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> whatever creative accounting they want to do still needs to ultimately satisfy IRS scrutiny if there's an audit. Well, yes, but avoiding taxes is not the point of "Hollywood Acco…

> What percentage of buyers do you imagine are gonna buy a battery big enough to saturate 15A*120V=1800W for long? You can get 10kWh of batteries and a 5kW MPPT chargeverter for a …

> Why bother? Power companies will complain they are losing money and regulators will allow them to buy energy from residential solar panels basically for free (NEM 3.0). The way I…

It’s not just solar. Property taxes increase at a rate legally-mandated to be less than inflation. Not just that, you can inherit your parents (or grandparents) property tax rate. …

Are you being deliberately obtuse? It is illegal to discontinue your relationship with your local electrical utility. As in, completely disconnect from the grid, cut the wires and …

Sure, just copy the contemporary American SIGABA machine, or the cold-war ear Russian Fialka machine. The first public-domain solution for SIGABA was published only in 2023, and I …

> The most significant design difference between Shays and Heislers was the arrangement of the driving cylinders. Another very important difference (and one that makes Heislers sup…

The issue is that it takes an entirely contrived oddball situation in order for range to be a problem. Plug in your car when you get home, and you never have to think about range, …

I don't understand what kind of media someone has to consume to not understand that SpaceX does completely globally dominate launch services. Like, it's not even close. I have no o…

Forward-looking statements (even unrealistic ones) are not fraud. If that's your standard for fraud, then literally every public company is a fraud.

> just like Musk’s other scam, TSLA Just so we're clear: You think that the only company selling EVs in the USA for a net profit is a scam? What do you call Rivian, Lucid, Fisker, …

It is (already). Private sector employees pay off their loans from the money paid by their private sector employers.

Well, yes, and I agree, but that means colleges would need to do some considerable belt tightening. There’s plenty of fat to trim, mostly as a result of the last quarter century of…

Yea, but then the print head clogs up after the second time you refill it and you buy another expensive print head + ink from HP. Frankly, I think 99% of the reason they started in…

I would. It’s really simple. The human threshold-of-hearing curve intersects the threshold-of-pain curve at about 20 kHz. Above that frequency (or thereabouts) the sound has to be …

HSR is just a willingness to say "fuck you" to people who want to hold up progress by refusing to sell land for any price, or who sue to stop a more environmentally-friendly transp…

> (antennas can be larger at lower frequencies without requiring steering than at higher frequencies). No. 1. Iridium uses frequencies fairly close to GPS (~1.6GHz). 2. Iridium use…

1. It uses non-idiomatic terminology in several places. 2. It repeats the same finding over and over (141 flops per byte, for example), without going deeper. 3. I stopped reading a…

> I can only imagine the sighs of relief from the devs when things like the MIL-STD-1750a and later rad-hard SPARC and PPC variants came along. What, so that they can debug in Chro…

> Inflation will get under control I wouldn't be so sure of that. But look at the bright side: By the time this administration's over, we'll all be billionaires!

Elgato's Eve app exposes all sorts of fun stuff in HomeKit that you can't do with the native Home app. I get the impression they want you to use other apps to access HomeKit (the H…

And you can't even upgrade the Studio past 96GB now.

A good rule of thumb across most makes is to take the EPA range number and multiply by 0.85, and that’s what you’ll get at a constant 70-75 mph in moderate weather (say, 55-85 degr…

> Is it also predictive for whether a mid-to-late career candidate will pass a phone screen? I’m sure having access to your own SAT scores (or even remembering what they were) is h…

It really depends on what kind of class it is, but at most schools: * If 1/3 of calculus physics for engineers fail, they take it next semester. * If 1/3 of gen-ed physics for poet…