Oh damn, it seems like they removed radio protocols in the v2 hardware...
From an Amazon listing of v1: "EnOcean, Z-Wave, ZigBee, Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth, WLAN"
You can see that there's a common backend ("configerator") that a lot of other systems ("sitevars", "gatekeeper", ...) build on top of.
Just imagine that these systems have been further developed over the last decade :)
In general, there's 'configuration change at runtime' systems that the deployed code usually has access to and that can switch things on and off in very short time (or slowly roll it out). Most of these are coupled with a variety of health checks.
> A hundered thousand years of safe storage is not part of the calculation of the energy price
People always mention that as an argument. I'm pretty sure that we could figure out a solution if we actually worked on it. Given how far we've come over the last 100 years, I don't see this as a problem that we couldn't solve over the next 100 years.
Surely you don't mean yearly car registration, driver's license fees, gas taxes at the pump, liquor taxes on booze or any other daily sales taxes they pay. So are you referring to the lack of property taxes they pay? I'm assuming the landlords are paying those.
Taxes are probably the wrong way to think about it. More important question is does lower class people produce net positive effect on economy in general. If they do then subsidising them producing enough lower class people to replace ones producing values will likely make sense.
Now if they are net negative, we get in much murkier waters...
Yes, I've read about that, but it seems like those unions give each branch/local/company significant independent decision-making authority, which is uncommon in top-down US unions.
my two cents as someone that worked in Europe and the US:
> time off
I get 21 days in the US, but any holiday that falls on a weekend I am guaranteed to get on a weekday.
Ultimately it ends up somewhere around 30 paid days off I would guess. Back in Germany, if a holiday fell on a weekend, I just lost it.
> government paid health care
In Germany I had to pay 7.5 percent of my salary + my employer had to match that. When I was freelancing I had to do the full 15%.
The US clearly has the worse healthcare system overall, but I pay a LOT less for MUCH better service. That is however just because of my employer and on a population level it's a catastrophe.
That being said, my impression is also very skewed by FANMAG and the average experience is probably worse.
There's an upper limit for the health contributions though. Software freelancer in Germany ends up paying about 900€/month if they're publicly insured.
A lot of these providers are part of the Open Compute project [0] that Facebook created in 2011 and all the hardware is open source. At least for FB, all the new hardware is part of that.
Agreed. I've seen thousands of mac minis in CI farms writing 1+ TB / day (all day, every day) and they're slowly starting to die 4 years in. It's hard to write flash to death with that kind of write load. I wouldn't worry about that.
I'm kind of curious, what would this do which actually requires GB ethernet? Seems like processing limits and SD card speed would get overwhelmed quickly.
Does this have enough HP to work as a caching proxy or mini firewall?
"Funkstandards / Frequenzen EnOcean (868 MHz), Low-Power-Funk (2.4 GHz) WLAN (802.11 b/g/n 2,4 GHz)"
So that's neither of the two major protocols (zwave and zigbee) nor any of the up and coming ones (thread).
Am I missing something?