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by zbrozek 3y ago
Presumably the rules that govern a business and act like a moat around existing players, reducing new entrants and thus competition.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
If they were then turning around and taking them back out after their stay, that seems like a perfectly reasonable complaint.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
94022 The large size of the array means that even an overcast day produces more than I usually need. The battery capacity only feels small when using the pool heat pump to warm up the hot tub, which drains one of the two 10 KWh batteries. T
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Curious also that utilities are also choosing point-of-use batteries over infrastructure upgrades: https://archive.ph/OXLgE
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's not going to happen overnight. It'll be a slow corrosion. We're already starting to see the first tarnish. In my town, PG&E wanted to charge a new home (on an existing street with existing utilities) >$300k for an
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by zbrozek 3y ago
That's mid-game. The end-game is that these policies result in the grid becoming uncompetitive with self-generation plus fossil-fueled backup. Everyone who is able defects, leaving everyone unable holding the bag on a stranded asset.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Layer on ridiculous housing costs, energy costs, registration fees, etc, and it shouldn't be any surprise that California's population has started to decline. The cost of living is out of control.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Trying to get past their captchas was futile anyway, so just being blocked without a false sense of hope is an improvement. I learned to make no attempt on them and to just close the tab immediately.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I heard on NPR this morning that the test will be of an alert level that cannot be squelched by settings on the handset. Is that true?
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not saying it's a bad deal for the battery owner, but rather that it isn't the huge spread that you had assumed based on a reasonable electricity price. :shrug:
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by zbrozek 3y ago
California's PG&E is the biggest utility in the US. In their territory electricity on the default residential plan ranges from $0.41 to $0.54 per KWh.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Here's the definition of UEF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2016-title10-vol3/pd... It would be really nice if manufacturers published delta-T vs COP curves.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Maybe someone wants two video outputs from a Raspberry Pi, but I sure don't. I'd much rather have a normal connector.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Where are you finding COP for water heaters? The best I found was a field study by the Canadian government where it seemed like most units operating in ambient temperatures relevant for me (in central California) get about 2.5.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
We need to figure out how to get costs and permit times down if we want to build stuff again.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
More often than not this happens because the denser housing predates zoning restrictions. When that building reaches end of life and needs to be replaced, there's little economic choice but to build the single-family home.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Folks really ought to be free to make their roof whatever color they want. I personally would choose white if I had sufficient rights to do so.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I really hope Intel doesn't pull an Intel and prematurely give up on GPUs. They put out a solid first crack and the market desperately needs some capable competition.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Roof reflectivity higher than 40% is illegal by zoning code in my city.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Don't forget actually building homes cheaply.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's definitely a playback issue. VLC is rendering it incorrectly while Firefox is handling the same file just fine (albeit with the expected low quality for the file size).
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Am I doing something wrong? The downloaded video mp4 seems highly broken. I see two side-by-side copies of the content within the frame, with artifacts that make it impossible to read anything.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
The US does very little to protect property rights. A lot of places have extremely aggressive zoning (a police power, established by the Euclid v. Ambler SCOTUS case) that limits even what kind of housing you can build or how big a parcel m
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I think I agree that the US is a decent place for the ownership of immaterial assets (so long as you can avoid civil forfeiture), but I'd argue it's a lousy place for property (of the real estate variety) rights.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Encrypted password manager file Previous tax returns License key list 2fa backup codes Losing any of these would not kill me, but some would be horribly painful.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I assume you mean intellectual property rights, not physical property rights?
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by zbrozek 3y ago
That seems short to me. I build a new desktop approximately every 8 years and buy a new laptop every 5-6.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
For a whole year that seems pretty small, no? Once the other half of my solar array goes up, I won't have any shortfall.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I already did. I have plenty of battery capacity.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's all just work, and different organizations are better at different flavors of work. Some have a broader range than others.

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