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by bcOpus 8y ago
Ouch. His CFO quit, and his lawyer just quit. Tesla Inc.’s general counsel is leaving just two months after being hired in the wake of Elon Musk’s run-in with U.S. securities regulators. Shares of the electric-car maker declined on the new
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The Coming Care Crisis as Kids with Autism Grow Up(theatlantic.com)
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Can Wildlife Adapt to Heat Waves?(daily.jstor.org)
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Jailed for stealing grapes: The motives of Japan's elderly inmates(bbc.com)
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China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025(engadget.com)
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Researchers Blame YouTube for the Rise in Flat Earthers(engadget.com)
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by bcOpus 8y ago
Lithium is a mood stabilizer, and greatly predates modern psychiatric intervention. I believe that the earlier generations you’re thinking of are tricyclics and MAOI’s (Monoamine oxidase inhibitors). Both are still used, but are no longer t
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by bcOpus 8y ago
Independence requires more than the ability to “drop rocks” it requires total self-sufficiency. Without that you’re bombing the people who can kill you just by withholding essentials like food, water, and air. No one is even pretending that
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by bcOpus 8y ago
The formula of appealing to a small base which keeps you in power through cronyism is the formula for power. It’s true in every place you find political and financial power, from Beijing to small-town USA, to corporate boardrooms around t
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by bcOpus 8y ago
Not the person you’re replying to, and fuck me if I’m wading into the question of sexism, but professionalism and maturity are things. We get paid the big bucks now, we’re not snotty kids in our parent’s garage; a whole world of acceptable
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The Belgian Library That Tore Itself Apart(atlasobscura.com)
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Razer Closes Its Game Store After 10 Months(engadget.com)
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Japanese Newspaper for Recluses, by Recluses(atlasobscura.com)
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by bcOpus 8y ago
Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs. Where “progress” is synonymous with “profit” and the things being broken aren’t yours. Having said that if you’re volunteering, I know a guy with a hammer.
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The Mystery of The Mojave Megaphone(atlasobscura.com)
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Why Flying Cars Are an Impossible Dream(theatlantic.com)
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FaceTime Is Eroding Trust in Tech(theatlantic.com)
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VW Will Convert German Car-Parts Factory to Build Mobile EV Charging Stations(thedrive.com)
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Tesla Service Center Expansion Stuck in “Infrastructure Hell”(thedrive.com)
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by bcOpus 8y ago
It’s not a fallacy, it’s an ideal, a goal to be strived for while accepting human limitations. No one can perfectly design and build a house, but we don’t shrug and say “Perfect right angles are an illusion, enjoy your crooked house.” Besid
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by bcOpus 8y ago
And of course that black market is on average actually cheaper, often by 2x than the “legal” sources. Nobody gets taxed for growing a little on the side, or buying on the black market. As usual local greed is strangling an emerging market w
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by bcOpus 8y ago
Then those people are actively seeking to maintain the supremacy of the black market, despite decades of evidence as to the inability of such measures to reduce consumption. Maybe people who have such ignorant and baseless beliefs shouldn’t
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Reid Hoffman denies direct knowledge of funding disinformation in AL Senate race(techcrunch.com)
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Elon Musk lays out ambitious plan for Tesla Supercharger network in Europe(techcrunch.com)
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The Backlash to Streamer with a ‘God Complex’ Reveals a Big Twitch Taboo(theverge.com)
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by bcOpus 8y ago
The Russian diplomat would have immunity, the car is not a magic “immunity” force bubble for the occupants. Unless they grind him up and stick his remains in a diplomatic pouch, he’s gettable outside of an embassy. Diplomatic immunity doesn
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by bcOpus 8y ago
It will vary by country. In a lot of Europe and the US the content will still be illegal. In Japan it won’t be. At some point the issue is going to come down to what you want to spend manpower and money fighting, people who actually endange
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by bcOpus 8y ago
I’m pretty sure FB already maximizes their profit per user based on what they think the user can tolerate, and I doubt it can be arbitrarily pushed further on a whim.
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Artificial Intelligence – A Counterintelligence Perspective(lawfareblog.com)
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Better Living Through Nudity(daily.jstor.org)
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