This will get flagged in 3..2..1.. the comment section is already a cesspool :^)

I would hope that the majority learned that hygiene and masking are effective enough for us to continue to live our lives, but I doubt it.

They said "own new homes". So it's not an existing house and was probably a development job.

And of course they probably never attempted to get electrical utility planning permission until they already sunk money into construction.

The same actually very rarely happens in the US, where utilities of all kinds have capacity planning that can result in a denial of services for new hookups.

How is it that someone purchased a home that can not receive electricity? Was the home sold for much cheaper, since the electricity was, "up to the buyer" to figure out?

I have hard time grasping the NIMBY concept. How does it have a negative connotation? Why would anyone out of the blue willingly make their personal area worse? It's like asking for a quite significant donation out of nowhere. All of those things affect your property value and life quality, why should anyone out of the blue have to be compelled to do that? If that is the case, they should be paid appropriately for the damage that a new building/infra causes there. You should spread out the damage, so increase taxes for everyone, and pay the damage from those taxes in a fair way.

I would also be opposed to anything that makes my neighborhood less desirable, it's all a property value drop. If my property is right now 300k, and new development makes it 250k, it's like I'm making a 50k donation out of nowhere. Now imagine, I bought the property on loan, and I owe 300k, and I have to essentially hand out 50k.

Why not also shame anyone who is unwilling to make donations that everyone else aren't compelled to make? If it's taxes, it's fine, but it makes no sense to have random or directed donation asks.

This is IP based blocking. You can get around it by creating a Reddit account, or logging in. I Just did that on my remote browser app, the demo of which is here:

https://puter.com/app/cloudtabs-browserbox

If you read past the "Woah, there pardner." You'll see a paragraph that says, Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.

This works. You can use reddit if you just create an account or sign in.

I guess this is IP-based blocking to counter bots.

edit: Oh boy, these tiny servers are not meant for this kind of hug. They may suffer!

What's wrong with them buying you coding assistants? Sounds to me like more time on hand to prolong those movie nights.

In seriousness, the upside with code assistants is increasingly clear. And may be the bet that these would continue to improve quadratically is worth taking if you're a VC. In fact, PG argues that buying into hype cycles is the default: https://paulgraham.com/herd.html

> You missed the "in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" clause. This is a classic weasel phrase which means they can do as they please.

No, I didn't, but you again missed the full context. Neither of those terms can be considered in isolation, so again:

> You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive [...] in any way that Vultr deems appropriate [...] for purposes of providing the Services to you

So unless it's for the purpose of providing you the service, it doesn't matter what Vultr "deems" appropriate.

Feel free to check this with a lawyer if you feel unsure.

The cause is retrained by

"... for purposes of providing the Services to you."

if you take the narrowest read, it would allow them to store or cache them. That's it.