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Quebec has one they shut it down, hydro Quebec is a hydro power company not a nuclear power company

No. I imagine they are less sensitive and generally stay online and are only de-energized if the utility has an outage

They taxes vacancies so vacancies went down - but that doesn’t mean that someone who was happy keeping their property empty put it on the market and found some random tenants with …

Prices in the condo market have fallen. Some buyers that bought pre sale say at 700k maybe put down 120k and now the units are worth 600k and can only get a mortgage for 600k, have…

Patents expire Patents are difficult to enforce internationally Where would coke be if the recipe was patented instead of trade secret ?

Hydro electric as a resource is probably mostly exploited - are there a lot of big hydro projects left to build? If there are they must be difficult or expensive or they would have…

Do you have a source for this? I constantly point out that several cloudy days in a row often happens but am rebutted with graphs of the declining costs of solar modules and batter…

Seems crazy to build an expensive factory and then cheap out on the power source so it can only run when it is sunny out

They certainly turned away from socialism and towards capitalism though, I think as part of embracing capitalism. What parts of the economy are not capitalist? State owned companie…

10 year warranty on appliances instead of 1 would show the manufacturer was serious about quality !

Night time? But batteries! Several cloudy days in a row? More batteries! Cost? -> a mix of sources becomes attractive

Power generation is largely automated !

A partly cloudy or partly sunny day produces some insane changes in output without a battery system to smooth them out There is a limit to the size of the instantaneous increases a…

It is a tax efficient way to return profits to share holders

In Toronto there is only daylight for 9 hours in winter Yes surely some days are cloudy So some days you get 5% capacity factor, and need some other energy source as well So it har…

I am sure Elon can launch some type of space based directed energy beam and use it to intercept missiles and drones.

What country will you go to? I’m leaning towards mexico

>By default, all devices hit your main gateway through the wildcard CNAME. But you can override any individual device by creating a specific A record. Need to debug a misbehaving u…

>As for what's causing the gains, there have been a lot of low-level optimizations and enhancements to various Linux kernel data structures and the like this cycle. Offhand that's …

The article says it was a mechanical issue that forced the gear up landing?

I’ve had to add more confirmations as people connect remotely using VNC and accidentally click buttons which then have real world actions. To catch them all it logs the user out so…

Transformers and turbines of any significance are not off the shelf parts and can have lead times of years

Where is that?

I still have two 2013 era t430s, one with windows 7 and one with windows 10. When browsing the web they barely feel any slower than my corporate supplied t14 gen 2 or p1 gen 6 both…