True, but you could buy some shares in your community solar garden. It's not like the photons have to be gathered from your own roof; the solar panels only need to be sufficiently nearby that transporting the electrons to you is economical.

Did you know that cynicism has been linked to dementia? You might want to get yourself examined by a doctor; your symptoms are rather severe.

Prototype, people, it's a prototype.

I'm all for alien-crushing super-robot strength too, just not while the software is still in beta :^)

Well, the obvious thing to do would be to recycle them.

We aren't doing much of that yet, because there aren't enough worn-out solar panels yet to make it worthwhile. In 20-25 years, when large numbers of panels start reaching end-of-life, there will be.

The other thing to do, of course, is to start making solar panels using fewer toxic materials. Also a laudable and attainable goal, which will be reached in due course.

Custom hardware gives it the ability to communicate using body language.

Whether that's worth the extra cost, I don't know; probably not. But it does make it more interesting than "just another app".

HHGTTG was a manual.

But that was never the intent of a carbon tax, was it? It's not a reparations program.

The purpose of a carbon tax is to make carbon emitting-technologies more expensive, so that the market will be encouraged to find alternatives that emit less carbon.

Without that, it's difficult for alternative technologies to get a foothold in the market, as they are forced to compete with carbon-based technologies that are allowed to pollute "for free", thus neutralizing (from a monetary perspective) the advantage of the non-polluting technologies.

Here they are. The solar industry of the USA now employs more people than the coal industry of the USA.

Funny how you weren't aware of that fact, isn't it? It's almost as if your media sources chose not to mention it, because it doesn't fit their narrative.

Or, they succeed, but the right-wing media bubble pretends not not notice. Cherry-picking reality might help them keep their market share in the short run, but as time goes on more and more people will realize they're full of shit.

If the price of a new car was $180M, I would definitely stick with my trusty 70s car.

How did Southwest find out about this tweet?

Do they have a team of people sitting around watching a Twitter feed, so that if anyone mentions Southwest they can pounce?

If so, good job guys! You really saved the day here. SWA stock is going to go up tomorrow for sure! :^)

My intuition tells me that this would cause the codebase to become an incomprehensible mess over time, as it would not have any consistent organizing principles to speak of. Is my intuition correct, or is that not generally a problem in practice?

Too true, and I'm not sure what the compensating benefit is. There are situations where anonymity can be beneficial, but a social/gaming arena is not one of them. Why allow anonymity if it only encourages people to act like irresponsible douchebags?

A half-serious solution for a gaming platform that wants to reduce the douchebag problem: make all gamers register under their real name, and record all of their in-game communications in a searchable database that the world (including present and future employers) can Google. That ought to clean at least some of them up.

Yes. When they compared their measurements against the measurements they gathered from the people they didn't measure, they took that bias into account.

:^P

Nobody would, except perhaps for those with inadequate Internet bandwidth.

However, for a large number of movies you can't currently "access the data instantly online" (at least, not via Netflix). Netflix's primary focus should be on getting their streaming catalog to match their DVD catalog.

Have you ever tried to reason with a 3-year old? There are times when the "Argument from Because I Said So" is literally the only option left. Finer points of logic are completely lost on a person with an undeveloped frontal lobe who is in the middle of a temper tantrum.