In some places, like Vermont for instance, you cannot get a homeowners insurance policy with just a heat pump. You must at least have a more traditional heat source.

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You shouldn't necessarily implicitly trust anyone. However, people in positions whose decisions could have put human life at risk or have catastrophic consequences have typically (yes we all know someone) undergone effectively a lifetime of evaluation by increasingly competent and skilled evaluators, all the way from school teachers to, for instance, medical boards and residency.

what does AI have?

This is especially rich since there were plenty of indignant folks claiming they could really return at any time and they are just waiting to keep carrying g out testing and everyone was blowing it all out of proportion.

Looks like they might have eat crow on that one. This whole thing got out of hand thanks to vague and infrequent updates by all parties involved. Perhaps to try to not do more damage to Boeing's already tarnished reputation.

And we don't have to only predict the outgoing radiation. We measure it with the NASA and NOAA funded CERES instruments. We also measure incoming radiation with TSIS instruments. And soon we will be measuring Earths outbound radiation with an improved instrument called Libera (also funded by NASA and NOAA).

I'm not one to get political at every turn but there are those who are quite obviously wanting to pull funding for just these kinds of things, which to anyone paying attention is obviously burying your head in the sand disguised as some kind of reform.

...that's known as failing upward. And only the oblivious are proud of it... which is a lot of them.

To add to that, I think peoples feelings on the validity of war have plummeted. I think people have always known at least at a surface what they are signing up for. But people aren't really willing to sacrifice themselves for causes they don't believe in.

This "independent investigator" also had one episode on a show my wife and I happened to stumble across. Unfortunately it was nearly unwatchable as this guy bumbled through random bits of forest hoping and praying every scrap of trash was somehow a piece of D.B. Coopers parachute. The point is, he's basically delusionaly obsessed with this "case". Yes they did actually get ahold of his tie. No they still have no fucking clue who it is. The FBI gave up for a reason, and whoever did it is either dead or will be very soon.

I was thinking Theranos myself. Hype something up that isn't even close to working, then substitute results from somewhere else all while floundering to get the real thing working. Just claim its "quality control" or your "working out the bugs".

Yeah, I read the article. Nowhere in there does it imply what you described, so nice try. In fact it claims what we already knew, lots of people in middle management are unsuited and untrained for it, which only adds to the stress of many employees. Yeah, I know many in middle management have to be between a rock and a hard place sometimes. But I've worked in organizations where there are literally middle managers managing middle managers for multiple levels deep, and they all sit in meetings all day until we have a "group meeting" where they announce all the new brilliant ideas they've cooked up to reorganize the company yet again that will definitely work this time, we promise. I'm happy to be out of places like that, hopefully for good.

I live in Longmont, CO. We have a local gigabit internet. Its so much nicer. Gbps is Gbps but when we had issues when we were first moving in we called and were immediately connected to someone at the local office who recommisioned our connection right then and there and Boom. Comcast has been going around trying to make exclusive deals with new apartments to box them out.

Yeah, likely a extrapolation of the fact that rice is considered a high glycemic index food. People who already HAVE diabetes probably should be cautious, but saying it "fuels diabetes" is unnecessarily inflammatory (no pun intended). However, that is the news world we live in today.

If your definition of "amazing" is being somewhat of a tyrant that makes outlandish promises and expects his employees to make them a reality. Often cajoling, threatening, or demeaning them along the way with grandiose "changing the world" rhetoric. While he epitomizes the heroic business leader archetype that America has fetishsized to the likes of Jobs, Edison, et.al, the experience was not so nice for those tasked with making the historical achievements he (and they) spearheaded and enjoyed credit for. There are those who treat their employees with more dignity and respsect, but they do not make the news and certainly less often history.

The first thing I've ever agreed with from facebook. Who would have thought. I'm sick of the managers managing managers managing managers middle management bloat nearly every corporation seems to have. And what's even more unacceptable is they all believe they're the ones making huge impacts to the success of the company with their "decision making". I experienced it first-hand as the lead on a project where only I was offered bonus incentives for hitting project deadlines. I felt bad about this and brought it up to management because, as I pointed out, I was far from the only person working hard on the project. The response was something to the effect of me being in the leadership position so I have the most impact on project success. HAH! And suddenly it all became clear. This is what they think of themselves, spending every hour of every day in meetings spewing corporate-speak. Speaking in vague generalities to make sure it seems like they have all the answers all the while still scratching the back of whoever they need to to keep their position. Doesn't matter because they're making all the important decisions and deserve all the rewards for their razor sharp management. No need to acknowledge the heaps of hard work it takes to make decisions a reality.

I actually went looking into this because it's a pretty hard take on the subject. I'm someone who is technically under a non-compete myself. In speaking about it, the FTC chair went on to mention this would also include NDAs that are so strict they are to act as non-competes. So it sounds at least like someone had this thought too.

Also slashdot editors, please stop linking f@#$ing NYtimes. Nobody wants to click and immediately get paywalled.

Yes, and were absolutely complicit in putting whatever technology was being peddled to them if it meant an ounce more convenience in their day. We are heading to a Wall-E future at terrifying rate.