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raddadon What we’re doing to the Earth has no parallel in 66M yrs, scientists say

I suspect this is why there is such a push for space travel these days. Those with the means will journey off to some habitable place or one they can make habitable, and leave everybody else behind in the toxic wasteland. All those sci-fi movies might be predicting the future of planet earth; they have before.

raddadon How much oxygen for a person to survive in an air-tight enclosure? (2004)

What? Nobody read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Heck, it was also the first computer game I ever played.

raddadon How much oxygen for a person to survive in an air-tight enclosure? (2004)

...Life, The Universe and Everything.

raddadon Paywalls coming to medium.com: “We're building monetisation”

Oh the irony !!

raddadon Israel to launch one of the most advanced missile defense systems in the world

>Why is the US giving billions of dollars to a foreign nation while her own citizens are in dire need of those funds? I guess the better questions is, how do the people allow this to happen?

Because the war mongers are a huge industry and there is no department of peace.

One would think after thousands of years of war to "bring about peace" one would try something new. I can't be the only one on the globe to know what the definition of insanity is.

raddadon System Bus Radio

RF leaks are an old tune, NSA was using it back in the 60's I believe. There was an article in Wired about this topic in 2008[0] Gene Hackman and Will Smith in a movie Enemy Of The State (2009)[1] hinted at this technology.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2008/04/nsa-releases-se/

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_10

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raddadon Chocolate intake is associated with better cognitive function

raw cacao nibs, 100% cacao

https://nuts.com/nuts/cacao/organic-nibs.html

raddadon Chocolate intake is associated with better cognitive function

lindt chili chocolate, good stuff.

http://cdn2.blisstree.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/lindt-e...

raddadon Dear Bernie. I’m Sorry I Am the Problem with America

Ironically I found this title on Medium...

A self-righteous open letter to people who write self-righteous open letters to people who write self-righteous open letters

http://bit.ly/1Rk2XWg

raddadon San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff'

Maybe put that $30K into a cheap dwelling for said homeless person and problem solved, no longer homeless.

raddadon San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff'

I give you credit, it's a tough road there and back.

raddadon San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff'

>sometimes I think I'd rather lie down in the snow

I said something similar only a couple days ago. Then I realized, that's not what I want; what I want is for the pain and hurt to stop. What a long coming revelation that was.

It takes time. Like what @evincarofautumn said, you get stronger. Never forget where you come from. Efforts count. Collect some useful tools. You might try http://www.7cupsof tea.com

raddadon The fall and rise and rise of chat networks

Some stats on chats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging

Have to scroll down about 4/5 of the way.

raddadon The Independent: first victim of a confounding digital future

<sarcastic_mode> Oh yes, please, more AOL !! </sarcastic_mode> I used to look forward to what I called the AOL blank floppy of the month (after I formatted them).

raddadon The Independent: first victim of a confounding digital future

Why couldn't online news operate like HN, people submit and the news get's upvoted?

Here's an example of member written and submitted news.

http://www.opednews.com/

Woa !! Google search for member submitted news comes up with 246 million results !!

http://bit.ly/1WnYOBW

Disclaimer: I have no idea of the quality of any of these member submitted news pages. They could all be wack jobs. Opednews does have some good writers.

raddadon The Independent: first victim of a confounding digital future

Fox News is considered main stream and I wouldn't exactly call it real news.

raddadon The poor are better off when we build more housing for the rich

The advantages of same sex marriages.

raddadon What it would take to actually institute Universal Basic Income

Rental Assistance

https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/rental_assi...

raddadon Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law

https://archive.org/details/AnneFrankTheDiaryOfAYoungGirl

Claims it is open source.

The torrent somebody asked for: https://archive.org/download/AnneFrankTheDiaryOfAYoungGirl/A...

raddadon How Silicon Valley is dealing with mental illness

>I'm actually working on building free online treatment for depression right now.

It already exists. 7 Cups of Tea

http://www.7cups.com/

"Glen Moriarty, Founder and CEO, is a psychologist passionate about the Internet’s power to help people lead better lives. He has been involved in a number of services and organizations that support people in need. 7 Cups of Tea is his most recent endeavor; marrying his background in psychology with his love for technology. "

Best explanation of depression I've ever heard/seen is "Andrew Solomon: Depression, the secret we share" https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_depression_the_secr...

raddadon Marc Andreessen just offended 1B Indians with a single tweet

Facebook wants to be a modern day AOL? Prodigy? Compuserve? There was another, think it began with a G.

I'll never forget how astounded people were when I showed them how to minimize the AOL window and get on the real internet.

raddadon Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

Great idea. As someone who suffers sometimers, as opposed to Alzheimer, I tend to forget. I'll know I knew that at some point, and this list would be just the ticket.

I tell people my memory is excellent but my retrieval tends to suck bad sometimes. Random access memory?

raddadon Unsafe Lead Levels in Tap Water Not Limited to Flint

Carbon filtration doesn't remove fluoride, does it? (Or arsenic) The only water filtration system I have found that removes fluoride is the Berkey brand. I've not seen any filtration systems in the stores even mentioning fluoride or arsenic.

Berkey filters http://bit.ly/1WdBneq (Edit to add arsenic and Berkey link)

raddadon U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers

IBM's Watson for president 2016 http://watson2016.com/

raddadon Writing Software That Can Kill

I'm glad somebody else enjoyed Sneakers.

raddadon DNA could help solve mystery of the Indus Valley civilization

I just heard a program on Public Radio yesterday about the possibility of using a USB DNA sequencer to map the Zika virus like they had Ebola. They said they could get the results in a day.

I can't find the PR source but here it is on The Guardian http://bit.ly/1PfrACL

raddadon What it would take to actually institute Universal Basic Income

Exactly. A disabled guy collects $908 a month which is 10896 annually, with housing and food stamps it comes to $18744 annually. The difference of $7848 annually is social services to allow survival and to keep all those social service employees employed. Figure 56.7 million disabled people in the USA(0), that's a lot of cake. $445 billion on top of the disability checks. I think this would cover the cost of the program plus save a bundle on social service employment. Average social worker earns $45,000 annually(1). 649,300 social workers (1) (2014) totals $29.2 billion.

I don't believe we could eliminate all the social workers, but a substantial number of them.

(0) http://1.usa.gov/1nQXOL7 (1) http://1.usa.gov/1nQY38Y

raddadon Japan Must Let Zombie Companies Die

China owns GM.

http://qz.com/594984/the-secret-history-of-gms-chinese-bailo...;

raddadon Uber’s No-Holds-Barred Expansion Strategy Fizzles in Germany

" and taking 20%?" Typical taxi here in the US, company takes 65% unless you rent your car from them, and I don't know how it works after that.

Typical employment interview consists of "Is there a pulse? Yes? You are hired."