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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
I dont know if it would have been used for food storage, but some glass does contain lead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Even our own plans for such a thing included lasers not radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Longshot . Still not solving communication speed limits
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
I'm skeptical on looking for radio waves. How could interstellar intelligence use radio waves to communicate anyway, they're traveling at C and are still too slow
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Apple also provides a dividend
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Spelling too is also memorization before higher concepts like grammar or essay construction. Perhaps its perceived as easier than math because it has a natural cognitive map.
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Using money and budgeting expenditure doesn't alone make something a startup company. Or a company. Paul Graham says a startup is simply a company designed to grow fast. ISIS is trying to grow but are they a company? When do they issu
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
It just doesn't seem worthwhile to fit ISIS into a startup model. It's a terroristic cult focused on Sharia Law. So the business model would be conquer and impose Islamic law, and start a world wide Islamic Caliphate to serve Go
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
When you have a hammer all problems are nails. ISIS isn't a startup company, and the analogy to one fails beyond the initial thought. >There is no viable strategy for a terrorist group that says "we'll grow like crazy and
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
from the comment history it looks like OP is (a non native English speaking) extraordinarily bitter physics major who had a falling out with a coworker during a programming job
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Is it really mutual destruction if North Korea has nothing to lose ?
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Is it really different elsewhere? Besides despite this politics approach to reward it's prob the best deal I personally can get in a job
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
My company has metrics and goals but rewards a limited pool of annual bonuses based on all managers getting together and calibrating contributors on gut feel. Rewards have literally been based on an outside managers opinion that "my p
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Try explaining to someone an easy to understand version of your life's work, it probably comes out pretty easy. Same thing here. The impressive part is Elons explanation about the science is not typical CEO material
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
I ate there before it was named best restaurant in America. It was ok a bit pretentious with tasting style food and bare interior. I tried to go back months later with a date and the answering machine said they don't take phone calls
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Search without a warrant though sounds unconstitutional. Legislative arbitrage. Passed low key in Congress, Removed at high cost in the courts
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Better an entire nation go without WhatsApp than one guilty man go free /s
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
I guess we lucked out that our wealth proclaimed leaders are benevolent
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
are you really saying having a minimum wage job should mean you don't have kids? Lets fix that first with basic income. Not to mention that kids are a way to government benefits and tax benefits, financial concerns are not the real iss
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
yep Comcast, Fox, and Disney own Hulu
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Interesting and related is the voting card from the Anschluss referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Anschluss_referendum,...
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Microsoft was an early investor in Facebook
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Human or AI the level of service provided seems pretty amazing
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
There are a few MBAs doing the job of secretary in my office. "Senior Communications Analyst" sounds snarky, but its true
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
I think I stated my idea incorrectly, I mean when people start paying for adblockers. Which Hulu+ is doing quite well actually
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
when adblockers start charging, I'll believe in an alternate revenue model for the open internet edit: I meant when people start paying for adblockers
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Does the safety improvements in cars introduced since 1993 designed to protect you from collisions with other vehicles, outweigh the risk of a computer fault ?
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
one complication to that is groups of passengers, where only one person's info is available
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
As a former part time uber driver, the challenge is convincing people to send your car out to uber alone. Even with me in the car, at a minimum passengers would leave trash or gum.
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
Jaguar owners have been an exception before recent quality improvements
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by pinkrooftop 11y ago
I like the idea of it being a mindset I guess by complacency/ability I mean instead of working to create a solution to a problem, offloading the problem to someone else or just suffering with it.

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