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I assume that they sign up to long term contracts to secure the price of power. When it comes to renewal, the DC operator obviously has a sunk cost that they don't want to walk awa…

Both 2023 (probably) and 2024 were over 1.5°C according to Berkeley Earth, 1.54±0.06°C and 1.62±0.06°C respectively. 2025 was (probably) a shade under at 1.44±0.09°C. Unfortunately…

They also never managed the massive economies of scale for regular solar panels that have driven down prices. Solar panels that can be mounted on any kind of roof, in fields, etc.

I noticed it too, first time I genuinely used bing, and it worked fine. I don't think I ever remember seeing gws go down, there will be a big postmortem on this

I thought that honour belonged to the NZ super fund with an annualised return of 10% before tax since it's creation in 2003. I couldn't find a comparable figure for the CPPIB, but …

I am not an expert, but my understanding is most funds don't change allocations immediately, but it would be part of normal rebalancing, e.g. VOO and other indexes that track the S…

This is not new, the article spins it as a big increase using a low during COVID as a baseline. Alternative article with stats back to 2001: https://www.interest.co.nz/public-polic…

For card payments sure, but if you buy with play store gift cards bought from a third party retailer, I don't think Google is making much if anything out of that.

Or alternatively, a hundred 10 mile by 10 mile installations. Or on average 2 such installations per state. Hardly seems anywhere near comparable to a Dyson sphere

Honest question: do you get charged more for health insurance in the US if you and/or your family aren't vaccinated?

This looks similar to what Meta (then Facebook) did a decade ago and basically broke the agreements between Apple, Google, etc. to not poach each others employees

Also a German ICE test train was clocked at over 400 km/h back in 1988

There are notable Studio Ghibli films that were not made by Miyazaki such as Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie was There. All of those were in…

Difficult, but not impossible. We fit 3 across the back seat of our Mitubishi Lancer for a few years. You do need to be selective in which car seats you get, and I wish it was easi…

Or > Shannon-Leigh Litt has run 500 ultra marathons in 500 Days https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360690060/northlander-runs-her... Out of reach for most of us though.

Maybe not to the same extent, but an AWS EC2 m5.large VM with 2 cores and 8 GB RAM costs ~$500/year (1 year reserved). Even if your engineers are being paid $50k/year, that's the s…

Probably vendor specific whether it works, but alarms and calls should still work before unlocking/decrypting in "direct boot" mode

On Android you could add a second user which gets its own passcode and set of apps/accounts. If they know what they're doing they could see there are multiple users on the lock scr…

Have you considered using an Android emulator to run these apps? It should be much easier to make full image backups that way.

In many cases if you lose your physical wallet, someone else will find it and the cash will stay in circulation, but even if not, as physical currency is much more inflationary it'…

Like now, where Civ VI Anthology which I think includes all the DLC is currently on sale for $9 on Fanatical (activates on Steam). It's always much cheaper to game a generation beh…

There's an episode in the second season of Colin from Accounts that is basically this scenario, but in Sydney

BYD will most likely sell more battery only EVs than Tesla this year and appear to have no problem scaling, they also sell cars that fit the majority of market segments. Maybe Tesl…

They do, for example Buffet donated $5 billion last year. His fortune is so vast that is only perhaps 3%. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/28/buffett-donates-another-5poi...

Should be fine up to about 9 quadrillion[1]. Though with arithmetic it can get messy. The example doesn't show, but I hope dollar amounts are in cents and don't use decimals. Maybe…