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by stellar678 10y ago
"If you wish to make a web browser from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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by stellar678 10y ago
Interesting. Are the weeds penetrating through a barrier like cardboard - or just through a mulch layer? I've worked on some larger-scale permaculture projects where a cardboard/mulch combo managed to kill off a thick blanket of i
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by stellar678 10y ago
Sheet mulching is easy and incredibly effective in my experience. Cardboard topped with a mulch layer like straw. (Optional soil amendments below the cardboard.) In a small backyard garden you might need to pull out a couple dozen weeds ove
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by stellar678 10y ago
This is one of the best newspaper science articles I've ever read. It's a survey of the landscape, talks to a wide variety of experts, and modulates expectations for some miracle cure while still laying out the possibilities that
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by stellar678 10y ago
If Walmart decided they wanted to run an open-air store with no walls, no staff, and self-checkout - would it seem reasonable for them to call the police for every person who walked away without paying for their items? The difference is onl
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by stellar678 10y ago
Serious answer: Offer the accused shoplifter some alternatives to police involvement. Pay for the merchandise, pay a fine, sign an agreement to never be on the store property. I'm not a retailer - I'm sure there are plenty of othe
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by stellar678 10y ago
I'm sure there are some road users this wouldn't work for, but check out permeable interlocking pavers. I encountered some country roads in Germany that were paved with these for many kilometers. It was a beautiful and pleasant pl
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by stellar678 10y ago
Nah, it's a terrible graph. I had exactly the same understanding as you did.
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by stellar678 11y ago
Hardly - try 6% of our tax dollars. https://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/whys/thm01/les01...
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by stellar678 11y ago
Do you seriously believe that an organization known for publicly beheading people, imposing arbitrary violent pseudo-Islamic rule, cultural genocide, etc... is supported by a significant part of the population of the territory they took ove
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by stellar678 11y ago
It's insane. You literally leave one Target parking lot, drive under the freeway and turn into another Target parking lot. I would have decision paralysis even picking one.
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by stellar678 11y ago
I figure it's baked into the name Venture Capital. A venture is about potential rather than fundamentals. The question for any particular venture is when fundamentals become a more important metric than potential.
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by stellar678 11y ago
I didn't downvote you, and haven't actually read the article yet - but wiretap laws are pretty clear that it's illegal to perform audio recordings of people without their knowledge, regardless of location and how that applies
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by stellar678 11y ago
If you engage in any business that requires or benefits from a working relationship with the political system, then employing lots of people is, without a doubt, a positive aspect of your business.
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by stellar678 11y ago
"Each drug dealer, each mugger, each killer, and each felon with a gun had his own lawyer, his own case, his own time before judge and jury, his own sentencing, and, in many cases, an appeal or other post-sentencing review." This
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by stellar678 11y ago
If people take residences that would otherwise be available to long-term tenants and make them only available as short-term rentals, how is that not further constraining the supply of housing? I completely agree that the lack of new housing
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by stellar678 11y ago
The effect of a significantly higher, controllable and predictable load will be nothing but positive for a strained grid. Electric cars are a great load because, unlike lighting and AC and most other household use, the energy doesn't n
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by stellar678 11y ago
What am I looking at?
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by stellar678 11y ago
While I'm all on-board for the importance and awesomeness of a wholesale transition to electric transportation, I think this essay leaves out some important considerations. The primary one that pops to mind for me: people replace their
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by stellar678 12y ago
I guess I'm kind of late to the party, but I wanted to share a view of what 40 people looked at during the first few seconds on your landing page: http://imgur.com/feTONXk,fFUUXCD,WCs9oJG Personally, I think the design
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by stellar678 12y ago
It's awesome to read his analysis of and experiments with the components that make up butter! But, in the end his recipe is essentially just Earth Balance: http://earthbalancenatural.com/wp-content/uploads/201
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by stellar678 12y ago
Given the accusation that this thread is full of astroturfing, the account karma and age of posters seem like very relevant information.
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by stellar678 12y ago
What a great reference! Awhile back I wrote down "learning to learn" as one of my outside-work goals and didn't really know how to approach it. It seems like a force-multiplier for everything you can do - I look forward to th
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by stellar678 12y ago
Here is a nice long list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
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by stellar678 12y ago
Antibiotics are not vaccines. Antibiotics are used to produce larger animals and to avoid the effort and cost of raising animals in sanitary conditions, without much regard for the effects on antibiotic resistance. Vaccines are another matt
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by stellar678 12y ago
I wonder how enforceable that indemnity is. It seems to me that Kraft wouldn't be able to protect their big pockets by passing off liability to a company with relatively little in the way of assets.
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by stellar678 12y ago
Can't Outbox just provide me with a c/o address, and I can update my address with anyone who intends to send me mail?
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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO(blog.mozilla.org)
204 points by stellar678 13y ago|274 comments
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by stellar678 13y ago
Thanks to the Cottage Food Act, as of 2013 it's super-easy if you're relatively low volume. It's a self-inspection (as in, "follow this checklist") and a cheap registration so they can track you down if you cause so
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by stellar678 13y ago
Your points were taken up in the blog post: The fact that I'm personally extremely unlikely to be killed by either terrorists or cops isn't the reason the statistic is important. The statistic is important for public policy debate

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