If Reddit had years of runway in an easy money macro climate and still can’t achieve profitability. How’s a startup/clone supposed to get up and running today?
An untrusted finger can just switch the main breaker or an untrusted hammer can just smash the meter. There’s far easier ways to be destructive if you have physical access to the meter, which by default everyone is going to have because meters are required to be accessible by the public per electrical/fire/building codes.
If the problem is zoning that’s blocking density then why is the density of Cupertino (5,300/sq mile) almost double that of Houston (3000/sq mile)?
Houston is the example of why cities need zoning regs. No one wants to buy a home and have a high rise erected next to them.
Cheap housing comes from cheap land and cheap labor. Cupertino had neither of these and will continue to be expensive as long as there are companies paying high salaries in the area. It doesn’t matter if you allow high density housing if it costs $3M/single family home to acquire the land.
Other car manufacturers told tesla to pound sand because the conditions of using any of the “open” tesla patents meant you had to forfeit any patent claims against tesla. Which isn’t really sharing your patents, it’s just a negotiation/PR stunt.
Charging at home is typically cheaper. Around 1/2 to 1/3 of the cost of a public charger. There are also some free public chargers but they are typically slower charge around 6kW and are limited to an hour or 2.
Maintaining the temp inside the car is going to pull at most a couple kw. So 2 hours with the heat or AC on even in a very severe climate is going to consume <5kWh. Which translates to a loss of 15 miles in range.
If you got stuck overnight due to snow on a mountain pass maybe that would be an issue. But in that case you have the same issues with an ICE car and all the carbon monoxide that comes along with it. I’d rather be stuck in an EV where I can at least run the seat warmers and climate on a low setting.
If you pay for earthquake insurance, and then an earthquake destroys your house. Should you not get to keep your house after insurance pays out to fix it?
The SF bay area alone added over 500k more jobs than housing over the last decade. And it’s not like the area was known for having ample housing before that.
Once furnace and water heaters are electric I really don’t see how maintaining gas infrastructure stays economic for PG&E. I guess they can keep raising minimum monthly charges so you’ll end up paying even if you use no gas.
This is the opposite of my existence. I love my rheem heat pump water heater. Costs me less than old gas water heater. I heat to 140 and use a mixing valve to have safe temp at 120. I’ve never run out of hot water.
The proposed desktop+low cost laptop doubles the number of devices th IT org needs to maintain and secure. Sounds like a nightmare when I’m sure some laptops will sit powered off for months or could walk away without an employee realizing they are missing.
Going with MBP still gets you 64GB max ram, more cpu and gpu cores, and more than 1 external monitor. I think the 16” MBP will stick around for a while.
Governments serve a very real and necessary task of regulating markets to prevent abuse by bad actors. Bad actors seeking out loopholes and skirting regs is not an argument for less regulation but rather an argument for more regulation.
Why would it cost $2000 to register an EV? 12,000 miles/year at ~30 MPG is 400 gallons of gas. At $.50/gal tax that’s $200/yr in tax revenue the state would need to make up in additional EV registration fees.
Let market economics drive the behavior/buying decisions. Sure there are edge cases but for the most part EVs are more convient, comfortable, cleaner. The downsides are long recharge times during road trips and initial upfront costs. Studies show a lot of promise in improving charge speed and cost in the near future.
I’m not aware of any metro area that’s building affordable high rise housing. The cost of construction goes up exponentially as you increase a building’s height. Even if SF had no restrictions on height I doubt most construction would be over 10 stories due to fire/building codes getting much more restrictive. So you’re left with a developer paying ~$3M to acquire a duplex that they can then build a max of 10 units on. Just the cost of the land is going to require $300K from each unit sold. Add in the construction costs, and a modest profit and you’re back up to 1M+ unit cost. 1M condo is still not affordable for working class residents.
Even if cities we less restrictive on permitting where would they build all these houses? It’s not like SF, SJ or NY have vast areas of undeveloped land available.
Other than Toyota and Dodge, what mainstream car maker isn’t offering an EV today? You have Ford, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, BMW, GM, VW, Porsche all with EV offerings.
There’s pros and cons to both approaches. At the end of the day the framework you use won’t make up for serious deficiencies in the product/organization/tech stack. But you can’t ignore benefits with agile over waterfall of delivering small incremental updates quickly, major issues and defects bubble up quicker and can be address before you sink too much time/effor into the product.
This is similar to the lean approach in manufacturing that has been very popular over the past ~20 years.
Lots of meters use bus bar to the panel that wouldn’t fit a ferrite. Also the lack of a listing would make using that ferrite a violation anywhere that observes NFPA70 (NEC). Although I don’t personally see a risk in adding one.
I just ordered the length I needed from fs.com. Granted I only have a single run between 2 switches home<->garage. I ran the fiber in a PVC conduit. Put a 4”x4” pvc junction box in the run with a couple feet excess coiled inside because my measurements were a little off.
At the termination of the runs I have fiber keystone jacks and I can extend/replace the last bit if I need to move equipment.
IMO it’s less about the voltage and more about the wattage. A modern PoE spec supporting wattages ~100W is more than enough to start a fire. Currently there is a gap in the electric code (NFPA70) as it doesn’t really address this risk in the (vague) section on low voltage wiring. But building codes are written in blood. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time till some PoE cable starts a fire and then the code will get amended.