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Grenades aren't banned in the US. It's called a Destructive Device.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840...

Re:Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:38AM (#31244681)
It's called compost honey, look it up.

But seriously, composting, no till, stop spraying R0undup aka glyphosate, plant trees in fields, more cover crops, more green mulch, more pollinators, more ponds, more pastureland, more aquaculture, more polyculture in general. The problem is the desert style of farming that led to the dust bowl and will lead to the next one. This comes from a very new (<3 years) farmer who has read a bunch and microfarmed for three years on 5 acres.

The problem is people got sold a bunch of lies about machines and chemicals and those lies are now coming home to roost. Organic and no till and permaculture are probably the way out of this. You can absorb nitro from the atmosphere but that's one way, nature has been doing it another way for eons.

Underground. Under the sea. Under the ground under the sea. Pfffft. The sun was already trying to kill you that's why living underground is smart anyway. Frankly there should be no expectation of privacy for things you can observe from space...
Re:Is it better to plant trees or let forests regrow naturally? on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:20AM (#24980394)
permaculture. google it. the answer is of course BOTH.

naturally regrowing forests by using ancient technology to understand the best way for things to be arranged physically for optimal soil regeneration.

the Amazon was cultivated by humans for thousands of years. we can do this all over the planet

Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:08PM (#24482910)
Red flags: ask if they have a standard operating procedure document or employee handbook. Basic stuff like where to go for healthcare, who to talk to about sick leave etc. This sort of logistical stuff is a weight on employee's to have to constantly be asking direct reports about. It's a bad sign when a company can't take the time to do a basic doc like this.
HA! Try growing or raising animals and not using Amazon...
Re:Grant Imahara Has Died on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:29PM (#23833985)
Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.
Re:MNT Reform: The Campaign Is Live on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:23AM (#23142440)
The hardware heroes we need. Amazing and the best laptop design in years.
Amazon sucks now. I can't buy most of the specific items I use in my work, and when I do find something it's swimming in a sea of clone crap. The best thing it does still is books. Anything else is a mizxed bag. AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.
Just to answer. None of your concerns are covered by the license he has (Special Occupation Tax aka SOT). With a SOT7 + one of the other ones you can own and transfer machine guns and Destructive Devices legally. This is the same license a gunsmith will get to manufacture and sell(transfer) firearms incidentally.

No this is not a license to kill.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:03PM (#21547096)
yeah that wiki thing never amounted to anything more than being the ninth most popular website.
Re:Sorry–organic farming is worse for climate change on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:16PM (#21346776)
Sorry, this article is propaganda for BigAg and BigChem.

They looked at one meta study and one study that was ESTIMATING the effectiveness of organic based on land usage.

Organic farming is needed to increase top soil depth which results in increased carbon sequestration and water absorption.

Organic farming isn't specific enough. It's permanent agriculture which is needed, usually in the form of organic agriculture.

why regulation capture is bad in a nutshell
Re:Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:22PM (#21262572)
I hope they do a kit.
Re:Yogababble on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:51PM (#21095658)
He's demonstrating that he ate his own dog food. Instead of "restoring the middle class" (bullshit), they are producing short form video and podcats (not bullshit).
If you have the ability to speak out for an oppressed class of people but do not you are de facto supporting the dominant regime. Silence is collaboration with the status quou. It's subtle but it IS racism. If you have the time to talk about social issued with your co workers, you have the ability and time to stand up for truth, justice, and freedom from oppression. If you don't get back to work. It's precisely the silence that is deafening.
anything in the last hundreds years related to pop sci, nutrition, or health advice.
Re:The Show Horse and the Work Horse on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:15PM (#20509356)
Actually no, it's amazing one. This is how markets have been for thousands of years, within walking distance of the homes of the people using them. But yet it isn't compatible with modern "advances" like zoning, parking lots, and NIMBY driven politics.
Hey, lets ignore Toyota Production System (which was invented by a startup, Toyoda Automatic Loom) and then perfected on building cars with small amounts of resources and minimal failure. It's pretty clear they don't use TPS at Tesla, which will be their downfall...
Sounds impractical is like a marketing level neg. It's completely possible, and it might just be necessary in the coming years.
Wrong. It's a $250 microscope. Any other cost is culturally imposed. Values are not objects.
Re:US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:02PM (#20298712)
Gas pressure just can't linearly accelerate something as efficiently as magnetic force can. You can get so much more velocity for the same barrel diameter instead of scaling barrel diameter and thickness because you have thrust being added through the whole length of the barrel instead of gas pressure being used to propel a slug at the end and then dissipating.
its almost like encouraging the uneducated to get educated without educating them on why doesn't work out so well.
It's about as bad as any other technology. I bet therapy gets a lot easier when I can write my anxiety reduction function for myself.
Welcome to the world of startups: I hope you developed some secret sauce!
Re:Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth? on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:09PM (#19646790)
Sell a product that people want to buy and then don't run out of business making that product. If you have traction already, leverage it. Keep costs super lean. Expect slow but steady growth. The only reason to take VC money is if you are reasonably certain someone with better funding than you could eat your lunch. How to know if someone can eat your lunch: do you have any IP or trade secrets or secret sauce? No? Maybe you should raise VC money, but realize you will be competing on execution and not on special sauce.
Re:Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:14AM (#19645484)
This is 100% the reason why drug testing in the workplace exists. There is no other reason other than safety for heavy equipment users. If you don't work in a dangerous place drug testing is punitive.
Re:Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:10AM (#19645450)
Not everybody has the same values as you.
tl;dr working for assholes gets you treated poorly. BigCo will always treat you more consistently, but they won't necessarily treat you better or worse than a small or new company. This headline could have been one of those questions where the answer is no.