I skimmed the plan and didn't find any requirement to use a ground to water heat pump. Air to water devices are mentioned several times as viable heat pumps for this plan. These do not require boreholes.
All of this thread I read so far is complaining on a very high level. Compare the teams era to the pre teams era where companies often either had no meeting software and experience at all and onsite visits or phone calls was the only option, or they used Skype for business which was arguably even worse. Then the minor annoyances of teams seem small in comparison.
That's not too say these things shouldn't be improved, but bundling teams with office for free sure made my communications with most of my customers 1000% easier.
GP said that we do have a society right now where economics is a eugenic factor. Please name one instance of the pattern you described in society today. I'm not aware of any tax on generic markers.
In practically any country with socialized healthcare you will be strongly encouraged to terminate a child that might turn out unhealthy, and in a lot of them you will lose "benefits" (on which you depend because you were forced to pay mandatory social insurance before, taking away your ability to save/invest by yourself) if you don't listen/go to the doctors as "you are supposed to because that's the system". Where I live in Central Europe, going to the gynecologist and listening to their recommendations is a requirement to get full parental social benefits - and the policy most certainly is also based on what's economical for the state/"the system", and only parents that were previously working can get the benefits.
Additionally, you will have to pay the full price for any treatment that's outside their recommendations, this often turns out higher in absolute prices than in any US hospital - even though the people are much poorer.
Then once an unhealthy child is born they often don't get the full benefits of socialized healthcare as they should according to the constitutions, the administration will say "the system works in a different way and you went outside it, so you need to take care of it yourself" and the parents are forced to pay for treatments and medical equipment by themselves because what "the system recommends" is not nearly enough (we are talking about US$ millions of additional out-of-pocket expenses in some real world cases that I follow locally). That could be interpreted as a form of tax too, especially since you are forced to pay mandatory health insurance in most of these countries.
Firefox still seems to be quite bloated, although there has been improvements in performance. We need more competition vs a company that’s entirely reliant on Google’s $ to stay in business
Writing simple types with Typescript is simple, and improves any Javascript code.
Writing complex types (inference, generics, inheritance) is really punishing. And people that don’t truly know what they’re doing won’t even try (or at least in my experience, I’ve never seen them try).
It's the dreaded "I know enough to be dangerous" type that you have to worry about; the people who don't actually know all that much but enough to make a mess of things. I was brought in to help for a while on a project where they had compile times up at 4 or so minutes, if I remember correctly. The solution in the end really was just "Write dumber types", because their types were completely overboard and written just well enough to work.
A big bulk of their compile time came from things that could've been checked in much more efficient (for the compiler) ways.
I would never urge anyone to not use statically typed languages, mind you, I think people just need to be a bit more pragmatic. Sometimes I find it unfortunate that TypeScript provides the facilities it does while still not having solved the basic ergonomics of types (more consistent inference, etc.). Having types that generate types creates problems that I honestly don't experience anywhere else and I would rather that people just not in general, but that's something you can fix with rules.
An ironic part of all of this is that Haskell's type system is a lot easier to use and use well than TypeScript's, in the end, which is especially funny considering all the talk of pragmatism.
How can you change heating from gas to oil without exchanging the central heating device and installing oil storage canisters in every das heated home? How is that achievable on short notice?
Trust in this context is obviously not 1 or 0 but a sliding scale and some organizations are higher on that scale than others based on past conduct, as the previous poster pointed out at length.
If you don't trust anyone but yourself, you'll have to do the audit yourself. How do you suggest to do that? An auditor with a good track record seems like the most trustworthy practically feasible alternative to me.
I don’t think your feasible alternative is assessing the massively skewed information asymmetry at play.
Given you are the most successful computer company on the planet, and the entire planet is connected by your products within two degrees of separation in a network; then the only thing you gain is a loss as any auditor is in a position of being unmatched in every category at best and at worst is an active agent who will dissipate information increasing vulnerability and attack surface.
Bug bounties work well to solve this, and that’s how it’s done.
Having your fascist enforcers “monitor” the election, helping elderly people to the voting booths and “helping” them to vote correctly all seem to be indicators that the election is fishy.
And even then, the fascist party didn’t even get a majority…
