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handoflixue • yesterday at 2:10 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

There is also a hard physical limit on how much electricity you can use before you blow out the fuse box


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firecall • yesterday at 2:15 AM

Also, people don't casually swing by my house and start using my electricity.

So my powerbills are predictable.

Whereas traffic spikes to websites are not.

This age of abusive AI crawlers and the non-revenue generating traffic has been a very real problem for me!

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nrmitchi • yesterday at 2:24 AM

> but there’s a limit to how surprising a bill can be

I think they explicitly said that.