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by qqqwerty 6y ago
No it hasn't. CRISPR was a very recent invention and has the potential to radically change biotech. mRNA was just used to roll out a novel vaccine in a record amount of time. Solid state batteries will be a game changer in the EV space
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His wife might disagree: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotte...
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This is just recency bias. We remember those that did great things and we forget those that did not. In 100 years, folks will look back on our time and remember Elon Musk, Bezos, Jobs, Gates, etc... and will wonder why we were blessed with
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> People are not leaving SF because tech employees are coming in I didn't say that. I literally said they are "forced out due to rising costs". I am all for tech workers moving to the bay area if it suits them. What I don&
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Perhaps you are part of the problem? Maybe leaving would be best for both you and SF. I was born and raised in the area, and have watched as friends and family are forced out due to rising costs. These are folks who legitimately loved the a
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> I feel pity and sadness more than anything else I am not sure that is necessary. These guys know how the game is played. The alt-right has turned into an ecosystem of performative trolls all trying to out troll one another. They then l
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Correlation does not equal causation. Maybe the $1400 stimulus checks were the problem, giving addicts a windfall that they then used on drugs. Or maybe it was triggered by peoples relatives passing away from COVID, all alone in the hospita
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> What is it you think "they" started? They walked away from the negotiating table around 12 years ago and are nearly entirely focused on playing up the culture war games rather than actually doing any sort of governing. And ye
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It is pretty obvious from your comment history that you are just here to troll people: "What fucked up ideology do you have" "Method 10: Write an absolute piece of shit article on revue." "I've read many stupid
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by qqqwerty 6y ago
Ad hominems are not welcome here. See my reply to a sibling comment[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26195450
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If you think my reply was attack, then you are probably blinded by your own biases. I left a substantive and truthful reply. Here is another synopsis in case it helps: Certain Texas politicians are notorious for poisoning the well when it c
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It is not rocket science. If you are in the business of selling oil and gas, you ideally consume as little of it as possible. Solar and wind are cheaper sources of energy but they aren't easily transported. So Texas is using solar&#x2F
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It is a high level policy agenda, not a 10k page regulatory document. There are literally dozens of references to making infrastructure robust to the impacts of climate change, for example: "Americans deserve infrastructure they can tr
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Any drug dealer will tell you "Don't get high on your own supply". It is good business.
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From your original post: > and if we actually want to fix things we need to stop playing these ridiculous partisan games and be honest with ourselves with the full picture of issues. One side takes these issues very seriously. We have be
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Just a reminder the your junior Senator (among many others[1]) mocked California and our electric grid when we were hit by record wild fires last year. He also voted against federal aid for Hurricane Sandy because it only impacted blue sta
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One explanation that I have heard that sort of makes sense is that by refusing to lower asking rents they prevent existing tenets from seeking rent reductions. So the calculation is probably some combination of projected increase in occupan
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CAISO says it has 10k MW in extra capacity[1]. http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
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An apple is not round, it is red.
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I guess it depends. Did they enter the building via the security line and get properly checked in as is normally required of visitors, or did they waltz in through one of the many broken windows and doors? If the later, they likely broke t
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A nurse at a gym? Perhaps there is a bit of selection bias in your sample. Meanwhile, here is a pretty good article about how healthcare workers are handling the pandemic: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive&#x2
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The future is clean energy and clean manufacturing. We can either embrace it and reap the rewards or we can cede the market opportunities to China and others. The laws of physics are irrelevant, we already have the technology to accomplish
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Pollution of almost all forms should eventually be made illegal. There is no reason the broader population should have to suffer from the externalities of profit seeking companies. What other countries are doing in this regard is irrelevant
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The Electric Vehicle Tax Credit and the ITC (solar tax credit) were passed by Democrats. Tesla benefited greatly from both. Tesla also received a massive loan from Obama's DOE during the great recession, without which it may not have s
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Ahh, sorry. I think I mis-read your comment. I thought you were questioning the existence of free-wheeling culture in CA. As to why CA, I don't think there is any one reason. The weather and geography are huge. It was a lightly populat
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Agreed. The tech industry had a very deep and localized impact in the last 30 years, but the conditions that led to the CA boom extend well beyond tech. Broadly, the ports, agriculture, weather, culture of tolerance, universities, natural s
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Are you serious? SF's Castro is the gay capital of the world. Summer of Love. The Emerald triangle. The Hells Angels. I could go on.
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We are in a period of historically low interest rates. If and when interest rates rise, these moonshot research startups will get dropped like a hot potato.
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A quick google search about Spokane turned up this[1] and this[2]. Maybe the only difference between SF and Spokane is that the real estate prices means it is easier to hide the problems from public view. Pretty much every city and state, l
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To be fair to those people, at the beginning of the pandemic there was a lot of uncertainty around COVID-19 transmission rates. Buying a few weeks of food was a good way to hedge against the potential case where COVID-19 was so virulent tha

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