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by teslabox 11y ago
Uber is just reinventing the wheel, with the added burden of having to answer to aloof investors instead of involved owners.
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I read about this 'visualization' ability that people are said to have during my senior year of high school. It's sort of like dreaming, in that you can 'see' pictures in a 'mind's eye'. I remembered
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by teslabox 11y ago
Caterpillar started a research project to reduce warranty claims on their starter batteries, which did not last long in the cold. Their team eventually realized they could replace the lead plates with a graphite foam. This gave their batter
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by teslabox 11y ago
This is the post that businessinsider takes from: http://thereformedbroker.com/2016/02/25/abundance/ Someone else submitted this earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111773
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I've had teslabox.com since 2003... Someone was sending certified mail to the pobox I had - I only checked the box every six months so I never got their letter. The sender had to have gotten that address from whois. I got a free domain
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by teslabox 11y ago
This is going to be my next phone: rugged and "waterproof" are good enough selling points, but the infrared camera puts it in a league of its own.
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by teslabox 11y ago
Years ago I read a short piece called "Lessons for the Living". It was written by a hospice nurse, and said that people dying is like drops in a funnel: everyone starts somewhere, everyone ends up at the same place. Dying people g
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by teslabox 11y ago
The phasing-out of partially hydrogenated oils is probably more important than any other factor.
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Uber's driver-partners are in desperate need of cash too. I wonder how the uber brand gets valued at $62 billion - all the company owns is code, all the transportation assetts belong to the drivers...
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by teslabox 11y ago
When we talk about healthcare, we talk about financial toxicity. Americans spent $3 trillion on healthcare in 2014 [1], much of which had very poor outcomes. Should the healthcare system get a defacto blank check to charge insurance compani
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They also don't work. Some of the first-generation drugs were pretty safe (and reasonably effective), but they fell out of favor.
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There is no way to monetize basic science anymore, because all the most important patents have expired. Big companies only care about treatments which are profitable. Thus we have abominations such as Finasteride being FDA approved. If you
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One of these articles said that s.f. Yellow Cab was self-insured for a while, and during that period one of their drivers got in an accident. The passenger sued yellow cab and won an $8 million dollar judgement.
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by teslabox 11y ago
I visited my mother over the holidays, and was walking through the grocery store with her. She was like, "here are the chips." I responded, "no, those chips are fried in biodiesel. I want the ones that are fried in coconut oi
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... And the article linked on "read more" says the opposite: "Vegetable oils contain 'toxic' chemicals, say scientists" http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
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by teslabox 11y ago
My grandfather just turned 101, and is suffering. He would have expired long ago, if not for the pacemaker. It was just replaced - I wonder why he consented...
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by teslabox 11y ago
Many producers' batches of HFCS used to be contaminated with mercury [1]. Thanks to the efforts of a lone FDA whistleblower, industry no longer uses mercury to make this substance. But high fructose corn syrup may still be contaminated
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by teslabox 11y ago
Anything that helps you develop your inner world would be helpful. Win Wenger's book The Einstein Factor was my introduction to the field of personal development. http://winwenger.com/einfact.htm
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by teslabox 11y ago
Paypal closed my account a few years ago - my friend panicked when her own account was closed, and ended up taking me with her. Looks like I'll get $3 as a result of this class action lawsuit.
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by teslabox 11y ago
I was put off by this part of the FreeNAS community too. Eventually I found NAS4Free (a fork of FreeNAS), which seems to work rather well on the "old" dual-core AMD computer that I wanted to use. http://www.nas4free.org
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by teslabox 11y ago
I try to avoid eating biodiesel. If an oil requires the petroleum distillate hexane for its production, I figure it's not appropriate for human consumption.
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Psychiatry is an officially-sanctioned pseudoscience. People who get stuck in the system tend to never get better.
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In America, we have insurance companies to pay the drug cabal on our behalf.
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by teslabox 11y ago
Broda Barnes book [1] says, iirc, that high cholesterol levels are basically diagnostic of hypothyroidism. Usually people's superficial thyroid lab #'s look fine (TSH), but their body is not properly activating T4 -> T3. [1] h
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by teslabox 11y ago
> Each time I had a tooth "cured" (i.e. drilled), this "cure" weakened the structure of the tooth so much that it broke with a period of 6 to 24 months. And once the inside was removed with drilling and the outside ha
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John Holt wrote "How Children Fail" in 1964. John Gatto wrote "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" in 1992. The more things change, the more things stay the same. > The proper place and bes
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do you use a sweetener with your coffee?
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A lot of women don't realize that their monthly "birth control bleeds" are actually fake-periods. Chemically-castrated women's cycles are nothing like those of non-medicated women. Your FAQ could point out that the devic
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Medicine does pretty well with popping my friend out of her psychotic states. But people on the traditional treatment programs never truly get better, they're just on the treatment merry-go-round for decades. "The Doctor Isn'