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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Elon: "... and its bulletproof!" Hardware Eng #1 turns to Hardware Eng #2: "Wait... where does it say that in the spec we received..."
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
I hate to say it and know I'm going to get a lot of flack especially from vegans, which I have a lot of respect for from an ethical standpoint. Realize that my critic comes purely from a scientific and evolutionary standpoint. So her
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
The problem is your incentives breed more bureaucracy and its exactly that bureaucracy that leads to higher costs and a system where nobody knows the price of a procedure. Laws get passed with good intentions, but with bad overall outcomes
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Uninsured people don't typically foot the bill and don't go bankrupt, the hospital has to eat the costs because no one can be turned away from a hospital. They then pass that along to the insured by jacking up their prices. Imagi
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Glad to finally see someone pointing out the obvious, that simple price competition would lower prices, and that Singapore does have a private insurance system that works! You can only have two out of three: Low Price, High Quality, Univer
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
You will eventually simply end up with a bifurcated system with Tech companies that will do business with certain companies associated with one side of the aisle, and other who will not. The money is already moving in that direction. Rupe
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Less robotic missions, less money for JPL. More maned missions, more money for Houston Mission Control. I remember reading an article long ago about how none of the robotic missions to Mars can actually detect life and how strange and con
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
This fact often catches people by surprise when I tell them also. The more conspiratorial theory is that JPL prefers not to include life detection equipment because it would mean the end of robotic missions and more of an emphasis to get h
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Exactly. We would be better off disrupting the BS of air travel then building out train networks. I've often dreamed of a world that comes to its senses and realizes that adding all the extra bull to flying hasn't done any g
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
I just don't buy this anymore. Not when Asians, Indians, Nigerians, Lebonese, Cubans, Iranians and Jews all do better than average White households in America and are over represented in education. If it permeates everything, why doe
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Has this translated to me as a consumer being able to buy rooftop solar for cheaper? I live in FL and am considering it.
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
It's my understanding that the biggest thing other than energy demands holding vertical farming back is the lack of ability to grow staple crops such as wheat, rice and soy. Sure you can grow plenty of low density high water plants, b
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Energy isn't vertical farmings only issue. The fact that you cannot grow staple crops like wheat, soy, or rice indoors is the major issue. Most of what these farms are best suited to grow can be considered "crunchy water" a
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Are there any books our there that strike a balance between being "tiger mom" and the positives of a western upbringing? I've read Amy Chaus book and it seems like some balance of both cultures is the ideal solution for kids
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
If you trace the origin of most of these low meat consumption pushes, its often vegan groups with an agenda trying to get the governments ear. Problem is, the recommendations and studies they site don't stand up to real scrutiny. For
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Slightly off topic. I've often wondered why so much effort is put into "sea-steading" when you can simply get enough money to buy island territories away from countries that may not want them and setup something akin to a pr
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
As far as compounds with phyto-estrogens. Plenty. A great book on the topic: The Case Against Fragrance - Kate Grenville Also, I think this story from 2014 about BPS is the biggest bombshell to consumers that just hasn't hit critical
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
I've had a sneaking feeling that a lot of the phyto-estrogen compounds out their were eventually going to be linked to autism. Expect to see a massive consumer wave against anything containing these compounds: fragrances and any items
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Most prisoners want something to do than sit and do nothing, and are happy to be paid even if its below minimum wage. We cant have them accumulating tons of money while in prison with no outside bills, that's just not fair to the taxp
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Funny how all the commenters from previous posts on this topic insisted it was a misidentified birds, even though none of the data points truly fit that dismissal and you have to resort to witness bashing these pilots to make it work. “It
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
We need something like this for DNA of plants and animals.
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
>>Lefty types regularly make fun of NYT conservative and centrist commentators Do you have some examples of this?
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
>> Have you considered the possibility that these SJW’s are actually representative of todays youth? That could not be further from the truth. The phenomena is very localized and manifests from confluence of factors that HAS been stu
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Nope, see my comment above. I added some meaning.
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
I understand your concern about the SJW label and the charged political context its often used, but it is to me accurate, since this it what they would call themselves. Take a look at this Joe Rogan + Johnathon Haidt podcast clip that talks
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
The New York Times is no longer the steady unbias pillar it once was. They hire fresh out SJW types to do their writing and it shows. Once I finally came to that realization, I stopped taking them seriously, but I feel others have not qui
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Watch the recreation, it buzzed more than one aircraft: https://youtu.be/PRgoisHRmUE Radar Contact + FLIR Contact (videos) + Human Eyeball confirmation by two types aircraft + multiple eyewitness testimony != a technical a
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Radar Contact (on multiple days) + FLIR Contact + Human Eyeball confirmation by two types aircraft in which these things buzzed them != a technical anomaly. Watch the recreation and the eyewitness testimony videos from multiple vantage poin
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
The famous UFO researcher Micah Hanks posits its possibly the emergence of a singularity super intelligent AI from this planet. Any seemingly advanced technology would seem like magic, and it explains the elusiveness.
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by noetic_techy 7y ago
Radar Contact + FLIR Contact+ Human Eyeball confirmation by two types aircraft != a technical anomaly. Watch the recreation and the eyewitness testimony videos from multiple vantage points. https://youtu.be/PRgoisHRmUE (re

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