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by MaysonL 9y ago
Not by everybody in New Zealand: see the definition at the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services: 60% of the median household disposable income after housing costs. Based on that definition, the poverty rate in 1984 was 9%, rose
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Talk and listen to Apple and ex-Apple people.
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Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving?(theoutline.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
I used to develop in Oberon, and used a lot of keyboard macros - the verbosity of the language disappears when one keystroke turns ProcName into Procedure Procname (); VAR BEGIN END Procname;
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by MaysonL 9y ago
The BlackBox Component Pascal IDE on the old Mac OS (originally Oberon/F) was the sweetest IDE I've ever used. The Windows version, still pretty good, has been open-sourced.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Imagine how many people stuck in shit jobs with abusive bosses might be able to quit. Just as Obamacare enabled many people, especially those with existing medical problems, to quit the job that tied them to their health insurance.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
After about 50 years, it works for me…
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Interesting that Politico publishes this by Donna Brazile the week that the Mueller Manafort and Papadopolous news breaks. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
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What J. D. Vance Doesn’t Get About Appalachia(washingtonmonthly.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
How long? At least as long as the pile of cash overseas grows faster than the debt.
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Health Services as Credence Goods: A Field Experiment(poseidon01.ssrn.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (18 February 1201 – 26 June 1274) wrote one earlier. From the Wikipedia article about him, a couple of his works: al-Risalah al-Asturlabiyah – A Treatise on the astrolabe. Zij-i Ilkhani (Ilkhanic Tables) – A major astro
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Won't that simply be arithmetic modulo 6? 5 + 1 = 0 = 3 * 2
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Search "voter suppression" for what's being done now in this regard.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Reading this introduced me to the phenomenon of meta-stable nuclear isomers: states of atomic nuclei of an isotope which are more stable than the ground state of that isotope. (including the metastable isomer of 180m 73Ta, which is present
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by MaysonL 9y ago
That's 46,900 after exemptions and deductions. 6k standard deduction & at least one 4K exemption.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
To take full advantage of the tax credit, you'd have to owe $7500 income tax, which would mean at least 57K if single, 67K for married filing jointly. More if high itemized deductions, or if dependents. Assuming I read the tax tables [
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11-year-old girl inspired by Flint water crisis creates cheap kit to test lead(abcnews.go.com)
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Inside Tesla's Secret Second Floor(wired.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
From the preface to his current book (on the web[1]): "However, there are two fundamental problems whose difficulty is a clear reminder of our limited knowledge, and whose solution would require a more sophisticated understanding than
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Objects of Intrigue: 16th Century Rocket Cats(atlasobscura.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Amazing how this has progressed: in high school I was in a summer program with the guy who won the Science Talent Search that year with the research he was collaborating on in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. (Note that the "Nuclear" h
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What the US would look like if it guaranteed everyone a job(vox.com)
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This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change(nymag.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Of course, it could simply be that the increase in sea ice is due to global warming. Rising sea temperatures generate more humidity, which causes more snow, leading perhaps to more Antarctic ice.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
The author, Carlo M. Cipolla, was an Italian economic historian, a professor at U.C. Berkeley. The article is from a small (71 page) book, available in paperback and Kindle.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
One might also usefully characterise social institutions thus. Also technologies. (For instance tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline is in the bandit quadrant, as are cigarettes).
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by MaysonL 9y ago
They wouldn't continue to live in $300/month huts. They'd be able to move.
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Why Hillary Clinton's Book Is Worth Reading [by James Fallows](theatlantic.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
David Letterman has. Here he is with Howard Stern: https://www.howardstern.com/show/2017/8/16/david-letterman-h...

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