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by Thrymr 4y ago
The Long Now Foundation chose analog etched metal for a Very Long-Term backup [0]. Although their time scale is more link 10,000 years, much longer than you are thinking. [0] https://longnow.org/ideas/02008/08&#x2F
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by Thrymr 4y ago
Specifically, the Rosetta stone was looted by the French during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, and then carted away by the British after they defeated the French. There are two sides to this, but none of them are Egyptian.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
Not true, because the cash would be distributed over time (as increased salary or bonus) as well, not a lump sum up front available for investment.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
"Catch 22" was also presumably read for work, he played Nately in the film version that was in production in 1969: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/
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by Thrymr 4y ago
> The most-read books of all time are, in rough order: The Bible, the Quran, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, all reporting (with various degrees of precision and accuracy) ~0.5 -- 5 billion copies) Surely the Bible is among the mo
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by Thrymr 4y ago
Then the Celts kick them out of Gaul and send them back to Scandinavia where they came from.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
This was not Feynman's own description of himself, it was how his colleague Murray Gell-Mann described Feynman's process [0]. The way that appears to others may differ from how someone believes they are working themselves. [0] ht
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by Thrymr 4y ago
A standard DC plug that could be installed on an AC line with efficient converters and no zero-load power draw would be nice. Unfortunately the closest thing we have to a standard DC power plug is USB-A.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
Indeed, the digital museum page on NEMA plugs says "The variety in plug and socket standards is unsurpassed". https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/NorthAm1.html
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by Thrymr 4y ago
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
There's another simple way to decrease tracking error for a barn door mount, and that is to use a curved bolt with an appropriate radius of curvature. See Gary Seronik's 2007 article [0]. [0] https://garyseronik.com&#x2
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by Thrymr 4y ago
This abbreviation is not in the article (nor is the number). And the HN headline now says "5M" which is maybe a more common abbreviation for "million".
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by Thrymr 4y ago
Also not consistently, SI units and prefixes are case sensitive.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
They mostly exist so they can be called "snap", "crackle", and "pop". https://web.archive.org/web/20180626030437/https://info.aiaa...
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by Thrymr 4y ago
The Kindle FAQ [0] is interesting: > Why don’t you provide mobi files in addition to azw3 files? > Standard Ebooks is a small, volunteer-led project, and we don’t have the time or resources to support a second proprietary file type ju
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by Thrymr 4y ago
> Have you ever seen a flat parking lot in the downtown of a US city? Houston.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
The city of <50k residents from the article is never going to have a subway system on rails. This is a solution for small cities that replaces the terrible bus service you've experienced. The microtransit system described specifical
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by Thrymr 4y ago
(2019) Not that anything has fundamentally changed, there are just more other ways to install and manage python packages.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
They did go bankrupt, and Motorola (their original main funder) lost billions on the initial investment [0]. But shed of debt and reborn with new investors, they are now profitable [1]. They have now deorbited the first generation satellite
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by Thrymr 4y ago
Oh, there are a half dozen different tools that solve python package management. Unfortunately, they are mutually incompatible and none solve it for all use cases.
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by Thrymr 4y ago
He did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30914179
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by Thrymr 5y ago
That was also addressed in the article: > Will the I Bonds’s fixed rate rise on May 1? > I still say “no,” but conditions are getting better for a fixed rate higher than the current 0.0%. The real yield of a 10-year TIPS has now “surg
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by Thrymr 5y ago
Offline music is also useful for travel: airplanes, car trips with imperfect cell coverage, train tunnels, etc. Not a small use case at all.
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by Thrymr 5y ago
> I'm curious, how much of the report have you read yourself? I have not read this one yet, but I make a point of trying to read the summaries of IPCC reports before getting into arguments about it. They are impressive documents, ev
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by Thrymr 5y ago
OK, we've got hundreds of scientists from 65 countries who spent years compiling a rigorous 2900 page report on one side, and on the other, a podcast. If you are genuinely seeking the data and arguments on the issues, please at least r
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by Thrymr 5y ago
This isn't a single user, FDIC insurance is for $250k per user per bank. The point is that for regulated banks that number is clear and if you exceed it you will be aware of it, and if you haven't exceeded it you have a federal gu
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by Thrymr 5y ago
Does that mean that a browser shouldn't be able to display a text file with explicit line breaks, though?
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by Thrymr 5y ago
Fair enough, but it is hard to find the next Burry or Buffett!
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by Thrymr 5y ago
> No, it's the same. Dividends add into your adjusted gross income. Qualified dividends (most dividends for most people from public US companies) are indeed taxed at a lower rate than income. That rate is 0% for up to $41k (single)
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by Thrymr 5y ago
This idea that even professional money managers, let alone amateurs with their own retirement funds, can consistently beat a market index has been debunked for decades by Jack Bogle, Burton Malkiel and others. There is still no good evidenc

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