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I thought my 0.10¢ /kWh was a bit pricey. Whew.

What was more shocking to me in that article was that google used 25% of Dallas's water supply.

Between power use and water use, while I appreciate teaching people to be mindful and responsible, I feel like caring slightly less about where I set my thermometer or if I have a long shower when our country's resources are being depleted by big tech and alfalfa shipments to China and almond harvests in California.

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> What was more shocking to me in that article was that google used 25% of Dallas's water supply.

As someone else pointed out, it is not Dallas, it is The Dalles. Totally different and vastly smaller town.

It’s not actually Dallas Texas, it’s The Dalles Oregon. Much smaller town. Bad journalism.

and somewhat a bit condescending / insulting with a joke as well: "With more than a hundred 100F (37.7C in non-Freedom units)" non-Freedom units...

Perhaps you haven't lived the same life they have, where receiving condescension for using your normal weights and measures is par for the course. Not saying it's justified, but when it's something you expect to receive it's not unheard of to head it off ahead of time with the same tone that you tend to receive.

Rest of the world uses Celcius and reasonable date formats isn’t it about time the US caught up?

I do agree about the date formats but Fahrenheit makes a lot of sense for day to day casual use. Below 0 is pretty fricking cold and above 100 is pretty fricking hot and the degree increments are about twice as granular. For a lot of scientific computations an absolute scale like Kelvin would make more sense but that wold obviously be ludicrous for day to day use. Celsius as an absolute scale actually seems inferior to me and, as another commenter noted, people in the US doing engineering etc. are perfectly comfortable with using SI units as appropriate.

The rest of the world has no idea what fahrenheit is and is not about to learn

My parents were taught it in the 40s/50s but not longer use is either

Really? Almost nobody uses reasonable date formats. YYYY-MM-DD is the only reasonable format, but afaik, US and EU both tend to put month and day first, day/month/year is consistent, but still unreasonable.

Europe uses dd/mm/yyyy, Japan uses yyyy/mm/dd only the US uses mm/dd/yyyy

At work I tend to write dates yyyy/mm/dd so it’s clear to my US coworkers what the actually date is

Caught up? In most metrics the US leads, so I'm not seeing a great argument for forcing people to switch to Celsius and metric. And you're assuming we don't already use metric extensively.

I think the only people who -really- care about it are non-US people. Here in the US we know how to do conversions as necessary, and we don't bitch about it.

Another commenter has pointed out that the claim about Dallas' water supply is untrue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36737353

I suspect the $0.04 is wholesale pricing. When I lived in WA state, I remember paying closer to $0.10/kWh

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