Desalination is primarily done through high pressure filtration, no by phase change. It is more energy efficient, but still extremely demanding.

Also, the super salty brine needs to be disposed of, and can't just be dumped into one spot in the ocean or it creates a dead spot. You gotta pump it out into the open water in a current...

Basically, it's expensive. So you don't do it unless you absolutely must.

10+ years for me... I can't recall the last plane with the proprietary audio port. You only got a choice of a handful of radio selections too.

Good answer, this thread has triggered a lot of ignorant responses. This one is correct.

Also, sometimes good athletes lose the game. Sometimes it's about how you lost.

Sun to earth is about 8 minutes.

I dont understand, why would the deficit be measured against something other than the median?

This is why desalination never happens, drought breaks, things fill up, apocalypse doesn't come, media has to go back to reporting celebrity breakups.

this article gets posted like 8x a day.

companies have grown drastically since 1978. International commerce is huge

Fortunes largest company in 1978 was GM with 3.3billion in profit

today the largest company (by revenue) is walmart at 143billion in profit, apple was 170billion.

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The 350th largest company in 1978 was Tyco, with 8400 employees

today the 350th largest company is Air Products, with 19000 employees.

this is based on a 12 month holding period. Jan2016 was $400, jan 2017 was 14000...

So apparently almost any random basket of crypto in that period would have gone up 10x, if only because btc went up 35x

Lots of tvs suck for gaming, not a big issue in most cases

You're half right. The biggest contributor to dulling is mineral deposits from drying cycles.

If you dry the blade after every use (including a blast of compressed air) the blades can last 150+ shaves with minimal wear.

Franchise model has more stability, for owners and fans.

The drawback, depending on your point of view, is that it's locked down. No one can force their way into American football, without permission.

In European football, you or I could conceivably start a team tomorrow, and we could hypothetically be in the premier league in a few years.

The downside, major cities could be without a competitive team, the team you've always rooted for could fall apart.

Franchises can be anticompetitive, which is why they do things like drafts and salary caps to help maintain equilibrium since there are no external forces to balance it.

think of waves in a bathtub or pool, or even an ocean. the waves are highly complex, and you may not be able to cancel them all perfectly, but if you can just knock down the peaks and troughs, you'll make things much smoother.

Throw in some white noise and you can drown out the rest.

well... before we judge how this comedian might have escaped your attention, we should probably qualify how rare that is...

which comedians DO you know?

I think he may be bigger in europe, but I saw his password stand up on reddit a few years ago and went down a rabbit hole on him.

they dont work in shoes, but if youre not wearing shoes, its a fine plan.

Yes, but you'd have to actually sell a mattress... your inventory is easily tracked through your supplier. If you say you sell 1000 mattresses, it would be easy to verify that.

Also, no one pays cash for a mattress.

this just... isnt an important metric for me.

Is it important for other people?

I want a phone that will last 16 hours. Not that I can drag a huge power brick around with me to top it off mid day.

wee bit strange with austin butler in the middle of it all after a solid week of knowing her.

"Oakes was initially skeptical about creating a prequel to Grease for television."

And then she saw the salary and said "Lets do this!"

People are baboons, they hate that they love all the sexist stereotypes that the 50's embraced.

Its going to be a random teen drama with empowered women. While wearing pink jackets.

it will be boring.

How bout you not tell others what they should watch?

Contrary to reddits opinion, some people do still watch network tv.

CCP has never really had to deal with public unrest... should be interesting

In any math that matters, to expect others to rely on pemdas would be very very bad form.

Formulas are always written with brackets so there can be no misinterpretation. After all, past the 3rd grade, no one trying to trip anyone up with ambiguous syntax.

costs $7 just to maintain the app when you only have a few million subs. THEN comes the content costs...

but no one wants to just be the studio that produces content for netflix.

Yes, uyghurs are spread across all manufacturing areas.

They don't wear orange vests, they blend in, there's no way to differentiate them, and that's on purpose

elves were abnormally strong as I recall.