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by GW150914 8y ago
Milk is heavily subsidized in the US, to the tune of 73% of returns. https://www.realagriculture.com/2018/02/u-s-dairy-subsidies-...
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by GW150914 8y ago
Boom https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10052/what-would... I mean, a really stupendously huge boom. There is no question that this stuff would be unstable outside I’d the gravity well of the neutron st
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by GW150914 8y ago
Sweet fuck, that’s the worst and least informative title I’ve ever seen! None of it is accurate, all of it is misleading. What can happen is that a white dwarf (which is not a star, but a stellar remnant) can be sufficiently heated and com
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by GW150914 8y ago
Its possible, but not at all feasible. It’s also not really practical and the nature of it undercuts the usual “where are all of the intelligent species colonizing the galaxy?” arguments which tend to crop up.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Or in other words, no such “modern spacecraft” fitting your earlier description exists outside of designs which may or may not work as intended or ever fly. When such designs are actually built, tested and proven feel free to make sweeping
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by GW150914 8y ago
Can you give me some examples of those modern spacecraft which are capable of a moonshot and don’t require trained personnel?
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by GW150914 8y ago
Why would you bother taking a trip that involved leaving your entire species hundreds of thousands, even millions of years behind you? It would be energetically expensive, and the civilization that launched it couldn’t expect to care or rem
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by GW150914 8y ago
I used to live in Andover, MA in a prior existence, and while the town is very rich it is also as they say, very historic. I wouldn’t be shocked if the infrastructure was ancient. As for Lawrence (disclaimer: it may have changed) it was a s
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by GW150914 8y ago
SpaceX has been kicking ass for a while now, I wouldn’t bet against them being in it for the long haul. BUT, I don’t think the people who sign up for this should seriously expect to fly around the moon. That is a very very non-trivial engin
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think the broadening palette and recovering from WWII and processed food had a lot to do with it. You can only make so many things in a truck, but if you’re able to draw from worldwide traditions it represents real variety. Everything fro
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by GW150914 8y ago
If you haven’t read Liu Cixin’s Rememberance of Earth’s Past trilogy you might really enjoy it.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Surely part of the problem is that so many people love or want to live in a place that long-term, can’t get water, is subject to deveststing earthquakes, and is overpopulated in terms of what can be sustained in a sane manner over time? It
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by GW150914 8y ago
That's the charity of Kings. The French king gave a lot to charity with one hand and created a lot more misery with the other. This is just the return of the times of charity. You’d think people would remember how that worked out for
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by GW150914 8y ago
Right, but as I was under the impression that the actual 18650 Cells are made by Panasonic in Japan.
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by GW150914 8y ago
As I understand it that was (is?) the plan, to build the cars and batteries under the same roof. I think Tesla and Panasonic were talking about building a similar factory in China too, although I don’t know the status of that today.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Doesn’t Panasonic make their batteries? To what extent can Panasonic decide to sell the batteries without dealing with Tesla?
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by GW150914 8y ago
Even if you don’t like what Google does vis a vis privacy (and I don’t) I think you’d have to completely agree with your assessment. Public congressional hearings are almost always political circuses, and you’re not going to “win” one of th
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by GW150914 8y ago
No, if I don’t want ads I use an ad blocker and script manager that only exists to block out what you’re selling. As a bonus I get to hope that far from being able to help save this wretched industry, I can help to hammer some nails in its
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by GW150914 8y ago
At least reviews don’t mine bitcoin on my box, come with malware, chug my processor, and track me across the web. Ads stink, but it’s the fact that ads have become synonymous with info brokering, spying, and all of the rest that makes me re
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by GW150914 8y ago
Sorry that was massively unclear of me, and the answer is 8oz of water is a serving, unit, whatever. Aka ~120ml. Just water though, not juice, or soda or coffee. The first is loaded with sugar which competes with alcohol for liver time, and
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by GW150914 8y ago
Buy a shaker of something like Nu-Salt or other sodium alternative and pop it in the mix. That’s not a factor in a hangover though, it really only matters if you’re losing a lot of fluids due to illness.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Oh it’s special, you can’t possibly make Pedialyte at home without a laba- we’ll really it’s piss easy. Sugar, salt, water and... that’s it. If you want get fancy and include the classic flavors and colors, add powdered drink mix to taste o
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by GW150914 8y ago
Didn’t Dave Morton leave in under a month? That feels pretty “jumping ship” to me at least. It’s also worth remembering that “Musk smokes weed” was the tail end of something that really began with “Musk calls hero pedophile online, then dou
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by GW150914 8y ago
Hm, and these are nanoparticles too, right? They could conceivably pass into all kinds of tissues and end up in unexpected places. Silica is pretty inert, but I’d still be leery.
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by GW150914 8y ago
We're in a post-Theranos world. Which was in turn in a post-Enron world. The one sure way to make sure that crap can keep happening is to pretend that something has really changed, so it can’t happen again. It can, stay vigilant.
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by GW150914 8y ago
My advice, unasked for, is threefold. First, accept that st first it’s going to be a little messy. Your sleep might get wonky, you might feel a bit depressed or “blank” and you might even have hot flashes. It will pass, and little tokes her
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think that has more to do with the massive power asymmetry, because a service worker is generally expected to smile and take it. They don’t represent someone who humiliated the angry customer, they represent a punching bag.
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by GW150914 8y ago
> You have a very naive view of other people. You have a very naïve view of government: I don’t think he does, he’s just not sold on your alternative based on childlike assumptions such as They work together at being thugs (though eve
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by GW150914 8y ago
Or maybe if you become a vet it’s because you love animals, and killing them day in, day out takes a massive toll.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Not getting typhus from a rotting pile of horse is a definite win, but a Pyrrhic victory if we end up trashing the entire planet as a result of global warming. Less horse shit was a boon for sanitation in big cities, but TEL was a bone ride

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