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VVyattPrentice··on SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round
BFR is arguably the biggest risk SpaceX has ever taken.
VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Boy was my aim way off! Will have to put some more work in on my sky-hook.
VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Mind. blown.
VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
This.
VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
I carry a portable electric hair dryer. It's rechargable and lasts about a day.
VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Googled "kackflasche".

Was disappointed.

VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Has he been able to solve the problem of bridging the gap between the bathroom stall and the waste bin? Ir does he flush them? Most stalls in the colonies don't have waste bins in the stall. So you are faced with the problem of how to dispose of your dirty nappies. If you walk out of the stall to the vin before going to wash your hands you will be on the business end of some odd looks. This why most wet wipers flush. There are, however, alternative methodologies.
VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
How do you get them from the stall to the trash?
VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
>If I had poo on my arm, I'd use soap and water to clean it then rinse well.

This is the correct answer.

Baby wipes or go home.

VVyattPrentice··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
>Looking forward to trying a Japanese toilet with those sprays...

Why wouldn't you just use the 3 seashells?

VVyattPrentice··on Tesla’s Musk Takes Charge of Model 3 Production as Problems Persist
FWIW a Martian year is 687 days.
VVyattPrentice··on Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists
At one point he briefly mentions (almost in an off-handed way) the issue of scaling the novel semiconductor production approach. Would be interesting to know how big of an ask that really is. Maybe I'm jaded by current events but figure it's only a matter of time before the science community has its Bernie Madoff moment. Especially in light of how renewables seem on the cusp of their moment to shine.
VVyattPrentice··on A Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries
Is there anything akinto different flavours? Or brand differences?

Is it like people and cigarettes? Like Brand X is your brand ornate and you'd rather die than have to drink brand Y?

Is there such a thing like a sommelier for mate? Maybe like wine: "I detect notes of lavender...."

This is incredibly interesting!

VVyattPrentice··on A Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries
Very interesting. I drank mate with friends from Buenos Aires when I was a teen. We would drink it the traditional way, namely out of a small dried gourd with a metal straw. Are you saying that mate (pronounced mah-teh like a southerner saying "my tea" fwiw -- not an Australian addressing a friend) is not commercialized in Argentina? As in, people offer their personal mate and there are not "mate shops" that would equate to "coffee shops"(think third wave USA)? Or that they prefer Mate to coffee, hence there are no "coffee shops" while there may or may not be "mate shops"?

I guess I like the idea that mate is so personal than you wouldn't go to a commercial shop for their blendbut ratherwould share your homebrew with a friend on a park bench.

VVyattPrentice··on Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-driving car
Unless, you know. Fog. But there's never fog... in... SanFra....
VVyattPrentice··on Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology
goophabet?
VVyattPrentice··on Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
Zuckerberg seems confident he doesn't need to really give a crap. FB will be fine either way. Why bother? He's got better things to do with his time.
VVyattPrentice··on Evolution Is the New Deep Learning
If intelligence/sentience isn't magic for you, then consider existence. How strange it is to be anything at all.
VVyattPrentice··on Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings
And here I am like: "If the taste makers leave, I will leave."

jk I've never Facebooked.

VVyattPrentice··on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
I didn't believe it at first. There's no running from this war.
VVyattPrentice··on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
>"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

-Jean Paul-Sartre

VVyattPrentice··on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
>I bet...

>stick to facts

okay.

FACT: You bet Manafort isn't a traitor.

Bob Mueller would appear to have a different opinion.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1038391/download

Guess who my money is on.

VVyattPrentice··on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
Manafort was just a covfefe boy.
VVyattPrentice··on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download
VVyattPrentice··on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
While the criticism directed at social media is certainly warranted. I feel compelled to take exception with your reliance on false equivalence. It's kinda qualitatively different when you're actively engaging in illegal activity while working hand in glove with a clandestine foreign intelligence service to undermine your own countries democratic elections on behalf of an adversarial foreign nation state. If you can't see the difference, then keep at it. I assure you it's there. But if you already know that then you go ahead and keep explaining to folks how apples and oranges are the same things because they're both round fruit.
VVyattPrentice··on Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode
Throw in a couple jet ski style tow ropes and you're golden.
VVyattPrentice··on Found trapped in a diamond: a type of ice not known on Earth
So it goes.
VVyattPrentice··on Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains
Fallacy: whataboutism.
VVyattPrentice··on Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona
"recruited"

They basically hired away Carnegie Mellon's entire SDC research team.

VVyattPrentice··on Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona
Even without a safety "driver" you can have an employee monitoring with a finger on the kill switch.
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