People with STEM degrees have lower unemployment, and higher salaries. To say there is a "glut" relative to humanities is silly.

They are indeed important skills. But they are not "humanities". Sitting through a lecture on philosophy or sociology does not make one a better communicator, or better able to deal with people.

If there was decent competition, they wouldn't have been so successful in the first place. You can only take over a market quickly if the incumbents suck.

He did pay. Just not enough. He failed to agree on a price ahead of time. The next morning he offered ~$200, and she demanded ~$700. He refused, and she reported it to the police (prostitution is legal in Colombia).

Not all. The Mosuo people do not. AFAIK, they are the only exception to this cultural universal.

You could say the same thing about businesses that refused to sell to blacks ... except they didn't go bankrupt, and racist business practices continued for a century after the civil war, until they were finally outlawed. The "free market" did not, and does not, fix discrimination.

Even for learning programming, a Chromebook is good enough. At my neighborhood school they start teaching Scratch in 4th grade. It runs in a browser. For older kids, they move on to the Khan Academy programming lessons, which use JavaScript, which also runs in a browser. A "real" computer isn't needed until high school, for the 5% of the students that take AP-CS, which uses Java.

Or a lunar mass driver. Panels are made from silicon. The moon has plenty. So refine the silicon into ingots on the moon, launch them using a mass driver toward a zero-G manufacturing plant that converts then into panels.

That is true if the efficiency of the panels improve, but nothing else changes.
But tech can improve in many ways:
1. The panels may get much lighter, till they weigh as much as a sheet of mylar.
2. Launch tech improves, and brings the cost of cargo to orbit way down.
3. The tech for transmitting and receiving power through space improves.

On a roof or ground, you have the cost of the panel, plus frame and mounts. You also have reduced output, and maintenance costs from dust. You have reduced output from atmosphere and clouds. And after all that, cut the output in half again because of the varying angle over the day and through the seasons. Put it on a stratospheric kite, balloon, or kite-balloon-hybrid, and you can easily double or triple your output. Is it worth it? I dunno.

It certainly won't happen until we get better tech, but never say "never". But TFA is about some 93 year old retired Chinese geezer "mulling" the idea. He is speaking only for himself, and has no budget whatsoever. There is no "news" here.

Putting solar panels on high altitude kites or balloons may make a more sense. They would be above most clouds, and could be tilted to always directly face the sun.

It would make more sense for them to practice at the "real" White House, and have Obama move to the remote "fake" White House. Is there any reason the POTUS needs to be physically located in downtown DC?

In the gasoline era, a lot of engine innovation occurred because of racing. The same may occur in electric cars.

Have you ever been to an auto race? I would not describe the typical crowd as "rich people". And what is wrong with having fun? Isn't that what life is all about?

Then don't buy a Chromebook. It is not a professional workstation. I don't have one either. But my kids do. Chromebooks are also popular with schools. They are cheap, and are difficult for students to screw up, because ... well because there is nothing on them. But if all you need is a broswer and Google docs, they are fine. You can buy five of them for the price of a Macbook.

In this case it was one day. In other cases of apparently intentional crashes, it took much longer. The cause of some of those crashes is still disputed. A video would also be useful for crashes involving equipment failure, human error, or some combination, to see how the crew reacted.

You mean like LED bulbs costing $22 each? I bought a pack of 10 last month for $20, or $2 each.