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Grindr App to Offer H.I.V. Test Reminders(nytimes.com)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie(techcrunch.com)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Fission is required for D-T fusion at this point, otherwise you don’t have any tritium. It’s the people who ignore that, and our failure to breed tritium within a fusion reactor who are disingenuous. If you don’t know even that much about t
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
If you want to be really cynical then the project they’re moved to is still fusion, but the NIF style used for nuclear weapons research rather than power plants. Then it’s not just about salary, it’s about tempting people who would never
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
D-T fusion suffers from all of those problems.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Reality is what we choose to make of it. In the case of the US, reality is crony capitalism running a yearly trillion dollar deficit, billlions wasted on military contracts like Zumwalt, and overspending-underperforming healthcare. Let’s le
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
It is very unclean, especially since it requires conventional fission reactors to produce the tritium. It’s theoretically possibl to breed tritium in the reactor blanket of the fusion reactor, but that’s a totally unsolved problem. The high
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
To be clear, previously the star was apparently dimmed by 4%, and now “really dark” means 5%. It’s still not an alien megastructure, and an additional 1% is not “really dark” and this is clickbait.
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New Leadership Has Not Changed Uber(nytimes.com)
138 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|66 comments
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FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks(techcrunch.com)
167 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|104 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
I... don’t mind this? If you have a corpse and a phone, that’s sort of sensible. I’d expect this to be the case, and the person is dead after all.
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Disgraceful Dashcam Video Proves Uber Is the Theranos of Self-Driving(thedrive.com)
6 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|1 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
An “amazing work,” just to be very very clear, by Ted Kaczynski, the serial bomber. Not that he has nothing of value to say, but keep the source well in mind. He’s a smart guy, with a lot of insight, and he’s also batshit crazy and a remors
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Here are the top Midwestern states and cities for startups(techcrunch.com)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
It’s not about what you share. See responses to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675819
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Also don’t let your friends and family use it, block their Pixel, don’t let them buy brokered info on you, don’t let anyone else with Facebook on your WiFi... and do this all perfectly 100% of the time.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Naive. Facebook does more than just passively let you fill out surveys, with their Pixel and snooping on your texts and contacts being just a couple of examples.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
I hate that, if I somehow don’t want to consign my personal data, beliefs, preferences, relationships, work history, daily plans, and private messages to a massive advertising corporation, I have to risk missing out on seminal life events.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
This is why they’re being “calmed” and kept comfortable. In the immortal words of Pickle Rick, I think it's helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind we value in the animals we eat, but not so
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Ice Creams That Make Everything Else Seem Vanilla(atlasobscura.com)
6 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ Video of Mating Deep-Sea Anglerfish(sciencemag.org)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments