No, the output of a panel is a function of the incident angle of light hitting it, as well as temperature. The peak number is "standard conditions." You convert from standard conditions to "equivalent hours" via the DOE's PV-Watts tool for a given location and installation/mounting type.

...into salt water at high temperatures.

SpaceX has an incentive to make it work, not a bureaucratic risk aversion.

When companies strategically recruit from other companies, it is an unbalanced position. When you have a need, you can afford (or at least justify) paying up 10% above market rate to get someone who will make a difference. That doesn't mean the employee is worth the 10% extra in general, but the real-time market value is higher.

Recruiting is a grey art. It isn't easy to balance what is fair when you are chasing someone who is content at their current job.

Well, it is if you just treat your employees as commodities, but that isn't a long term strategy for success.

To me what is clearly unethical is not interviewing or hiring people that apply for a job because they currently work for another specific company. Avoiding targeted recruiting is much harder for me to consider illegal.

If you want to pick a Bank of America symbol, go for 1455 Market, not 555 California! Nothing "important" was in 555; 1455 was carefully guarded by 1 South Van Ness which actually had a BofA sign, but no real operations.

1455 is now the home of Square, among others, and the abandoned buildings adjacent were rebuilt as domiciles for the tech elite... That building is the quintessential icon of the Silicon Valley bubble burst (in SF), helipad and all!

(OT 555is Ha Ha Ha in Thai...)

Because people are inherently bad with managing money. A lower sticker price increases sales.

And, for the people that can manage their money, there is no material savings by not using the subsidy if you need to use ATT or Verizon.

Hey, I prefer to call them Drunkles, or squnks in a pinch. Alcohol and sketch tablets make strange bedfellows.

Agree on storage cost. I have an Air with 128GB (64 was marginal for my need when I purchased it), but I can't justify a mini for the sole reason that storage and cellular access costs outweigh the benefits of a smaller device for some of my needs.

FaceTime camera resolution is dramatically better on the last two generations, but it can easily be a 3-year upgrade cycle. Besides shattering my screen, my biggest motivation was charger compatibility with my iPhone. Too many cords...

I challenge anyone to find a US hospital in their health plan that can do a better job than Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok.

I don't know... My little cabana on a small island in the gulf of Thailand was a pretty nice place to work from. My hourly rate might have been cut nearly in half, but at 8am local time I would say I needed to leave the conference call because the long tail boat was too loud taking me out for scuba diving...

I lived on about $1,000 per month, and if they wanted me back in the states for a week it was entirely on their dime.

Cost of living adjusted I still do better today, but I don't get to go diving every day.

Moreover, Rich is defined by wealth/assets, not income. When people focus on income disparity they miss the real issue which is concentration of wealth. A smart wealthy person only has income to offset costs, and everything else just accumulates.

Batteries are unrealistic, but supply responsive controls, thermal storage, etc can help a home to use as much of the electricity when they generate it, rather than selling it back. Batteries cost about $0.10/kWh over their useful life in capital terms. When you add in the inefficiencies and the cost of the solar panels, you are around $0.25/kWh total for an off-grid system (cost of capital = 0).

The problem the utilities are having is that for residential customers they don't break out demand charges and energy charges. In practical terms, your demand charge should be based on magnitude and not direction of power flow. The energy portion then becomes more time sensitive as well, with the peak pricing around 4-6PM rather than 12-2PM, and subject to change on overcast days.

Distributed generation is hard to make work well when the generation is not consumed locally.

I'm 42 and I have been using a balance ball at my desk for 5 years. Love it; by its nature you are always doing small movements, posture is better, and my back problems have pretty much gone away. The pièce de résistance is that I can bounce on it to stay awake during boring conference calls.

The only times I have problems with it is when I am doing high-intensity focused work on the computer and start to lean and cheat support by leaning over desk and resting more of my arms on the desk.

Are you kidding?! Salary offers much better protection than hourly work. Hourly wages are for non-thinking/production positions, and salary is for professional/management. A salary (exempt status) provides flexibility for how and when you do your work as should be done for a professional.

Now, if you are help desk or spend your life doing TPS reports in a small cube, you really should be non-exempt... But nobody should aspire to non-exempt status career in the tech world.

There are abuses on both sides, but it really comes down to find a different job if you don't like the balance of hours, responsibility, and pay.

30MJ is about 2,000kW electrical for one round per second. Not that much power at these energy levels.