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by plantain 4y ago
>you're a guy with 30 years experience (I am) who is willing to work for $10/hour (I am not). I average ~40$/hr spend on Upwork for intermediate to highly skilled engineers, I think you need to market yourself better.
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by plantain 4y ago
Synchronous condensers or smart batteries. Australia has deployed a lot of the former to deal with this problem at solar farms.
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by plantain 4y ago
You can also over-provision solar and wind to factors well above 100%, and still be more economical than burning fossil fuels.
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by plantain 4y ago
I think Australia will use mostly batteries, but we are building more hydro. I think hydro is miscast as being green though, when in reality it causes enormous ecological destruction. Hydro is also intermittent - it requires the right amoun
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by plantain 4y ago
The "Victorian Big Battery" cost about 100 million to build and provides 450MWh, so at those prices the 120GWh they calculate for 5 hours would cost about 25 billion. Not outrageous in the scale of nation building projects.
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by plantain 4y ago
Hence the overgeneration.
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by plantain 4y ago
Cloud doesn't mean solar stops working - the decrease is 30-60% depending on thickness, but there's still very meaningful generation.
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by plantain 4y ago
But they voted for first past the post!! In my opinion that was the defining moment that cemented the UK's decline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternativ...
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by plantain 4y ago
Specialist subscription weather forecasting. I don't really want to make myself into a case study here - just sharing my experience that the Apple-induced small-business-advertising-pinch is very real.
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by plantain 4y ago
I like this phrasing - I don't think users made an informed choice to be tracked, or an informed choice not to be. They were victims both times of big tech power plays.
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by plantain 4y ago
You owe me 5$.
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by plantain 4y ago
> But it crushed [snip] 1000s of small businesses in the process. There's a lot of comments here suggesting this is a narrative from FB/Snap, but it really isn't. I was previously able to target adverts directly to the tin
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by plantain 4y ago
Global, realtime, full definition satellite imagery. http://satview.skysight.io/ I have been meaning to spin this off into a SaaS. I don't know of anywhere you can actually get the full definition imagery as a slippy m
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by plantain 4y ago
No, same price everywhere...
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by plantain 4y ago
The source of this is an anonymous Facebook comment... how is this news?
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by plantain 4y ago
My SaaS product has problems with users sharing accounts - more than half the problematic users are Argentinians :( Inevitably I will simply have to withdraw from the market there...
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by plantain 4y ago
As a subscription vendor, I can tell you I have never found or achieved the level of evidence required to successfully dispute a chargeback. I don't even bother anymore. This seems like a welcome change of attitude.
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by plantain 4y ago
Getting quota with Azure is just so hard - it takes literally months, and they force you onto invoice billing. I had to build out on other platforms while waiting for trivial requests to get approved.
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by plantain 4y ago
Well, not from producing copious quantities of tea. Globalization meant they (thought they) could specialize in growing tea and let someone else specialize in growing food. In theory - everyone wins.
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by plantain 4y ago
I just cannot believe this is true. AWS is everywhere. And Azure is so bad in comparison. Everything is painful, from the UI to the API, and god help you if you need support. I recently waited over 2 months just to get a trivial amount of
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by plantain 4y ago
Having been here 11 years now, IMHO HN is 90% as good as it was in 2011. Reddit has lasted pretty well too because of it's ability to shard out bigger communities into ever smaller communities, but the larger subreddits are a bit creak
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by plantain 4y ago
That is not what it means.
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by plantain 4y ago
Of the SaaS services my own SaaS service depends on, Postmark has given me the least (zero) problems, and I'm genuinely concerned about what will happen now. Their deliverability has always been absolutely stellar.
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by plantain 5y ago
It looks like the Green Party didn't have a single minister in 2016 when they turned off all the nuclear post-Fukushima - so why would the Green party be responsible? Who has been in power for the last 20 years exactly that could have
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by plantain 5y ago
I wish - as an Australian company predominantly selling to US/EU, I pay 3% on almost all transactions...
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by plantain 5y ago
It's just not true. A myth that doesn't make any sense if you consider it. If you think artillery/cannon's couldn't shoot a mile, I'll sell you the Torrens Footbridge. https://www.adelaide-parklands.
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by plantain 5y ago
These services seem to be increasingly popular, as measured by my support load of tickets from users who are unable to complete the signup flow on my SaaS because they are unable to receive an activation email - or a reply to their ticket..
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by plantain 5y ago
Every USB-C laptop has this - charge it like you would charge your phone on the go, from a powerbank.
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by plantain 5y ago
Are the police notoriously soft in other broken states like South Africa? I don't think so - the intensity of policing seems poorly correlated to outcomes to me. I despair every day at America's descent into a failed state. Is no
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by plantain 5y ago
Reputational damage for the government?

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