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By the time the Cray-1 was designed, Seymour Crays children where in college. This might have applied to when he was designing the CDC 6600 when the children were younger. I know t…

You need to think of the cost of this kind of treatment at this stage as R&D. If it works thousands of people will benefit, have longer lives and contribute back more than the life…

States should stick to running a state patrol, maybe a university or two and a court system. Otherwise, stay out of peoples way. Don't collect huge bribes from cable providers to l…

I dropped Dropbox when they put KindaSleezy Rice on their board.

I have one firm rule these days. No rent seeking behaviors. This avoids talking to phone centers in India or some other foreign country, where the person on the other end of the ph…

When they said there were thousands of derailments each year in the U.S. i found a source on the internet that said the total for all derailments in Japan in 2020 was a grand total…

Not to mention how these heavyweights will crush the hell out of our highways. Road damage is to the 4th power of axle weight. Will a fleet of electric cars and trucks we will be s…

Maritime Law had a provision for salvors that saved ships in distress from sinking. If a salvor saved a ship from sinking, they were entitled to a percentage of the worth of a ship…

Look on Hackaday for "Why do you need to use decoupling caps". I am not seeing any talk of decoupling caps in any of this persons writeups. Maybe they are there and I am just not s…

"How not to be wrong" by Ellenberg. Use mathematical thinking to solve everyday problems.

University of Minnesota hospitals have developed a method of doing Fecal Transplant using freeze dried pill that can be taken orally. I'm looking for someone to make a sample high …

According to Wikipedia, California has 5-7 billion barrels of oil in untapped fields in their coastal waters. Some can be tapped using existing wells offshore or onshore wells usin…

(4000/3500)^4 = 1.70 so that 70% more road damage with a fleet of EVs. I don't know how high Vehicle Registration is in your state, and Fuel Tax, but it does add up to a surprising…

The environmentalists killed a zinc mine in my state due to pollution concerns. Of course every pound of zinc not mined meant more steel without zinc protection, and hence more rus…

Wisconsin. If you get a chance, come and smell our dairy air. Or come and freeze in the land of cheese.

Work on this, but you let obvious frauds like Magnegas stay on the exchanges for decades.

How much will they weigh compared to a Diesel bus? Road damage is to the fourth power of axle weight. Any cost savings may be just shifted to the road department for fixing pot hol…

What about Wisconsin? What happened to that one?

I'm sorry. The U.S. is broke. How about trading with the Bear instead of poking at it? U.S. Russia isolation policy has failed miserably.

The 9000 lb Hummer EV will do 256x the damage to the roads as a 2000 lb Honda Accord.

I worked for Cray Research in the 1980s. A lot of the CAD software for the Cray 2 ran on a Z80 based CPM machine called the Intertec Suberbrain. Then we got a bunch of PCs from ATT…

I haven't trusted Charlie Munger at all since reading a paper he wrote about how wonderful an investment in Coca-Cola stock is. He told all about their great growth rate, cash flow…

One of the most intelligent people I went to college with just always seemed to ask the dumbest, most simple questions to the professor. I know now, that what he was doing was esta…

The "Stuff Made Here" guy on youtube is working on an "unpickable" lock. He has made some neat stuff including a pool cue that can't miss and a basketball hoop that doesn't miss.