It will indeed reduce your cost but you probably won't get back the investment at current rates.
After tax subsidies, a PV installation costs ~$10-15k after tax deductions (although the estimate I got for my property was $25k and I didn't qualify for the full tax rebate) and about $150/y in continuous maintenance costs. I pay on average about $75/month in electric (on your average 3000 sq.ft. house, partially electrically heated and AC cooling, well insulated).
Even if the PV were giving me all the energy necessary, it would take 10-15 years to pay itself back, realistically though it will be 15-25 years, beyond the life span and well beyond what I can plan for, I don't know many people that have owned and lived in the same home for 20 years. What I've noticed selling 3 houses in the last couple of years is that people are actually afraid of things that require maintenance, heat pumps, smart homes, hell even having a fire sprinkler system which is now mandated in my state for renovated properties has been a turn off for some buyers.
If you want people to invest, you should have a return rate that is beneficial to them relatively short term, 5 years or better. Planning for 15-25 years ahead, especially speculating on both real estate and energy costs, is a bad investment.
What I said is that to Equifax and the Equifax customers it doesn't matter. In any model you propose, there must be an economic loss in order for these companies to change, however in this situation they lose no money.
Let's say you are right and the information is all corrupt and the banks write bad loans because of it. The Feds have guaranteed the loans so the banks lose nothing, at best they have now saddled a bunch of people with payments that will continue to haunt them for the next decade, if they do end up having a string of people that go bankrupt, the government has already indicated in the past they will just bail out Equifax and the banks, making it the tax payer's problem to pay for it.
The banks and Equifax at no point lose any money. If you try to make Equifax pay, they won't and within about 5-10 years if a judgment even comes down from a court, they declare bankruptcy and sell all their assets for $1 to one of the many subsidiaries.
I was about to respond with the same idea, a whole block of text wonâ(TM)t be read and thus the page will be closed quickly. The picture often has the effect of hiding the length of the article until you have at least made a commitment to devoting your time.
If it was a turn-off or neutral to insert lame pictures, marketing and news companies wouldâ(TM)ve done away with it.
Solar panels in a hot desert are probably the worst idea ever. Sure, you get lots of sun, but the things are dark and heat first of all will reduce the efficiency and eventually destroys the panels. They are still made of silicon, a surface temperature of 95-140C cooks the panels and with an ambient temperature that can reach 50C, you're not too far off.
There are slightly better solar energy collectors than panels for the heat but they all suffer the same fate OR they need a body of water (rivers, lakes etc) as a coolant or a large temperature differential across seasons.
In the last 20 years we've had incremental improvements, but no earth-shattering things like the steam engine or the Model T Ford was and there seems to be no current paths to actual innovation because schools would have to change today to have an impact within 20 years. Facebook is an incremental change at best, it's an amalgamation of Usenet and IRC/ICQ but it's not the breakthrough that SMTP was.
I'm not saying the next 20 years won't be better than today, but I don't expect any major changes.
Then you realize an ESP8266 can do all that in a footprint about 1/100th of the router at a price which is about the difference in energy costs to run the router another year.
That's why class action suits were invented. Individual cases would net maybe $2000 for the victim, which would go 100% to a lawyer and the lawyer would actually lose out between running the paperwork and being in court. Additionally it would clog the justice system even more, resulting in more delays and even higher costs for everyone, including the victim (which pays for it through taxes)
Class-actions, as shitty as they are, improve the system as a whole, the lawyer gets his pay-day and the victim sees some (although not much) money and the entire case is handled in a fraction of the time it would take to see every individual case in court.
Does it matter? There was no evidence the data has been tampered with and that would be easily spotted by comparing another source of data, but even so, any data collected since is what's important for the Equifax customers.
Equifax collects information on individuals and makes timelines for businesses, whether or not a portion of that information at some point in time was made public does not make one iota of difference to their customers.
If they use Equifax data and it ends up being bad, they won't pay for it, loans made out are guaranteed by the tax payer, the tax payer gets an even worse credit score and thus pays increased feeds to the banks for the next two decades.
There is no losing for these guys, that's why they got the IRS contract and will continue getting contracts, how the data is handled is not important to their customers.
What's the commonality between them: they all have to revert back to plain C to get any performance out.
Python: Every performance library is written in C, not compiled to C, written in C. Go: "Import C" and cgo are practically a pre-requisite for any complex program Rust: The majority of the community is asking for or have hacked in a bridge into C Cx: Dead as a project but many have come before implementing checks into C, the majority has failed because if you wanted the checks, you wouldn't have used C in the first place.
It being for-profit doesn't mean it's making a profit. But it's funny how all religious-based organizations are continuously hemorrhaging money yet don't seem to ever die. I'm pretty sure Ken Ham made a tidy profit around it personally even though it's "losing" money.
