msandford

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by msandford 11mo ago
"I could stop being poor, I just don't like the tradeoff." I feel like this is an ugly truth, but still a truth. It's also very ugly. For some people there's no tradeoff on how much they have to suffer to get some f
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by msandford 11mo ago
I mean you could listen to the reasons that people who have lost trust in the institutions say they lost trust, and then try and rectify those reasons. But to do that is to admit that MAYBE the US govt didn't handle COVID perfectly. An
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by msandford 11mo ago
I think you're missing the fourth option which is rediscovering civility, agreeing to disagree, etc. Are the Republicans doing that right now? Probably not. Are the Democrats doing that right now? Also probably not.
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by msandford 11mo ago
Okay so what's the solution then that doesn't involve having to disappear the half of the country that you don't agree with? I'm super open to better solutions. I just rarely hear any other than magical thinking. "
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by msandford 11mo ago
The Biden admin (no idea if Biden himself was involved) literally sued Texas to stop Texas from enforcing border law. This same admin also essentially redefined "asylum" to be economic asylum rather than "I'm afraid that
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by msandford 1y ago
It's a wonderful theory, but alas. Copper is aggressively antimicrobial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
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by msandford 1y ago
It can't just be better than the average human driver. it has to be some like 10x as good as the average human driver or on par with a race driver. Everyone thinks they're above average, even people who know statistics! So if it&
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by msandford 1y ago
Tragically demonization is everywhere right now. I sure hope people start figuring out offramps soon.
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by msandford 1y ago
If you look at the far right hand bar the B-N/S says 131% which is the highest bar on the chart. So it's producing more than the standard tilted slightly south orientation from what I gather. The legend is a bit hard to read for s
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by msandford 1y ago
The insurers are legally obligated to pay out 80-95% of their premiums for treatment. So the only way to grow profits is to spend 2x and much and charge 2x as much. Sure you only make the same 5-20% margin, but it's on 2x the revenue
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by msandford 1y ago
Congrats! You are 99% of the way to understanding it. Now you just have to realize that "whoever is in charge" might or might not have your best interests at heart, government or private. Anyone who has the power to deny you info
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by msandford 1y ago
I can't wrap my head around anyone being happy about this who isn't extremely rich. Would love to understand.
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by msandford 1y ago
Hey Ken! It was great working with you at DigiDrill. Glad to see you're still pushing the frontier of high temp, high G MWD systems. Keep up the good work!
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by msandford 1y ago
> Certainly the vaccine's mRNA sequence breaks down into separate nucleotides. If it did not, continued production of the antigens would cause a chronic immune reaction and/or immune exhaustion that would make the vaccine ineff
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by msandford 1y ago
Do we have any studies that show this fast clearance? From what I understand at least one of them used a pseudo-uradine that there isn't an efficient direct metabolic pathway to process, which was kind of the whole point. The idea bei
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by msandford 1y ago
It's an interesting take to be sure. I suspect that the lack of flexibility is going to be the real killer. You'd probably have to build offshore platforms on either side to bring the cables up and terminate them and now that&#x27
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by msandford 1y ago
You're missing a critical piece of information. Human hearing (and vision) are logarithmic sensors. Ears can register sounds from maybe 20-30 dB upwards of 120ish which isn't a factor of 4-6 in terms of power but rather a factor o
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by msandford 1y ago
I find this kind of article hilarious. "Numbers go up! You're not allowed to feel poor or think that there's a problem! Our number is bigger so you must be rich!" I saw this 10-20 years ago when economists were telling
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by msandford 2y ago
I can't wait to hear about genetically modified wild dogs to hunt and eat the toads that somehow turned the disadvantage into an advantage. No idea how, but it seems like the next step. Then releasing big cats to hunt the dogs once tha
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by msandford 2y ago
They can write a whole article about how bad it is, but they can't even say what the pathology is? Does this cause colds or Ebola? I know Ebola is viral. I'm talking about symptoms
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by msandford 2y ago
What ECM? They're mechanically injected diesels. The main purpose of the electrical system is to run the starter to crank the engine. And maybe headlights and stuff. They're very simple cars.
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by msandford 2y ago
I feel like they could probably buy some 80s Mercedes 300d and get newer cars with lots of parts available as there's junked ones everywhere.
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by msandford 2y ago
Nickel itself isn't interesting. Any new material is interesting. Yet another YbCo-whatever wouldn't tell you as much as an entirely new metal. It would be just as interesting if it was titanium or vanadium or lithium or any other
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by msandford 2y ago
You've made at least 2-3 personal attacks against me while seemingly not even trying to address the problem that I highlighted. If that's your goal, OK. It definitely goes against the spirit of the rules here if not the letter. De
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by msandford 2y ago
It's all well and good to suggest that each program receiving funding gets a thorough review. Of course, that review needs to be by experts, to ensure it gets a fair shake. Who are the experts in the field? The odds that you can be
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by msandford 2y ago
It's probably more efficient for society to subsidize micro grids using solar and wind and batteries for rural electrification than to bury all the power lines that it'll take. A $100 million project to bury the lines to 1000 hous
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by msandford 2y ago
Democrats say they want to improve these things, then get in office and worry more about trivialities then doing the work of governing. A green new deal that set out to get electricity to people's houses at $0.08/kwh and stood a r
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by msandford 2y ago
>> That's why there's a Senate in the US. So that the rural folks get some kind of voice in these matters when they don't have enough bulk population to matter in the House. > No, there's a senate to get the sma
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by msandford 2y ago
It's very easy to be generous with other people's resources. We see it everywhere. That's why there's a Senate in the US. So that the rural folks get some kind of voice in these matters when they don't have enough b
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by msandford 2y ago
There was absolutely no theoretical reason that some moldy cheese would kill bacteria but thankfully Fleming noticed what happened and we got antibiotics. There was no theoretical reason that washing your hands would do anything to combat t

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