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by gshubert17 5y ago
>> a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a good-to-have but optional prerequisite, or essentially unrel
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Limits to Growth-the balance of the pursuit of economic growth and its effects(advisory.kpmg.us)
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by gshubert17 5y ago
The KPMG research about the Limits to Growth scenarios is at https://advisory.kpmg.us/articles/2021/limits-to-growth.html It is titled "Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical da
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by gshubert17 5y ago
It amazes me that it last visited the "inner" solar system 2.75 million years ago. And after perturbations its next approach will be 4.5 million years from now. Its aphelion distance will be about 0.8 lightyear.
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by gshubert17 5y ago
And also the devaluation of the dollar against gold in 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 Although the graph doesn't slow much loss of purchasing power until the U.S. entered World War 2.
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Marc Reisner's book _Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water_, written in 1987 (a third of a century ago), documents part of this experiment, including actions of Los Angeles to get water, and the rivalry between
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by gshubert17 5y ago
The first link, for Part 1, is great. Part 2 seems to have been published in 3 sections. The second link is to the second section of Part 2, with a REF ID of A64556. This contains parts 10 through 14 and 3 appendices. If anyone is intereste
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Why Contact Tracing Couldn't Keep Up with the U.S. Covid Outbreak(text.npr.org)
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The Week That Shook Big Oil(text.npr.org)
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Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admissions(text.npr.org)
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Because I Am Bored(antipope.org)
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by gshubert17 5y ago
> It's very likely that they didn't really know that Vesuvio was a volcano at all... Perhaps some people compared Vesuvio to Etna (which erupts much more often) and realized it was a volcano?
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Some mission parameters are at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10#Mission_parameters The lunar orbit of the LM (Lunar Module) and CSM (Command-Service Module) had a period of 2.15 hours. The interval during which
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by gshubert17 6y ago
And Friedman in 1980 took it from Leonard Read who wrote "I, Pencil" in 1958. See, https://thenewinquiry.com/milton-friedmans-pencil/
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by gshubert17 6y ago
Robin Lane Fox, a historian, in his book _Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible_, wrote that as he finished this book, "a friend reminded me that I had once remarked to him that I believed in the Bible but not in God. .
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by gshubert17 6y ago
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI calculator, $2500 in 2000 has the same purchasing power as $3800 in 2020. I believe that difference would be able to cover increases in property taxes and insurance.
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He was 94 years old. An obituary with more information is at https://nypost.com/2021/03/10/cassette-tape-and-cd-inventor-...
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by gshubert17 6y ago
Sometimes the experiences in a novel are more memorable than the arguments. Or the combination of characters, experiences, and information is more effective at conveying what the author wants.
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by gshubert17 6y ago
I've listened to lecture courses from The Great Courses (Teaching Company) on literature, history, music, philosophy, and science for 20+ years now. I get to learn what I want, at my own pace, etc. The lecturers are good, and I can rep
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by gshubert17 6y ago
Chomsky and most of his students call Everett a charlatan. For example, David Pesetsky, whose doctoral advisor was Chomsky, criticized Everett's work in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Language.
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by gshubert17 6y ago
> The other engine provides enough thrust to keep the plane airborne. We could hear the remaining (loud) engine as the plane flew over. Our house is less than 2 miles from where the parts landed and right under its flight path. The boom
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by gshubert17 6y ago
Burning all the fossil fuel reserves we have (know about), would add over 200 ppm CO2 to the atmosphere (mostly from 1 trillion tons of coal). The additions from oil and gas are smaller. We'd then have over 500 ppm CO2. "Recoverab
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by gshubert17 6y ago
> ~$90 per quadrillion BTU I think this misreads the abbreviation MM BTU (where M in this case is the Roman numeral thousand or "mille" rather than the metric million or "mega"). 1 MM BTU = 10^6 BTU, not 10^15. A ther
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by gshubert17 6y ago
Yes, that's the Southwest Power Pool, which covers 14 states. Here's some news from them, https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/local-news-local-news...
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Texas Ercot: Rotating Outages in Progress(ercot.com)
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by gshubert17 6y ago
Another recommendation for FreeTaxUsa. Used it last year for filing and for an amended return. I am happy to pay the small cost (about $7) for unlimited support (didn't need any). Using it again this year.
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by gshubert17 6y ago
The webpage https://www.nand2tetris.org/software has a link to a file, nand2tetris.zip, which contains projects and tools which are all one needs to go through the book (explained on this page). This open source software ca
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Are consultants something like lawyers, in that they will do "good" work for ethical clients and "bad" work for unethical ones? Lawyers can point to the higher values of truth and justice. What are the higher values of c
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by gshubert17 6y ago
I agree that Sale should have paid the bet and claimed that he was a bit "early" about when the destruction would come. In 1995 a person could have bought a US Treasury zero coupon bond for about $130 maturing in 25 years for . .
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China GDP could overtake US by 2026 to 2028(cnbc.com)
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