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Define crypto as share trading, and tax it accordingly.
Define crypto as share trading, and tax it accordingly.
They'd run it again today anyway.
you miss out on the true meaning of Christmas.
News would be if he did something that *wasn't* fraudulent.
Fantastic car, I wish GM kept making them.
At least he ended another war on his birthday. People will be lining up to give him peace prizes.
Has an agreement actually been reached? Both sides agree on the terms?
How much was given away to get it?
How will Trump and his stooges spin it?
How long will it last?
I hope you'll forgive me for being skeptical, give what has happened up 'til now.
My last 99 investments were flops
Odd that they keep saying "we will release" and never do.
I thought we were talking about aliens.
Most referenced is Star Trek from the 1960s. how much of that is real now in some form or another?
Not aliens with lumps of rubber glued to their heads.
If there's cellphone signal enough for voice, there's enough to run an app that is designed to handle the low bandwidth.
But now you're shifting from Colorado to Canada. See what I mean by constant retreat?
Besides, like I said, I drove through the mountains of western Canada and always had enough cell signal. And caching is still a thing. GPS still works as long as one can see 3 satellites, and some can use the EU and RU versions to improve accuracy even more.
Worst case, Starlink is deploying cellphone technology, so we'll have signal from satellites soonish.
Man, it's just constant retreat with you, isn't it?
You're seriously saying Alma doesn't have cellphone signal? I've lived in a smaller town and still had signal.
Generally speaking, those installing EV charging stations want to be able to bill for it. Which means that the station itself needs connectivity, even if it doesn't need to be much. They need a big fat pipe of electricity as well.
Sounds like an excellent spot for a cell phone tower, if one isn't already in range.
Besides that, I managed to drive from Alaska to Florida, through Canada, without ever being out of cellphone signal.
Worst case, the app developers are aware that you might be out of signal occasionally. Therefore they cache information.
If you have a cell phone, you have mobile internet. Even if you're just using it as a hotspot for a laptop or tablet.
In any case, those purchasing EVs are overwhelmingly fine with using an app. Or the in-dash infotainment system that can do the same thing. Plug in where you want to go, it finds a route including chargers. Question: Do you use google maps?
Most people don't need to find EV charging stations, only those with EVs need to be able to, and they all generally have cellphones.
And why would they need an attendant? They're fine with being open at night. Gas stations only need attendants because of the large quantities of flammable liquids stored on location. Even with that, I've seen the occasional gas station that, late at night, doesn't have anybody and it is pay at pump only. But they get most of their profit from the attached convenience store, so they need an employee for that, to make money.
Now, there have been some problems with people stealing the charge cables for the copper in them, because current doesn't flow until the car and charger have verified the connection and negotiated charging stuff, so they're safe enough for unattended use.
But said people have also discovered that said lots tend to have very good cameras and end up being caught.
It isn't so much that it "flowed", it is that aluminum has a greater coefficient of thermal expansion than copper. So it would expand more when it heated up. This was exasperated by the greater gauge of sufficiently rated cable or the installation of the same gauge as copper, insufficient due to it's slightly lower conductivity, causing it to heat up even more.
Over time, this could allow the connection to work its way loose, at some point leading to higher resistance at that point and thus more heat, and even sparking, leading to fires.
Modern connectors address this a number of ways, but the primary way I've seen is to make the connection a little springlike, it doesn't even have to look like a spring at first glance - the expansion isn't that much, after all. Some are even "self tightening", in that they'll tend to pull the wire in rather than let it loosen. Very clever designs that generally don't take anything more than the old connectors. In addition, in wire gauges large enough to be stranded, the very stranding helps with handling the expansion.
As I understand it, when installed to code, the aluminum wiring was safe, the problem was that the code was too stringent for the electricians used to working with copper, and they'd use stuff rated for copper and not aluminum all over.
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.