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It's a handful of senators playing to farmers in their home state. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-plans-to-a... …

Reminds me of this advice from Ira Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQKciKfHI I often tell myself to 'mind the gap'…

I don't know how I feel about bans like this that also ban stopgap solutions. I've never used one personally, but it sounds like a LiquidPiston engine would solve every problem this writer d…

I agree. I don't understand the point of temporarily busting monopolies. With Bell, forcing them to diversify seems to have only made them stronger.

We also broke up Ma Bell back in 84 and it looks like they are on their way to fully reuniting as an even larger monopoly. https://i.imgur.com/rMFqmbt.jpg https://www.mothe…

Reminds me of this art exhibit: http://i.imgur.com/tgKix5d.png

Oregon has a beer bottle reuse program. They aim for 40 uses per bottle. Apparently oregon's bottle law is unique because it put the beverage industry in charge of deposits and collection. htt…

Annoyingly, conspiracy theorists are great consumers. They are primed to reject the status quo and try new things. Look at Alex Jones' merchandise. I am not saying that his supplements are sna…

To be fair, Kearns did represent himself for most of that legal battle. I sure the cases would have been settled much more quickly had he been backed by MIT's lawyers.

News of the shutdown made me think of this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a97diy/my_79yo_fath... …

Germany banned smartwatches for children last year: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/19/16671428/... …

Great episode. I talked to a friend that is an environmental scientist/forester about it. She is doing more and more fire risk surveys for homeowners. She said their portrayal of the situation…

I've thought about the satellite internet & China firewall interaction a bit and I feel that ultimately, musk owning starlink and tesla will probably mean that he will have to play ball with …

Here is the website for one of the winners: http://www.skysource.org/ From what I can glean online, the 150 gal/day unit costs $18k usd + $150-$300 in electricity a month if run …

The byproduct of this reaction is a unit ammonia for each unit of urea used. Is large amounts of ammonia easier to dispose of than urea? "When urea is hydrolysed by the urease enzyme fro…

The Haruhi problem reminds me of De Bruijn sequences, aka why I don't trust 5 button keyless car entry systems. Fords keypads do not have return keys, delays, or attempt limits. A 3125 button …

Here is a good mission simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEH9V9psKY I feel oddly letdown that the harpoon won't be fired at a free floating object. I am glad that they…

I've read a few articles about the use of cell networks as distributed radar systems. One article I read postulated that such a network would defeat most modern stealth radar techniques. I know…

The company I work at explosively welded the material for the end caps on the MMRGT. It was sourced through a contractor so we did not know the application until a reporter called to verify that our …

The videos on their press page are stunning. Especially the ankle rotation video. https://www.marsbioimaging.com/mars/media-pack/ https://drive.google.com/fi…

When the half penny was decommissioned in 1857 it was worth the equivalent of 10-15 cents in today's dollars. It was decommissioned because inflation had made it nearly useless and the metal was…

The cost of failure is rather high. In 2007, China used a missile to destroy one of their satellites: "This event was the largest recorded creation of space debris in history with more than 2,00…

I was in Cleveland over the weekend and got a quick tour from the director of small business development. They turned one of their Arcades (malls) into a small business incubator. It made for a quir…

Slightly off topic: Is there a way to scrape info about who visits a shared google doc? Could a post like this be used to gather email addresses of people looking for productivity software?

I really like the idea of Japan's zoning laws. They have 12 zones nationwide, and they restrict by maximum allowable nuisance. Industry is considered the highest nussicance and low rise residen…

99% Invisible did a great piece on the invention of air conditioning and its role in modern architecture. The part of the story discussing the battle for the ideal office temperature reminded me of t…

I was surprised to learn about the 2018 Dodge Demon's SRT power chiller. It uses the car's refrigerant to cool down the supercharger. On race day you actually have to turn off your AC. T…

The issue at hand is that the software filters out stationary objects. The case you describe only happens if the tesla is tracking the two cars in front of it and the further one breaks.

After you enter your location, click the hamburger menu button in the top right corner of the map. It gives the ETA time to the second, the duration, and the angle from north. Now if only there was a…

There are famous public safety exceptions to free speech that we all agree on. We don't allow people to yell "fire" in a theater for example. The current discussion is about if nuclea…