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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 it?

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-factor authentication across financial and other services (at least that’s how it was, I think some new system is underway).

I.e the cpr number on its own is not valuable without the login info for services that use nem-Id.

The system seemed to work pretty well and I’m surprised to not see it more widespread.

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 expressions. When we learn words, we don't learn them individually but rather how they are used in a context or phrase.

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 profile previously attached to my new number.

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 now. They haven't been able to keep Tesla from entering the market and becoming a competitor. Perhaps the next disruptive innovation in transportation will prove to actually be disruptive but so far EVs haven't. Most people don't up and buy the newest car as soon as it comes out, so 3 to 4 years might not be as damaging as all the risks could have been.

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 walk across the surface of the fuel. It is nasty stuff and the scale is quite large.

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 temperature difference, the mix will move (expand?) to the warmer part, and the force of this is stronger than the airflow so it moves upstream.

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 overloaded.

[1] http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12968

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 are likely to see a return to large-scale thinking, to general theory, to the putting of the pieces back together again. For it is beginning to dawn on us that our obsessive emphasis on quantified detail without context, on progressively finer and finer measurement of smaller and smaller problems, leaves us knowing more and more about less and less. - Alvin Toffler

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 point, going for the most efficient outcome isn't necessarily the best one for the american people.

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 watching, just like a sport.

This past election had nearly $2b between the two of them. Toyota spends less than $2b a year on advertising in total.

It just seems that the voices of a very, very small group of people who want to keep everything stalemated are drowning out the voices of reason that can push our society forward.

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 determining which problems to solve, which you include in your question. Maybe the problem is that there is not a strong enough connection between the academic proof-of-concept ideas and the people who have the power to set the goals. In a perfect world, these proof-of-concept ideas would be the inspiration for an x-prize. The competition itself acts as a map forward which would generate a bunch of competition to tackle something, with a new industry established as the result. It seems the connection you are looking for isn't necessarily between the proof-of-concept ideas and the products, but rather the proof-of-concept ideas and the market-building-of-the-commons which benefits all participants. Once that exists, VC's can do their jobs to exploit the market.

[0](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348677)

it's a jobs program

The first thing I do when I go to your site is look to see if there is a city guide for a place I've been to, but none are available and I am just prompted to sign up for a newsletter, which is clearly not what I want. The daily destinations seems like a very generic travel blog. I think there is opportunity in interactive city guide, and I'd gladly pay for one if it was somehow and everyway tailored to me. Wallpaper city guides are pretty good [1], but they are kind of one dimensional.

[1] http://uk.phaidon.com/travel/

I also use Nocturne for mac (http://www.blacktree.com) at night when I am reading something in bed. It turns the screen basically red and black, and is useless for anything besides text. Watching videos is impossible, so I just finish what I'm reading.

cool idea. customers want to support companies they like, and the best testimonials seem to be videos.

Why not combine both? This proposal recently won a design contest, the tech already exists from maglev systems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLokWkUdHM

the sweep feature in particular is very well done.

they should put an email capture to remind me to come back tomorrow