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by njarboe 5y ago
"I bet they could find a few at Los Alamos labs". They have, but unfortunately they get innocent people and lock them in solitary confinement for months eventually resulting in $1.6 million dollar pay outs and presidential apologi
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by njarboe 5y ago
Gell-Mann amnesia effect[1] by Michael Crichton. “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You re
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by njarboe 5y ago
We could start by not shutting down our the last nuclear power plant in California in 2025 that currently provides 10% of the states electricity.
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by njarboe 5y ago
The California central valley is probably the best climate on Earth for growing almonds and that is why about 70% of the world almond production happens there. If we don't really need to grow them here, then one does not really need al
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by njarboe 5y ago
The article states: "In February 2020, Nature Sustainability published this terrifying conclusion: California would need to burn 20 million acres — an area about the size of Maine — to restabilize in terms of fire." So the data th
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by njarboe 5y ago
Well, 4.4 million acres burned in 2020 and 1.7 million in 2018, so were a third of the way to that 20 million already.
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by njarboe 5y ago
I agree with you about alfalfa, rice, and cotton, but the central valley has the best conditions in the world for growing almonds. About 50% of the worlds production comes from there.
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by njarboe 6y ago
In the US at least, at-will employment means that all jobs are "probationary".
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by njarboe 6y ago
Here is a very nice and through paper on the subject: "Natural Transfer of Viable Microbes in Space" https://doi.org/10.1006/icar.1999.6317 In the abstract: "The conclusion is that if microbes exis
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by njarboe 6y ago
Mars and Earth send surface rocks to each other via meteor impacts that would almost certainly contain live bacteria spores. Life could have started out on Earth or Mars or both, but finding life on Mars won't answer your question on i
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by njarboe 6y ago
NASA's "bold bet" is also an insurance policy on the fact that SpaceX might have just built this Moon landing Starship version on its own and get back to the moon first. Especially if it got a large private backer, like Yusak
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by njarboe 6y ago
Many species of trees live for hundreds of years, not decades.
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by njarboe 6y ago
While I would guess that you are right for most trees, the Giant Sequoia redwood trees in California actually do bury themselves in their own pine needles. They can also grow roots out at a higher level, if needed. Of course they can live f
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by njarboe 6y ago
In the California Sierra Nevada mountains almost all of the land was harvested for timber in the last 150 years. These forests contained mostly trees that were many hundreds to thousands of years old. So if we plant the right trees and let
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by njarboe 6y ago
So we stop giving out treatment and an extra 1000-10000(?) people die and we delay the economy getting back on track for a week or two with the delay. No skin off the FDA bureaucrats teeth, but they are hurting a lot of people with this dec
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by njarboe 6y ago
The Magellan Expedition left with 5 ships and ~270 men and returned with 1 ship and 18 men. People knew that going on long, overseas expeditions was very dangerous, but so was life in general in 1500. I imagine worrying about 50% increase i
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by njarboe 6y ago
Yes. Excel cells are set to a "General" format that, by default, tries to guess the type of data the cell should be from its content. A date looking entry gets converted to a date type. A number looking string to a number (so 5.80
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by njarboe 6y ago
Medallion has about $6.4 billion in assets and they have kept it about that size for quite a time for a reason. It would be much harder to get those high returns when trying to invest $100 billion like Buffet tries to do.
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by njarboe 6y ago
The new SpaceX Starship super heavy rocket will be the biggest rocket ever built and will carry humans. It probably won't get "man-rated" by NASA before the first humans start going up in it, but I don't know about the l
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by njarboe 6y ago
There is plenty of wind-blown sand, which I imagine is fine for this snow-on-road use. Rough river sand is getting more scarce and smooth, wind-blown desert sand should not be used for making concrete.
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by njarboe 6y ago
The Earth's magnetic poles last permanently reversed about 780,000 years ago. The magnetic event that happened ~41,000-42,000 years ago is called the Laschamps excursion. An excursion is when the magnetic field gets very weak, becomes
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by njarboe 6y ago
Your wages going up after 2015 may have had something to do with tech companies losing a wage suppression suit[1]. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...
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by njarboe 6y ago
Elon Musk is really shooting for a self-sustaining city on Mars and SpaceX is his part of working towards that goal. He really is happy for competition and wishes there was more of it. He has stated that he is sometimes concerned that Space
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by njarboe 6y ago
If you do any camping you can easily be prepared for most disasters that happen when it's not winter. Buy some serious sleeping bags and you could be ready for disasters in winter also.
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Don't forget the most important one: Water. Many areas have natural water sources that could be used in a serious emergency, but having some potable water on hand and a way to purify more, is pretty easy and inexpensive.
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by njarboe 6y ago
"You can't simply mandate that energy prices will be a certain amount if the power plants still have to buy natural gas and other power sources from the free market." You can and that is what California did[1]. It lead to lar
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by njarboe 6y ago
They have before[1]. I think one reason salaries started to climb so much recently in silicon valley was because this collusion to suppress salaries ended. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po
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by njarboe 6y ago
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Amazingly, due to fracking mostly in west Texas, the US is now a net oil producer. We should really change our Mid-East foreign policy to reflect that fact.
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Tesla has many avenues of action available to them and many goals. One goal recently, I think, was to get 4 quarters of profitability to get listed on the S&P 500, among other reasons. These credits exist, so they factored that in to wh

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