Why populate those areas? If you don't want population control you will need to warehouse people as efficiently as possible.

Manufacturing can be done in highly concentrated locations (China is showing us how). Agriculture doesn't require very many people anymore, same with mining and forestry. Cities are the only way to deal with hoards of people.

Plus you're still just kicking the can down the road a few decades. Eleven billion? What happens when that doubles in another few decades, then doubles again? It can't go on forever.

Your own personal definition of beer is that it can only contain those ingredients. Other people have other definitions. Hops are a relatively recent addition to the recipe

If they have to word the claim to actually claim something innovative instead of just a way of implementing a solution to a requirement that anyone can come up with they're in trouble.

It's sugar, just absorbed faster because it's already fructose and glucose. Table sugar (sucrose) has to be digested to break it down into fructose and glucose.

Same with car rental rates. You will usually see a huge "entertainment tax" as part of the price in cities.

Urban USA has similar speeds. We're talking about service in rural areas.

It would work intermittently, like wind and solar, so you still need a full size backup generator. Then you have to wonder if the double cost is worth it.

75% of the subjects had S. aureus in their sinuses, 51% had non-livestock associated penicillin resistant SA (MRSA), 46% had livestock associated MRSA. But the sample size is so small (22 people) the study doesn't prove much beyond the fact that once colonized by S. aureus you tend to stay colonized.

Asimov's "Law" is just a story by a fiction writer. In the real world we already have robots that counter threats (electronic countermeasures, anti-missile defenses, etc). There's no ethics involved, just a working algorithm.

Stuff that's made in China and sold at Walmart would be taxed differently? I'll believe it when I see Chinese manufacturers paying the US 35% tax rate.

You don't buy anything from companies that advertise on Google?

There are any number of non-technical jobs for non-technical people. Market research, sales, maybe project management, etc. But in general you hire accountants to do accounting, lawyers for legal services, and techs for technical work.

Bottom line though, is that people who write columns for places like Fast Company and Dice have to write something, so they make stuff up.

The RFP has to state what the contract award will be based on. It can't say "We require this, but if you toss in other stuff we didn't think of we'll give you extra points".

They can reject a bid when they think the bidder didn't understand what they were proposing ("A rocket to the Moon? Sure we can have that to you next week").

They'll also assume the incumbent is lower risk, especially if the other bidder is a newcomer with no track record ("Better with the Devil you know than the Devil you don't know").