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Eh?  I price it out today and 9.6KW with 3PW is 47k before incentives.  Tough decision.  The 3rd PW is iffy.  We would waste a fair amount of energy without a 3rd PW, but with it, it we would waste some anyway.  We only use about 4kw-h during the day when the sun is up; most of our usage is...

I still recall a presentation I gave about 15 years ago in a biz class and noted that a gallon of gasoline has the same energy as 130,000 AA batteries.  Still, a majority of those petrol joules are simply wasted.  Gasoline is a highly efficient form of energy, but gasoline engines are not...

And people can eat chicken instead of rib-eye steaks.  We're either going to be paying more for the same, or reducing our quality of life.

Gonna be some mixed feelings when I get a raise that's double what I got last year, and half the inflation rate.  At least my mortgage is fixed.  The renters out there are going to get creamed on housing costs.

My wfh/office balance is just about perfect.  I cycle through periods of both, and just about when I get tired of 1, I cycle to the other.  I prefer to spend most of my time in the office.  The work is more interesting there and the hours fly by (hourly pay).  But it's also tiring.  WFH is a bit...

I'm a dinosaur who doesn't even have a FB account.  There are some things I don't like about FB.  High burn rate, ugly chart.  But it seems to me if they're on the ground floor in creating the metaverse, they'll be first in line to collect the rents.    Microsoft is right there with them, and...

Already own enough goog.  Put a limit order to buy FB last night.  No trigger yet.  Also put in limit orders to sell some OTM puts on stocks I want to own long term anyway.  Have some other options expiring tomorrow that may or may not see me ending up a shareholder.  OSTK is one of them  ;). ...

So basically rates are back to where they were 10 years ago when this thread was started.

Facebook is the new Myspace.

I just found out my neighbors (retired couple) went to a small Xmas gathering and every person who attended caught COVID.  2 of them died in the same week, including the husband of my neighbor couple.  I know my neighbor was not vaccinated.  I suspect most others who attended weren't either...

I love it when limit orders set weeks or months earlier trigger near the lows on a reversal day like today.

True for cars, maybe.  We'll have to rely on real world (google) observations for my truck, since the EPA doesn't give it a rating, and they indicate a gas engine gets better mpg than a diesel, at least when not towing.  When loaded up, though, the diesel is where it's at.  I can triple my gross...

I do recall after the dot com crash the fed cut rates aggressively, yet the broader indices kept tanking, and took 7 years to recover. 

No answers here, but I'll know we're in a recession when gas is over $6/gallon and my coworkers start making "diesel" in their basements and garages again, like they did in '09.  "Why does Victor's car smell like french fries?" Is there a cost benefit?  Mileage benefit?  Do OEMs have any issues...

The other one for me is "boasts".  I prefer my housing have some humility.

Just think, the kid that spawned this thread is now over 10 years old. Congrats on the bun in the oven, HMart! 

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you, would any reasonable person think it wise to take financial advice from either Kim Kardashian or someone who made a living getting punched in the head?  Your honor, I rest my case."

And the prices have gone up.  The systems are larger too, multiples of 4.8kw, but now it's $2.30/kw for all systems.  Which seems weird, since some of the costs are fixed regardless of system size.  The smallest system must be the least profitable.

Headline: Newsoms have reduced water usage on their spacious Fair Oaks home by 33% from late June to early November, according to records released by the governor's office Tuesday. The details: The district also discovered a significant leak in the property's irrigation system.  "They fixed...

Way to pivot from reduced revenues due to a chip shortage to increased revenues from higher sales of parts for classic cars.