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The data that I've seen shows that the barriers to solar adoption for the average American home are high installation cost, low grid power cost, unfavorable net metering agreements for grid interconnect, and even some pushback from neighborhood committees (homeowners association aka HOA).

There are exceptions such as Hawaii where grid power is expensive and sunshine abundant, but the US is big, geographically diverse, and because of that adoption varies greatly on regional dynamics.

In this context, "Providence" likely refers to a deity, which is indicated by the capitalization of the word.

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This is the efficient one, filtering results upstream, via SQL, before they are returned to the client.

While brake lights are a fine and necessary signal, I find myself wishing that cars would display speed & acceleration deltas compared to the vehicle in front. Brake lights do not convey how much deceleration is occurring, so it's not immediately obvious how much time there is to impact.

As an example, I see lots of drivers do minor braking on US highways, where their small braking corrections will cause their tail lights to flash for a brief moment. These minor corrections become noise that drowns out the signal of significant, safety-related braking. If my vehicle could warn me that their rate of deceleration puts our vehicles on a collision course... now that would be very useful.

It seems, simply put, that more people are choosing to live alone in this market. If that holds true, then it could explain the large surge in demand in recent years. Perhaps it's not that the market lacks enough housing for people, it's that the market lacks enough housing for the number of people who wish to live alone.

272 days is very high. Full time work in the US with 0 vacation (typically is 10-20 days) and 0 company holidays (typically is 5-15 days) is 250 days. Perhaps you mistyped?

Some stores, like Costco, have an interesting, alternative approach. Many items in their electronics department are prepay. You can try out the floor model (tethered to the display platform), and if you wish to purchase it you pull a cardboard item card. That card is scanned during the checkout process, and once payment is received, the staff bring the physical item from secure storage to the post-paid customer.

With the item card approach, you never have the product in your hands until it has been paid for. Between that practice and their receipt checking at the exit, I do wonder what their theft numbers look like.

One thing to keep in mind is the non-monetary side of taxes: they are used to influence behavior. Offering employee benefits (healthcare, retirement, etc.) is incentivized by US tax code thus influencing more companies to do so.

I'm not saying that corporate behavior becomes uninfluencable when profit taxation is removed, but rather that it will require a different incentive mechanism. That is assuming that we still want to influence corporate behavior through government without legislating it.

That is close, but not quite correct. You can gift <= $15000 per year without reporting it. You can gift > $15000 federal tax-free (state tax may apply), but must report it. Reporting it doesn't incur federal taxes until your lifetime gift total exceeds your lifetime gift exclusion of $11,700,000 (2021).

I heartily recommend proper winter boots for anyone that is worried about slipping. Not all boots are created equally, but the tread and rubber compound used for most winter boots can make a dramatic difference in grip while walking.

For those who have never owned transportation in a cold climate: winter tires on vehicles make a big difference in traction. They channel and grip to snow and ice much better than the tread and rubber compound of a standard all-season tire. The same concept applies for winter footwear.

Having used both, Bitwarden has been a better overall experience for me and much better for my friends and family. I still like both of them.

KeePassXC

* [Pro] Excellent desktop app. Fast, easy, polished, powerful (TOTP available by default).

* [Pro] Great data ownership philosophy and data storage flexibility.

* [Con] Poor cross-platform app experience, especially on mobile (iOS in particular).

* [Con] Tinkering required to sync data. This isn't a big deal for many of us on here, but presented a large barrier to entry for my non-tech-savvy friends & family.

Bitwarden

* [Pro] Excellent cross-platform experience.

* [Pro] Low barrier to entry via SaaS, making it a good option for less-than-tech-savvy folks. This is ignoring the nice option to self-host.

* [Pro] Sharing features (haven't actually used them).

* [Pro] Web vault is accessible via web browser (accessibility).

* [Con] Web vault is accessible via web browser (increased attack surface).

* [Con] App is a tad slow (electron), but this is an acceptable price to pay for the good cross-platform experience.

I'm speculating, but there are a lot of normal, asymptomatic ways in which a virus may be spread.

1. Mucus. Cold weather can trigger a brief runny nose, which in turn is easy to wipe on sleeves, arms, or the back of the hand without much/any thought.

2. Saliva. Spittle from speaking is just about impossible to stop.