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Does the charge in the battery affect the flammability? For example would a completely discharged battery never catch fire?

Wow it's wired. I got an email from Verizon offering me a cheaper plan within 30 minutes of browsing the plans on straight talk? (And googling to find it)

Any chance there's some crazy cookie tracking magic there? Or just a coincidence?

How can it be so much cheaper than AT&T? It seems almost too good to be true, no?

I'm paying double that for way less minutes/data!

Does straightalk work pretty well nationwide? How does it compare to major carriers?

What about google tv? That's why I had to sell mine, no hulu support.

What about paperwork? More or less?

Also the plans on ehealthinsurance can't require preexisting conditions ?

Is that the only benefit of the marketplace? Subsidies?

I was thinking they would have cheaper/better plans?

Why are HSA's gone?

I'm pretty confused about this. I thought the ACA plans through the exchanges don't take effect until January (or later?). So do you need to buy a plan now on the exchange? And then buy a separate plan to cover you until then?

Yeah, it seems like this is becoming a problem.

It's funny he thinks Twitter isn't asynchronous? Is he really getting more work done if he's checking twitter every five minutes?

By the way, would it be worth making a monthly thread for buying and selling web apps (or businesses in general)?

Are you sure? If that's true I totally misread the article. I'll go back band check

I have questions about this. Can anyone help?

How do they know the water is everywhere? How do they know it's not just in the one place they dug and nowhere else?

Why hasn't the water evaporated? Isn't Mars almost a vacuum?

Why didn't the water evaporate from the soil after being dug up but before being put in the oven?

Could there be large underground frozen aquifers?

This is really cool. If these were ever used at scale it could make organic farming cheaper than non. For example instead of pesticides a robot like this could pick off bugs (and or scare them away).

It could also pull weeds getting rid of the need for herbicide.

I was surprised when I tried the included demo (tuscan village or something). The latency was really bad. I thought they had a big focus on bringing down the latency though.

Could I have had a defective unit? Or does it matter what PC it's running on, etc? Is it normally really good?

Make sure you're accounting for vacant months, and for maintenance.

Any tips on finding undervalued small businesses? How did you come across this one?

I saw this in the story:

“This field exists globally in the atmosphere with an average surface magnitude of 120 Volts per metre pointing downward,” says Gorham.

I never knew this. Where does it come from? Why can't it be used to generate power?

Wow, I wonder if this effect could be scaled up? I'd love to try to build a small prototype.

So why does it have to use audio? And why can't it use servos to move the lasers?

Thanks but I am more interested in the writeup regarding how to connect it to a raspberry pi, (and possibly how far it can throw a frisbee...)

The link for number 9, the robotic arm seems to be down. Does anyone know where I might find that story?

I never understood the purpose of share buybacks. Sure there will be less shares outstanding but the company will be worth that much less from having spent the cash to buy the shares.

How does that benefit anyone?

Wow! Great point about being 72 degrees. I never thought of that.

Why are you selling?

Can we get a blog post about the pool thing? I've always wanted to try that but my brother told me my house would collapse :-(

Does anyone have tips for buying cheap land in general for camping and maybe building a cabin? I've always been curious to do that but I've no idea where to start.

What kind of legal structure would you use for Something like this? Did you use a lawyer? What kind?

I'm talking about earth sun Lagrange points. Those wouldn't be orbiting the moon.