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by graycat 2y ago
I agree on house prices. Maybe some news source would publish a graph over time of the ratio of house prices to, say, prices of gasoline, ground beef, carrots, a wool blanket, a car, a refrigerator, etc. We are very short on news that has c
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by graycat 2y ago
> I think the big successes that you describe are the exception rather than the rule. I think you'll find the majority of economic success comes from simple rent seeking -- whether literally as landlord, or as financial service, or
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by graycat 2y ago
You are in Denmark? WOW!! From here in the US, my impression of Denmark is a small country of really smart people with gorgeous women having really good lives!!! Your post questions that impression .... Here in the US, there are what see
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Physics does not emphasize this, but the half life concept essentially assumes a Poisson process (Cinlar, Stochastic Processes ) which has a Markov (past and future conditionally independent given the present, details from the Radon-Niko
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by graycat 2y ago
> Her thesis is that "Russiagate" wasn't cooked up; ... > weird to disagree with an argument you don't even understand. To me, from all I have seen, the "cooked up" part was real and well documented. If
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by graycat 2y ago
I'm still trying to evaluate Trump and understand the anti-Trump people. Thanks for your references and remarks. Okay, from some of the news, I concluded that the J6 issues were from what Trump did on J6 and some role for him in th
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by graycat 2y ago
This rape stuff makes no sense: Before seeing your quote, I saw it myself when I looked at the PDF, and it sounds like Trump was convicted of finger rape. But then there is the statement I referenced: "Despite Carroll’s claims that
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by graycat 2y ago
> I watched your video -- it's media personalities babbling. Yup, but maybe it and related media stuff is responsible for much of the anti-Trump opinions there are. I thought the collection was outrageous, insulting, and dirty poli
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by graycat 2y ago
> Kindly read or listen to any long-form work by Sarah Kendzior. This is the first I've heard of her. So, just did a Google search on her: She has written a lot of stories for the "news" on a lot of subjects. Maybe ~10%
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by graycat 2y ago
> Are you being sarcastic? Did you miss the part where he waged an attempted coup against the US government to remain in power? I never understood that: I watched his speech. All I saw looked reasonable, appropriate, prudent. It seeme
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by graycat 2y ago
> we don't seem to be able to do anything about it. I thought that, with our democratic structures, it would be really easy "to do" a lot about it, but you seem right: I don't get it and have been guessing that >
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by graycat 2y ago
> (faster if Trump gets another term). I didn't keep track and don't have a good list, but a guess is that Trump did push through a lot of regulatory changes. If the media would publish a well documented list ...!! From all I
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by graycat 2y ago
I agree. As I explained to my sister in law, I try to stay with just plain text. Pushed to something else has me tempted to scream, say loudly enough to blow down trees for a radius of 20 miles.
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by graycat 2y ago
Common current computing can greatly ease the effort to "remember" what have read, written, thought, learned, etc. E.g., to help "remember" I have a general purpose file that I read/write with my favorite text edito
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by graycat 2y ago
In my experience, of some decades, with programming of wide variety, in recent decades "Programming Is Mostly" (1) making sense out of missing or, as technical writing, badly written documentation needed to do the (2) mud wrestli
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by graycat 2y ago
After reading the OP: (1) Business Is Okay: For the neighborhood I grew up in, a big fraction of the houses were owned and occupied by families of owners of businesses. (a) Drove into the country, met with farmers, evaluated and bought th
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by graycat 2y ago
I gave my 6th grade nephew a 90 second "Calculus Made Easy": First, credibility: Ah, I never took the first year of college calculus -- to make faster progress in college math, got a good book and taught myself. After an oral ex
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by graycat 2y ago
> No, actually the Holocaust, meaning the actual mass killing of Jews, didn't start until 1941, about the time Hitler attacked Russia. Hitler attacking the Jews started before 1941, and I used Holocaust as a one-word description o
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Thanks! > rich German backers I can believe that. Yup, I've wondered how many barriers, constraints, etc. the US REALLY has to ensure that we are safe from being like 1930s Germany. My guesses are our Constitution and three branche
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> but he was "nuts" way before he ever came into power. I agree, sure, but strictly, literally that doesn't conflict with what I wrote -- i.e., I didn't claim he was not nuts before 1933 or before he became a dictator
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Common estimates are that WWII killed 50 million to 100 million people. So, wanted to get some understanding of how it happened, how to avoid such, and looked at many descriptions of that history. I'm just a US citizen, not a professi
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by graycat 2y ago
How long to transmit the 368 TB? Each Ethernet port is at 200 Gb, that is, 200 billion bits per second or about 20 billion bytes per second or 20 BBs. Two such ports are 40 BBps The 368 TB is 368,000 GB So, the transmit time is at least 368
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by graycat 2y ago
Sequoia's essay has three categories: For each of FedEx, Google, Duck Duck Go, Facebook, Tic Toc, Amazon, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Windows, which category does it fit?
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One explanation is an old one, MONEY. My understanding is that for a cargo ship of reasonable size, the diesel or black oil fuel to cross the Atlantic can be > $1 million. The wind? Free. And, with a well designed sailboat, the speed
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by graycat 2y ago
I'll postulate a semi-secret, conspiratorial reason for research : National security!!! Uh, sure, maybe nearly all the research is junk, but tough to PROVE that it's junk and will forever remain junk. Soooo, instead, suddenly s
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by graycat 2y ago
"... academic bullshit" is quite broad. Since my Ph.D. is in applied math and since for a while I was a college prof, I have a view: A common criterion for publishing research was that the work was "new, correct, and signific
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by graycat 3y ago
The issue in article was about being successful BUILDING nuke plants, not "shutting down" the plants: Bluntly, France built lots of plants and Japan and Germany didn't. And as in the Georgia example, the US has had trouble
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by graycat 3y ago
Something doesn't match here! First, > The Japanese and Germans are not known for their wildly emotional thinking Okay. But the French, uh, sorry, but IMHO, the French are "known for their wildly emotional thinking", e.g.
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Elon: In non-linear programming, there are the Kuhn-Tucker conditions. In that math there are some constraint qualifications (CQs). It is of some interest to know which CQs imply which others. Okay: One of the CQs is the Kuhn-Tucker o
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by graycat 3y ago
> Almost everything you wrote is factually wrong I know of no such, and you gave no examples. > It seems you have not been even tangentially keeping track of any developments after... 2015. You are attacking me personally or the conte

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