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by eigenvector 3y ago
It's not a hidden charge because as you said, you can still travel without paying it. And it provides a method of price discrimination between people who care where they sit and those who don't. A hidden charge would be if you had
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by eigenvector 4y ago
Most of the van life you see depicted on social media is actually this though - people who've rented a van short-term for as much as a hotel room or who live in a house and have a van that costs as much as a second home as an accessory
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by eigenvector 5y ago
If people want to use less electricity, they need to have reasonable options to do so in the marketplace without needing a computer engineering degree to figure what sleep states their motherboard supports. That's one purpose of these
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by eigenvector 5y ago
Red tape is definitely an issue, but freight costs to Nepal are also extremely high. It's a landlocked country with very poor transportation networks. Air courier (eg DHL) to Kathmandu is in the range of $5/kg, and if the final de
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by eigenvector 5y ago
Any audio encoder - lame is an open source option for mp3 - will have low pass filters. Most encoders will filter inaudible frequencies to improve compression even if not told to, but there are explicit parameters you can set.
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by eigenvector 5y ago
An important and related fact, addressed in the article, is that Amazon currently escapes consumer product liability laws because they are neither seller nor manufacturer. But they also cannot tell you with any degree of precision who the s
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by eigenvector 5y ago
Search for any Costco-exclusive item on Amazon and you'll find exactly this strategy at work, complete with 300% markups on the Costco price.
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by eigenvector 5y ago
Air source heat pumps are fine for the places where most Canadians live including southern Ontario & Quebec and coastal British Columbia. If you live in Winnipeg or Saskatoon it might be dicey, but unless it routinely drops below -20C f
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by eigenvector 5y ago
Are GP mentioned, the safety procedure to protect you from a line you're working on becoming inadvertently energized is temporary protective grounding. A grounding jumper is connected to each phase of the power line near the work locat
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by eigenvector 5y ago
> I personally believe that DHS should make this sort of thing illegal for critical infrastructure. I can't speak to non-electrical infrastructure, but the NERC CIP "high impact" standards already make it largely impossibl
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by eigenvector 5y ago
Thanks for articulating this as I never understood why iOS suffers from this phenomenon. The only other place I've seen "typing too fast" result in garbled input is on Android based VoIP phone handsets, where if you try to &q
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by eigenvector 5y ago
No, but you at least realize an analog filter is a thing that exists. You don't remember the specifics, but you could study them if you needed to.
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by eigenvector 5y ago
As a practicing EE (power systems), I agree. It often becomes clear when someone is unable to distinguish a practical limit (this equipment is not rated for X, our operating procedures prohibit doing X) from a physical one (X is not possibl
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by eigenvector 6y ago
The ostensible benefit to DC distribution in homes is to be more economical and simpler for devices that already run on DC - not to redesign ever device ever made to accept mains-voltage DC. If your iPad and your laptop and your blender sti
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by eigenvector 6y ago
As you note, for facilities like data centres that are engineered for a specific type of load, a building-level rectifier makes sense. For a home where you have many devices using a little bit of power at a variety of voltages, you're
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Even if power generation is distributed and localized, you still need higher voltages than what is in a home to transmit it unless you're talking about not having a power grid at all. You still need voltages on the order of 1 to 40 kV
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by eigenvector 6y ago
As it is, typical home electrical systems have no active components. There are just wires, panels and bimetallic circuit breakers. These systems are nearly maintenance-free over a lifespan similar to that of the structure. A DC distribution
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by eigenvector 6y ago
In several instances I've seen, it's because that function has been outsourced but the company doesn't want to advertise that, even to its own employees. If you could talk to that department on the phone, you'd realize y
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by eigenvector 6y ago
You should check if your device can run a third party ChromeOS distribution that is still updated, like Cloudready. That's what I did with my Asus CN60 that would otherwise have become a doorstop without security patches and it runs pe
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Some of the EOLed devices are commodity x86 hardware and can run the latest Linux distros or Windows 10 if the bootloader is unlocked, which really shows how arbitrary Google's end of life policy is.
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Diesel engines for power generation will have a governor control that sets the throttle based on the load to maintain whatever rpm is required for 60 Hz (constant speed control). The load in this scenario is uncontrolled and the genset simp
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Correct, most modern locomotives are diesel-electric and not fundamentally different from a large standby generator that would be found in a hospital or data center. The locomotive has the great advantage of being easy to move, although a b
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I have both a technical and a practical answer for you. The technical answer is that demand response resources are considered dispatchable or interruptible load. Load shedding is the dropping of "firm" or non-dispatchable load. Ty
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Load shedding is implemented at the distribution substation level, not individual customers (unless they are very large customers connected directly to the high-voltage network like a manufacturing plant). Furthermore, the retail energy pro
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by eigenvector 6y ago
A significant gap in culture between the United States and many other developed countries is the idea that there can ever be an "entirely you thing". Even your own health and well-being is not entirely you. Whatever you do to your
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I think there's definitely a "responsible consumer product marketing" angle to this. Companies shouldn't be able to market products deceptively, and some products are too risky to be offered to the general public rather
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by eigenvector 6y ago
FTA: > Exacerbating and prolonging this sticker shock is a decision on Tuesday by the state’s Power Utility Commission, which regulates the nonprofit ERCOT’s operations. The order from the gubernatorially appointed PUC asserted that, eve
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by eigenvector 6y ago
As a Canadian power systems engineer who lives and breathes NERC compliance standards every day (something I'd never ever thought I'd see discussed by the broader public) I find it bizarre that everyone is staking out their positi
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Wasn't Microsoft widely regarded as a bit of a meat grinder in the Ballmer days due to stack ranking?
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I haven't heard of that here in North America, but I'll add that I'm not up to speed on global developments. In general, wind turbine foundations are considered to have a fixed lifespan of 25-30 years. If re-powering occurs a

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