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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
I remember the VHS era of renting movies. I'm fortunate enough to live in a large city that had a great, independent, rental store. Lots of selection. I suspect the selection at that rental store is better than the selection at any
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Lots of general contractors, with enough capital to buy a home, do some repairs, and sell it; They have a very good knowledge of the local market. Can do the repairs themselves. Larger companies probably focus on commercial developments and
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
I feel that there are lots of contractors that can flip houses, with a better profit margin than Zillow. Contractors have the capital to outright purchase a home, no middle person as they do the upgrades, they also know the local market.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Ebikes are getting popular. This market will grow. The ebikes will get better. I think that is were the market is going. Nostalgia is building for the 1990s, those cars might make a comeback, in terms of restoration projects.
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I'm not so sure. If you have to swap out the engine, trans, brakes, there won't be much left of the classic car. It'll just be a modern car, but much less safe.
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Here is a fun textbook I found on astronomy http://gron.ca/math/dupuis_1910/dupuis.pdf that is written in a more pragmatic style.
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I read Voltaire's Candide a few years before reading The Hitchhikers Guide. I'm glad I did. The characters, style, themes, were all taken from Voltaire's master work. I still enjoyed reading Douglas Adams. Comparing the tw
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
So how does this 'magic mirror' work if it's just tinted glass? The world doesn't look much different if you wear sunglasses.
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Or easier.
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Like tinted glass?
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How do you join HAM radio if you're older?
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I think that keyless systems came after few incidents of people's key chains being too heavy and accidentally turning the car off when hitting a bump on the highway. Since most cars keys already, from the late 90s, had chips in them, t
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Marie Antoinette and her friends would dress up as young shepherdess or milkmaids and wander around the hamlet pretending to be peasants, while still surrounded by the comforts of a royal lifestyle. A team of real farmers appointed by the Q
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
The ending of Don Quixote... Don Quixote replied that he himself was to be called the shepherd Quixotize and the bachelor the shepherd Carrascon, and the curate the shepherd Curambro, and Sancho Panza the shepherd Pancino. Both were astound
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The purpose of this particular device was to permit a vote in the National House of Representatives to be taken in a minute or so, complete lists being furnished of all members voting on the two sides of any question Mr. Edison, in recallin
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Accuracy and Significant Figures, 1915 [pdf](gron.ca)
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I feel that normal people just don't have anywhere to invest. People are scared of inflation. Don't trust other financial investments, like stocks. They're putting money into buying 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes to rent out.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Hi, maybe you can give me some advice about what to read. I'm looking for a book/video that would give me a step by step account of how early astronomers worked. How they actually took a reading, what corrections they made, and s
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This was a good read https://archive.org/details/historyofplaneta00dreyuoft History of the planetary systems from Thales to Kepler by Dreyer
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That's why I really like Dupuis's 1910 textbook. Gets the right amount of basic information and math. I'd really like to see how Newton, Kepler or Copernicus went about making their calculations, step by step. Break it down
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Notes Regarding Dupuis’ 1910 Elements of Astronomy [pdf](gron.ca)
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I've played with MathML http://gron.ca/algebra/027.html it's okish but LaTeX is better. A way of displaying math is needed on browsers. So is a better way of citation, and how about a video standard. Are we a
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We need to chemically dissolve old tires. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/GC/C9GC0...
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It's what Wikipedia is missing. Not only a brief summary of a topic, but, the opinion from the leading academics on a topic. It's the academic opinions, not just the information, that is of interest. Without knowing much on an eso
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I'm from Ontario, Canada. I find that it's average people getting into the real estate game as a way of protecting their wealth against inflation and not wanting to play the stock market. People blame internation investors, but t
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It is wealth transfer from Baby Boomers to their kids. Demographics also plays a role. We saw a massive boom in the 1950s, 1980s, and now in the 2000s. This boom is less sharp, and more spread out then the previous ones. The war generation
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I'm amazed at all the great history videos on Youtube. This is my small curated list. I wish I can make this list larger!
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History of Technology on YouTube(gron.ca)
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What about cable over fluid disc brakes for a commute bicycle?
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Touring bike is my favourite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touring_bicycle#/media/File:Lo... Very similar to cycle cross (a wide range of gears) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/

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