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by bb2018 5y ago
I agree its risky. Perhaps I'm being pedantic but seems weird to do an entire article on Musk's vision for space and not once mention starlink or the satelite side of the business. The not-up-to-date person reading this would trul
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by bb2018 5y ago
>Bezos, Musk and Richard Branson seem animated by a lofty goal: securing the future of humanity by going into space. This seems like a very under-researched statement. Bezos and Musk clearly see huge profits to be made flying satellites
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by bb2018 5y ago
I obviously realize that influenza does not attack the body in the same way with the same receptors - but it obviously attacks the body in its own unique way. It rarely causes serious health consequences but for the people it does (I'v
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by bb2018 5y ago
I do wonder if this is proportional to your symptoms/proportional to other ailments. For instance, is someone with Covid (who was on the verge of needing oxygen) more likely to have long term symptoms than someone the same age who got
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by bb2018 5y ago
NASA's version of doing things quietly is pretty loud https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/06/28/nasa-administrator-... I honestly am cool with NASA getting lots more money but also seems clear t
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by bb2018 5y ago
Would be more interesting/honest if they differentiated between companies that have declined versus just mergers. The AEI is making the point there is more creative destruction than people think - which is fair. But Mobil is counted as
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by bb2018 5y ago
I've used website blockers before on Twitter. I would still go incognito to find people for updates on things but the extra two clicks def nudged me from doing it as often.
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by bb2018 6y ago
I don't see how it is less relevant. Warren says he understands how much Microsoft is getting off of royalties for Windows but is unsure about his confidence in a 20 year bet compared to a company like Coke which sells Cola. Warren tur
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by bb2018 6y ago
Not on a random blog.
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by bb2018 6y ago
I disagree. I feel like that's up for the patient to decide. If I am going to tell my deepest secrets to someone I'd rather there not even be the faintest idea that details would be written about, even in very general ways.
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by bb2018 6y ago
According to Snopes, the song "Sweet Home Alabama" was actually inspired by a radio commercial for "Sweet Homes" that had aired decades earlier. Full circle.
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by bb2018 6y ago
I am in favor of looser zoning laws and generally consider myself a YIMBY. However, I wouldn't say it is good politically to only support local low-income housing conditional on the fact that there is no negatives. I think that is the
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by bb2018 6y ago
I'm a bit confused. That article doesn't mention viruses at all in its abstract, only bacterial studies. My understanding is that the virus came from horseshoe bats. These largely live in Southern China. Wuhan is not Southern Chin
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by bb2018 6y ago
I've had some trouble understanding this claim though. From my understanding the bats that the virus most likely came from are thousands of miles away from Wuhan. This also is the area that the Wuhan researches went every year to colle
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by bb2018 6y ago
Though I was the one who suggested this would be easily catchable - Tesla is probably the one company where you could get away with this. There is no shortage of random Robin Hood users making pretty big plays on it constantly.
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by bb2018 6y ago
If they wanted to get as much money as possible without being caught what else could they have done? If that was the case they could only deal with bitcoin. Blackmailing with bitcoin may be smarter but maybe they figured that would be inves
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by bb2018 6y ago
Occam's razor says this is almost certainly the case. It isn't like the hacker knew that it would generate such little bitcoin being sent their way until after it failed. Especially if the hacker is not from the US it seems much e
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by bb2018 6y ago
One rule of thumb I think about is that the cost of oil needed to manufacture/ship an item cannot exceed the cost of that item. So, if a plastic straw costs two cents, then at most about 1/200th a gallon of oil/gas was used t
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by bb2018 6y ago
Is there a reason for this to be on HN? I'm only seeing jokes in the thread and not even positive how a meaningful political discussion would make sense here. Every other forum has plenty of room for political discussion.
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by bb2018 6y ago
Right now - a lot of hacked organizations may just say "it's not worth the payout" but if they are already paying insurance then of course they are going to tell the insurance company its important and ask for the ransom to b
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by bb2018 6y ago
No one would say that if you just taxed everyone 10,000 dollars a year that prices would fall in a way such that everything would carry on the same. The US already has a fairly solid way to transfer money for those in need of food. I'm
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by bb2018 6y ago
This article compares growing food like wheat locally and rightfully points out how insane that would be in terms of land required. Growing some specialized foods locally is what others have suggested but I still find this extremely misguid
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by bb2018 6y ago
B and C list celebs have been doing autograph signings and meet and greet for decades. Performers travel to cities in the middle of nowhere and stay there for hours before shuttling off to another location. I think it is a bit silly to sing
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by bb2018 6y ago
I'm not quite sure that level of concern is warranted. It is illegal to ask for a medical examination before getting hired and I imagine this would extend to that. Testing poop, even with a smart toilet, would be pretty cumbersome and
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by bb2018 6y ago
I'm sure there is great data on police calls but from my experience with calling 911 social workers wouldn't really help. Earlier this year there was a homeless man waving a knife at pedestrians a few blocks from my house. I know
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by bb2018 6y ago
Again - I think this is misleading and I should have specified. In California, most of the money for schools comes from the state. So, when I say school budget from LA is 4x the police budget, that is just covering the 21% and 12% part of t
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by bb2018 6y ago
I'm really not suggesting education should be cut! I just think the chart is silly because it pretty much finds the smallest subdivision of the budget that includes all of the police budget but doesn't include things like educatio
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by bb2018 6y ago
I think the chart is misleading for those just seeing it in isolated form on social media. It doesn't include education budget because that is not discretionary. The school budget is 4x the police budget. I'm not exactly sure the
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by bb2018 6y ago
Trump, Mnuchin, Pelosi, McConnell, Sanders, and Biden have all referred to this as a stimulus. Sure, anything with money could stimulate some, but the express purpose of this was to stabilize and stimulate the economy. Most bills have that
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by bb2018 6y ago
I really disagree. The payment amount was not linked to whether or not individual people stayed at home or whether or not they lived in an area that had strict stay-at-home orders. The economy may not seem "stimulated" compared to

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