Replied in thread
@gimulnautti When you say "charging rent on everything", I'll translate: "subscription business model". #RentSeeking is ancient. #Subscription is modern.
Recent searches
Search options
#rentseeking
0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Replied in thread
@kajer #CloudFlare is a #RogueISP and their "business" is at best #ValueRemoving #rentseeking but mire iften than not just a digital #RacketeeringScheme!
Continued thread
Aaargh batteries! Another fast moving target.
A domestic install cost is solidly in the $1000/kWhr range, but factory cell cost is now hitting $100/kWhr this year.
I'll run with $500/kWhr.
Generating capacity first.
For solar to match the annual output of our reference 1GW plant (ignoring time of generation for now) needs around 5 GW of install. (I'm basing that off my own rooftop install's performance over the last 5 years.) That 5GW of cells will yield around the 7000 GWhr of electricity over the course of a year, plus or minus a percentage for weather, location etc etc.
So $5B for generating capacity. On to dispatch.
Look, I'm going to run with the conventional wisdom here. When sizing a battery for overnight dispatch a solid working estimate is for storage that can support 4 hours of peak delivery. In our case that leaves us at 4 GWhrs.
(I'm juicing the numbers in favour of nuclear here. Recall that its availability factor was 80% of peak, so arguably I should go with a like for like of 3.2 GWhrs. Not going to though).
At $500 per kWhr that runs us $2B.
Grand total of $7B. 35% of our nuclear option.
Circling back to the start, the stand up build cost of our nuclear plant was $20B. But achievable real world best case is closer to $9B, which is now within a reasonable distance (not close exactly, that would be doing violence to the language, but they can at least see each other and wave).
To me, there are 2, say, clear tie breakers.
The first is that nuclear isn't being built in Australia, while renewables plus battery is. So we're comparing desktop possibility with realised constructed actual along with actually having the engineer/procure/construct skillset in place right now. That's a huge advantage.
The other is that renewables are built out, over time, but each individual unit has the potential at least to be generating right away.. A nuclear plant doesn't generate until it's done. Once the first solar panel or wind turbine is up and running, though, it's generating. So there is a year 1 benefit from renewables that you don't see with nuclear at all.
4/n
The Guardian · ‘No bigger rent-seeking parasite’ than nuclear industry, Matt Kean tells former Coalition colleagues in heated debate
Replied in thread
@EUCommission will this mean that #Apple isn't allowed to deamdn #RentSeeking with bs like "platform fees" from #Developers?
If not, why??
#ClassAction as a measure to deliver recourse against #Corporations is inherently #flawed, #unjust and cements the fact that "If the #penalty is a #fine, it's only #illegal for the #poor"!
In case you don't believe me that #ClassActions only exist to enrich #LawFirms and allow any #corporation to send out insultingly-low #cheques:
#Valve literally changed their [luckily illegal in places with #ConsumerProtection like the #EU] #SteamSubscriberAgreement to basically force people [in the #USA and the rest of the world] to kiss their #Steam account goodbye if they choose to join a Class Action.
#Sony's #OtherOsSettlement didn't force them to #reinstate the #OtherOs functionality on the #PS3 and only gave US comsumers tiny cheques! A core functionality that was as much of a seller of the product as #BackwardsCompatibility and #BluRay playback...
No Class Action against #Apple forced them to #undo shit they purposefully designed into products - espechally their #AntiRepairDesign with #DRM that basically requires a RAT to authenticate parts which they do to this very day and which they literally patented...
(Don't even get me started on the shitshow that is #iCloudLock which I hope the @EUCommission will #ban as it's *infringing on #ConsumerRights re: #property and causes thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste...)
Replied in thread
@jackyan IMHO #ClownFlare should be banned as the "#CriminalEnterprise" it is due to them not only knowingly and willingfully hosting #Cybercrime, #Terrorism and #CSAM but also because they espechally refuse to act upon #AbuseReports even when outlining the very exact content that violates their #ToS.
It's not enough to #DropCloudflare, but #EndCloudflare and it's #valueRemoving #Rentseeking and #racketeering scheme type of business.
There is no legitimate reason to use #Cloudflare!
#SouthKorea not having #NetNeutrality at all is the reason why #Twitch is unavailable there, as #ISP|s there block it in their #Highwaymen-Style #Rentseeking, because paying subscribers ain't enough for those #greedy #corporations, so they just act as #ValueRemoving #Middlemen...
