Who's rewired their house for this hobby?

[Peter Corlett]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:59:47PM -0500, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
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> Wikipedia says it was the other way around - lighting was cheaper, creating a
> natural incentive to plug any device you could get away with into the
> lighting circuit.

That's usually an artifact of a shared building where services that are shared
or otherwise difficult to meter per tenant are included in the rent.  By
tapping into the communal circuits, one is really just stealing from the other
tenants.