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by pilom 10y ago
Video highlights from the event and from the pre-trials: http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/for-the-media/video-gallery....
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If you had an image taken by the satellite and the time the image was taken, then yes. Google maps doesn't make it obvious but not all satellite images are taken from directly overhead. Most are off angle, so by calculating the distanc
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Different issues. Issue 1, Epipens cost $300 now instead of $50. Issue 2, Mylan was saying they were generics and getting $261 from the government when in reality, they were brand name and the government should have only been paying $231. T
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Leafs are also dirt cheap on Craigslist. You can find 2 year old ones with <30k miles for $7000 in some cities.
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Actually if it is in a Roth IRA, you can withdraw all of the principal (but none of the gains) at any time, for any reason, tax and penalty free.
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There are also online-only banks (Ally and CapitalOne360) that offer great rates and no fees but they can't handle cash deposits.
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by pilom 10y ago
Do you think it is because you collectively have chosen lives that encourage higher spending than average (median annual spending of single people is about 32k/year) or because you have been unable to find consistent work that pays $15
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Bitcoin is by definition depreciating. Precious metals have very little utility and are only used as stores of value. They can not generate dividends and are therefore likely to under perform in the very long term: http://www.bus
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by pilom 10y ago
I hate it that they equate "how much you have in your savings account" with "how good you are at saving money." Even if you ignore retirement savings, what about Checking accounts? What about Roth IRAs that can have all
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Warren Buffet: “There comes a point where money has no real utility”(finance.yahoo.com)
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Because the amount of solar required to power an air conditioner is significantly larger than the air conditioner itself and often you need more solar than you have roof space for buildings 2 stories and greater. (i.e. the total amount of s
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by pilom 10y ago
Serious question, when you're accumulating more assets and haven't retired yet, why is it a problem to never sell?
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The gist of the backdoor Roth is that you make a traditional contribution and then roll it over into a Roth before tax season. There is no income limit on roll-overs and you aren't taking the benefit of a traditional IRA at tax time so
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You can also take your principal (and earnings) out of a traditional IRA penalty free if you work through the loopholes. http://www.madfientist.com/how-to-access-retirement-funds-ea...
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by pilom 10y ago
In reply to jazzyk, very few community colleges require that and even if you don't include those, most state schools will waive that requirement if you are over a certain age I.e. you went back to school.
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Colorado you can do two years in community college for less than $6k per year and then two years at a state school for just over $6k per year if you don't count room and board which you'd have to pay anyway.
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by pilom 10y ago
Depends on the location. In some places, people bathe in the water after it gets pumped into the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lagoon_(geothermal_spa)
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by pilom 10y ago
Totally agree. Teton Dam failure in the US killed 11 people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdOGPBnfoKE
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Unfortunately it isn't exactly endless. Even if you ignore the decreasing amounts of water at many dams due to climate change, eventually dams fill up with sediment. Lake Powell and Lake Mead already have about 10% less capacity than t
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https://weworkremotely.com Any others?
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Ask HN: Remote-only job boards
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Well, round trip time of light to GEO is 280ms plus processing time on the satellite plus "last mile" connections on earth. I usually see closer to 500ms on satellite internet. In most of Canada, I've never seen a wifi networ
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>As far as the future goes, throughput and latency both improve dramatically with low-orbit systems. The problem is that they still pare in comparison to ground based systems. On LTE, with aggregation, you can get something like 100 Mbps
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The problem I see with this is latency. Round trip time for a laptop on wifi (this will need a wireless connection to the vehicle) could get up to 200ms at times. At 60mph the car will be 17 feet from where the operator's screen shows
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Subscribe to www.rvmobileinternet.com. That site will answer every single question you could ever possibly have about how to make it happen. I work full time with a grandfathered Unlimited Verizon plan and a Cricket Wireless cell phone (on
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by pilom 10y ago
Finally! This was one of the reasons I stopped actively using Nextdoor. My neighborhood in Denver is composed of a large group of elderly white people (who all seem to use Nextdoor somehow) and then a diverse group of people who have moved
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No, but if we leave today with a trip time of 1000 years and in 100 years we invent a way to travel .2c, then the people on the ship with the new tech will arrive in 120 years instead of 1000. Don't need FTL tech to make generation shi
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The StarShot probes are going to be about a gram. Not much weight to make a primary probe AND a payload.
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Shop around for credit cards more often. You can find deals where they will pay you $400 just for using their card for 3 months. A pair of southwest cards timed to get a companion pass can be worth close to $4000 if you do it right.
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Oh but how much fun is it to contemplate? How does love, war, work, retirement, achievement, purpose, etc. change once you can live forever? Or once some subset of humanity can live forever? If you were nearly immortal how long would you mo

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