As a EV owner and used of these charging networks, thank you for the informative info on the "provider" side of DCFC chargers.

- ChargePoint is a POS from a customer's perspective too. I don't understand how they're still in business.
- My electric company, PSE&G in NJ, has great EV pricing (at least for at-home, off-peak users)
- I feel like current EV users use the PlugShare app more than Google Maps. Maybe that's changing as EVs go mainstream?
- "peak demand fee based on my busiest 15 minutes (no matter the time of day) multiplied by $14.35", that's insane!

Anyway, I thank you for your effort to put up a DCFC station!

How does Snap have 6400 employees? Can someone explain? Are most of them doing content moderation?

Isn't Louis DeJoy's term ending soon? I heard somewhere that we'll be getting a new Postmaster General soon.

I've actually used Turo a few times over the years (>5 times, Philadelphia area), all positive, pre-COVID. I think I rented the same car twice ,even.

One owner I talked to said he owned a few cars, and Turo was basically his job. He said he could rent out a Mustang for a summer weekend for >$200, every weekend. Pays for the car loan and then some. Because he offers drop off, a lot of his time was just spent dropping his cars off, though, so it sounded like he couldn't actually have a regular job while doing Turo.

It was great for getting a minivan for a family trip. Not a lot of reasonably priced minivans at Hertz and friends, but could rent one through Turo fairly inexpensively.

Plus the owners are usually chill owners who just want some extra cash for their cars, they don't have sticks up their asses like the car rental companies.

Super informative, thank you! Do you have a source or two for this info?

That was the game changer for me: no ads, no marketing!

AND you can Google Play Music for free, for $12 a month or whatever!

YouTube without ads is amazing. Remember watching TV when you were a kid, and there were 500 channels and nothing to watch?

Well, no there's way more than 500 channels, and less than your cable subscription, and mostly without ads (and sponsorships are obvious, unlike movies). Technological progress.

I think the biggest issue is that Recommendations kinda suck. It's not YouTube's fault: can _you_ predict whether you're gonna like a video before watching it? Then how the f*&k is an algorithm supposed to?

Some of the most popular channels are s*%t (Kylie Jenner), but there's soooo many good ones (throwing in my pitch for https://www.youtube.com/user/J... !)

Check it: Intel Edison w/ Mini Breakout board at https://www.adafruit.com/produ...: $75!

Sure, it's got a dual-core, dual-threaded Atom, a gig of RAM, Wifi, and Bluetooth, but it's too expensive to just say "Sure, I'll grab one and play around with weekend."

You can grab the Starter Pack at https://www.adafruit.com/produ... for only $65, and look at all the components you get! And a ton of components, including LEDs, power supply, etc.

Technically, it competes with the Raspberry Pi, not the Arduino, but it's got a weird Linux distro (to which the forums are hard to find and use the terrible mailman interface) and a hell of a lot less example projects and much higher power consumption.

I don't understand the difference between the Galileo, Edison, and Joule (and you can't get the Joule on adafruit anyway), which speaks toward poor technical documentation.

In short, too expensive and not enough examples for hobbyists, and professionals are going for lower-power consumption, better software, and something cheaper.

For the interested, the Institute of Justice does a lot of stuff like this. (I don't work for them, I just like their work).

They do a lot of anti-licensing work, and they seem to be very successful at it: http://ij.org/report/license-t...

In many states, you need a license to braid hair or install windows. Hell, in many states, it's easier to become licensed to be an EMT (two months of training) than hairdresser (you need to go to cosmetology school for two years)!

It's a not a red vs. blue thing: http://ij.org/report/license-t... Many deep red southern states have very strict licensing requirements too.

It's really an example of regulatory capture which the US of A is a prime example of. And I say that as a very liberal person. The Institute of Justice convincingly shows how the licensing hurts lower-income people the most, mostly cuz they can't afford the lawyers or schooling that licensing usually requires.

There's so much hardware out there... you got Arduino's, lots of clones, Raspberry Pi's, C.H.I.P, etc.

What they don't tell you is how the software is. Is it up to date, or does it still run Linux 3.x? What Linux distros does it run? Can you run stock Ubuntu, or do you need some guy's custom build that's two years old and you can't apt-get upgrade?

My specific beef: It looks like the VoCore2 rans OpenWrt. Which version? Custom build that's updated every six months?

And, thanks to Indiegogo, you can't post a comment (to ask a question) without contributing. What a bunch of bull.

I've been a long-time Linux user, but I'm not religious about it, and I've always been curious about the BSDs.

Can someone give me an elevator pitch, especially about FreeBSD, seemingly the most popular of the BSDs? All the (server) software I use on a regular basis runs on FreeBSD.

Before someone says "just try it," there's sooo much cool stuff to try (currently learning Clojure and Raspberry Pi stuff), so I need a reason to try it.

Gimme some.

Where do you order from? Any advice on which overseas pharmacies are legit?? I have trouble separating the good from the bad. :(

[Warning: I actually read the article.]

Comparing this huge ship to others ships isn't exactly accurate either.

If this record-size ship is parked next to the city where you live, it'll be little comfort that it is hyper-efficient when your grandparents head to the hospital for asthma problems.

Efficiency matters, of course, but so do aggregate emissions.

Also, many times, _multiple_ ships are parked at the same time!

Some of the advice here seems pretty bad. Download a CS paper and implement the algorithm??

SHORT ANSWERS:
* https://www.freecodecamp.com/
* http://thecommunitycorps.org/
* meet-ups
* internships / apprenticeships

LONGER ANSWER:
Find a real project, and try to pair with someone. Best way is via the websites above, unless you know someone.

e.g., You find out a local soup kitchen needs a website. They could also use an app to register incoming folks (one soup kitchen I volunteered at asked for name, age, and number of kids). So you build a WordPress site and write an Android tablet app or something.

BENEFITS
* You learn the whole SLDC, especially users and requirements gathering
* There's so much more to programming than code. Databases, testing, etc.
* Might get a job out of it.

Reducing methane emissions would make the greatest impact. In 2014, methane made up about 11% of GHG emissions (https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases.html), but methane traps 20x more heat than CO2.

The only "plus" is that it doesn't survive long in the atmosphere (https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gwps.html), so it's effect is muted over time, which also means that if we stop emitting so much methane, we'd see a quick payback period.

N2O is the other huge culprit. It's warming effect is hundreds of times stronger than CO2, and sticks around for 100 years in the atmosphere.

TLDR: STOP EATING BEEF! between cow burps (CH4) and manure (N2O) have huge direct impacts on the environment, not to mention the indirect effects (fertilizer for growing food for cattle, cutting down trees for grazing, etc.).

Is it just me, or does LinkedIn do an amazing amount of engineering for a website that's basically a simplified Facebook + job board?

Do they really need this amount of engineering? Or are they doing it just for the sake of doing it?