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To answer tyromaniac's question that is dead and therefore I can't reply to: The United States utility companies bill by the kWh, so American-centric news will
by fhdkweig 2mo ago
To answer tyromaniac's question that is dead and therefore I can't reply to: The United States utility companies bill by the kWh, so American-centric news will report in multiples of that unit.
And as a sidenote, why do people downvote a question rather than answer it? Some of us like answering questions and deadening a question removes that ability.
- tuetuopay 2mo agoEuropean utilities also bill by the kWh, the markets bill by the MW or MWh (depending on the market product), yet we’d still use TWh to write this number. The American way of handling units is always surprising.
- john_strinlai 2mo ago>And as a sidenote, why do people downvote a question rather than answer it? Some of us like answering questions and deadening a question removes that ability. if its just [dead] (no [flagged]), as the case with tyromaniac, that's automated by the site (suspected spam/ai/bot/etc.). the comment can be vouched for to lose the [dead] status by users with 500+ karma (i think? maybe 1000) comments don't gain [dead] due to downvoting.
- fhdkweig 2mo agooh, so when https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html says: >What does [dead] mean? >The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators. "moderators" isn't referring to just anybody with a downvote capability? They mean just the website owners, e.g. dang, etc.?
- john_strinlai 2mo agocorrect, moderators in that context is dang/tomhow, not just users with downvoting capabilities. user flags will always have [flagged], otherwise downvoting just makes the text gray