Are they crappy at selling a good idea, or is it just a crappy idea to start?

Sadly the Fairphone doesn't appear to be available in North America, even from their reseller Murena. I'm unaware of any other hardware manufacturer trying for that level of repairability.

I know that there are a few helmets that you can get a heated visor for. The Bell MX9 Adventure is one of them. I have no idea how its powered though.

Today, I learned. Thanks. :D

I'm super curious as to why the Heavy seems to use a circular engine configuration instead of the 3x3 that is used for the current Falcon boosters. On the surface, it doesn't make sense to have two very different designs of something that is ostensibly very similar to each other.

This is a path to madness. All the cables really need to do all the things, despite the fact that doing so drives the cost up. Having 8 different icons for what a cable can and can't do would be insanity. Doubly so since no manufacturer would do it right.

This is actually kind of an interesting question. Does it matter where the part was printed?

This leads to an interesting conundrum that no one I've asked about has a good answer for: It takes several years of research, development, and testing to get any given medicine to market. That's not just waiting for gears to grind, there are frequently people working on that medicine, and all of them like to eat. Many of them spent a shedload of cash to get the educations they have to be able to do work like this.

I don't know what the FDA criteria are for approving or denying approval for a given medicine to go onto a market, but I suspect it's not a trivial process that requires even more money and time of highly educated and paid people.

It doesn't matter if a given company gets denied the ability to bring a given medicine to market or not; how do they manage to pay the for the next one they're working on? And how many failures can a given company weather before they shut the doors and stop trying? How many other companies will step up and fill the new gap when one does shut doors?

TL;DR: It's a huge risk to develop medicine. I'm not sure how to mitigate that in a fashion that doesn't reward incompetence like many federal contracts seem to.

Advertising prescription meds has always seemed weird to me though, for sure.

Most people using some sort of emergency communication that uses satellites will want the device to be a bit more robust than the typical cell phone. Garmin, Spot, and others make devices specifically for this role, and I don't see them getting replaced by a cell phone.

Depends. While it's not optically transparent, translucent has a place like in skylights, yes?

Mercedes has you covered if all you want is a big wagon with respectable power. Sadly, they quit bringing over the E63, which was a big wagon with the ability to shred its own tires.

0.1% of users of this will consider this a deal breaker for sure.

The locals call it "Misery" for good reason.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Scale matters in this case, and its my understanding that many of the countries that are offering cheap fiber are closer to the size of a US state, not the entire country. The distance east to west across Texas as an extreme example is something like 900 miles / 1500 km as just an example of ONE STATE where long hauls would have to happen to get fiber to the home.

How many countries that provide $30/month fiber are near the size of the US?