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by vondur 9mo ago
Here in California, they drastically cut back on the price that you get for solar powered electricity from homeowners. It used to be around $0.30/kWh at any time of day and now it's can drop to $0.00-$0.05/kWh during the day
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by vondur 9mo ago
It’s a bit odd in the U.S. because we use a mix of units, largely due to industries that combine metric and imperial systems. Most people are familiar with metric volume since so many drinks are sold in 1 and 2 liter bottles, and medication
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by vondur 9mo ago
I don’t know how many people have homes with 4.5 ft thick walls. Adobe houses in the Southwest US were similar in design with thick walls.
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by vondur 9mo ago
> Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. Boy, that one really gets to me when I'm on the trail. Both hikers and mountain bikers are guilty of that. Also, the people with their AirPods in
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by vondur 9mo ago
Healthier countries? As in better physical health?
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by vondur 9mo ago
Oh boy. No one wanted this on Windows back when it was released. I’m sure it’ll be a hit with Linux users everywhere.
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by vondur 9mo ago
Ha, I watched this happen at a Target here in SoCal. A group of people filled up their carts (3) with clothes and shoes, rushed out the door to a waiting van. Security didn't even try to stop them at all.
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by vondur 10mo ago
They spent it on war. The Spaniards were fighting the Ottoman Empire and the Relgious Wars brought on by the Protestant Reformation. Funny enough their main enemy for the religious wars was France, who was also Catholic. The Spaniards also
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by vondur 10mo ago
Ha, just noticed when I was trying to login to the desktop app. Kept timing out. Hope they get it sorted out before everyone is trying to redeem gift cards for Xmas.
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by vondur 10mo ago
Wow. Is there still enough money to be made in crypto to justify this kind of investment?
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by vondur 10mo ago
Is water an issue in Michigan? I thought they have plenty of water.
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by vondur 10mo ago
>$236M on other things This is from another poster. I'm guessing stuff not related to Firefox development.
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by vondur 10mo ago
I get the feeling most of the newer jobs that are going to be created are going to be in the blue collar fields and the US isn't geared for providing those. I'm also not sure that people who have been conditioned to work white col
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by vondur 10mo ago
Ha, the University where I work signed an exclusive agreement to only sell Pepsi products on campus. I'm sure there was some kickback money given to people here to push it through.
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by vondur 10mo ago
They are a luxury brand. I don't think that they directly compete with Fords. I do see a lot of them here in SoCal.
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by vondur 10mo ago
Yeah, Ford makes the F-150 Powerboost which is a hybrid version, but no plugin capability. I'd love to see a 50 mile plug in hybrid version of their truck line (Maverick, Ranger, F150)
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by vondur 10mo ago
I would imagine for 80% of truck owners, having an electric truck is fine. However, if you are towing or carrying heavy loads, they are a bad choice. I suspect most F-150 drivers barely ever do these sorts of things. I have an F-150 but do
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by vondur 10mo ago
I have some older SATA SSD's in my PC currently. I'd not buy a new one, too slow compared to NVME.
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by vondur 10mo ago
It'd be hard to tax them now since most of them are bleeding cash. I suppose you can go after Google, they make a ton of cash.
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by vondur 10mo ago
His "schtick" is having people pay down and reduce debt. What's noteworthy on this video is that he's calling for the government to fix the problem. He's normally anti-government involvement in business. This should
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by vondur 10mo ago
I just watched a video from Dave Ramsey title "What the Government Should Do to Fix the Housing Problem" He specifically calls out Institutional Investors and Foreign Corporations that have been purchasing single family housing an
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by vondur 10mo ago
I said the same thing on a different post and people downvoted it. The current administration believes that the US can't fall behind China in this AI arms race. So don't expect anything too drastic to happen to the large players i
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by vondur 10mo ago
The CPU is far less powerful than a single Ryzen chip from now and the new system is far more power efficient. No super fast USB connections like a new system has.(It does have a USB-C 10GB connection though) Overall if you can live with a
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by vondur 10mo ago
How much was the student discount back then? I vaguely remember SGI coming to my University and having a complete system for like $2000 back in the day (1996 or 1997). IIRC a Pentium Pro based system would have been similarly priced.
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by vondur 10mo ago
Ha, I bought one of those for $500 from Ebay. It's a dual Xeon Silver workstation with a Nvidia Quadro P400 8GB, 128GB RAM and 256G SSD. I threw in a 1TB SSD and it's been working pretty well.
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by vondur 10mo ago
If Apple does indeed come out with an A series based laptop for $500 it should really help out Apple with marketshare.
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by vondur 10mo ago
I don't think the Government would let them fail, so long as the specter of the Chinese becoming dominant in AI is a thing.
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by vondur 10mo ago
The top 10% of the earners in the US are paying 72% of the taxes collected. I'd assume most of the posters here from the US fall into that category. ($178k/year AGI). Are you willing to pony up more of your income for taxes?
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by vondur 10mo ago
This is the correct answer. I work at a CSU (non-faculty) and the issue here is many of the faculty like using online and automated systems to dish out the work and the grading. Going back to doing it the old fashioned way will provoke a pu
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by vondur 10mo ago
Aren't they really big in other parts of the world, like Europe and Latin America?

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