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by conk 3y ago
If Reddit had years of runway in an easy money macro climate and still can’t achieve profitability. How’s a startup/clone supposed to get up and running today?
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by conk 3y ago
An untrusted finger can just switch the main breaker or an untrusted hammer can just smash the meter. There’s far easier ways to be destructive if you have physical access to the meter, which by default everyone is going to have because met
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by conk 3y ago
If the problem is zoning that’s blocking density then why is the density of Cupertino (5,300/sq mile) almost double that of Houston (3000/sq mile)? Houston is the example of why cities need zoning regs. No one wants to buy a home
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by conk 3y ago
Other car manufacturers told tesla to pound sand because the conditions of using any of the “open” tesla patents meant you had to forfeit any patent claims against tesla. Which isn’t really sharing your patents, it’s just a negotiation&#x2F
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by conk 3y ago
Charging at home is typically cheaper. Around 1/2 to 1/3 of the cost of a public charger. There are also some free public chargers but they are typically slower charge around 6kW and are limited to an hour or 2.
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by conk 3y ago
About 50 cents per kWh at something like a supercharger. Most EVs get around 3 miles per kWh. So 300 miles of charging is about 100 kWh or $50.
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by conk 3y ago
Maintaining the temp inside the car is going to pull at most a couple kw. So 2 hours with the heat or AC on even in a very severe climate is going to consume <5kWh. Which translates to a loss of 15 miles in range. If you got stuck overni
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by conk 3y ago
Evil lobbyists accidentally creating a cleaner world is something I can live with.
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by conk 4y ago
If you have to use lighter fluid to BBQ you’re better off just using a stove/oven.
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by conk 4y ago
It’s a cost to GM because they can’t nickel and dime their customers with subscription fees if customers can use the phone service they already have.
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by conk 4y ago
If you pay for earthquake insurance, and then an earthquake destroys your house. Should you not get to keep your house after insurance pays out to fix it?
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by conk 4y ago
Well it’s been 2 years since 2021 and Tesla still isn’t building cybertrucks. I’d say ya, Tesla has these types of delays as well.
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by conk 4y ago
The SF bay area alone added over 500k more jobs than housing over the last decade. And it’s not like the area was known for having ample housing before that.
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by conk 4y ago
Once furnace and water heaters are electric I really don’t see how maintaining gas infrastructure stays economic for PG&E. I guess they can keep raising minimum monthly charges so you’ll end up paying even if you use no gas.
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by conk 4y ago
This is the opposite of my existence. I love my rheem heat pump water heater. Costs me less than old gas water heater. I heat to 140 and use a mixing valve to have safe temp at 120. I’ve never run out of hot water.
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by conk 4y ago
The proposed desktop+low cost laptop doubles the number of devices th IT org needs to maintain and secure. Sounds like a nightmare when I’m sure some laptops will sit powered off for months or could walk away without an employee realizing t
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by conk 4y ago
Going with MBP still gets you 64GB max ram, more cpu and gpu cores, and more than 1 external monitor. I think the 16” MBP will stick around for a while.
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by conk 4y ago
Why didn’t he use his block button on the Jet account then?
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by conk 4y ago
6.6M deaths globally according to WHO ( https://covid19.who.int/ )
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by conk 4y ago
This nearly 200 year old essay disagrees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Governments serve a very real and necessary task of regulating markets to prevent abuse by bad actors. Bad actors seeking
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by conk 4y ago
Why would it cost $2000 to register an EV? 12,000 miles/year at ~30 MPG is 400 gallons of gas. At $.50/gal tax that’s $200/yr in tax revenue the state would need to make up in additional EV registration fees.
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by conk 4y ago
Let market economics drive the behavior/buying decisions. Sure there are edge cases but for the most part EVs are more convient, comfortable, cleaner. The downsides are long recharge times during road trips and initial upfront costs. S
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by conk 4y ago
I’m not aware of any metro area that’s building affordable high rise housing. The cost of construction goes up exponentially as you increase a building’s height. Even if SF had no restrictions on height I doubt most construction would be ov
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by conk 4y ago
Even if cities we less restrictive on permitting where would they build all these houses? It’s not like SF, SJ or NY have vast areas of undeveloped land available.
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by conk 4y ago
Other than Toyota and Dodge, what mainstream car maker isn’t offering an EV today? You have Ford, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, BMW, GM, VW, Porsche all with EV offerings.
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by conk 4y ago
There’s pros and cons to both approaches. At the end of the day the framework you use won’t make up for serious deficiencies in the product/organization/tech stack. But you can’t ignore benefits with agile over waterfall of delive
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by conk 4y ago
Lots of meters use bus bar to the panel that wouldn’t fit a ferrite. Also the lack of a listing would make using that ferrite a violation anywhere that observes NFPA70 (NEC). Although I don’t personally see a risk in adding one.
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by conk 4y ago
I just ordered the length I needed from fs.com. Granted I only have a single run between 2 switches home<->garage. I ran the fiber in a PVC conduit. Put a 4”x4” pvc junction box in the run with a couple feet excess coiled inside becau
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by conk 4y ago
I think you’re significantly underestimating just how complex a vehicle is regardless of if it’s gas or electric.
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by conk 4y ago
IMO it’s less about the voltage and more about the wattage. A modern PoE spec supporting wattages ~100W is more than enough to start a fire. Currently there is a gap in the electric code (NFPA70) as it doesn’t really address this risk in th

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