brianbreslin

This has been a LEGAL issue in Florida for about 18 months. The culture war in the state government has empowered anyone to be able to weaponize their dislike for differing opinions even if they are facts. So many professors are watering down their curriculum out of fear of persecution/reprimands. Students can report professors for teaching subjects or materials they find offensive to the state rather than handling such matters internally at the school.

The cube was so pretty. Still holds up.

Does this mean other elements like cobalt are becoming the bigger bottleneck in battery production?

The US found a large lithium reserve in Nevada not long ago; or to be clear a large reserve that they can now more affordably extract. As another commenter said its not that rare, just wasn't cheap to extract before.

Panama has a tiny railroad that follows the canal, if they thought this was a viable alternative they would expand it. I think they realize the labor cost on both ends would make this prohibitive + the time to unload and load up another ship would cause major bottlenecks.

There was another nicaraguan canal project that was floated maybe 10 years ago and supposedly financed by the Chinese government. The government officials involved all ended up charged with an assortment of graft surrounding the project.

The number of birds killed annually by windows is probably 100x that killed by turbines. Hard to convince everyone to remove windows.

Watching this reminded me of The Wizard movie from the 1980s. Which at the time (I was 7) I had no idea what ASD was, now it resonates in a completely different way.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/

thank you for that clarification. I also never suggested they were idiots. But resource constrained + not trained as electricians = me wondering how do you make it foolproof and safe and cheap.

So how are these flood proof? the TLDR she is designing super cheap limestone/mud/bamboo dwellings that last longer than tents. Are they being designed at elevation?

It got me thinking of can someone mass produce simple pipes pre-filled with electrical wiring and outlets that don't require sophisticated knowledge to install/connect to solar? How do you cheaply bring up the standard of living in these $176 houses?

I was surprised to see Adam Neumann as a keynote speaker at the Future investment conference in Riyadh a few weeks ago. I thought perhaps he'd be persona non-grata due to burning so much in saudi $.

Didn't they say 2500 people came?

So firefox was ahead of the pack on the add-ons/extensions game, but then didn't push it or support it after a while. Now after years of chrome having a few integrations or add-ons that make my life easier, i have a hard time switching back to firefox even though chrome is such a giant memory hog. These aggregator moats are real that stratechery talks about.

Maybe I'll give firefox another shot.

volcanic soil is often considered very fertile for agricultural purposes. [1]

[1] https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/earth-hazards/volc....

This may be a dumb question, but if we're collecting volcanic rock, could we not tap into geothermal energy from the volcano to get cheap energy?

I rode in an Argo car (RIP) and it avoided an accident where everyone in the car was like "where did that guy come from". It saw at an awkward angle around the corner before any human could have.

This is great news. This could bring jobs and link lots of regions of what's a fairly large (bigger than texas) country. Someone should start a pilots school for these planes.

I was curious about this. The guy you're saying was falsely accused was ALREADY dead from suicide before the bombing took place. His body was found days after the bombing according to Wikipedia [1]. (took 3 seconds to find this reference) Also its a bit ridiculous to suggest the FBI tasked redditors with a manhunt.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi

Agreed. What do you think the reason for not doing it would be? Liability? Are they responsible if someone takes it and modifies code? I've gotta assume they could cover their butts with a terms of use.

This could be a very solid best practices utilizing product if they did put it out.

A lot of them including porkbun make money on add-ons, like $40/year for an email account that likely costs them $3 to service.

I have friends who have volunteered to call people for various campaigns, they usually sit at a computer and it has the number queued up and they hit dial, and it goes. They do this for hundreds of calls an hour. but its exactly as you said, the next number and name is queued up for you, you hit call.

Not to sidetrack too much, but is this not a violation of campaign rules? Aren't all text messages from a political campaign at least supposed to be operated by a human touching a phone somewhere? This is to avoid robodialers and others?

https://www.fcc.gov/rules-political-campaign-calls-and-texts

I think you need to think of it from 2 perspectives. What if I only had 5 years to make an impact and what if I had 20. The UN has its 17 sustainable goals [1] which can give you a better idea of what challenges face us at a macro level.

Start with your skill set, what do you have a unique advantage in that others don't? Are you a biologist? Work on creating more nutrient-dense banana or something. Know how to code? Solve a simple problem that wastes tons of time at a large scale (help your DMV or help people navigate something cumbersome using tech).

[1] https://www.globalgoals.org/take-action/?id=1

Ah was coming to point that out. SP, Mexico City, and a few other mega cities in LatAm are already relying on private helicopters for the ultra-rich to get around the cities. They probably have an advantage over any US market for these EVTOL vehicles as the in-city aerial regulations are already established to support this. FAA is more focused on airplanes than helicopters in the US

How can startups more effectively use the OPT program? (I work at a university) I see a lot of graduating international students who would love to stay in the US post graduation and work at startups but navigating that seems difficult for startups.

I wonder if this will eventually make farmed fish the only safe type of fish to eat. We can control their environment and define what they ingest.

Curious how this matches as I put my wife (attorney) cv into this and it kept giving me product designer or front end engineer roles (none of which have anything to do with her resume.

I didn't start wynwood tech, but did start refreshmiami back in 2006. None of the chat groups that I know of had the density or momentum to thrive. Lots of activity moved to whatsapp and telegram groups during the wave of newcomers during covid. Refresh stopped doing in person events as well, so we only restarted that a few months ago after a 2+ year hiatus (events are super time consuming to do well, and hard to make sense financially).

CIC space is re-launching soon under new management as CIC moved on from this location. I do miss the early days of the LAB when they were the nexus of all the activity. Sadly I haven't set foot in the LAB in over 4 years.

So its a combo of them wrapping their identity into this one thing (running here), eventually not being able to keep doing it, but also there is an aspect that I am purely assuming which is they could have done more variety of stuff with their life. This last point being super biased as its based in my own desires, and who knows, maybe they LOVE this one thing and that's all they want for fulfillment.

But to your point, i also love hearing stories of old people defying our expectations of what an old person should be able to do.

Look up the nordic, and reverse nordic curls, and tibialis raises and TKE exercises. There is a youtuber who has popularized them (kneesovertoesguy). I've found they help me immensely when it comes to stiffness/soreness in my knee (had knee surgery a year ago). If I was better about it I would be more regular about doing these exercises regularly, but alas I am too lazy. (I also have flat foot issue and found "racing flats" with not too thick soles to be my ideal, even running marathons).

Wow, I went to UVA in the early 2000s I vaguely recall seeing him run once or twice. Had no idea he was a former student who never left. Just thought it was a quirky townie who was another interesting character of cville.