Before the before times (given that the before times are 2019 and earlier

Ah that's what you wrote

Gen X here. I agree torrents are for legit uses only

Usenet is the best for piracy

Is that a deliberately 3d image pair?

They seem 3d with the cross eye technique

Generally yes, buy when it is low. Have a look at some graphs of recent performance to see if this is lower than typical weekly low points

Tesla does have room to expand; the biggest risk is that Musk does something stupid that damages Tesla, he has not done so yet - he seems competent at running (or has given important parts of the job to competent people) Tesla and SpaceX

Safer investment is through exchange traded funds, especially those which track major indexes (also known as index funds). You buy these the same way you buy other stocks - you're buying shares in the fund

They should outcompete Uber and the others. They should provide very low cost point to point transport

I think he made it reasonably clear that $30k was for the small self driving taxi, and the mini-bus would also become available

I'm glad I'm not as bad of as him or the one on the podcast

It really sucks for nightmares. I heard about someone else with the same thing, they were prescribed sleeping tablets and told to use a sleeping bag if sleeping above ground floor (for fear that the dream might make him jump out of a window

I don't think accidentally hurting oneself is a likely outcome though as these dreams only happen when you're very close to full consciousness on the way to sleep or wakefulness, and they dispel quickly after you start being active

Mic (short for microphone) is pronounced the same as the name Mike (sometimes short for Michael)

You've heard of sleep paralysis?

Some of us get that dream effect (eyes open, dream reality overlaid over real reality) but without paralysis.

Opening your eyes? They're already open and the dream is running

Getting out of bed? Touch hallucinations may become part of it

Usually turning on a light gets me out. That or time

I'm hanging out for when ITER is operational. There's every chance it runs at or just over 1:1

Yeast in sugar is going: I'll just convert this to poison (ethanol) to keep everything away, then whenever I'm hungry I'll break that poison into acid

Humans: hold my... Wait a minute let's make beer!

Parrots: tasty tasty poison

Fruit flies: bonanza!

I really wonder about fusion. Most of the news of energy production higher than energy input is about non-electricity fusion - the big tokamak fusion systems are not yet producing more power than they take to run, but scientists working on them are expecting good results soon

Like when I was a kid fusion was 20 years away and would always be 20 years away. Now it looks like it'll be 5 years away for a while

CSR, if I recall correctly

Perhaps it was the number I misremembered. There definitely is no violet in the spectrum

Asbestos stories go like that. Thank you.

Higher fat intake will increase ketone production. Broth is generally good, so it sounds like you got reasonable advice

Kilowatt. I don't expect Americans to know how to spell it. The American unit is horsepower or BTU

It's not too cheap to meter even when provided as a public service. Nuclear is more expensive than battery + solar, more expensive than wind, more expensive than coal

"Too cheap to meter" was a lie that ignored costs of safety and decommissioning.

The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)

It's a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe