In my experience, most mining companies take worker safety very seriously. For contractors, one of the biggest selling points is your safety record, especially when working with big companies. I just looked up a list of 20 most dangerous occupations in the US (Time magazine) and mining does not make the list. I have spent plenty of time underground and always feel safe. A lot of the most dangerous work is non-routine and therefore will not be automated any time soon.

The world produced 76,378,700 tonnes of apples last year. There's certainly more than 2000 apples/tonne, therefore you're looking at much more than 150 billion apples in one year. Sure, not all of those produced were sold, but even if 1/10 are, they still handily beat any and all smartphones.

They're in fierce competition with the other browser companies. They can't just stop updating Firefox now because they think they will eventually have something better.

How the hell do these things retail for $900 (CAD) when they sell wholesale for $290? No wonder there's a cell phone shop around every corner... I knew Apple's hardware cost was in the ~$200 range, but I never imagined they were selling to retailers for anything like that price.

Remember that cars don't feel the wind chill. -35 in absolute terms is unusually cold in the places in Canada where people actually tend to live.

Maybe the real reality isn't quantized the way our simulation is. They could have 4K super-amoled quarks, and we're stuck here with our 1080P IPS quarks, with hazy electrons tunneling through all sorts of nonsensical things.

Hunh? Is this some kind of trolling? Clinton has a commanding if not insurmountable lead in elected delegates, and super-delegates aren't going to be getting in her way, to say the least. When you say it's a 40-30-30 split, is the last one you're referring to Rubio or Kasich? It's certainly conceivable that Kasich could somehow become the compromise candidate, but he is waaayyy waayyy farther behind in delegates than you indicate, it's 846 (Trump) - 544 (Cruz) - 149 (Kasich), so more like 60-30-10'ish.

between Acrobat and Flash, Adobe provides the bulk of the vulnerabilities the NSA needs to operate. Quid pro quo.

Yes? The article mentions the lower cost (which is at least a rough analog for carbon emissions), and compares the carbon impact of different scenarios (such as including coal generation in the mix).The article doesn't deal with your point directly but you have to keep in mind that building any new generation or transmission will involve plenty of carbon emissions.

Don't forget Manitoba! They've got another 5 GW of potential just waiting for a reason to build more dams.

It is incredible that people actually try to claim that China's emissions are worse than the US's. Cumulative emissions for the countries are about the same. China has what, four times more people? Their per capita emissions are about one third of those in the US; and let's be serious, half of that goes to making crap to export to America. You're criticizing the greedy Chinese for wanting to heat their tiny homes and drive a motor bike to work, but you think Americans are somehow entitled to drive their SUVs to work (alone) from their McMansions in the suburbs, and fly some place nice on vacation twice per year. GET REAL.