It's quite simple. A cooler is obviously bigger than a breadbox, but smaller than a Library of Congress.

People don't do a lot of film photography any more, and modern cameras do some pretty impressive feats of self adjustment to conditions, but still... imagine trying to use a camera flash with orders of magnitude of variation in the strength of the flash, with the majority of the light coming from the flash being in non-visible wavelengths (or even particulate radiation) that may or may not react to your film in various unpredictable ways, not to mention that it is filtered first through a bulkhead and other equipment of varying opacity. Oh, and you don't get to know beforehand what direction it's coming from.
It's still not an impossible idea. Using ambient EM radiation for imaging is not actually a bad idea (I mean, it's how most photography is done, after all), but it would be very challenging under those conditions.

flink beat me to the punch on explaining this, but Windows is, in fact, a product that people pay for. Microsoft's revenue for it was 17.3 billion dollars last year.

While it's not the only factor, one of the reasons for this is the degree to which power lines are buried with weather in general as a secondary factor. For power distribution lines, the US has around 20% of their lines buried, while Europe has about 40% to 60% buried. For last mile connections, it is an even more stark difference with the US having 20% to 25% buried, with Europe having 90%+ buried. Also though, add to that the fact that European regions that are prone to extreme weather are also much more likely than US regions with extreme weather to have buried lines. So, when it's very hot, the wires don't heat up so much, and when it's windy/snowy/icy, the lines don't snap. When you add to that the fact that the US tends to see more extreme weather in general than Europe, that makes a difference in power outages.

Then there's also the European regulatory and design philosophy regarding redundancy. For US operators it tends be much more likely that a single component failing will take down power. So, typically there's n-1 redundancy, an open ring power distribution system rather than radial. Three phase power vs. single phase in a lot of the network also makes a differences. Substations are also a lot more heavily automated, especially after the Iberian power outage.

Basically, the US power grid is cheap. Note that's up-front cheap, which comes with much higher maintenance costs that actually make it more expensive in the long run. While they are not unique, that seems to be a US specialty. It is also generally older and less upgraded than Europe. Also, in certain ways, less technologically advanced.

Yeah. It's not like it's a product that people buy or anything.

Given the complete and total failure of US public schools, the funding of which outside of an extremely low funding level per pupil found almost solely in rural schools has zero correlation with performance, the best bet would be for them to open up their own schools and allow applicants or set up workshops for anyone who homeschools to apply to attend, along with making available math, grammar, rhetoric, and science materials available for free.

Meanwhile, that CAFE standards put in place by Bush and Obama mandated ever larger trucks and SUVs, created the crossover market and eliminated the small and midsized truck market as well as the large but low car segment in the US.

It wasn't solely a winterization issue. Had the entire state been running on natgas, the outages would have been near to nonexistent. It was the poor winterization combined with the massive drop in pressure along the natgas lines dropping the internal temperature of the lines precipitously as every available turbine spooled up to try and compensate for wind and solar power shitting the bed during the event.

The DDoS method of problems solving is the only way to beat multiple PaC adventure games without a walkthough.

Any place not access controlled by the entity attempting to control X is considered a public forum for purposes of legal issues which may arise from their control of the intellectual property and associated contracts in question. If any specifics of game development beyond work hours and conditions were discussed on said forum which union organizers who were not employees of R* had access too, R* was within their rights to fire the employees participating in the forum. Which since most people can't compartmentalize for shit without extensive training was almost certainly the case.

You do realize this is for NEW reactors right?

If the rates are similar to other forms of gambling than the majority wouldn't be due to insider information. Edge cases will be, but unless you think they have inside information about the weather, the rates between Polymarket and regular gambling wins are relatively consistent as detailed in the article.

But since I didn't say that, doesn't that sort of put you in a fantasy reality?

Was there a point to that?

Hmmm. Unlike a totally serious AC like you.