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Is iron a potential replacement for coal in steel and cement production?

Are you? If so, why?

The leaf has 150-226 miles of range depending on the battery option. Even the first generation nearly a decade ago had more than 60.

I'd define being 'financially secure', as being confident that you will not need to make changes to your lifestyle for financial reasons. It makes sense that that depends pretty he…

Slate and ceramic tile roofs are good options - they are not combustable and will not melt. I'm not sure they would hold up to a 15 meter log landing on them, but they really do re…

Facebook got money for the ads bought based on Cambridge Analytica's use of their API.

The tricky part about this sounds like it would be specifying in the proxy service which parts of structured requests are responses are PII - how do you handle this?

I don’t have any recommendations for reading, but do enthusiastically recommend the korg volcas from the article - they are self contained, fun and intuitive to use, and very affor…

Be careful w/ these urls - I visited one and it appears my IP is now blocked from accessing yelp.com.

The statistic that stands out to me from this article is that 1 bitcoin transaction uses enough energy to power 5.58 us households for a day. I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable …

The learning curve is steep if you are not familiar w/ static typing, and its not unheard of to run into bugs in flow itself, but overall I have found it to be really helpful. In m…

ID laws are most likely to exclude young, black, low income and (legal) immigrant voters who are less likely to have drivers licenses than others and are more likely to vote for de…

Carbon atoms from the gasoline each combine with two oxygen atoms from the air to produce a carbon dioxide molecule, meaning the bulk of the mass of the resulting co2 actually come…

I would assume this means substituting artificially sweetened for sugar sweetened drinks.

I have an oculus - I played with it daily for around two weeks after getting it, but can't remember the last time I touched it. I'm not a big gamer though - I mostly was interested…

Is Peter Thiel still involved with ycombinator?

You are missing the point - whether their motivation is purely profit, or altruistic, or whatever - if they do not want to fund a project, they have an incentive not to vote 'No' a…

I think Facebook is probably better able to track what you do online through like buttons and other Facebook integrations than Google is through analytics.

Goldman isn't making the $2b investment in Tesla - they are being paid by Tesla to manage the sale of $2b worth of new shares to the public. That said, I think its very unlikely th…

Also - we likely could correct most of the damage by sequencing only one or a few cells. Almost all human genetic variation is in a relatively small number of well known locations …

I'm not an expert here, but doesn't it make sense for stocks to return higher than growth because of earnings? For example imagine I own stocks making up 1% of in a company w/ earn…

This has been debunked over and over - here is one source covering co2 emissions http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life-...