Back in the very old days when I had a software company, we wrote detailed functional specs and used these as the basis for the documentation. It's much easier to go from a good functional spec to documentation than start from scratch. It's also a good test of whether or not the software works as intended.
I don't know if people still do that. It seems most software these days either copies some other product exactly or it's just the whim of the programmer.

I hate to break it to you but Tesla has its head office, design center and factory in California.
SpaceX (another Musk venture) is also in California... not to mention that little company he sold a few years ago, PayPal.
It seems that Musk is already heavily committed to California even if the battery factory goes elsewhere (Reno, Nevada is looking like a good option since they have already done site prep work there).

Incompetence is never good.
Incompetence in collecting and acting on information just means that the wrong people will be targeted and the "bad guys" will be missed.
A powerful, secretive, incompetent organization is the worst of all possible worlds.

Most people put a plastic protector on their iPhones because metal gets permanent dents and the glass front and backs of iPhones break easily. The result is just like the plastic phones from everyone else.

Yeah... why not something without "rounded corners" and a screen?
Perhaps they could make it like a pill you swallow and then press on your stomach to make calls?

If you're not totally clueless, you can turn these off. My phone even offers an easy way to turn them off with every alert.
Severe weather is not "rain". Severe weather is something like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... where you might want to have an alert if you value your life.

This one looks like it's more complete (includes headset)... plus, it seems to be cheaper.
Not sure about how "open" it is, though.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

The Cleveland toxic algae bloom was due to farm phosphorous runoff. It seems that the restrictions on phosphorous in laundry detergent worked for a while but the farmers found a way around the regulations and dumped too much shit (literally) into the lake.
Clearly a need for more government regulation. I don't think the "free market" can take care of this...

Corporations have "captured" the government. They have discovered that by "investing" a relatively small amount of money in politicians, they can gain a high return in getting laws and regulations passed with protect their monopolies, enabling them to charge high rent.
This takes place in most (?all) governments but the dollar amount of this return on investment in the US is probably the highest or any country in the world.

I'm installing solar this month.
The ROI calculators show a first year 7% ROI (of course, this will increase as electricity prices increase).
It's hard to find another investment which will give me 7% return on my investment and where the return will increase by 3-5% per year for the next 25 years.
This is a no-brainer.

Except for the nuclear waste which is sitting in pools on site or in casks waiting to be trucked to some future disposal site which in spite of lots of money being spent still don't function.

Nuclear is dying because it is just too expensive... not from FUD. Even if there was no opposition from environmentalists or fear in the general population, people wouldn't invest in nuclear power.
New nuclear plants cost about $10,000 / kw and their appears to be a negative learning curve so they get more expensive over time.
Solar and wind plants cost less than half that and are getting much cheaper very quickly... plus free "fuel" for the life of the plant and minimal decommissioning costs.
Add in nuclear fuel costs and decommissioning costs and the occasional $500 billion disaster (covered by federal insurance - ie. taxpayers) and nuclear is just too expensive.

Yes, Yellow Fever was also a big problem. It's hard to argue which was "worse". The mosquito control programs targeted both. Yellow Fever was eradicated early on but malaria continued throughout the canal building (and continues to be a problem today).

The Supreme Court is dominated by a bunch of fanatic right wing corporate toadies.
So, the decision comes down in favor of corporations (on economic issues) or social conservatives (on social issues).
The Constitution has nothing to do with it.
The Supreme Court is the ultimate cheerleader for our fascist state.

The early construction of the canal was greatly hampered by malaria. The final success of the canal was really only possible once malaria was controlled. From the CDC website:
"The result of this malaria program was eradication of yellow fever and a dramatic decrease in malaria deaths. The death rate due to malaria in employees dropped from 11.59 per 1,000 in November 1906 to 1.23 per 1,000 in December 1909. It reduced the deaths from malaria in the total population from a maximum of 16.21 per 1,000 in July 1906 to 2.58 per 1,000 in December 1909."
"The Panama Canal was the construction miracle of the beginning of the 20th century. It also was a great demonstration of malaria control based on an integrated mosquito control program enforced by the military. Malaria was not eliminated. However, under these most trying conditions, the disease was controlled to the extent that the construction work could be completed."