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   by boringg 9mo ago

   I mean physics would dictate that shade impacts performance but if you are able to break the laws of physics I am impressed!
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   by boringg 9mo ago

   What? No Canada isn't cheap solar power -- last I checked rooftop ballasted solar is a 12-14 year payback on avoided costs. Inverter will go beforehand and that excludes any op costs. 8k$ free loan doesn't really provide as muc
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   by boringg 9mo ago

   Last I checked populism is generally a route to power not actually enacting policy for the people.
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   by boringg 9mo ago

   Non political leadership in the US is getting rattled. I don't know if you watched everyone freak out about WH targeting of the fed last week. Rank and file GOP got rattled with that one.
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   by boringg 9mo ago

   Same poll: 77-87% of Canadians would never vote to part of the USA. Thats a pretty staggeringly high hurdle rate to get a population to acquiesce.
6. 306.▲
   by boringg 9mo ago

   Faustian bargain.
7. 307.▲
   by boringg 9mo ago

   There is some small amount partisan support but not public support, massive difference. It might cost them the next election. They aren't republican voters - there is sizable difference between the Canadian right and the US right.
8. 308.▲
   by boringg 9mo ago

   Trolls be trolls.
9. 309.▲
   by boringg 9mo ago

   Im not, I'm explicitly saying its the people in power who are small subset of the population.
10. 310.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    Is this a serious question?
11. 311.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    There's only a small subset of Americans who think this way, but they happen to be in power right now.
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    Who wants to be a trade partner with the US these days? I honestly ask people who aren't fully indoctrinated or already have ties established? Its a dependency that I have to think almost all countries/businesses are evaluating.
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    I think that Canada has to de-leverage trade with the US is what the take away should be. Not that this trade deal itself is going to change all the balances -- its that there are other players who can start to trade - reducing dependence
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    Shared values do have meaning and an importance. They used to mean a fair bit especially when you needed to fight an aggressor.
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    China doesn't do friends - thats for sure. However if you have a transactional trade relationship with clear boundaries that don't get undermined due to random temperaments you can build on that. The other is impossible to buil
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    I think that was true up until last year. Clearly the new administration wants nothing to do with Canada except extract.
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    So not favorable to apple as a buyer.
18. 318.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    Fair I feel like that also speaks to nation+states trade policy. Also theres the devil you know and the devil you dont know.
19. 319.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    Counter argument is that is NVIDIA friendly to their supply chain? I have to think that maybe they are with their massive margins because they can be - their end buyer is currently willing to absorb costs at no expense. But I don't k
20. 320.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    Price rarely ever goes down meaningfully.
21. 321.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    Basically better rates to go into more debt. More importantly (and part of the risk) is that they have a safety hatch if they really need to exit the business.
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    Whats funny about that -- is you assume thats the case - but a lot of solar isn't installed to be backup power. With Storage yes, but straight up solar -> no.
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    9-11 year payback isn't bad based on the projections. You could probably goose it a bit with inflation of electrical prices (depends on how the electrical policies change and what they pass through). I'll also add theres some O&a
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    Thanks for clarifying -- looked into it. Turns out tallow is all the worst parts for people with high cholesterol vs plant based oils.
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    Someone on this thread is able to speak to the argument that has been made about beef being specifically the animal meat to not eat due to its ability to raise inflammation in the system. I had one of the top level specialists say that peo
26. 326.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    And pies
27. 327.▲
    by boringg 9mo ago

    Well really they are copying the original Microsofts suite packaging which everyone has copied over the years! But yes specific they are trying to take market share on Adobe. Its actually like taking on MS and Adobe together... but they ar
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    Wait people on hackernews actually use the embedded software on "Smart" TVs? That stuff is terrible not to mention a privacy nightmare. I thought that smart tv native usage was for gen. pop. only. Its been an ongoing conversatio
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    Storage is time-shifting a lot of energy but it can't do long periods of time in large volumes - still a significant problem. What you are referring to is small incremental changes (like peak shaving or demand response programs in sin
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    by boringg 9mo ago

    >What I’m saying is human greed and short sightedness do not suddenly go away because a nation decides on a different political/economic system. The implication that it only happened because it was the Soviet Union is what I’m takin