Really try it there. You try Antarctica but solar would not work well at the poles. It would be cheaper to build in the Andean Plateau If things went wrong you can open it up to normal air and not kill a bunch of people and work out the bugs. Think if it as BioSphere 3. Biosphere 2 taught us that we did not know how to make a biosphere so time to try again.

Not if you are doing video production. You may need to keep hours and hours of video stored. It really does depend on what you need to do. My wife has many TBs of digital photos and other images because she does digital scrapbooking and everyone uses no less than 300dpi for everything as well as 12"x12" pages. 4TB worth of SSDs would be a bit expensive.
Even a lot of gamers still add a spinning plater to keep part of their game library.

Not always the dual Xeon can handle a lot more ram so if you are using it for VMs it can be an advantage. However, Eypc is the real competition in that space.

I agree but good grief I miss the days of editorial control. I hardly come to slashdot anymore because of all the politics and the crazies. I am not a fan of even allowing ACs to post. The arguments about pro-democracy protesters and whistleblowers on Slashdot just do not hold a lot of water since I have never seen one or the other on Slashdot unless you count the GW is satan or Obama is going to look up patriots in old Walmarts as whistleblowing. I just count them as jerks.
Where Instagram and Facebook may be falling down is in protecting people from being scammed. It is all oh so easy for people to insult the anti-vax parents but that really shows a lack of understanding and compassion.
If you have a child with autism the amount of guilt is overwhelming. You have two choices. It was environmental which means you did something to harm your child or genetics which means something in you harmed your child. And yes I know and understand that you can not control your genetics. At that point, it is so much easier to believe that some evil corporation tricked you into harming your own child than to live with that guilt. Before you go off thinking how much smarter you are then those parents the truth is that you probably do not have the depth of knowledge to actually look at all the data and know for yourself that it is true. You just happen to trust the CDC and the majority of doctors. BTW trusting people that are experts is usually a good thing,
But add in the fact that we still do not know exactly what causes Autism combined with people that should no better coming up with techno mumbo jumbo that sounds like they know something and it should be understandable how some people would buy into.

The issue is that the villains and boy these are the villains are the SOBs that are getting rich writing books doing speaking tours spreading the anti-vax crap. The parents are just victims. They are not stupid, they are simply mislead and if you look at their motivations they are really just to protect other children. They are wrong but they are not stupid or evil. The SOBs that write the books and make money off of it are the true super villians and I for one would like them go away. But the hate, anger, and insults toward anti-vaxer parents is just wrong. I will not change anyones mind and frankly just makes the them vs us attitude more entrenched. It is almost like people do it just so they can feel better about themselves by looking down on others.

So with that being does Facebook have an obligation to stop the spread of miss information about vaccinations? Do they have an obligation to stop the spread of misinformation about Nuclear power like the Chernobyl movie/mini series? How about all the other crap memes that people spread?

The Melbourne/Palm Bay/Cocoa area of Florida is not listed. I can tell you that there is a lot of tech jobs in that area. You have large facilities for Northrup Gurman, Space X, Blue Origin, Rockwell Collins, Thales, and it is the headquarters for L3Harris. My company will pay me a 10,000 bonus for recruiting someone. Cost of living is cheap with a nice home running about 250,000 but you can find a condo or a fixer-upper for under 100,000 and some decent homes in the 150,000 range. I left out NASA as an employer as well as many other companies in the area. The skills most people want are c and c++.
A college grade will start at about 70+ for an SE. if you have the experience you will make a lot more. You also get clean air, water, beaches, and nowhere near the traffic of say Atlanta.

So a good bit of the cost and complexity are emission control related. To meet tier 4 you need urea injection and egr which really adds to the complexity.

Do tractors have to meet emissions? If so that could be the reason for some of the complexity. Older Tractors are probably exempt. In the trucking industry, they get around that with what they call gliders. They are new trucks but with old rebuilt engines. The rules are that the engine and transmission are the year of the truck for emissions. If that is the issue then maybe a system like that would work for tractors. You just get older tractors and rebuild them and offer a warranty. But then you have the ethical question are you then avoiding emissions controls and making pollution worse and actually hurting people. Another option would be to convert them to use natural gas as it burns a lot cleaner, is cheap and produces less CO2 per unit of energy than most other fuels. Maybe electric is a possibility if the costs can be driven down and the range issue would not exist. I have not done the math or any studies but I am sure that someone will at some point.

First of all the optional two free years would be state schools like a local college/community college, not Georgetown. The classes you are talking about would be electives. I really have no problem with an elective that covers music, different cultures, or even science fiction. It reminds me of a discussion I had with my father. He mentioned that he did not understand why like liked science fiction when I was a kid and thought that I would have grown out of it by now. I reminded him that I work for a company that builds robots and parts of spacecraft. Yes, you would need to take core courses but you would also have some electives available. I would also like to see tech/vocational classes as an option as well. It would need to worked out so people do not just keep getting Ds and sucking up resources. You pick a program and you follow it. I think that the benefits to the US economy would more than pay for such a program. I would also like to see more High School classes count for college credit. If you take Calc in High School you may not want it to count as a college Calc class but it should count for at least College Algebra or pre Calc.
Thanks for taking a look at my blog. Work plus I am back in college have really taken up a lot of time so I have really let it slid for a while. It is never going to be anything super popular but it is practice at writing for me and it may be of interest to someone.

