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by tejohnso 5y ago
Couldn't this be addressed with some kind of legal entity like a generational trust where the children don't have direct access to the principle?
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U.S. makes 'largest financial seizure ever,' taking $3.6B in Bitcoin(kitco.com)
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by tejohnso 5y ago
In some jurisdictions "engineer" is a protected term. You can't just go around calling yourself a Software Engineer because you graduated from a 2 month boot camp and feel like that's a nice sounding title. At least, you
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by tejohnso 5y ago
That's what I was thinking. At what point do statements like this from a CEO constitute fraud? Especially given the historic record. I suppose if there isn't sufficient and directly attributable damage done, it's not going to
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by tejohnso 5y ago
"My personal guess is that we’ll achieve Full Self-Driving this year at a safety level significantly greater than a person." Is this even remotely possible?
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> My kids have a mix of classic & branded sets and the play area is a mix of designed builds and improvised creations. Amazing. My kid just wants to get the build over with so he can get back to gaming or youtube, where he watches ot
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by tejohnso 5y ago
Unless other brands adopt something similar to trackpoint, they're all useless laptops to me. I even use a trackpoint keyboard for my desktop setup.
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> She has multiple children who literally take off their clothes, flip over tables, and try to climb the fences of the school to leave every single day All serious potential legal issues. Whatever happened to expulsion? No way I'd a
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by tejohnso 5y ago
The size and extravagance of this thing is rather off-putting. I was expecting a modest off grid passive house.
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> I think it's likely that most of the tic-tac things were some kind of projected image. A projected image that is perfectly represented in three dimensions, viewable from multiple angles simultaneously, and giving off appropriate r
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by tejohnso 5y ago
"...achieved a speed of 27.7 mph (44.6 km/h) sailing directly downwind in 10 mph (16 km/h) winds: almost three times the speed of the wind." Very counter-intuitive. At least for those of us not familiar with sailing. And
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Blackbird (Wind-Powered Vehicle)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tejohnso 5y ago|1 comments
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Why is Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb working with ardent UFO believers?(science.org)
54 points by tejohnso 5y ago|29 comments
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> “My thinking is, I didn’t do anything wrong,” he said. “So whatever they look at, they won’t find that I did anything wrong.” This statement seems like a completely backward mindset to have, especially after watching this classic advic
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by tejohnso 5y ago
Many people are ok with trading privacy for convenience, or even basic fashion, or a bit of short term excitement. "I have nothing to hide".
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> sometimes Thank you for being generous :)
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by tejohnso 5y ago
Insulation under the home, and skirted around it. You may be thinking of a Frost Protected Shallow Foundation[1]. A nice alternative to excavating in order to get below the frost line. I dream of doing this as part of a self built small pas
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by tejohnso 5y ago
Confirmation bias goes both ways, I'm not saying anything about how it might be affecting perceived report frequency. I'm saying a prediction about a specific timeline in years or decades is not important. Whether you're righ
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by tejohnso 5y ago
Can we say that Ringo's professionalism and artistic choices were at a higher level than his technical skill? It seems as though he made great choices, but I get the sense that he's nowhere near the level of a Bonham or Peart tech
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> Instead, the new signs will say: "When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking." Predicting a specific date limit for a specific area was
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by tejohnso 5y ago
I think that's actually a rational position to take. We've already blown past 1.5 degrees C if you use the original 1750 baseline and 2 degrees C is already baked into the atmosphere. Short of some massively scaled up energy ref
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by tejohnso 5y ago
"Faster than expected" is a common phrase in climate research. For example, the arctic is warming 4X faster than the rest of the planet, antarctic ice melt, arctic ice extent reduction, methane emissions, etc, all happening faster
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> Ponzi grifters You want to talk about Ponzi? Crypto has nothing on the Fed. The global financial structure is a planet-incinerating Ponzi scheme, so the point of targeting one minuscule subset of it is suspect.
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> Another weird take It's not the "take" that's weird, it's the situation. I said nothing about whether the government or businesses have the right or not. Just that since it has now started it is likely to be us
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by tejohnso 5y ago
The writing was on the wall as soon as governments started normalizing vaccination passports. Governments and businesses can now take that same mentality forward for whatever type of shot they want. Meanwhile they continue to antagonize tho
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> which if I understand them correctly means that it's hard to meet people without it It means it (Tinder) no longer works. I says nothing about difficulty of meeting people outside of Tinder.
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> You're suggesting that tinder is a vital service for some aspect of life now(I agree, unfortunately) Tinder being a "vital service" sounds absurd.
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by tejohnso 5y ago
Exactly. There are environments where individual proactive efficiency is highly rewarded and respected, but not all. Sometimes you just need to settle down into the same flow as others. Trying to swim faster than the current just doesn&#x27
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by tejohnso 5y ago
The university is responsible for safety of its students so yes, I think the authorities need to grant permission at least to ensure this outside person isn't a complete maniac who is going to attempt to incite a riot, or who otherwise
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by tejohnso 5y ago
> Isn't it time for those of us who have had two doses, or even three (I have yet another one scheduled a week from now...), to stop worrying and start enjoying life the way it is meant to be lived? Yes, and I would add, time to sto

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