I've seen it running on a number of checkout terminals, including ones that seem relatively new.

A 100K salary doesn't cost a company 100K. It costs a company at least double that in various types of overhead.

Lithium has an ignition temperature that is lower than gasoline, by my quick googling - 180 C vs 232 C

In the cheap farmland made available by the bulldozing of the suburbs. You don't need many farmers out there to feed the city - you could move your farms closer to the city if the cities were more compact, which would result in less waste.

Heat death of the universe is coming, universe is doomed!

I don't see this as a problem, but as a solution. Why should people be living all spread out? Everything is more efficient if you cram people into walkable cities.

Where are you in the US? I also have a debit card and infrequently use it, I have never gotten a fee for using it anywhere other than a competing ATM. In fact, I have sometimes gotten discounts for using it rather than a credit card at gas stations.

Another millenial here, I use cash often. For buying and selling in person between individuals, cash is a much better option than paypal/venmo/etc.

Hi Grandma! In my state, that's about where the speed limit is at (65 MPH), but normal speeds are more like 140 kph when traffic allows.

I haven't driven on the autobahn in a few years, but when I did there were many Germans driving much faster than 112 mph, and much faster than this American even when I was driving around that speed.

I've done that before! Ahhhh, to be a bored kid again...

If most of us come in under the caps, how is having the caps costly to anyone other than the few who exceed the caps? Crashplan could have just decided to institute a cap, and most of their customers would have never noticed.

I haven't been in a lot of cities, but Berlin has great parks, Tokyo and Kyoto do as well, and Central Park in NYC isn't terrible.

Yeah, I am suspicious of pesticide use as well. Some of them stick around for a while, so the effects can be cumulative.

Wrong. Sad.