The $1 Trillion Problem Diamonds Can Solve

Polycrystalline diamonds aren't nearly as pretty as monocrystalline ones are, but they seem to be much easier to produce - especially if you're trying to grow them onto a computer chip.

...which I would never have thought to do but which seems to be really desirable because diamond is a phenomenal conductor of heat, seemingly an improvement on aluminum as a heat sink for electronics on a massive scale.

image from YouTube video above

All that's left is to grow those diamonds via chemical vapor deposition - which is also incredibly cool.

Metal Fabrication Worker Handling 700C+ Metal With Safety on Vacation

Found on reddit...(my apologies for the subreddit's name)...

Wear your PPE, folks. 

I hear people lamenting 'government regulation' all the time, but I recognize that most government regulations were put in place at the cost of somebody's life.

Child labor laws are ridiculous!

Sure, ask the pre-teen miners with black lung.

Rules about keeping emergency exits unlocked? Who needs a rule to do that?

Ask the workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. 

And don't get me started on the radium girls.

Sorry, I'll get down off my soapbox now...