Florida has invented the 'disappearing' insurance company though.

Unlike the MAGA general population, actuaries can do math and are "Peace Out" of the entire state.

If you can even get Home Owners insurance the premiums make solar and batteries look CHEAP.

The current administration is making it hard for Chinese companies to directly sell into the country. It's part of a push to start up a new cold war with China since Russia is a bust. Kinda hard to scare people with an adversary that can't invade a country 1/5th it's size...

So OnePlus is getting pushed out of the market and looking for roundabout ways back in.

This is part and parcel of how America runs it's empire so it's likely the next admin will do the same. It's over of the few nonpartisan things going on right now with the current administration. So OnePlus can't just wait it out.

It's pretty well documented at this point that the SpaceX IPO is just a scam for them to loot our 401ks. You can look up the videos from Patrick Boyle he does explain it in detail.

The question is are you going to do anything about it or you just going to handle your money over to elon?

I see a bunch of people telling me that they're just going to make elections but for the most part you can't. You can I think in some cases take your 401K money and put it in a LLC and then become a day trader but that completely defeats the purpose of a 401k. The whole point of a 401k is you can take a bunch of money you have and put it into safe investments so you don't have to individually pick and choose stocks while making sure that you know which ones are safe. Meanwhile index funds are stuffed full of stocks waiting to explode...

So what are you going to do about it? Because you can't really escape it forever. You can't just keep letting civilization collapse and have everything be hunky-dory unless you've got the kind of cash that lets you pay for a private army. And your little 401K LLC isn't going to buy you a private army

It's the same reason Elon Musk made that stupid fucking tunnel. It's misdirection.

So this lets them guzzle down all your water and electricity so that you have to start rationing both of them while they go to public and tell the public that they have a solution to the problem.

As an added bonus Elon Musk can pretend SpaceX has a magic new customer that doesn't actually exist in order to justify the phony valuation while he extracts all the money from your 401k.

I installed a 45kWh FranklinWH system and it has parasitic losses of 1.5MWh/year on total discharge energy of 4.5MWh. Essentially each module you add needs another 400W panel to cover losses. The advertised 97% round-trip efficiency is a joke.

The irony is that this is the exact same reason that households in sub-Saharan Africa are installing these little deployments of a solar panel and a small battery storage system that has a few outlets directly integrated into it — grid power is unreliable and diesel generators are too costly and stink.

>"It looks like abridged reporting. A quick search suggests that it is a one time payment of $400 / kW capacity feedable back to the grid for a 2 hour interval daily, with a contractual commitment of some number of years"

+1 informative. Thanks, that clears it up some.

>"Hawaii offers a one-time payment of $400 for every kilowatt of battery storage that homeowners install.

A kilowatt is not a measure of energy storage. I think you meant kilowatt hour?

Why are people so crap at reading comprehension?

Your #1 is *literally* a recapitulation of "using low carbon power to generate the electricity". Your #2 is, as well, just for capex rather than opex.

More fundamentally, you appear to be missing the point I was making to the OP, which was that HVAC, contrary to their beliefs, is (1) inherently low-carbon (using electricity to move heat) and (2) is extremely effective not merely despite this, but because of this.

I've used chat GTP a bit and 99% of its responses are pretty obviously coming from old stack overflow posts. The problem is there is a lot less traffic on stack overflow because all the programmers are using chat GTP.

When AI has to rely on the raw documentation for a technology, documentation that is almost always written overseas by people who don't speak whatever language the documentation is written in natively because fuck if a company is going to pay for documentation, the end results are pretty terrible and pretty useless. It's really just summarizing the doc. Occasionally if the documents are a meandering mess it can be useful because it'll pick out the piece of information you want out of hundreds of HTML pages spread across the internet but for the most part worthless.

So it's all the training material gets cut off from AI how are they going to keep it up to date? Is there some trick I don't know about? I don't think you can just pointed it code and have it magically work it's got to have context.

Post a full unredacted image of Commander Taco, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits.

Stealing something because you don't like terms you are being offered is not a noble act. And patting yourself on the back for it says not much about Sony, but a great deal about you.

I have in my past been a pirate, although not recently. I don't pretend it was anything other than simple theft. Own it.

The various religious apologists are going to have a field day with this having to explain it to their base. They always do because that's literally what they do for a living but the explanations are getting increasingly strained and ridiculous. If you're religious I think the best way to be religious is what that YouTube guy Dan McClellan does where he knows that everything in the Bible is bullshit and just believes what he believes.

To be fair anyone with common sense as long deleted their slashdot accounts...

It is remarkably hard to find good discourse on the internet because as soon as you create a place for people to do that income the advertisers and the Russian bots and the pussy pics in bio spammers and everyone else to ruin everyone's fun.

Then the next thing you do is you have a karma score and you hide posts or block users who have karma that is too low. So the scammers and the Russians show up and do low effort posts on hobbyist forums that they can reliably get voted up in order to generate karma.

So for example the Reddit retro gamer forums are basically worthless because 99% of the posts are hey look at this old video game you remember it right it's great everyone loves it up vote me! That way the person doing the post can keep their karma score high enough to post on other forums at least until somebody figures out it's a bot or a spammer and blocks it and then they just create another ID...

That's why discord took off. Really really tiny areas that can fragment and are too small to do spamming because there's just not enough people on any given discord channel to be worth spamming...

And they don't care. Video gaming is becoming a luxury item with the ps6 on track to sell for over $1,000 in Sony openly telling the press they will not subsidize console sales anymore.

I have said it before and I say it again this is what happens when you don't enforce antitrust law.

No one is going to enter a market to compete anymore because the existing players will just drop their prices and run them out of business. Hell even if they wanted to enter the market they would not be allowed to.

The only reason valve can get away with it is they are already in the market for all intents and purposes. But with a massive amount of enshutification you would expect some of the other electronics manufacturers to be eyeing the market especially since Microsoft is on the verge of dropping out but nope. Ain't nobody going to take that risk and even if they wanted to no bank is going to give them the capital because they know they will never get it back.

If you want choices you need competition and if you want competition you need the government. The government is the referee in the game of capitalism and we fired the ref.

Hell I am old enough to remember when Sony passed off the cutscenes from armored core 2 as gameplay and a bunch of my friends skipped buying a Sega Dreamcast because of it. We did not get games that look that good until the PS5 armored core. It literally took Sony 20 years to make hardware that could do what they claims the PS2 could do it launch. Absolutely crushed Sega back then. That's not technically antitrust but that's the kind of consumer watchdog stuff we got rid of long before we got rid of antitrust...