njarboe

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by njarboe 9y ago
It seems like for nuclear power to be accepted it needs to change its name like every other product using radiation or the word nuclear. One of my favorites is how Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging dropped the the Nuclear. Many people now
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by njarboe 9y ago
Similar to the Earth, it would be a combination of heat from radioactive decay and the original heat of accretion slowly radiating away.
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by njarboe 9y ago
"Jobs was adamant that the new campus house indigenous flora, and in particular he wanted fruit trees from the orchards he remembered from growing up in Northern California." A perfect example of a the stereotypical Californian mi
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by njarboe 9y ago
Fast, on-demand, point-to-point transportation in the company of your choice, with the option of hauling more stuff than you can carry on your person, will always be attractive. If the cars drive themselves, that would be ideal. I'd sa
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by njarboe 9y ago
He lives in Longmount, CO, which is 15 miles northeast of Boulder, CO. He might have picked one of the best "proximity to interesting people to living expense" ratios places. One of his ideas he highlights is to be choosy where yo
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by njarboe 9y ago
With mountains and tunnels you can have a much longer runway. Maybe Musk's SpaceX and Boring companies can have a joint venture. With Everest at about 9000m and the deepest mine at 4000m that would give you 13000 meters. Maybe you coul
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by njarboe 9y ago
I imagine you have heard of the Mr Money Mustache and his wife who became financially independent at age ~30 with both of them just working regular tech jobs. You should check out his blog[1] if you haven't. His philosophy is low spend
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by njarboe 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the early hydrogenated oils were created (Crisco, 1911) because they had similar and in some cases superior properties to animal fats and butter, but were cheaper and had a longer shelf life. The idea they were healthie
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by njarboe 9y ago
I would say the income of a person in prison is a large negative. "According to the Vera Institute of Justice, the average cost of housing an inmate in the U.S. was $31,286 in 2012." [1] [1] http://thelawdictionary.org&
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by njarboe 10y ago
“Pursuing protectionism is just like locking oneself in a dark room,” Mr. Xi told business leaders at the World Economic Forum in January. I might agree with Mr. Xi, but the Great Firewall of China is a higher wall of protectionism than any
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by njarboe 10y ago
I think the ease of getting a home equity loan and the ease of refinancing (see Rocket Mortgage, etc.) has reduced this forced saving dramatically. If you don't have the saving mentality, it is easy to get in the habit running up credi
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by njarboe 10y ago
I also wonder about this. Most places restrict the number of liquor licenses, but I would imagine don't restrict the number of grocery stores. Large and small Asian markets seem to exist in a wide spectrum of neighborhoods.
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by njarboe 10y ago
Following this principle I sometimes think the new east span of the Bay Bridge is/was a $6 billion boondoggle. The historical (and I thought, beautiful) original span was not retrofitted because Caltrans said they could build a new spa
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by njarboe 10y ago
I heard my first drone the other day that I was not expecting. Just a loudish buzzing sound in the sky while walking in a park. Looked up and it was pretty high and not very large. I was hoping flying personal transport could solve some ser
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by njarboe 10y ago
I'm not sure how it works exactly, but Google's own cellular company, Google Fi, promotes the fact that they use WiFi when available, even for phone calls, but can switch quickly to cell when needed. Phone calls are not interrupte