There are 22 million people who still have cable TV? Did they just forgot to cancel the subscription?

Back in the good old days, it took thousands of men picking in a field to make cotton, fifty percent of Americans were farmers. The cotton gin sure as hell ruined all that, then came all the rest of the automated farm equipment. Now, less than five percent of the population need to be farmers.

Agreed. The reason they're horribly inefficient is because programmers don't understand how to use javascript, so they end up using massive frameworks and libraries to do even the most basic things. http://vanilla-js.com/

Patent, Trademark, Copyright are 3 very different things.

gets charged for felony copyright violation.

Bitcoin ... the currency of criminals.

Just fire the nukes already!

more like Sigh... yet another "silicon valley startup" ... is this going to be like the $400 bag squeezer?

About 2 billion will be going to Randall L. Stephenson. Another 2 billions will be distributed among the executive officers. The remaining 2.5 billion will slowly sublimate over 5 years. When the project is nowhere near completion after 5 years and the money runs dry, government will allocate another $4 billion dollars to the project. About 1/5th of that 4 billion will be used to build the actual communication network...

Toshiba is still in business? What business are they in? I've not seen a Toshiba product in the past decade.

A capacitor is not a battery! They can fulfill the same need sometimes, but it's entirely different principle of operation. Next, the article is all about how lithium batteries suck, but doesn't talk about how this new capacitor compares to other capacitors or batteries. Before you can tell if this is useful at all or just junk, you have to know at least these four key metrics:

energy density per mass
energy density volume
power density per mass
power density per volume

The article is useless, doesn't list anything relevant.

I'll give two pennies: The whole social media craze is a giant pimple that's about to burst. Companies like twitter and facebook aren't worth nearly as much as people think they're worth. That's my two cents.

Facebook is the worst thing that happened to Oculus.

Oh no he's charging more when the supply can't keep up with the demand! how dare he?! Reminds me of the Taiwanese flood that disabled hard drive factories, hard drive prices shot up because supply twiddled. How is that immoral (let alone illegal) in any way? It's completely benign, they should go after assholes like Marty Skreli instead, and assholes that profit only from arbitrage and asshole tactics.

Rent Seeking