On: SETI@home is in hibernation

[saagarjha]

What doesn't make sense to me is why this delivery charge keeps going up? Is it just PG&E throwing a fit about having to modernize its lines so they don't cause fires anymore?

[ben_w → saagarjha]

Or, alternatively, that they were only so low before this because someone decided to skip maintenance for 50 years.

[seanp2k2 → ben_w]

Ah, the good old pass-the-buck-to-my-future-self strategy that is leaving the US with trillions in infra repair bills to be paid by my (millennial) generation and younger.

[ben_w → seanp2k2]

*waves in British*

• Long-term debt used to buy off the slave owners in 1837 and not getting fully paid down until 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837

• Napoleonic war debt was also still being serviced until 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/repayment-of-26-billion-h...

[astrange → saagarjha]

Everything in California is explained by boomers voting themselves out of paying taxes. In this case the regulator never let them raise prices for maintenance so it's all coming due now.

(PG&E is basically nationalized already, they don't make their own decisions here.)