lurquer

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by lurquer 7y ago
Many rivers feeding into the delta have been dammed, diverted for Agri, and the forest canopy has been decimated (leading to more evaporation). In any case, like all delta regions, when the freshwater flow upstream is reduced, the salinity
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by lurquer 7y ago
Repeatedly.
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He'll think more or less the same thing that 99% of people in the 21st century think. That is, very few people know -- or care to know -- how their cell phone works. Those on this forum, of course, do. But, to the average man-on-the-s
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by lurquer 7y ago
Taxes no higher than US? Are you kidding? Income tax rates are higher than the US. On top of that there is a 20%+ VAT on nearly everything you buy. (Not to mention a 4% to 5% 'transfer' tax on most anything you sell.) Not knockin
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by lurquer 7y ago
How often do chicken have offspring with an extra pair of chromosomes? Do you have data on this?
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by lurquer 7y ago
It's discontinuous. It's obvious what the post implied... that the changes are gradual and continuous.
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Chickens have 78 chromosomes. There is nothing incremental about moving from 76 to 78. Or, from 78 to 80 (turkeys).
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by lurquer 7y ago
I like his proof of a the volume of a cone. I usually considered it via Euclid XII, prop 7, which was always hard to visualize. Starting with 6 pyramids in a cube is ingenious. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java&#x2
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by lurquer 7y ago
If say Budweiser increased their price by say 10c a can their overall profit would decrease even if their profit margin would increase. -------- That's not neccesarily the case. The ideal price point for maximum profits is ever-changi
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by lurquer 7y ago
I prefer the 20% margin, of course. Why would I tie up an extra $900k to make 5% ? You make the 20% with the 100k, and hopefully find similar opportunities with your other 9 stacks of 100k's. Profit is the only driving force in the mar
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by lurquer 7y ago
You are confusing revenue with profit. The profit margin for a high-end chocolate is higher than a snickers bar's.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Lung cancer.
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by lurquer 7y ago
I read this a month or two ago and forgot all about it! Thanks for posting it! It has great advice.
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by lurquer 7y ago
I suppose. The beauty of it is, though, that when they get old enough, and Christmas rolls around, one of them will inevitably buy you an Amazon Echo. And then you can issue them your last command: "Set this thing up for us!"
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by lurquer 7y ago
I just have my kids do stuff. "Water the yard!" "Turn off that light!" "Change the channel!" "Go get the mail!" Simple. Fairly reliable. Best DIY project the wife and I have ever done.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Magnets -- not EM fields but actual magnets -- sort of follow an inverse cubed law. Anyway, Principia Mathematica's big conclusion was that an inverse squared force will result in elliptical orbits.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Your fourth paragraph is insightful. Prostitution, however, worsens the situation. The detrimental aspect of harem-based societies is not bunches of horny men unable to get laid... rather, it's bunches of single men -- horny or not --
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by lurquer 7y ago
The underlying study is dubious... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0499-z They took 0.5 meters of sediment. They examined shells in the sediment, and using a very convoluted and new measurement technique, th
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by lurquer 7y ago
And, how does one prove you lied? The recorded statement? No. There is, by policy, rarely a recorded statement. Rather, it's just your word vs. the agent's notes. That's absurd. How do you defend yourself when an FBI agent sa
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by lurquer 7y ago
Indeed. This idea always comes to mind when I hear people wonder out loud what a true 'anarchist' society would look like... I privately answer, "Pretty much exactly like what we have now."
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by lurquer 7y ago
This is a myth. Enormous chunks of land surrounding the three airports have actual zoning. The rest has de facto zoning. It just isn't called zoning. This is why Houston looks pretty much like any other city with zoning. A lot of what
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by lurquer 7y ago
It's odd how the same people who are prone to excuse criminals on the basis of the criminal's poverty, so frequently accuse rich people of having obtained their wealth through illicit means.
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by lurquer 7y ago
>There is no bigger lie than hard work = prosperity. It is literally the exact opposite. Hard work leads to prosperity. That's not the same as equating prosperity to hard work. Most prosperous people achieved prosperity due to earl
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by lurquer 7y ago
I don't understand the question.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Criminal law is literally a set of statutes. Small claims court (the name varies depending on the state, but we're talking about 'Judge Judy' type courts here) is for the quick resolution of minor disputes. In most states, th
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by lurquer 7y ago
>Over the years, their numbers have included construction workers, insurance agents, pharmacists — even an underwear distributor. Pharmacists are hardly uneducated buffoons. And, what are we to make of 'underwear distributor'?
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by lurquer 7y ago
Of interest are speculations regarding how cement was discovered in the first place. That is, why would one make a kiln to heat the rock? (A mere campfire won't cut it... doesn't get hot enough.) Some speculate it could have been
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by lurquer 7y ago
Could you provide such a proof? (just general outline would suffice...) I can't figure out a "pretty easy" way to do it.
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Well, there's the long-standing tradition of Anglos exploring and settling the ends of the earth... as a Scot/Kiwi/Australian, in regard to this particular tradition, perhaps you can't see the forest for the trees! ;)
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> However, I do think it ignores the elephant in the room which is that Earth only has finite resources. Are you sure about that? Without question, the Earth has a finite mass. But 'resource' in the sense you are using the term

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