SquirrelOnFire

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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Dang. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
If you and your dining partner rank the kind of restaurants you'd like to go to tonight. You rank 1) Indian 2) Chinese and 3) Italian Your partner ranks 1) Gastropub 2) Chinese and 3) Steakhouse you're going to get Chinese food,
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
If you make energy cheap and non-carbon enough, do you still think this is true? If the promises of the 4th gen nuke plants are realized, or controlled fusion is achieved for example, and electricity hits 5% of current price to produce (VER
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
On an individual level, it doesn't improve being a good coworker. On an institutional level, you get a broader set of ideas when you have a more diverse workforce, giving you a better chance at a black swan idea. And frankly, better od
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
How are the artists getting more money from secondary market? That's like saying an author gets royalties from a used book store.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Depends on the material. Brittle materials will. Ductile materials tend to break on a 90 degree plane - https://goo.gl/images/QYMJmf
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
And that you had the discipline not to spend it.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
House of Cards (First 2 seasons at least), Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black, Marco Polo, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Dear White People, Bojack Horseman, and to a lesser extent some of the Marvel shows (Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Check out light phone 2. Might suit you.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
So now that we've begun factory farming cockroaches, how long until a cockroach-pox emerges?
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
>Nowadays, "working-class, blue-collar" stuff does not make money, and if "working-class, blue-collar" people identify with the economic system which designates their labor as a cost to be repressed rather than a serv
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Define "designed for productivity?" If I'm a writer, I will need very different things than a video editor or software developer to be productive.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
My understanding is that the main radioactive waste from rare earth mining is Thorium - a pretty easy to handle material (the US just buries it in landfills, which is enough to contain it) with the potential to be a valuable resource in its
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by SquirrelOnFire 9y ago
Couldn't you send a driver out with a USB (or similar) steering wheel? That way an unlicensed driver wouldn't be able to operate the machine.
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by SquirrelOnFire 9y ago
How do you measure the gene-expression effects of your supplements? Can you track certain disease causing genes and see how they're impacted by your supplements?
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by SquirrelOnFire 9y ago
Ease off on your pace for the last 10-15 min so your body has a chance to cool off. If you are showering regularly you remove the bacteria that cause the stank, so sweating by itself won't cause most people to be excessively funky.
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by SquirrelOnFire 9y ago
What tires do you use to ride on ice? I've wiped out on ice myself, and it has scared me off from riding when it is icy.
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by SquirrelOnFire 9y ago
Schmidts works pretty well if your skin doesn't react poorly to the Baking Soda in it.
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by SquirrelOnFire 9y ago
Mind sharing the list/mnemonic?
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
Would it drop? Yes. Would just about any bank be willing to write a multi-million dollar loan to Bezos? Also yes, so there's no need for him to sell. He can take out a loan and collateralize it with AMZN stock and thus spend as much as
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
Drag reduction is, I think as important as decreasing the shock wave generated by breaking the local speed of sound. Partial vacuum does both. Not sure how to optimize for cost and reliability of construction vs max sped
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
Serious issue with rail guns is the acceleration. Might be suitable for cargo lift, but accelerate a human quickly enough and it squishes rather unpleasantly.
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
Lost your cherry to the Smurfs, eh?
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
There are some rather clever and simple options for energy storage - like sending an electrically driven train up a few miles of inclined track - http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a1... Th
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
Trees are great short-term carbon storage. When they burn or rot, they re-release most of their carbon back into the atmosphere though.
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
True! But it also returns to the atmosphere when it burns or decays. Turn it into charcoal [1] and you have about 1,000 years of stability. Turn it into a mineral and you have indefinite stability. [1] http://www.carbolea.ul.ie&#
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
Apparently I mentally added an order of magnitude - best link I could find says 1,000 year storage http://www.carbolea.ul.ie/files/Biochar%20Swift%20Hayes%20Ch... and biochar.org
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by SquirrelOnFire 10y ago
Neat! Storing carbon stably is huge. We have much easier ways to get to 10,000 year storage (turning fast-growing biomass like miscanthus or other giant grasses into charcoal and throwing it in an old mine), but i haven't heard of othe
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by SquirrelOnFire 11y ago
's British. The Queen's and allat.
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by SquirrelOnFire 11y ago
The "Gateway Drug" argument is often used against cannabis. Some warned against cannabis legalization, saying that it'd increase cocaine and heroin use. Heroin seems to be doing fine all on its own, thank you very much.

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