sgnelson

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by sgnelson 7y ago
Yes, very much so. Golden Retrievers being the number one reported case, indicates to me that is at least partly the case here. Golden Retriever owners are a cult. (I'm a member.)
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by sgnelson 7y ago
IMO, at this point you're not paying so much for the pi, but rather for the community and accessories. It's the entire environment that makes the pi useful; not just the hardware. (I speak as someone who sucks at programming and
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Scale way in the upwards direction. As you noted, it's great at small size. We can build ornithopters at the scale of this and bird sized devices, and they fly pretty well, but getting to man sized and airplane sized, would be quite d
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by sgnelson 8y ago
I'm sorry, I was trying to better understand your argument which seemed to be focused on geographic distance as a form of whether it was acceptable or not to have armed conflict.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Or let's just say hypothetically it's not. Why do they feel the need to have more users? I'm of the opinion anyone who's still in the game after becoming a billionaire is doing so for non-monetary reasons. At this poin
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by sgnelson 8y ago
That's some nice revisionist history. I guess the whole "let's take over Islands in the South China Sea, and then convert them into military bases" doesn't count? Why is it that Taiwan spends billions of dollars o
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by sgnelson 8y ago
So it's cool to invade countries next door if you have a dispute with them. But not okay if they're not your neighbors. What if they're technically not your neighbors, but still only like 100 kilometers away? Is that okay?
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Considering the size of these, and their incredibly light weight design, that's probably a bit unlikely. With current technology, they are not capable of carrying much of a payload. It's great research, and very cool design (both
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by sgnelson 8y ago
That's horrible! Can you imagine what type of an impact a major international conglomeration with clear political biases could have on the outcome of an election? Thank god Fox News is making us aware of these types of shenanigans!
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Sure, and I agree that many products aren't built like they once were (with or without survivorship bias, as well as the ability to fix older products is way easier than newer products) but, the cost of metal gears versus plastic gears
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Not so great for the stock holders though...
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by sgnelson 8y ago
That's why myself and everyone I know drive Ferrari! (Markets don't work like this.)
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by sgnelson 8y ago
With Google, it could also never see the light of day.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Yet another use of the Internet that I never expected 20+ years ago when I thought it would be the magic bullet to help make people more educated, more empathetic, and just overall better humans. Oh Humanity, how you disappoint.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
What I find very interesting is that it seems like she suffered from rather severe mental illness, but (IMHO) because of how society has responded to mental illnesses over the past few hundred years, even the people she worked with and her
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by sgnelson 8y ago
At the same time, how much of the information that Musk gives out is wrong (especially on time frame?) They were already supposed to be at 10k cars a week. Live by the prediction, die by the prediction.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
I think you're confusing age with experience. The sad fact is that experience in important, and there's only way of getting it, letting time go by.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
I have to ask a question,and this question has bothered me for a while: Do we absolutely have to have breaking news at the speed of light? Can most people not wait a couple of hours before they hear about the latest tragedy or event? All
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Tracey Hall received a $10 US Savings Bond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Hall
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Worse, they knew they needed two people and previously had two individuals, but then felt that was unnecessary and went to only one person per vehicle.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
The Wagner Group (the mercenaries you speak of) are considered by some experts to simply be a group controlled by the Russian Government for "plausible" (nothing plausible about it though) deniability. Also see: Little Green Men i
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by sgnelson 8y ago
I agree with you, but there was some speculation that it could be Russia trying to ruin diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba. And Russia does have quite the history of abusing diplomats (though typically only within Russia.) This articl
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Yes, he doesn't have to listen to the callers, but he has to allow people to be able to contact him.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
"Every major city hires economists...but (the politicians) ignored (the advice.)" I think this is what he's getting at.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Before every single crash of the past 100 years, someone always says this: "but the world is just fundamentally different..." Yes, you are correct, the world is fundamentally different. And it was fundamentally different in 1893,
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by sgnelson 8y ago
Also don't forget he failed many times at starting a car company before finally succeeding.
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by sgnelson 8y ago
CEO of Business says that Company must sell more product and increase revenue in comparison to costs in order to survive. Film at 11.
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by sgnelson 9y ago
If nothing else, it requires a computer and a network connection. Yes that may be just a smartphone of some type, but that's something that paper currencies do not require to use. If nothing else, that leaves what, a billionish peopl
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by sgnelson 9y ago
That's more economics than demographics. But yes, Hospitals and medical services in rural communities are disappearing at a phenomenal rate. Demographics do play somewhat of a role, but nothing compared to the change in our healthcare
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Part of it is that we've stopped training our workforce. I have a friend who has been a machinist his entire life. He taught me a lot, and is one of those guys who has probably forgotten more than I will ever know. But when he start

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