Between the hours of maybe 9 AM and 5:30 - 6:00 PM, solar electricity will be so plentiful that it will sell for a very few cents per KwH, causing it to be difficult to pay for the infrastruction.
The infrastructure has to be there either way so it makes no difference.
At other times, the traditional sources of electricity will prevail. Electricity prices will be what the always were.
At least until someone invents the magic battery that can spread the peak sun-gathering times out across the 24 hours the rest of us have to deal with.
The point is to make energy more efficient. Any solution doesn't have to entirely replace existing methods, merely supplement it enough to be cost effective and offer savings. Solar does this quite well.
Well, if you understood how Medicare works then you'd see how stupid that analogy actually is.
Maybe you could tell me where I went wrong? The King is the govt, the cousin is big medicine/pharma/insurance getting fat on the public purse while the people are the peasants not getting a seat at the table.
Try answering the question again: In what sense is the US "very rightwing and right extremist"?
Is this a joke? Start here and see how many matches you get
And yet, a UK oncological nurse resorted to a gofundme to get cancer drugs that the NHS deemed "not cost effective."
Neither place nor system is perfect.
You are right, but one system produces better outcomes on average to more people. Which is the point. Aren't we all interested in creating better outcomes for as many people as possible?
he US spends more per capita on social welfare and spends more per capita on single payer, government healthcare, retirement, and education that many European nations. In what sense is it "very rightwing and right extremist"?
To make a stupid analogy, if a rich king gave his entire fortune to his favourite cousin who was a doctor and claimed it as healthcare expenditure, would that make his Kingdom socialist?
Yeah see there's a bit more to it...
I bet that sounded awesome in your head! The problem is that any change requires effort from people involved, and people won't want to spend that effort until the very last moment, when they have no chance but to.
Depends if the effort comes with some sort of reward. For most Tech upgrades there is a reward of smoother/faster/more reliable/more shiny etc. IPv6 seems to have ignored all that and thrown up a turd then wondered why no-one wants to eat it. The perfect example of why design by committee is so terrible.
Can you imagine an application where the CPU and GPU run at the same time? I would recommend you never fire up a game on a portable device.
You do this all day?
As I said in my post, I don't play CSGO all day, and if I did I play it on a machine built for that task.
There are many laptops on the market which will happily drain their battery while plugged into the strongest power source they have available. Not just cheap ones either, the Surface Book 2 does it too.
Depends what you use it for. Most laptops are for business type use which is why they are built small light and portable. If you need super high performance, get a workstation. You sound like someone complaining that you Ferrari is shit because you can't use it to move furniture....
People watch their favorite programs on netflix or amazon is that counted as tv watching or being online?
I consider 'TV' to mean 'force fed commercials and advertising'. So by that definition Netflix is being online. It'a small but important difference since TV, like Facebook and Google, exist primarily for advertising purposes. Netflix exists primarily for entertainment (and to a lesser extent learning since they have a few good documentaries). This is an important distinction because once you get used to a 'no-ad' format of entertainment, you learn quickly not to tolerate it. This should result in quite a shift in the mental state of many people.
It sucks to plug your laptop in to your $250+ USB-C docking station then have the battery die before the end of the day since most high-end laptops need more power than that.
What are you doing that uses 100W constantly all day? I have a 45W charger and 30W mini slower travel charger that both work fine. Granted I'm not bitcoin mining or playing CSGO all day, but I think you may be an extreme edge case. My Dell XPS has a regular charger as well as USB-C so even your use case is covered.
That is about the worst fail in engineering that you can have and still (seemingly) have a specification that looks like it may be possible to implement..
You're getting a bit carried away here. I have a USB-C laptop and phone and a small travel charger that charges both. I travel a lot, so it's fantastic finally having one charger for everything. The only issue I've had is trying to skimp on cheap cables, but this rule applies to pretty much everything.
And they also dropped the ball by removing the classic USB 3.0 type A ports at the same time. What was the point of that? You can have both USB 3.0 and USB-C on the same computer.
