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by sunstone 6y ago
Here are three things you can usefully try. Watch more movies in English with the subtitles off. Do "Picture Description" with an articulate english speaker (you both describe a given picture to each other). If your pronunciati
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by sunstone 6y ago
I expect the prospects for the cybertruck are good enough to require an entire new battery factory of its own.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Science progresses one funeral at a time.
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by sunstone 6y ago
It's not on the Gates' Foundation radar but how about a very high quality, matching set of mask and glasses/goggles? Costing about $30. The mask is reusable and the glasses fit very close to the skin around the eyes...perhap
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by sunstone 7y ago
Like addition for example, can be useful in many different contexts.
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by sunstone 7y ago
A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
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by sunstone 7y ago
I would expect Mr. Andreessen to have a more rounded understanding of capitalism.
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by sunstone 7y ago
And Archimedes makes three.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Put me into the 'discovered' camp.
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by sunstone 7y ago
It's hard to see how nuclear, especially large nuclear, can compete with wind, solar and batteries into the future. All three of these technologies benefit from continuing cost reduction combined with incremental deployment. The &quo
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by sunstone 7y ago
Yahoo, with malice aforethought, deleted my email account of 20 years.
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by sunstone 7y ago
In terms of timeline apparently Alberta, a province of Canada, was already stocking up on masks and aprons in December in anticipation of the coming pandemic.
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by sunstone 7y ago
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter..." - Richard Feynman
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by sunstone 7y ago
People don't hate their jobs so much as they dislike having a boss. That's why fishermen, farmers and other bossless occupations stay working way past 65.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Sure bail them out and take an equity position.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Looks like there's an organized "smug attack" going on against The Economist. I wonder who's trying to undermine its credibility? I've been reading the Economist for a couple of decades and while it's not perf
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by sunstone 7y ago
If his chosen technology was wirewrap rather than actual breadboards I would a lot more confidence in this guy's judgement.
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by sunstone 7y ago
The reciprocity of receiving and transmitting antennas is in fact fundamentally incorrect. They behave very asymmetrically in their physics.
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by sunstone 7y ago
It's mildly irritating that the concepts of explanations like this (and almost all others) are based on a false understanding, through the path loss equation and the law of reciprocity, of the underlying physics of antennas. While this
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by sunstone 7y ago
I've had the flu in the past that really kicked my posterior. Took about eight weeks to feel fully recovered.
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by sunstone 7y ago
I do this in my sleep. But then, so does everyone else.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Yeah, there weren't many waterfalls in the skunk works.
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by sunstone 7y ago
There is many a slip twixt cup and lip.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Magnetic bearings for example, are an entertaining system to control.
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by sunstone 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken TV's are measured in inches the world over.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Oh and don't forget the fact that the earth is also spinning (not to mention orbiting the Sun) at the same time as it is not being flat. It's all very complicated to be sure.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Fluid dynamics can be counter intuitive.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Apparently he also has revenue from operating businesses that he owns.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Definitely all six of them should be taxed more.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Most of Berkeshire's debt is associated with their utility businesses which have very low risk and low margins because of safe multi-decade contracts.

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