You are truly clueless. Greece's economy is in a nonstop recession. Going back to the Drachma would let them devalue their currency and improve their exports, manage their finances and stimulate their economy. If debt is denominated in your currency you never have to default because you can always print more. Investors realize this, which is why Japan with its 300% of GDP debt still has near 0 interest rates.

You realize money doesn't disappear into thin air? If everyone spent it they'd just end up trading the money for goods with each other.

Oh right automation. Well that explains why the unemployment rates keeps dropping. All those robots are taking the jo... oh wait.

Interesting point, in the 1930s the US almost passed through a 30 hour work week law. The House passed it but the Senate voted against it. Or vice versa.

If you exercise plenty every day and keep your brain focused on something productive all day, you can kind of sort of fight the depression. But yes there are better alternatives.

Feels like getting upgrades in a RPG. Pretty awesome.

It's also nice to see actual real world battery density improvements, rather than just hear about it. Of course 31% over 7 years is a lot less than the 7%/year improvement people like to say lithium ion experiences.

They must have learned from our republicans.

How did that "more" end up 3 words down from where it's supposed to be?

If they weren't opting for a trashy "hybrid" approach designed specifically to avoid preventing ISPs from abusing consumers, and instead were going for full bore Title II reclassification, they wouldn't need so much time to create a legal defense.

Uh... carbon pollution from coal plants will in fact destroy the environment. We have plenty of historical evidence to suggest tighter environmental regulation that limits the expansion of coal plants will result in new investments that bear fruit to future technological innovations. It's happened every single fracking time.

The last IPCC report suggested policy changes that would subtract from future global GDP values by .006%/year. That's not 15% of your paycheck.

It's not the politicians. It's the people who elected them. Just look at the number of idiots here screaming about "global cooling".

I don't know... I kind of like the fact that the universe is still such a mystery to us. With the large hadron collider there was almost a sense of let down that nothing exotic or unexpected appeared. That everything went according to our models.

VNAND run at current 1X node levels should provide 32x the capacity for similar cost. Instead Samsung is using their tech to release 4X node level SSDs with similar capacity but double the cost of 1X node level 2D NAND. When the heck are we going to have some competitors come in with their own VNAND tech and bottom out the SSD market? They should even be able to achieve greater cost per byte effectiveness than HDDs.

It's not just that. Tesla achieves their current battery longevity by only allowing the battery to operate between 20 and 80% capacity. If this new battery can last 20 times longer, they could achieve the same longevity while operating at the full range of the battery, giving them a 40% capacity boost.