I still won't pay because I consider YouTube predatory with their ads. they are not a company focused on providing a service and making a reasonable profit on top. their ad policies are about maximum extraction from the platform, couple with aggressive behavior towards content creators that make the platform. I used to be fine with the ads, but they got greedy and ratcheted it up way to much. now I block them all or don't use the service. yt could have had my ad views, but they demanded too much.
this was my first reaction. how fast they came to a consensus, it was the organizers fault for applying so late, it the boards fault for approving in only 3 months. 1 year prior to the con is more what I would expect.
hardly call it stealing. they decided to no longer work for the previously agreed upon compensation package. the employer found new employees that would do the work they need done.
no one stole anything. I agree and encourage unions and collective bargaining, but a strike breaker is hardly a thief, they are just a worker who needs money like the guy striking
a lot of heat pumps in usa are air to air and have an electric heater in the heat pump to generate the heate when temperatures get so cold that air to air is not effective. without a geothermal system to extract the heat from, they get very expensive to run in very cold Temps when compared to gas hearing. Hensel why the myth that they don't work. no one thinks they don't work, they just think it's a worse solution than natural gas.
My Air to water heat pump also has a backup resistive heater built in, which kicks in around 0C. It doesn't fully switch to it until -15C, but uses it for assistive heating for things that cannot wait, like hot water.
Still, i use way less energy than i did with natural gas. The original estimate from the installer was that the backup heater would consume around 100 kWh during normal year, and considering my estimated "heating needs" of 13,000 kWh per hear, that's just a tiny fragment of that. Resistive heat is (almost) a 1:1 conversion of energy from electricity to heat, and the heat pump delivers a COP value of between 3.5 and 4, meaning i spend around 3500 kWh on the rest.
For comparison, 1m3 of natural gas contains roughly 10.5 kWh of heat energy when burned in a gas boiler, so to deliver 13,000 kWh of heat, i would have to burn 1250m3 of gas.
Where i live, in Scandinavia, electricity is around $0.13/kWh and natural gas is around $2.2/m3 (both including taxes), so in total it works out to :
- Gas : 1,250* 2.2 = $2,750 / year
- Heat pump : 3,500 * 0.13 = $455 / year
Gas is about 6 times as expensive as a heat pump here.
slylon could facilitate airline like service to Leo. sure it is a lot of fuel, but not stacking required and smooth runway takeoff and landings. for human transport to Leo, a skylon like ship would likely be a more familiar service, and easier logistics for fast turn arounda
I was able to skip Vista by going strait from xp to 7. I fear I won't be able to skip 11, and I worry about that. Linux has been so close to being a daily driver for years now, but the polish is just not there to be a computer I use when I don't want to constantly troubleshoot.
This. I used to love Androids because I could root them, change my ringtones for free and easily, and customize it to unrecognizable. Now I use iPhones because I would rather spend that tinkering time working on other things or with my family, and the interface is (mostly) stable and conducive to that.
