From Wikipedia... The entire nation is ~100k people. 70% live on the main island. 32 fiber strands connected Tonga to Fiji. I'll wager the 70k on the mainland had better internet than most in the US before this cable cut.

"Single engine electric car"... do you mean single motor? Electric cars do not have engines. And yes, Tesla makes single motor EVs as well as dual motor.

He is trying to reduce the cost of tunnel building. Subway tunnels cost $150m+ per mile. He is trying to get it down by improving drilling speed and other facets of tunnel creation. So the tunnel itself may end up being not so much to look at besides different techniques used to build it.

Vegans are not a protected class.

Technically the board would have to consist of a correct proportion based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, and citizenship.

So on a board of 10, you'll need a 24-year-old white christian female hetero non-disabled citizen, a 33-year-old black male bi non-disabled citizen, a 19-year-old white female hetero disabled immigrant, an 18-year-old agnostic male hetero non-disabled citizen, a 20-year-old hispanic female jewish hetero citizen, a 58-year-old white ... and so on.

It was not "one of the worst data breaches". It was THE worst.

With a US population of 325.7 million...

146m names, DOBs, and SSNs were stolen.
99m addresses.
27m genders
20m phone numbers
18m drivers license numbers.

It really doesn't get much worse than that.

Basic income means you get the money regardless of whether you work. i.e. if you work, you still get the basic income.

So in your example, you're working 40 hours a week for $2k/yr? Sure, you should quit. But if you make $32k/yr at your job, you'd have $62k/yr to work with then ($32k from the job, $30k from BI).

Hobby grade racing drones, even under $400, can have 10:1 thrust to weight ratios. That means they can reach 400' in seconds and have 3-6 minutes of flight time.

They run on Lipos (but you're not wrong since Lipos are really Lithium-Ion Polymer and chemically nearly identical but come in "pouches" instead of rigid containers. Also you can run quads well over 500mm size off of Li-Ion. Almost all quads are electric because electric motors can control their speed very accurately. Gas motors are not so good at that, and so most gas-powered quads run their props at constant speed and instead vary the pitch of their props, complicating the system significantly.

About 9 controls... you can actually map more than that if you use a custom mix to make switches only take up part of a signal. Your throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator each take up one full channel because they are not on-off but can vary in strength. Most people just set up switches to take up an entire channel but you can make switches take up half a channel, or even a quarter of a channel, because the data they are sending is so simple (on/off, or hi/mid/low). So with an 8 channel receiver/transmitter, you could control throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator, a knob, and 6+ switches.

And yes, this is already partially the case. All quadcopters have flight controllers which run algorithms to determine how much each motor should be spun based on the inputs from the human. There are many different firmwares for these flight controllers, and pretty much all implement a PID system (or offer you the ability to choose from multiple different PID algorithms). PID essentially just means how the controller calculates values to send to the ESCs and how much it tries to self-level in various regards.

Exactly. Wireless ac wave 2, coming this year, is promising up to 7 Gbps of throughput.

What is your rationale for a 20+ year average lifespan? Failure rate is not linear. It could be very possible that 2% fail before year 10 and 90% fail between year 10 and 12.

All I want is a 35"+ 4k display with a 60hz refresh rate for under $300. Is that so much to ask?

Just because it will eventually become obsolete doesn't mean there isn't a benefit in offering it and using it for some time. Over the years, cars have come with many different ways of getting music. How many of them are obsolete now? This would be a great way of getting a larger variety of music to your car (in addition to the many other uses). Pandora, Songza, the 100 other music services. Potentially access to your own media server to play music.

• 8-Track
• AM Radio
• Tape Deck
• FM Radio
• CD Player
• MP3 CD Player
• XM/Sirius Radio
• USB (for iPods usually)
• Bluetooth

I bought a bunch of 8.5W (50W) equivalent bulbs online for $5 each. Not exactly breaking the bank there. They also have a nice color tone (3000K). The only down side it they take about half a second to come on when you flip the light switch, which took a bit to get used to. The price is really coming down. A lifetime of 30,000 hours too. They are also still available at that price. I just checked.

And take an extra 15 minutes minimum, each way. If you're lucky. Not everyone lives in a city and has amazing access to public transit. This isn't about avoiding contact with other humans, its about improving the efficiency of transport.

As Joshua Shaffer said... there are many, many people who have 45+ minute commutes. Those commutes could be spent doing leisure activities, chatting with friends/family, doing work, or even sleeping. It would also open up more people to taking longer commutes because that time is no longer wasted driving a car. Finally, you wouldn't even have to OWN the car. A pool of cars could be shared by people with dissimilar schedules.