Tesla got paid. It's Neoen who may not be getting paid, because the system is re-optimised in 15 minute increments, and Hornsdale responds much faster than that. They are working on 5-minute settlements now.
Well it was built to stabilise a nearby wind farm, but yeah I don't think it cares where the power comes from to charge it.
The Australian Energy Market Operator, which operates the grid, is essentially a large integer linear program (CPLEX, I believe). It know what equipment is attached to the distribution grid and what the demand is, and it decides what lines get turned on (and in which direction; the Bass Straight connection can work both ways, for example) and whether storage systems are storing or draining and whether new turbines get turned on. It optimises for overall cost.
The thing that complicates it is that the Hornsdale battery reacts faster than the integer linear program. A pumped hydro system (such as you find in the Snowy Mountains) can't turn from storing to generating anywhere near as fast as the battery can. So while the AEMO is working how how best to balance the grid, Hornsdale has already started doing it.
That's one of the reasons the existing power companies didn't like it: they all realised that they wouldn't get paid as much because by the time AEMO decided who should be pumping energy into the system, Hornsdale would already be doing it.
Perhaps it is childish (to you), to most sensible people it's a comment on the political climate in the US, [...]
It isn't childish to me, but it is parochial. You (and by "you" I mean a generic "you") are welcome to comment on your own politics, but it puzzles me as to why you think the whole world needs to see it. What makes your political in-jokes so much more important than everyone else's?
I would rather American politics be discussed elsewhere [...]
FTFY
Leaving aside the language issue, it'd be hilarious if someone committed an in-joke about New Zealand politics that RMS doesn't appreciate the importance of. Anyone want to try?
In my home state, the government murder capital of the world, people actually argue that it is good and proper to watch the condemned suffer and scream in agony. More entertaining, I guess.
I don't know what is going through their minds, but I absolutely agree that this is more honest. Brutally honest, indeed.
[...] the idea that the 'state' has a problem figuring out how to murder those among its own citizenry whom they've decided to murder, suggests their government is being done by utter incompetent morons. Killing people, and doing so quickly and reliably, is one of the easier things there is to do...
Of course. The United States is not short of ways to deliberately murder people. It's just short of ways to do it that involve convincing themselves that they are not deliberately murdering people.
It has to feel like a clinical procedure, otherwise you may as well just be chopping off heads with a sword in the public square.
We cannot guarantee that the psychopaths that we catch will never escape from their cages.
I've heard this argument before, and it's always puzzled me. "Our prisons suck at their one job" is one of the least convincing reasons to kill a person that there is.
If you read what I said again, I said almost exactly what you did except that you were less trusting in our security services that I was.
We both knew that the bullshit being presented as evidence of WMDs was no evidence at all. Some of us held on to the belief that therr MUST be something else they couldn't tell us because that can't POSSIBLY be the whole story.
What can I say? I was young and naive.
On the plus side, I'm now more empathetic to people who believe in conspiracy theories. Humans see patterns and connections where there are none, but few stop to wonder precisely why there are no patterns to be found.
According to everyone including Netanyahu, they were not building nuclear weapons. I guess you must be smarter than all of Mossad and the CIA put together.
I have no opinion on this issue specifically, but it is indeed possible that the person you are talking to could indeed be smarter than all of Mossad and the CIA put together. And you probably are, too. Any organisation which actively rejects public scrutiny can very easily be far stupider than any single person who works for them.
In the lead up to the Iraq war, our intelligence services were convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The "evidence" that they presented in public was laughably stupid, but many (including me) figured that they had better information but couldn't tell us because that would give away stuff like exactly how they got it.
What nobody (including me) seemed to question was the premise that our spies knew what they were doing and had some understanding of how the world worked. It turns out that they knew shit. They did not have any information that the rest of us didn't have. That laughably stupid "evidence" was literally all they had, and they convinced themselves anyway.
I've seen a lot of films and TV shows presenting a fictionalised account of MI5, the British agency responsible (amongst other things) for finding foreign spies. Do you know how many foreign spies they have actually discovered since it was created a century ago?
