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by starbase 3y ago
Browser extension that allows you to add notes/comments to any webpage. All users of the extension can read each other's notes. For example, you read an article in your area of expertise and add some info that the author left out
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by starbase 3y ago
Rooting for Blue Origin to succeed here, even if New Glenn doesn't pan out. If I were in Bezos' shoes, I'd focus the company on deep space craft and use SpaceX to escape the gravity well. Specialize in delivering cargo to roc
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by starbase 3y ago
This may not be as grave as it seems. They'd been selling EVs at a -100% profit margin (i.e., a $50k Ford EV costs them ~$100k to build) and their current vehicles are built with obsolete charge ports. Seems wise to circle the wagons,
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by starbase 3y ago
Significantly, these will support plug-and-charge with no need to scan QR codes, swipe payment cards, or tell the machine which cable you're using.
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by starbase 3y ago
Raising her children
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by starbase 3y ago
Is verifying interactions and allergies the pharmacist's job or the physician's? Seems like it ought to fall on the physician, which allows us to replace the retail pharmacist with a vending machine. As a bonus, this drives costs
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by starbase 3y ago
Tax incentives out the wazoo
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by starbase 3y ago
I believe the newest Teslas (those with HW4) have a 70GHz radar in the front bumper
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by starbase 3y ago
The takeaway, at least for me, is that both men were not that far apart on the topic of slavery, even though that's the primary lens through which Americans now view the conflict. Seems fair to assume the Confederacy would have abolish
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by starbase 3y ago
Great topic to think about. I suspect the colonies that eventually win the galaxy will be the ones that both maximize engineering prowess and minimize generation time. Among the choices in this paper, my money's on kibbutzim.
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by starbase 3y ago
History is quite a subject. Lincoln and Lee on slavery and the war: Lincoln: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I w
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by starbase 3y ago
Question doesn't stipulate that you're the mayor.
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by starbase 3y ago
Crowdsource crimefighting. $10k bounty per thief or drug dealer brought to police. $100k per violent criminal, dead or alive. Bounty is doubled for repeat offenders. Advertise the bounty program in rural America. Trucks full of armed rednec
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by starbase 3y ago
My takeaway was that 97% of US farmland would be unaffected by aquifer collapse. The 3% that would be affected (and that's assuming every aquifer in the country goes dry, which is not at risk of happening) those farms might become comp
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by starbase 3y ago
Too late to edit so I'll add here. Soyuz first stage is 5 engines, and 5 is less than 8. Each engine has 4 main combustion chambers and four nozzles so it looks like 20 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto&#x2
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by starbase 3y ago
ETF approval soon, maybe (or not)
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by starbase 3y ago
Are you aware that less than 6% of US farmland is irrigated, and only half of irrigated farmland (3% of total) uses groundwater? 97% of our farmland uses no groundwater. None. If US lost 3% of its agricultural output tomorrow, we'd sti
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by starbase 3y ago
Whoa. You believe that soil and aquifer issues will lead to society's destruction in a matter of decades? What evidence supports that belief?
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by starbase 3y ago
> maintain a steady-state ecosystem in perpetuity Impossible. It's not how the universe works.
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by starbase 3y ago
The full width red bar is not a stoplamp. The three (brighter) lights that activate on braking are stoplamps. No violation of code.
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by starbase 3y ago
> All successful designs so far have one or two main engines What a ridiculous falsehood. Every manned rocket to reach orbit since 1966 has used 5 or more engines. Of those that are currently operational, none have fewer than 8.
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by starbase 3y ago
letting engineers aim high pays dividends
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by starbase 3y ago
> your compensation package will include two major components: salary and equity. > Meals provided. Equity and good meals at a startup with deep pockets, vs no equity and cafeteria food at the hospital down the road. Pay's the sa
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by starbase 3y ago
Not a myth. Not a myth at all.
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by starbase 3y ago
Struggling to understand the shame the author says she feels. I've fallen a fair number of times in my life--often in full view of other people--and never thought much of it. Even fell a ways down a mountain this summer while trail run
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by starbase 3y ago
If inflation keeps up we'll be billionaires soon
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by starbase 3y ago
Society needs a better mechanism to eliminate unnecessary laws and regulations, and legislation needs version control.
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by starbase 3y ago
I like that threshold--the best driver in 20. If we can achieve that, the best in 100 or best in 1000 may not be far off.
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by starbase 3y ago
What does it mean for a government to dictate the numbers of hours in a workweek? I truly don't understand. Certainly there are many jobs and lifestyles that don't fit that mold: The tax accountant who works 60-hour weeks during t
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by starbase 3y ago
Is there evidence that Cruise is more dangerous than a human driver?

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