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snaveed commented on Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now caiso.com/pricemap/Pages/... · Posted by u/everybodyknows

slavik81 · 5 years ago

Is it possible for Western Canada to contribute into the US grid?

snaveed · 5 years ago

BC and Alberta are part of the Western Interconnection [1].

BC Hydro, via Powerex, trades energy within this region [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interconnection

[2] http://www.caiso.com/Documents/PowerexWillJoinWesternEnergyI...

snaveed commented on iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone bugs.chromium.org/p/proje... · Posted by u/appwiz

EADGBE · 7 years ago

They're (Apple) rather lucky that their user base vehemently upgrades whenever possible.

snaveed · 7 years ago

I've iPhone user I've ever met outside tech circles avoids installing OS updates. They end up updating soon anyway for a variety of reasons (some updated apps stop working, update occurs "on its own" overnight, to get rid of of the notification icon, and so on).

snaveed commented on Canada's Toughest Border Crossing thewalrus.ca/canadas-toug... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Scoundreller · 7 years ago

Then where will Canadians deliver their EBay, Amazon and other US vendor packages?

Have you seen how much cheaper auto parts are in USA?

snaveed · 7 years ago

Blaine. :)

snaveed commented on Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf] investor.fb.com/files/doc... · Posted by u/uptown

spiderPig · 8 years ago

That's crazy. Their net income is almost the same as Google's with 1/3rd the number of employees. I am surprised that they have 25k employees now, wow!

snaveed · 8 years ago

Reported 2018 Q1 Net Income:

  Alphabet: $9.4 Billion [0]
  Facebook: $5.0 Billion [1]

[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_releas...

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q1...

snaveed commented on Facebook’s Surveillance Machine nytimes.com/2018/03/19/op... · Posted by u/imartin2k

m_ke · 8 years ago

Obama had the Obama 2012 app (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nafYT7_i4as). Anyone downloading it knew that the goal of it was to help get Obama elected.

CA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ) tricked people into giving up their data and used it to spread targeted propaganda.

How is this the same?

snaveed · 8 years ago

> Anyone downloading it knew that the goal of it was to help get Obama elected.

Was Obama 2012 restricted to collecting information of its downloaders? Or did it collect all of the downloaders' friends' information as well? Facebook certainly allowed for this (until 2014, that is).

snaveed commented on Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Freight customers techcrunch.com/2018/03/06... · Posted by u/wil_wheat_on

mtgx · 8 years ago

Will Uber pay a bigger portion of the road repair taxes? Especially considering truckers already pay a disproportionately lower tax compared to the impact they have on the roads.

snaveed · 8 years ago

This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the rationale for taxation.

There is a societal benefit to efficient means of transportation. You, along with most other people, are reaping the benefits of truckers using roads to deliver cargo.

u/snaveed

KarmaCake day21April 1, 2016View Original