Most people that want(ed) them have them....I read a good number of them got out of the EV when they could...and lost money on the resell....

Unless you have offstreet parking and a garage in the US in a home you own, you're like SOL for home charging which I feel is absolutely necessary to really conveniently use an EV....especially due to charging infrastructure not being a thing unless you are on the far east or west coast....?

So, Three companies good, four is anti-competitive? When T-Mobile bought Sprint, where you for or against that merger?

Just wanting the logic here.

People work after sunset and before sunrise all over the place. Some places are open 24/7. And yet, people manage it just fine. And some places are dark for large portions of the year, and bright for large portions of the year. It's almost like the world is a sphere or something and no two places are the same! Some places are summer at the same time other places have winter. Weird huh?

Refrigeration systems have heaters on the evaporator coils to defrost them periodically. Telling the control system to turn on that heater and leave it on will easily accomplish that.

UTC everywhere, all the time and just be done with Timezones and DST forever!

"As technology and job responsibilities evolve, accommodations may be reviewed to ensure they remain reasonable and workable."

Translation: We'll grand the accommodation for now while our lawyers figure out a way around it.

> Western Humanism came from the Catholic Church and ultimately Protestantism

Mostly agree though a synthesis of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Hermeticism seems to have been needed to form the American system. Ideas migrated from Scotland to America then back to Europe.

Double Determinism is incompatible with Jury Systems, for instance - that developed under Catholicism in England.

None of these New Atheists would ever go a day without the concepts of Natural Rights, Presumption of Innocence, Blackstone's Formulation, Universal Suffrage, etc. They'd rebel against the Divine Right of Kings, Prima Nocta, etc.

They would never be happy in Maoist China despite claiming to have no religious beliefs. Game Theory for the Collective is another cultural option but Westerners often can't even see the Christian waters they swim in.

Or, hey, maybe some of them secretly wish they were in Pol Pot's position in our society. Hopefully they all have 20/20 vision.

Sure - it does for the OS what puppet does for configuration.

I was at a Wendy's during a big data center outage and all the kiosks were down.

For some reason their down state is to drop to Windows Explorer. I found it interesting that they were managing their international fleet of probably tens if thousands of terminals using puppet to ensure deployment consistency.

The filesystem didn't appear to be readonly to the kiosk user, though I didn't test that. (have some sympathy for IT guys)

This new project could attest to the OS level integrity of those systems on a Redhat derived system. That way you know nobody slipped in a keylogger during a datacenter outage.

I'll take another look when they support the Debian OS family - Redhat makes some very unfortunate decisions these days. Debian Security does a better job for my requirements.

People with large scale problems don't seem to have much PDS and can evaluate systems without ad hominum fallacies. It's good for making a list of emotional commenters though.

Enjoy your 320x200 streams.

It might be too soon but the Exodus Technologies third-order Coulomb devices (IIRC) are built for this kind of very low impulse long duration lifiting.

Getting a rig up there to clamp on to the Hubble is probably the hard part of the project.

High-impulse propulsion is more likely to damage it than low and slow.

This was during the "NJ Drone Flap".

Trump was on TV saying he'd been briefed on them and the drones were "tracked back to their garage".

Last thing he said about it before his FAA said "they were authorized, we're not explaining, stop asking".

Matthew Livelsberger said they were of Chinese origin.

Robert Hastings wrote an entire book on unidentified craft over nuclear facilities covering four decades of documented incursions.

The FoIA request sounds like good data but nothing new.

From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.

They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.

It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.

The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.

Interesting in real estate, rental properties, small businesses, etc. are (1) extremely risky and (2) require large amounts of money. Stocks are risky but much less risky than starting a business or renting out homes.

What's the failure rate for small businesses? Rental properties face vacancies, bad tenants, and significant costs for taxes, management, and maintenance. Rental property yield are low unless one gets lucky and but undervalued properties.

Most important, a lot of people only have maybe a few tens of thousands of dollars to invest. That's not enough to do a business by oneself.

Stocks have outperformed every type of investment in every decade over the last century, and that's including many crashes and depression/recessions. Of course, putting all of one's stock money on a single company or sector is gambling, but long-term investment in the broader market is a reasonable choice.

AI Scenario

User to AI: Is this mushroom safe to eat
AI to User: Yes it is!

RIP User

AI to nobody: Oops, sorry. This was not safe to eat. Here is a list of how to identify poisonous mushrooms.

It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.

Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".

"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"

Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.

They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.

Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.

Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.