We just shifted to a 4-day/10hr workweek in February. I hate getting up at 6:30am, but I love having 3-day weekends - enough that when I had a chance to switch back, I didn't.

To some extent, I think the federal $300/wk supplemental unemployment payout is providing a partial experiment in UBI.

That would cause me to return the TV immediately.

It looks like that, but they do seem to be able to get around it eventually...

I can see that controversy coming here some day as the cute little robots running around OSU do sometimes rather plug up the sidewalk - I've seen a half a dozen in a clump sometimes, several times a couple of them face-to-face figuring out how to get past each other ;-) They are very popular though, as I always see them (anywhere from 2-8, usually 4ish of them) running around delivering food when I drive through campus.

$100 million and up is hardly what I'd call a "small business"...

Been watching British shows for many years (Doctor Who, Misfits, Shameless), and more recently Australian (Tomorrow People, Spellbinder, Sea Patrol), Columbian (Sempre Bruja), Spanish (Elite), Korean (Cinderella and the Four Knights). Always subtitled non-english shows, as voice dubbing is nearly always really awful.

"a top speed of 200 mph and a range of over 520 miles" - just not at the same time...

...humans are narcissistic, it's all about us.

Seems to me all too many things, particularly websites, fetch things from third parties on the fly, making them susceptible to compromise by things they have given up control over, whether it be security or gratuitous changes. Keeping the things you know work local will make things much more stable.

That's not what I said, but I'm not going to argue - let's just say it's what I want out of autopilot until it's good enough that I can read or go to sleep using it, no matter the weather or traffic conditions, which I'm not expecting in my lifetime (being an old fart).

I'm planning on getting a Model Y at the end of Feb when the lease on my Leaf runs out. I was going to get the full self driving add on ($8k on the Model Y), but looked at what you get with it, and I just wouldn't use any of it other than to play with as a toy. Summon, Auto Lane Change and Autopark are cute, but even if they actually work reliably, they aren't really all that useful. The end-to-end navigation is what people think of, but the basic autopilot gets you 90% of that with the active cruise control and Autosteer. But then I actually enjoy driving too.

...they're still a monopoly for their primary platform style. Instead, they should be required to implement an open standard interface to interact with other providers.

Virtually no one needs that kind of speed; we have a small data center that only uses a few hundred megabits. It's become a marketing ploy to be able to advertise big numbers and little else.

I've been doing the take out thing as well; not looking forward to adding up the total for this year, but I can afford it better than the staff can afford getting laid off...