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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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dxmnkd316 said:
I'm not sure that's what duress is. Sounds like moderate discomfort and squirming in his chair.

I also don't think you should ever sign a contract without a real lawyer advising you. "I'm sure the mortgage company will just give me a better payment if I can't afford it."
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100% agree on the lawyer part.

I think a lot of getting the $30k back would have to do with whether he agreed to binding arbitration or not. If he agreed to that they would likely pursue it but if they had to go to court not sure they would.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
He's building a house with a lazy river and a go kart track. Of course he has a Lamborghini picture.
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It is amazing how these criminal chodes self identify with such a crappy car. Like seriously Lambos stopped being cool when I was 13. Now every second MLM twat uses them to show how rich they are...
 
Handyman said:
It is amazing how these criminal chodes self identify with such a crappy car. Like seriously Lambos stopped being cool when I was 13. Now every second MLM twat uses them to show how rich they are...
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I'd rather have something like a ZR1, Z06, or something like that. I'm not even a corvette guy but at least they aren't as much of a douchemobile. Even a nice S-class or 7 Series would be better than a Lambo.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
I’ve heard nothing but bad things about working at UWM. I would hope there’s a clause in there for termination having to be for cause, because otherwise what’s to stop them from laying people off near the end to recoup the 30k?
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He's already planning for that. As he put it, anyone who goes out and spends the $30k after getting it is a moron. He's going to keep putting it in short-term CDs for now, just to keep up with the interest in the event he doesn't make it the full 3 years.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
He's already planning for that. As he put it, anyone who goes out and spends the $30k after getting it is a moron. He's going to keep putting it in short-term CDs for now, just to keep up with the interest in the event he doesn't make it the full 3 years.
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Your buddy sounds like he's not an idiot. Far from it.
 
Kepler said:
It was always BS, right? It was never a viable idea?
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100%. Economics and even physics aside, there are too many parts that have to work all at the same time for it ever to be reliable. Keeping a vacuum on a 500-mile tunnel is just a ridiculous concept.
 
LynahFan said:
100%. Economics and even physics aside, there are too many parts that have to work all at the same time for it ever to be reliable. Keeping a vacuum on a 500-mile tunnel is just a ridiculous concept.
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A reasonably low vacuum in a 4,000-gallon vessel is hard enough to control. Obviously there are ways to do high vacuum in very large volumes (the NASA cryogenic vacuum building that I thought got decommissioned a number of years ago).

But I agree, even a small partial vacuum over 500 miles would have been immeasurably expensive. I just can't even imagine. For such a relatively small gain in efficiency. Like even if you improved the efficiency by 10x, your capital costs are going to be 1000s of times higher than building two parallel steel rails.

Going from an atmospheric vessel to one rated for full vacuum basically triples the cost. Usually more depending on the alloy involved. And that's for building a vessel, which is already expensive!!

Edit: I should have said reduced the inefficiency by a factor of ten. But whatever. The point is there.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
A reasonably low vacuum in a 4,000-gallon vessel is hard enough to control. Obviously there are ways to do high vacuum in very large volumes (the NASA cryogenic vacuum building that I thought got decommissioned a number of years ago).

But I agree, even a small partial vacuum over 500 miles would have been immeasurably expensive. I just can't even imagine. For such a relatively small gain in efficiency. Like even if you improved the efficiency by 10x, your capital costs are going to be 1000s of times higher than building two parallel steel rails.

Going from an atmospheric vessel to one rated for full vacuum basically triples the cost. Usually more depending on the alloy involved. And that's for building a vessel, which is already expensive!!
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Shouldn’t all this has be proved out negatively with dudes sticking their wang in the house vacuum tube, expecting to add some inches……
 
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