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by travisporter 7y ago
I initially approached the article with skepticism but there are mostly non tech members. “The reality, though, has been that Silicon Valley’s idealism often gets overrun by greed and ambition. Still, many of the people behind Open Lunar ha
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by travisporter 7y ago
When ATMs began rolling out, more branches opening increaesed the demand for bank tellers. This may happen here as well. http://www.aei.org/publication/what-atms-bank-tellers-rise-r...
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by travisporter 7y ago
Actually, I found that it is not as drastic as 5x on this site. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2156/does-a-missio...
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If even 10% of all McDonald's offered high speed wifi, accessible power outlets, and maybe some nice desks, I feel they would destroy this company.
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by travisporter 7y ago
I enabled fingerprint blocking on Firefox after reading this. Does it break a lot of websites? This site says some banks use it to authenticate. https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-brows...
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by travisporter 7y ago
First, A lot of people buy Teslas because of looks and performance, or a linen bag because of ocean pollution. It may not reflect a desire to address climate change. Second, we can do both moonshots and paper straws. Why not encourage peopl
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by travisporter 7y ago
It troubles me that there are man-made particles in the air and everywhere, but I was shamed on HN 4 months ago for worrying about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19673894 . Not sure how to feel about it now.
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by travisporter 7y ago
Absolutely agree and vast majority are not economically justified to live off grid in North America. Parent comment used all caps so just pointing out it is not absolute.
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“Forcing over building of” solar is still cheaper than building a new coal or gas plant in some areas. I am positive there are plenty of people who live off grid and do not always need gas or biofuel backup.
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Is there any active research on this technology for non-rocket launch systems?
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What are 9s?
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Does Amazon prime still incentivize for slower delivery? I used to pick that option pretty much every time since like you said if I wanted something faster I’ll drive to the store.
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“payment (imagine not needing a wallet because the combination of your face, gait, and voice is enough to verify you)“ If it can be done from a distance, this is bone chilling to me. A company could use this to literally extract money from
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by travisporter 7y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted but I don’t think Bezos’ sentiment is to give up on earth.
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While I agree with this sentiment (and despise “Twitter activists”) https://onemilliontweetmap.com says otherwise
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DE= double-edged I assume?
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From TFA: Emergency room doctors, nurses, and first responders were getting delayed alerts. This was not just an annoyance; it was a matter of life and death. What is your "almost too easy" solution? Block all local calls? Have yo
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by travisporter 8y ago
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It is by no means unreasonable or unscientific to suspect whether plastics in your stool, the air and water around is a special threat. Animal studies have shown cause for concern. Sensationalist? Perhaps. I've used this information to
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by travisporter 8y ago
Ignoring any future and ongoing discovery of lithium resources, yes, just like there wasn't enough oil to put us where we are now, there isn't enough lithium today for a day's worth of storage of all of US's energy needs
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People may not value it but can I argue that society improves as a result? I personally treat rental cars, bikes and public bathrooms the same as anyone else. I don’t trash them but don’t clean them meticulously. I still value their presenc
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by travisporter 8y ago
Is there a way to remain safe driving in these places besides also buying a large heavy vehicle? I despise gas guzzlers but my sedan may not survive an accident.
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Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of ... non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
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Link to Science perspective. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6404/758 .
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Really eloquently put. I think the “backup for humanity” idea was put forth by Elon Musk as a justification for his childhood dreams and people run with it as the only reason for human spaceflight.
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While I partially agree that it is a pipe dream, I don’t see why a colony idea is far fetched. I feel like the technological challenges are no more insurmountable than a moon landing once was. Someone with a better understanding can probabl
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by travisporter 8y ago
Can someone parse this sentence?