On a hunch I decided to see if there's a correlation between obesity and antibiotics (which are known to kill both the good and bad types of gut bacteria)

Here's a map showing antibiotic prescribing rates.
http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/co...

Here's a map showing obesity rates:
https://www.maxmasnick.com/med...

Correlation is not causation, but in my unprofessional opinion, these maps look eerily similar.

To be fair, Reno is kind of a shithole. I certainly wouldn't want to live there. It's so boring there that I heard people will shoot you just to watch you die.

Nobody wants to build a 500+ acre factory in a desirable city where the land is expensive.

The root problem is the cost of the damage.

I would implement a parachute system into the design of the drone.

Parachute systems for drones already exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You forgot to mention the part about the Saudi weapons deals that she helped broker as payment.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

It would also work much better if RFID tags were embedded in food packaging.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

I hope your link gets the attention of the moderators because that was really cool.

One more MAJOR advantage of a camless design (if not the single greatest advantage) would be the ability to have extremely canted valve angles. Retrofitting an existing cylinder head design with camless engine technology is only scratching the surface. The biggest benefits would be gained by designing the cylinder head ports around the capabilities of the valve actuators. With cylinder head differences like this, we're literally talking about the difference between NASCAR horsepower levels and streetcar horsepower because cylinder head designs are the undisputed most important factor in making horsepower.

With traditional cylinder heads (on OHV engines), valve angles are limited by the rocker arms. Rocker arm rotation about one axis is trivial, but when the valve is canted it makes the valvetrain design exponentially more complex and prone to wear due to lateral loads as the angle is increased. A camless engine design wouldn't have this limitation. That being said, the camless designs have their own challenges, namely soft valve seat landings due to a nearly perfect square-wave lift profile.

They call it a "Digital Cam" because when you graph valve lift vs time it literally looks like a square wave. The ramps really are that steep!

This compares to a conventional cam with a sudo-sinusoidal shaped wave lift profile (neglecting the effects of high RPM valve float).

Criticize as much as you want, but a truly functional electronically controlled camless engine would be the holy grail of internal combustion engine design. You can easily pick up 20 horsepower on many engines just by swapping to a performance cam, but you often compromise efficiency. But with a camless engine, in theory, you could have cylinder deactivation, low compression starts, the elimination of throttle plates (lower pumping losses), "full race-cam" profiles for performance, a cam profile for smooth idling, low emissions, etc....
Truly the best of both worlds!! That being said, there are disadvantages....

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I read an interesting SAE paper 20+ years ago describing a working prototype camless engine. The performance gains were impressive, but as I recall, there were two main obstacles:

1) Noise, Vibration, and Harshness. (NVH)

2) The valves landed harshly leading to valve seat wear. The SAE paper suggested using a method for softer valve landings.

I would pay extra for x86 just for the ability to run Teamviewer, which is currently incompatible with ARM devices.

Yes, I know there are alternatives, but I like Teamviewer.

Don't give these guys ideas.

They've already used every high-tech-startup buzzword in the book.

3D printing hype is getting out of hand.

Why would anyone buy an unfinished looking $53,000 3D-printed car like THIS, when you could buy a 500+ horsepower 2016 Shelby GT350 for about the same price? The resale value alone would make the 3D printed choice foolish.

If 3D printing was as promising as this article makes it sound, then why can't I buy individual parts like custom 3D printed hoods? It's certainly more realistic to buy individual parts than 3d printing an "entire" car. It's just not anywhere close to being cost effective.