Agreed. A better question might be "Is it a Tool or a Toy"? For most people, tech is only a toy. For those that use it as a tool... they can take off like a rocket.

That's just hoping for magic. The bane of our so-called modern society.

Yucca has always been an excellent place for mid-term (1k-10k year) radioactive storage - it's politics and corresponding misinfotainment that has destroyed our chances of low carbon safe energy.

Then write in C: Mickey Mouse.

VOTE! Can you imagine how both parties would freak if a cartoon character beat them at the polls?

Then again, it happened down in SoCal land... "I'll be back!"

1 connection when each person has 2-4? With bandwidth cost following Moore's law but we don't receive the benefit? Ridiculous. I deal with that crap with CableOne. Internet choices around here are Bad and Worse. The FCC does too little too late but at least something is happening.

Hope you like living in a tent and scrounging for food in garbage bins.

There are clear lines between what is personal and what affects the job. If you take drugs it'll likely affect your work and health costs (still somewhat paid for by the company) - that means the company has a valid interest. OTOH, your private emails (or facebook posts) between family and friends has very little to no affect on the company - therefore they don't have any valid need for access to it.

There are often very good reasons to not be nice. The adage "Nice guys finish last" proves itself much more often than not.

Being civil = far less results.

If direct sell is the only available option then the customer gets screwed. The company sets the price and acts in indirect collusion with other companies. A perfect example are airlines - they raise prices in lockstep. A few times a rogue like Southwest will refuse and everyone else has to drop back down to an old price, but it's a rarity.

I just went though this shopping online for some higher end hiking and camping equipment. Brands like North Face, REI, Cabelas, etc all have their own brands and it's very difficult to find anything priced differently than the manufacturer sets them out.

One of the things I love about Costco - they shop the gray market and thumb their noses at the manufacturers suggested price.

Which tens of thousands of garbage dumps are already doing. It's no big deal.

Nuclear is the only viable option for base load if you want to reduce the trillions in costs from man made climate destruction. Problem with nuclear is ridiculous regulations. Problems with renewables are ridiculous subsidies and completely unrealistic expectations. Balance things out and nuclear would easily handle the next century until fusion is viable.

I really don't see that. Manufacturing in the USA typically runs Lean and often Cell based with process changes made in minutes. The people also tend to have a wider range of skills and experience. The states with unions pretty much don't do any more manufacturing.

Outsourcing only works from 2 fundamentals - ignoring IP (theft) and currency manipulation.

Remote work is great for competent people. That last part is what's missing.

Why would anyone in their right mind go into STEM when an MBA gets you twice the money for less work?

Everyone seems to be skirting around 2 truths:
1. Marketing. They'll say anything to get elected.
2. Money. That's the only vote.

Our power? Ignore the marketing and vote with your dollar.

There is no drought. There's just overpopulation and pumping water hundreds of miles to farm in a desert. Their #1 electricity use is pumping water for those farms.

Most people I know have half a dozen geographies in their genetic background and everyone is a different shade of color. Race is now irrelevant.

What does matter is what people do. Having someone - anyone - in a class that screws up the bell curve makes others feel bad. In most of those classes the ace student is celebrated, but obviously not here. PR over results.

CS is overrated anyway. 10% should be CS, 30% should be Software Engineers, and 50% grunt work Programmers. All very different education.

Why aren't there more programmers? Because anyone smart enough to achieve a CS degree could instead get an MBA then a job with half the work and twice the pay.

A similar problem happened with Petroleum Engineers but with different results. They increased the pay and a couple years later there were plenty of qualified engineers.

IBM did this for PR. It'll likely take far more resources to reuse the old laptop batteries than manufacture a good solution from scratch (like the one you referenced).