Keep in mind if you purchased an EV between '21 and '24 you probably got some level of free charging. pre 2024 ID.4 came with three years of fast charging. I think a large part of this group falls within this catagory.

Back in '98 we used the standalone server as a workplace chat app for a tech support department. It worked great, especially since we were always on the phone you could still chat with a coworker. The server wasn't well supported and had a memory leak which lead to the NT Server crashing and killing the entire tech support departments MS Access database. Boss wasn't happy, but had to take the hit since he gave into our request to install. It was fun while it lasted.

I am a construction project manager who does a significant amount of commercial realestate projects. It has been interesting seeing how different company cultures react to this ideoological shift. Firms with younger manangment treat it as an apportunity to addapt firms with older manangement basically freeze and wait for the news everyone is going back to work. You watch demand to return after demand to return and the offices are still empty.

Developers are pivoting to biomedical and multifamily .... they are desperate. We here strories of downtown los angeles mega building owners giving up buildings. My position is these are company cultures who froze hoping for things to return to the status quo. This will certainly play out. Gone are the days of setting up a cubicle home and having personal spaces.

This is true, however I think the interpretation is incorrect. Inflation is an equation which will balance itself one way or another. Without fed intervention then the cost of bread drives up to $20 a loaf.

Sheldon? is that you ?

This is not correct. Adaptive Reuse of buildings is done all the time. Downtown LA used to be all commercial up through the mid 2000s. Adaptive reuse of old garment industry buildings revitilized downtown, keeping in mind the california seizmic requirements. There just has to be a motivating factor (see profit). I know in California the main issue has just been strict beurocracy that just makes things close to impossible.

I would like to pose a different perspective. Yes you are correct in this being an algorithm approach which is being called A.I. I think though this is a matter of speaking what doesn't exist into existance by placing focus, and as a result, resources, and as a result problem solving, and most importantly determination. Now there are people like you who glory in pointing out the discrepancy, kudos.

fta -"..The animals have less body fat because they have a gene that allows them to regulate their body temperatures better by burning fat. "

Get off my lawn !!

I don't want to do it because:

1. it's hard, because
2.it takes too long
3. I have to wake up earlier
4. I'll have to miss my favorite show
5. because it's my constitutional right and I don't care if it's wrong
and our newest
6. because it target's me as an individual, or/and generalizes my identity.

The old way was insecure, outdated, and cost institutions (see users) millions of dollars a year due to avoidable fraud. This way is somewhat more secure ... period

I work at a small consulting firm, the machines in principle are great, unfortunately all the SP3 and my SP4 have had issues with the USB connectors getting finicky

I was always a fan of the quick hard type instructions then stamp the enter key, no matter what the procedure call is still hard type instruction than stamp the enter key.

Obligitory:
Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there’s way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. II don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head.

So this is a solution which get's the desired response but doesn't solve the problem, speeding. Eventually drivers will become accustom to such painting/illusions and temper there accident response. Instead of your brain saying look a child, or obstruction and immediately apply teh break your brain will introduce the question is it an illusion before applying the break.

I dunno I totally see a Family guy spin off on Cast Away ..

Scene #1: man washes up on deserted island, broken, dehydrated and forgotten

Scene n+1: man relaxes on hammock woven from canned soda pack rings gorging on canned tuna while he watches Gilligan's island on his reclaimed note S7. camara widens to distance shot showing miles of beach strewn with garbage and a 20 foot pile of fully charged and slightly charred note S7's

Well this was a jewelry exchange designed to allow single source competition (see tons of sales booths within an open area). Normally I would agree being a proponent of the local small business. However this gentleman was reselling store brand (sears) as new unique with an unreasonable markup. Amazon gave me the advantage of knowledge:
a. value
b. quality
c. product origin.
This took away his advantage which he used maliciously.