You probably know the answer already by my tone of voice: The number is exactly zero. Even the ones who worked for MI5. Everyone MI5 "caught" by their own devices was not a spy, and every one who was an actual spy was caught by someone else or they turned themselves in.
The assumption that our intelligence services know more than you do, or understand the world better than you do, is a fatal one. This is, if you like, the anti-conspiracy theory. "They" are not suppressing information, "they" are not arranging atrocities, "they" do not possess secret knowledge that you do not, "they" are not secretly running the show. In reality, "they", more than likely not, are incompetent weirdos who live in a fantasy world.
What they fail to mention is that payday loans have a lower default rate than mortgages.
That is technically correct (which is the best kind of correct), but it's based on the kind of creative accounting that would make Hollywood blush.
Payday lenders make sure they are paid first whether the borrower has the money or not, so in many cases what would be a default is turned into an overdraft fee instead. The penalty for defaulting is still paid, it's just not recorded against the loan. Moreover, four out of five payday loans are rolled over. If you roll over a loan four times before defaulting, that would be recorded as a 20% default rate even though it's really the same debt.
For comparison, 46% of first-time mortgage holders don't default during the first two years. Payday loan borrowers do.
"Cornerstone" is probably stating it a bit strongly, but superconductors are mainstream now, and SQUIDs in particular are very important to the modern world.
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Tesla got paid. It's Neoen who may not be getting paid, because the system is re-optimised in 15 minute increments, and Hornsdale responds much faster than that. They are working on 5-minute settlements now.
Well it was built to stabilise a nearby wind farm, but yeah I don't think it cares where the power comes from to charge it.
The Australian Energy Market Operator, which operates the grid, is essentially a large integer linear program (CPLEX, I believe). It know what equipment is attached to the distribution grid and what the demand is, and it decides what lines get turned on (and in which direction; the Bass Straight connection can work both ways, for example) and whether storage systems are storing or draining and whether new turbines get turned on. It optimises for overall cost.
The thing that complicates it is that the Hornsdale battery reacts faster than the integer linear program. A pumped hydro system (such as you find in the Snowy Mountains) can't turn from storing to generating anywhere near as fast as the battery can. So while the AEMO is working how how best to balance the grid, Hornsdale has already started doing it.
That's one of the reasons the existing power companies didn't like it: they all realised that they wouldn't get paid as much because by the time AEMO decided who should be pumping energy into the system, Hornsdale would already be doing it.
Perhaps it is childish (to you), to most sensible people it's a comment on the political climate in the US, [...]
It isn't childish to me, but it is parochial. You (and by "you" I mean a generic "you") are welcome to comment on your own politics, but it puzzles me as to why you think the whole world needs to see it. What makes your political in-jokes so much more important than everyone else's?
I would rather American politics be discussed elsewhere [...]
FTFY
Leaving aside the language issue, it'd be hilarious if someone committed an in-joke about New Zealand politics that RMS doesn't appreciate the importance of. Anyone want to try?
Maybe, maybe not. Some Americans seem to be okay with wealth distribution if it's in the form of crony capitalism and trickle-down economics...
In my home state, the government murder capital of the world, people actually argue that it is good and proper to watch the condemned suffer and scream in agony. More entertaining, I guess.
I don't know what is going through their minds, but I absolutely agree that this is more honest. Brutally honest, indeed.
They had to check every time it tripped, so it wasn't that.
I used to work in an office with such an alarm (there was a large LN2 tank on the opposite side of a wall). It went off almost daily at random.
I'm sure they make them better now but I hate those bloody things.
Just to be clear the alternative to "hang 'em high" is not "let 'm out", it's "throw away the key". Nobody needs to be sacrificed.
[...] the idea that the 'state' has a problem figuring out how to murder those among its own citizenry whom they've decided to murder, suggests their government is being done by utter incompetent morons. Killing people, and doing so quickly and reliably, is one of the easier things there is to do...
Of course. The United States is not short of ways to deliberately murder people. It's just short of ways to do it that involve convincing themselves that they are not deliberately murdering people.
