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by dsq 3y ago
I have long ago stopped considering the Harvard brand as a proxy for high quality analysis and prediction.
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by dsq 3y ago
Vim and tmux on the server, and juicessh with hacker's keyboard on the phone. It's still not easy, there's not much real estate. But for small edits it's adequate.
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by dsq 3y ago
As usual, things will happen much differently. Space exploration is likely to be taken over or driven by national security motivations, all idealism shoved aside.
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by dsq 3y ago
Still single digit billions, as I said.
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by dsq 3y ago
I had a look at trends over time ( https://www.macrotrends.net/2550/dollar-yen-exchange-rate-hi... ) and looked back by decades. In 2013 it was 97.6, in 2003 it was 115.94, 1993 it was 111.08. So roughly around a hundred
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by dsq 3y ago
This will, of course, also maintain a steady supply of fissile material for an independent Scandinavian nuclear weapons program if it is ever (re-)activated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_prog.
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by dsq 3y ago
It sounds like a lot, but there's about a hundred yen per usd, so in govt budget terms that's single digit billions. Still, it's Japan, so it'll probably be used judiciously.
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by dsq 3y ago
Ive read some Bradbury but not that specific story, thanks for that.
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by dsq 3y ago
It doesn't sound like enough. Nowadays just setting up the corporate division costs that much.
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by dsq 3y ago
>Radiating heat away Because no air molecules to carry the heat?
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by dsq 3y ago
>Cooling is a bigger issue in space Is this due to the raw sunlight? If so, wouldn't using a sunshield immediately reduce the heat to far below zero? Or is circulation the problem?
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by dsq 3y ago
Those who lost the war ran away to avoid being eradicated.
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by dsq 3y ago
War and persecution
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by dsq 3y ago
Being non USian, I wasn't aware of apportionment in the constitution. Thanks for the explanation.
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by dsq 3y ago
I'd prefer not to work where is was socially expected to ingest addictive harmful substances.
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by dsq 3y ago
> The entire point of the US system at birth was for excise taxes to exist Could you please elaborate?
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by dsq 3y ago
If they won't choose the easy way, we'll just have to persuade 'em the hard way. 10$ gas on its way.
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by dsq 3y ago
Well, he had to say that.
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by dsq 3y ago
>45 minutes from Vancouver This part is a problem, because it sounds like 45 minutes to where the traffic starts, from there another 1.5 hrs to the parts of the city you want to go. Or do you mean a net 45 min to city center?
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by dsq 3y ago
But isn't perhaps the relatively better life simply due to the truly stupendous ratio of land and natural resources per person that make up for the deficiencies of the system?
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by dsq 3y ago
Your cynicism is so sophisticated I am impressed.
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by dsq 3y ago
>full access to the US market As an Old Worlder I would like to know what this means. If you have a website or a SaaS and are located in Canada, do you mean you can sell freely, wothout restriction, and without regulatory burden, the sam
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by dsq 3y ago
Italians, Jews and even Irish were not considered 'white', which was reserved for descendants of British immigrants, due to the general racial theories that dominated the pre-WW2 era. https://www.nytimes.com/intera
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by dsq 3y ago
The US was always the melting pot model, where immigrants assimilated into the general American culture. The second generation spoke 'Merican just like the locals. Italians, Germans, Poles, all became standard USians.
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by dsq 3y ago
Yes, you are right, and there is a falling off of skills in incoming students. Perhaps not in medicine, that will always scrape off from the top applicants, but nany subjects are either neglected or suffer from cheating. You dont see it bec
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by dsq 3y ago
It is not necessarily that they don't matter, but rather that something which is difficult must be rewarding otherwise it will just not be done. When reading, writing and arithmetic were absolutely necessary fir a young person to enjo
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by dsq 3y ago
I'd settle for zero sum at this point, as other scenarios lie in a range from authoritarian militarization camouflaged with smiley faces all the way to mismanaged plocies leading to a nuclear exhange.
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by dsq 3y ago
https://archive.is/yCAEf
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by dsq 3y ago
Reading, writing and arithmetic are becoming less relevant to the day to day of the majority of young persons. How much text actually appears on Instagram? How much reading skills are required for it? Outside of school, when does a young pe
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by dsq 3y ago
The pdf is difficult to read on mobile and in any case a bit outside my expertise. Can somebody knowledgeable please write a TL;DR explaining the findimgs of this paper?

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