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California will make its own affordable insulin

To extend on this a bit, as a T1D myself: Various 'coupons' exist that can make insulin much cheaper, but you need insurance to access the coupon. Probably because the insulin companies understand that they will soon be undercut. A current example: 5 pens (so ~1.6 vials worth of fast acting or...
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- Post #71
- Saturday at 11:59 AM
- Forum: Politics and News
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China to Ban Sale of Fossil Fuel Cars in Electric Vehicle Push

If the Bi-Ion people actually have a scalable practical technology with all of the attributes they claim, it could (potentially) dominate. 600Wh/l, with less than $.1/l to manufacture, is pretty impressive. But as long as it is "its a really cool technology and we will tell you absolutely...
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- Post #71
- Sep 11, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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China to Ban Sale of Fossil Fuel Cars in Electric Vehicle Push

There are multiple fuel technologies now in an absolute sense, but in terms of ones we use for common consumer automobiles it really comes down to diesel, gasoline, and (obviously a tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction) batteries. Natural gas is interesting as a different option but if the goal is to...
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- Post #61
- Sep 10, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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China to Ban Sale of Fossil Fuel Cars in Electric Vehicle Push

Fuel cell technology as a fuel source for standard consumer vehicles will hopefully die because it is a terrible idea, honestly, going forward. For large trucks there are separate arguments to be made regarding refueling speed and range, but....there are ~50 h2 fueling stations in california and...
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- Post #57
- Sep 10, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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White Nationalist mass protest turns to riot at University of Virginia

The false equivalency here is ridiculous. The reason to remove statues of Lee (or other confederate leaders) is the same as the reason that there aren't a whole lot of statues of hitler in germany: he was an evil man with evil intentions who was responsible for great suffering, and is not...
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- Post #1,205
- Aug 15, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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John McCain diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer

My understanding (which might be wrong, but ....) is that this bill was designed to allow the house and senate to, if it had been passed, work to pass a (potentially completely new) bill under budget reconciliation which only needs a 51-50 vote in the senate, but that the budget reconciliation...
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- Post #165
- Jul 30, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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Oh Newt you silly Newt

Haha, winner winner chicken dinner. Obstruction of justice is illegal except when it isn't! So I guess the conclusion is that if a Republican president manages to fire every single law enforcement individual who might try to investigate him for any crime, such that such investigations do no...
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- Post #100
- Jun 20, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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Oh Newt you silly Newt

A reasonable person would read Trump's statement to indicate that Trump was saying he fired comey because he didn't like the investigation that was occurring under Comey, and that therefore, he fired him in order to slow or stop that investigation. The other statements he made support that...
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- Post #66
- Jun 20, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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Oh Newt you silly Newt

Yeah that totally sounds like someone who isn't firing a guy in order to obstruct an investigation. Speaking of which, I hear that might be a crime.... edit: dammit, the quote by trump from the post above me is better! foiled again. :(
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- Post #61
- Jun 20, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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Kushner wanted to setup secret communications channel with Russia

I never thought he would be found guilty of breaking a law w.r.t. colluding with the russians, but isn't saying 'yeah i fired that guy to stop him from investigating me' pretty explicitly against the law regardless of whether or not he had broken a law previously to result in an investigation...
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- Post #42
- May 27, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
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Should Trump Win...

You've got a lot of Trump supporters getting nonsense propaganda and bullsh1t from macedonia. Yes, really, macedonia. A bunch of kids in macedonia realized that if they could get a bunch of clicks from trumpets, they could make a decent amount of money, and so they created a bunch of websites...
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- Post #17
- Nov 7, 2016
- Forum: Politics and News
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Turning CO2 into Ethanol

This is a cool result, but the difficulties that remain are essentially that 1) you need decently well concentrated CO2 for this to be efficient at all (ie CO2 out of a tank bubbled through solution); you cant just set the electrodes outside in water and the CO2 in the atmosphere will magically...
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- Post #14
- Oct 19, 2016
- Forum: Politics and News
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'maybe the country needs trump to show some authoritarian power'

Fresh from the idiocy that is Maine's Governor Paul LePage: So, to recap, Obama is too much of an autocrat, who does it on his own and ignores congress, which means we need an authoritarian........ full article: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/politics/paul-lepage-authoritarian-power/index.html...
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- Thread
- Oct 11, 2016
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Politics and News
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Drunk

Because being drunk while ramming someone with your car is different from being drunk and getting "rammed" by someone's "car". 2/10 troll thread
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- Post #10
- Oct 7, 2016
- Forum: Politics and News
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Can I negotiate down this healthcare bill?

Mods, please move if there might be somewhere better for this.... Story: I went to physical therapy for leg problems. They looked into my insurance deductible, coverage, details etc and told me that one full regimen of appointments would cost be exactly $500 out of pocket, and insurance would...
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- Thread
- Sep 9, 2016
- Replies: 2
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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