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by flybrand 3y ago
Doesn’t it settle on the tarps / covering too?
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by flybrand 3y ago
I’m concerned, but it’s a hobby where the penalty for failure is getting wet.
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by flybrand 3y ago
I clipped a granite plinth Efoiling - your ride comes to a very abrupt halt. Thankfully the board was fine and the carbon fiber wing had just minor scuffing.
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by flybrand 3y ago
Isn’t this similar to a short-seller mantra from finance? “The masses can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
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by flybrand 3y ago
Inflation metrics are gamed, it no longer includes major categories.
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by flybrand 3y ago
this will get revised down; all the stats are optimistically released, then rounded down, then changed if still not good enough
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by flybrand 3y ago
Yes, or a book?
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by flybrand 3y ago
Torture, bear mace.
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by flybrand 3y ago
Why are these ‘experts’ credible when so many experts have been wrong? Topics like this that impact more people deserve much more open scrutiny.
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by flybrand 3y ago
No, they won’t. It’s just more hype and blind faith in technology.
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by flybrand 3y ago
I ran copper wires to convenient locations in my house and then hard mounted manual switches to control lighting that is far away.
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by flybrand 3y ago
It will relaunch as part of Google+ in 2025, along with a competing add-in to gmail that you have to pay to remove.
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by flybrand 3y ago
It’s nice to read someone else who feels similar; I purchased the best known ‘book’ of his. It’s a coffee table treatise that is repetitive, dull, and self congratulatory.
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by flybrand 3y ago
My wife has pre-cancerous moles and every few years some need to be removed. This year it was done - and they told her to take Advil for 6 inch long incisions on her back. In the past? Pain pills like Oxicotin - which they are now afraid to
45.
by flybrand 3y ago
Yes! I oversee a portfolio of industrial products that no VC would touch. Now, some long view PE groups do things like this - the margins can be great, growth can be fast.
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by flybrand 3y ago
Both. They get high returns and there is high social benefit. Because the US thinks of industry as ‘dirty’ we’ve lost touch with how valuable these jobs can be. In the US the returns would have longer duration and would not be viewed as ‘im
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by flybrand 3y ago
> run by incompetent people They are very competent at keeping their jobs. Especially the guy who announced what track to go to.
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by flybrand 3y ago
Would you mind sharing the name of the disease / symptom / yeast? I’m celiac and always looking at food related illness.
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by flybrand 3y ago
My grandparents gave an award for pulp and paper science that is still given out. It’s tiny now, but a full ride for the student. At one point they - the school - were very appreciative, but their enthusiasm has dwindled quite a bit.
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by flybrand 3y ago
Same in the Boston area.
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by flybrand 3y ago
I've felt the opposite. The last two purchases I walked in and bought exactly what I wanted on impulse because it was so easy. An iphone upgrade and a battery thereafter.
52.
by flybrand 3y ago
51 intelligence community experts identify your comment as having all the hallmarks of Russian propaganda.
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by flybrand 3y ago
What’s the name?
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by flybrand 3y ago
I work in microfiltration (a pre-filter step for RO), and my view is: 1/ it’s as much an energy and water storage problem as it is a technical problem. 2/ commercially, because of 1/, RO is a municipal sale. It is a civil ini
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by flybrand 3y ago
All business and all government eventually become a racket.
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by flybrand 3y ago
I’m at Level 8, how far along are you?
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by flybrand 3y ago
Most material science VC deals are done off of data derived from the ‘lucky sample.’ “Scalability turned out to be harder than we thought!” Or it was statistical reversion to the mean.
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by flybrand 3y ago
It was written on a wall, doesn’t that mean it is literal?
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by flybrand 3y ago
FB regularly ‘fails’ when I attempt to log out - I don’t use the app. Recently it’s been extreme using Safari. It’s so bad it can’t be accidental. Why would the ever optimize logging out?
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by flybrand 3y ago
> how hard would it be to then remove? Permanent graffiti through science!

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