I think this is exactly where most people go wrong. It's very hard to not overeat, especially after working out. I'm into cycling, and after a big ride, I feel absolutely famished. I could very easily eat way more calories than I burned in a ride. And people also overestimate their intensity and how many calories they've burned. 20 minutes on a treadmill really doesn't burn that many calories. It would probably be completely offset by a single sports drink. Personally I really like cycling because it's really good at keeping the intensity up for a prolonged period of time. Went for a 2 hour ride tonight, and apparently burned over 1100 Calories (yes, I'm aware the numbers are probably not completely accurate). I don't think I could maintain that level of intensity for that period of time with any other sport.

Yeah, let's impose the same restriction on Linux or Apache A fine on each bug would probably hurt guys like Apache much more than it would hurt Microsoft. Not that it would be good for either, but I think we know who would fold first in that game.

How did you manage to get updates for Android? That's not the experience I've had. I switched to Windows Phone because last time I bought an Android phone I didn't get a single update for it in the 3 years I owned it. It was released 6 months before ICS came out, and it never got the update. Stuck on Gingerbread for 3 years because of the abysmal state of Android updates.

Also, iOS is just as bad. My wife has an iPad, and my kids have iPods. Every time you need to update the OS, you have to clear off tons of space on the device because it insists that it needs 4GB of free space just to install an update to the OS. That's a lot to ask for on a device that only has 12 GB accessible to the user out of the box. I don't know why they can't upgraded the OS incrementally like it does on my Surface 2 (RT). Upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1 without needing a whole bunch of free space. Mind you, getting free space on that device isn't such a problem since it supports SD cards and has a more reasonable amount of free space when you're starting out.

I recently bought a new computer and decided to go straight to Windows 10 rather than install Windows 8 only to upgrade the OS in another month once Windows 10 goes final. It's amazing how fast it boots up. I have a basic solid state drive, and an AMD A8-7600 with 8 GB of RAM. Not a spectacular machine by any standards, From the beep of the PC speaker to the time I see the Windows 10 login screen is only 10 seconds. I haven't seen a computer boot so fast since the days of DOS, and even then, I don't think it was as fast as it is now. Definitely never saw a windows machine boot so fast.

Also, I'm pretty sure that AMD is still at 28 nm, so there really isn't much point in pushing hard for 10 nm, when the competition still uses a process that's twice as big as what you already have.

There are still a lot of jobs that don't require people to be literate. That's not to say we haven't made big strides, and that a vast majority of people are literate, but that doesn't mean that many jobs don't actually require literacy. They might required that you have a high school diploma, but that's more to prove that you have a decent enough work ethic to finish high school. The don't particularly need you to be able to read. You don't need to know how to read to be flipping burgers at McDonald's. You don't need to be able to read to be a greeter at Walmart, or for most of the positions that only require stocking shelves. You could probably have somebody working the cash who had no basic reading skills if you had the register show them the correct number of each coin / bill to give people for their change.

It's actually kind of interesting that a lot of apps don't have an official version for Windows Phone. Even the Facebook app isn't made by FaceBook. It's made by Microsoft. There's no app for Strava (very people among cyclists, used to track your rides), but there are a couple third party apps that work great. I think it's just the fact that larger companies don't seem to be able to do anything without getting 50 people involved, so they don't see it as worth their time to develop an app for a small platform. But really it doesn't take that much time to make an app, and therefore people can get the job done by themselves with minimal effort. Of all the mobile environments, I'd have to say that Windows Phone is the easiest to develop for.

The owner of the robots got a very nice pay raise. The robots are the ones who actually increased the productivity, so it's only natural that the owner of the robots would get to reap the rewards. Why should the human workers get a pay raise, they aren't the ones who are actually increasing productivity.

While I generally agree, what happens when the only jobs left are those that require creativity or critical thinking. There's a lot of people out there who can't do anything more complicated than repeating a few simple tasks over and over again. These jobs are going to be replace by robots. When the only jobs left are jobs that require high levels of thought, there's going to be a lot of people who simply can't hold down a job. I don't think that changing the way we educate people or making education free or anything else is going to be able to change the fact that some people don't have the cognitive ability to do the high level jobs that robots won't be able to do.

By your own numbers it's easy to see how much speed makes a difference. The Tesla at 120 km/h only requires 19.4 horsepower to maintain speed, and at 100 km/h only requires 11 horsepower. So if you travelled 300 km, at 150 km/h, you would use 111.6 HP-h of energy, while travelling at 100 km/h, you would only use 33 HP-h of energy.

The same rules of physics apply to many aspects of transportation. It would be nice if we could all travel 150 km/h down the highway, but even if the roads were safe, it would still be very inefficient to do so. I'm a (recreational) cyclist, and it really helps me appreciate how much air resistance really matters. Going 25-30 km/h the air resistance doesn't have a huge effect, but at 35 km/h you really start to feel it.

Personally, I don't even think it's a right hand vs. left hand thing, but more about visibility of pedestrians. There's a certain spot near my house where drivers constantly don't see people crossing the road. I've almost been hit on more than a few occasions, even if there's multiple people crossing at the same time. It's not because it's a left hand turn. It's because of the way the stop is constructed. For the vast majority of cars, the part of the car between the windshield and side windows blocks out exactly where people stand waiting to cross. There's another place to cross 300 feet down the road, and I've never had the same problem of drivers not being able to see me. This is probably more likely to happen with left hand turns, but I don't think that trying to eliminate left hand turns is really the solution. We should really be focusing on designing intersections with better visibility of pedestrians. Perhaps give the people in the left turning lane a red light if there are people crossing. A camera system could easily detect if there are people crossing the street. Or perhaps even something less technological, like simply a big warning light when somebody has pressed the button indicated that they want to cross.

I'm not thinking of a broken femur or anything really complicated. Obviously they should send you to somebody more specialized if they don't know how to handle the problem correctly. I just don't think somebody with an MD should really be the first person that takes a lot at it. It's kind of crazy how many people go see a doctor when they have a simple cold, because there really isn't any other choice other than just waiting it out to see if it goes away. Most nurses could probably be trained to at least triage the cases and refer them to a doctor if necessary, but most places don't have this as an option.

Hopefully I can use it to program my old Speak & Spell. Would be awesome to code for this old hardware while eating Reese's Pieces.

But then the lawyers could just lower their prices to compete. Could actually make prices come down over a long enough time.

Personally, I think that we waste a lot of time and money paying professionals to do things that could much easier be accomplished by those who specialize in a very small task. I probably don't need an actual MD to tell me that my kid has an ear infection. It's probably a pretty simple diagnosis. Why not let somebody without an MD prescribe a limited number of medications?

I'm sure people hire lawyers for lots of things that are actually quite simple to somebody who focuses on the rules. You probably don't need a law degree to understand the law in a very limited field.

Some places are starting to catch on. I can get me teeth cleaned by a dental hygienist who owns their own office, no dentist is involved. I can get my flu shot at the pharmacy, no doctor involved. Hopefully someday we won't have to see a doctor to get a cast on a broken limb. You'll just go to somebody who specializes in diagnosing broken bones and getting them fixed, instead of waiting in a doctors office with lots of people with infectious diseases.