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Portia!

Oh I hate this so much. Spend months trying to find a good, well made tshirt that’s out of a good quality fabric. Find one and a month or two later (after you’re sure of the quality) order a few more. Nope! Pattern is different, fabric is worse quality. Start the cycle again.

You’re setting up lots of straw men here but it’s not a complicated argument.

Most people feel this is deeply wrong at a gut level and I agree with them. Targeting and squeezing addicts is not moral behaviour.

Agreed, however only fuel for piston engine aircraft is leaded. Not many of them at a large commercial airport. More of a GA issue.

I work in construction, - data centres included - in Australia.

From my experience you’re mostly right, however it’s more like, in order of priority: power availability, water availability, data availability, land price. Cost to upgrade upstream power transmission dwarfs all other costs.

I’d note that after construction ongoing jobs are minimal. Specific example: $2B aud datacentre will support 30-60 jobs after completion. And probably 50% of those are low skill/income security,cleaning maintenance etc.

No, but I believe the idea is to damage the ticks before the exposure to the bacteria/viruses and thus minimise/prevent it.

Oh come on.

Lower socio economic Chinese definitely still fear the rich and worry about being homeless and not getting medical treatment.

Aircraft work within an envelope. You can model what a max speed/min speed max/climb min climb/ trajectory is and work that in. It's a solvable problem. Aircraft can't go from 200-0 knots or 0-200 knots instantly etc

If fast, reliable, cheap internet worldwide is a "minor" gain what's a major gain? Fusion power? Teleportation? Dyson Spheres?

It is at the moment as it’s doing energy arbitrage and needs to know the current energy prices.I believe you also get more warranty if you have it connected to the internet as they can fix bugs etc remotely. But the PW isn’t mission critical.

I also have an off grid cabin with a Victron inverter that is not on the Internet and never will be.

It’s a bit more sophisticated than that. On a mild sunny day your local network will be saturated with PV power and the supply voltage will creep up. It’s an enforced regulation here (Aus) that the inverters will curtail/shut down based on grid over voltage. No networking required.

There are US manufacturers. I have a Tesla PW3 made in the U.S. and it includes solar charge controllers, batteries and inverter.

Pretty competitive too.

You’re mostly quite right about phone calls.

But the point was the industry that I’m in runs on them because the teams you’re communicating with are in the field and supervising construction not in front of a computer.

These are young engineers who need to build experience and relationships with the site teams and text messages aren’t going to build them.

I used to manage a team of 12 young interns and graduates. They almost all hated emails and hated making calls. They would always default to messaging/Teams/etc. I spent a lot of time coaching people on how to make calls, why etc. It was a construction adjacent industry and sometimes it HAS To be a phonecall.