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One reason I don't see mentioned here is the element of risk. Establishing a solar farm is an expensive operation, and likely carries a lot of risk - particularly as a first mover. Contrast that with a potential ROI for home owners.

While noble, it seems the opposite is true. I think most people don't care about future problems, let alone other life forms. Musk has done so well precisely because he's marketed his products in a way that they appeal to people on a personal level. I mean, he could have started with a low performance, average-looking, electric, family sedan. Instead he sold something much more emotive/egotistical, with huge success.

If you want to do the right thing long term, provide products that do the right thing and market them on a personal level.

Less chance of the battery terminals coming into contact with a random conductor and short circuiting, maybe?

> Nothing of value is lost. Real friends and important info finds a way to get through.

I've also found this to be true.

Along with the groups app, you can get a browser extension to block the news feed, and liberally disable notifications that you don't care about (including email/sms).

huh, nice! I hadn't noticed that before either.

A mentioned above, cockroaches are not a vulnerable species.

> This is saving human lives.

Maybe I'm weird, but I often wonder why we value our own kind so highly above all others. Is a human life that much more important/valuable than another species? If so, why?

Or is it just a preservation instinct?

If it's a question of the level of intelligence of the sentient being be exploited in relation to the perpetrating species, precisely at what point would it be ok for a sufficiently intellectually superior alien species to exploit humans for their benefit?

It's not morbid, but sensible. No-one gets out of life alive.

An unexpected death in my immediate family several years ago helped me realize how underprepared most of us are for death; for all the people and living things around us to die. Rather than be caught surprised, I've tried to remember that life can end in any moment, and it's best to make the most of things (and borrowed atoms, as you say) while you can.

indeed

I can think of a few things:

- global competition, in that factory workers are competing against the pay/living-standards of those in poorer nations

- no unions

- a preparedness of employees to work for a pittance, towards unobtainable quotas, in unsafe conditions, for dangerously long periods of time.

I'm not sure work gets any more full-time than 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. "Full-time permanent" sounds like semantics and a loophole for companies to exploit.

My concern is that this will lead to increased food waste, ie. retailers rejecting perfectly edible foods that don't scan well. That's already enough of an issue with irregular shaped produce.

The article makes it sound very much like that, except 12 hours per day.

Your answer made me chuckle in a good way - great way to turn a potential negative into something funny and positive! I'm sure I'm not the only one checking out your site because of this.

> I just found myself in situations where either there was no mouse, or it was more convenient to use the keyboard.

So it's better to just unplug the mouse then? :)

Alcohol is ridiculously expensive in Australia. We don't drink less of it.

If the cost of meat were a driving factor in reducing consumption, consider that it's maybe 4x less expensive (a guesstimate based on my own experience) to eat whole plant based proteins than meat.

It is inherently more efficient and sustainable to eat the plant proteins we grow than to feed them to animals. 1kg of meat also requires 100x the amount of water per kg of protein [1].

[1] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/660S.full

Because we'd need significantly more land/pasture to feed livestock that way.

It's the mass extinction event that we've created that really grinds at me. All these amazing species of flora/fauna erased from the universe to make our lives a little more convenient.

Soya beans aren't the only bean a vegetarian can eat. There are plenty of protein rich plants that will grow in almost every climate.

While I applaud your meat buying preferences, it would be an environmental disaster for every meat eater on earth to attempt to do the same.

Your Australian voice is decidedly British.

> "Only 2 percent of the 78 million tons of manufactured plastics are currently recycled"

Is there any info/stats on what happens to the rest?

Is San Diego cyclist friendly? A ride would be about 1/2 that commute time!

I have the same issue with both 2.7.10 and 3.5.1 after following the steps in your readme.

First question, how do you define a robot?

+1. I can't believe I didn't know that.

Indeed. I'd be interested to hear his views on candidates who've done the equivalent of an undergrad CS degree online (MOOCs, etc), too.

Nice work - just signed up. What criteria you use in selecting MOOCs for the degree path? How do you keep it up to date?