The only reason why this exists is through subsidies. They can only get these subsidies if they can create the fiction that they are providing the electricity to a set of households that have signed up for it.

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For signing up the homeowners get paid off with a small percentage of the subsidies given to these "community solar" providers (usually works out to 5% to 10% off your electricity bill). By all means sign up to get a piece of the subsidies (I did) but don't think it isn't anything more than a boondoggle.

I won't setup an antenna to stream local channels but if you will allow me to stream them over the internet I may occasionally watch. But whenever a company tries to provide options to allow streaming local channels over the internet (e.g. Locast) the broadcast TV industry keeps suing them out of existence. Do broadcasters want people to watch or not??

What about the Airbus A380 example where the wires were the wrong length due to different design software used by the French and the Germans?: https://simpleflying.com/airbu...

Nvm, didn't read the rest of your comment. Looks like this is a fast charger availability concern.

Say you can maintain the speed limit almost all the way - 850/75. That is a good 11 hours at least...assuming no roadwork/accidents/other delays. Are you saying you do that with at most one break? And you do this regularly? You must have a bladder of steel...

How many times a year do most people drive 200+ miles in a day? There is obviously a small percentage of people that do this regularly...but I would argue most people would do it only a few times each year, if that.

You know that the iPhone can shoot in ProRes, don't you? That takes an imperial f**ton of space.

As well, you know that cloud storage isn't free don't you? And some people may not want to store absolutely everything on their phone in the cloud?

A quick look at Target for Beyond Meat. Price of 1 lb of ground beef $6.79:

https://www.target.com/p/all-n...

One pound of beyond meat - $8.99:

https://www.target.com/p/beyon...

I've tried it before. It is OK...but few people will pay more for it than real meat. Halve the price and then we can talk.

They may match it to you anyway as I recently found out. Didn't provide an email at checkout but received an email a couple of days later asking for a review.

I recently purchased an item at a Home Depot store. I did not provide any email.

I received an email a day later asking how I liked the product. WTH???

I guess they know how they did it - they matched the credit card details to a previous transaction I must have done via the website. I guess this is standard business practice now but I really don't like it.

"Hey, you got us. Our bad" ???

Sure, it could be optimistic to think 0% will continue for the next six months.

But even if it doesn't - say inflation spikes again and we average 4% annualized over the next 6 months, that brings us to 2.2% annual percent in June. Say 6% and that brings us to only over 3.2% annual in June.

What is the thing that will make inflation go higher again in the next six months? Gas prices have fallen. A lot of the supply side issues are going away. For example shipping costs are back to normal after going nuts for the past couple of years:

https://www.economist.com/grap...

Forgot link: https://www.usinflationcalcula...

The way we publicize inflation is very misleading. Down the bottom of this page is the inflation table going back to 1913.

So if you look at last 12 months you can calculate it via:

2021 Dec - 278.802

2022 Dec - 296.797

12-month inflation rate = (296.797 / 278.802) - 1) * 100 = 6.45%

But most of this inflation occurred in the first part of 2022. If you look at the last 6 months you instead get this:

2022 June - 296.311

6-month inflation rate = (296.797 / 296.311) - 1) * 100 = 0.16%

Which essentially points to an almost 0% inflation rate if it continues for the next 6 months. Given this I am questioning how many more (if any) interest rate hikes the Federal Reserve should really do.

California has banned non-competes for years. It is likely why Silicon Valley is such an innovation hub: https://www.vox.com/new-money/...