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I agree with you, the bigger problem with Li-ion is that once they become popular, there are about six countries with massive deposits of Li. Even among them, the most are in Chile-Bolovia-Argentina triangle. The more popular Li-ion gets th
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9y ago
As a 2014 Chevy Volt owner, it is far from Lemon. Here are the most interesting Gen I volt stats (currently at 416K miles and still running strong) https://www.voltstats.net/Stats/Details/1579 Given Volt has a dec
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9y ago
You are getting clobbered, I will join you in this one. There is no rhyme or reason for the basis for selecting a Person of the year. None what so ever. They are primarily focused in a specific part of the world. Forget Asia, Africa and oth
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9y ago
No, population growth is not the biggest problem for China, the median age of China is about 38 years old, their growth has already petered out. The population growth problem is right now mostly Africa and South Asia. China already has less
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9y ago
Its not The Atlantic article, its a repost of Aeon article. Here is the link to Original, https://aeon.co/ideas/black-holes-are-simpler-than-forests-a...
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9y ago
The Way of the Wolf by Jordan Belfort (the wolf of wall street). Jordan has a lot youtube clips with his live seminars of upto 10 episodes - 90 minutes each. Disclaimer: Not in sales, but have great sense of appreciation for rain-makers.
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9y ago
If you replace "blockchain" with "database" and the application still makes sense, then you should not do "blockchain", at least for now. Not all apps benefit by being on blockchain, on the contrary they are ne
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9y ago
If you said, the miners are near wind-farms, then I would eat up your statement about oversupply. For hydro more or less, that is electricity that could be used for something else but being burnt. I am not sure about Chinese miners being ne
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9y ago
Do you whine about every comment you disagree with as racism. Go look at the maps of other countries, you will see a pattern that coasts are richer than hinterland. Maligning another person's integrity with ease shows your character, o
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9y ago
If a person in TX or FL, where there in no income tax lives in a Mansion, they also will have increase in Tax, are they worst hit? no but, they did not have State tax deductions to begin with. It could be argued, the rich people in blue sta
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9y ago
India is a fragmented country and Modi has to win another term impressively to get any kind of "true" reforms. Even if he succeeds, its the South and West leading the economy and Hindi heartland playing catch-up in spite of being
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9y ago
what part of "backed by Oil" did you not understand?
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9y ago
This is a sign of a hail-mary thrown by an utterly bankrupt (morally and politically) government. I see it as, Maduro is very desperate and the end of him is near. Thought 2017 would be the end of him but sometimes the inevitable takes time
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9y ago
The problem is the rent control apartments in NYC skew the data and does make it apple to apple. That is the difficulty here. Rural NY to Rural TX, I will bet anytime that Rural TX is cheaper especially in the Rio Grande Valley and West Tex
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9y ago
Surprise to see Plano TX on the list of top 10 cities with highest percentage of Income spent on Rent. Toyota and bunch other companies have moved their HQ or operations here, it may have to do something about it.
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9y ago
I think currently he is in Jail, but I followed him a bit on YouTube where he said, that he is contractually obligated not to release it for 88 years (for Wu Tang Clan album). One of the reason Wu Tang et al. released these limited edition
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9y ago
Yes, that "truth" research papers with 50% failure to reproduce. No Thanks!
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9y ago
He lost me with the overuse of word "neo-Nazi" and taking simple hoops from libertarian to neo-Nazi using one persons/trolls comment. Either put a cogent article without innuendo to make a point or nothing. To quote a wise ma
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9y ago
The net-neutrality rules are put in place in 2014 by Obama administration. I am pretty sure, without so called "net-neutrality" regulation this site existed and been read.
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9y ago
To turn a Nation-State into a "for-profit" for citizens will make US a weird version of Petro-State without Petroleum.
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9y ago
Elon Musk has a decade of track record. Model 3 will eventually be delivered. My point of contention with TSLA is that the stock price does not match the up-side, but sooner or later Tesla always delivered. They will learn and deliver, I ha
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9y ago
The pain-point for me with Ubuntu (I personally installed) on laptop is the power management. Are these pre-installed models any better w.r.t power management?
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Even though their formats are different NYT et al. and FB are competitors. Even though there is kernel of truth, the media witch-hunt of Facebook is out of proportion. Long story short, its not concern for democracy (if NYT was concerned ab
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9y ago
Intel, AMD, Nvidia are American companies, I certainly do not see what believing God has to do with Chinese computing. Do you know that Issac Newton spent a third of his time trying to decipher "secrets" and prophecies of bible? G
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9y ago
This is conspiracy theory masquerading as a political strategy. The judgement on demonetization should be withheld for couple of years, the banks while accepting old cash collected substantial amount of information before giving new cash. T
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9y ago
No one is saying TSLA is dead, this is the most annoying argument from fan boys, they have a market cap over 50 Billion dollars and ship Cars in only thousands. So, here is the point, a significant part of their valuation is scaling up from
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9y ago
I have to agree with you, one of the reasons could be the "left" propaganda machine were traditional gate-keepers, so withholding data would be easier way to lie, and the "right" propaganda machine is disruptive and atte
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9y ago
It was a Vanity project until the jurnos Unionized, and he did not want to put with that. Also, he may have other interests who would take his tolerance of his "media" unions as a sign and unionize. To just assigning it to "s
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This is a very cynical view, Indian government (central) is and never will be effective, its the structure of India. People feel well governed at district level/zilla parishads. Given the size of country, there should be more push for
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9y ago
Agnostic is not an ideology, not caring whether there is a god or not is not an ideology. Certainty of non-existence of God is Ideology.
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