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I think most people here will reject your point of view because we believe that technological and scientific progress will be the fix, rather than trying to convince everybody to live like some sort of emissions puritan.

Yup. You just don't really need AWD unless you have a horrible driveway or live on a particularly horrible road. Even in Vermont, most people here make do perfectly fine with FWD cars (with good tires). It really is just fairly common for people to have unnecessarily beefy cars for their...

The vast, and I do mean VAST majority of people who own cars on this list do not even remotely need one. They own a car such as this because they like the idea of it. Going "off road," tackling dangerous conditions, etc. The commercials, all that stuff. The image. The fashion of it. To be...

Those paradigm shifts were happening regardless of those individuals, and generally because of a crisis or a widespread change in thinking. They get named after individual people because we have a long term cultural obsession with heroics.

Stop this nonsense. Science doesn't stand still frozen in time until some Hero comes along and advances things. This is a problem with our education system. We're taught science as a timeline of names -- "heroic figures" that "advanced science." This isn't at all how things actually happen...

Headline is a little weak, Eric. Maybe frame it in terms of percentage area larger, rather than meters of diameter larger? China's radio has what, 2.5x more surface area?

So if we assume the nuclear waste fund remains roughly constant vs inflation, and that the costs you mention roughly halve every 10 years, we are something like 40+ years away from this being a feasible option. Unless, of course, some sort of disruptive technology gets implemented, like a...

Anybody who bakes bread at home knows to be at least a little bit wary of raw flour, especially when it is moistened and left to sit for any length of time. It is stunning how quickly flour + water will get taken over by various bacterias and wild yeasts. Most are harmless, but not all.

The critical failure is bolded. The ocean fucking sucks from a security viewpoint. The ocean is an excellent place to attack from, and a horrific place to defend from unless you are using stealth technology...And if your defense is to remain hidden, that's automatically a fail for power export...

The difference is that the masses choose which language to adopt. C++ didn't get forced onto the masses, which would then make your statement sensible. Since that didn't happen, no, C++ didn't "bring OOP to the masses." The masses chose to adopt C++, not the other way around. A better choice...

Right. Up here in Vermont, we recently shut down our nuclear plant, to much fanfare. There were all sorts of scandals surrounding the plant, leaks and such things. Energy prices have gone up but very few people give a shit. The problem with nuclear is the same as always. Everybody is fine...

Also, can anybody really blame Oracle for this, and does this surprise anybody? Oracle is one of the shittiest companies in the tech world. They gave away Java for free and yet they demand payment for it and sue people for the technology. Since nobody is playing ball with their bullshit...

You have the cause-effect backwards. OOP has been around since the 1960s. The groupthink with programming language choice is fairly unpredictable. The masses chose to adopt C++, which had OOP features. It didn't "bring them to the masses." OOP was already available to the masses for a very...

Fair. I buy what you are selling. Although when compared to hydro, I do think these problems surrounding wind are infinitely more solvable. Wind is everywhere, but there's only so many rivers.

Tesla is a small fry in the sense that they have limited manufacturing experience and extremely limited capital. The only reason they aren't being outproduced is because the big players haven't made any moves yet. GE already has capital at the very heart of manufacturing. They don't just make...

Yes, the batteries are coming. To really put your post in perspective, Tesla is a very small fry. I'm sure GE and the other truly big players will get into battery manufacturing as well, and that's when you will really see some shit going down. GE doesn't need to do massive grassroots...

And to make matters worse, we don't want hydro to increase. Hydro is horrific for the ecosystem. It's not just phantom damage like nutjobs talking about how birds fly into wind turbines. Hydro power really does massively disrupt the river ecosystems. Even when we put in MASSIVELY expensive...

The real question is a statistical one, and it has nothing to do with liability. Is somebody using these features more or less likely to be involved in an accident? More specifically, is somebody using these features more or less likely to be involved in a fatal accident? Unfortunately I...

That's half of it. The other half of it is just blatantly lying about what it is you actually do, and bribing lawmakers and politicians with the profits. How far is this shit going to be taken? "No, Your Honor, I wasn't selling drugs. I was merely facilitating the sharing of them. The money...

Native Linux support is a huge deal, and more Ink features is great for people who own Surfaces. Almost all of the rest of the features/changes, I could give less than a fuck about. Cortana? The Edge browser? Gaming from the Windows Store? ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I have Windows 10 on a...