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by njarboe 4y ago
In the US are forced to pay more when they work over 30 hours a week. Over 30 hours and you are considered full time and the employer is required to pay for health care. The historical accident of having healthcare attached to your job due
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by njarboe 4y ago
In a similar vein, I find it quite curious/strange/amazing is that Russian gas has continued to flow through Ukraine during this war. Russia wants the cash and Ukraine does not want to shut off Europe from the gas until Europe doe
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by njarboe 4y ago
Similar to the decision to own a building or rent. Moving is a real pain and can kill companies. Better get a long lease with lots of extension options because at the end of the lease your rent is going to go way up.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Missed a zero. The US trade deficit is has ranged from about $400 to $800 billion per year for the last two decades[1]. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/trad...
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by njarboe 4y ago
Great to hear these people helping out. I didn't like when people started using the phrase "First responder" for police, fire, ambulance people. If you are at the scene of a problem, you can be a first responder and be there
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by njarboe 4y ago
California does not approve of the building of desalination plants, unfortunately. A $1.4 billion dollar plan from a private company to build one in the L.A. basin was rejected in May of this year[1]. Private capital is available to help wi
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by njarboe 4y ago
It is not politically possible to build desalination plants (or much of anything else really) in California. In just May of this year[1], a private company that had spent $100 million trying to get approval to build a $1.4 billion de-sal pl
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by njarboe 4y ago
Too bad Venus’ day is 243 Earth days long. Quite a terraforming project to spin it up. It’s gravity is quite Earth like, unlike Mars.
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by njarboe 5y ago
Maybe that's why its done?
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I'd just like to point out the subtle use of language to objectify motorists and thus make it easier to ignore their side of the issue when these discussions come up. You can see it very clearly here: "laws built for those cars ov
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by njarboe 5y ago
Not much physical harm and very little liability. I think computers and software was the one place people could make what they wanted and sell it without much worry of getting sued out of existence and that is why there was so much advancem
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by njarboe 5y ago
If cars were invented today, they would be too dangerous to be allowed to exist. Almost nothing has been invented since 1970 that can cause any harm. Safety first and all that.
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by njarboe 5y ago
We could have already passed the great filter. Maybe going from single celled life to multicellular life is extremely rare. It did not appear on earth for 2-3 billion years after the appearance of single celled life. The creation of single
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by njarboe 5y ago
Most people in financial distress don't do bankruptcy. They run up their credit cards/car loans/etc. till the interest payments are high enough that they are living paycheck-to-paycheck. They get stuck in that situation. I th
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by njarboe 5y ago
Most people working for minimum wage (and probably most people in general in the US) work pay check to pay check (like the Applebee's manager stated in the article). They max out their available credit so that the interest takes up all
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by njarboe 5y ago
Beaver populations are increasing dramatically on wilderness and other public lands in the western US. They definitely change the landscape and kill a lot of trees. Good for vistas and stream health, but I don't know much about it. Som
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by njarboe 5y ago
What you are describing is what was called an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in the US/Iraq war[1]. Very effective against a superiorly equipped invading force. Works great against lightly armored vehicles like fuel trucks. [1] http
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by njarboe 5y ago
Maybe not with Starship, but with the invention of fusion powered rockets you will be able to. Once fusion powered rockets seem possible and huge profits are able to be foretasted, lots of capital and people will be thrown at fusion tech. T
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by njarboe 5y ago
Changing the title also is probably a good idea: "Northwestern Vancouver Island Likely Escaped the Ice Age"
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In these types of conversations someone always brings up the idea of renting a vehicle instead of owning one that can do what you want to do "once a month". Renting a truck or SUV that can tow a decent amount of weight is expensiv
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by njarboe 5y ago
Iowa has the first primary every year in the US[1]. Iowa produces more corn than any state[2] while being 32nd in population. Corn is very important to people in Iowa and as long as the first two facts remain the same, corn will continue to
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by njarboe 5y ago
"This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997" Hopefully the current crop of VC funded fusion projects can improve the tech a little faster than this.
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by njarboe 5y ago
I guess much of the land that burns around L.A. is classified as a desert by some. I was thinking more of the Mohave or Death Valley areas where there is much less fuel to burn and preventing structures from burning is a bit easier.
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Almost everywhere in California could burn in the next 10-30 years. Huge fires around LA every year. The Oakland hills fire burned down thousands of homes. Santa Rosa burned twice in three years. Santa Cruz, etc. Maybe somewhere in the cent
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by njarboe 5y ago
Click-bait title. Tesla was forced to remove the rolling-stop option when the driver is using the beta version of FSD in the "Assertive" mode. No-one has reported any injuries or problems with this feature. Seems to me having this
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by njarboe 5y ago
Many people are very rich and don't own crypto. You can kidnap them also and do the same thing. This is common in many parts of the world. The US used to have this problem also and got it under control by the state focusing on capturin
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by njarboe 5y ago
The "truck" (trucks, SUVs etc) class of vehicles in the US have lower average gas mileage requirements than cars so many cars are made just large enough to be classified as "trucks" even though they are marketed still as
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by njarboe 5y ago
One can hope that the complexity, size, potential hazards, and expense of getting power from nuclear reactions can be greatly reduced in the future. Like Charles Babbage's difference engines [1] that were replaced by a whole new way of
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True, but its not as tasty cold. I guess that is not a problem when making sandwiches for lunch in the morning, if that is your main use case.
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Before COVID, BART in the Bay Area was completely full during peak hours. You had to wait for multiple trains to finally pack into the car. That, or take the train the opposite direction for a few stops from downtown and then get back on in

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