payment never goes up for the life of the lease and SolarCity sends us a check if the panels ever don't produce enough. They provide 100% of our electricity and we generate excess that the power company pays us a tiny amount for.

If I could do it again I'd get a house without TPO panels. If for nothing else, just one less variable and thing to consider. You can always get panels later.

But I gotta say, SolarCity themselves were an absolute nightmare to work with. The person who got the panel deal on our house (two owners ago), has two other panel deals with SolarCity on two other houses. When we took over the lease SolarCity basically just munged all of the account details together. A major red flag went off when they asked if I'd like to pay my bill with my Wells Fargo account. I don't have a Wells Fargo account. For over a year I had to fight these morons to get everything squared away and to finally get my account onto their online portal so I could pay online. Every single month they tried to either charge me for the other systems, or have the other guy pay for ours, and with each other's bank accounts. They told me to not make any payments until this was resolved, but also told me they'd send me to collections for non-payment. It was an absolute nightmare. Don't ever work with SolarCity.
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Your question used the word “entitled”. It is reminiscent of those who say that taxation is theft. Your framing does none of 1, 2, 3, and 4.

I don’t understand the point of your first paragraph. It’s a caricature of people you call the Left. I have never seen anyone anywhere paint taxation as an unalloyed good in and of itself. Can I suggest that instead of talking in terms of Left/Right that some other dialog be used? This is why I framed things the way I did. There’s not mention of Left or Right. It’s just questions that get at the heart of what being a society means.
Does being a dick remove someone from history?

Primary contributors to projects smaller than DTrace have wiki pages, and I bet at least a few of them are dicks. I suppose wipe those out too.
In my company it’s the same. They ask for innovation but the real message is “do something innovative but don’t change anything and always stay on your already tight schedule and don’t do anything management doesn’t approve “
Can it generate ER Diagrams like DBeaver?

https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/ER-Diagrams
Essentially selecting and operating on text in the same buffer. Saw it in Russ Cox’s demonstration of Acme.
Belgium has the highest tax burden of any OECD country. According to OECDs annual Taxing Wages report for 2017, Belgiums total tax wedge for an average earner (the total tax wedge includes employers payroll taxes) was 54%, compared to an OECD average of 36% (US is at 31.7%). The direct "employee visible" part of that is 40.7% vs an OECD average of 25.5% (US 26%).

Based on your line of thinking, people should be fleeing Belgium in huge numbers. Belgium is in the EU and has land borders with Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France. Germany is not far off in taxes, but France is at 29.1%, Luxembourg at 31%, the Netherlands at 30.4%. Anyone with Belgian citizenship can work and live in any of these countries without having to apply for any visa or work permit. (so far that also applies to the UK, over the channel, but given Brexit I ignored it)

Most Belgians speak French or Dutch, so language should not stop them.

Yet, despite these rather significant monetary incentives to even move across the border, within a short driving distance from their current location, to countries with the same language, there is somehow not a massive amount of Belgians fleeing the country.

Note that this is tax burden for an average tax payer. Not marginal rates paid by the very few.

In other words: Sure, people act on incentives, but unsurprisingly peoples decisions about where to live are not only down to a few percentage points of taxation. Some will move, many won't, and yes, that is something to take into account when setting tax policies.
Yeah a tool like this is going to be situational for everyone.
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>You're better off buying the system up front if possible or even financing it and claiming the tax credit yourself.

Up front means no one is responsible for maintenance except you.

As for the tax credit, you do get it in the form of a discounted price. Over here, that's how all the solar companies pitch it. They'll install it for cheap, but the condition is that you pay them a big fraction of the tax credit the following 2 years. They make it clear that the reason they're giving you the panels at below market cost is so that you can pay them in tax credits that you file for and receive.
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As my music teachers said, practice makes permanent.

Fun fact: my text prediction will not let me Swype permanent at the end of the phrase practice makes...
After the last p is started, there are no other options.
A botnet doesn't need Tor in the first place. And you can limit the use of a single captcha solution. It's not much different from the problem of a legitimate google account being borrowed by a bot.
Translating Bible is a difficult task. There are usually two camps of philosophy of Bible translation. There's the word-for-word style where words are translated literally, rather than its intended meaning -- such as the classic King James Version (1611 AD), and more modern NKJV, NASB and ESV. Then there's thought-for-thought style, where it is translated based on its connotation, intention, and geared for modern English -- such as the popular NIV, NLT, and more paraphrase-style translations. I prefer the more literal Bible, but it also makes reading certain passages more difficult, since the original word used may not have the same connotation in English, and there are ancient idioms that may not make sense in English.
So the idea is that NNs are equivalent to PRs and PRs are easier to handle?
I think that what MIT considers innovative and what Harvard Business schools thinks is innovative are different, and the models for getting there are going to be different from each school of thought. The HBR article touches on some things that produce what I would consider innovation: Researchers and scientists using the scientific method, but it never goes that far.

There are discussions here about Xerox PARC, and I would suggest including Bell Labs and probably a few other business research parks, and you'll find highly educated people given the freedom to experiment.

I guess my argument is that in order to produce innovation, I think that the best thing that management can do is put the right people together and get out of the way, but undirected innovation might not aid the business. It's an interesting problem.

EDIT: I should include the processes that developed things like Linux.
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Back before deep learning was all the rage textbooks used to argue that two layers were enough because a two layer network can approximate anything arbitrarily well.

They were right and wrong. Two layer networks CAN indeed approximate any function arbitrarily well. They just do a piss poor job of it. It can take exponentially more para meters than a better formulation[0].

The lesson is that representation matters a lot. There are lots of ways to construct universal approximators but they are not made equal.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3505534_On_the_powe...
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Ask HN: Sales advice for a bootstrapping founder needed
I am a solo founder bootstrapping (as a side-project) a SaaS web app for team managers at mid-sized companies.

It is a note-taking app exclusively for 1:1 meetings [0]. It allows to better register meeting notes, long-term goals and short-term commitments (the last two are shareable with the team members for better accountability).

I have a fundamental doubt in my sales strategy: should I target the individual managers that would use my product themselves or should I target HR executives that could buy my product and implement it to all managers at the company at once?

I am at a very early stage, with 2 paying customers that hired it themselves for individual use; and 5 colleagues at my day-job employer on a free-trial before I try to sell it to our HR director for the whole company.

The pros for individual managers: shorter sales cycles; direct feedback on the product; easier to find the contacts; more people to contact (guessing here).

The pros for HR executives: more revenue per sale; if successful - I assume - more retention.

[0] https://www.oneonemeeting.com
> Reducing a complex task that takes 10 fingers and gratifying thought to a single button choice architecture is trivializing.

Not if that works only in the 90% of usual cases and working the non-usual ones is not possible, anymore, after the change.
Well, hey, that's me! Howdy folks.
Twisted... that's not what the OP is suggesting.

The article says don't practice or work harder... your talent may be enough.
> On the other hand, I’m sure that last one isn’t great with bad credit, and perhaps the accounts were only available to me because my credit.

Not only would an underprivileged person never have access to an overdraft line of credit as you do, they very likely wouldn't even be permitted to open the account.

Most people don't know that you actually have to be approved for a bank account. Most banks won't permit you to open an account until they've run what's called a "Bank History Report" on you. It's similar to a credit report but focused on your banking habits. For most people it's just a formality, for underprivileged people, it's serves as a complete bar to their ability to access our financial services system.