Do the writers realize for-profit museums are already a thing, most major corporations have one. Also, do they realize 2040 is about 20 years away, do they really think things are going to change that much? In the last 20 years we got the Matrix and higher speed Internets but not much changed in the fields of space exploration and health care.
When this first came out, the makers promised a fully fledged smart watch. Now this thing could easily be powered for 5-10 years with a button cell and many âoeregularâ models like it have existed for at least a decade.
Watch the thing dying on everyone after 13 months, right outside the warranty.
But I do, I actually build cloud environments. Clouds run Linux, and then someone runs Windows on it and pays a LOT for licensing, extra CPU and RAM usage. Even at idle, the Windows machines use ~15-20% of a hypervisor's CPU.
Iâ(TM)ve seen plenty of people do it. Whenever there is roadwork, accidents or people broken down or pulled over by cops, it seems people grind to a stop to see whatâ(TM)s going on. Also, deer, Iâ(TM)ve stopped plenty of times on highways for them.
A few years ago Bush got a bunch of old cars off the road and got all those poor people to buy SUVs. The government spends enough on military to give every person a car and still have a standing military force.
Give em a Mac, if he doesnâ(TM)t want it, give em Linux and tell them to figure out how to run Windows games.
If you need to start with Windows and youâ(TM)re not a completely knowledgeable sysadmin, youâ(TM)ve lost. Do you fix any computers for family? Ever notice how they always get viruses, even with Windows 10 and a paid ($50/year) antivirus. Now imagine a horny teenager that only cares about pron using the computer.
So 6000 people lose jobs, across the nation thatâ(TM)s not that bad especially given that most of those can easily find spots in other retail stores.
The problem is lack of service, how many times can you try to go to Sears only to find a long line at the single cashier and nobody to help you with anything. Then whenever you have a $5 discount, the entire companyâ(TM)s management needs to be involved in approving it. Then returning it is an entire level of Danteâ(TM)s Inferno unto its own.
Newegg/Amazon will ship you at the discounted price and if youâ(TM)re not happy with it take it back no questions asked.
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It will indeed reduce your cost but you probably won't get back the investment at current rates.
After tax subsidies, a PV installation costs ~$10-15k after tax deductions (although the estimate I got for my property was $25k and I didn't qualify for the full tax rebate) and about $150/y in continuous maintenance costs. I pay on average about $75/month in electric (on your average 3000 sq.ft. house, partially electrically heated and AC cooling, well insulated).
Even if the PV were giving me all the energy necessary, it would take 10-15 years to pay itself back, realistically though it will be 15-25 years, beyond the life span and well beyond what I can plan for, I don't know many people that have owned and lived in the same home for 20 years. What I've noticed selling 3 houses in the last couple of years is that people are actually afraid of things that require maintenance, heat pumps, smart homes, hell even having a fire sprinkler system which is now mandated in my state for renovated properties has been a turn off for some buyers.
If you want people to invest, you should have a return rate that is beneficial to them relatively short term, 5 years or better. Planning for 15-25 years ahead, especially speculating on both real estate and energy costs, is a bad investment.
What I said is that to Equifax and the Equifax customers it doesn't matter. In any model you propose, there must be an economic loss in order for these companies to change, however in this situation they lose no money.
Let's say you are right and the information is all corrupt and the banks write bad loans because of it. The Feds have guaranteed the loans so the banks lose nothing, at best they have now saddled a bunch of people with payments that will continue to haunt them for the next decade, if they do end up having a string of people that go bankrupt, the government has already indicated in the past they will just bail out Equifax and the banks, making it the tax payer's problem to pay for it.
The banks and Equifax at no point lose any money. If you try to make Equifax pay, they won't and within about 5-10 years if a judgment even comes down from a court, they declare bankruptcy and sell all their assets for $1 to one of the many subsidiaries.
I was about to respond with the same idea, a whole block of text wonâ(TM)t be read and thus the page will be closed quickly. The picture often has the effect of hiding the length of the article until you have at least made a commitment to devoting your time.
If it was a turn-off or neutral to insert lame pictures, marketing and news companies wouldâ(TM)ve done away with it.
In the desert, you need cooling.
Solar panels in a hot desert are probably the worst idea ever. Sure, you get lots of sun, but the things are dark and heat first of all will reduce the efficiency and eventually destroys the panels. They are still made of silicon, a surface temperature of 95-140C cooks the panels and with an ambient temperature that can reach 50C, you're not too far off.
There are slightly better solar energy collectors than panels for the heat but they all suffer the same fate OR they need a body of water (rivers, lakes etc) as a coolant or a large temperature differential across seasons.
