I’m sorry, I’m not sure I’m following your train of thought…

Are there currently egg shortages? Subsidising something doesn’t mean there’s less of it, means the government pays someone in the production stream to keep prices low. Like what happens with gasoline just about everywhere.

They’d be useless. Unless you trained it yourself there would 100% be a whitelist you couldn’t see, or it’d be gobbling up all your data.

I’ve been doing a load of research on heat pumps, upcoming renovation. (Preface, Canadian living in Scotland) The issue we’re having in the UK is that we’ve lagged behind in terms of heat pump training and installation experience. So we’re in a situation where we really need to stop reliance on natural gas, heat pumps are a viable option for reducing that. Plumbing/heating firms are reluctant to recommend them, you have right wing media screaming straight misinformation or misrepresentation of facts to skew reality to fit their narrative. On top of this, a fair number of firms that do installs of heat pumps have under trained staff that are installing loops incorrectly, over complicating things, or installing HP systems in homes that are too poorly insulated. It’s a self-feeding cycle of distrust in the technology.

So, from my deep dive into heat pumps. If you’re dead set on classic style radiators, they’ll need to be at minimum ⅓ larger, preferably larger, as you said, the temperature it’s running at is significantly lower. You need a larger radiative area, and the heat pump will take significantly longer to get the room to temp. This in mind, underfloor heating is actually ideal. Radiative area the size of the whole room, with a large mass to retain the heat as it’s building and continuing to radiate after the HP shuts off.
Essentials:
-proper insulation throughout, the expensive stuff, and if you end up losing some floor space because you had to false wall every room, do it.
-minimum double glazed everything.
-radiative surfaces need to be significantly larger than for with a gas boiler, underfloor heating if possible.
-look very hard into the firm you hire to do the installation, even firms with a good reputation for plumbing and gas heating may not be properly qualified to do HP installations and may make a system so complicated that any efficiency gains from the HP are lost to the point that you have no heat at all.

Best I can do is a GPU box with a rock in it

He doesn’t have the ability to directly set prices, no. He could massively subsidise things he wants to be cheaper. Do you think that’s going to happen though?

I mean Puerto Rico is literally part of the US and that doesn’t seem to matter for them…

Looks like over the glove, as it comes round the other side of the net it looks like it’s coming on a downward angle.

Uuuuuuugh… that’s so fucking good too… people suck

I live in Scotland, after making that comment wrote it out both ways and asked a coworker which he thought looked more right… forgetting he’s dyslexic. So that was a fun lunch conversation.

Yes

See, I know it’s always been “toonies” but I’ve always struggled with why they didn’t go for twonies…

It’s the same trouble all “for Linux” mobile products seem to have. Underpowered, outdated and massively overpriced tech, they never seem to be actually suitable for modern daily driving. I know they’re all “niche” products, and it’s hard to charge a reasonable price for low manufacturing run stuff. I had a look at the pictures and the HPad6, and if it’s not literally the same item (different screen aside) I’ll eat my grungy work boot. I get needing to turn a profit, but $733 plus taxes/shipping/etc for something that they’re absolutely getting for less than the $200 you’d pay for a single unit off AliExpress, badging inclusive. They’ll be ordering in bulk, and getting a healthy discount.

Actually, I was nosing around, and it looks like the HPad6 is probably a rebranded Alldocube iplay 60 pro, which is about £50ish if you buy 100. Don’t really want to jump to conclusions and blow things out of proportion…buuuuuut… I’ve got all these pitchforks and torches…and it’d be a pain to return them…

Edit: I made an error, the Alldocube that’s £50ish for 100 is the lower spec one, for same spec as the one in the article it’s actually around £80-130 on orders of >1000 units

Wouldn’t hold my breath…not cause it might not happen, but because it’s certainly going to be longer than you can hold it, and I would worry about you if you tried.

Managers who’s style is “strictly control every facet in your charges’ day” shouldn’t be managers.

Also…I don’t get to work from home, so no other Stone Mason should! Is what I’d say if I wasn’t actively working on my house evenings and weekends…

also when you inevitably lose someone important to the project (be it obligations or drama), you have replacements ready and dont have the whole project fall over because one person was too important

This is a lesson loads of actual businesses need to learn. Put all your proverbial eggs into one overworked, underpaid basket, and when they inevitably get burnt out or get a better offer and leave, you’re up shit creek without the knowledge that kept everything ticking over.

Or being on side with those that do.

No he is, just the public he serves isn’t the Canadian people…or at least not 99.99% of them…

If only there were a party besides the CPC and LPC that were pro-worker…

That’s the tricky bit. Gotta parse what they actually mean. Group of citizens, probably Nazis. Malcontent, anti-establishment rioters, probably people out to punch Nazis.

Minted!