It seems like there should be a way to short it, but I can't figure out how.

The biggest problem is people who don't understand how Lithium batteries work. A typical lithium battery has a cycle life of around 300-500 deep cycles these days. The average $50 toothbrush lasts about 2 weeks on a single charge. That is ... 12-19 years life for your battery.

The problem is people who leave their toothbrushes permanently on charge, it's a quick way to destroy lithium batteries. My father and I got the same toothbrush at roughly the same time. His lasted only about 2 years before he complained he couldn't get past more than a couple of days on a single charge. Mine is now going strong after 10 years, still with ~2 weeks battery life despite multiple daily uses. It goes on charge when the red light comes on, and only when the red light comes on. There's plenty of devices to complain about when it comes to soldered in batteries, but toothbrushes are not one of them.

I can't think of anything more wasteful than using AA batteries. Just use your devices properly, though being forced to pull rechargeable batteries out and manually charge them is a nice low tech way of forcing you to use devices correctly if you can't otherwise bring yourself to not destroy things by keeping them permanently on charge.

Actually there's no evidence of that. The only thing we've seen is MapQuest briefly going to the top rating for an app in a single measurement period. The only thing we can conclude is a bunch of people have tried it recently. Time will tell if this actually translates into any meaningful long term user gain.

This isn't bad mind you, it's clever to use a media shitstorm to get people to try your app thanks to the news cycle amplifying it, and I hope it works out for them. But I'll reserve judgement for another couple of months before I would safely declare that MapQuest picked up any new users.

This is what that 'this' in that comment meant: "Sincere therefore was see that this was meant by that, in the intention of those wherefores, we therefore conclude that this 'it' of that/this confusion is the unironically accidentally indicated epitome thereof.

I'm betting they'll contract out to SpaceX for the launching to Mars. It makes sense to give a networking contract to the company adjacent to Amazon.

I'll be honest, I'm a little jealous. Setting up interplanetary networks would be a really fun project.

Blue Origin has been making progress. They now have a heavy lift rocket in operation.

The launch sequence is unexpectedly beautiful.

LOL with that kind of personality I can't imagine why you don't like pair programming. Agile morning standup must be torture for you.

Pair programming in the modern era can actually give your programmers a massive speed boost, because they aren't spending half their time on the phone. It's like a fidget spinner but effective.

Indeed something wasn't thought through, namely your post. None of these systems provide power to grid if they don't have a grid to sync from. They all disable themselves during power loss.

Even if they didn't have a bit of a thought about what it means to be a 1200W generator at a time the grid is down. You will effectively be attempting to provide 1200W of power to a load of an entire neighbourhood. As a powersupply if you don't fault out on your own protection system you'll be generating a couple of volt at the most, and be lucky enough to light up and LED much less excite a linesman.

These systems have been used in many countries for many years, and no linesmen are not dying.

Please, trust that someone has thought about this rather than blindly taking sniping shots from the top of Mt Ignorance.

Precisely zero companies selling these products are implying anything like that. There's so much to be angry about in the world already, you don't need to make up outrage.

Oh are you one of them "sovereign citizen" nut-bags? Sorry kiddo but laws very much do apply in your home as well.

I'm guessing the only reason you're alive is because of a world of laws that keep you safe. These include among other things how your house is wired and how devices that you plug in to that wiring work. There's a reason the laws require your wiring to be certified and for devices that aren't explicitly permitted to, to not put power back into your socket. The design and wiring of your house can very quickly lead to you burning your house down if you feed power back into the wiring improperly, protection systems are designed to protect you when power travels to you from the grid, not the other way around.

Instead of being all grumpy say "thank you man" and realise the government isn't always there to keep the working man down.

Dyson very much doesn't impress for people who are also looking for high end solutions as well.

It's an electric toothbrush. You're not supposed to rub it across you teeth back and forth. You're supposed to move it slowly from one tooth to the next. 100ms is more than fast enough.

There's no limit when it comes to oral hygiene. How many people do you know how floss daily?

What's a yob

Was the house designed to keep her in? You're focusing on the wrong words.