njarboe

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by njarboe 7y ago
People don't dream of traveling to other planets to create a backup civilization for Earth. That is what those people tell the ones who don't understand their dream and why they should support it. People want to explore because a
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by njarboe 7y ago
Grocery stores also use cameras to see how customers behave. I have not heard of them connecting them to face recognition systems, but I would not be surprised if they do. I agree that this is another increase in the invasion of privacy tha
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by njarboe 7y ago
Warren Buffet still owns 6% of Berkshire Hathaway. Maybe a more correct statement would be "If you have money you don't immediately need to spend, it is much easier to have a long time frame for investing". Hopefully the mone
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by njarboe 7y ago
Yes. Amazon will know every item you buy, how much, and when. But not much different than grocery store discount cards already used by most everyone for decades. I'm sure that info is sold, traded around, and aggregated.
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The cash registers at a normal store has to calculate the tax on items, so I don't see why this would be very hard for other computer systems to do. It will know where you are.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Stores have problem with pricing all the time. If you don't look at your receipt when buying things at the grocery store, you are going to be overcharged sometimes. Especially at stores that don't have a "Over charged and you
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by njarboe 7y ago
I understand that mineral rights and surface rights can be separated. I should have mentioned that, as many people are unaware of the fact. What I was highlighting was that in the US individuals and/or companies own property rights to
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by njarboe 7y ago
And somewhere off the spectrum is the United States where individual property owners own the mineral rights. Not much worry of one entity selling a whole country full of oil for peanuts in that case.
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Electric vehicles have regenerative braking when not braking hard. This dramatically reduces brake wear.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Link to the study, "Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies"[1]. [1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908
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by njarboe 7y ago
My ATM card from a major bank came with MasterCard/Visa attached, but I asked for one without it and they sent me one.
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by njarboe 7y ago
That is a pretty optimistic view of US government agencies that I don't share. Most fight tooth and nail to increase their budgets so I think don't heathcare being socialized (and becoming the largest agency in the government) wou
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If Alphabet gets a monopoly on self-driving cars, like they have on search and video ads, I would think it would be bigger than the ad business
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I agree the government trying to optimize to increasing GDP is not great for society, but it does also optimize for maximum tax revenue increase, so I understand why its done. I don't see any reason why one needs to socialize healthcar
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More exactly, I never saw Bond presented as the bad guy.
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Nuclear fission power can be almost as clean today as nuclear fusion will be. Fusion power plants will still be radioactive. Not using fission is a political and social issue, not a technical one. I'm not sure people would accept nucle
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by njarboe 7y ago
Nuclear energy and solar power can/could solve most of the polluting energy problem and can work today. Increasing meat consumption and the need for more farmland to support it, I feel is a harder problem to solve.
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by njarboe 7y ago
I never saw James Bond as the bad guy, but to each their own.
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VMWare is majority owned by Dell.
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Yep. Typing in your credit card info just to have it rejected multiple times is a pain. Click onto free wifi, not so much.
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Although both things are very difficult, the knowledge needed to create a commercial fusion reactor is very different to educating a whole populous not to be so afraid of radiation (which is natural and found everywhere all the time).
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by njarboe 7y ago
This UBI excludes people who are: "California residents who are 18 years of age or older and receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical Services Program, the CalFresh program, the CalWORKs program, or Unemploymen
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by njarboe 7y ago
I really hope that fusion power can become a major power source in the future and humanity really needs it to expand off planet, but like you said above, nuclear fission power got to stage 7 and then stalled. I think the nuclear fusion comm
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If I could drive my car onto a railroad track in SF and then not drive again until I drove off the tracks in LA, that would be great.
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Although recently in the Bay Area construction costs have skyrocketed so much that in the last 5 years my home replacement cost (for insurance) has about doubled causing the land value to actually drop.
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And you can't leave the Bay Area as the transfer has to be in the same county in most cases.
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They are, but the factory is fully owned and operated by Tesla, not the usual 51% Chinese 49% American joint venture that was the norm until the recent trade fight.
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They can leave far out in the suburbs and other areas of low density and then switch in areas of high density. This would be something new. Hard to realize but a hybrid of the current system that can be the best of both.
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We have more resources than we know what to do with. Negative to zero interest rates all over the place. The problems on Earth are not being solved or worked on due to political problems not resource limitations. Plus total current space re
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Could be true, but if we wait too long I think people would just stop trying to do it. Rocket technology basically was stuck with 1960's technology and ideas until Elon Musk decided he wanted to build a human colony on Mars. Now we hav

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