Anything that has a half-life of 500,000 years isn't very radioactive at all. The half life is directly related to the amount of harmful stuff it puts out.

It was inevitable. Tesla was, for a long time, over-hyped. Now the pendulum is swinging back the other way, and every little thing that goes wrong will get national attention.

I'd be very surprised if Tesla was "doomed".

I agree with this. Steam has hundreds of titles that are worth the $5 or $7 they charge. You could never bring a title like that to a console without jacking up the price.

Lately people in my social circle have been getting together on a weekend afternoon and playing a cheap game. Usually they don't have much depth, but if I get four or five hours of play out of a game that cost $4 I'm happy.

Yes. Preventing SQL injection attacks is very, very easy. To have something like that in your code in 2015 is inexcusable.

They'd probably start operating on the dry cleaning model. The shop has one employee who takes custody of your bike. That night it gets loaded on a truck and taken somewhere cheaper. It's repaired using lower cost labor and shipped back to the shop the next night.

So the bike shop is still there, but it has only one employee and nothing gets repaired while you wait.

That actually makes sense.

Bleah.

Are you saying you think there's resistance here to an organic rise in wages? I don't see it.

I support it. I think higher wages for unskilled and semi-skilled workers is generally a good thing.

But then, I make a conscious effort to live in an area with reasonable housing prices.

>A bit tangential, but I'd also argue that the military as recourse is, itself, an unfair burden on poor people.

Not borne out by the statistics. The average recruit comes from a family that's better educated and wealthier than the average American. The real problem with poor people using the military to lift themselves out of poverty is so many of them can't enlist as a consequence of obesity or a criminal record.

'Rich kids don't feel compelled to enlist just to make financial ends meet.'

Statistics only tell you the demographics of enlisting, not -why- they're enlisting. Plenty of people enlist because of reasons other than "I have no other options available to me". My point was that "I have no other options available to me" is only ever true for poor people.

>My point was that "I have no other options available to me" is only ever true for poor people.

And my point was if you have no other options the military probably won't take you either.

The idea is everyone ends up better off because you don't need a giant civil service bureaucracy to apply arcane rules about who does and does not qualify for various subsidies.

Oh yes. What could an HN story that involves poverty be without yet another round of "You don't know poor people. Let me tell you about poverty."

I am not offering a story. Where'd you get that? Oh, right, you imagined it.

Whenever I see a NYT headline that starts "The Myth of...", I know whatever they're pooh-poohing is true.