> I could not imagine this ever happening when dealing with the IRS.
Have you tried? I haven’t tried it with the IRS, but I have tried asking my states permitting and planning department about the legality of various rental schemes for a property (that I didn’t own) and they were happy to look up the permits and tell me that indeed what I was asking about was not legal for that property. And further they let me know that tons of people do it anyway and that they don’t really check, but it’s a risk.
> If they weren't, Delta would say so, since it makes them look better. That they won't say means the parts were used in service.
More likely they would just never comment whether it makes them look better or not, because otherwise for the reason you stated you could always gather the information they didn’t want you to have in the negative case.
It’s because most of the people doing these computations don’t have the capacity to become experts in multiple fields. They understand the math and analytics very well, and they expend all their time thinking about that, not about type systems, memory management, etc. Python lets them code without having to think about a lot of that stuff so they can focus on the things they care about. These aren’t computer scientists or programmers, they’re meteorologists, astronomers, oil and gas analysts, investment bankers etc. That’s why some truly great computer scientists and programmers invested their time into building these tools for python vs other languages.
The explanation I’ve always heard for why New Zealand was settled by Polynesians so late is that they preferred to start their voyages against the currents when they were fresh so that they wouldn’t have to fight the currents on their way back if they weren’t able to find any new lands to rest and recharge
Mining is not needed to keep the grid reliable or smooth imbalances. You can achieve this by dispatching or cutting off the marginal generators needed to serve the load in real time (the marginal generators serving the load of these facilities are already quick response generators that don’t benefit from already being on and switching from mining facility to demand bursts elsewhere). They increase demand and necessarily move dispatch up the supply stack, increasing the marginal power price which sets the clearing price for all megawatts in the iso auctions and consequently the power prices for all customers. They also increase congestion by requiring more megawatts to flow increasing the congestion price component of the nodal LMPs (locational power prices).
Here is how prices are set in an iso auction. This is from iso New England. But works the same way in all isos including ERCOT.
It doesn’t matter to me if the mining operations are running or not, but they’re not helping the grid. Citing a crypto company on this is comically biased.