If you're consumer focused, you're probably fine and will just need to clean up some mess later when you get big enough to care.
If you're B2B, it's going to be a problem from day one. GDPR has a defacto viral component for service providers. Basically, any the business that wants to become your customer that is itself GDPR compliant needs to ensure that you too are GDPR compliant. Accordingly, GDPR will come up with a large portion of web-facing B2B sales, even for US companies.
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b) From what I understand, Hawaii's power utility either doesn't allow or strongly discourages new net metering customers (e.g. where excess generated power goes back to the grid and you get credited). Accordingly, on-site battery systems make sense for most PV solar installs to help deal with the difference in generation and usage over time.
Otherwise, it's a pretty complicated negotiation and certification process as in addition to the processor twitchiness there are a bunch of state wire transmission/money laundering laws that you are getting rather adjacent to that can be a mess to navigate.
They look into it every few years but so far the costs to do so have been astronomical so it doesn't go past studies.
I don't have a good reference at the moment but from what I understand, most of it comes down to it being much harder to retrofit that kind of thing on to a 100+-year-old system than it is to build it into a new system. More specifically, since nothing was built with that in mind there are all kinds of challenges that would be very expensive to address like not all platforms are level or straight (imagine the cost and disruption involved in expanding and rebuilding the 4/5/6 platform and tunnels at Union Station to make them straight) and not all trains have doors that align in the same places (different generations of trains in service at the same time, different designs of trains on different lines, etc).
None of this means it can't or shouldn't be addressed eventually, but like many things in life there are reasons things aren't "just done" and it's important to understand those reasons if you want to make change happen.
This is likely a function of your grind size. I've had this happen in the past and once I got the grind size set right, things were much better.
If what you're doing now works well in a drip coffee machine and a french press you probably want a smaller grind size. I usually do well aiming somewhere between the drip and espresso settings on my grinder.
Author of the post here. Is the only reason you think the post is spam that it's hosted on medium?
I mostly posted this there to try it out but if there is something wrong with doing so (other than seeing a tld of medium.com), I'd really appreciate hearing about it.
Medium.com has been literally flooding the HN front page in the last few weeks, not a day goes by without 1, 2 or as earlier today even 4 articles (for want of a better term) on the homepage.
Comparable content from other sources would normally not gain nearly as many upvotes in as short a time as the medium.com stuff does.
You know there is something afoot when a medium.com story gets more upvotes and appears on the homepage seconds after being posted contrasted with for instance an article written by Joe Armstrong or phys.org article about the visualization of chemical bonds being formed and broken.
That's not proof by a long shot but there is definitely something going on there.
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There's a lot more to running a production database than simply installing the software. At a minimum you have monitoring, tuning, backups, failover/replication, and security. These and more are all tasks that some people look to outsource as it is outside of their core competency/business (for better or worse).
If you're B2B, it's going to be a problem from day one. GDPR has a defacto viral component for service providers. Basically, any the business that wants to become your customer that is itself GDPR compliant needs to ensure that you too are GDPR compliant. Accordingly, GDPR will come up with a large portion of web-facing B2B sales, even for US companies.