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by njarboe 7y ago
It has been 47 years since a person walked on the moon, so it might just be a good idea to do something when you can and not wait for it to be possibly easier to do in the future.
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by njarboe 7y ago
But have a system that reassigns 100% of the production from the able to the infirm and you will quickly have little production.
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by njarboe 7y ago
PG&E is already a highly regulated company. So much so that one could say that it is really state controlled [1]. "Among its stated goals for energy regulation are to establish service standards and safety rules, authorize utility
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by njarboe 7y ago
Not fines so much, but payments to insurance companies and others who suffered loses in fires found to be started by PG&E power lines.
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by njarboe 7y ago
The original model S could do a 90 second battery swap. Not sure about other Tesla models, but I sure hope they are still designed for easy battery replacement. I would guess they are as Elon Musk is hoping for the cars to eventually last a
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by njarboe 7y ago
The large increases in US oil production is in the Permian Basin and the Bakken Shale, which both produce light crude. Some of this is exported, as most refineries in the US are designed to process heavy crude. California refineries general
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by njarboe 7y ago
He is selling Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin. I sure hope he can start turning a profit on his space company and gets his O'Neill cylinders before he runs out of cash.
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by njarboe 7y ago
And there are vastly larger areas of public lands that are not protected under the Wilderness Act (Forest Service, and BLM lands) where human activity is still allowed. These could be managed in some way like the article advocates. I think
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by njarboe 7y ago
California has a law called Prop 13 which sets the valuation of a property, for tax purposes, to what you bought it at. It then can increase at a maximum of 2% per year. This started in 1976, so this person might only have to pay tax on a v
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by njarboe 7y ago
Lots of tunnels a la The Boring Company and electric vehicles. The tech seems to work, but the politics doesn't support it. People in government want mass transit they control, not personalized transit.
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by njarboe 7y ago
>How does one acquire the necessary funds for larger projects when one does not personally have the funds to do so? You give an equity stake in your project to the person/entity that gives you the funds.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Surprising to most, the US governments spend a higher percent of GDP on healthcare than most European countries[1]. Then we also have high private sector spending on healthcare. Its pretty crazy. [1] https://www.healthsystemtrack
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by njarboe 7y ago
The Earth's magnetic field is created from electrodynamo activity in the liquid iron core of the Earth. A solar super storm would have basically no influence on the millions of cubic kilometers of conducting and convecting iron. After
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by njarboe 7y ago
One thing I think that people should be more aware of is that nutrition advice that has a small significance in large studies might be recommended for the general population by health officials, but could be something that is actually bad f
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by njarboe 7y ago
About half was through the article: "Dr. Allison has received research funding from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a lobbying group for meat producers."
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by njarboe 7y ago
Cash really is underrated.
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by njarboe 7y ago
If militaries have any imagination, they already have this data for their adversaries' populations and have cyber weapons ready to do this quickly at massive scale.
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by njarboe 7y ago
The journal article this is based on can be found here: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5087613
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Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena(washington.edu)
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I was a DirecTV subscriber for many years. Their customer service was great. After the AT&T acquisition customer service quickly declined to the horrible low level I had with other AT&T services and canceled. This pushed our househo
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by njarboe 7y ago
"Scientists looked at people with genes that are linked to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. They then compared them to other healthy adults to calculate the benefit." Going from a study like this to implying that taking drugs
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by njarboe 7y ago
The US federal government has many ways of enforcing their opinions on US states and does so regularly. Almost all banks will not open accounts for pot related businesses due to federal banking laws. In the past the federal government convi
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by njarboe 7y ago
Why many people in the US buy trucks and SUVs over cars is due to a lot of factors. A major one that is not well known is that US auto manufactures have had a high incentive to promote them since a 1964 tax law[1] set a import 25% tax on li
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by njarboe 7y ago
Here is one article discussing the US government pressuring aircraft engine manufacturers to cross license all their patents[1]. [1] https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4103/ch2.htm
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by njarboe 7y ago
The zero year for the "Before Present(BP)" timescale is 1950. BP was used by carbon dating scientists first and 1950 was a nice round date a few years before the year when carbon dating[1] no longer worked due to atmospheric nucle
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by njarboe 7y ago
Also during war patents are shared between all companies in one country or ignored all together. I think this is an under appreciated fact of why wartime creates all sorts of innovation.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Businesses use Outlook and send to lots of customers who have Gmail.
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by njarboe 7y ago
If your building site never has earthquakes, that can work well. Otherwise an earthquake might put some part of the structure under tension and cause it to fail.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Not much. This[1] Nov 22, 2017 article states he sold most of his stake shortly after the IPO and then most of the rest on Nov 20 2017. At that point he only held "220,718 Class A Facebook shares and 54,995 Class B shares". [1] ht
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by njarboe 7y ago
Pretty much all of California urban areas have fire danger so no area is really "safe". The Santa Rosa and Oakland fires come to mind, along with all of the LA hill blazes that threaten the city most years.

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