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I use an app for my home heating that lets me define a schedule every day. If I'm going out I can turn it down or off, and if I have guests over I can boost the hot water.

It already has an EV charger plugin, so I'm in complete control of my selling energy back to the grid if I want to use it.

Some of the comments on this post feel like the "government is coming for your guns" level of foaming-at-the-mouth.

Remember the ultimate aim is to use energy more efficiently and reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, not make it pointless or difficult to live life.

Just a note for any UK readers that this is coming in sooner than you think. There are already proposals on the Ofgem[1] site to force mandatory half-hourly meter reads that mean energy companies can offer pricing that more closely matches demand.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy...

don't want to be part of that? run your house off your EV and charge it back up at night. my house takes about 6KWh a day, so I could run it for almost a week from my car even if I didn't charge it.

my parents have a way busier social calendar than I do. It's almost like when you're finished with work, the late hours, unusual shifts and occasional weekend call-outs, professional development and week-long 'team strategy' off-sites you actually have time to live life, have friends and enjoy their company in a relaxed environment - who knew!

grim reading. hopefully this won't become a wider trend in the sector.

> Branson said he couldn’t afford to have people around him that were afraid to tell him no.

So the lesson here is even for a decision that will kill him and everyone around him, he would still rather not entertain debate and challenge from his subordinates?

Performing artists have for centuries had to balance catering for popular opinion and tastes versus a more faithful realisation of their vision in order to make a living. I don't see a difference with this at all.

utilising teledildonics to cheat at chess is the most cyberpunk thing I have ever seen on HN.

that game had so much potential, so many bugs...

This - the use cases, end products and way of thinking about Arduino programming is so different that it doesn't feel like work at all.

crime.