Luckily, the current generation phones are thinner. So the next time we discard 5.3 billion of them, the stack will only be about 35000 km high.

My wife's e-up! is louder than my petrol golf at residential-area speeds, due to the stupidly loud warning sound that's required by law. And at higher speeds it's all about the tire and wind noise anyway.

The speed limit is probably because at those speeds nobody gets killed even if the software majorly screws up.

As it is it's useful if you regularly drive in traffic jams. They now need to up this to 110 km/h and that's good enough, when you want to go faster or off-autobahn just drive yourself. But that may be a lot more difficult because, unlike in traffic jams, there will be cars around you doing much greater speeds (particularly in Germany).

Ah, non-ASCII and slashdot... I mean Sunday = (Hebrew for Saturday) = (Arabic for Friday)

This would be trivially solvable just by rewriting the dictionary so Sunday = = and everybody has the religious-day-off on the same day.

The poll was for sure talked about, and that probably means answered too, in Slovenia.

But the poll was stupid: it only asked "do you want to keep changing the time or do you want to have just one time". Imagine you lived in a retirement home and the breakfasts always alternated: porridge one day, bread and butter the next. Now the poll was "do you want us to stop this and just make it the same every day"? Well I can't answer that if you don't tell me which one you'd pick!

Basically so much that fuel usage is similar regardless if it's hilly or flat.

And shouldn't ever be, because the most interesting thing about it is that it isn't yet finished. Finishing it would be like straightening the Tower of Pisa.

Celiac disease causes atrophy of the villi and, consequentially, bad absorption of fats and fat-soluble minerals and vitamins. Does this mean that until you recover (by months of very strict gluten-free diet) you would benefit from more fructose?

Why can't humans do the same? Wouldn't it be great to lose weight just by underdressing in the winter?

Emacs should then be renamed to nmacs.

But nowadays she'll only be able to get clouds and fog.

It'll be decades until the car can be sure it will handle just any situation that can crop up, so that no driver will be needed. You have to start somewhere. The 10 seconds grace period is short enough for many situations, e.g. the weather turning foul. It's somewhat short for the driver to do something else meaningful - you can surely put down your phone in 10 seconds, but I doubt you can reliably wake up from deep sleep. But we have to start something. When they increase the speed to 110 km/h, I'm in, even if it just stayed in the lane and I'd have to handle all the junctions and lane changes myself. At 60 km/h I'd be in if there were regular traffic jams on my commute.

Because you don't have to cook it. Cooking milk on a stove is either a giant waste of time, a giant mess if you go do something else and it boils and overflows, or a giant mess if you try to do it quickly and it burns/sticks to the bottom.

No. Any island nation should maintain food production capacity that can feed their population, at least to the point that a major global disaster or war won't make them starve to death.