I find it hard to contextualize the study. What is the average cost of living in rural Kenya in USD? I would wager that most of the world doesn't know the answer to that question so you might as well be telling a Martian that you can run an 8 minute mile with 30 lbs on your back.

The point was not that Seattle is cut off from the power grid, it's that the power consumed by the city is negotiated for and purchased from almost entirely in-state non-fossil fuel sources. https://www.seattle.gov/city-l....

This isn't really compression any more than me seeing a painting in a gallery and then describing it to a friend over a cup of coffee at the cafe around the corner.

Is the bill supposed to support American manufacturing technology or is it supposed to support IP development? You can't compare companies like Intel, Analog Devices,Texas Instruments, and Global Foundries to Qualcomm, Apple, and AMD. There is some overlap in the IP development space but if you want to support American manufacturing then providing economic incentives to companies who rely almost entirely on Taiwan and Korea to make the parts that they design in cubicles in the US isn't the way to do it.

This was also heard on December 7th 1903 at about 1:00 in the afternoon near Kitty Hawk when someone said "Send me a telegram when you can do more than slowly fall off a hill."

Maybe this specific instance is news, but the general concept that Smart TV manufacturers make more money on the Smart than the TV has been known for years now.

Is "deep ultraviolet" a thing? As near as I can tell this is ~200-280 nm which is described elsewhere as "middle ultraviolet".

Yeah, those Wright brothers were real idiots weren't they. 200 foot flights no faster than a horse!

You must never have actually worked on a real system anywhere in any context.

*Had an immune system

Slow COVID-19 with this one weird trick that salad bars have been using for DECADES!

This is being moded a comical reply, but it brings up the concept of marginal costs and benefits which is relevant to these sorts of headlines. Nothing in life is safe. The best we can do is calibrate the costs and benefits of each and every activity we partake in and decide of the benefits outweigh the costs.

No thanks. I grew up here and prefer it rainy and wet.

Engineers don't do sniff tests, we aren't like geologists. We do the math.,

Did you seriously just "think of the children" against UBI?