I own an EV and a home. It would be trivial and cheap (thanks to electric company rebate) to add a home charger. I have not bothered yet. Charging is too readily available in my midwestern town of 100K pop to bother.

Everybody's situation is unique. For many, home charging may be necessary. But it's not a requirement.

Check if your employer provides charging. See if there's charging around your home or anywhere where you drive once a week anyway. That's all you need.

Civilization VI on the iPad is a great port. I play PC and Xbox too. But if I had to choose just one thing, having a full quality PC game on an iPad mini to play anywhere with many, many hours of battery life is just perfect.

As a parent that has experience with Apple's parental controls, they are nevertheless better than what the competition gives you. Guided access is great for really little ones. And then Screen Time gives you the controls you actually want, they extend across devices, and you can manage them either from the device itself or from either parent device. As they get older you can back off control in a gradual and sensible fashion. All the while family purchases and Apple subscriptions are shared across family members.

It's weird, but the Kindle Fire Kids, which is explicitly designed for child use, isn't nearly as good as using an iPad mini.

Disclaimer: I don't own a Tesla.

The NACS (what Tesla called it after opening it up) is objectively the better plug. I hope it wins out. It's not like Europe and North America are using the same plug anyway (CCS 1 vs 2), while China and Japan have two yet different plugs. So we might as well choose the better plug while there's still a chance.

Thank you! Too much emotion in this debate, not enough science.

"Trapped" implies that valuable assets still exist. It's gone. Like putting your money with Madoff. Poof.

But I'm sure the hedge fund executives enriched themselves with fantastic, tax-preferred compensation while the scam was running. So what do they care. Say you're sorry and rip off the next group of investors. None of them are going to prison.

Crypto is fiat. It has no commodity value.

In crypto's speedrun of banking history, this is 17th century goldsmith banking. You take custody of a reserve asset (gold, US dollars) and issue tradable notes in exchange (gold certs, stablecoins). This makes it easier for your customers to transfer custody of the underlying asset by trading the cert/stablecoin instead.

After a while a while you decide to make extra money by lending out the underlying reserve asset, trusting that not everyone will come to you to redeem at once. A little while after that, you don't even bother to loan out the reserve asset, but instead you just start creating new certs/stablecoins out thin air and lend those out. Pocket as much profit as you can, before sooner or later a run destroys your bank revealing that you can't cover your tradable asset.

These aren't exchanges, they are banks. They have been compared to the wild west, but that's totally unfair. Wildcat banks were far better run and stable than crypto. Yet we did away with those because they kept hurting consumers. Nowadays we only let so-called sophisticated investors take risks like that with hedge funds. And nobody should be under any illusion that those provide stability or the ability to withdraw funds in a crisis.

Tether is nothing like regulated banking. It does strike me as akin to wildcat banking.

Were there meaningful consequences for the student? I assume not but would love to be wrong.

For those unfamiliar with Chegg, it's one of the, if not the, largest online cheating platform. There is some free access to cheating materials, there is a subscription for better access, and you can pay more for personalized cheating support.

The usual codewords used are "homework help" for just the cheating materials and "tutoring" to have someone do the work for you.

Permits, Drawings, restoration, meeting the requirements for the right-of-way access and dealing with the glacial deposits of rocks etc, trenching can take over a year to return to the original condition, not accounting for the fact that the soil may not settle back the same way if there's any moisture.

I can tell you that boring is the standard by which you optimize many of these items.

Pole attachment costs can be the same or more than underground/boring if you need to upgrade or replace the poles, and it can take up to 180 days to get all the utilities on a pole to relocate, hence why google wanted one-touch make-ready rules to become the norm. They're not wrong, but the issue also is many people are illegally attached to poles, and in some of these rural areas the poles are actually the ORIGINALS from the REA expansion dating prior to the 1940s.

The goals of the county gap project and funding was to provide service to these areas. The problem is the tower may be 2-3 miles away and to hit these speeds, it requires more spectrum than is available, even if you use the RF Elements horn based antennas.

If the farm properties along the way are subdivided they can be connected for much lower cost in the future with this.

Not really, there's a few WISPs in the area already, there are logistical issues when it comes to terrain and tree cover that make it impractical.

Hard to remember things from nearly 30 years ago, but I do apologize for that.