Yeah, when did Slashdot become a craven press agent?

Famous for sockpuppeting his own online threads.

Scott Greenfield adds some valuable additional commentary. The horror! He had to drop out of a "small private liberal arts college" and suffer the indignity of attending a public university. And this in an era when tuition was vastly lower than it is now.

I have a fair amount of sympathy for modern college students and graduates who are subsidizing a bonanza of administrators with no attendant benefit to themselves. But for Siegel to set himself up as one with such people is deeply deceitful. He wears his deadbeat status as a badge of honor.

There just isn't enough lithium in the world to supply Tesla batteries to every US household, let alone the world.

Worrying about low-voltage appliances is delusional.

I suspect you have a very high correction. My corrections are +1.50 and +1.75 or thereabouts, and I have had progressive lenses for years. They work fine without the problems you describe. My wife, however, has corrections of around +8.0 in both eyes and could never make a go of progressive lenses for the reasons you state. Eventually, she decided on Lasik surgery, which has unfortunately not really gone well -- we're over six months out from the initial surgery and she still needs glasses. She's one of the 1% or so for whom it does not work on the first try.

Good luck.

I would very much like to know the racial makeup of that list. Given it came from the police themselves, it certainly leads to questions about how such individuals end up on those lists.

Yes, this.

I will say that it's probably true that "women are taught to" tropes are truer than "men are taught to" ones.

between now and when she enters college.

Sorry, the MUST BE WHAT I WANT FOR HER panic among many groups -- including a disturbing number here -- is not going to change her preferences and aptitudes.

Maybe the handwaviest hand wave in the history of Slashdot. The author of the introductory text claims McDonald's didn't make the change in response to increasing minimum wage levels, but what is their evidence for this? Citing, for example, banks and ATMs is hardly convincing, because bank tellers are not minimum wage employees.

I can't think how that would possibly go wrong.

As others have mentioned, "creative problem solving" is not exactly a skill set that is developed in the military, but it is absolutely crucial to software development and IT generally.

"universal connection without universal consumption." Bwa. Seriously, you don't think you consume electricity at night? If so, then just go off grid. Air gap between you and the grid.

It's like saying, "prove it".

I await the first court cases showing harm caused by these fairy tales.

Externalities are a bill to which any amount may be assigned.

Pay solar at wholesale rates, or, make grid interconnect a separate fee, and charge them for that. Solar advocates, of course, can't stand the idea they should actually have to pay for the delivery of goods and services, even if it costs them a measely five bucks a month.

The newly adopted fee would translate into approximately $5 for the average homeowner with a solar power installation.

I would be willing to bet that the apportioned capital cost of power plants, maintenance, and distribution alone would amount to a third of a typical power bill.

he means "make panicked decisions retarding business formation while entrenching early adopters".

Wow, so we have quotas for Apple employees.

How about if we have quotas for awesome products?