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People are disgusting and I have zero desire to share a vehicle with another person let alone thousands of people.

There will be no shift in mindset. No. Just no.

> it recently announced that state clinics would no longer hand out contraceptives or offer vasectomies

What a backwards and ill informed way of handling a declining birth rate. We should not be promoting accidental births, but instead doing everything we can to ensure couples live in a world where they WANT to bring another life into it.

- Good pay

- Safe neighborhoods

- Balance work/life

- Assurances of healthcare for themselves and their family

- Hope that the future will be even better than the already wonderful, today.

Very few of these things are true for the average worker these days. Often in the US, if you want to have kids, you are writing off your ability to ever retire.

This is great, thanks!

Awesome, thank you!

Among the growing list of documentaries I would love to watch, but have yet to find, Amazon's logistlics solutions is one at the top. Would be very cool to get a deep look at how all the various types of orders are handled.

He is not the only highly qualified navy pilot who saw these crafts. [1]

And the 2004 event is not the only time the US Navy has seen these crafts. There was another event in 2014. [2]

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-...

[2} https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...

The patent is really only half of the story here.

The bigger question is why does the US Navy own this patents? And, how does this relate to the pill shaped UFO that navy pilots verified having seen over the last decade performing antigravity maneuvers?

On December 30th 2020 the United States Senate had requested for the Pentagon for an explanation of this UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon). The Senate said the Pentagon had 180 days (about half a year) to give an explanation. This explanation would be out around June/July of 2021. [1]

The patent for the "High frequency gravitational wave generator" is essentially a pill shape design, exactly like the Navy Pilots describe.

The other patent "Craft using an inertial mass reduction device" appears to be the kind of tech you would need to avoid getting squished like a grape in hyper-G accelerations.

The big questions here are

1) Why does the Navy own these patents

2) Do they have anything to do with the pill shaped UFOs the navy has reported seeing

3) Are they even real science?

[1] https://www.wilx.com/2020/12/30/the-pentagon-has-180-days-to...

Maybe, but the patent is also owned by the US Navy.

Why?

And what does this have to do - if anything - with the same shape UFO reported by the US Navy in 2004?

That's fair, but then how do you explain the Tic Tac UFO reports from US Navy pilots? [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/PkPn-YMp9vI

Check out these patents currently assigned to US Secretary of Navy and invented by "Salvatore Cezar Pais"

https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Salvatore+Cezar+Pais

Then think about the tic tac ufo UFO reports from US Navy fighter pilots [1]

What's going on here? Disinformation campaign from US Navy? Actual patents? Maybe the downloadbal PDFs are malware vectors for espionage?

Seems highly unlikely that this tech actually exists AND is publicly available information, right?

[1] https://youtu.be/Eco2s3-0zsQ

I don't do it all day either. I usually try to get a minimum of 3 walking hours per day. So in an 8 hour day, those can be any time.

The rest of the day I sit.

I walk while typing. It's not difficult.

What I DON'T walk while doing is - really cognitively challenging tasks OR learning something difficult/new, because that is markedly more difficult while walking.

If I really need to focus because a task is well outside of my comfort zone then I will almost always be sitting. Luckily, software development isn't always that kind of work (though it often is!)

I'm similar - really don't enjoy lifting (but still do it), but absolutely look forward to and enjoy running.

I've noticed a trend / correlation between people who are naturally thick / muscular tend to have that opposite disposition- they love lifting, and hate running.

Fellow programmers -

If you have a standing desk but find it difficult to stand for hours, I highly recommend an under desk treadmill.

I picked up a Treadly treadmill a few years ago and have logged hundreds of miles of walking while programming. It's thin and can easily slide under my bed, or be propped up against a wall when not in use.

What else would someone do with their time if not be productive? I hear you say... travel, see the world, experience other cultures, be with family, and all that jazz. None of that pays the bills. I understand your sentiment but don't really see how I could do what "really matters" right unless I gave up on a western life entirely. Maybe if I lived in a van and did some contract based coding I could spend most of my time seeing the world, but then I would give up so many other wonderful things like a wife, possibly kids, family close by, etc.

Ultimately we live just one life. I want to feel like I accomplished something and made my mark as trivially small as it may be compared to some. I want to hang my hat at the end of the day and feel like I had control over myself. In other words, I want to master good living and discipline.

Of course I want to see family, and friends, and all that. But there are many hours in the day, and why not fill them with your best effort? There will be plenty of time when I am old where I will want to do rest, leisure, etc.

I have also heard people use it to describe a "bite sized fact". The "oid" part of the word, for some people, seems to mean "small" or "compartmentalized".

In this incorrect usage of the word, take the following sentence: "Nice little factoid!", could also be written as "Nice little nugget of info!"

Nice use of "factoid". Most people use this world incorrectly.

I think everyone wrestles with this a little bit.

Should you really dig in and focus on mobile, web, server, game, firmware? If so, should you focus on one language?

I don't so much question paths in my life as I feel very lucky to have ended up where I am. I do question on a daily basis, whether I should stop learning and adopting new technologies, and focus on ONE domain for the rest of my life.

It seems I am destined to be a jack of all trades, master of none, if I let life continue to unfold as it has over the last 10 years, bumping around as needed from my employers to new or different domains.

Yea that seems super sketchy.

Are they web scraping?

Pretty sweet project and from browsing the source I learned about a very cool fintech lib I'd never heard of: Plaid.

Gets the cogs turning with ideas. Thanks for the post.

Thanks. Signed up, looking forward to Jan 21!

That won't stop them from trying to redefine or eliminate the word entirely.

... how are you supposed to not cook in your kitchen?

I suppose I should just eat all my food delivery now?

> Ventilation: indoor pollution is usually many multiples of outdoor. You want a an MVHR (or MEV) system to exchange the air in the house for fresh air with low heat (energy) loss.

Can you expand on this? What is polluting the indoors? How can I verify it's true at my home?

I'm halfway through this book and have found basically NOTHING that is actionable.

Caloric restriction, and fasting, are already well known and are not revelations to be found in his book.

Beyond those suggestions, nothing he talks about can the average person take do.

This was my take away as well.

What was somewhat surprising to me though was that, for all their technical ability, nobody at Makani foresaw the future of conventional wind turbine efficiency?

It just kinda seems like all of a sudden (in the documentary), they lifted their heads up, and 10 years had passed and conventional wind energy was dramatically improved. Case closed, that's it.

Personally I find that troubling for the progress of humanity. We need big money (resources) to solve real challenging engineering problems.

Unfortunately it seems like a lot of the big money is going towards less critical 'problems' if problems at all, like social media companies.

The unfortunate reality is that mankind as we know it, probably developed to the level it did, in part due to the consumption of meat.

Meat is absolutely PACKED with bioavailable nutrients in a way that most plant products simply aren't.

Add to that, the growing evidence that much of the plant material we're eating may have inflammatory side effects of consumption.

The point I am making is that a solution isn't a solution if it means getting rid of one of the most dense forms of nutrition we have.

Firebase auth?

Similar experience.

Had an app reviewer when my app first launched, who was complaining that 2FA was failing for them, so they couldn't allow the app to go live.

I was livid. It had worked for EVERY beta tester.

It turns out it was 100% the tester's fault. It "mysteriously" fixed itself. Aka, they realized that the 2FA was via email instead of SMS and finally after 2 weeks of back and forth, passed the app.