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by peter303 7y ago
I searched google for a plant growing in actual Moon soil (regolith) and found nothing. Several labs have tried simulated Moon soil. Chang'e used a bioreactor rather than Moon soil.
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by peter303 7y ago
Epstein another scandal tainting MIST's eternal begging for money.
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by peter303 7y ago
During late 1990s it was common for IPOs without much revenue and no profit. After the crash, Google and Facebook didnt go IPO until there were profits. This year there many IPOs with big revenues but no profits. The market isnt buying that
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by peter303 7y ago
And China is far more modern than US in many respects: - a country wide network of high speed railroads in a country larger than the US - many more EVs manufactured and in use - worlds largest manufacturer and consumer of solar power - esse
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by peter303 7y ago
Clever hacker Aaron Swartz was hounded by authorities for doing something similar, contributing stress that lead to his suicide.
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by peter303 7y ago
Is it dangerous?
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by peter303 7y ago
Forensic genealogy being a very new tool has resulted in dozens of arrests, but only one finishing a trial. https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-murder-case-to-use-fam... Like any new forensic method, it will undergo
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by peter303 7y ago
I have read that 26 million Americans have taken these genetic tests, now encompassing 8% of the population. Not all of these are generally searchable. But approaching a critical mass for forensic genealogy.
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by peter303 7y ago
Another interpretation is that young people are becoming dumber given their obsession with smartphones and videogames. The skills I needed to master before the "everything online" era where more mentally challenging and strengthen
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by peter303 7y ago
narcissistic millennial
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by peter303 7y ago
Juul packs here are half the price of tobacco cigarettes for the same amount of nicotine. Only have sales taxes and not tobacco taxes.
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by peter303 7y ago
Even though I dont care for Mr Trump, I do like that Tim Cook and Trump meet now and then to discuss various matters. I suspect Tim has educated Trump on the complexity of global supply chains. And Trumps opinions may influence Apples decis
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by peter303 7y ago
There are people who prefer seasonal work. Maybe Xmas and summer gigs with rest of year off. Read the book Nomadland for details.
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by peter303 7y ago
A lot of it goes into inflated SF and Seattle real estate. Techies are paid near double there to afford to live there. I wonder what scenarios could dry up VC. ZIRP just seems to be driving more money that way.
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by peter303 7y ago
Trump may be secretly transferring unspecified nuclear technology to Saudis. (Jared goes there often) There is a meeting about this next week. The cover story for this is that Saudi would like to diversify their energy production. Some peop
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by peter303 7y ago
Environmentalists say they might shut down Heathrow airport with drones because they dont like new construction. They would announce an hour in advance such a demonstration. Authorities warn of severe prison sentences if they catch some doi
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by peter303 7y ago
Solution looking for a problem to solve? I have seen VR demos at SIGGRAPGH and film festivals the past 20 years without seeing the 'killer app' yet.
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by peter303 7y ago
Another factor towards the large morbidity rate decline around 1900 was clean water and sewage.
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by peter303 7y ago
Another aspect of frequent death more than century ago was blended families. A widow or widower usually remarried soon after the mourning period because it was hard for single parents. If both parents passed together, then children were qui
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by peter303 7y ago
I read somewhere efficiency is 10%-20%. That may be fine to fix a condition where you need to add a new protein, e.g. muscular dystrophy. However, maybe not so well where you need to subtract. If you can pose an HIV therapy as the former- s
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by peter303 7y ago
This essay is revived for every new technology which might seem to weaken our mental faculties. In Socrates time writing might weaken memory and rhetoric. In my lifetime it was movies, television, video games, cellphones and social media do
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by peter303 7y ago
Sounds like a poor millennial affliction.
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by peter303 7y ago
This is the point of Steve Pinkers last two books Enlightenment Now. He has many graphs of social progress in recent centuries. He attributes this to a society run much more on human reason than in the past, including science, laws, and lar
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by peter303 7y ago
A variant is the food stamp challenge where you limit food to the standard allotment of about $6 a day. If you can get a whole month upfront, you can make bulk purchases as others point out. Also you probably need to cook most food from scr
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by peter303 7y ago
Theranos redux.
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by peter303 7y ago
I dont think engineers can fake it in a real world tech job. I can spot a phony software engineer rather quickly.
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by peter303 7y ago
Many of these second tier tech cities have a full tech ecosystem: nationally ranked tech schools, lots of startups, venture capital, tech accelerators, startup weeks, etc. I have live in both Palo Alto and Denver over a decade each. Denvers
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by peter303 7y ago
Before they were called dinosaurs they were called dragons. Both western and eastern cultures fantasized giant reptilian monsters. The dinosaur was a science-based reworking of this idea.
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by peter303 7y ago
Sounds like future of Mountain View and Google.
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by peter303 7y ago
The Media Lab was near the top of the heap of university-industrial consortia in terms of both glamour and income. There really wasnt a need for all this back-channel stuff.

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