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For Austin Energy’s opt in thermostat management program they will precool the houses ahead of the “savings event” It is a peak issue not a sustained issue during off hours so that…

Don't worry, Texas is just helping the crypto miners rather than their citizens again. "The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) paid a bitcoin miner $31.7 million in ener…

This is entirely how I remember SF being 10 years ago as well. I don’t doubt that the pandemic has been hard on all cities, but I agree that the author is making a big assumption b…

This is a rough time to be looking for entry level work, anecdotal evidence indicates that new postings get hundreds of applications. It is hard to stand out. Advice I have given t…

Agreed. This reads like those memes about men writing female characters..

From personal experience with a family friend and bitcoin scammers, this does not work any better than prior forms of verification. The scammers just convince you to take a picture…

I think this probably falls to the normal debate of the balance between "but who will pay for them?" and "it costs every nation to not have all nations vaccinated"

Yes, there are companies who sell their app which is just a database of contact information and a plugin to link it, Who knows where those companies got it, but you can sleep sound…

I was only able to get ~60mbps with OpenVPN through a hard wired Raspberry Pi 3 connected to Google Fiber, due to limitations of its bus. The 4 is supposed to be actual gigabit, bu…

Away's pitch is all around their claims of quality and lifetime warranty. They definitely still break, but when they do you can walk into the store and they hand you a new one.

for #2 - you generally want enough sound coming through to be safe, but I find the current ones often are unlistenable on the bus or walking down a street with traffic. Some isolat…

I'm not sure I follow... You don't need a passcode or facial recognition to access any phone that doesn't have those features enabled. If you enable them you certainly do.

It is always good for DJI to have some competition. They have been spending too much time going after GoPro cameras instead of advancing their quadcopters.

It is a pretty common tactic on general topic websites lately. It is easier to dismiss comments without actual reasoning if you assume they are from people that don't align with yo…

I could see making this argument with a nice cable like USB-C, but micro-USB is legacy garbage.

The amount of power required for that is already so easily provided by the existing battery storage in an EV with very minimal impact to the range. I don't see how it could be wort…

That sure seems like the exact thing they would want to be preventing...

I have been saying I was holding out for the Model Y for years, but I just can't get past the cost of the software upgrades on these..