But you do.

Our on-site campus cafeteria uses them to serve three meals per day to several thousand employees. The chef raves about them.

As a former line cook, I would value anything that helped me cook faster -- which an induction stovetop certainly does. Time is money.

The only barrier to wider restaurant use is cost. Most restaurants today are still using the same gas-fired stovetops and flattops that they were thirty years ago when I was cooking professionally. These items don't wear out very fast, and induction can be very expensive to retrofit.

You should try cooking with something other than gas before you go spouting hear-say and making one-sided comparisons. Induction has very good control if you're not purchasing the cheapest-possible underpowered counter-top units. Even medium-line portables are as good as gas while providing more top-end heat.

You're assuming that the creator is the person or organization committing the theft. It's very possible, likely even, that someone else built the system and now makes money by renting it out. Very low risk in taking a cut of the proceeds, if the deal is transacted in a low-law-enforcement location.

Agile is not, and should never be billed as, a way to cram more work in to a unit of time. It's a way to transparently give people enough information to plan future projects effectively.

The points crap isn't for the developers. Points are for management to see and measure progress. Velocity is to let management figure out, for themselves, how long the greater project will take.

Breaking projects down into manageable chunks is the one great benefit for developers, but that, too, helps define velocity, which helps with planning.

If anything is going increase the appearance of work being done, it's that a series of small projects can be efficiently worked on by more people. Same amount of total human hours but sooner delivery of the project if you throw more people at it.

Quoting the Kushi Institute gives me pause. They definitely had an axe to grind re: modern agriculture, and the founder made some pretty bold claims about preventing and curing cancer, but then died of cancer himself. I haven't found details of the study quoted, but I believe it's likely to have some bias, and possibly some serious bias, built into it.

I take that a step further and refuse to let businesses pull from my account for any reason. Recurring withdrawals are a great way to lose oversight of your finances, once you expect them to be there they just kind of escape attention.

Rearranging payments, or transferring funds for a day, to avoid a temporary zero balance is a hassle, too.

I won't even use my debit card for most transactions -- certainly never for gas, rarely for POS. If someone fraudulently uses my debit card, I've lost access to my cash until the issue is resolved. You don't have to pay back fraudulent transactions on a credit card, you never lose access to your money.

I make exceptions for other financial institutions (e.g. bank to brokerage), as that's really the only efficient way to move money around and they appear to have strict controls in place. I might use my debit card at my local supermarket if I need cash, because they're fairly trustworthy. That's about it.

If existing customers, after all the bad press Wells Fargo has garnered in the past five years, haven't closed their accounts peacefully already, what makes you think they're going to close them for any reason, at any time, using any method, in the future?

People still doing business with Wells Fargo are a strange, but docile, breed indeed.

Awesome. They've moved the responsibility (and cost) of disposing of things that couldn't be sold by dumping it on charities. A bold business move, should help them increase profits.

Then why is the Fed lowering interest rates, if not to "juice" this supposedly-hot economy? Oh, right, because all the other stimuli that the "hot" economy supposedly didn't need but got anyway have been short-term fixes that are fading already. Wasn't the tax cut on the 1% supposed to lead to 5%+ growth for a decade?

B2B (Business-to-Business) forecasts are looking bad right now, across the board. That comes when? Right before B2C (Business-to-Consumer) spending tanks.

Economic indicators have been sending mixed messages for months, which itself is never a sign of strength, but are starting to point in the same direction and it ain't up.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. The real work is in bringing an idea to fruition.

Most university research, like the research that spawned this, comes up with a principle or an idea. Now someone is doing to work, at no cost to you, to create a real product from that idea. It might work out and lead to profit. It might not, and lead to losses. Someone else, not the taxpayers, is shouldering that risk.

You literally cannot have an allergy to MSG. It's naturally produced in your body.

OK, but how do I delete all the Apple crap?

Wait, what? You mean to tell me that automakers designed seatbelts to work with airbags 50 years before airbags were invented? That's both amazing and wasteful. I mean, if they could foretell the future so well then why couldn't they do something about the Aztec?

Military planes most definitely do not, and do not want, recorders. If one is recovered by a foreign party there is so much intelligence potential in listening to conversations and/or reviewing flight/location data.

The issue here is that someone is dropping nearly a billion dollars on a new power plant to replace the old one at the Intermountain site. Whoever is fronting that money is going to want to get that money back -- and the easiest way to do that is to operate the new plant at full capacity for some number of years (probably decades). There are probably going to be deals, if they're not in place already, to guarantee the market at specific minimum rates.

It's all well and good to talk about cleaner sources of power, but letting a plant like this go through is going to ensure continual pollution for the future. Rather than getting tied up with the new power plant, that money should go towards developing those cleaner sources. That's why people are up in arms now.

You seem to be implying that mariners that use Winlink instead of paying a commercial carrier are running afoul of the law. If so, that's a bad law on it's face: unethical (why should the law require paid carriers for communications, if not for the carrier's benefit alone?), difficult to enforce, and difficult to communicate.

If not, then can you elaborate on what you meant vs what you said?