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Is iron a potential replacement for coal in steel and cement production?

Are you? If so, why?

The leaf has 150-226 miles of range depending on the battery option. Even the first generation nearly a decade ago had more than 60.

I'd define being 'financially secure', as being confident that you will not need to make changes to your lifestyle for financial reasons. It makes sense that that depends pretty heavily on how expensive your current lifestyle is.

Slate and ceramic tile roofs are good options - they are not combustable and will not melt. I'm not sure they would hold up to a 15 meter log landing on them, but they really do reduce the chance of your house burning.

Facebook got money for the ads bought based on Cambridge Analytica's use of their API.

The tricky part about this sounds like it would be specifying in the proxy service which parts of structured requests are responses are PII - how do you handle this?

I don’t have any recommendations for reading, but do enthusiastically recommend the korg volcas from the article - they are self contained, fun and intuitive to use, and very affordable. They sound good enough that you will continue to use them even if you have more expensive gear, and what you learn about synthesis transfers easily.

Be careful w/ these urls - I visited one and it appears my IP is now blocked from accessing yelp.com.

The statistic that stands out to me from this article is that 1 bitcoin transaction uses enough energy to power 5.58 us households for a day.

I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable about bitcoin can comment - is it likely that this will continue as the mining reward decreases? How expensive will transactions be after that happens? And if smaller rewards reduce total mining and power consumption, how vulnerable does the blockchain become to attack?

What i'm wondering is if transaction costs in the 'end state' of bitcoin can be competitive with centralized competitors like credit cards, paypal, etc. given this level of power consumption?

The learning curve is steep if you are not familiar w/ static typing, and its not unheard of to run into bugs in flow itself, but overall I have found it to be really helpful.

In my experience it pays off best in refactors - in projects w/ good flow types I have been able to make big changes to my code, fix flow errors, and then have tests pass on the first run.

It's also great when working on code that others wrote - the type annotations are about the same amount of boilerplate as something like jsdoc, but having them checked automatically in my editor saves a lot of context switching between files.

ID laws are most likely to exclude young, black, low income and (legal) immigrant voters who are less likely to have drivers licenses than others and are more likely to vote for democrats. (here is one study https://apnews.com/1dba56c5f8f7430f859748aff4405b10/study-vo...)

Some of the laws are explicitly designed to favor demographics that skew conservative and exclude others - for example Texas accepts gun licenses as valid IDs but excludes student IDs.

Carbon atoms from the gasoline each combine with two oxygen atoms from the air to produce a carbon dioxide molecule, meaning the bulk of the mass of the resulting co2 actually comes from the atmosphere.

I would assume this means substituting artificially sweetened for sugar sweetened drinks.

I have an oculus - I played with it daily for around two weeks after getting it, but can't remember the last time I touched it. I'm not a big gamer though - I mostly was interested in trying out and programming for VR and just have found other projects more interesting.

Is Peter Thiel still involved with ycombinator?

You are missing the point - whether their motivation is purely profit, or altruistic, or whatever - if they do not want to fund a project, they have an incentive not to vote 'No' against it because as soon as they do they can no longer remove their money from the DAO, and have committed to funding the project if it passes.

I think Facebook is probably better able to track what you do online through like buttons and other Facebook integrations than Google is through analytics.

Goldman isn't making the $2b investment in Tesla - they are being paid by Tesla to manage the sale of $2b worth of new shares to the public.

That said, I think its very unlikely there is any link between the offering and their analysis.

Also - we likely could correct most of the damage by sequencing only one or a few cells. Almost all human genetic variation is in a relatively small number of well known locations in the genome - if we assume mutations occur at random locations, we can fix almost all of them by looking at any reference genome.

I'm not an expert here, but doesn't it make sense for stocks to return higher than growth because of earnings?

For example imagine I own stocks making up 1% of in a company w/ earnings of $X, and market cap of 10 * $X. If the companies growth over a year is 3%, at the beginning of the year my stocks should be worth 0.01 * $X and at the end of the year 1.03 * 0.01 * $X due to the growth, BUT shouldn't i also have received 0.01 * $X (my share of earnings) in dividends that I am free to reinvest, giving me a 4% return overall?

This has been debunked over and over - here is one source covering co2 emissions http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life-...

And more mass (the battery)

Does anyone know what they mean by this?:

Ruby on Rails — or Rails, as it’s called for short — has the peculiarity of defining even its most basic operations in libraries. Every addition, every assignment of a particular value to a variable, imports code from a library.

"All this will accomplish is making sure that tax preparation is back where it was two decades ago -- where the Actually Wealthy hire a person to do their taxes and get the right deductions, and everyone else gets stuck with an opaque bill which they can't afford to assess for accuracy. This is a far more regressive system than what we have now."

This is where it is now - plus the non wealthy end up paying TurboTax $200. This bill would save them the $200.

Chloe And Isabel | New York, NY (Manhattan) or REMOTE

"Backed with our own jewelry brand and more than $41 million in venture funding, our engineering team is building a new ecommerce platform for social retail" Our team is about half remote, half on site in New York. We have a Rails backend, and use React and Relay on the front end.

We are looking for an experienced front end engineer - we need someone who is an expert in the details of CSS, is very solid w/ javascript (preferable React), and is excited about the idea of mentoring other engineers.

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qzy9VfwV&...

Version could always be words - like ubuntu or android releases: 'Precise Pangolin', 'Ice Cream Sandwich' etc..

I think apple has failed miserably to create a competitive product w/ siri, and I expect them to be far far behind google in other areas like cars.