3D-print it at home.

Lesson: the US government should be doing far more investment in firms like Solyndra, to catch up with the Chinese government.

Right, because if you aren't talking about global warming, you won't breathe either!

Let's get away from the bus paradigm altogether. Use small (self-driving) vehicles to move people, instead of large buses. Small vehicles are more flexible and don't clog up traffic as much. They can be disinfected easily between uses by providing wipes or a spray for each new patron to clean the surfaces with.

Instead of a single bus driving around picking people up and dropping them off, have stands with small electric vehicles for individuals. Instead of waiting for a bus, you go to a stand and check out a vehicle and drive it to where you want. Or it drives itself. With self-driving electric vehicles, you could keep all the stands in supply.

Pretty sure those runaways were caused by morons who put their floormats over the accelerator, not software.

Newton's mechanics can't build a GPS. Things we use everyday use physics Newton's alone can't predict or preduce.

What about mirror neurons? The brain can act on the story, producing an effect that feels the same as actually dropping a ball on your foot.

Take a placebo for asthma, then actually take asthma. Studies show that the perceived effect is the same. Thus, if you believe in it enough, your brain can fool you into believing any model.

Next program those models in holodecks, and you can actually experience a ball falling on your foot, when you're only "reading" a holonovel.

So does that mean that "Oh, really?" could also have been answered "yes", thereby disproving the statement that any headline question can be answered with "no"; or is the "no" denying the truth of the original assertion.

Xerox PARC didn't break even. But it contributed interfaces still in use.

Why does capitalism reward leaches so lucratively?

The idea of an ongoing struggle between results-oriented managers and technical visionaries is not new. Economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen noted it in his 1904 book The Theory of Business Enterprise.1 Eighty-some years later, John Kenneth Galbraith cited Veblen's view to describe a dynamic still at work in a more modern economy:

"The businessmen, for good or ill, keep the talents and tendencies of the scientists and engineers under control and suppress them as necessary in order to maintain prices and maximize profits. From this view of the business firm, in turn, comes an obvious conclusion: somehow release those who are technically and imaginatively proficient from the restraints imposed by the business system and there will be unprecedented productivity and wealth in the economy."

From Bridging the Gap Between Stewards and Creators.

Great example of the perverse incentives of capitalism. Selling provides a higher return than investing in technical innovation.

Cryptocurrencies in their current incarnation are so stupid because they suck power needlessly, to create something of psychological value only because it is scarce. They are increasing scarcity of power, to create a psychological unit assigned a psychological value because it is scarce. It doesn't make sense, not economically, physically, scientifically.

The only way bitcoin makes sense is psychologically, and the psychology is a sociopathic, "I got mine Jack keep your hands off my stack" pathology. It is creating a number and calling it valuable, and taking up energy for this psychological money creation exercise.

It would be a little better if they were actually advancing knowledge with their mining operations. Make it like SETI@home, have it do some processing that helps us know more about the universe.

We produce a huge food surplus. There is no opportunity cost.

The capital investment can be volunteered, or supplied by government which can finance spending at zero cost by borrowing from the Fed, which returns interest to the Treasury and can keep the loans rolling over forever.

Wikipedia required a capital investment, but effectively its articles are being handed out for free. Why not robots?