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by flubert 11y ago
What if we went in the opposite direction. Let's say we discovered another more advanced civilization on a relatively nearby star. I wonder how bad would people on earth would now feel, and how the feelings would be distributed. Wou
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by flubert 11y ago
Where is a good site for getting an introduction on what HTTPS covers. Is the URL completely exposed? Does your ISP/third-parties know the domain, the subdomain, the path, and parameters in each URL?
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by flubert 11y ago
>Before 2000 ...What??? If google was as good as some people claim, we should be able to look up something like U.S. automobile imports from 1950 through 2015. Also, NAFTA became law in 1994, and I'd argue that this is a lagging i
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by flubert 11y ago
I wonder what the value is for various types of "privilege"? As in, if you could pay so much and reap the benefits, how much should someone be willing to pay? $1,000? $10,000? $100,000? $1,000,000?
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by flubert 11y ago
Have you ever been to a restaurant where there served both Coke and Pepsi?
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by flubert 11y ago
You may also be interested in aluminum-air batteries, which have better than 10 times the specific energy density compared to lithium ion chemistries. The downside is that they aren't rechargable, but that may not matter for flights (
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by flubert 11y ago
You may be interest in: "A New Dawn for Industrial Photosynthesis" http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11120-011-96...
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by flubert 11y ago
I don't know if anyone else is like this, but I can't help but be slightly amused, when in the same thread that some people are thinking that this is a lost cause, other's are claiming the the exponential growth of solar and
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by flubert 11y ago
>Every person on the planet should have a carbon consumption rating and have exponential taxes applied accordingly. Anyone know how practical it might be to have a "progressive" carbon tax, similar in nature to a progressive in
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by flubert 11y ago
Okay, it is wikipedia, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor "Adherents claim that with seawater uranium extraction, there would be enough fuel for breeder reactors to satisfy our energy needs for 5 b
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by flubert 11y ago
>Geothermal energy was stored back during the formation of the planet "Nuclear Fission Confirmed as Source of More than Half of Earth's Heat" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/nuclear-fi
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by flubert 11y ago
>I live in one of those "Record Warmest" boxes, it really was hot during the past year. You can sense a 0.23 degree F average temperature difference? Or maybe you are unhelpfully confusing weather with climate?
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by flubert 11y ago
>...certainly is one way to neatly sidestep the modern manipulation of ads. Things may be more insidious than that though. You may not drink Coke or Pepsi, but maybe you have friends or family members that do? I've certainly known
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by flubert 11y ago
An ousider Layman's answer (meaning my guess is probably as good as yours): 1. Access to people who will introduce you to people with piles of money that is burning a hole in their pockets. 2. Advice from people who have seen companies
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by flubert 11y ago
>your mouse is also a 1-D camera / scanner, and can be used to somewhat digitize something? On a totally unrelated note, the image sensors in optical mice are actually low-resolution (16x16) 2D arrays. https://pickandplac
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by flubert 11y ago
>Why not just move south It seems like the real question is, why move north in the first place? Following big game? Sick of your war-mongering neighbors to the south? Less competition for resources?
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by flubert 11y ago
Here's a starting point for you in your investigations into electrical propelled airplanes: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/Features/leaptech.htm...
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by flubert 11y ago
If that mortgage is too much for you, here is a house for one tenth that ($6/month): http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12169-Findlay-St-Detroit-M... ...1029 sq. ft. for $1700. But if you are looking for real rock
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by flubert 11y ago
How about $62/month for the mortgage on this 973 sq. ft. home: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/103-Baker-St-Cooperstown-N... ...looks pretty nice, with a good sized yard.
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by flubert 11y ago
What percentage of people have a net worth of zero? If you've got $1000 to your name, are you richer than 48% of the worlds population, by the same metric? Anyone have the data for this?
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by flubert 11y ago
Interesting that the etymology of flipping tables meme apparently comes from East Asia. I'd have thought of the "other" famous table flipping incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temp
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by flubert 11y ago
Interesting, but linking Seattle, Boise, and the Tri-cities into one mega-region seems to decrease the seriousness of the concept to me.
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by flubert 11y ago
You may also like: "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite" http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/dead-souls-the-den... "Debates over national identity are a pervasive character
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by flubert 11y ago
>good for soul I've always been intending to read "The Human Zoo": "How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of hi
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by flubert 11y ago
>Discounting multiple links by the same user is a good idea. Yes, it looks like at least 14 of the "The Rent Is Too Damn High" links seem to come from the user "jseliger": https://www.google.com/?gws_r
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by flubert 11y ago
In fact, people like living in a city so much, that gobs of them are willing to pay a premium in order to do so. Oh, wait...
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by flubert 11y ago
>Also a sentence like "programming perl is fun" does not necessarily refer to the book. ...but the counts might be low enough to manually check for those instances. I'm surprised the counts are so low.
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by flubert 11y ago
>So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality. How much of our "discussion" on this issue is tangled up with the fact are that some people are greatly concerned
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by flubert 11y ago
>What there absolutely is not is some sort of program where millions of people are paid to sit around https://www.ssa.gov/agency/performance/2016/FINAL_2014_2016_...
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by flubert 11y ago
Haven't people been saying this since about 1848?

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