The free market didn't build the roads.

Sadly, environmental issues, and limited resources, isn't something that the free market will handle when left to its own devices. I have no sympathy for automakers that need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Now I want to buy an electric Fiat out of spite!

I'd think that most could pass with flying colors; now that they've done the work so frequently!

Uber seems to hit a lot of legal challenges. It seems like, in every city, the incumbent taxi market has a different set of legal hurdles for you to pass through. It's kind of a shame, too, because everyone involved with Uber is making an honest living providing a needed service.

What's tends to be your day-to-day balance of being lawyer versus entrepreneur? Would you say that you have more legal woes than a normal startup? Do you think this is "par for the course" any time someone's starting an interesting company?

I disagree. American doctors have to take standardized board exams before they specialize. The exams are significantly more rigorous, and better-designed, than the job interviews that I run.

Specifically, in the American medical system, specialization happens with on-the-job training after taking a standard exam. Students seeking to be pediatricians, heart surgeons, and dermatologists all take the same standardized exam. The score is then presented when students apply to programs to specialize.

Did your cars ever have a major repair? Owning a car for 200k miles and doing a major repair at 100k is fine. Besides, people are still throwing around the idea of battery exchange.

I find it very hard to judge skill when I interview candidates. I can easily filter out incompetent people. Someone I work with says, "when you interview people, all you find out is if the person interviews well."

Many professional fields have long professional exams. Civil engineers need to be certified, as well as doctors. Frankly, I wish I could look at some kind of a score, and spend most of the interview on "soft" topics.

Not true at all! Organic food is routinely sprayed with plant-derived compounds. The FDA only requires that a spray gun sit idle for 3 years before it is fit for organic spraying.

The endowments serve the university's interests . Stanford might think that coal is a bad investment.

Because every hypothetical answer has so much context that there's no way for a programmer to anticipate the situation. Instead, if we let the computer be greedy, the answer is simple: do what's best for the occupants!

It's the range, though, that's making me consider the electric BMW that's coming out in a few months. My wife will have a short 10-mile round-trip commute, but I will have a combination of telecommuting and 80-mile round-trip commute. A car that can safely do the 80-mile commute purely on a battery is a very attractive car!

Missing answer: It burnses!

I like the questions in the linked article. Sometimes you need to ask a fluff question to make the candidate feel comfortable, or see if the guy has a sense of humor.

Southern CA depends on the Colorado River for its water, and all of CA depends on imported electricity. Much of the US depends on CA for food. That dependency is too strong just to sever over a few dollars.

Are there any examples of real-world reactive databases in production or development?