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571.
The 1857 Utah War(imetatronink.com)
77 points by jdkee 4y ago|77 comments
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The Smallest Rocket – The SS-520-5(youtube.com)
1 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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Fahrenheit 121(newyorker.com)
3 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Too bad Australia, Canada and the EU don't have the 4th and 5th Amendments.
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The Fallen of WWII(youtube.com)
1 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
576.
by jdkee 4y ago
This video on the deaths in WWII will put things into perspective. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU
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by jdkee 4y ago
I used to love my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_Armstrong
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Fantasy Role-Playing Is Hurting America(christianitytoday.com)
3 points by jdkee 4y ago|2 comments
579.
by jdkee 4y ago
Bullshit. See https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856
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Checkers Was Solved(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jdkee 4y ago|1 comments
581.
by jdkee 4y ago
"The ability for the world to produce a huge surplus of calories and to trade them as commodities across borders IS resilience." HN bot remind me in one year.
582.
by jdkee 4y ago
No mention of the fact that it takes two earners in the median household to see the raise in inflation adjusted outcome. In fact, inflation adjusted wages for the middle class has been flat since the 1970s. So it is even worse for the middl
583.
by jdkee 4y ago
See https://thecollegesolution.com/college-admissions-playing-th...
584.
Low water stage marks on hunger stones (2020)(cp.copernicus.org)
74 points by jdkee 4y ago|22 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
And look at the per pupil spending compared to the national average. About half. See https://www.schooldigger.com/go/FL/schools/0003000029/school... . See also https://nces.ed.gov/fastfact
586.
by jdkee 4y ago
Nihilism. Three billion years of evolution, positive reproductive strategies brought you to this point. To voluntarily throw it away is the ultimate expression of nihilism.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Both Curtis and SSM chips used in synthesizers like the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 in the 1970s have being cloned and are in production. See https://electricdruid.net/analog-renaissance/
588.
by jdkee 4y ago
Here is a fantastic vid of the sounds recreated on vintage machines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAuvZr5j9as
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by jdkee 4y ago
Jack Blakin over at Yale law has been writing about this very issue (and proposing solutions) for some time. See https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-political-economy-of-freedom... See also https://www.youtube.c
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Allen Strange's Electronic Music(kickstarter.com)
3 points by jdkee 4y ago|2 comments
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I Know What You Think of Me(archive.nytimes.com)
1 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
592.
by jdkee 4y ago
Came here to say this. I reread it every ten years or so and each time I find something new in it.
593.
by jdkee 4y ago
“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
594.
by jdkee 4y ago
Or let the market price and allocate water.
595.
by jdkee 4y ago
100 million Americans RVing would certainly clog up the National Parks.
596.
As water crisis worsens on Colorado River, an urgent call for states to ‘act’(latimes.com)
64 points by jdkee 4y ago|118 comments
597.
by jdkee 4y ago
". . . the government takes up to 80 percent of the pay for room and board, court costs, restitution and other fees, including the construction and maintenance of prisons." Where is the balance between incarceration being punitive
598.
by jdkee 4y ago
The author's homepage was last updated slightly over a quarter century ago.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Similarly, Senior House shut down at MIT. See https://www.wired.com/story/a-weird-mit-dorm-dies-and-a-cris...
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by jdkee 4y ago
Wow. You really have no idea of the history of First Amendment law, do you?

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