I am in a city of over 200,000 and I get one network, two Spanish channels, two religious channels, and a few that only seem to run Judge Judy. It all depends on where you are located. I get along fine with just one network but I do miss Turner Movie Classics.
The Millenniums I deal with are all software or electrical engineers and some are still worried about student loans.
As to your question education is education but the costs are just too high. I would like to see at least an AA or some technical training available as part of public education. People need more education that is obvious today. Anti-Vaxx, Climate Change Deniers, solar and wind can replace all baseload and peaking generation true believers.
So I am all for education. I am not for universal forgiveness for student loans but 15 years of public schooling vs the current 13 I am good with.

You do not have to have electricity, indoor plumbing, or air conditioning but you really do need them. The same is true for the internet and cable tv. You do not have to buy every channel but in many locations, you can have cable or no tv. If you want at least network news then you need to have cable.
I frankly do not think that most young people today are whining about these things at least not the ones I work with.They mainly are not fond of student loans and health care costs.

Technically once they added maneuvering RVs they were no longer ballistic. ICBM is less of an acronym now than a classification. I for one still get cranky when they call SLBMs ICBMs.

Wow what a mega jerk.
I was using those as an example of what people have to pay for today vs when the boomers where young. I am not whining about anything; I am a gen X er anyway. But do provide a good example of the problem with people being judgmental and tribal. You do not have a tablet? Really they are handy and I paid all of about 50 bucks for mine.
I did not say pay for top-tiered cable or internet but thanks for making up things to make you feel better.
You have a pile of money. Well good for you. Who cares.

Well if the boomer was a white male yes you are correct. If he was a minority or a she not so much. I am also not so sure about that. Where I work I work with a lot of millennials. they are all making 70k a year a few are buying their first home just two or three years out of college. They work hard, invest, and are doing well. I even worked with an intern and he took a job offer from my income and will start this June when he graduates. If you think 70k is not a lot of money I would disagree since in my area a home is between 160,00 and 220,000 for a 3/2 and a bit less for a condo. It is not far from the beach and is home to a lot of tech companies. Yes, it is not California, Washington, or even Austin but those locations are crazy expensive and eventually, companies will build more campuses in lower-cost areas.
There are more than a few problems. One is you are not going to make a good living doing unskilled labor any longer. The second is a lack of vocational training. The idea that every kid needs to go to college was a bad idea. Plumbers, electricians and so on make good money without a degree.
One advantage may have been the draft. If you did not do well enough in school to go to college you got drafted. Back at that time the military had a lot of manpower and did not farm work to contractors as much. You got drafted and if you had some brains you ended up learning mechanics, electronics or even how to cook. If you did not want to get drafted you worked hard in college and picked a subject in math, the sciences, or education. Also after you got out after being drafted you had the GI bill for education and for getting a home loan.
You have X amount of opportunity and you now have people of color and women competing on a more even basis. More people competing for x jobs means it is harder to make as much in that market. We are lucky that some new jobs are opening up in new areas but they require more education than working on an assembly line.
Second of all my parents who were just before the boomers but close enough and I am the first year of Gen X. just for the record did have a lot less to spend money on than we do today. They did not have cell phones, Only two TVs one in the family room and one in the living room and no computers when I was a small kid. Video games? nope. Music subscriptions? Nope, we had a few records and radio. All those things were not available to mere mortals in the late 60s early 70s.
So you have better opportunities for minorities. A far larger selection of entertainment. Easy access to both data and a mindnumbing amount of computer power for next to nothing. You have a larger selection of different foods and cultures. I often wonder if a lot of millennials' viewpoint is distorted by an idealistic view of that period that tv shows of the time and later showed as well the visibility of the well to do boomers of today. You do not see all the older minorities that died young or are living in extreme poverty today. And before you jump to blame the Boomers for that it was the Boomers that started the changes to make those things better. The boomers did not have it all that easy. You are not facing a daft. You are not living with the threat of nuclear war hanging over your head every day. Yes I know we still have nukes and still need to worry but not like they did in the 1950s. You do not need to worry about Pollo unless the anti vaxers keep going. Technology keeps getting better new types of fission reactors could solve many of the problems of power generation. Fusion may actually become practical soon. Medicine is getter better if not cheaper. You only see the problems of today and only the good things of the past. That is just human nature but it was not as good in the past you think it was and the boomers did not have it as easy as you think. Today is also not as bad as you think it is. So much good is going on but fear sells and is fear and anger are great tools to use to manipulate the masses. And yes I mean both sides us it with abandon.
Of course, the flip side is also not true. It is easy to see the idiot millennials and think all millennials are like that. And yes millennials are young and even many of the educated ones are fast to jump to conclusions anger and meme mentality. They lack experience and wisdom because they are young but that will change for some of them. I like a few millennials, find the vast majority somewhat disappointing, and find a few really tick me off. Pretty much like every group on the planet.
Have a good New Year and try got get a bit more historical perspective. I also suggest you look at all the good that has happened since the 1950s and thank the boomers. Also rember that the president that signed the EPA charter and the Clean water act was no other then Nixion.

You are not being completely fair.
Yes when I was a small kid we had two tvs on in the living room and one in the family room. We also had a record player and a few radios. No computers, vcrs, DVDs, or anything else like that because they were not around yet. TVs may not last as long but they are much cheaper and more reliable. Same with cars they are safer and lost much longer than they used too. But my parents also did not have to buy and pay for cell phones, tablets, internet, netfilx, cable and so on.

No it is not.