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by Fins 8y ago
But don't you get extremely high rates during the day (something like $0.48/kWh) for daytime use in the summer with that plan?
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by Fins 8y ago
Taxpayers aren't subsidizing them as much anymore either. Quite possible they just couldn't afford dumping electricity anymore.
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by Fins 8y ago
As long as they can rack in billions of dollars with their current business model, and with no negative consequences, why would they change anything? And living in a bubble males them feel good about themselves, too. If you drink enough fre
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by Fins 8y ago
Indeed. And the pendulum seems to be slowly swinging that way. Google et al aren't helping their case by being so detached from reality either.
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by Fins 8y ago
Maybe already is, but I don't think it has anything to do with this story -- Google finally decides to do something most other GPS vendors have been doing for ages, and that they had data for for ages as well.
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by Fins 8y ago
If you drive with a Google device, they know when you're speeding anyway. This is only about adding a user convenience that's about as new as dinosaur dung.
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by Fins 8y ago
I had a GPS that did that something like 10 years ago. Is it news because (gasp!) Google is doing it?
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by Fins 8y ago
M does the "noSQL" or "multi-model" or "hierarchical" or whatever they want to call it database as good or better than many a dedicated noSQL engine written by kids who weren't even born when MUMPS started
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by Fins 8y ago
Exactly that. Move fast, break things, and pretend it's a good thing. Obviously not an SV-only thing, but the culture in SV glorifies it instead of making it something you should be ashamed of.
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by Fins 8y ago
Maybe one day one of those "DumboDB" things will manage to reinvent MUMPS without dropping all of its good parts...
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by Fins 8y ago
Seems to be something that, sadly, is to be expected from this generation of SV and SV-like companies that believe than any problem (usually a very First-World problem) can be solved with technology, and all the bad things, and negative ext
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by Fins 8y ago
Interesting, I've only had one interview as long as you describe in Chicago. I am not sure if there are fewer great engineers in Chicago; I have certainly met lots of people who were as good as anyone I've met in SV and that I&#x2
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by Fins 8y ago
That could also be explained by there not really being many other options. I don't think too many people really wanted to send postcards with Lenins and red flags for holidays, but if this is all you have, you'll buy that. By a
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by Fins 8y ago
I got out of serving by going to a college with Военная кафедра [0], but I think we're saying pretty much the same thing -- USA and rest (or most, anyway) of the Western world has non-political Motrher's and Fatrher's day, co
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by Fins 8y ago
You probably meant "celebrated in lieu of Mothers' Day" -- March 8th has always been advertised, as it were, as "women's holiday" in USSR, there were no Mothers' (or Fathers') day per se.
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by Fins 8y ago
Grandfather Frost, to be pedantic.
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by Fins 8y ago
Well, exactly. It's not for everyone. You also seem to be conflating companies (sure, it is easier to start a company in a place where you can get finding for almost anything, no matter how harebrained it is) and innovations. The way I
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by Fins 8y ago
I'm not saying that they should not come, if they think it works for them. I object to the propaganda that it's the only place they should come to, or that anyone will be better off in SV than elsewhere. Neither seems to be correc
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by Fins 8y ago
Why any? You are way overexaggerating to prove some point. There are some companies in SV that are doping something world-changing. Sometimes it's even for the better (often it's not, but let's not go there). But it's
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by Fins 8y ago
This sounds a little bit too defensive, really. There's nothing wrong in living in SV, as long as you like it. Or liking it. It is wrong to try to make it out as if it were the best place fro everybody; or even everybody in "com
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by Fins 8y ago
Granted, I've only passed through, but there were no homeless people shooting drugs in the middle of downtown, it was clean, apparently schools are quite good, and being in a middle of the country you can get to some more exciting plac
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by Fins 8y ago
Really, a payment processor, an enterprise of questionable legality that apparently had invented a concept of lodging, that what it takes to changer the world these days? And I did specifically mention Twitter. Changing the world for the wo
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by Fins 8y ago
Except when they don't, and you end up with stock options in Pets.com If you get into a right startup, sure, you can walk away a millionaire, but while it makes for a nice SV foundational myth, in reality it happens to very few people.
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by Fins 8y ago
I think Boston is ahead culturally, but I am not sure about affordability of living close to downtown. Not sure about cachet... SF might have more of it in sense of having more "here a famous 60's musician shot acid" landmark
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by Fins 8y ago
Mostly Chicago, really, because I've lived there for 25 years, but Austin would work too (somewhat less culture, though). Denver, Minneapolis, probably more. After that it's probably more a matter of taste than anything. I don&#x2
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by Fins 8y ago
What are all those thousands "world-changing" things coming out of SF? Or do you include all the changing world for the worse things that come out of twitters and ubers? Only in the SV bubble could one think that "disrupting
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by Fins 8y ago
Tokyo is also far more livable place with excellent transit, low crime, clean, with much better food. And hell, I've stayed in hotels in Tokyo (perfectly fine ones, although obviously not 5-star ones) that would cost me less for a mont
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by Fins 8y ago
But that's San Francisco. There absolutely are large cities with far more culture than the entire Bay Area (SF included), great food, things to do, and all that, where you can live 15-20 minute walk from downtown, in a decent neighborh
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by Fins 8y ago
That I could believe. Although I think Dallas has better museums etc. And prices, of course.
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by Fins 8y ago
Doesn't seem to prevent Japan from building skyscrapers. And excellent transit.

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