That's why I got a Dell XPS. Small, light AND powerful, and has regular power jack along with USB-C and USB-A
And it's been knowledge for years now that cheap chinese OEM's were producing non-standard compliant cables and devices
This! I've got a drawer full of USB A, B, C,1,2,3 mini, micro and iPhone both Thunder and Lightning that don't work properly. Cheap cables have always been flaky, this is nothing new to USB-C. I've also got a ton of old headphones that only work in one ear for the same reason
The economy is doing well, we have more jobs than ever... so many that deporting Mexican's is probably going to become a non-issue
If the economy is strong and unemployment low the only way to supplement your labour market is with immigrants. He's going to have to flip flop on the Mexican thing sooner or later or it will become an issue.
A different approach here is at least moving the process forward, a process that has seen 3 Administrations, over 24 years, basically appease North Korea and fail to control anything.
It was exactly this thinking said nothing could be worse than leaving Saddam in power...
Bad is only bad if you are too stupid to figure out that things could always be much, much worse.
How do you think these things happen? Donald says no more Nukes, and Kim says yeah ok and then there's no more nukes and everyone goes home? I'm pretty sure there's more detail to it than that. And if there's one thing about negotiations I do know, it's usually the person/team who are across the most detail that get the most out of any deal. I wouldn't be surprised if the strategy is simply to stroke his giant ego knowing that in 6.5 years he'll be gone. NK and China will simply consume all the oxygen out of a sitting POTUS's power for 8 years putting the Western Alliance at a massive disadvantage long term. We are witnessing our leader get played like the monkey that he is. And we'll all be worse off because of it.
the american spectrum is a little different than the EU spectrum. theresa may is mid-left on our spectrum and soft-right on yours. (because you guys are so far off the left end of the spectrum that you genuinely terrifying even many of our leftists)
Who is 'you' and 'us', you don't really make it clear?
Left and right are relative, so as someone is is neither American nor European, my opinion is that most of Western world is similar relatively speaking except the US. The US is extreme right (relative to everyone else) that the Democrats would be considered Right in any other Western country. I'd go so far as to say the the US is so far right that they are now in the Tinpot Dictatorship spectrum.
Every few years, someone comes out with a social thing for forum thing or whatever, and they insist that using "real" names will make people better-behaved. Every time they are proven wrong. People we well-behaved in small groups, people are not well-behaved in large groups. Full stop.
Online communication is the most profound change to society in the last few centuries, perhaps in all of human history.
Probably, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily a good thing
So of course authoritarian-leaning people want to be the gatekeepers to it.
Fear mongering would be telling you that we'll have a lawless wild west if we don't quickly transfer authority to a central entity. As if this is an either or scenario.
I'm expecting that most posts here will reflect the same OMGZ Big Brother! tone, but I agree that some sort of digital ID could be useful. And I'll stress that a digital identity doesn't mean the same thing as a single government ID.
Identity is an interesting subject and there are plenty of existing ways of implementing it without giving up privacy or anonymity.
Exactly. And the MOST DISGUSTING THING is that Tesla builds plaything cars for the rich 1%. If you want affordable EVs you should be investing in the companies that actually produce them today.
Everything affordable today started out as a plaything for the rich. Houses, cars, travel, TV, computers, mobile phones etc etc.
This is how things become affordable. Rich people subsidise R&D and the rest of us eventually benefit too.
Short sellers have always had a relationship with financial news media that worked well for both sides, but not so much for people who actually counted on those media for objective information.
One of the great accomplishments of Sir Trump-a-lot is the attention that he has brought to #Fake News. The sad! part as is that poor old Trumple-stilted-brain misses the real opportunity which is the effect of bad quality media, and instead uses a potentially good cause as a poor tool to feather his own nest.
If any investor is using the media for investment advice, they deserve what they get.
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pay above market rate to even cover the 30yr in cost.
What are those actual costs? In my country (Not USA) it's a 5 year payback time.
costing them $20k/year or more in equipment maintenance
What are those costs exactly? Solar panels are solid state, the maintenance is almost zero.
Between the hours of maybe 9 AM and 5:30 - 6:00 PM, solar electricity will be so plentiful that it will sell for a very few cents per KwH, causing it to be difficult to pay for the infrastruction.
