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Does that mean anything though? I don't keep much in my checking account either since there's no interest.

Culturally the Japanese are more respectful. When one wears a mask, one is trying to be respectful to others. That would never fly here in the USA where people care more about their personal freedoms. Americans don't like to be told what to do.

what about the P100 filter cartridges used on half/full face respirators? Those have a plastic skeleton with a rubber gasket.

I think my P100 filters might survive an autoclave. They are the pink disc kind from 3M. Pressure cooking only goes up to 121C @ 15psi, so it isn't as hot as it may seem.

is it possible to reuse a mask if you put the mask through an autoclave?

I'm sure death among heroin addicts is common. It's only a matter of time they'll come in contact with a fentanyl laced dose.

Supposedly a single human produce around 300g of carbon per day in the form of carbon dioxide. A tree's dry weight is about 50% carbon, but when the tree is alive, it's probably still 80% water. So I'm approximately guessing that a tree needs to grow 3kg per day to offset a single human's CO2 production. I don't think there are many plants that grow at a rate of 3kg per day -- you'd probably need 500 indoor plants making 6g of mass per day.

I've grown some hydroponic basil that makes almost 50g of material per day, so maybe it's possible to have 60 indoor basil plants to offset your carbon production. When I chopped the basil plant, it was as tall as I was.

I know people like to imagine of all the orwellian possibilities, but it could have some useful medical cases too. It would be great to put some kind of camera in my grandparent's home to automatically monitor their health. My grandfather fell in the middle of the night, passed out, and was not discovered until the next day. He was still alive, but injured, but it could have been serious.

It's expensive right now because demand is low. When everyone is buying solar, I'm sure the price will drop even further. This could still happen in parallel with any other clean energy investments as well.

There aren't that many clean energy options available to the end consumer right now, other than solar. You could have a wind turbine which could run day/night, but they're just not as cheap per watt, and has far fewer competitors on the market making that stuff.

If a plane crashes, the survival rate is pretty low. Most likely everyone on the plane is dead. People get into car accidents often enough to feel that crashing one's car rarely leads to death. Walter probably felt safe enough to use autopilot knowing that if the car crashed, he could still walk away from it.

Their 1Password X is excellent. I've been using it on a chromebook for a few months now. Chromebook does run linux, so it should work for you too.

I think it's basically the ideal place for 1Password to be running. It's hard for malware authors to infect the chromebook with stuff like keyloggers etc. I bought the chromebook for the sole purpose of managing financial transactions -- accessing investment/bank websites etc.

The article is old. Square is up 27.5% from it's IPO.

Well, there are more details to the story that the author omitted. Here's a few from a comment on the article:

The article appears to somehow have missed some key pieces of information. I leave it to you to decide whether Mr Klug and Ms Sudarshana Bannerjee's motives are:

1) Brian Klug, a disgruntled previous member who was banned from the premises failed to submit tax returns on time when he was executive director of the organization

2) Sudarshana and Mr Klug were romantically involved in the past

3) Sudarshana applied for the Executive director position at the organization in late 2015, with a salary of around $55,000, but another candidate was selected.

4) During the time of her election and investigation, she was unemployed.

5) She has previously admitted being friends with Marie Knox (who in turn, was hired by her former boyfriend, Brian Klug)

6) Sudarshana resigned just before a board meeting where a conflict of interest vote was on the agenda, stating that no current or former board member would be eligible for a paid staff position (all board members are unpaid volunteers)

7) Sudarshana resigned as soon as she received confirmation of a new paid position, apparently working with the Kamala Harris Senate campaign.

Sudarshana was not forced out of the board, she resigned herself. She posted her resignation on the HD slack channel.

Mr Klug is also the person who created this submission (dustball)

The finance report wouldn't show individual transactions. So if you used the credit card to buy yourself $50 worth of groceries, it's likely to fly under the radar. Hacker Dojo does have the general breakdown of their finances publicly -- it's shown every month during their member meetings. However, one could easily hide the $50 in a general group like "janitorial supplies".

