The problem comes in when they happily accept a few excess deaths every year rather than the tiny risk of many deaths, even when the former adds up to more than the latter.

Actually, they will have some ability to decide when to generate the power. For example, if none is needed at the start of high tide they can close the gates. Then as demand grows they can open them wide. Presuming sufficiently large gates, they could do that and still capture maximum power for that cycle.

Same holds true as the tide goes out.

Since the energy input is free and never ending, they just need to do a cost/benefit analysis. If the storage is more expensive than the potential energy gains, they can just let some of the water flow freely.

When was that part of SV culture? Even if you go back to the old-school SV firms, they were pretty negative on telecommuting, and ran regular offices. What era and kind of company do you have in mind? If you go back to the '60s-'90s even, Silicon Valley companies like Intel, Sun, Apple, SGI, Oracle, etc. required regular office time. You could certainly shift your schedule at many of them (e.g. come in at 10am, not 8am, as long as you stay late too), but you couldn't work from home, or get away with less than 40+ hours in the office (often 50+).

From a monetary, stock-price perspective, at the moment the main value in Yahoo is that they own a significant stake in Alibaba, a huge Chinese conglomerate. Their stake in Alibaba at current prices is worth about $34 billion, and Yahoo's current market cap is ~$40 billion. Even assuming a discount on their Alibaba stake due to some overhead that would be involved in unwinding it, it still represents more than half of Yahoo's stock value.

It sounds like this is just something they're going to use for product testing. Or if you can buy it you'll find a bare bones service at a higher price point.

This. The wave particle duality is the whole point of the double slit experiment, and it is mindblowing when you go down the path that led up to that experiment.

Swipe left on the songs to bring up the delete button. Be careful not to do this on a song that is currently playing or it can get stuck on your phone.

The summary says 3G only on the x3 and x5 models. You only get LTE on the x7 model.

Is it common to make new chips that only support 3G now? Being HSPA+ also means they won't work for Verizon/Sprint or anyone else who zagged when the world zigged. I'm guessing those are intended for light use appliances? E-Readers level of downloading maybe? It just feels weird that they wouldn't squeeze in the LTE modem while they're at it. I guess maybe Intel built these to budget and simply ran out of silicon? Are they going to be like the early generation GMA adapters that were just total crap and were only there because Intel had a little extra silicon available on each chip?

It's probably using some existing outbreak model and imputing parameters for a particular kind of "zombie". Most of these "scientific zombie studies" are thinly veiled pandemic modeling scenarios.

Generally either PEW PEW PEW, or the Star Trek phaser sound, I'm sure.

By taking this action, the FCC is preventing the state governments from restricting my ability to communicate with the world. That restriction is in the form of picking a winner in the market and so making internet service more expensive and/or preventing me from joining with other local people to build out a network and connect it across the state line.

The FCC is in no way stopping or preventing me from interstate commerce through this intervention.

From the announcement (bold mine):

Attention freedeskto.org: Commit that to memory, brand it on your foreheads, tattoo it on each other's butt cheeks, whatever it takes!

I'm pretty sure that's the management.