The device has not been proven to work. The amount of thrust was minimal, equivalent to the weight of a grain of sand. The same amount of thrust was detected, even when the experiment was configured to do nothing at all.

If this works, it would have amazing implications for humanity. I hope it does, and I'm sure they'll continue doing research. But it certainly hasn't been proven to work, and I would say it's overwhelmingly unlikely. OK I'm just some random guy on Slashdot, but Elon Musk (among many others) have also expressed their doubts.

I read both his articles, and they're actually about "which development environment for disabled users is more open-source friendly." What the fuck? Obviously, Linux is going to be, so what? And there isn't a single word about which is actually better for disabled people to use, so provide great advantages over proprietary alternatives for people with disabilities is an inaccurate way to summarize the article. Instead, it's some guy blindly pursuing some nerdy "open source is the best!" dialogue like it was 2003.

Well it's not like this is all a recent development. The Bay Area has been more expensive than Texas for about 150 years now, and yet SV is the big time, while Austin is a regional hub. "Land is cheaper! Employees will settle for less money!" is true pretty much everywhere except for NYC, and yet I don't see many companies moving to flyover country.

And of course, if a number of large employers all suddenly congregated in Austin, of course land prices would go up, salaries go up, etc...this doesn't all happen in a vacuum.

"Stealing is taking things from other people."

"Popular dictionaries and encyclopedias say that intellectual property theft is also stealing."

"Well, yes, but that's not a *true* Scotsman."

Well I grew up rich, and I think people have a social responsibility to each other.

Is my story any more relevant than yours? Did growing up poor provide you with special insights?

I mean aside from how to cook Kraft dinner.

Planes show an even greater advantage for me, as when I drive a car I tend to throw cigarette butts and plastic bottles out the windows, and they pollute the side of the road.

What the fuck? You know nothing about stocks, why are you talking about it?

The company effectively did change. Investors were expecting $470-485 million sales, and it actually came out to $435 million, and revenue went down 9%. Really shitty news. Naturally, it drove the price down. If news on twitter had been great, the stock would have jumped.

This is a non-story. The stock would have done the exact same thing if they had released the information at the proper time. It just would have done it a day later.

If you think I'm wrong, then BUY EVERYTHING YOU FUCKING CAN IN THIS STOCK. If it sank due to a non-issue, then it should snap up 20% tomorrow.

It's already just $100. I don't know your financial situation, but if something came out in 2013 and, two years later, you're still eagerly awaiting it getting discounted, you probably should have just bought it in the first place.

Where's the Tux Racer demolition derby?

Right, it sucks that they had to close all the schools, in order to afford this :(

Sure, but even stupid peasants are mostly literate (Google says 96% literacy rate), and of course with written Chinese, dialect isn't really that important.

And of course they want phones, to talk to their cousin/son/whatever that manufactures iphones for $.50/hour in Shenzhen.

Except weight is determined by how many calories you intake, vs. how many calories you expend. Gut bacteria may be an important issue, diet soda may hurt these gut bacteria, but that's an unrelated issue. However, clearly your logic is faulty, as insulin is well-known to suppress appetite. If you knew the first thing of what you were talking about, you wouldn't have said that...or claimed that weight is caused by the actions of magical gut bacteria...

Maybe I'm confused but it looks like that diagram shows salaries in the United States are five times higher.

I believe that there exists a reality in which Stephen Hawking is called upon to become the new lead singer of One Direction.

> If you want a "reliable" smart phone that doesn't need reset or suffer stupid ass software failures, get one of those $50 Samsung android smart phones.

Some of them don't have a forward-facing camera, but generally speaking they have the same OS as the lastest and greatest from Samsung, and can do *everything* that any other Android phone can do.