but that would lessen the power employers have over their employees, the rich cant have that.

The Virtuix Omni is a gimmick that is trying to ride the coattails of the Oculus Rifts success. Dont let cheesy crap like this distract from the Oculus. Really the only addon I can see being actually useful for the Rift would be positional controls, like the STEM. But even thats in doubt if Oculus vr release positional controls of their own beside the release of the consumer rift.

you dont have a clue how orbital physics works do you.

They got rid of most of the stupid shit in SC1 for SC2, the pointless micro, and that stupid fucking 12 unit limit. using a imposed UI deficiency to shape how the game is played is fucking criminal. now most of the micro has a tactical reason. choosing the right point to stim, laying down good force fields, etc. fuck the "micro feel" of SC1.

Does it predict any room temperature superconductors?

i like how you used the word 'cultural' in place of 'all this newfangled tech is scaring the olds, slow down a bit dagnammit'

yeah, but 39 inch computer monitor with smaller pixels than my current monitor? hell yeah!

combustion engine cars convert 15% of the chemical energy in their fuel into forward motion. The tesla gets 88% of the energy in its batteries in foward motion. Sure, theres efficiency losses in electricity transmission from a power station to a car charging point, but electric opens up the possibility of using alternative energy sources, like festooning your roof with solar panels and charging with those. the tesla uses energy over 4x more efficiently, from more sources, and you say that dosent change anything? Your wrong, and you should stick to 'summarizing' things you know something about. and we care about his opinion because he heads a successful electric car company. pretty fucking relevant if you ask me. more relevant than your opinion.

ok, firstly, that "80% efficiency when it provides both heat and power" is a copout. any engine can be 100% efficient when you classify usable energy output as both heat and electricity. i wanna know the efficiency of the electricity production.
secondly, how long is the lifetime of the unit? how much fuel can it process before the catalyst or membrane or whatever wears out? and how expensive is the catalyst? is it still made out of freaking platinum?
thirdly, can this thing be used in vehicles? planes? cause thats the real application of something like this.

welcome to science journalism. so many wonderful promises, unfufilled

what he should do, is point that tube up the side of a mountain, load a falcon 9 or falcon 1 variant into it, shoot it out the top at about mach 5-6 in the thin mountaintop air, and have a reusable single stage to orbit linear accelerator assisted rocket launch. but then, maybe this is part of his plan to get something developed along those lines.

Id sure like to know how you can drop out of the "quitting cold turkey program" and thusly not be counted in the study. then you might have a fair comparison of AA with the baseline of quitting cold turkey. And your analogy with a chemo study is disingenuous, it would be a fair comparison if all the people with really bad cancer self selected to drop out of the trial, inflating the chemo success rates over a control group baseline, just as all the people who went back to drinking self selected to not go through a humiliating and somewhat public admission of failure at a AA meeting and dropped out of the program instead, inflating the AA success rate over a control group baseline.

this article cites a few studies on dopamine receptors and fucking brain waves, and tries to link those with 12 step programs, does a bad job of it, and does not cite any study of the actual success rate of AA vs quitting cold turkey. Probably because those studies show that AA has at best, no effect on relapse rates for addiction. and AA isnt grassroots. its sneaky religious indoctrination that judges can order alcoholics to attend in lieu of time in jail. and thats probably unconstitutional.

it seems what is needed is something like the english system, where the loser pays the legal costs of the winner.

It would have been funnier if it dropped 8.1%