As long as there's no conflict of interest between the companies, what's the issue? How is this any different from someone taking a job at all of those companies sequentially?
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... “Average Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector,
by State, August 2023 and 2022 (Cents per Kilowatthour)” — according to this, both $0.42/kWh and $0.06/kWh would be outliers, relative to any state-wide residential averages.
We're in Alameda, who run their own utility and buys their power from PG&E and our rates are $0.15/kwh. I don't know how PG&E still exists as an entity, they were deserving of the pitchforks a long while ago.
The cost of the power itself is not the driving cost of electricity, it's the distribution and grid maintenance costs. PG&E can sell power delivered easily and in bulk to Alameda in the heart of the bay area quite cheaply. Delivering the same kWh to all of the smaller communities in the rural north third of the PG&E coverage area is where much of the costs are.
Hello fellow Alamedan! AMP is great — very grateful for a little abstraction between us an PG&E, despite it being all the same at the end of the day...
I moved out of CA but it was already 0.40 a couple years ago. My friends told me it’s close to 0.60 now. I’m more curious where you are, I’m in a low(er) cost of living and I still pay 0.17.
We're around there (hand-waving here about exchange rate) in Scotland. What's fucked up is that most of the UK's power is generated in the north and yet electricity rates are based on how far you are from London.
Here in South Africa the rate is about 0.15 (USD, depending on exchange rate), but they keep turning off the electricity because the state-owned utility cannot make enough of it. Load shedding they euphemistically call it instead of the blackouts it really is. Of course they also complain about loss of revenue because we use and thus pay for less kWh if they keep turning it off.
Somewhere with real time pricing. The cheapest normal pricing is down around 12-13 cents per kWh. Granted due to the enormous nuclear base load in Chicago, I routinely pay 1-2 cents per kWh. I paid zero cents at 4am.
Other methods of protection fail. People lie about the status. People don't know their status.
Know what's ridiculous is that these drugs cost so much money and companies like Gilead can engage in "revenue maximization" schemes at the cost of the health of US citizens... and then apparently win lawsuits with their Big Pharma war chests.
The options aren't shell out $30k/year or let people get AIDs. There's a missing third option: don't let drug companies charge so much money, especially when the government paid for the development of the drug!
I don't think that attending "100% bareback, no loads denied" orgies regularly is a good idea, yet a bunch of my queer friends do exactly that on a fairly regular basis.
I know it's not popular, but AIDS is just what we have now. If people continue living like this, there will be another, and it might be worse. Hell, we probably already dodged a bullet with Monkeypox due to concomitant COVID precautions.
Lol, no one was observing COVID precautions at that point. It was dodged because people got vaccinated for it and observed spacing requested in a responsible manner.
Hell, in the UK heterosexual cases of AIDs overtook homosexual cases because of adherence to medication and good practice. [1]
I keep a text file of interesting hn discussions/comments. I maintain a sort-of format where the URL goes on the first line and the next line is the article title and below that any key words then skip a line for the next. I have a directory full of text files with links sorted by topic. I have a command that just greps that directory and tells me the text file and line number.
Gah! I did not explain that right at all. I wrote that in the middle of travel.
The sort-of format is "Article title", article URL, URL to HN discussion or comment of interest, keywords or phrases that help grepping, newline after each line. I then use a simple grep script called looklink that just does a grep -ni $1 $home/doc/links/*
Why this route? Bookmarking in a browser doesn't let me add context and metadata to the URL the where a flat text file lets me do that. Plus I have to put in effort to add the link so you wind up with more focused and interesting links instead of a bunch of crap you thought you might be interested in. Meanwhile you cand find the actual link you want because there's no real metadata with it.
If they have to axe places of public congregation to shore up the budget, before Republicans cut schools, libraries and parks, I propose they start with churches and their tax exemption.
Consider treatment. There are at least 6 treatment options.
I heard good comments about Nalmefene or Naltrexone "as needed" (aka Sinclair Method). Even here on HN if you search for it in comments. Basically, you take a pill an hour before drinking. They suppose it works by blocking formation of conditioned reflex caused by endorphin reinforcement. In absence of reinforcement patient unlearns the habit.
Psychotherapy. In particular, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). I think one can provably even study this method himself and apply it.
Group therapy. May be useful IMHO, because people with the same problem can share experience.
Medications to help maintaining abstinence:
acamprosate, disulfiram, nalmefene / naltrexone (taken constantly, unlike the Sinclair Method, where they are only taken when drinking).
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Just curious about this topic.
Hypothetically, you could pop that money into a checking account with extremely marginal interest and still make money. Better in your pocket than Apple's, I guess.
The $25 you might make from saving $1000 is, to me, not worth the cost of having a reoccurring debt to service. Especially in the face of layoffs etc. I suppose someone might say a monthly payment is preferable to less savings in that situation… so I guess the financing could work in your favor depending on your situation.
A 0% is always better than paying upfront. There is the money you make from your saving account, the safety of having more available savings...
The only downside of taking a 0% loan is if you're bad at finance and getting that loan makes you spend more. Either by buying something more expensive that you would without the loan, or buying more stuff with the money you didn't have to give upfront.
Do you have a Mailchimp account? It's really easy to test. It happened to me a couple of weeks ago and I can easily reproduce it in different network locations.
It'd sure be interesting for manufacturers to rent batteries to car-buyers and then have access to transmit energy to-and-from those batteries as a utility. If employers had hookups, during the day this could be done (set the time you'll be back for full charge) and this could also be done while cars are in garages at night.
