Its sad, I clicked the comments almost just to see the what the comments would be. I fully expected "If you don't want to die don't ride a bike. Why is this news." or something blaming the government and/or surveillance practices.

I really can't tell if this is serious, I'm hoping this is tongue in cheek, but I fear that it is not. If you are for real this is one of the more privileged things I've read in a long time.

I think a big part of the issue is that science journalism (by which I mean pop science journalism) caters to our optimistic "something-will-come-along-to-save-us" mindset. Scientists are happy for the attention and might make their research seem further along than it is and/or the journalists spice it up (consciously or sub-consciously) and to a lay-person everything sounds like its just around the corner. Now there is a whole internet sub-culture around science worship that tries to show science as seemingly fun and easy and I think we're far too reliant on some breakthrough to solve our problems. The sad truth is we will have to solve most of our problems with the tools we have no, or assume some constant conservative improvement in those tools. You can't predict breakthroughs, thats why they are breakthroughs. Thorium reactors and cold fusion and nanobots and whatever other BS popular science is espousing today might happen eventually, but we're fucked if it gives us the confidence to put off doing what will most likely be the fix for our worlds problems - hard work.

This sounds dangerously like socialism to me buddy, let the accident free market decide what is safe..

Seems like it might be useful in embedded systems, but I don't see any mention of that in any of the articles.

but then I read that it was not alarmist. I'll take my AI articles as infuriating as they are terrifying, thank you very much.

I don't want anyone to have to endure these kind of stresses, but as the emphasis on the long term affects of war on soldiers, their families, and society as whole increases, hopefully these kinds of strain will come into play in the cost/benefit analysis of conflicts. I'm sure being miss-characterized and demonized doesn't help the retention rate any. I think I'm more anti than pro drone warfare, but I don't think its fair to have these individuals dehumanized the way they are (though, its more fair than how we've dehumanized the people they kill doing their duty admittedly).

I haven't been able to find voltage specifics about the tesla battery system, but I've been expecting it will be more likely to lean towards AC. I would like to get the 10kwh pack for my off-grid system, but I don't yet know how to charge the tesla battery bank. Since they are clearly targeting the residential on-grid market, I expect AC charging to be more common. I wouldn't be surprised if I end up going the microinverter route with PC->AC going into the house and charging the battery bank, with an inverter. Has anyone found detailed installation specifics like this? I spent a good half hour looking after the price breakdown came out and couldn't find anything but a massive low-information media circlejerk.

I think you mean: "The (place) I grew up in (when I was unaware of all the problems that existed and everything seemed perfect) during the (any time in all of history)'s is (overly dramatic demise)." Clearly the 90's were where it was at though.

and the appreciation for knowledge and understanding. When I look back at pre-college education, thats honestly most of what I took away and its served me well. The desire to learn and figure things coupled with the access to information and mentorship is a recipe for student success. Most skills will be picked up as needed to solve whatever problem you are interested in.

I would like to say I'm surprised but the angry white libertarian bullshit seems to be exploding here. Any articles that deal with womens or minority issues immediately gets filled with dismissive crap. Some of the sexism pieces aren't great, but this is pretty much a "here is the stats, this is wrong" issue. It doesn't even necessarily mean an intentional bias, it may be they didn't know they were doing it but we have plenty of unintentional racial biases and thats where numbers like these are important, but most people here seem to just immediately rationalize them in a way that makes them feel better.

sincerely, Everyone-that-is-doing-fine.

Lets take it a step forward, public government funded 911? Thats straight up socialism, what we need is pay to play, tiered rescue services. If you want the fastest service, you pay top dollar and let the market (and undertakers) sort it out.

I totally agree, we should also not use credit cards because there is fraud there, I don't want my bank wasting time on transactions that could be fraudulent that could tie up mine so lets stop that. Also, there is fraud in insurance claims so we should all just pay cash up front and get rid of all insurance as well. Seriously, if 30% are legitimate that is a huge percentage of legit calls to discard. Take some time to find ways to reduce the amount of fraud and increase funding of 911 to compensate, how this is even an issue? I'm sure the cell networks are more than happy to reduce their own costs though.

Thats the term I was trying to think of, so am I correct in thinking this could be a problem with a lot of circuit boards, especially those that are more cheaply manufactured? It seems possible to design hardware for very long time, but to me redundancy and intelligent software would both be needed to keep a machine/computer running for an extremely long time (assuming a stable long term powersource of course).