The infrastructure has to be there either way so it makes no difference.
At other times, the traditional sources of electricity will prevail. Electricity prices will be what the always were.
At least until someone invents the magic battery that can spread the peak sun-gathering times out across the 24 hours the rest of us have to deal with.
The point is to make energy more efficient. Any solution doesn't have to entirely replace existing methods, merely supplement it enough to be cost effective and offer savings. Solar does this quite well.
Conservatives are supposed to be pro-business yet when the next big business comes along they do everything in their power to kill it.
Well, if you understood how Medicare works then you'd see how stupid that analogy actually is.
Maybe you could tell me where I went wrong? The King is the govt, the cousin is big medicine/pharma/insurance getting fat on the public purse while the people are the peasants not getting a seat at the table.
Try answering the question again: In what sense is the US "very rightwing and right extremist"?
Is this a joke? Start here and see how many matches you get
And yet, a UK oncological nurse resorted to a gofundme to get cancer drugs that the NHS deemed "not cost effective." Neither place nor system is perfect.
You are right, but one system produces better outcomes on average to more people. Which is the point. Aren't we all interested in creating better outcomes for as many people as possible?
he US spends more per capita on social welfare and spends more per capita on single payer, government healthcare, retirement, and education that many European nations. In what sense is it "very rightwing and right extremist"?
To make a stupid analogy, if a rich king gave his entire fortune to his favourite cousin who was a doctor and claimed it as healthcare expenditure, would that make his Kingdom socialist?
Yeah see there's a bit more to it...
Socialism doesn't really work past the scale of a commune.
I don't think you understand what those words mean.
I bet that sounded awesome in your head! The problem is that any change requires effort from people involved, and people won't want to spend that effort until the very last moment, when they have no chance but to.
Depends if the effort comes with some sort of reward. For most Tech upgrades there is a reward of smoother/faster/more reliable/more shiny etc. IPv6 seems to have ignored all that and thrown up a turd then wondered why no-one wants to eat it. The perfect example of why design by committee is so terrible.
Can you imagine an application where the CPU and GPU run at the same time? I would recommend you never fire up a game on a portable device.
You do this all day?
As I said in my post, I don't play CSGO all day, and if I did I play it on a machine built for that task.
There are many laptops on the market which will happily drain their battery while plugged into the strongest power source they have available. Not just cheap ones either, the Surface Book 2 does it too.
Depends what you use it for. Most laptops are for business type use which is why they are built small light and portable. If you need super high performance, get a workstation. You sound like someone complaining that you Ferrari is shit because you can't use it to move furniture....
People watch their favorite programs on netflix or amazon is that counted as tv watching or being online?
I consider 'TV' to mean 'force fed commercials and advertising'. So by that definition Netflix is being online. It'a small but important difference since TV, like Facebook and Google, exist primarily for advertising purposes. Netflix exists primarily for entertainment (and to a lesser extent learning since they have a few good documentaries). This is an important distinction because once you get used to a 'no-ad' format of entertainment, you learn quickly not to tolerate it. This should result in quite a shift in the mental state of many people.
It sucks to plug your laptop in to your $250+ USB-C docking station then have the battery die before the end of the day since most high-end laptops need more power than that.
What are you doing that uses 100W constantly all day? I have a 45W charger and 30W mini slower travel charger that both work fine. Granted I'm not bitcoin mining or playing CSGO all day, but I think you may be an extreme edge case. My Dell XPS has a regular charger as well as USB-C so even your use case is covered.
That is about the worst fail in engineering that you can have and still (seemingly) have a specification that looks like it may be possible to implement. .
You're getting a bit carried away here. I have a USB-C laptop and phone and a small travel charger that charges both. I travel a lot, so it's fantastic finally having one charger for everything. The only issue I've had is trying to skimp on cheap cables, but this rule applies to pretty much everything.
And they also dropped the ball by removing the classic USB 3.0 type A ports at the same time. What was the point of that? You can have both USB 3.0 and USB-C on the same computer.
