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by cwal37 12y ago
"Another aspect of this massive population outflow hasn't yet drawn much attention. Whatever their motives and wherever they go, those who depart will be shadowed by the organs of the Leninist state they've left behind. A spr
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by cwal37 12y ago
I was trying to be nice. I'm a strong environmentalist via academics (BS/MS in environmental science), and currently a research analyst in renewable energy economics, so I have very strong feelings (and I like to think a well-grou
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by cwal37 12y ago
Thanks!
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Forgive me if this is forward, but are you guys hiring? I'm in no way a physicist, but I do know a few with strong experimental backgrounds (mostly in nuclear), and I try to keep my ear to the ground for intriguing job opportunities fo
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by cwal37 12y ago
Nature had a fun article a few weeks back on the current trickle of VC into fusion startups. http://www.nature.com/news/plasma-physics-the-fusion-upstart... It's certainly interesting, and I wish these companies a
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by cwal37 12y ago
Wait, what? No statistical data-compelling pieces? You would have to completely ignore a bunch of articles by Zach Lowe/Kirk Goldsberry (basketball), Bill Barnwell(football), or Rany/Jonah Keri(baseball, I don't follow that a
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by cwal37 12y ago
There is no evidence that it is air-transmissible. That is straight up fear-mongering. It is spread through bodily fluids. As the sickness progresses you are losing bodily fluids in a number of different ways in conditions that are not alwa
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by cwal37 12y ago
If you're interested in the current state of the US hydropower generation, potential resource out there, and really most everything around hydropower in the USA, check out the NHAAP website. http://nhaap.ornl.gov/ NHAA
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by cwal37 12y ago
Since it was promoted as something similar to Grantland under ESPN's umbrella (semi-autonomous site run by an individual with strong creative control) I thought it would be able to cherrypick individuals who were not just competent wit
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by cwal37 12y ago
Second for the mason jar train. I prefer the wide mouth 1.5 pint variety. You can safely freeze, bake, and nuke these suckers, and I do. I bring my coffee into work every day in one, then I rinse it and drink water or tea out of it until I
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by cwal37 12y ago
I took a class which had a short quiz/test at the beginning of each meeting. It was just a handful of questions that covered the assigned reading for that date. The reading in question wasn't out of a book, but was always a single
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by cwal37 12y ago
If I recall correctly (and it's been a few years since my oceanography seminar), it has to do with the ratio of component elements in the shells of benthic fauna. They're pulling those elements in as a part of the growth of those
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by cwal37 12y ago
I'm a researcher I guess. I'm doing my Post-Master's in renewable energy economics and market analysis at a DOE lab. I use Python pretty much every day, so there are plenty of things here that are relevant to my working life.
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by cwal37 12y ago
Why are you drinking expensive water from halfway around the world? As someone who subsists on lowly tap water, I had to google it, and my mind is absolutely boggled. Not exactly doing yourself any favors with that whole perception issue. A
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by cwal37 12y ago
An investigative piece from ProPublica into the piecemeal securitization of the 1998 tobacco settlement revenue, and the increasing toxicity of the ensuing debt. States essentially sold out their future revenue stream, and committed to payi
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How Wall Street Tobacco Deals Left States With Billions in Toxic Debt(propublica.org)
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In secret cyberwar games, civilians “obliterated” active-duty personnel(militarytimes.com)
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by cwal37 12y ago
A chilling story about Syngenta, the makers of atrazine (second most-used herbicide in the United States), and Tyrone Hayes, a Berkeley professor of biology whose research had shown atrazine to disrupt the sexual development of frogs. Hayes
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A Valuable Reputation – Syngenta's Atrazine and Tyrone Hayes(newyorker.com)
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A profile of the recently re-proposed (Nicaragua was one of the original Central American canal locations, along with Panama) Nicaraguan canal, it's backing, and the dissent. Nicaragua is the 2nd poorest country in the Americas, only b
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How China obtains American technological secrets(newyorker.com)
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The Comandante’s Canal(newyorker.com)
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by cwal37 12y ago
The Bay Area is about as skewed as you can get (outside of NYC and parts of Boston/DC). Definitely would have put a gigantic qualifier on your statement.
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Booker, Christie, and Zuckerberg's attempt to reform Newark’s schools(newyorker.com)
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by cwal37 12y ago
That's not really accurate. Suburbs have a lower overall amount of crime, but you need to think about relative rates of crime based on the number of people living in an area. Here's a simple study that discusses a lot of that: ht
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by cwal37 12y ago
Reading on the topic: The Geography of Nowhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere The City in History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_in_History
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Fear of Ebola Breeds a Terror of Physicians(nytimes.com)
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by cwal37 12y ago
I just said group because presumably he wasn't the only investor in those companies, so a group of people stand to profit. If he was the only investor I would have said individual. It's also meant to highlight the fact that multip
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by cwal37 12y ago
I think that 1/8 sounds amazing actually, let's look at some totally theoretical and extremely simple numbers (basically all we can work with in this case without doing some significant legwork to try and sniff out the actual inve
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by cwal37 12y ago
Ahh, I see the confusion now, sorry. Thanks, edited for clarity.

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