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  1. Only Americans are skeptical about vapor?

  2. Re:Price for hardware? on Tesla Is Last In the Driverless Vehicle Race, Report Says (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you go from 64 beams to 1. Decent Lidar still costs $8000.

  3. Re:This WOULD be relevant, but... on Tesla Is Last In the Driverless Vehicle Race, Report Says (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    'Trunk Monkey' is currently available, except where 'prohibited by law'.

  4. Re:Ford in top tier on Tesla Is Last In the Driverless Vehicle Race, Report Says (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Volvo is ideal for automated cars. The owners already can't drive.

  5. Re:America Learns From China on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Who learned it from Russians...it's a very old scam. Bet people did it with horse drawn carriages.

  6. $10/gram or $500/pound? Dispensaries are for chumps, find someone with a garden and pay untaxed wholesale.

  7. What your looking for isn't a 'nice set of glassware', it's a Journeyman (or better) lab glass blower.

  8. If you need cold medicine, you can buy some tweak and convert it to ephedrine. There are web sites that cookbook it for you.

    Tweak is readily available in every zip code in the USA. Problem solved.

  9. Sure, but you need to start with a worthwhile project.

    Currently ChemEs generally prototype 'in glass' before making production versions 'in stainless'. Prototyping in PLA _isn't_ an improvement.

    Making drugs in your bathtub isn't a great idea to begin with. As others have pointed out, printing a tweak lab is just dumb.

  10. Re:Bay Area Idiots on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Call them Bay Aryans (for their attitude). They love that.

  11. Re: They talk funny on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It's your credibility. Write anything you want.

  12. Re:It's Charisma on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a Peter principle corollary (para): Once you have reached your level of incompetence, at some level you know this. So you surround yourself with even more incompetent people, to better hide.

    Knowledge of this is vital if your even in a position to be charged with 'fixing' an organization. The first thing you have to do is identify the 'king idiot' and get rid of him. Then you have to find all of 'his people', they have to go too.

  13. Re:There has to be a better way on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    After Gallipoli, Churchill was never again allowed near operational military decisions. Especially by the royal Navy.

    English/Frog 'leadership' in WWI was criminal. The entirety of English and French military leadership should have been _shot_ after the war.

    Pershing was a great general. His single greatest decision was telling the Brits and Frogs to fuckoff when they wanted to integrate Americans into their units. That and pulling the plug (via newspaper interviews, the right way for a general to interfere in politics) on the allied expeditionary force, bumbling around Russia during the revolution.

  14. Re: What about dumb people? on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize that company had crews fixing the grid, until they didn't get paid? The crews went home.

  15. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    As opposed to when the gave it to Arafat? Kissinger?

    The Nobel peace prize has been a dumb joke for a long time now.

  16. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 0

    A lot longer ago than you think...FDR castrated the constitution. Commerce clause my ass.

  17. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 0

    That's exactly the kind of self deluded thing a half smart idiot would say. In the process destroying his credibility, forever.

    I doubt your IQ is over 120.

  18. Re: They talk funny on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to give it a few years before your start to rewrite history.

  19. Re: Naked time! on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

    Attributed to: Betty White

  20. Re:Physics on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not all animal feed is the high protein variety. 'Cows' need carbs and roughage or they die. Beyond a point, they don't grow any faster with more protein.

    You also get high protein feed from other processes besides alcohol. The sugar goes many places. I'll grant that the market for ethanol is insane. But I'm kind of contrarian. MTBE's detectability was a feature IMHO. You should be able to taste if a gasoline tank is leaking into your well.

    Which part of a stream is the byproduct? That's all in how you squint at it. Animals also eat whole soy, if there wasn't tax incentives for domestic processing, more Argentine soy would be eaten whole kernel. I'm honestly a little surprised the majority of argentine soy isn't eaten by argentine beef cattle. Are you sure that wasn't 75% of _exported_ soy is meal/oil?

    My point is the byproduct argument is an old one. Is gasoline the byproduct of kerosene distillation? Once was, but kerosene is not now a byproduct of gasoline production. It's tricky. Every nation that wants to dump, makes the claim.

  21. Re: Physics on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Brew a batch of beer from grain, you will understand.

  22. Re:Destroying the soil for oil on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You do understand that genetically engineered algae ponds don't work? Might never work?

    It's hard to take anything you write seriously.

  23. Re:The Plan. on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    They can still make more profit by cutting costs. Economic incentives don't sleep, even in captive markets.

  24. Re:Physics on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In America we also produce ethanol as a byproduct of producing high protein feed for cattle. (what's left of corn after you boil out the sugar)

    Other countries can play that game of bullshit too.

  25. Re:The Plan. on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Any nation growing sugar beets is subsidising. They're not an economic crop. I'm looking at you Germany.