But then ... WP is not tied to one hosting provider. There are no shortage of hosting companies out there to which you can deploy WP. In fact, many make it so easy it is ridonc.
First of all, the average parent is definitely doing some volunteering, at least in the US. From rec sports to scouts to church stuff to local committees, it's very rare for someone to be totally checked-out on all those counts.
And as a bit of anectata: I play two sports and my child plays multiple. Every single one of those groups or teams relies on email, even when other modes of communication are layered on.
It won't likely perform better as it ages but it may continue out-performing a fleet that tends to hold its value. If the maintenance cost of the electric motors and batteries along with the turbines operating at reduced power is better than the maintenance cost of two turbines that are operated at 100% power to take off, it could really pay off, as that tends to be a very expensive part of the operation. Airframes also often appreciate these days, as it is very expensive to buy a new one and an old one is somewhat proven.
This plane basically has to outperform a Saab 340.
Turbine powered helicopters can appreciate in value if demand picks up because the tech doesn't move that quickly, as can GA aircraft that are already old because they're all cheap and rudimentary to start off with. (The supposed appreciating asset tends to cost a lot more than the asset appreciation to maintain though...)
Fixed wing commercial airliners generally don't, because airlines' biggest cost is fuel and new aircraft are a lot more efficient than older ones
Seems optimistic to think that a first generation electric plane will avoid that challenge: in theory if you're only operating on electricity the kinetic efficiency doesn't matter quite so much, but 125 miles range on electric power is really quite limiting and crucially newer generation electric aircraft would be expected to offer more electric range. I guess a lot might depend on how easily it is to legally retrofit better batteries to older gen aircraft.
They'll want to sell for more than the market value of an old Saab 340, that's for sure...
I’m far less ambitious, but not less driven. It’s just that what I’m driving for is to maximize time doing things I and my family enjoy. In fact it’s a lens through which I analyze jobs and career opportunities.
You have to think of it like the nutritional supplements industry. They make mountains of money because people have certain misgivings or insecurities or unrealistic goals (or all of these things) with regard to their health. Would life go on just fine without the entire supplements industry? Sure. But that wouldn’t do anything to assuage the health concerns that people perceive themselves to have.
The same is true of the consulting industry. Because companies _also_ have certain misgivings or insecurities or unrealistic goals with regard to their health.
On a date, I once showed a woman I wanted to impress my Palm Pilot. Not only was she utterly unimpressed, she went on to marry an A-list Hollywood celebrity.
One day I was getting a haircut in my smallish Midwest hometown. Another customer was grousing about being unable to contact a friend, and just happened to mention someone I knew. I pulled out my Palm and said I had their phone number. The guy also pulled out the Palm that he was carrying, and I used the IR sender thing to share our mutual friend’s contact info. My barber was like “what in the Star Trek just happened”?
I didn’t know the other guy. We had a mutual friend. We both had Palms. It was a whole list of unlikely coincidences that had to line up well. It surely did feel sci-fi. That was the one and only time I ever used that feature.
As someone who lived in NYC for a while circa 1999 the process at the time as I recall it was using a newspaper classified ad to find a broker to find an apartment.
The vast majority of actual apartment listings were all gatekept within the broker system making hiring a broker (with an insane fee) effectively mandatory for actually finding a place to live in a reasonable timeframe.
I had the funniest experience with brokers in mid-1990s Silicon Valley.
I was shacked-up with my girlfriend in an ADU garage in Santa Cruz. She was willing to move out with me and some roommates. So the four of us went apartment-hunting in the South Bay area. We eventually found a house in San Jose. It was a dilapidated old property in a ratty area of downtown, but it was our humble home.
Anyway, we had discovered this great concept of apartment brokers who would do the legwork for us! So we signed up to one. Now everyone had computers, but the Internet was for blogs, porn and cat pictures, so nobody did actual work or business over the Internet! So we would go in-person to this brokers office and they would help us fill out paperwork and stuff.
And I have this one, extraordinarily vivid memory of standing there, sullen nerdy goth me with my perky goth artist girlfriend, and we're at the front counter in a small lobby, blinking slowly at two young lady brokers who are standing at their computer terminals, typing earnestly, and they informed us of some computer outage, but the systems are coming back online and these girlbosses are the ones saving the day.
And they begin typing even more insistently and firmly, and they're just banging on the keyboards like there is no tomorrow and they really, really need the systems back in order, and there was just a palpable sense of urgency and naïvete mixing together in the air of this business, and finally these blonde girlbosses chirp that they found us something! And at that moment we embraced and we could practically hear the theme song to "The Jeffersons" playing in the background.
That is the only time that an apartment-finding broker found a place for me, but I have believed in the service type ever since. I am sure that if we had been better people with money, they could've found a good place to live. It was heady times in SV for sure.
I think you left off figuring out how to connect a floating data center to the internet without making that aspect as expensive as powering the thing in the first place.
I think that's actually the easiest part of this entire thing? Assuming you're anchored you just dangle a subsea cable directly underneath the platform.
Note that there are already some pilot ocean based datacenter projects. The most recent one I'm aware of is attached to nearshore wind. I have to imagine that makes far more sense than floating a civilian nuclear reactor on the high seas.
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