In my opinion concentrated solar will continue to lose out, it's raison d'etre is the high price of PV cells ... but the concentrators themselves are never cheap, generally require tracking and can't efficiently handle diffuse light.

TressFX actually is open source though.

Mantle is the interesting one, we don't actually know if NVIDIA can see the source code of the EA games which support it (and for AAA games source code access is a lot more common than NVIDIA pretends, the big games get onsite devrel which doesn't make a whole lot of sense without source code access). You would think NVIDIA would be using it as an argument if they couldn't ...

In the end most people will still use anything but LISP.

Why steal all that shit when they can just own your computer with some zero day and wait for you to go to the bathroom?

Give each employee who teleworks a dedicated computer with hardware VLAN which he is only allowed to use on that VLAN (ie. no USB ports, no internet, no nothing ... if he wants to copy/paste something to it from another source sysadmins have to get involved).

It's the only reasonable way to allow telework on systems like this ... if you want to BYOD for that you should be redirected to the unemployment office.

Why do you say "the" database? They at the very least need 2 already. IMO payment data and logins need to be behind narrow firewalls with very limited pure socket (ie. not database) interfaces to the outside (why open yourself up to flaws in the database interfaces when you only need trivial queries?). Might as well split those up into two while you're at it.

"What if people don't want to buy the more fuel efficient cars?"

No problem, but they will lose the subsidies on the more fuel efficient cars. CAFE was originally not about carbon emissions by the way, it was implemented after the Arab oil embargo.

There is no inherent reason to believe that synthetic fuel from electricity will be cheaper than aluminium or zinc air batteries (potentially mechanically recharged if we can't figure out a good electrolyte for rechargeable batteries). Lithium is not the only game in town, but it's the one for which most of the claimstaking patents have run out ... it will take a decade or so for the same to happen to other chemistries suitable to car and grid batteries.

For synthetic fuel you first have to go from electricity to methane and then from methane to liquid, all to just throw it in an ICE again ... that's a lot of round trip losses, makes sense to keep the old fleet running but I doubt it makes sense in the long run.

Not too different from jobs I've had in the past ... not ones I relish, but then there are lots of jobs in this world I don't relish ... but not a lot I wouldn't do when broke and with few options.

Did I suggest it should be done by slave labour?

75%.

There is no shortage of arable land in the US, also it doesn't take a whole lot of a reduction in meat consumption to make up the difference. IMO each country in the world has it's own responsibility, also one to provide temporary assistance to other countries ... but not to enable them in self-destructive behaviour.

Mankind as a hole has to stop breeding itself into a fucking pit eventually ... overpopulation of the world is not a good argument to persist in factory farming, it's an argument for birth control. We are already running out of antibiotics ... we'll run out of all magic bullet Xticides eventually.

It notes that the NOP allows it's use (which admittedly is relevant for imported food). The EPA won't certify it for any agricultural use though and it has been phased out in the EU as well. So at least the hippies who buy at the farmers market won't eat vegetables sprayed with Rotenon (unless the farmer broke the law).

PS. I don't buy organic food, but I'm starting to get allergic reactions to fruits and vegetables which I never had trouble with in the past (and not all the time now). Usually imported too when I check afterwards, I might have to become a hippy as well :/

Just ban the chemicals needed for factory farming and it becomes economical ... we'll need a far greater percentage of our population working on farms though.

"copper and sulfur" if that's the worst examples he can come up with of pesticides used in organic farming I'll take it.

I wouldn't be surprised if long term use of blood transfusions could cause allergies.

What you really want is a brain dead clone to tap blood from (and supply replacement parts when necessary).

If so, how long have select groups of people already been doing it?