Tom Kelly, Werner Von Braun, Sergei Korolev and Kelly Johnson.

Tesla sold 18,000 Model S's in the US in 2013, which is an incredible achievement, however Toyota sold more than 60,000 Prius's in California alone in 2013. The Civic sold 350,000 units accross the US in 2013 Either you read the article wrong, or CNBC is wrong.

Not sure what you're referring to as "West", but if we look at California, the Tesla is no where near the best selling car. Prius is number 1, followed by the Civic, Accord, and Camry. Also the Prius is not an electric vehicle, it's a hybrid that still requires gasoline. Regardless Tesla's or Prius's still need roads and parking so I'm not sure how to interpret your last statement .

Actually this would exacerbate the problem as the loss of Bitcoins will drive up the value of those remaining

The problem is that hiring someone to "test them on the job" is not free, in fact making a bad hiring decision can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (onboarding, training, salaries/benefits, disruption to the team, cost of poor quality, severance and rehiring, etc). The outcome also often falls on the shoulders of the hiring manager, as a result most managers are generally very conservative when making hiring decisions. You wouldn't trust a contractor to do a $100k reno to your house without looking at their reputation

Yes, childs play to excavate a series of chambers 30-40 MILES in diameter. Again you have no concept of how much energy is involved in these eruptions. We're talking orders of magnitude more than all of humanity has generated and consumed since the beginning of time. It like building a container that could hold the simultaneous deatonation of the world's entire nuclear arsenal at the peak of the cold war.

Not 1 60kt nuke, 1 60kt nuke every day for a 1000 years. Plus again, once you drop the pressure of the magma chamber to the point where gasses come out of solution, the whole thing explodes anyways

Yes, it would dissipate about the same amount of energy as needed to turn 100km of oil pipeline into steel vapor

Lets say we try to dissipate it over 1000 years. Thats still the equivalent of deatonating a 60 kt nuke, every day, for a 1000 years. Of course you wont have a 1000 years since once you lower the pressure in the magma chamber to the point where dissolved gasses come out of solution, the thing will explode anyways. Secondly how exactly are you going to "channel" or "redirect" this kind of energy?

I don't think you realize the scale of the energy involved. When St. Helen's blew, it released ~24MT of energy and ~1 cubic km of ash. The last eruption of the Yellowstone caldaera (Lava Creek 640,000 years ago) released more than 1000 cubic km of ash. You're looking at having to dissapate 1000's of MT of energy somehow. Plus, one of the typical triggers to one of these eruptions is a smaller eruption or earthquake that drops the pressure of the magma chamber to the point where dissolved gases come out of solution, then it's like opening a bottle of soda that's been shaken.

Why? is he a dinosaur?

You fail to take into account that other manufacturing processes will continue to improve over the next 15 years as well. For highly customizable personal goods I agree 3D printing will be revolutionary, but I suspect it will be more of a "upload my file to the commercial 3-d printer at the local Walmart and pick it up" than a Star Trek replicator at home. Just like it is with photo's, I "can" print photo's at home on a $50 ink jet, but it's much cheaper and I get better picturess when Costco prints it on their $10k dye diffusion printer. For general commodity goods, mass manufacturing will always be cheaper. The factory can buy raw materials in bulk at much lower costs than you and can stamp them out 1000 at a time. Economies of scale don't dissappear simply because of 3D printing.

Except that due to the number of mandatory appeals, reviews and other efforts by very expensive laywers and judges that go along with the death penalty, it typically costs far more to execute someone than it would be to incarcerate them for the rest of their life

Unlike Bill Gates he does have 2 degrees (in Business and Physics). Yes he dropped out of Stanford (hence the "planned" commend I made) long before he got his PhD

Well considering that he has a degree in Physics, specifically material physics, and was planning to earn his PhD in Applied Physics (with a focus on advanced batteries), and he probably has a better understanding of how the batteries on the Model S are designed, I'll take his word on what the correct procedure is for extinguishing his batteries