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601.
by sib 6y ago
Well... Slow chargers (~20 - 30 miles added per hour of charging) may cost only a few thousand dollars each, but DC fast chargers (100 - 350 KW) cost much, much more than that. UBS estimated USD250,000 per station in 2017 (unclear how many
602.
by sib 6y ago
Edmunds.com shows the MSRP range for a 2021 Civic ranges from $21,050 - $28,100.
603.
by sib 6y ago
I am 100% certain that ($12/kWh) is a typo. Even in CA, with some of the most expensive electricity, it's about $0.20 - $0.25 / kWh...
604.
by sib 6y ago
Many years ago Intel got sued for using code names that were things like "Hendrix" so they started using code names that were geographic features that could not be "owned" by others...
605.
by sib 6y ago
If you're talking about an iPhone, it works exactly this way. You can use "Find My..." to play a lost sound on the missing device.
606.
by sib 6y ago
They've thought about this use case and actually tried to do something about it: "iOS devices can also detect an AirTag that isn’t with its owner, and notify the user if an unknown AirTag is seen to be traveling with them from pla
607.
by sib 6y ago
There's a lot of stuff that looks better online than in real life ;) And we took quite a while to figure out what we really wanted (and we were comfortable living in the place we were in, so we didn't need to make a change...) W
608.
by sib 6y ago
My (now-deceased) stepfather was Jewish and a historian. He focused on WWII and the US Civil War. When he and my mom went to sell their house about 12 years ago, the listing agent walked through and said, "Oh, you should probably clear
609.
by sib 6y ago
I went to 50+ open houses in the 3 years pre-Covid (finally bought a place just before it started) and was never once asked for ID. They usually ask you to write down contact info on a sheet, which I do using intentionally impossible-to-rea
610.
by sib 6y ago
Here's the challenge: Let's say there is a business that is successful and generating $10B in revenue and $1B in profit and valued at $15B market cap. Now you want to buy it. Historically, you will have to pay something like a 40%
611.
by sib 6y ago
Probably because California is NOT a right-to-work state, and all studios that matter have agreements with all the unions (guilds) that make their productions union-only jobs. So, even if you are Tom Cruise, Dwayne Johnson, or Scarlett Jo
612.
by sib 6y ago
No, but I find it very hard to believe that a gigantic company had a press release finalized and sitting in a CMS a month in advance, just waiting for time to pass. (Source: have worked in 3 large public companies and seen how these things
613.
by sib 6y ago
>> Who doesn't have open plan offices? There are about three people left in the tech industry these days who still have a private office. There's a big range from true open-plan space (long tables with employees sitting shou
614.
by sib 6y ago
Well... for me, there's literally no reason my neighbors (or any other random person on the internet) needs to know all that information about me or my family... It's funny how much energy there is behind things like GDPR preventi
615.
by sib 6y ago
I almost got caught by a similar issue when booking travel to San Jose California when the travel web site prioritized San Jose Costa Rica (SJO) over SJC.
616.
by sib 6y ago
Note to self: never move to Sweden. (Although I lived there as an exchange student for a summer many years ago...)
617.
by sib 6y ago
One hypothesis is that they know that what they have coming next on Apple Silicon is so much faster that the people who bought the (newly overpriced) Intel-based ones would be extremely annoyed.
618.
by sib 6y ago
> these devices are pretty big energy consumers > go through 2 240WHr batteries Is that a big energy consumption? It's about 0.5 kWH, or about $0.10, depending on where you are. How much would you spend on gas & oil for a 2-s
619.
by sib 6y ago
It's a lot easier to put an effective muffler on a generator than on a leaf blower that is person-portable. I just looked at the stats for some Honda generators and they have a 7000-W unit with 120v and 240v outputs that runs at 52-58d
620.
by sib 6y ago
Well, assuming that those businesses are paying taxes (hmm?) then purchases of this amount would typically be fully deductible in the same purchase year as opposed to required some sort of complex depreciation schedule, so that would reduce
621.
by sib 6y ago
It generally ensures that there is always something to charge someone with if they come to the attention of the authorities and if the "offender" is not politically or socially advantaged in some way.
622.
by sib 6y ago
Corded can be kind of a pain if your yard is at all odd-shaped. They also really aren't that powerful. This battery-operated one works well and is also much quieter than the gas-powered ones. https://www.homedepot.com/p
623.
by sib 6y ago
The economist's answer: If that were so, there wouldn't be so much money spent on lobbyists by companies. I guess there's a reason they call it "the dismal science."
624.
by sib 6y ago
And then, of course, California decided to pass Proposition 13 [1] which made sure that owners who got in early also "win" vs more recent buyers. There are owners of identical homes on the same block in San Francisco who pay 10x w
625.
by sib 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that they don't count the value of the homes themselves as revenue when they complete a transaction. I think they can only count the commissions on one or both sides (depending on whether they represent the seller,
626.
by sib 6y ago
I had two questions after reading the headline: (1) What is a Bin Washer (2) Why do they have wheels? Neither was answered in the article. 1*, would not recommend.
627.
by sib 6y ago
And most "extremely serious photographers" today are probably using cameras for which SD cards are not the storage format (or at least the preferred format.)
628.
by sib 6y ago
I'm sorry if that's the case, but our actions (at least with respect to "naming" Alexa) were extremely far from "thoughtless." There were literally thousands of hours of research, analysis, engineering, and &qu
629.
by sib 6y ago
It's not so much the "fingerprinting" - it's more that there are some words ("type 1") that have many relatively frequent words that sound like them, and there are other words ("type 2") that only hav
630.
by sib 6y ago
Probably fewer, since much of the population (at least those under 16) isn't eligible.

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