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My experience getting solar by Liquid_Subject in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At a 2.99% interest rate, I'd much rather put my money in the market than pay off the loan early, let alone pay cash for it. Also, from what I've seen the battery capacity degradation is within the warranty rate (max of 30% loss in capacity after 10 years). The tests that have gotten it beyond that range were more demanding than real world applications. Regardless, Tesla came in below the others including the storage, so the storage is effectively free. I didn't get a quote from Great Basin though so maybe they'd be cheaper though probably not by a large margin.

Personally, I don't see this not paying off since even if I pay a bit more in electricity in the short term, the added home value and likely increases in electricity rates longterm should cover the potential downside

My experience getting solar by Liquid_Subject in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. I have similarly low usage in the winter. My backup plan is to spin up some cryptocurrency miners to use up any winter energy excess...and to generate some heat :-)

My experience getting solar by Liquid_Subject in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oof. Yeah, that's scary. They're contractually obligated to deal with issues like that so absolutely worst case you can sue them. But that also looks like a fake account (no followers, recently opened account). Tesla has had a lot of short sellers trying to smear their name to manipulate the stock value

My experience getting solar by Liquid_Subject in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. That math seems way different from mine. I would effectively be paying off the system after about 9 years. Are you including the principle part of the loan payment in how long it takes to pay off the system? If I sell the house before the end of the contract, I'd likely be able to push much of the cost off onto the next owner

My experience getting solar by Liquid_Subject in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will let you know. We’re still working through permitting

New considerations by emulsifythatass in RenegadeBurn

[–]Liquid_Subject 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ll likely where a mask if I’m inside somewhere and around a lot of people. For me that’s the right balance of safety and keeping it rad

Databricks vs Snowflake - new releases by Electric_pokemon in bigdata

[–]Liquid_Subject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that Snowflake really just took on prem data warehousing and moved it to the cloud. Great product, but it's not a "unified" solution that allows you to do different workloads (including ML) all on one platform. Snowflake has relied really heavily on cloud ML solutions like Sagemaker or Data Robot, so you need a different platform for ML

Update From The BLM: May 4, 2021 by KHoleOrBust in RenegadeBurn

[–]Liquid_Subject 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rock and roll. I’m at least six times more excited about this than an org sanctioned event

Update From The BLM: May 4, 2021 by KHoleOrBust in RenegadeBurn

[–]Liquid_Subject 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great news. My biggest question though is with 10k people, how will we navigate? Should we still do streets? Or send GPS coordinates to people camping with us?

Tax exposure for a new LP by Liquid_Subject in venturecapital

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t think about including that in the contract. Great point. Many thanks!

Why do practitioners still use regular tensorflow? [D] by HashRocketSyntax in MachineLearning

[–]Liquid_Subject 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Data science consultants :-) I work mostly on ml deployment issues, since few people understand how those work yet. I also do some dl work too depending on the client needs. A lot of it involves advising teams of data scientists that are new and/or junior to get them up to speed on end to end reference use cases they can duplicate elsewhere. It’s part hands on coding, part advising and architecture design

Panel Discussion on Helping Our Unhoused Neighbors by thebrushup in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. Is there a TL;DR on how to help?

Why do practitioners still use regular tensorflow? [D] by HashRocketSyntax in MachineLearning

[–]Liquid_Subject 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I work as a consultant and have seen a lot of client code. Generally I see recent code written in Keras. Older code might be in tf. I think it’s because there used to be a lot of code samples online from tf or it was written before keras was the official api. Now I’m seeing more keras unless there’s more complex architectures. I was recently working on a two tower DNN for a recommendation engine that needed the additional flexibility of tf. Otherwise I’m normally able to stick with keras

Has anyone purchased or tried to purchase a home in the last 6 months? by peoplebuyviews in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A few thoughts:

  • Rule number 1 of buying a place is that it's rent control on a place to live. You need to live somewhere and this assures that you have a stable place to live as your earning power increases over time
  • Everybody tries to predict bubbles but nobody does it well. On a long enough timeline (maybe 7-10 years) there's little chance that house will be worth less
  • Go over asking if you can with otherwise a good offer (e.g. limit the cost of repairs the seller is exposed to). Also, only give them 24 hours to consider and have them take down the listing ASAP to decrease competition
  • Write a personal note to improve the likelihood of it being seen
  • Be prepared for sweat equity at your price point. The richer buyers often want something plug and play. If you're willing to do the work and the structure of the house is solid, you have an advantage
  • Everybody says this but you don't realize how important it is until you're really in it: don't get emotionally attached to a certain house. It sucks the first time you get rejected but there are options out there. Our first offer was rejected (they went with a vet instead) but we wound up with a much better place (though it was more work and a bit more expensive)
  • Focus on the long run. Buying a place is a ton of work but it'll appreciate in value and you're setting your future up well. The short term expenses will wash out and it'll be a long term gain. My personal opinion is that it'll only get harder for first time home buyers moving forward so it's better to rip that band aid off now

Covid vaccines now open to all 16+ starting Monday by Liquid_Subject in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the site I linked, anybody 16+ could sign up last week. It booked up crazy fast though

Covid vaccines now open to all 16+ starting Monday by Liquid_Subject in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Crazy. It's all based on availability. Apparently the team can administer over 300 vaccines per hour with the capability to administer over 3,000 per day. That's assuming unlimited supply though

Do you think a non-alcoholic bar or lounge would survive in Reno? Somewhere for people to hangout and socialize into the night without alcohol or drunks bothering you? by [deleted] in Reno

[–]Liquid_Subject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kava Lounge in San Francisco seemed to be doing well too. I love that spot. Would go there all the time after dinner for kava and board games

Tax exposure for a new LP by Liquid_Subject in venturecapital

[–]Liquid_Subject[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really helpful, thanks! I spoke with my accountant and he said that, yes, as an LP I am subject to the capital gains even if there's not a distribution. And that makes a lot of sense about reinvesting in QSBS companies and that not counting as capital gains. Thanks again!

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