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Watching the video, when the rocket lifted-off, it stood on a couple small risers. When it landed, the risers were gone. Did someone run out there and grab them?

One of the most mind bending facts I tell people, even sailors, is that sailboats are not limited to sailing at the true windspeed. Sails are wings, not bags. In fact, a boat's top…

> What if, for example, tariffs incentivize technology development that allows hydroponic wine - making previously unviable land suddenly productive? This is a variant of the Impor…

Vancouver, IMO, is a far better developed city than Seattle. Vastly better transit, denser, more walkable neighbourhoods, and just overall very thoughtfully developed. It’s just an…

With “adult” (meaning violate, dilute, or extramaritally fornicate) Person that does adultering: adulterer Thing that does adultering: adulterant

As of Oct 2024, there are zero coal power plants in Britain. It’s quite a remarkable feat. https://www.wri.org/news/statement-uk-eliminates-coal-power-...

Pedantically, the formal name of Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or United States (of) Mexico. USians would then be ambiguous.

The name predates Mexico by 200 years. The name refers to the city of Mexico, smack dab in the middle of the gulf.

8km really isn’t too bad. Millions of people do the 8 week couch2 5k program, once you’re at 5km/half hour, scaling to 8km is easy, like a couple more weeks tops. Also, running (ra…

> I didn't want to buy a checkbook, stamps, and envelopes just for this one bill. How much is a checkbook? My bank (FRB, RIP :( ) gave me, for free, like 8 years ago, an enormous b…

Every era has it's Malthusian alarmists and without fail, each has been proven wrong by exactly the same thing the author decries and says won't work this time: technological chang…

It's interesting to see the federal government taking a strong industrial policy approach to AI through this executive order as well as physical computing via the CHIPS act. Couple…

Babbage podcast from the Economist had a great episode recently on it. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LCTSD4k9bNDn6i8DzLv9r?si=D...

Respectfully, the Canadian accent (really, Canadian English) is noticeable and distinct from US English, in its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Yes, there is a lot in common…

I'm a Canadian living in the states. The joke I tell my family is that I go to Canada to hear about US news. The other joke I have goes like this: the problem with Canada is that A…

PB Blaster is the product everyone thinks WD-40 is. Even still, I wouldn’t use it in the place of real oil/grease/lubricant but in a pinch it’s far better than WD-40 for those odd …

> But we’re not there yet, and according to projections we also won’t reach it this century The best projections we have say our population will likely inflect downwards by the end…

Canadians have elevated Clamato juice with the Caesar, the purest nectar of the gods. Mexicans come close with micheladas and Americans have bloody Mary’s but nothing compares to a…

You can easily do the same with most (all?) routers using middleware. Whether you get it slotted in your roadmap is a different story.

Bowling has been in a long decline. If I had money to get into the PE game, I probably wouldn't choose to invest in bowling, but hey, if someone wants to shovel a bunch of investor…

Maybe, but it’s also remarkable Canada hasn’t had a bank failure in >100 years. It’s a safe, peaceful and prosperous developed country. Hard to argue that Canada hasn’t done fairly…

Wait, you’re missing the important linkage. Urbanization facilitates specialization only because it produces excess productivity. Growth it’s very self produces inequality when the…

Love it. I hate loom. Dark patterns abound. Its time we have a better orientated replay alternative (but I’m still waiting for a widely adopted true session replay alternative)

There are about 200,000 gas stations in the US. At one per day, it would take >500 years to rebuild the network. 1 super charger station per day is pitiful, you don’t need to be El…

On the contrary, it’s hard not to be impressed with Tesla. They moved more Model Y cars than any other car the world over. They unseated Toyota Corolla as the best selling car. Tha…