If it's an oscillator, it must have positive feedback. That's what causes the oscillation. The oscillation itself may be stable, but that doesn't imply negative feedback.

Climate "science" in a nutshell.

"This is being uploaded live". And make it so.

It's completely in accordance with Smith v. Maryland, which is the controlling law. Smith v. Maryland involved one tap on one person's phone; it's been used to cover the NSA bulk metadata collection program, thus proving the slippery slope is not a fallacy.

It'll take the robed 9 to overturn it, but they likely won't.

You forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" checkbox.

It's so cute that people still think that actually means something.

They're not ALL Algol. There's the LISP-likes, plus OCaml and Haskell.

Only teenagers with helicopter parents taste like veal. Now you understand why there are so many of them.

Dammit, once again the Europeans give Obama undeserved recognition!

This whole "brain is still developing stuff" is utter nonsense anyway. You know when your brain stops developing? Death, that's when. For some reason our society has chosen to infantilize young adults, and then for some reason we're surprised when they act irresponsibly.
 

Even Hilary went with Sherpas. Also oxygen. First climb without oxygen was 1978. (unless the Sherpas had been doing it since forever, who knows?)

This systemd hatred is beyond comprehension. If it is this bad, how can it be adopted by all major distributions?

Political machinations.

It's not transmission losses. Turning fuel into electricity at large scale is 40% efficient. Turning electricity into heat with resistance heaters is 100% efficient. Turning fuel into heat at small scale is ~85% efficient with a regular furnace, ~95% efficient with a high-efficiency furnace. The big gain in using fuel for heat instead of electricity is avoiding the Carnot limit, not transmission losses.

"need to be installed at least a foot and a half off the ground"

For what purpose? That old wives' tale of putting a battery on the ground causing it to discharge or drain is absolute bullshit.

Cooling, most likely. Charging and discharging a battery results in heat; this battery is probably designed to take cool air in at the bottom and discharge warm air at the top.

Actually, I think one of the biggest results of this will be to allow homes with solar energy to store ALL the energy they capture with their panels, instead of feeding that energy back into the grid. This will effectively neuter the arguments of power companies who say that grid feed-in is making the grid unstable, thus reducing the impetus for putting punitive fees on houses with solar panels.

Since Pacific Gas and Electric is actually subsidizing the batteries in the pilot program, which is for solar users, it would seem to demonstrate that the power companies aren't lying when they say grid feed-in is a problem.

And that is because brick-and-mortar stores, by and large, suck. Do you go to a brick-and-mortar store, find exactly what you want, pay, and leave? Rarely. OK, so you don't see what you want and ask a salesperson. What do you get? A dumb look, often enough. Suppose you get the salesperson to understand and help... "Oh, we don't have that but we can order it for you if you come back in a week". Yeah. I could have done that myself, genius.

Even worse if the item you're looking for was advertised recently. Then it will be out of stock, and you'll have to choose between paying full price for the similar substitute, taking a raincheck (if the store offers such) and waiting, or giving up.

There are stores which don't have these problems; they're not the ones Amazon is eating the lunch of.