That's why I got a Dell XPS. Small, light AND powerful, and has regular power jack along with USB-C and USB-A
And it's been knowledge for years now that cheap chinese OEM's were producing non-standard compliant cables and devices
This! I've got a drawer full of USB A, B, C,1,2,3 mini, micro and iPhone both Thunder and Lightning that don't work properly. Cheap cables have always been flaky, this is nothing new to USB-C. I've also got a ton of old headphones that only work in one ear for the same reason
In what dictatorship can the citizens and media be hypercritical of the dictator?
The one where its citizens are too stupid to see it coming....
The economy is doing well, we have more jobs than ever... so many that deporting Mexican's is probably going to become a non-issue
If the economy is strong and unemployment low the only way to supplement your labour market is with immigrants. He's going to have to flip flop on the Mexican thing sooner or later or it will become an issue.
A different approach here is at least moving the process forward, a process that has seen 3 Administrations, over 24 years, basically appease North Korea and fail to control anything.
It was exactly this thinking said nothing could be worse than leaving Saddam in power...
Bad is only bad if you are too stupid to figure out that things could always be much, much worse.
What kind of "experts" can really help you here?
How do you think these things happen? Donald says no more Nukes, and Kim says yeah ok and then there's no more nukes and everyone goes home? I'm pretty sure there's more detail to it than that. And if there's one thing about negotiations I do know, it's usually the person/team who are across the most detail that get the most out of any deal.
I wouldn't be surprised if the strategy is simply to stroke his giant ego knowing that in 6.5 years he'll be gone. NK and China will simply consume all the oxygen out of a sitting POTUS's power for 8 years putting the Western Alliance at a massive disadvantage long term. We are witnessing our leader get played like the monkey that he is. And we'll all be worse off because of it.
IPv6 in all ways that matter is the same as IPv4 with 96 more bits of address space.
Yeah I've been hearing this for 15 years, yet here we are...
the american spectrum is a little different than the EU spectrum. theresa may is mid-left on our spectrum and soft-right on yours. (because you guys are so far off the left end of the spectrum that you genuinely terrifying even many of our leftists)
Who is 'you' and 'us', you don't really make it clear?
Left and right are relative, so as someone is is neither American nor European, my opinion is that most of Western world is similar relatively speaking except the US. The US is extreme right (relative to everyone else) that the Democrats would be considered Right in any other Western country. I'd go so far as to say the the US is so far right that they are now in the Tinpot Dictatorship spectrum.
Every few years, someone comes out with a social thing for forum thing or whatever, and they insist that using "real" names will make people better-behaved. Every time they are proven wrong. People we well-behaved in small groups, people are not well-behaved in large groups. Full stop.
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Online communication is the most profound change to society in the last few centuries, perhaps in all of human history.
Probably, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily a good thing
So of course authoritarian-leaning people want to be the gatekeepers to it.
Fear mongering would be telling you that we'll have a lawless wild west if we don't quickly transfer authority to a central entity. As if this is an either or scenario.
I'm expecting that most posts here will reflect the same OMGZ Big Brother! tone, but I agree that some sort of digital ID could be useful. And I'll stress that a digital identity doesn't mean the same thing as a single government ID.
Identity is an interesting subject and there are plenty of existing ways of implementing it without giving up privacy or anonymity.
Short selling creates a whole host of perverse motivations. It tempts people to do nasty and illegal things.
So do girls in short skirts, but we've already worked out blaming the victim isn't an effective policy strategy.
Exactly. And the MOST DISGUSTING THING is that Tesla builds plaything cars for the rich 1%. If you want affordable EVs you should be investing in the companies that actually produce them today.
Everything affordable today started out as a plaything for the rich. Houses, cars, travel, TV, computers, mobile phones etc etc.
This is how things become affordable. Rich people subsidise R&D and the rest of us eventually benefit too.
Short sellers have always had a relationship with financial news media that worked well for both sides, but not so much for people who actually counted on those media for objective information.
One of the great accomplishments of Sir Trump-a-lot is the attention that he has brought to #Fake News. The sad! part as is that poor old Trumple-stilted-brain misses the real opportunity which is the effect of bad quality media, and instead uses a potentially good cause as a poor tool to feather his own nest.
If any investor is using the media for investment advice, they deserve what they get.