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We're at the point where residential solar is expensive not because it's solar, but just because hiring a contractor to do anything in any growing metro area is
by bkjelden 5y ago
We're at the point where residential solar is expensive not because it's solar, but just because hiring a contractor to do anything in any growing metro area is unreasonably expensive.
- throwawayboise 5y ago> hiring a contractor to do anything in any growing metro area is unreasonably expensive. So is hiring a contractor to build a website. Do you still feel that's "unreasonable" ?
- lovecg 5y agoYou don’t need to comply with pages and pages of arcane regulations to build a website though.
- sygma 5y agoIn Europe you do…
- duckmysick 5y agoSame in the United States: the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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- julianlam 5y agoYes! Yes, of course it is. Hiring a competent developer to build a simple brochure website shouldn't cost as much as a small car, but yet here we are.
- bufferoverflow 5y agoYou don't need a competent developer for that. You can go to one of the website builders like SquareSpace and do it for free, or hire some student to do that for you. There's zero reason to write any code by hand for a brochure website.
- laurent92 5y agoIn a funny twist of fate, so many people die while installing panels that it “kills more than nuclear”. Therefore, although I hate the shenanigans they pull off to overcharge, maybe they really deserve the money to be able to do things safely.
- goodpoint 5y ago...and yet there was never a comparable public outcry about the dangers of roofing. And the lax safety regulations in some countries.