Kattywumpus

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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
I'm a little surprised I haven't seen more discussion about Gridcoin. I'd much rather use a digital currency if I knew it was contributing to curing cancer, mapping the shapes and orbits of asteroids, discovering new pulsars,
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
For anyone curious (as I was), here is the cover of the New Yorker with the seahorse White painted in 1932: http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-April...
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
> sustainability and care about the environment The reason we have a solar power industry at all is because satellites needed robust long term power sources, not because someone cared about the environment. The first solar cells were inv
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
They're not being sued for providing a platform for free speech; they're being sued for providing material support to terrorists. Maybe it's impossible to do one without doing both, maybe it isn't. I don't know. May
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
I wonder how long it will be until some VC forces the inevitable rebranding of the Soylent name. "We need to reach out to a larger demographic with a name that communicates the value proposition of the product. Liquid Lunch focus-group
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
You also have to compare NASA's incredible success rate to others in their field. In 2013, China's Yutu moon rover broke down in less than a month. In 2014, the ESA's Philae lander failed to launch its harpoons and fire the t
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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by Kattywumpus 10y ago
You mean, "What should the state do?" That's a different question than what ordinary human beings should do. The notion that someone who said, "Jesus wants me to live on the street," would suddenly find themselves i
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by Kattywumpus 10y ago
Atom storage has been done before by others. This example at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2002 comes to mind: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/080702/Ultimate_memory_de...
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by Kattywumpus 10y ago
High deportation figures are misleading http://fw.to/k0n8PiS > Until recent years, most people caught illegally crossing the southern border were simply bused back into Mexico in what officials called "voluntary ret
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by Kattywumpus 12y ago
I'm not the OP, but I am a Windows Phone user, and I love it. Obviously, it may not be your cup of tea, but it has an appeal other phones don't for me. First, I don't think MS is "copying Apple". Using Live Tiles is