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> adding jitter to the startup times would solve the pickup problem

There's minimal jitter in people's behavior when they are explicitly synchronized by a television broadcast, and none can be added within the constraints of broadcast television.



Of course. I was referring to adding jitter to people's thermostats, which is not a bad idea, but would not solve the entire problem here.




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