They purchase residential traffic exit from botnets.

Any proof or articles you could link to backup that claim seems unlikely given their size/reputation also would be surprised they’d get blocked this often using botnet traffic

The person you're replying to is claiming that providers other than Mullvad avoid the being-blocked-by-reddit issue by using residential IPs.

Ok now shift summer sun into winter.

A very large part of the people on this planet have (almost) no winters.

We could start with those ~3 billion people.

Also wind has proven to be a very good supplement to pv.

Those people already use almost no energy compared to everybody else.

Great we should be done relatively quickly then. ;)

Done with what, they don't matter here.

I live in Switzerland and my house currently consumes 35-40kWh of electricity each day. I'm in the process of installing as many panels as possible on my roof and right now in winter, they're forecasted to produce ~18kWh on a good day.

While it'll be possible for me to be more than fully self-sufficient in summer, I'd need roughly 3x more panels to come close to having a chance in winter, plus far more battery storage than is reasonable.

I suspect it might be more doable somewhere with milder winters, like Italy but especially as you go further north and the days get shorter, there's just no chance.

For it to work in places with large seasonal differences, we need something else (e.g. nuclear) and/or storage.

The over build causes these rosey projections about power prices from solar to turn on their heads.

6.5 cents/kWh is pretty good, 65 cents though is terrible.

Actually difference is more than 10:1 too

The MAX issues are not software.

The plane is fundamentally unstable because of the huge engines (which they have to improve fuel efficiency).

The only way to correct that is software with an angle of attack sensor.

They only installed one sensor though.

Does that sound like a software error or a fundamental physical design flaw?

From what I've read, the plane was not unstable, it just handles different, but stable; pilots just need to do the aircraft-specific retraining to as they usually do whenever you encounter different aircrafts with different handling characteristics.

Boeing wanted to pretend there is difference at all, to skip on retraining.

> The plane is fundamentally unstable because of the huge engines

I'll leave the googling to you, but this isn't true. The plane isn't fundamentally unstable, and certainly not like a modern fly-by-wire fighter.

The 737 Max is unstable in the pitch axis. There is no debate about that.

It might help to read what aerodynamic instability actually means before making such a claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_derivatives

Outside of the typical flight envelope it absolutely is like a fly by wire fighter.

That's why there's an angle of attack sensor, to keep the plane outside of that failure range.

I think you're vastly under estimating how complicated the us tax code is.

I have no idea about tha US tax code. An explanation would be welcome.

The US tax code is enormous and changes often enough that there is no human alive that has read the entire thing.

It's relatively easy to calculate the maximum someone with only ordinary income needs to pay.

However to pay less you need to understand all of the potential tax deductions, of which there are vastly more than most people realize.

If you can directly use the DC from the panels (ideally ~250vdc) then literally anything to make them more efficient is worse then just more panels.

Applications that directly use DC from PV arrays is cheap, ac grid tied solar... not so much.

> Applications that directly use DC from PV arrays is cheap

Direct DC is very underrated in America. Almost everyone I know with solar panels is grid tied and they're missing out. Antique belt drive shop tools are cheap, relatively easy to restore and maintain, and lend themselves to solar conversion (just add DC motor). Only downside is that you can only work while the sun's shining.

Do you have a direct-DC-powered workshop?

> solar + battery is quick to deploy and about as cheap as you can get

Solar production is seasonal, batteries to carry over seasons are beyond expensive.

Otherwise 10x your dinner solar to get winter solar and now it's not cheap.

Maybe just get a heat recovery ventilator.

There is actually one in the house, but I'm not in a situation where I can install one in a specific room or upgrade the in/out flow in that room.

Are you running the HVAC fan to circulate air?

You gonna take your CO2 sensor for a weekly walk?

> as long as it is exposed to atmospheric CO₂ levels at least once a week

That's much less likely than most people would think.

A modern building without active ventilation and windows closed is absolutely not going to see atmospheric CO2 levels.

I measured this once and found it took almost a full week of no human occupancy for such a building to be equal to outside.

It's important to note that this case isn't about someone helping illegal immigrants.

It's about someone helping people protesting us immigration enforcement.

Helping people commit a crime is itself very often a crime, but protesting isn't a crime, so helping them shouldn't be either.