I think the article is missing what makes Star Trek great. It is not “long form storytelling” or the perspectives of the characters. It is the characters themselves. The Star Trek universe is large enough to accommodate any storyline. Start with interesting characters with interesting stories, then dump them anywhere…

Some cars do import engines. I think that was the problem for BMW vehicles built in SC - the majority of the X series SUV’s and crossovers are built in US for the world but the engines are imported; definitely a critical component.

You just need your four basic food groups; beans, bacon, whiskey, and lard. It’ll keep and keep and keep.

I feel conflicted; this is indeed one of the worst injuries a man can suffer yet I still snicker reading about it.

I didn’t know there could be a CDMA fanboi. Very interesting!

It’s obvious what it is...

The book is a good bit of nostalgia, but I must admit most recipes are nothing I would want to repeat at home. The edition shown here (2014) is nice because it contains both the old (1945 version shown below) and the new(er

As an engineer myself I can tell you that we all have a debate with the product manager over the interpretation of the product requirements. This is just the process.

I think the Dr. Fingeroot is saying that under normal circumstances this would be hailed as a triumph by the writers/editors for this blog since it fits nicely in the anti-monopoly, corporate merger = bad, boo big business narrative. However, since the decision comes from the executive branch under the leadership of…

This is clearly a photoshop; Neptune is fake. This is fake news.

The oft-cited $20,000 to manufacture Kymriah is false,” Althoff says. The Health Affairs estimate uses a $40,000 cost of goods, but Althoff says the cost of goods “far exceeds” that, although he refuses to share actual figures, citing “proprietary reasons.

I believe the mfg costs of the Novartis treatment shouldn’t be underestimated. I understand they must draw blood from a patient, send to a lab, extract T-cells, re-program T-cells, formulate into an injection, send back to hospital, inject into patient. Right now such a process is all manual as if you are doing it in…

I hope the concerns of Chinese government backdoors are exaggerated (as I type this on my Lenovo laptop).

Any idea if this will effect the summer this year? Sounds like the ash isn’t high enough in the atmosphere to effect temperature, but just curious if I need to plan ahead for my beach trips.

Good point - I did not know how fast the difficulty scales. My assumption of payback was not accounting for that.

Is there any vendor that sells mining ASICS that isn’t a scam? Seems like every website/retailer has reviews that either say “don’t buy scam, will not ship to you” or “my unit broke after 3 days”.

I’m not sure what you are saying here. The Antminer S9 has something like 13000Gh/s which still takes fairly long to get a payback, but will pay for itself in less than a year after which you will be making a few hundred dollars a month just letting it sit there.

“Call Me by Your Name”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“Get Out”
“Lady Bird”
“Phantom Thread”
“The Post”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

I just bought an RX570 a few weeks ago for $270 which is inflated, but still seems reasonable in this situation. I was able to sell my old RX 280X for $175 so I basically got an upgrade for <$100.

After seeing that it’s clear that he was “breaking up” a fight between two Patriots players and realized it and had a little laugh about it.