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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Yes! This is exactly what I was alluding too in my original comment. I will also add that there are a number of demographic factors that are going to come to a head over the next 10 years or so that are going to put a serious squeeze on n
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
We saw during Covid that as soon as there was a tiny bit of financial stress on athletic departments they immediately started cutting non-revenue sports, here's a fairly complete list from the last year: https://businessofco
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
The solution in my opinion is to do away with college athletic scholarships and preferred admission for athletes. Let school's field their sports teams from their normal student bodies and ensure that those teams are truly amateur and
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Most devices these days including the iPad and things like Go Pros film in at least 720P which absolutely fills up storage space in no time at all. I started filming my kids' sporting events in HD and editing them on my laptop and I c
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
“The new devices rely on optogenetics, a technique in which researchers use bursts of light to activate or suppress the brain nerve cells, or neurons, often using tailored viruses to genetically modify cells so they respond to illumination
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
I've been involved in several IT projects and companies in the agricultural industry over the years. Most people that try to solve agricultural problems with tech are surprised to find that there is far less money in agriculture than
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
This is because when a bank loans out money in most modern countries they in turn borrow the money from a federal reserve bank which in turn just creates the money to be loaned out. This is how federal reserve banks create more money. The
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Lower sperm counts as well as lower testosterone levels in men have definitely been associated with obesity, and there's no question that's a problem these days.
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Unfortunately the part of Colorado that feeds much of the rest of the southwestern part of the US it's water is still below average in snowpack this year: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail&
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Mann also wrote an article called 1491 for the Atlantic that’s an abbreviated version of the book for anyone who hasn’t read it: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
I found this News Week article also very interesting and it goes into more detail about the DRASTIC internet group and how they made some of their discoveries: https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-how-amateur-sleuths-broke...
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
I've definitely been to some US East coast rest stops that have a pretty nice food court and there were Tesla superchargers in the parking lot. Not every state has them but it seems like Tesla could build something like that where the
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Most Tesla superchargers will charge from 0-80% in 20-30 minutes. There's no need for anyone to spend hours in their car charging.
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
The mistake they keep making is focusing on sea level rise, as if that's the only real problem global warming could cause. Even at 1.5 degrees C higher than normal it will take years for enough ice to melt to cause significant sea lev
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Neither scenario for how Sars-Cov-2 came to infect humans looks good for China, it's interesting that they are pushing one over the other. On the one hand we have unsanitary food markets and the questionable production and sale of exot
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
The same I would think is true with coal power plants. Our local coal plant has a huge footprint, especially when you consider the cooling pond/lake, scrubbers, support buildings etc. This is not even considering the mining of fissil
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
I never understood why Yahoo got so wrapped around the axle with the search engine business. I used to use Yahoo a lot to start my web browsing and I liked the fact that it wasn't a search engine. They provided broad categories that
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Yeah, I'm actually in Fort Collins, I was trying to be a little vague for anonymity but ya know. With Longmont Colorado having municipal broadband I think Comcast saw Fort Collins as a hill worth dying on. I've heard that Boulde
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
The city I live in voted for municipal broadband in 2017. Our local private internet provider Comcast fought it at every turn, Comcast spent millions fighting municipal broadband in a city with about 150,000 residents. We started rolling o
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Couldn't they use the heat to to drive the wheels directly, maybe they could go to more of a hybrid drive? Just seems like such a waste to produce that much heat for 15 years.
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by fiftyfifty 5y ago
Couldn't you use something like a Stirling engine to create more electricity from the excess heat? You might have to have an external radiator to create a heat gradient with a closed loop of liquid but it certainly seems possible.
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It would probably be worth contacting someone at the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which is part of the USDA. It was literally created as a response to the soil lost during the dustbowl and was originally called the "Soil Co
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by fiftyfifty 6y ago
The company I work for actually suggested getting rid of our office and going 100% remote for our group. We actually voted on whether to keep leasing it after Covid or not. We voted to keep it as we generally like our office and it's
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by fiftyfifty 6y ago
I think several of your categories nailed what the vast majority of car owners are looking for: an transportation appliance. This is where I think EVs will eventually dominate the market, the only thing you will have to worry about is plug
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At this point the most economically viable solution is probably to widen the Suez Canal.
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There were talks about building a train from Eilat to Ashdod, this article claims it's not economically feasable: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/suez-canal-ship-eilat-ca... Looking at the terrain in Israel bu
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by fiftyfifty 6y ago
Here's some pictures of Tesla's plans for it's battery pack: https://electrek.co/2021/01/19/tesla-structural-battery-pack... In that article it specifically mentions the cells being "bound
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For Tesla's the battery pack is about 1/4 of the vehicle's weight. The battery pack weighs around 500Kg and the car is around 2,000Kg, depending on the model. The main problem as EV manufacturers look to shave weight the ba
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by fiftyfifty 6y ago
So can we say science has finally achieved a biological “Hello World”?
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It will be interesting to see if they push Superheavy/Starship into production before they've completely mastered the landing/re-use of the second stage (or even the first stage)? They might as well get paid for some of thes

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