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by njarboe 4y ago
I don't know about hiking up to see the lava on Mauna Loa (I read the area has been closed off for awhile due to a likely eruption), but when I was on the Big Island during a Kilauea eruption I took a helicopter flight over the lava fl
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by njarboe 4y ago
Maybe people tip a lot more when they get a ride in a Tesla over a ride in a Prius. Or the Tesla owning Uber drivers know the biggest threat to their lively hood is Tesla automating them out of a job. When/if that happens, if they own
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by njarboe 4y ago
I don't hold a strong opinion myself on the matter as I have not done any deep research, but the EPA enforces the Endangered Species Act and the Wetlands Protection and Restoration. Google either of these with the phrase "Abuse of
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by njarboe 4y ago
Teaching how to write summaries in the US would be a good idea. To make things even worse, in the US most essays are assigned a minimum length so students learn to pad their writing with lots of fluff and circumlocutions.
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by njarboe 4y ago
It might be a bit because of the density, but housing is mainly cheaper near busy roads mainly because most people would prefer to live elsewhere, just like you.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Other would say, "The EPA has been so successful, to keep their budget growing, they have become overzealous."
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by njarboe 4y ago
The "miner's inch" is another cool unit. Used to describe a flow rate of water[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_inch
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by njarboe 4y ago
"some" include the Democratic National Committee[1]. This type of action sure reinforces feelings that politics in America is gravely corrupt and some sort of reset is needed. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli
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by njarboe 4y ago
It is very hard to predict the path of an S-curve. If you don't estimate when it takes off and when it slows down just right you will be way off on your view of what will happen.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Um, maybe the donations are the answers to your questions?
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Only the premium pay extra channels. Similar to today, you could pay to have no ads for some content.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Since many services now split into two tiers with a cheaper option for no ads, maybe ads showing up in no-ads tier won't happen. There really wasn't the possibility to do that before streaming (multiple cable channels I guess coul
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by njarboe 4y ago
Check out the Cadillac Escalade. That is the Cadillac that is still used for limos and the high end models sure shoot for limo-like luxury. I have not been in one inside, so I don't know how well they hit that mark though. Not a bean s
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by njarboe 4y ago
Not on Southwest, which I generally prefer for other reasons, but United almost always has seats with about 6" of extra leg room available to upgrade to for 10%-20% more, as an option. I often pay for this. For the comfort itself and t
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by njarboe 4y ago
If you can jump right to electric power, then hydro power can give you all the power you need to get civilization going again. I don't think that tech knowledge would be likely lost if people survive at all.
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by njarboe 4y ago
This is a cool project but I was hoping to see a solar powered machine that turned ore into metal. That is what a smelter is. This is a solar metal melter or what is generally called a furnace, not a smelter. Too bad.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Lots of companies doing this for awhile. I'm not sure about the rates, but you can find them by googling "best ptp loans for investors" or something like that. https://www.prosper.com/ is one, for example.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Unless you count the Colorado River itself as a water system. :) I would guess that almost none of the water that California gets from the Colorado falls in California. Coloradans sure feel that the down river states don't have the nat
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by njarboe 4y ago
See Nord Stream 1 and 2 for an example.
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by njarboe 4y ago
People used to buy travel books from known publishers where the author had at least gone to the restaurant or hotel at least once. I haven't bought one in decades, but maybe that is the future.
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by njarboe 4y ago
COIVD killed and kills mostly the aged, infirm, obese, or otherwise health compromised people. So the survivors are more healthy than average and less susceptible to normal causes of death.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Not all natural gas wells have the same percentage of helium in them[1]. "Helium wells" generally refer to wells that have a high amount of Helium relative to others. Those are the ones you would extract Helium from first. [1] ht
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by njarboe 4y ago
They can't. That sentence in the article is wrong according to the paper it references to support the statement. See [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32948054
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by njarboe 4y ago
Why would you be trapped? The fact that you would need to build a nuclear rocket to escape might actually speed up space exploration on such a planet.
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by njarboe 4y ago
The sentence: "If a super-Earth is ejected from its star system and has a dense atmosphere and watery surface, it could sustain life for tens of billions of years, far longer than life on Earth could persist before the sun dies."
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by njarboe 4y ago
This seemed off the me also. Reading through the paper quoted in this sentence makes it clear that the sentence is just wrong. From [1]: "The team found that planets 10 times the mass of the Earth, with an atmosphere 100 to 1000 times
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by njarboe 4y ago
The Fed bought a lot of various assets (US bonds, home mortgage bonds, and even a few corporate bonds via ETFs), but never bought stocks as far as I know. Would love a reference on this if you have one.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Same here in the Roaring Fork Valley. Two months of Craigslist, apartments.com, bulletin boards, etc. Finally I posted a "Place Wanted" on some local Facebook groups and I got something pretty quick. Tons of scammers on Craigslist
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by njarboe 4y ago
Maybe with your genetics a higher BP is fine. Health studies are often/usually wrong and BP has high variance. Not sure how you could know though.
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He wanted to buy some Russian rockets to send a greenhouse to Mars, but they did not take him very seriously and quoted very high prices. After that is when he got serious about starting SpaceX.

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