It has to feel like a clinical procedure, otherwise you may as well just be chopping off heads with a sword in the public square.
We cannot guarantee that the psychopaths that we catch will never escape from their cages.
I've heard this argument before, and it's always puzzled me. "Our prisons suck at their one job" is one of the least convincing reasons to kill a person that there is.
Still magical thinking, of course, but yes. The human must be sacrificed to the goddess Justice or our crops will be spoiled.
If you read what I said again, I said almost exactly what you did except that you were less trusting in our security services that I was.
We both knew that the bullshit being presented as evidence of WMDs was no evidence at all. Some of us held on to the belief that therr MUST be something else they couldn't tell us because that can't POSSIBLY be the whole story.
What can I say? I was young and naive.
On the plus side, I'm now more empathetic to people who believe in conspiracy theories. Humans see patterns and connections where there are none, but few stop to wonder precisely why there are no patterns to be found.
The people who were convinced were the Neocons running the country at that time.
In fairness, there's a case to be made there, but that's not the main conclusion of the Robb-Silberman Report.
Turns out that was not an intel failure, but a lie.
Is it technically a "lie" if you believe it because you live in a self-constructed fantasy world?
According to everyone including Netanyahu, they were not building nuclear weapons. I guess you must be smarter than all of Mossad and the CIA put together.
I have no opinion on this issue specifically, but it is indeed possible that the person you are talking to could indeed be smarter than all of Mossad and the CIA put together. And you probably are, too. Any organisation which actively rejects public scrutiny can very easily be far stupider than any single person who works for them.
In the lead up to the Iraq war, our intelligence services were convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The "evidence" that they presented in public was laughably stupid, but many (including me) figured that they had better information but couldn't tell us because that would give away stuff like exactly how they got it.
What nobody (including me) seemed to question was the premise that our spies knew what they were doing and had some understanding of how the world worked. It turns out that they knew shit. They did not have any information that the rest of us didn't have. That laughably stupid "evidence" was literally all they had, and they convinced themselves anyway.
I've seen a lot of films and TV shows presenting a fictionalised account of MI5, the British agency responsible (amongst other things) for finding foreign spies. Do you know how many foreign spies they have actually discovered since it was created a century ago?
You probably know the answer already by my tone of voice: The number is exactly zero. Even the ones who worked for MI5. Everyone MI5 "caught" by their own devices was not a spy, and every one who was an actual spy was caught by someone else or they turned themselves in.
The assumption that our intelligence services know more than you do, or understand the world better than you do, is a fatal one. This is, if you like, the anti-conspiracy theory. "They" are not suppressing information, "they" are not arranging atrocities, "they" do not possess secret knowledge that you do not, "they" are not secretly running the show. In reality, "they", more than likely not, are incompetent weirdos who live in a fantasy world.
You have 54% people defaulting on mortgage in first two years???
No. That's the figure for payday loans.
I never said that payday lending was crooked or evil per se, merely that the statistic is misleading.
What they fail to mention is that payday loans have a lower default rate than mortgages.
That is technically correct (which is the best kind of correct), but it's based on the kind of creative accounting that would make Hollywood blush.
Payday lenders make sure they are paid first whether the borrower has the money or not, so in many cases what would be a default is turned into an overdraft fee instead. The penalty for defaulting is still paid, it's just not recorded against the loan. Moreover, four out of five payday loans are rolled over. If you roll over a loan four times before defaulting, that would be recorded as a 20% default rate even though it's really the same debt.
For comparison, 46% of first-time mortgage holders don't default during the first two years. Payday loan borrowers do.
... and a big cause of that is elected judges.
Also elected prosecutors. But yes, elected judges.
Surely you mean INCOMING NUKES. This is the Hawaii emergency management agency we're talking about.
This applies if the government is doing it too, right?
"Cornerstone" is probably stating it a bit strongly, but superconductors are mainstream now, and SQUIDs in particular are very important to the modern world.
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.
"Let's just burn your job application and say we dumped it in the sewer."
It's ridiculous because the guilds of old have no power any more. Today, it would be the Legislation Written by the Candle Industry Lobbyist.