When someone embezzles $30k, they don't do it in one transaction. That would be far too obvious. If you space it out over a year, one could make it fairly invisible.

Anyone who is aware of the mythical man month should know that throwing more people on a project does not magically speed things up. Tesla probably has a core team that can execute faster if they had less people on the project. The other spare Tesla engineers are not going to twiddle their thumbs... they're going to make the existing Model S more appealing.

if you're on a mac, you can add the cert to your keychain and then all your dev sites that operate over *.dev will be fine.

People already eat bugs in other countries where bugs are hardly disgusting compared to their usual food. Convincing Americans to eat bug food might be harder, but Americans only make up of 5% of the earth's population. I've consumed roasted tarantulas in asian countries and they taste quite good, so I can see that insect consumption in those countries will be quite a bit easier.

You can divorce yourself from your belongings because it's easy for you to find work and quickly replace your belongings. If you know you'll have to sleep on concrete for the next 5 months because you won't be able to find work, you'll carry your mattress with you.

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The rocket's payload may also be considered property. Lots of expensive equipment inside.

well, considering it was written by facebook, i'm guessing there won't be a non-facebook login option.

Definitely useful for those who travel. Put in 3 sims, one for HK, Thailand, and USA.

There are lots of good CNCs on amazon for $800 that don't require assembly at all. If you need to cut into steel, the ones on amazon will be much better than the shapeoko.

Can one even buy a consumer SLS printer? I was under the impression that the cheapest SLS printer is still around 50k.

I think anyone could answer this question -- fundraising is extremely time consuming, which means less time for actual product development. YC is the fundraising strategy since the demo day blasts lots of investors with the same chunk of information which is more efficient than individually pitching to each investor through typical fundraising processes. Investors are typically picky on who can pitch them, so unless you have an intro, it's hard to do a cold-call pitch. YC is a fast way to get an intro to everyone in the valley.

I don't really agree here. A bank is safe because your money is FDIC backed even if a robber raided their coffers, BTC doesn't have that level of security yet and given the number of thefts in the last few years, I think security is something that is on everyone's minds when they choose a bank to hold their coins.

Hah, I wish that were true. Supermarkets exist to make money, so they can't stock items that have low demand. If you cook ethnic foods, you'll typically need to visit several stores to buy all the ingredients for your meal.

I don't agree with that sentiment. I think your pattern detector is only taking in account on how grocery shopping is currently done. When you introduce something new into the system, it may not adhere to the same rules. There are many cases when convenience will trump price. Say you need to buy items from 10 different stores. I would rather use a service that goes to 10 different stores for me, than have myself drive to each store to hunt down each item.

When I use amazon prime, I'm very aware that the prices are sometimes more expensive than a generic brand, but I am willing to pay the small price difference for the 2-day shipping convenience. A study was released on amazon prime shoppers that showed prime customers are less affected by price. The convenience of getting something with 2-day shipping, but with a higher price trumped a cheaper item but longer delivery times. People don't always go for the lowest cost item.

Not everyone is driven by price. Sometimes convenience trumps price. I use the delivery services so I don't have to waste an hour at Staples to buy one item.

They do, but their interface really blows and the scheduling system can be troublesome because they have a limited number of drivers and sometimes you'd have to schedule delivery during a bad time. I've only used instacart a few times, but I could immediately tell it was way better than Safeway's delivery mechanism.

For starters, I could have a single watermelon delivered at 11pm for a party I had going on, but with Safeway, I could not do same day delivery and it would need to be delivered during working hours the following day because the other times were already booked. Safeway's delivery mechanism is probably good enough for large offices that need regular deliveries, but Instacart is good for all other times. I probably would just stick with a single delivery service for everything so I wouldn't waste my time using Safeway's service.

Instacart feels very similar to Google Shopping Express, and if you haven't tried out either service, you should definitely try one of them out. Google Shopping Express can't deliver perishables, but they do support Costco, so if you don't have a car and you need 50 rolls of paper towel, that's the best place to be.