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by rdl 4y ago
It doesn't have to generate profit, but it does need to generate more science/better science than the next best alternative way to spend the money. (It's presumably not optimized solely for science, but also engineering and p
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by rdl 4y ago
Tangentially: What purpose does ISS serve today? It cost $150 billion to get to this point, but is it doing anything which justifies the operating and maintenance costs? vs. other uses of the money. On Earth, direct replacement with new in-
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by rdl 4y ago
One of the biggest markets for small aviation engines which run on something other than 100LL is small drones — running on JP8, Jet A, or Jet A1 would make military logistics far easier and safer. Even road gas would be a reasonable alterna
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by rdl 4y ago
LOL/cry that it doesn't let you enter a current electric bill above $500, but does include Puerto Rico and Hawaii adresses.
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by rdl 4y ago
https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&p... Not just a dessert (topping), but also a floor wax (well, not really, but pretense for Iraq War) ( https://spyscape.com/article/saddam-
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by rdl 4y ago
Yes, and magnesium, etc. All the normal things.
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by rdl 4y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075645/ (Dr. McMillan is probably the best medical doctor of any specialty I've ever interacted with in any context, and I worked in hospitals for years.)
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by rdl 4y ago
I was 6 ng/mL. I'm 81 ng/mL now (well, November). Ref range is 30-100 ng/mL. (Bioavailability of oral D3 supplements is pretty low, generally. I'm sure most of what I'm taking is being wasted, but it's li
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by rdl 4y ago
Yes. My ophthalmologist said it was specifically due to reduced plasticity in the retina, which caused variable astigmatism. He's a top researcher/published on this specific thing. (Obviously this is not the majority of astigmatis
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by rdl 4y ago
Subjectively (1 of 1), I take 20k IU/day of D3 (and K2/mk7) and feel both happier and healthier, from about a week after I started supplementing. Was very low levels of vitamin D before, and symptoms of astigmatism, etc., and all
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by rdl 4y ago
I wish there were an HR "brand" for "We want the absolute best team possible, with diversity of thought and experience, and aligned on our mission and core values. We recognize lots of people are excluded because they're
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by rdl 4y ago
Czechia (formerly Czech Republic) is also trying to change their English-language name; in both cases seems like a reasonable request and worth respecting, at least when it comes at low cost (I wouldn't rush to reprint maps or anything
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by rdl 4y ago
I assumed that was the "real" Ryan Cleary (LulzSec), not the Finland guy who was impersonating him.
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by rdl 4y ago
Evertas Insurance | US-based REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.evertas.com/ | https://www.evertas.com/careers/ Evertas is the world's first cryptoasset insurance company. We're a Bermuda carri
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by rdl 4y ago
I don't have children, but I think if I did, I'd ease them into social media by paying them run a social media profile for a cat -- from the perspective of the cat, with no humans or PII visible, solely the cat. This would accomp
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by rdl 4y ago
I have a folder on my laptop (backed up in a few places) with PDFs of labs, other reports, etc. I have DICOM of some specific imaging, but haven't had a whole lot of imaging generally. I have a lot of other stuff in Apple Health (HR,
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by rdl 4y ago
"On the Internet".
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by rdl 4y ago
I've usually had 30 minutes scheduled for these (weekly or biweekly), both as manager and employee. >50% of the time it's "we talked about everything already on signal yesterday, so we can skip it this week? yes" but
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by rdl 4y ago
This is a great idea. I've read >100 books over each of the past 5 years (2022: 121, 2021: 183, 172, 193, 208). My goal is 156 this year. (Tracking via Goodreads). Probably 90% of mine are audiobooks, otherwise kindle, and only ra
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by rdl 4y ago
90% of the books I read are audiobooks. My eyes get tired before brain does.
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by rdl 4y ago
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn. All of Lee Kwan Yew’s books. The Ancient City Some Spanish literary classics, in Spanish. (I’m at newspaper reading level, not great, and still trying to improve.) Always with Honor, by Pyotr
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by rdl 4y ago
They emailed months ago asking if people wanted to opt out; it was a concern but I suspect the vast majority of people both want to be in it AND are already trivially googleable as being in YC.
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Twitter whistleblower Zatko (mudge) lands new job at Rapid7(washingtonpost.com)
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by rdl 4y ago
We would opportunistically hire for other roles if the right candidate showed up (underwriting, potentially COO/COS)
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by rdl 4y ago
Downside with doing stuff like that is putting all NGO personnel at risk going forward.
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by rdl 4y ago
Evertas Insurance | US-based REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.evertas.com/ | https://www.evertas.com/careers/ Evertas is the world's first cryptoasset insurance company. We're a Bermuda carri
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by rdl 4y ago
I wonder if this was just lazy MVP development or a conscious strategy to get attention. I never would have heard of them without this controversy, and it's something very cheap for them to fix (just rename). Probably need to attract
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by rdl 4y ago
I had no idea people still used filters on instagram.
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by rdl 4y ago
MIT admin specifically have repeatedly shown themselves to be cowards who don't care about students/values/etc on issues other than free speech, so it's not like they're being inconsistent here. (the aaronsw situat
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by rdl 4y ago
Guess what is the second most powerful navy in the world (and is a very close ally of the most powerful navy in the world?). Japan's "maritime self defense force".

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