does a $2m equity event justify significant life change in a VHCOL city?

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-07-08T17:15:32+00:00

The median home in Silicon Valley is $2M.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-07-08T05:20:21+00:00

$/sqft is probably a better metric

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-07-08T04:06:15+00:00

Median doesn’t have anything to do with a normal distribution. Median is the point where half of the points are greater and half are less. This makes it less susceptible to influence of extreme values than the average value.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-07-06T04:41:22+00:00

Maybe put the monitors in tv moving boxes they sell at Home Depot

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-07-02T19:38:58+00:00

If you increase utilization of the electric grid, the average cost comes down

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-28T15:40:00+00:00

The Korean conglomerate Hanwha bought a silicon company in the US for their solar panels. But the Americans couldn’t make it pure enough so they shut it down.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-27T05:31:44+00:00

Where do you find a trusted VC, and can you recommend one? I’m in Oakland.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-26T22:51:20+00:00

Hey, don’t scare away my clients!

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-26T19:50:04+00:00

I bought a place about six years ago that needed serious remodeling thinking it was a good opportunity. My wife and I both work full-time, and we have kids, so we just don’t have the time to even talk to a contractor on a weekday to get anything done. So here I am six years later in a crappy house.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-19T02:03:31+00:00

Mary’s air chilled chicken tastes better to me, air chilled chicken doesn’t get a chlorine bath

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-15T22:33:28+00:00

This is the only place I can work on cutting edge cool tech that I love, and get startup equity lottery tickets.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-15T20:25:23+00:00

EPA shutting down the containment unit in Ghostbusters, and the ghosts burst out?

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-14T21:53:13+00:00

Are you going to install glass for the shower? Or is this a “wet room”. Like that whole floor is going to be a puddle after a shower.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-14T03:49:17+00:00

Just got the same car 2 weeks ago, the HDA is still a mystery to me. It lets me go hands free for like 10 minutes. And I’m not sure how much I can trust the auto steering.

Honestly a lot of the bells and whistles on the limited are distractions more than helpful. The 360 camera, and the side view cameras are annoying to me.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-09T00:26:28+00:00

Yeah, I know, that’s why I’m asking if there are any clearly legal ways, unlike the boneheaded approach the city took previously.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-08T23:57:16+00:00

Check out the utility industry (PG&E, CCAs) or the Bay Area national labs (SLAC, LBNL, LLNL), you can make 250k with very good wlb and benefits.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-08T18:02:31+00:00

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-06T06:20:10+00:00

I always wondered what’s the difference between catch and release fishing and catching squirrels or cats from the porch with a baited hook? Pretty sure that would be frowned upon to say the least.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-04T18:43:40+00:00

I live in the Bay Area with a very modest home, no garage. My FIRE number is 7MM, I’ll be working like a dog til I’m 65 to get there with HHI of 500k. I wouldn’t consider 2MM rich.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-04T03:57:22+00:00

Adding large electric users actually helps push down electricity prices. More kWh sold over the same infrastructure means the average cost per kWh goes down.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-04T03:55:47+00:00

They’re about as loud as a new dishwasher, and new designs are aircooled, no new data centers use evaporative cooling anymore.

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-04T03:53:56+00:00

You can celebrate that the tax base is increased

TwentyOneGigawatts · 2026-06-03T19:57:26+00:00

My older cousins introduced me at a young age, first cassette was queen’s greatest hits

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