Yawn.

Along with tax breaks and other government incentives, the lease agreements have made solar installations increasingly affordable.

The real problem is and remains subsidy. The lease is pointless without the subsidy.

No, I did read the article, AC. And this passage --

The business models that have made solar systems financially viable for millions of homeowners in California, New England and elsewhere around the country are largely illegal in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina and some other Southern states. Companies that pioneered the industry, such as SolarCity Corp. and Sunrun Inc., do not even attempt to do business there. ...

Along with tax breaks and other government incentives, the lease agreements have made solar installations increasingly affordable.

-- can very reasonably be interpreted as I did above.

Not all states offer subsidies as generous as the solar industry thinks they deserve.

This isn't news, it's politics by other means.

The real interesting technology is going to be in the batteries. The chargers will be a place where he would invite competition and exploration, so long as he doesn't get hit with patent trolls (the point of retaining the patent in the first place). The chargers aren't all that interesting.

In an energy-starved future with people in government who view power as unlimited, Game of Thrones sounds reasonable.

"Tech bro"?

Go home, Slashdot, you're drunk.

H-1B visa holders will be gay married for immigration purposes, so their employers will only have to use one H-1B slot.

Right here:

... given what we now know, do we trust that the government wouldn't abuse this system and kill phones for other reasons? Do we trust that media companies won't kill phones it decided were sharing copyrighted materials? Do we trust that phone companies won't kill phones from delinquent customers? What might have been a straightforward security system becomes a dangerous tool of control, when you don't trust those in power.

And this, ultimately, is the problem with those who keep repeating that we should just trust the government. It implies we should also disengage our brains.

Contemporary political thought seems to be about electing the right king.

One of the constants about startups is their youthful employee base -- young people have less economic baggage and less experience, and so can be had cheaper. Obamacare makes it much more expensive to hire such individuals by forcing companies to provide increasingly expensive health care, if even one employee ends up in the individual plan! Obamacare is not liable to make entrepreneurial activity more likely, but less.

... and he liked this. Enough said.

Shoulda just told the NSA.

The NYT is a hidebound unionista redoubt, resistant to new ideas from within or without. They think like employees, not entrepreneurs. And that, ultimately, is why they will fail.

Nonsense. The problem here is using a third, private party to elide the Fourth Amendment.