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  • We hired a company to do our 2 story home. Half was a previous addition that didn't need upgrades, but the other half got blown-in. Doors got new seals as well. Cost us less than 800 after the state rebates (which were all handled by the installation company). Also one of the best upgrades we've made.

  • Installing better insulation is always the best first step, better than the climate control solution or solar. That's why some of those states require insulation improvements before other rebates can be taken. Sometimes they also heavily subsidize the costs of improving the insulation.

    Once the structure is properly insulated, then the best option between heat pumps and solar depends on the cost of electricity, as you noted.

  • I've had pixel phones for at least 5 years now. I've probably had less than 10 random restarts, most of those would have been from apps crashing.

    Sometimes the device gets slow and I restart it. But that happens maybe 3 times per year. Otherwise the phone only gets restarted when an update is installed.

  • The loan seems to be between himself and one of his companies, so a bank didn't forget about the loan. The significance is that not accounting for this loan correctly may have allowed him to evade taxes because it changed the valuation of his assets.

    Another way of thinking about possible victims is that the banks probably would have loaned that money to someone. If it was an honest person or company (or rather more honest), then that money may have been used to generate more taxes than we're paid, more public benefit, or both. Of course the bank gets their profits, but they are in theory supposed to benefit everyone so long as the system is working (I know there are many ways in which it is not) but when someone cheats the system they take an undue amount of that benefit for themselves.

  • The times article, which the Hill article is just rephrasing:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/nyregion/trump-carroll-pay-83-million.html?smid=url-share

    I realize there maybe a pay wall for some, but I didn't have an issue.

    The Hill article also misleads by saying that he won't have to pay. They mean that Carroll may not get paid until the appeals are finished. However, Trump will have to pay a deposit to the court or secure a bond while appeals are pending, so he will have to pay someone for now, but that might not be Carroll yet.