In the last 20 years we've had incremental improvements, but no earth-shattering things like the steam engine or the Model T Ford was and there seems to be no current paths to actual innovation because schools would have to change today to have an impact within 20 years. Facebook is an incremental change at best, it's an amalgamation of Usenet and IRC/ICQ but it's not the breakthrough that SMTP was.
I'm not saying the next 20 years won't be better than today, but I don't expect any major changes.
I have an FM transmitter with the range of a good mile. Purchased legally from Amazon, so Iâ(TM)m sure they have the FCC clearances.
Then you realize an ESP8266 can do all that in a footprint about 1/100th of the router at a price which is about the difference in energy costs to run the router another year.
That's why class action suits were invented. Individual cases would net maybe $2000 for the victim, which would go 100% to a lawyer and the lawyer would actually lose out between running the paperwork and being in court. Additionally it would clog the justice system even more, resulting in more delays and even higher costs for everyone, including the victim (which pays for it through taxes)
Class-actions, as shitty as they are, improve the system as a whole, the lawyer gets his pay-day and the victim sees some (although not much) money and the entire case is handled in a fraction of the time it would take to see every individual case in court.
Does it matter? There was no evidence the data has been tampered with and that would be easily spotted by comparing another source of data, but even so, any data collected since is what's important for the Equifax customers.
Equifax collects information on individuals and makes timelines for businesses, whether or not a portion of that information at some point in time was made public does not make one iota of difference to their customers.
If they use Equifax data and it ends up being bad, they won't pay for it, loans made out are guaranteed by the tax payer, the tax payer gets an even worse credit score and thus pays increased feeds to the banks for the next two decades.
There is no losing for these guys, that's why they got the IRS contract and will continue getting contracts, how the data is handled is not important to their customers.
What's the commonality between them: they all have to revert back to plain C to get any performance out.
Python: Every performance library is written in C, not compiled to C, written in C.
Go: "Import C" and cgo are practically a pre-requisite for any complex program
Rust: The majority of the community is asking for or have hacked in a bridge into C
Cx: Dead as a project but many have come before implementing checks into C, the majority has failed because if you wanted the checks, you wouldn't have used C in the first place.
You can find it on GitHub, it's a dead project.
It being for-profit doesn't mean it's making a profit. But it's funny how all religious-based organizations are continuously hemorrhaging money yet don't seem to ever die. I'm pretty sure Ken Ham made a tidy profit around it personally even though it's "losing" money.
Like the Ark Encounter in Kentucky?
Do the writers realize for-profit museums are already a thing, most major corporations have one. Also, do they realize 2040 is about 20 years away, do they really think things are going to change that much? In the last 20 years we got the Matrix and higher speed Internets but not much changed in the fields of space exploration and health care.
When this first came out, the makers promised a fully fledged smart watch. Now this thing could easily be powered for 5-10 years with a button cell and many âoeregularâ models like it have existed for at least a decade.
Watch the thing dying on everyone after 13 months, right outside the warranty.
So will Amazon/Newegg, if they don't which Newegg sometimes tries, I threaten to cancel my credit card charge, as I do in a regular store.
But I do, I actually build cloud environments. Clouds run Linux, and then someone runs Windows on it and pays a LOT for licensing, extra CPU and RAM usage. Even at idle, the Windows machines use ~15-20% of a hypervisor's CPU.
Good luck running any games or other software as a non-admin. Even Photoshop won't run properly.
And with the cash you can pay the yearly fees for antivirus, office suites and ransomware.
You install Windows in the VM on a Linux host, not the other way around.
Iâ(TM)ve seen plenty of people do it. Whenever there is roadwork, accidents or people broken down or pulled over by cops, it seems people grind to a stop to see whatâ(TM)s going on. Also, deer, Iâ(TM)ve stopped plenty of times on highways for them.
Trucks are some of the few non-living things so you should be able to.
A few years ago Bush got a bunch of old cars off the road and got all those poor people to buy SUVs. The government spends enough on military to give every person a car and still have a standing military force.
Give em a Mac, if he doesnâ(TM)t want it, give em Linux and tell them to figure out how to run Windows games.
If you need to start with Windows and youâ(TM)re not a completely knowledgeable sysadmin, youâ(TM)ve lost. Do you fix any computers for family? Ever notice how they always get viruses, even with Windows 10 and a paid ($50/year) antivirus. Now imagine a horny teenager that only cares about pron using the computer.
So 6000 people lose jobs, across the nation thatâ(TM)s not that bad especially given that most of those can easily find spots in other retail stores.
The problem is lack of service, how many times can you try to go to Sears only to find a long line at the single cashier and nobody to help you with anything. Then whenever you have a $5 discount, the entire companyâ(TM)s management needs to be involved in approving it. Then returning it is an entire level of Danteâ(TM)s Inferno unto its own.
Newegg/Amazon will ship you at the discounted price and if youâ(TM)re not happy with it take it back no questions asked.