OH MY GOD THAT'S TRUE. Hadn't been there today yet. I guess the post must be a pun about them then.

You missed the point. Matrix was retro in 1999. Or did you see them using Windows 98 by any chance?

Well, bugging the site out would definitely give it a (more) geeky vibe :D

This would be exponentially more effective if read with green text on black background. You lazy.

Correction: double-checked the bill and it's 50% wind power. Still +70% renewable overall.

Here in Portugal, my electric bill states we do at least 30% from wind sources, and overall +70% is renewable. We rarely get outages, and we have a very decent supply of fossil-fuel from North Africa. We have a lot less surface area than California (~100.000 vs 400.000 km) , and probably less sunlight time overall, considering cloudy days are like 30% of the year span. Let me know when a state gets even close to that!

The fact that 90% of ebooks are of the weird love/LGBT/softcore/shipping/bestiality romance genera, and the fact most of those covers attempt to make allusions to the genre, there is reason enough not to sleep while you haven't seen all of the posts. PURE FUKEN GOLD.

Politics was once a major instigator of NASA having more funding than national health back in the cold war moon race. Who gives two flying if now other matters take priority. It's not like space, physics or science in general are going to stop. Researchers have material to study for centuries, and all they have to do is look up (or even down). If anything, they can rely on new findings from other space agencies. The US is mostly worrying with a matter of honor and space-faring tradition rather than the greater good.

This is, once more, a political problem: Do you want to concede to a completely capitalist-based system, that has been known to fail in the long run, financially, against the poor, but incentivizing a meritocracy state where those that "work hard play harder"? Or are you willing to go with a hybrid system, which the US already has to some extent compared to most countries (which will go for decades with leftist or rightist mandates depending on referendum tendency)? My opinion is: I sincerely don't know what would be better, but for starters, Finland, Switzerland and co. are not bad examples to follow. I think whatever makes people morally conscious, in a generalized, broad financial status spectrum (i.e. will keep the poor and the rich in check for crimes and traffic rules) is not that bad, whatever your political inclination. Then again, those countries have other problems derived from such a flat, even view of society (which is not communism per say, but will eventually translate in similar nuances).

"Who gives a f*ck about an Oxford comma", let alone a your/you're mistake. The single most beautiful thing about English is that when it is verified, everyone will know aliens exist. Probably through a Stephen Hawking tweet

This is not the car telling you where you can or cannot go imperatively. This is the car sharing dynamic information to you about where you could go before you are stuck in the middle of nowhere, just like you would get stuck with non-intelligent ones but without the empty tank warning @60miles from a gas statio. It won't prevent you from doing the stupid thing itself, it will let you know how stupid it is to do it, before you even have the chance of starting it.

Don't be a glass half-empty type of person: the original topic was about "people being anxious about having enough juice to go somewhere", not "ways I can rage about how an intelligent car performing tasks you liked to predict mentally with a non-intelligent one and how hipster that was and how lazy people are becoming" ^_^.

This is what I meant to say in my first comment, but then I re-read it and my English was so poor I didn't understand the message myself. I meant exactly: ask the user for a broad destination, then provide him feedback right off the bat. Calculations are hard but I specified the feedback I exemplified wasn't accurate anyway. It just needs to let the user know his most likely battery outcomes during and after the trip, and his options if the most likely outcome is "running out of juice" either during the trip or on the way back to origin.

In order to stop drivers from micromanaging their ranges, is just to let a user know how likely is he to run out of juice, right off the bat when he starts his journey. A simple voice request from the car speech synthesizer, asking for a city, a street, or something not very specific which can be used for broad calculations, and then let the user know: "You might have not enough battery to go/come back home"/"You can make a round trip 8 times to that destination"/"You might run out of juice but there's a supercharger nearby, would you like me to reserve a spot for you at hh:mm AM/PM?"

And the actual money-making one: AdSense

Todo lists, like Todoist might also work.

Hundreds of todo apps turned up with the smartphone wave, but I believe that's the one that best integrates across platforms (Web, Mobile, and even some specific OS apps and MS/Open Source Office suites. Oh and the cloud, I think there's a Gmail plugin too). The main benefit of Todoist though is, like Trello, that they are very easy to get into, but can evolve if you need the added complexity.

See it like this: you can simplify a code-centric issue tracker like JIRA or Redmine to non-code tasks much like you can evolve Todoist or Trello into coding trackers (i.e. like with KANBAN). But I think Trello eventually leans to be more of a code tool while Todoist seems like a Swiss Army of task-oriented needs, i.e. more generic.