Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>The powerlines, transformers, etc. have to be paid for. These are not new costs, they're existing, ongoing costs. That's true but powerlines exist to transport high voltage power from power plants to consumers far away, and tr
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>aren't 8K displays just becoming a thing? Your perspective sounds like they are a dying breed. In the meantime, for me, they are still prohibitively expensive. I'd say yes and no - they are becoming a thing - again. And you&#x
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>Domestic PV is really gaming the rate system, avoiding costs while still benefiting from the things those costs support. All powerlines, transformers and everything else is the same with or without solar panels. What new costs are happe
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>No, the subsidies don’t stop at installation - they often just really begin.[..] Often wealthier households have been able to sell back their electricity to the grid at the retail rate. It's not a subsidy to be allowed to sell a t
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Agree, but also, much worse image quality. I managed to grab a 55" 8K LG before 8K went out of fashion. I run it at 4k120 for games and 8k60 with doubling for productivity. I've never had a better monitor and if one should exi
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>Well, it means that the government will have less available money to spend on other priorities. That assumes people have to buy solar at any price, but they don't. The money the gov gets from people choosing solar because of the ta
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
But you assume that 100% of homeowners will buy solar at full price no matter what, with such certainty that it can even be included as a given in the budget before it happens. That's an unreasonable assumption IMO. Solar is not food,
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
No it just means the person paying gets a discount on the tax, nobody else pays anything extra for that. If the tax credit results in an increase of solar panel installations it’s still a net gain for society, even just financially.
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
Storage is not needed. You can consume solar power as it's generated, and it is as useful then as if it came from oil, gas or coal. When the sun goes down, you have saved tons of oil, gas and goal that didn't have to burn during t
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
It's not as bad as all that. Solar "subsidies" are almost universally tax credits, meaning the only money involved is the money paid by the homeowners. So, for society, rooftop solar is by far the cheapest option. It costs th
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
One of the many surprising things on that list is that paperboys still exist! I thought printed papers were all but dead even in the US and can't recall the last time I saw a stand or store where I could buy one. They faded away uncere
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Even simpler, have a discussion with the group once and have cameras either be prohibited on all days except X, or allowed on all days except X, depending on the majority preference.
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I agree with the gp. I like some aspects of tiling vms but gave up after a while. The main pain points for me were 1) I often end up with two windows each taking a side of the screen leaving basically nothing of interest in the centre. So I
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Use a better setup! Even if you only use your own computer, customizing the basics is a bit of a trap in many ways. First you need to find a different setup that is actually better, not just different. Then you need to build muscle me
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>It is, the hint is in the name! Just about any line of text I write daily uses symbols not reachable from the resting position, and once my hand has left that position the arrow keys are easier to find. (Inverted T of course, with home&
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>It isn't because your resting keys require NO finding, so will always be easier You still need to find them unless your hand is glued to the resting keys and even if it were the resting keys might not be hjkl, and even if they are
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
I honestly think Apple was interesting because of Steve Jobs. Whatever you think of him he was clearly an strong leader who was able to make a bunch of otherwise unruly geniuses cooperate towards a common goal. He also overruled any other e
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>By putting the panels on their home they have robbed us of electricity. Most of the solar we have today exists because these "robbers" paid for it themselves, and got it done rightaway. We all benefit from it. Maybe you meant
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
You may be right about the ROI in a strict sense, I just question why it matters. A communal solar farm is not the same product as personal home solar anyway. When someone with surplus money decides to pay for their own solar it might be su
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>This type of thing would really need to be implemented at the township / local community level at least, Even better - both. Increase the independence and redundancy in several steps, making the grid more reliable and less prone to
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
Because they can carry solar panels? Roofs have to handle several tons of wind pressure, snow, people walking on them and so on. They can handle solar panels no problem - which is why it's such a good idea to put solar panels on them.
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>The ROI of a large PV farm must be substantially better than a home scale install. There are many benefits to letting homeowners do it. First of all you get a lot more solar deployed in much shorter time, because you mobilize hundreds o
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>No, I'm not. Pick whatever estimate of deaths from Chernobyl you like. That's the lawyer definition though - because some 50 people sacrificed their lives and because we spent 600 billion euros on remedies during the first 30
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A similar misconception is that bigger sensors give shallower DOF than smaller sensors, which is also an effect of your position relative to the subject rather than the sensor itself.
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
It makes perfect sense, they are mostly uninformed about the risks and consequences of nuclear but have heard about global warming all their lives.
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That's faulty logic, it's like claiming nuclear bombs were safe until Hiroshima. We know nuclear reactor accidents could potentially kill millions of humans, even it hasn't done so yet.
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That it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it couldn't happen in the future. We have never had a worst case event but we do know pretty well what the consequences of a worst case event could be. The worst case consequences
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>A Chernobyl level incident every single year would kill fewer people than the annual number of people that die from fossil fuel particulate emissions This is not true. You are using the lawyers definition of damage from Chernobyl, but t
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
But why is it a cost thing? I got a 55 inch 8k tv for less than 1000 usd years ago, including sales tax and overhead from a physical store. It’s the best monitor I’ve used. Today, many years later, monitors are still way worse and more expe
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
You are making a common mistake, your source does only considers things that have happened, not things that could happen. But we know what could happen, which is why the security standards have to be high for nuclear power.

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