What you're saying makes sense, but I've found it incredibly difficult to sleep on the plane reliably. Usually I'll get an hour or two out of a seven hour flight after some heavy trying and back and forth, but that's it. I've been pondering some sleeping aids to get that sorted, even though I don't like the idea so much when I travel alone.

You're saying that as though it's inevitable. It's not.

Sure! Build lots and lots of solar plants in Africa, where there's a lot of sun and unused land. Middle East would work as well, and perhaps parts of Spain.

In Germany though? Wind and hydro would most likely be a lot more cost efficient, unless you want to float balloons above the clouds with arrays of panels attached.

Um, actually, you can? It means that, in 1942, 20% slept six hours or less. Today, that's 40%. Perhaps you haven't slept enough?

That's amusing, implying the Democrats are socialist. You guys in the US have this big boogeyman in the socialist policy (still stuck in cold war thinking perhaps?), but you haven't even seen what it actually is like. Your left-wing parties and ideas are every other country's right-wing.

If the attacker has access to the financial details used by the company to pay for the hosting, which is generally how you can authenticate people safely, you have much bigger problems.

If the Fiat EV is any indication, the American motor companies only want to make an EV to prove that the tech is doomed to fail so they can get the govt off their backs. Collaborating on creating a viable standard for charging or increasing battery capacity would go against that.

I may be wrong, but that quote sounds like they're saying DRAM/Flash hasn't been able to keep up with the amount/size of data. The Word example's not the greatest, but in many computational fields you'll need hundreds of gigabytes of data to fit in RAM, which can get rather complicated.

Wait, in essence you're saying that by leveraging single-precision (which is still three times faster than double-precision even for Nvidia's compute cards) computations, libraries have been able to increase performance without compromising the quality of the results. How is that a bad thing, or people "getting screwed with"?

Um, no, if Nvidia didn't want that, they wouldn't give the Titans full double-precision performance in the first place. I'm thinking that aside from getting a few sales from overenthusiastic gamers, their main motivation for marketing this as a gaming card is so their compute customers don't stop buying Teslas.

My bank even has an online system for sending a travel notice. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case for many other banks, look it up!

Yeah, this isn't Haswell-E just yet. As far as I know, that will build upon Devil's Canyon and go up to 8 cores on a single chip, with HyperThreading of course. It should also come with a new platform, chipset and socket to support DDR4 and SATAe. Personally, that's the jump I'm really looking forward to: Intel's first 8-core desktop chip.

To distress my enemies, I'd serve them all of the above, at the same time, of course! I know it's cruel, but... they're my enemies, after all.

This.

Self-driving cars would open up an entire new kind of public transportation. Instead of having large buses which are only ever used at capacity for very small time slots and which must follow pre-planned routes that are almost invariably inefficient for the users of said buses, you could have extremely granular transit where people could just enter their desired destination and time, and they'd get processed into the network of self-driving cars for the most efficient route possible. Minimal time lost, minimal fuel usage (if the car's not used, it just parks instead of looping like a bus), almost-ideal saturation, precise start and end points.

As it is now, I'm taking the bus and it's taking between 25 and 75% longer than by car. Moreover, I still have to drive to the bus stop because it's much too far to walk and connections are hilariously bad (think adding an hour for what's a 5 minutes ride because of mismatched departure times). Public transportation based on self-driving cars would mean I'd be able not to own a car at all while being nearly as fast as if I had one. You'd see a much faster adoption if public transit worked that way.

That's quite simple to answer though... Are the children being harmed or stifled in their choice to pursue the career they want? If so, we should definitely help them. The situations the GP describes are completely inexcusable. A child shouldn't be the target of ridicule or physical harm for wanting to be good at school. If the Asians make their children work harder by beating them, put a stop to it. If they repeatedly force them down a path that makes them unhappy, put a stop to it. If they're just fostering a culture of excellence, regardless of the subject, then I don't see a reason to do anything.

There's a point where one needs to acknowledge that some cultures are much worse off than others.