Facebook has released several different responses to this issue and is closely monitoring how people in each of the different experimental groups respond to these releases.

My dad just had to buy a new light bulb for his very high end home theater projector. He said the bulb was $1,500. I know you could buy a projector for that price, but his particular projector ranges in price from $10,000 to $30,000 depending on model...so it makes sense to buy the replacement bulb.

Would like to outfit my home with LED bulbs but the cost of swapping out all the bulbs in my home came in around $2,000.

Could go with CFL for about $300 but they are pretty toxic if they break, causing brain damage and what not, especially for kids, so not ok with that.

Anyone else replaced all their lighting with LED?

Just bought a new fridge. It came with LED lighting throughout the fridge. Guess this is the direction Fridge lighting is going. I assume Ovens can do the same?

200 yrs ago we proved electric cars were viable (http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/History-Of-Electric-Vehicles.htm)
2000 yrs ago we proved steam engines worked (http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/ancient-invention-steam-engine-hero-alexandria-001467)

This doesn't diminish the significance of it as a useful product.

Wouldn't you say that anyone who dies from drinking was drinking excessively. It's the extreme case definition of excessive.

Everywhere. And that's where 'Murica is, damn it.

Whenever someone tells me they are in Mensa, I usually think, what a fuck head. Not only did you care enough to jump through the hoops to join, but you are arrogant enough to want everyone to know you're a member.

Instead, show me your intellect with witty conversation, keen understanding, and curiosity, and you won't be such an ass.

The specificity is key. This kind of system must be exhaustively tuned and tested on a very narrowly controlled hardware platform. Why do you think Google has been running their program on what looks like a 2006 Prius for so long? Supporting new models of cars will require significant configuration and testing for each new model. Just because you can attach this device to the roof of most cars, doesn't mean it is able to drive that car autonomously. Even the actuators and wiring is probably pretty specific to individual car models, and must be extensively tested as well.

From a business case perspective, I don't see people spending $10K on this unproven mountable hack, when they could spend $40K on a new Volvo or similar that has the same functionality.

Not really true. Most of the money funding Israeli innovation is internal or from international VC and Corporate investment.

Israel only receives 10% of USA foreign aid and is required to spent it at USA companies, so it's kind of like corporate welfare for USA industrial military complex.

I was getting buy just fine in grad school on $12K/yr. Never felt poor. Lived cheaply and had everything I needed. Even saved a few bucks each month.

I was making $36K/yr in my first job and was living the good life, nice apartment, going out, etc. and still saved a bit each month.

Now I make much much more than that, but I've been hit with up to $10K in medical bills the past few yrs, despite having good health insurance. I also have a family and a house in a good school district, and suddenly things are tight even though I now make 6 figures.

Interesting argument. I agree that people have more options than they often realize. Or that they unnecessarily limit their options by excessive spending, debt, etc.

BUT....not everyone wants to become an employer. And I think there ought to be room in this economy for both skilled and unskilled workers to earn a living wage with a 40 hr work wk.

I'm shocked at the stat that 94% of tech workers are putting in more than 50 hrs/wk!

I have a nice well paying 40 hr/wk job, which occasionally requires the rare 45 hr wk. Those 40 hrs/wk already seem unnaturally long for me.

BUT...I'm currently applying to new jobs, and this stat makes me concerned about expectations that my new employer might have for me. I'm up front in the interviews that I'm looking for a 40 hr wk. Some companies are cool with this and offer me jobs, others, like Amazon.com are openly not cool with it, and that's fine. I don't want those jobs. But still, makes me wonder how hard it will be to find a 40 hr/wk job.

BTW...I'm not counting general reading/studying/training required to remain an expert in my field. The 40 hrs I'm referring to are specific job tasking.

the start up nation...at it again. how is it that a country of 7M people struggling for peace amongst hostile neighbors continues to out innovate the world.

splitting lanes is actually legal in many areas of the country.