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Also, has anyone studied the debris? If we go to hundreds of millions of little satellites, that is a significant mass. what is that debris made of, is it reactive, what happens to…

Wouldn’t you typically have to also use Nem-ID to log in to some new service? Nem-ID is a central login system, where you get mailed a physical printout of keys that act as two-fac…

Are voltage gated calcium channels not within this frequency? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780531/

It's right there in the word. Eu-topia: "Not place". A place that does not exist. Trying to create utopia is futile because by definition it will never exist.

By long term do you mean less than two years? He could have come back after two years of boring leadership.

To me Duolingo is a fun side activity while learning a language, good to reinforce vocabulary, but I wish the exercises had just a bit of context. So much of language is with full …

Or a boat autopilot.

I'm very happy to pay them, just like a utility.

That's a fantastic idea.

Twice! Higher up is an article on the Beverly Clock.

If you are using WhatsApp, make sure you deactivate your account if you change phone numbers. I recently got a new phone number and when I logged in, I assumed a non-deactivated pr…

I disagree, what they've done is externalized many of the risks (battery fires, unforeseen supplier bottlenecks, etc) and maintained focus on building cars that people want right n…

Actually I think it's one word: China. Companies are competing on a global scale.

But in terms of particulate emissions it is very significant. Upwards of 60% of total sulphur emissions and accounts for over 60,000 deaths per year. At room temperature you can wa…

No, it seems like the mix moves against the airflow, so they'll inject it and collect it upstream. He refers to a trick from the chemical industry. It seems like with the massive t…

Alvin Toffler wrote a book about this in a much broader context, also called the Third Wave.

Perhaps this means the other shoe will fall. Will local regulations making it easy for municipalities or other actors to set up their own ISPs?

The outgoing chairman of the FCC was interviewed recently [1] and alluded to new ad hoc networks created by cell phone users, to be used in times of emergencies where networks get …

Today I believe we stand on the edge of a new age of synthesis. In all intellectual fields, from the hard sciences to sociology, psychology, and economics—especially economics—we a…

Credibility shot for doing whatever it takes to get ahead? In America? If she lied, which is debatable, I would have more respect for her. This isn't a meritocracy. On your second …

The campaigns do have that much to spend, and the available advertising dollars makes incentives for media companies to fulfill that demand. Profit is made by getting more eyeballs…

Your question reminds me of the article yesterday that suggested an "x prize for everything" [0]. I have heard many people say that the really hard part is the goal setting and det…

it's a jobs program

Copyright doesn't apply to genetic code though. Is this the fundamental question they will be arguing at the supreme court?