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by _rpd 5y ago
Will likely be ruled unconstitutional under WA state constitution: https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/lawmake...
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Won’t fans of this flavor just switch to vaping?
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Published May 8, 2020
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It took me a long time to understand that a lot of people use small talk to filter out crazy people. You have to pass the small talk test to be allowed to have meaningful conversations.
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Possibly patent constrained?
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This finding expands our knowledge of graphs. The classic application of graphs is logistics, but there are many, many more ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory#Applications
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Project site: https://deeptime.fr/en/
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My understanding is that Ingenuity will act as a scout for the rover, to make the rover’s investigations even more productive.
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pumped hydro is great, but requires uninhabited geography of a type that is in short supply in many nations.
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Here’s what the article says about cost: > For a 25-year project, he estimates that Gravitricity would cost $171 for each megawatt-hour. Jessika Trancik, an energy storage researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says tha
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I think they misrepresented the project so that it would be classified as “not human research”. It’s unclear whether the misrepresentation was intentional (to obtain the exemption) or unintentional (they were genuinely unaware of the human
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There's a political aspect. The judge has a real impact supporting a pro intellectual property agenda. Texas is famous for its interpretation of property rights, upon which many oil and gas fortunes were founded. There seems to be a
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> the social media giant has been funneling money to America’s biggest news organizations—and hanging the rest of the press out to dry. The complaint here doesn't seem to be that Facebook is handing out money, but rather that not ev
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Fossil fuels aren't the only possible feedstock for plastics, just the current cheapest option. If you make fossil fuels more expensive, then people will use ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic
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> If you have to deliver those recyclables to a local business in person But you don’t have to. You can just throw it in the trash or blue lid recycling bin, emptied every Monday. What motivates someone to spend hours scrubbing and pers
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> It’s clear this is not immune to the sorting problem which is the root cause of why plastic recycling is unprofitable Yeah, they depict collectors bicycling around town with a trailer and then washing and delabeling the collected plast
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Yes, higher res, higher fps is coming, but will take a couple of days. I hope the landing was smooth and we can look forward to lots of aerial photos from Ingenuity.
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Contradictory nutrition news creates consumer confusion https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128153814.h... Confusion and nutritional backlash from news media exposure to contradictory informat
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Previous discussion ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706570
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The thing is though, the reason a place is a tourist destination is because it is special in some way. It’s appropriate for the government of a tourist-driven economy to act to preserve that specialness. Sometimes that means less tourists
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> if supply is restricted. Demand goes down Luxury goods can behave oddly, but in general demand is independent of supply. Restricting supply causes prices to rise, which lowers demand (at that high price). The underlying demand (at th
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For context, the author is the Verge's Executive Editor, a (former?) prince among twitterati.
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My understanding is that it is quite difficult for a disease to be spread by mosquitoes. There's an aspect of co-evolution that limits significant spread to particular species. Of thousands of species of mosquito, there are just a ha
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Private orgs are merely greedy. The government is malevolent in dimensions you didn’t even know existed.
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Definitely! ‘Imaginary’ happiness as well to allow for periodicity. But before all of that the linearity assumption [H(a+b)=H(a)+H(b)] needs to be restricted to particular local domains, and explicitly disclaimed in general.
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Yes. There is definitely a sense in which every Polio or Malaria free person increases collective happiness, but the ‘repugnant conclusion’ is flat Earth levels of ignorance.
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> It's not so much repugnant as ridiculous Exactly. Philosophers should be required to take courses in abstract algebra and topology before being allowed to discuss utilitarianism.
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Suppose happiness can be quantified, e.g., 1 billion people each have 10 happiness, for a total of 10 billion happiness. Then 10 billion people with 1.1 happiness each yield 11 billion total happiness. They are, collectively, happier. And
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tl;dr: > And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. A
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> The exclusivity itself is much of their value. I think the author realizes this. The article is an attempt to shame them into giving up this value.

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