What the fuck is a "net zero" HVAC?
A window. The top models come with a sunscreen.
Fuck that.
Living in New Orleans...with easily avg temps in the mid to high 90's with mid to high 90's % humidity too....AC is a necessity.
That's been long known here....can't fathom why EU is having such a problem simply using AC when needed.
This isn't rocket surgery , this isn't NEW.
I've only lived in one apartment ONCE didn't have gas and I will not do that again.....I prefer gas to cook on and is cheaper for heat and water heating than electric by far....
Solar is already cheaper than coal
People and companies are STILL FREE to use all the solar they want, or any other source....
It just isn't mandated by the state.
.. which major American political party claims it is in favor of local control?
I would posit this IS an example of local control.
Most things of this nature need to be handled at the state level.....not at the federal level.
They overshot the perceived demand...and have to retool to go back to ICE to keep selling cars/trucks in the US.
Something has to give with losses like that.
microwave labotomy
Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.
Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.
Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.
LOL...I doubt I'd survive there long...my tube amps alone likely would have me thrown out of such an abode...
That's easy, does't require any apt. Modifications....
We do not want "mob rule" here in the US...and if we didn't use the EC to more proportionally allocate vote weighting....then basically NYC and California for the most part would dictate who was president....and ignore the vast middle of the US.
Here in the US, you are a citizen of your state first and then of the United States....the state is what affects your life the most directly...and each state is diverse in its population climate, land types and laws....so they need to be more represented on a state level by the president...the Congress has a house with proportionate representations as a part of this too.
If it can misused, it WILL be misused and we all know that...at least to date we do.
The US has a single centralised government with a single currency, Europe is not.
You've partially right....we have a single currency, but we do NOT have just a single centralized government.
The Federal govt. is and is supposed to be somewhat weak...and its few enumerated powers are in the US constitution....
The real power that actually governs the people for the most part, resides in the individual states. That's how we have VERY varying laws in many respects.....there are some cases the SCOTUS has had to take over the years, mostly on equal rights, etc....to establish that are constitutionally the same across states, but for the most part, everything that affects a citizens' life daily is governed by the laws of the state they reside in....so, financial laws, tax laws (state and local)...etc can all vary by state.
Most states have sales taxes..some do not. Some do not have income tax and others do...some states require car inspections annually, some to not and even those that do, vary in what they check..most do not check emissions if I recall correctly....
So, the US has. Federal govt that manages the currency....and is a singular face to the world....but internallly it's largely a mishmash of state laws that change as you cross state borders...
The US - within living memory - used to be a high trust society.
Of course, no, it wasn't perfect but I grew up in MN. You could leave your car running outside a Target on a bitterly cold January day and it wouldn't get stolen. In the small town I grew up in, it was pretty common to 'run a tab' at the local grocery so if you needed to stop and get stuff but turned out you forgot your wallet, etc they'd just note your name and the amount and you'd come back in (usually as soon as you could, as it was embarrassing) and pay off your tab.
But then...the Somalis came along with millions of other illegal and legal migrants from LOW trust societies.....and helped ruin this.
It's easier to be a high trust society when the member of the society are more homogenious , and live and think alike largely.
Then why did the US give up paying in cash?
Err....we still pay in cash over here....I actually try to do MOST of my local domestic shopping in cash.
Seales is using conventional machine learning techniques that the article's author has conflated into the buzzword of the day, artificial intelligence.
Machine Learning *is* an AI technique. Artificial Intelligence has always been an umbrella imprecise word to define a large class of very different algorithms, with the only trait in common that the programmer doesn't know a precise sequence of steps to find the solution but rather the data-driven program explores the inputs to try and find useful results.
Saying that a program is AI isn't wrong, it's just not very informative about what approach was used.
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. -- Richard P. Feynman
