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It looks more like 34,000x to me. https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/liechtenstein?country...

I always thought the 1st Amendment was about prohibiting "The Government" from curbing speech. I think a lot of us have gotten used to being able to say anything--things unbridled in scope and unlimited in quantity on (private company) Social Media, but such expectations are not guaranteed by Our Goverment's Constitution.

There are 2 aspects to home comfort: Having the right amount of heat in your house, and keeping the temperature in your home from fluctuating. As others have pointed out on this thread, there are many ways to add and remove heat from your home. I would suggest that the second point, the thermal mass of your home, is an often overlooked item that is very easy to design in pre-construction, but very hard to add as an afterthought. Interior stone, concrete, and water (like a fountain, for example) efficiently and perpetually absorb and radiate the existing heat into an already conditioned space in a way that is eminently comfortable.

You can read the original paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898

The study apparently missed its primary endpoint.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/alzheimersdisease/786...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2018/09/18/the-ibm-ag...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-basic-income/finl...

When these findings came out in November, SciMag felt the results were less promising. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/blood-young-people-d...

I've lived between Denver and Boulder for a couple of decades now, and my gut reaction is that Denver/Boulder is probably the type of area that Amazon is looking for to attract talent. Louisville, CO (outside Boulder) is often ranked #1 or #2 for great places to live, and Louisville has the abandoned Storagetek campus (~432 acres) and immediate access to HWY36 and the 470 Tollway. Whether or not adding a mega-campus of 50,000 to the 80027 zip code (or frankly, even one 20 minutes south to Denver proper) is good for the Corridor is another conversation entirely.

While it is true that many of us will experience some kind of brain failure (if we don't die of something else first) making claims about absolutes like "zero" and "none" are not perhaps constructive to the conversation. My experience with my 90-year-old father in law is that he can recite far more stories about being 10 in rural Kansas in the '30s than I can of being 10 in Colorado's suburbs. He'll also demolish any who care to challenge him at Scrabble or contract bridge. Also, he happens to be the nicest, most unassuming guy ever. Dementia may eventually come for him, but today is not that day. YMMV

Extrapolating this graph (whose last data point is approximately 1998), we should expect a commercial reactor very soon--perhaps in about 2005.

Thanks for the thoughtful response. My own original thinking was along these lines as well.

However, some thoughts that did occur to me along the lines of cleaning the air and water that we each consume, as well as carbon sequestration. Much in the same spirit that someone launches other local public goods (tor node, public wifi, etc.), perhaps a generous neighbor/employer decides to undo all of the carbon or water pollution, or air pollution that they've ever created--thereby creating a "blast radius" of positive effects around their cleaning apparatus. Such technologies currently exist, but are energy intensive.

Yes. USAToday is not known for their journalistic excellence. The reason I posted it was because I didn't realize we had a strategic stockpile of bacon for, you know, bacon emergencies.

Here is the December 14 2016 update to that story: http://keck.usc.edu/stem-cell-therapy-gives-paralyzed-man-se...

PG answered this question on video once, though I can't find it. His answer was -- circumspect -- let's say, but implied "look at TechStars' successes for our anti-portfolio". Example: RM apparently rejected Return Path's application out of YC with the comment "SPAM PROVIDER", which is why now all applications are reviewed by two partners instead of one.

Attention: Will "KORINEK Michael; (San Francisco, CA) (Sr. Packaging Product Design Engineer at Apple) WHANG; Eugene Antony; (San Francisco, CA) (Number of Co-Patents with Jonathan Ive: 321+) SHAFFER; Benjamin Andrew; (San Jose, CA)" (Former Nike design director Ben Shaffer) Please report to the principal's office for a public shaming? Thank you.

1. Where does the money come from to fund the conversion into USD? i.e. is this self-funding somehow or is it a government program? 2. Why 30 days to mature (why not 0, 3, 15, 45, 3650)? 3. "Far fewer USD reserves than a central bank would normally need..." OK. So I'm missing a bigger point of the mechanics. (see #4...) 4. Is there a Ponzi-Scheme danger as more people are trading their Viral Currency?

PS- 1. The premise of the hack is interesting--bad money gets spent first, good gets saved; though ironically the bad is less valuable if you spend it today (discount)-- 2. I like the goals of basic income. Thanks for experimenting with it and starting a conversation.

According to Alice Wellborn, a dyslexia expert of some note: Many years ago, researchers believed that dyslexia was a visual perceptual problem - that it was based in how a person saw letters and words. Now we know for sure, through brain imaging studies, that dyslexia is a problem in the language system of the brain, not the visual system.

Dyslexia is the result of a significant weakness in the phonological processing system, or how a person's brain understands and can use the sound-based reading "code". A dyslexic reader has difficulty cracking that code.

Here are some important facts about dyslexia:

Dyslexia is based in how a person's brain functions. The brain structure is normal - the glitch is in the wiring. Fluent readers use a part of the brain for reading that dyslexic readers do not use. This means that reading remains a slow, laborious process for children and adults with dyslexia.

Dyslexia is not related to a person's level of intelligence. Many children and adults with dyslexia are gifted, highly accomplished, creative people.

It appears from the wording that you can still request an opt out, but that they can refuse: "While passengers may generally decline AIT screening in favor of physical screening, TSA may direct mandatory AIT screening for some passengers."

Being careful not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but... It is interesting that Facebook ($300 Billion market cap) decided to support at the $150k level instead of the $350k level (i.e. saving themselves from a rounding-error $200,000 additional commitment).

It cost them more than that to make the decision and the press release.

I notice you have the 4-tier (299/149/79/29) pricing system. I'm curious what percentage of your revenue comes from each tier.

20Neon = 16Oxygen + 4Helium 24Magnesium = 20Neon + 4Helium 32Sulfur = 28Silicon + 4Helium 36Argon = 32Sulfur + 4Helium --Looks like it's not possible to turn Mg into anything?

Very buttony and well designed. Good MVP. I notice you can order 10 shirts and send them to 10,000 locations, though.

I'm not a good cofounder candidate for geographic and other reasons, but I'd be happy to step you through some idea options and potential business models.

Of course it doesn't stop with just <1% one time. By encouraging the "innovation tax" of the Lodsys revenue model, every half-baked patent troll would be encouraged to try to claim <1% of sales from everybody. If every developer agreed to the blackmail of 5 or 6 trolls, then there is suddenly a huge community of easy prey for potential trolls with weak claims who might not otherwise bother. If the Trolls see a big financial opportunity, then the problem gets worse. If everybody is already covered under Apple's/Google's license, then no additional revenue flows to Lodsys and they (and their ilk) see a low payoff for their troll-like behavior. If an opt-in solution like this can be found, it weakens the entire trolling community which is good for developers and innovation.

Agreed that it could be messy. Another alternative: Apple could buy it and license it back to you: $1 for 100 year license...buy/leaseback is a reasonably common thing for all kinds of assets. I don't see that it would be necessary to give up any functional rights that you aren't already giving up by agreeing to Apple's current app terms.