> He was told it would take $10,000 to fix, and the representative also let slip that all Tesla repairs are covered by warranty for A YEAR - meaning he could have got his suspension fixed for free in January 2024
They bought it December 9, 2022. What am I missing?
Edit: or was it fixed on his last visit of June 2023 and then was eligible for replacement?
Sorry about the burnout. Sounds like you've got skills and I'd encourage you to explore something smaller. There is a path as a solopreneur. I do sun and shadow modeling using publicly available datasets [1]. My customers are gardeners, permaculture, hunters, fishermen, photographers and also real estate prospectors but they're people not big orgs or banks. It feels good to work on this level and personally answer emails and questions. I don't make much revenue but I like the grassroots path. Maybe you'd find it rewarding as well.
I came across shademap.app a ~month ago, and had a "the internet can be so awesome" moment. I wrote to my property mates: "I found a cool free website for seeing shade at our site throughout the day and year. Maybe helpful for garden planning. Our address is loaded in [here]". Reply: "Wow! That is cool!". It seems to be very much in the solarpunk spirit (even more so with your engagement here). I hope to incorporate it into my solar installation work. Thank you :)
Thanks for the work you've done with ShadeMap - I used this extensively when I we were looking for somewhere to rent, as living in hilly city some areas lose the sun quite quickly. Happy to say we are now living in a place that gets plenty of sun, and this summer has yielded a lot of tomatoes in a city where that can be difficult.
Super cool, I just used your app to figure out where to place my clothes drying rack so it'll get sun sooner! Okay, I already new the result mostly, but still fun and useful!
It's spreading abroad, but the US seems to be ground zero. The US's agricultural methods also make it extremely vulnerable to infectious disease (if one breaks through the continuous deluge of antibiotics we pump into our animals).
The below links are not all inclusive, but each touch on your inquiry in various capacities (as the problem is complex and multifaceted). Georgia halted all poultry sales due to infection detections, for example.
To cite a close-to-home example, chicken farms in Canada typically have about 25,000 chickens, whereas ones in the U.S. often have millions. So an infection that requires the entire flock to be slaughtered has a much bigger effect on the supply of eggs south of the border.
That makes a lot of sense, because I lookup up how we handle it in Denmark and it's the same, destroy the entire flock if a farm is infected. It's just it's not millions, it's 6000, 40.000, 20.000 chickens per farm, not a million.
Weird that the size of the farms aren't being regulated if you know from other countries that it makes containment easier.
Are eggs regularly transported long distances in the USA? I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark, though many other things (cheese, meat) are.
If people in Minnesota (same population) aren't regularly buying eggs from out of state, then the comparison with Denmark holds.
> I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark,
That is because of the strict rules regarding salmonella. Danish chicken farmers will test for salmonella and kill any population of chicken found to have salmonella, leaving our eggs "guaranteed" free of salmonella. Any other country that wish to sell eggs in Denmark will need to be able to make the same guarantee. This is one of the few exceptions for the free movements of goods within the EU.
Sweden, Finland and Norway seem to have the same checks as Denmark [1] but we don't see their eggs for sale here either.
But from a quick search, it looks like I've happened only to live in egg-exporting countries within the EU, which explains why I've never seen it. Even so, whole eggs don't seem to be transported great distances — most imports and exports are liquid or dried egg.
Unless you segment up your chickens and spread them out, so one farmer may have a million chickens, but spread out on 40 locations. The problem is that you need to kill ALL of your chickens in just a few is sick and having a million chickens in a single location will pretty ensure that you have to constantly kill of all your chickens and replace them.
But there's probably more going on that just sick chickens being killed of.
My guess is how lax the US is with factory farm animal welfare. When an epidemic breaks out, it hits these factory farms much harder and the USDA (government food agency) cracks down and indirectly drives up prices.
Eggs are usually produced and sold regionally. The current bird flu epidemic impacting US chicken farms will be less impactful elsewhere. I believe there were reported cases of bird flu in Europe at the end of last year, but I don't think they spread to the widespread devastation we're seeing in the US.
The bird flu is mostly contained to North America. Birds fly north/south, not east/west, so so far there has been no reports of it moving across either ocean. This is why Europeans and Asians are terrified of bird flu transmitting between humans, because then an infected human could get on a plane and spread it there. So far, however, that threat remains unrealised.
You can disable this as a browser setting in some browsers (like Chrome). It was driving me nuts until I figured out I could just flip a global flag for it.
There's probably a better way, but I use this graphical element zapper from Ublock Origin to hide distracting elements.
Works wonders for sites that I visit regularly. StackOverflow: Do I need related posts? The left sidebar (whatever it is they have there, I have forgotten already)? Their footer?
I generate these type of charts [1] focused on the daylight hours so it was a surprise to see a concave shape instead of a convex one. Awesome way to validate these computer generated charts with captured physical data.
This is really neat. I'm curious where the data for the tree shadows comes from though. I was surprised to see that the trees in my yard and my neighbor's yard were all mapped by your service, since I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I read the "how it works" FAQ section, which explained that building shadows come from the map services, but it didn't mention trees.
I built a similar shadow mapping tool for some commercial party that wanted to accurately estimate solar panel production in The Netherlands... In my specific case I could access very accurate LIDAR heightmaps gathered from planes.
This means you can ray-march the location of the sun throughout the year over the entire country to calculate exactly where and when a surface is occluded by shadows from nearby (or even faraway, sometimes) objects.
The LIDAR data can be as detailed as a shadow cast by antennas, a chimney or a tree... Which is more important than you'd think, because a little bit of shadow on a single panel means that all panels daisy-chained to that panel will see an efficiency drop! (So you either don't chain them but give each panel its own inverter, or you wreck your neighbors chimney)
True. Argentina doesn't have DST and I just realized living in the northern hemisphere made me miss the fact that the sunlight hours chart is concave in the south
As someone who has researched DSM availability across the globe, Google's Solar API is a top contender. Other option is government LiDAR surveys but the coverage, file formats, projections, etc are all fragmented. I think it would be great for the mapping community to create a world wide DSM map tile dataset similar to the ground elevation tile dataset that contour lines and 3D terrain views are generated from. Maybe someone is already working on this?
In the article they show areas where their approach can generate DSM although this is just the potential areas and not the areas where data is already available. :(
Yes. There are planet wide DEM (Digital Elevation Model) datasets which record ground level elevations but no planet wide set for DSM which includes built structures and vegetation.
Sounds incorrect. I think the insurance rate is based on the value of the vehicle and SUVs and trucks are much more expensive than compacts and sedans.
The part of your insurance that pays the medical bills for a person you smush (third party liability) is entirely separate from the part that rebuilds your car if it gets wrecked (collision/comprehensive damage). They should be priced separately on your binder, but you can call up your insurer to price compare relatively easily.
In NY it's $50000 mandatory for medical expenses before any liability comes into play. I've burned through the entire pile with costs from a driver induced injury.
Nice idea but killing someone is very cheap. It's injury that requires permanent care that's very expensive. At some point they came up with "moral hazard" for this kind of thing but the lesson was forgotten.
They bought it December 9, 2022. What am I missing?
Edit: or was it fixed on his last visit of June 2023 and then was eligible for replacement?