I believe silicon dioxide is used as an additive to salt - add enough and it would be "low sodium".

A Japanese robot company called FANUC (Factory Automatic NUmerical Control) has been operating a "lights-out" automated factory employing robots that make other robots for years. They are said to run for 30 days unsupervised at a time, making 50 robots a day. And I'm getting this from articles from 6 years ago.

All capital represents someone's labor - but that doesn't mean the person using the capital performed the labor to create it. Like Obama said "you didn't build that".

I feel like you're the one saying it would impact society. Once the people you hate are gone, what does change? The signs on the stores that now say "Wal-Mart" say something else? How does entering someone else's name in the global financial system somewhere as the owner of X million shares of stock meaningfully impact society?

Have you looked at the stock market recently? Take Amazon for example - they're the poster child for success via low profits.

Every heard of the buzzword "e-discovery"? A lot of people have been hired to develop, use, and maintain the software systems that are involved in legal cases in the 21st century.

The idea of a machine taking your job becomes meaningless when your job is defined as automating or doing manually what hasn't been automated yet. Obviously not everything has been automated at once, or ever will be finished. So there is always somewhere for new graduates to start.

It takes some chutzpah to bring up occupancy levels and at the same time assume all cars only have one person in them. Bonus points for using the phrase "self-evident" without any arithmetic.

Say half the buses are hybrids, hybrids get 4 mpg, and non-hybrids get 2.8 mpg (American not Imperial) Average 3.4 mpg, multiplied by 20 is 68 mpg, which is higher than any car I know of (keep in mind I'm using American gallons here). But a car carrying 2 people only has to get 34 mpg to match the bus, 3 people - 23 mpg, 4 people - 17 mpg.

Also note that occupancy for the whole of Great Britain is more like 11. See https://www.gov.uk/government/... So carbon output of an average bus-person-mile is probably about the same overall as driving a car by yourself, and two people in a car are much more efficient than the average of the bus system.

Well, that sort of makes sense from a self-centered perspective, but more buses and routes means more empty seats. And that means that it's no longer good for the environment at some point. I tried to estimate how much fuel the city buses around where I live use per person-mile, and my back-of-the-envelope estimate was overall they burn as much as a person driving 25 mpg car alone. Not that great, simply because they do not and cannot run full all the time. Cutting their efficiency in half doesn't seem worth it, especially as it won't fix the fact that they're slow because they stop a lot.

Let me turn that over and savor it a bit. The Chinese government can't make Apple do something unless it is definitely legal in the US? I have to say I agree with you, the FBI probably hasn't thought of that.

He didn't, that is a gross exaggeration, especially since he didn't fly all by himself. The Concorde got about 16 passenger-miles per gallon of jet fuel, so it wasn't that inefficient. Since it's 3460 miles from London to NY, that equates to about 1640 liters round trip.

Public companies disclose to the world when they are losing money, so you can't say your employer is making even a penny off you if you work for one of those.

Get ready for a shock: it already happened! In the 1950s they invented a form of AI called "a compiler" and it replaced all the software developers. Any that you may think you have met are therefore merely a figment of a diseased imagination.

So, 1/1/0001 instead.

India's GDP per capita is $1500. Saying we want economic policies more like theirs because their policies are obviously successful makes no sense. On top of that, haven't they been getting exponentially better off precisely as they have instituted free market reforms in recent years?

Did you pay sales tax?