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el_don_almightyon Tesla Roadster

somebody get me a new shirt! ... And a new keyboard... . These are all covered in man drool... . I'd pour hot grits in my pants for one of these

el_don_almightyon By 2050, many world cities will have weather like they’ve never seen

Name one city you believe is seeing weather they haven't seen in the last 200 years and I bet we can go back and find data that shows otherwise

el_don_almightyon The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea

Why are you all responding as if the information in this article is true? It's obviously false to anyone who has been to the same beach for the last 30 years. Have you all lost your minds? Have your eyes stopped working? GO LOOK FOR YOURSELVES.

Go watch the compelling video from Tony Heller regarding this article.

I thought my friends on Hacker News were smarter than this

el_don_almightyon When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake

Khrushchev to Nixon in the 1959 Kitchen Debate, "...we will pass you and your capitalism in our advancement and wave to you as we go past..."

SOCIALISM... some people never learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvQOuNecy4

el_don_almightyon Jared Diamond: There’s a 49% Chance the World as We Know It Will End by 2050

There is literally a 100% chance the world, AS YOU KNOW IT will end by the time you go to bed tonight.

Would you want it any other way?

el_don_almightyon Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones

Never

el_don_almightyon The Measure of Man – Human Factors in Design (1966) [pdf]

uh oh, according to this I am the 97 percintile height but 127% the weight...

Does anyone have this information for American in the 2000s?

We can call it the McDonald's effect...

el_don_almightyon Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)

Does this mean we can make Pluto a planet again??

el_don_almightyon Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

Do you want the government to set pay scales for all STEM employees?

Keeping digging this hole and see whose grave you find at the bottom...

el_don_almightyon Dr. Rhonda Patrick on DHA in Phospholipid Form and the Prevention of Alzheimers

Fish Heads Fish Heads rolley polley fish heads

Fish heads Fish heads eat them up... YUM!

el_don_almightyon [dead]

Totally agree

Click bait headline is bogus

I'm glad I read the letter tho

el_don_almightyon San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

umm..so no more iPhones????

el_don_almightyon Protein mania: the rich world’s new diet obsession

what food groups is your body designed to process?

https://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/blood-type-diet

Whenever the vegan/protein fight begins, I always wonder if the vegan has considered their body design and chemical composition.

What enzymes are best supported by their natural internal chemistry?

How does this affect the internal biome that breaks down the food they eat and how their body uses the results?

Speaking as an old-fashiioned O+, the more ribeye's I eat, the better I feel, but my body craves the fast acting sugars that are so destructive to my endocrine system.

el_don_almightyon The Now Habit (2015)

These are really practical. There was a recent post about how J.K. Rowling pushed through the same forces and wrote her books. If only I would start on 10% of the great ideas that bumble around my head like flotsam.

el_don_almightyon Elon Musk renames his BFR spacecraft Starship

This won't work

He's stuck with BFR because WE like BFR

Do you know what you get if you call a cat a dog?

A cat.

el_don_almightyon UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

We're here for your Lucky Charms

el_don_almightyon UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

We're here for your Lucky Charms!

el_don_almightyon Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?

GET ONE! Your whole life will be changed These things are awesome

el_don_almightyon The Ketchup Conundrum (2004)

I love me the Sriracha ketchup. I also like mixing my own with Franks or Franks wing sauce.

I don't ever eat normal ketchup

el_don_almightyon Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?

my Dad'd bible I have loved reading all his comments and notes in the margins over the years

el_don_almightyon FDA to Ban Juul, Flavored E-Cigarettes If Industry Doesn't Change

define "poison"

California tried and the next thing you know literally EVERYTHING is marked as a potential cancer causing agent

You know what causes death?

Living

el_don_almightyon My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

Your dad was an American hero, please thank him for all his hard work on my behalf. Men like him built this country by living their lives and raising their children. I'm sure he wasn't perfect, but he's still your dad and I'm sorry you've moved him to a home. Please take good care of him.

el_don_almightyon Potato paradox

"She dumped her drink on my head and walked away."

el_don_almightyon What if Canada had spent $200bn on wind energy instead of oil?

* REQUIRES TIME-MACHINE

STUPIDLY GOES FORWARD IN TIME FOR 2018 TECHNOLOGY INSTEAD OF 2025...OR 2050

* CANADIAN ENERGY SEARCH TEAM OF THE FUTURE NEVER COMES BACK BECAUSE FUTURE IS FULL OF SEX ROBOTS

el_don_almightyon A secret on the ocean floor

Humans do not need to mine the ocean. The proven reserves of existing mines and future projects are more than enough for decades. Anyone who says otherwise is only looking to save a dollar and will cut costs on environmental sustainability. The USA is sitting on millions of tons of copper while watching other countries mine it out of theirs. We could supply the whole world for decades on our own if we wanted to restore our mining industry.

But there's no real economic need for US minerals.

I would argue there might be a strategic need for them, but not an economic one.

There is certainly no economic imperative to mine the ocean floor in the face of the potential environmental harm it may cause.

I question it's morality on the basis of balancing mankind's needs versus our calling to manage our resources properly.

Wouldn't this money be better spent recycling e-waste where the copper and gold content is significantly higher and the environmental impact is demonstrably positive?

el_don_almightyon Laser Socks – a sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing

dammit...I NEED THIS FOR MY HALLOWEEN PARTY

But I've been a manager for 15 years and my real geek skills suck

Help me!

el_don_almightyon Ask HN: Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?

When slashdot died, I had nowhere else to turn for a long time and wandered aimlessly for intellectual stimulation.

Eventually, Boing Boing linked to an article here and I suddenly found the collective hive of wisdom I needed.

HN is like having a million smart people finding cool stuff that I know I will like.

I want a diversity of topics that are tech related, but not specifically tech focused. I've learned more about business management, philosophy, medicine, and human life than any other source.

And when there is a call to arms, people are willing to step up and make a difference. The comments aren't trollish.

I love this place.

Don't screw it up

el_don_almightyon Help: Suicide note on blog

It's so hard to realize that our self-worth isn't in the things that we owe. I've struggled with it myself many times. How can I be so good at so many things and yet be an absolute moron when it comes to money?

It seems so simple. Just don't spend it.

It's like my Mom's voice calling out to us as I ran out the door in high school.

"Don't sin!"

She had long given up trying to lay out a long list of things we shouldn't do and distilled everything into the most essential kernal.

"Sure mom, I'll get right on that"

For a month I can be really, really good. And then there's a closeout on new Canon lenses at B&H and it's all over.

What an idiot.

Soon enough, it all adds up and like Dennis, you have a couple of medical bills or a job go south and the ship just sinks around you.

Nobody cares and there's nothing you can do.

But it's obvious to me after reading this thread that our community DOES CARE and will reach out desperately to help.

Our self worth is far greater than some crappy shack.

The lives we touch and the memories we make mean so much more than the possessions we have.

The pain I feel inside for Dennis is touched only by the willingness of this team to reach out and help him.

I hope we can assist his family in some way.

el_don_almightyon Thank you HN, sorry HN

http://bluehackers.org/

Has anyone looked into this org?

Seems like a good resource for us

el_don_almightyon Make the Metric system the standard in the United States

http://wh.gov/UQye

Help stop the metric system!