I can see lots of subtle bugs coming from this.
Develop and everything working great. Deploy on server with different HWCaps and you're now running different code.
wewbull
joined 2 years ago
Op is right though. It's still a cost/benefit situation, and the benefit is not enough to justify the cost.
I don't understand how you think the smaller coupon gets more volume. It gets no volume as the hypothetically "good honey" redirects everyone away from it.
We never have been 100% renewable in the UK. It's more that we go into surplus and shutting generators down is more expensive than the price going negative. Hence we won't get huge negative prices. Connectors to other countries can only export so much.
It also only happens when:
- long term weather forecast underestimated weather based generation.
- demand is low. (E.g. weekend and public holidays)
The population of Germany is only 25% bigger than the UK, so I think the two are comparable. A larger manufacturing base will make the demand-side curve more predictable though. Still, we're largely talking about the effect of supply unpredictability.
That's still a shitty exploitative business model. A bit less deceptive, but that original coupon vendor is still having affiliate revenue stolen from them.
Join once. Leave seven hundred and twelvety times.
My problem here, and I don't mean to victim blame but I don't understand why anybody thought Honey had a business model that was trustworthy. Most people would see through the slimy guy in your example, so why would they install a slimy guy in their browser? Why would people take sponsorship from a slimy guy? Why would they read our copy that tells kids to "install it on every computer in the house"?
Nobody asked themselves "How does Honey make money out of this?" because at the very least they were going to be data scraping! That much was obvious.
It also happened in the UK and I suspect other European countries with significant wind generation. Is this still a rare event in Germany? 2-3 times a month isn't uncommon here. Especially in the winter.
I struggle to call this capitalism. It's so twisted and corrupt it doesn't resemble what it started out as.
An army of cybernetic penguins?