Power should be a public utility, just like water and sewage.
dylan604•20m ago
Private companies can operate more efficiently offering better service and competitive pricing. How do you not know that privatization is the solution? /s
prepend•9m ago
In the US, power is a public utility. And regulated as such. The providers can be private though and depends a lot on the location.
Personally, I wouldn’t trust my city or county to operate a power plant and transmission lines. I’m happy that power is regulated by my state as a natural monopoly.
dylan604•8m ago
That is not 100% true though. In Burbank, CA the power is city owned.
A somewhat more prominent example of this model would be Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
ageitgey•7m ago
It's weird to read an article about how AI is ruining Lake Tahoe, with a map illustrating the problem, when the map itself has the world's most generic "100% generated by Claude" UI ever.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the article using the Claude map. It's just deeply funny somehow.
ramesh31•2m ago
Those bordered tile cards are like the new WordPress default theme
pstuart•23m ago
dylan604•20m ago
prepend•9m ago
Personally, I wouldn’t trust my city or county to operate a power plant and transmission lines. I’m happy that power is regulated by my state as a natural monopoly.
dylan604•8m ago
https://www.burbankwaterandpower.com/
jeffbee•4m ago