Maybe since college is the new High School we should fund colleges completely.

I'm pretty sure my local high schools cost of administration haven't gone up 237% like colleges the last 20 or so years.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...

Devil's advocate, but maybe that's why college has become the new high school?

Not really, that phenomenon is hlobal, as observed everywhere in the developed world. It has mote yo do with competition to get jobs for young people.

In a complex system there are multiple reasons for every event. I'd say these are both factors. Globalization and driving force of capitalism is the context, and proportional investment in primary education is an obvious step that we're not taking.

I've paid for 4-5 different streaming services over the last few years trying to see matches. They inevitably don't work, which is the only reason I use streams I find online.

If some random dude with pr0n popups can make it work but Fox/NBC/ESPN/etc can't, tough shit.

Yep, had that on my one 5 1/4" disk I got from a friend in school. Didn't know these games were in color until I was in college many years later (only ever saw green screens).

There was a lawn mowing game I loved as well. Plus all the classics (Bard's Tale, Ultima, Wizardry, etc).

Consulting is just relationship management and perceptions.

And lots of travel in my experience.

>Full-time university glass blowers are considered tops in their field, but few institutions still offer such positions or give young glass blowers the chance to hone their craft.

Seems like they've created the issue themselves.

Build more housing where? Belmont? Woodside? Atherton? The Bay itself?

I loved my time in Redwood City, more housing would certainly not make it better.

If you live in a nice house, the idea of a huge apartment complex next door would not be remotely appealing. That's the only way you can "build more" in the vast majority of the City/Peninsula. I don't blame them one bit.

The public transit is the problem. Too many fiefdoms - Amtrak, Caltrain, VTA, ACE, bart, muni. If Bart served all those corridors instead, the South Bay as far as hollister would be reasonable to commute from. Plus the eastern towns.

I wonder, how "compatible" this is with solar.

I.e. if you install solar by itself, you save X dollars/month. If you install this by itself, you save Y dollars a month. If you install both, is it close to X+Y, or is there some substitution there?

On one hand, you can sell solar back to the grid, but you can't always sell it back at retail, so I would guess your savings would be smaller, but how much smaller? Or would you be able to achieve the same ROI with a smaller rooftop solar installation?

TBH, I'm not really a big fan of rooftop solar, it seems like a hack to deal with shitty environmental policy that undermines the electricity grid itself.

Depends on how you heat.

If you live in a climate where you need to heat in the winter and cool in the summer, ground source heat pump are cheaper to operate than oil, gas and A/C. Solar will contribute to reducing your A/C electricity bills and also all the other power you use year-long, so they work together.

If you live in a climate where you occasionally turn on an electric heater for those really cold days, this will only help during cooling season, while solar will contribute all year long.

FWIW: I had geothermal in my house in maryland, and loved it. The system consistently beat the listed performance specs, which were detailed and complete and easily findable. See the submittable data at https://www.waterfurnace.com/residential/products/literature

This is compared to air heat pumps, where they give you a single number with no factors, and your system rarely will get that number given your set of variables. You can get the full performance sheets if you nag the crap out of them or you are a contractor and have access to the service site.

It is significantly more common in areas on the east coast (which has a good climate for it) and also areas where wells need to be drilled anyway.

It's less common in areas with city water/sewer.

When i talked with the well drillers, they were doing a bunch of residential geothermal installs each week, so ...

COBOL is terrible to work in. I was forced to take it in my MIS program in the 90s. We had the option of taking COBOL II or C Programming. Easiest choice I ever made (C of course).

They touted how everyone would be able to get a job fixing Y2K bugs. All I could imagine was a job like Peter Gibbons. I wanted to work in future technologies, not those of yesteryear. Thank goodness the internet was taking off by the mid 90s, so it was easy to see where things were going.

Instead of oil pipelines just build more water pipelines. That's what we do here in Oklahoma. SE part of the state is wet, we run water back to the west side.