Why does patron (or Amazon -- or most businesses!) even need a mobile app in the first place?! Make your site work on mobile as well as it works on a laptop and tell your users to go the web site. Problem solved. #deletealltheapps #patreon #apple #rentseeking #capitalism #android
@Bam @jawarajabbi #Hamas needs #Israel as much as #Netanyahu needs Hamas...
- Without the opposite side being their percieved enemy, both would cease to either exist or at least not he in charge anymore.
That's why #O7 was allowed to happen and why #Gaza is still existing on maps...
- Neither side wants to win!
Similarly: Hamas wants and needs the suffering of Gazans because in a #FailedState ruled by them with #racketeering schemes, #RentSeeking on #donations and #remittances is their only income as a "#Government"!
Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@jawarajabbi@mastodon.online @Bam@sfba.social which reminds me of the complete ignorance of the fact that *they literally did that* when the #aid convois were supposed to pass through #KeremShalom but then #Hamas decided to just start shooting at the border crossing...
*Cortana Voice* "Left out that little detail, didn't they?"
Replied in thread
@annskaja @heiseonline Und wegen solcher #RentSeeking Arschgeigen wird dann faktisch #Datenschutz ausgehebelt...
#CoryDoctorow (@pluralistic) is coming to #SanDiego to help us #resist the #enshittocene !
https://tinyurl.com/doctorowucsd
#enshittification #RentSeeking #Capitalism #UCSD #Bookstodon #Economics
Google DocsRSVP for Cory Doctorow talkThis is an RSVP so we can estimate attendance. Seating at the event is first-come, first-served. This is not a ticket or a reservation.
Title: Overcoming the Enshittocene: Why Everything is Terrible and What to Do About It
Date: Thurs, Feb 22nd, 11am-12:30pm
Location: UC San Diego, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), room 123/MPR. (UCSD maps, Google maps). The HDSI building is a five minute walk from the UCSD Central Campus MTS Blue Line Trolley Stop.
Landlords only listen to force and public shaming. After picketing at KP Market yesterday, #TenantUnions in #OxnardCA will boycott KP Market unless #landlord Byong Yu meets the tenants' demands for dignified housing conditions and stops illegal #Renoviction at 2341 Valley Street.
IndybayTenants Fighting Eviction to Picket KP Market, Threatening Boycott : IndybayKP Market (2370 Telegraph Avenue)
Continued thread
Continued thread
Continued thread
Continued thread
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social Pretty disappointed by your article this morning that tries to pass off creeping #feudalism as consumer choice rather than the extractive #rent-seeking it really is. Did not expect to see you publishing pro #rentier #propaganda.
https://theconversation.com/the-shift-from-owning-to-renting-goods-is-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-consumerism-210365
#enshittification #neofeudalism
The ConversationThe shift from owning to renting goods is ushering in a new era of consumerismThese days people prefer to simply have access to goods and services, rather than outright owning them. But what does this mean for the future of consumerism?
Replied in thread
@aral at this point basically all my projects are stalling due to lack of funding...
And since #NUCbook and other projects go against #SurveillanceCapitalism, #PlannedObsolescence and/or other #Rentseeking they won't get funded.
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/nucbook
GitHubGitHub - KBtechnologies/nucbook: A modular & open design 13" Notebook that can be customized and upgraded to fit user's needsA modular & open design 13" Notebook that can be customized and upgraded to fit user's needs - KBtechnologies/nucbook
Replied in thread
@JuliusGoat
This is their view of literally every employed human on the face of the Earth.
We just assumed they'd manage a more thorough job of displacing manual laborers before cracking creative pursuits.
The dream was that automating labor would free people to pursue what they enjoy. Turns out not when the owners of the automation hoard all the profits, and the efforts of non-owner-class now have increasingly diminished monetary value.
#AI
#Economics
#RentSeeking
“Policymaking in D.C. tends to favor the established folks with entrenched lobbyists. Such a situation can be unfavorable to the cell-based businesses looking to influence the rules that, depending on how they’re crafted, could spell doom or bloom for the cultivated-meat industry.”
Inside the Battle Between Big Ag and #LabGrownMeat by Andrew Zaleski
https://newrepublic.com/article/171709/inside-battle-big-ag-lab-grown-meat
The New RepublicInside the Battle Between Big Ag and Lab-Grown Meat Industry giants and cellular-meat upstarts are in a lobbying war over consumer labeling.