testing22321

Live in Canada, not a citizen.

It’s nice to go south to Alaska and see liquid water for 6 months of the year when we can’t.

What a shame it’s not for everyone

Health care, housing, and education are the big three drivers of mandatory expenses in most peoples' lives

In every developed country two of those are basic human rights, and you get them free even if you’ve never worked simply because you don’t want to.

Every developed country except one, that is.

Never had a problem, never any hint or talk that anything is amiss. Always extremely routine.

in the US you only need to go through fingerprinting only once (or maybe "once per passport")

I’ve entered the US something like 150 times over 20 years. Visa free (ESTA) and on a B1 tourist visa.

I’ve been fingerprinted and photographed every single time.

They killed it because they didn’t know how to build it without losing money on every sale.

It sold like hot cakes.

Their new smaller EV pickup is designed and built by a bunch of ex-Tesla folks to try and build it inexpensively so they can turn a profit. It’s the model Y of 5 years ago.

It’s called “the idiot box” for a reason.

And while for trucks the electric vs gas is huge, my Chevy Volt costs per mile about the same to operate on gas vs electric, because electricity is $0.46 a kwh in my California region

For you.

Here in Canada gas is 4.90 USD /gal. (Diesel is 5.45)

Electricity is 0.093 USD / kWh. And it’s all from hydro.

Literally every tradesman in town has an F150 lightning because for fuel alone it’s about 1/4 the cost of any gas or diesel pickup. No oil changes just increase the savings.

I’m in a very snowy mountain town and EVs are booming. It will go insane when BYD etc are here any day.

and that when normal adults are placed in settings without artificial light like camping or without any time indicators, they sleep longer than before - exactly as if they were sleep deprived.

I’ve been on a few multi-year camping trips, and it never stops amazing me that I feel like a different person after six months or so of sleeping with the sun. 10+ hours of sleep for many months is incredible.

Do people really want to restrict 16 year olds with alcohol? 16 is nearly adult, they need to learn responsibility

Tried to read article, screen was overtaken with ads I could not get rid of.

Next.

Sorry, I’m not one myself, and the one I met this weekend I only just met

We live in a deep valley where it snows a ton in Canada, and with 7.2kw of panels and no battery we only get a bill in winter. For the entire year our power bill is $500, and we have heat pump heat, and disconnected the natural gas.

We just got a very high efficiency wood stove, I expect we will now have no electricity bill each year.

It’s very cool to see what happens where there are simply so many residential solar installs. Power price goes negative during peak sunshine hours so they just give it away.

Solar installs benefitting everyone, even those who never got solar.

I’m in Montana now, and I spent the weekend with a very energetic palaeontologist who has unearthed many dinosaurs.

No western country ever has. Average cost for the 28 China has under construction today is $7 BILLION

Right now solar plus batteries is cheaper. It 20 years it will be vastly so

Sweet. Start building TODAY and it will be done in nothing less than 20 years for nothing less than $20 BILLION.

What should they do in the meantime?

Is that not what both humans and terminators are firing “lasers” in the future war scenes in both T1 and T2?

If you think cable can be run to the places where starlink is changing to world, you need to get out more.

I’ve seen it in the Canadian Arctic, remote Australia, right around Africa.

Before starlink these places had dialup, or nothing.

Unreal you have to go through this in the richest country in the world.

Family members have been in ambulances a few dozen times over the decades. There is no concept of a bill or paperwork for it. Like borrowing a book from the library.

Forcing alcoholic drinks to have a less addictive product is a much better way to protect young people’s brains than an alcohol age limit is (and frankly adults need help there too).

I’m still disappointed they didn’t make a Mac Pro with 4 or 8 or 16 or 32 ultra M chips for something insane

Not in most of Western and Central Europe. Everyone speaks great English

You are completely forgetting the people trying to move there who don’t speak English OR the native language

HN is not a place that encourages transparency.

They only allow you to read what they want you to read.

at the high end seems probable people would maybe move and not be able to use them and never really get their money's worth out of it.

The whole point is that these plug-in like a hairdryer. Zero installation.

If you move, you take it with you.

If you move to a place they are not permitted, sell it before you leave.

Remember when the grid couldn’t support EVs ? , but amazingly it CAN support Data centres…

Pepperidge farm remembers

There is only one country where money is considered speech.

It is very abnormal, and is legal bribery.

What major industry in the US hasn’t been doing that for decades?

At this point it’s a perfectly common cost of doing business there. Pay money to get favourable laws passed. But it’s not bribery. No no no.

Ford CEO Farley did say if Chinese EVs were allowed into the US then US manufacturing would be dead.

Banning is easier than competing