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It exists for the sole purpose of benefiting its investors and whoever may be behind any investment fronts used to push that currency. I wonder who they might be?

I fully agree with your take on this being an exercise in throwing money at a problem until it goes away. He probably didn't even need to go as far as diving headfirst into the wor…

> Building "a" car isn't that hard. Tesla deserves plenty of accolades just for getting to the point where they are producing multiple models of vehicle that conform to or exceed m…

Land utilization is the issue. The largest solar farms in the US requires an order of magnitude more land to produce the same amount of power as a relatively average nuclear plant.…

>"Also interestingly, part of his motivation is explicitly monetary: he wants his life savings to go to his family, not a nursing home." That sentiment may seem strange to most peo…

The way I read it, the point was that "another first virus" wasn't likely to be designed as a benign proof of concept by a tinkerer who meant no harm. The author's view is that the…

3 Things: 1. "Driver-less cars have vastly shorter stopping distances at all speeds" I can understand your expectation of reduced stopping distances due to the near-0 reaction time…

Amazon isn't manufacturing these products either. They're just cutting out the middleman and going straight to the source in exactly the same manner as grocery stores do with their…

The reason AmazonBasic's offerings tend to dominate their respective markets isn't because they are the cheapest option. They dominate because they are the cheapest option which yo…

I think the consumer can only gain from such entries into the market. AmazonBasic products are often just a standardization of a simple product in a market with too many options. C…

Just to add to those two other points, the 360 was Microsoft's leading platform for developing countries and countries with heavy import restrictions. For example, Brazil's incredi…

I might be out of touch with the latest news regarding Magic Leap but this is the first time I've seen a "live" demo of the technology. Those demo shots were filmed through an actu…

The later iterations on the concept were vastly superior to the original Eee and Eee clones. Netbooks in the $500 range typically had dual core Atoms (a big deal since the CPU was …

That number is nowhere near accurate as we learned during the South Carolina floods back in October. The state estimates there are between 10,000 and 20,000 unregulated dams in Sou…

The threat posed by small dams and their short designed life expectancy was demonstrated in dramatic fashion earlier this year. The historic flooding that impacted South Carolina's…

That supply chain exists for the Whole Foods in my area at least.

Did you miss the next sentence? "(T)aste is more dependent on the variety of tomato than on the way it is grown." The grocery store tomato is not the same varietal as the heirloom …

These populations aren't mentally incompetent, they use chimneys. The issue is that chimney's aren't 100% efficient and only remove the pollution from the home, not the surrounding…

Some of that is Google's fault but I place most of the blame on the businesses themselves. I'd understand it if most of the local businesses that forgo an online presence were all …

The issue of radio spectrum is glossed over in a short bullet-point summary at the end of the article while I believe it deserves to be the article's thesis. The limitations impose…

"this completely ignores other scenarios where people want to be hit with hot/cold and don't care what the actual temp is, or that the temp doesn't measure the sun hitting you on y…

The basic design of the A4 engine in the V-2 was a sound concept. The reliability of wartime production was held back by the deteriorating conditions and post-war testting was held…

I know of one plane so crazy that it has to make this list even though it never left the drawing board, the Lippisch P.13A. We all know the Nazis had crazy ideas, we know that had …

NASA has the brains to design a better odometer but navigating by stars and GPS makes more sense. Also, remember the +/-3% next time you're comparing a used cars. Worrying about 5-…

There's a company named Gelid that makes computer heatsinks and fans, they touted their German engineering so I just assumed it was a German word or family name. Know it makes more…