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by spfzero 5y ago
Pretty easy to discern that it is fictional, no need to refute anything.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Are you talking about absolute vote count, or margin of victory? Obama's margin of victory in the electoral college was much greater in 2008 and 2012 vs. Biden's. Obama's popular vote margin was greater in 2008 and roughly eq
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by spfzero 5y ago
That's also true for English Sheppards; they are bred for temperament, not conformance to appearance rules. So they don't all look identical, but they are great companions (and good at herding).
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by spfzero 5y ago
My copy is falling apart, but I remember it got me interested in geodesic domes. In 7th grade I built an 18' diameter by 9' high dome in my parents' front yard. Some strong winds destroyed it though, after I had skinned part
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by spfzero 5y ago
>>Mild Vitamin D supplementation is low risk, but Vitamin D isn't going to be life-changing for anyone but those with severe deficiencies. It would be life-changing if it kept you from dying of Covid, though. Which the OP says co
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by spfzero 5y ago
Also, you can buy supplements that combine D3 with K2, if you are concerned about calcium transport.
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by spfzero 5y ago
The group https://grassrootshealth.org sells an inexpensive at-home test kit for D3 serum levels. IIRC it includes two tests so that you can make changes if needed then check to see how much they helped, and back off on suppleme
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by spfzero 5y ago
The case for it is the denominator increasing.
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by spfzero 5y ago
It seems this falls into the category of: Company has idea, investigates it, decides not to go ahead for the time being. Big deal. This is what all businesses do all the time. They task some employees to come up with a plan or to research a
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by spfzero 5y ago
Good points. But, there must be a way to test batteries in an automated way at the replacement station and presumably take them out of service. And, like gasoline distribution, a way to inspect and certify the workings of a replacement stat
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by spfzero 5y ago
For cars, you would want to automate the swap anyway, so you'd presumably have handling equipment to swap and move batteries between the remove-recharge-store-install steps. I don't think you'd want to use humans in that appl
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by spfzero 5y ago
Thank you for this. Reading the OP article, I kept wondering when they would get to the numbers. Then it ended.
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by spfzero 5y ago
>>building space vehicles is hard ...mostly because reliability must be so high and launching mass costs so much. If you can launch mass cheaply, and accept lower reliability, space vehicles should be much easier to build.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Also not sure why declining population is a problem. The sheer number of human beings on the planet, however, is the root cause of many problems, climate change, habitat loss, water shortages, on and on. When I imagine less traffic, less ai
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by spfzero 5y ago
They don't seem to be weighing any factors at all, other than fire safety. Wood is renewable, cheap, cheaper to construct with, much more environmentally benign than concrete, very fire-safe (though not as safe as some), etc., etc. As
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by spfzero 5y ago
If you look at a map of all airline flights there are many thousands of short-range flights. Replacing them all with trains would be interesting. Just the right-of-way property transactions would be daunting. Look at California as a lesson
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by spfzero 5y ago
I've been doing time-restricted eating for maybe 5 years, only eating between 12 and 7-ish. It's not what this experiment studied but is supposed to have similar effects. One thing I can say is you get used to it quickly and no lo
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by spfzero 5y ago
Wouldn't doing that just prompt the funder to stop/reduce funding? They might have a great project they want to fund for someone else, but not enough funds available for it. You're contacting them about the research being a w
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by spfzero 5y ago
The article mentions Turkey as well, using Russian tech. When a NATO country chooses nuclear tech from the country that brought us Chernobyl, the US is definitely asleep at the wheel.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think if you install 28 trillion dollars worth of batteries you're going to have a waste problem that will dwarf storing the waste from fission plants.
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by spfzero 5y ago
David tried this in the movie Prometheus, didn't work out well.
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by spfzero 5y ago
The military is starting to succumb to the same ills of the modern corporate management culture. Everyone is managing up. Leave port on time because that is what I am measured on. I'm also assumed to be making sure my ship can leave
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by spfzero 5y ago
It's about stock price and bonuses, in public companies. The only metric that a board of directors can use is stockholder welfare. That's their primary fiduciary duty, according to law these days. So, what to bonus the CEO on? Sto
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by spfzero 5y ago
Those data items, speed and control position, don't seem equivalent to the data Google, Amazon and Facebook collect. They do seem like legitimate telemetry on a machine operated by a human though. If my pedal position differs from some
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by spfzero 5y ago
In a similar vein, being good at fixing things after you've broken them. Gives you a little more confidence in trying new things without all of the work involved in first making sure they'll work.
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by spfzero 5y ago
That's the reason you use wood chips and bark for mulch in a garden; to add carbon to the soil.
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Shouldn't we make sure it's a good idea first?
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At least this material has a main ingredient that is renewable. No part of steel is renewable right? You can't grow more iron ore (though there is a lot of it lying around). Also I'm doubting "minimal processing" for ste
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by spfzero 5y ago
Those figures are well over a million just for 3 of the six years. For example, just in 2018 they evaded about 300K in taxes. Top marginal income tax rate in CA is about 48% IIRC.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Since Apple has been relying on Intel processors for many years now, I'd bet they've spent more time optimizing MacOS for Intel at this point. On the other hand, iOS has given them a quick way to transfer optimization knowledge.

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