KentGeek

Get this: China sends us all this great stuff, and the only thing they get is OUR FIAT CURRENCY, which is essentially worthless. And then, what do they do with that currency? They buy our treasury bonds, which pay them interest in our own fiat currency. Not only that, but every bond they buy is more encouragement to help us keep the US economy strong and stable. The trade deficit thing looks like a great deal for us when viewed from some angles.

I've been saying that for decades. The concept of time zones became anachronistic when instant communication went worldwide.

I dumped TeamViewer a few months ago in favor of Google Remote Desktop. It satisfies my occasional low bar requirements, and doesn't make me feel guilty for using it without pay. I connect between iPad, Windows, Linux, a couple of times a month. Easiest thing I've found so far.

Mint, for the last few years. I honestly don't remember why I chose Mint after using Ubuntu previously. In any case, I'm not shopping for a change. It does exactly what I need.

This line may be crucial: "The cell model that we used in this study is a carcinoma cell line, with active DNA replication which differs from non-dividing somatic cells."

The music was originally created for the Paramount Superman cartoons of the 40s. https://youtu.be/_djxH-q0e48

If this research can reduce the enormous cost of old age frailty, even if not extending life by much, the payoffs are there.

From those videos, it's difficult to be sure those are full size prototypes and not scale models.

You haven’t left yet?

I learned Spades in the USNavy, and didn't realize that it was intimately associated with African-American culture at all. I preferred Spades, but the most popular card game (at that time, in that setting) was Euchre.

And we will hear only crickets on this one...

I'm a little skeptical that the properties of palm oil that could raise the melting point of butter would survive the cow's digestion process. In any case, the experiments to prove the relationship should be almost trivially easy, right?

Here is a powerful and elegant human language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto (although it should be said that its power is mostly hypothetical until it becomes widely used, which may be never)

That original video looked phony to me two years ago, and in comparison to the latest, it looks even worse. Am I completely alone in this?

Personally, I'm done with Dyson. James was a vocal supporter of Brexit, gets what he wants, then decides to move his company's HQ to Singapore. That kind of blatant hypocrisy taints their products for me.

Silly idea. We could not possibly come up with all the possible outcomes (positive and negative) of space colonization in order to make an "informed" decision. If Phil Torres and his friends decide for us that space colonization should not proceed, how do they enforce that decision?

Lots of great documentaries already mentioned, but one of my favorites "Tim's Vermeer" hasn't been yet. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tims_vermeer_2014

Could somebody please kill this story before the wrong bureaucrat realizes this is happening and I lose my precheck status when I fly with my wife? Snitches get stitches.

63 - PowerShell scripting. I think I learn some little thing almost every day.

Remember that there's a HUGE exemption (the recently passed Donor Relief Act increases it to >$20M) and then it's only a percentage of the amount above that exemption. Your tears are wasted.

Apparently an 11 million dollar exemption (soon to be >20 million) isn't enough to satisfy these oligarchs - (not to mention that above that exemption, we're still only talking a percentage, not the entire fortune).

Seconded.