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by pyrale 1y ago
> Hence why severe weather or other unexpected failures can cause loss of power, internet or even running water. Not all utility companies have the same policies, but all have a resiliency plan to avoid blackout that is a bit more seriou
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What if AWS dumps you because your country/company didn't please the commander in chief enough? If your resilience plan is to trust a third party, that means you don't really care about going down, does it? Besides that, as t
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> due to the schizophrenic nature of EU regulations. You mean like having to read the new tariffs you're subjected to every monday?
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by pyrale 1y ago
First off, the amount seized was not necessarily made in a year. Second, most of the money would not make it to the Cambodian economy. It is likely laundered abroad. The whole operation is likely multinational, with only the workforce locat
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> Or maybe I'm just grumpy that the days of "it's just a view layer" feel long ago. That abstraction was always leaky, in that it begged many more questions that had to be answered. Part of the appleal was that it was
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Cheap anything is great. Aside from that, that would probably require a complete change in the way Germany subsidizes its energy sector, and probably harm to some private companies that benefits from these private companies. I don't re
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I am not blaming you as an agent in this system, trying to optimize your bill. You probably made the right choice for yourself. What I'm saying is that the consequence of your action will be to rise the price electricity for those with
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by pyrale 1y ago
In yet another set of words: we built a spy network, how could we ever know that people were going to use it to spy on people?
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> eg. turn on aluminium smelters when it's windy I'd be curious to learn how you intend to amortize that aluminium smelter, while also being competitive on aluminium markets. > The variable-to-firm transformation enablers in
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> they're at the mercy of the transmission market There is no such thing as a transmission market. The grid is a regional monopoly, and it doesn't "market" its capacity. The issue here is that when too much power runs
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> just like Nuclear, we haven’t improved it in the past 30 years. That's plain wrong. Transmission system have massively evolved compared to what they were 30 years ago. Typically, at the TSO I know, the way people work looks nothin
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Market price + VAT + a subscription paying for the grid and utility's benefits, yes. I believe that already exists in Nordic countries, I had heard of it in Sweden ([1] says 10% of the population uses it) and Norway ([2] quotes 75% of
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I guess the point is that startups are dead because scaling up becomes harder, doesn’t mean that organic growth is harder. In fact, the potential ways forward offered by the article are not really dependent on VC funding.
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Yup. Flexibility should be the thing that’s subsidized. However, I would advise against "balcony" battery subsidies, and I assume balcony solar is an electoral strategy more than an energy strategy.
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Balcony solar is likely to make this worse, given Germany has low/zero electricity market prices when the sun shines. Balcony solar production means Germans don't buy solar from their utility when utility costs are low, and they d
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Out of curiosity, what share of the bill is it on average?
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They pay for themeslves when compared to your bill prices. They absolutely don't pay for themselves when compared with actual market prices for electricity generation. Your bill is priced that way so that you can have predictable price
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> Germany is a pretty rich company You're way ahead of my predicted cyberpunk timeline.
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> It also helps the grid by moving production closer to consumption. On the side of the grid, balcony solar means grid maintenance is supported by less revenue (your utility bill pays for the grid, balcony solar expenses don't). On
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Possibly one of the worst possible investment choices From a collective point of view when it comes to electricity. One has to question how this choice came to make sense to the german public.
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You're coercing EFF's point (corporations are tracking people's movements and building a database of people's whereabouts and connections using license plate scanners, and that's an issue) into a very different one
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> in places which experienced the industrial revolution People experienced the industrial revolution everywhere. I suspect, when you think "places which experienced the industrial revolution", you think about a small subset of
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> Look at industrial revolution I really don't see how one can separate the industrial revolution from colonialism, considering we have chiefs of government in colonial countries on the record saying that colonies are a necessary ou
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> What's more likely is that the whole response stream is manipulated to sell us things (ideas, products). Even then, you still want additional advertising, so that people believe the manipulated responses are genuine.
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I would call it posturing. If these companies really needed to fill these openings, they wouldn't raise an offering they know they won't pay ; they would train in-house.
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Obligatory simple made easy. Just because something is simple doesn't mean anyone has the wherewithal to understand it. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
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> Given consistent trends of exponential performance improvements over many years and across many industries, it would be extremely surprising if these improvements suddenly stopped. The difference between exponential and sigmoid is ofte
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> Flock has "fixed the issue" Strong office space vibes in this one [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUE0PPQI3is
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Privacy professing prelate Surveillance-Suspicious Saint
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Hate the font, love the editor. edit: tried to type "à", and the letter is not recognized in the font (appears in red in the editor). Would there be a way to tell the editor that "à" = "a" + "`", rath

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