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by lxmorj 8y ago
Seems like two explosions would be much better. One to break up the rock, then one to disperse the cloud as widely as possible. If you don't have the payload to impart escape velocity onto the debris field with the second bomb, offset
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Alphabet spinoff, looks like: https://dandelionenergy.com/about/
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by lxmorj 8y ago
No, we have a propane fireplace that used to heat the whole house (terribly inefficient, the previous owners used it as a summer-only property) and we now run that just on colder evenings to make the house a bit cozier. We also live way out
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by lxmorj 8y ago
I had a "geothermal" heat pump put in to my house via Google's Dandelion and it works great so far. It's been -30F at my house but the ground sourcing renders that moot. As far as I can tell their innovation was going ve
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by lxmorj 8y ago
We had a guy come to our warehouse and work for a week. Pretty good worker. We got a wage garnishing letter and he owes like $25k for two kids each (thought they were duplicate docs at first), $8k and $3k. He stopped coming or answering his
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by lxmorj 8y ago
No one wonders
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Seems like an obvious opportunity for a specialized financing firm...
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by lxmorj 8y ago
I've been trying to figure out how effective solar power would be at the height you'd put a floating city. You're closer to the sun than Earth, much higher than Earth's surface, but in a very dense atmosphere...
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by lxmorj 8y ago
It's a super inefficient mechanism. You're better off having everyone save a bit by buying from Walmart, and be able to afford to go out to dinner once a month - instead of never.
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by lxmorj 8y ago
I don't buy that "buying your shit at huge markup from a local shop" is some great boone to a community. It's effectively a tax on everyone in town, subsidizing the one family that owns the shop. There are plenty of busi
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Not at island preservation over long periods of time, apparently. Seems like the islands we have are explained by largely by survivorship bias
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by lxmorj 8y ago
If someone is literally critical to your business, they need to have equity or some other mechanism to align incentives or you risk unaligned incentives torpedoing your business. This is the case with any business, regardless of parental le
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by lxmorj 8y ago
One of the best ways to profitably build affordable housing is to build luxury housing 25 years ago.
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by lxmorj 8y ago
I think he means 'save towards intentional use' versus 'save to soften the blows of random hardships, but never really get ahead'.
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Hence the "remain friendly". They need to believe you are just an annoying dude, not think you are trying to win a battle of wills.
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by lxmorj 8y ago
This sucks and shouldn’t be true, but it is: make this the police’s problem. Make it easier for them to do what you ask than to ignore you or give you platitudes. Call every damn day day. Explain the situation from scratch, in detail. When
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Zerosumism
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Zerosumism
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by lxmorj 8y ago
GaryV was a major investor in FaithBox, a company that knowingly incurred huge bills with my company that they'd knew be unable to pay (I run a 3PL). The switched to another warehouse for two months and did the same to them, then they
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Yes, overt things do SEEM more influential than the money moving behind the scenes. And yet...
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by lxmorj 8y ago
I find banning AirBnB a lazy form of governance, much like open container laws. "This behavior is correlated with undesirable outcomes, so it is illegal irrespective of the actual result of the behavior". The other argument I see
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Odd, I assumed that subs would run at least a few atmospheres to compensate for pressure differential. Structural assistance not worth giving the crew the bends on fast ascents?
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by lxmorj 8y ago
With LEDs you can focus your output on photosynthesis-friendly wavelengths and collect in a wider spectrum, no?
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Whatever it's supposed to mean, it's a memetic success. And you've helped it propagate!
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Gum?
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by lxmorj 8y ago
I really wish they had @ and @-whenever-you-get-to-it tags
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by lxmorj 8y ago
What tool do you use for this?
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by lxmorj 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs
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by lxmorj 8y ago
Oh, smart move! Never thought of using that strategy to get advantaged school funding.
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by lxmorj 8y ago
This is a trap. You can't just say "well the wins are worth it at the moment" and not consider what happens when someone else - possibly with antithetical values to yours - inherits that power.

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