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It's a well known tactic of crooked agents everywhere to encourage price cuts; otherwise they have to pay higher taxes on their commissions, and who would want that, right?  Also, I can only hope that if and when the time comes for me to sell my home, that there isn't just a single potential...

Part of the equation for me is the usefulness in a disaster.  I kind of think like momopi in this regard.  In a disaster situation, it's possible to lose utilities, both electric and gas, for weeks on end.  I have food and water stores and portable generators.  But solar would be so much better...

It's easiest to understand energy if you liken it to water.  A kilowatt is a flow rate, similar to gallons per hour.  A kilowatt-hour is like a "volume" of energy, similar to gallons; it's a discrete quantity of energy.  If you have a flow rate of 10 gallons per hour, and the water flows for a...

Oh, the irony of a "Fire Protection" business having its truck burned. Hope that guy got some good pieces of gravel embedded in his freshly charred skin. Parents of my daughters' friend told me of a business that found a valve tapped into the underside of a tank on one of their vehicles. ...

15-16 kilowatt-hours per day?    With that size of system you should be generating about 40 kw-h per day.  Or maybe you mean 15-16 megawatt-hours per year? Yeah, I'm thinking much along the same lines.  I could rationalize anywhere from 1 to 3 powerwalls, depending on assumptions.  3 PW = off...

No storage?  In the future I believe any incentives will heavily favor storage over just panels.  CA is at the point of living completely off renewables during clear daylight hours, but burns a lot of fossil fuels at night, and the wide swing results in wasted energy.  You'll have to post back...

(Free) market rates.  Who knew?

I'll submit I'm in a better position to judge the relative value of homes I see listed in my neighborhood on a daily basis.  Nothing wrong with the location of the house and it really is gorgeous.  No exaggeration: the most expensive house on I think the 2nd largest lot in this zip code faces...

There is a fantastic almost 5000 square foot house near me on a ~10,000 square foot lot, with a backyard oasis.  The owners fancied it up to sell it, touched everything inside and out and made it really nice.  Listed it for $4.4m early in the year, which I thought was a bit optimistic, but...

So does the server get that 18%?  Because I'm not leaving an additional tip if I'm paying an 18% service charge, since, uh, tips are for service.  And any place that does that will probably end up with less money from me, since I normally leave more than 20% as calculated on the total bill...

Ariya preorders closed days ago.

If prices crash 40% I'm going to scoop up my retirement home!

The one without the paywall?

My oldest running cars are 28 and 29 years old.  I've had them for 16 and 19 years, respectively.  Others I've had longer and are older, but probably only have 1 trip left in them to the scrapyard.  I've only ever bought used cars.  As a young adult I would buy my first car and truck well used...

The big question is what will sales volume do?  Or is inventory up because sales have been anemic?

I am shocked there are that many idiots working at Apple.  Does "more neuro-normative" mean less crazy and entitled?  If so, I am all for it. 

I'm used to describing trucks as rated in carrying capacity (e.g., 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton, 1 ton, though it's a very antiquated system).  Crew cab, full size doesn't mean much.  All my trucks are crew cab and "full size".  For the ones you mentioned, I agree with you.  For my F350, not so much.  Like...

Maybe with a 3L V6.  MPG differences depend on the truck and the engine options.  The gas version of my diesel has better EPA ratings than what I see in the real world with my diesel, and the diesel gets much worse mpg than my 2 gassers.  No surprise, since the diesel weighs over 8000 lbs...

I'm not sure you realize how scary that prospect is.  The last time "creative financing" was all the rage, things didn't end well.