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by njarboe 2y ago
I would guess he will still be paying at least property taxes.
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by njarboe 2y ago
I have come to think of "capitalism" as the private ownership of things and the primacy of markets and "socialism" as the collective ownership by the state and the primacy of a state command economy. From history is seem
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by njarboe 2y ago
I wonder how many governments have this capability right now? I would guess at least three.
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by njarboe 2y ago
The title would be better if the original acronym capitalization was kept. "DUNE" not "Dune". I clicked through hoping to find out about a collaboration between geomorphologists and particle physicists. Still interesting
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by njarboe 2y ago
It does look very small in comparison to say Lake Michigan but most lakes are very thin. Lake Michigan is about 500km by 200km but only .085km(85m) average depth.
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by njarboe 2y ago
How about willing to build nuclear power plants and use desal. LA is on the ocean.
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by njarboe 2y ago
An alternative perspective to making tools less functional for safety.[1] Handy when drilling a 5/8" hole through 10" of wood.[2] [1] http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html [2] https://njarboe.com&#x
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by njarboe 2y ago
I think that this holding stocks and bonds and then re-balancing every year or so is advice from back in the 1980's when historically bonds got under valued when stocks boomed and vice versa, so this made sense. I don't think that
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by njarboe 2y ago
If you are shorting stocks or buying on margin, this may be true, but if you buy and hold, no additional funds are needed (ie. you will stay solvent).
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by njarboe 2y ago
As a Nick born in the 70's, I thought my world was getting a bit weird as Nick's were poping up everywhere all of a sudden. Then I saw a video on the top ten boy's names from 1880-2020[1] and saw Nicholas pop up in the top te
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by njarboe 2y ago
Not sure how the US would freeze gold in a Moscow bank. It can freeze dollars because it controls SWIFT and how dollars move. The dollars it froze were not a huge pile of physical bills in Russia but electronic chits.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Don't forget FDR's banning private ownership of gold and then changing the value of the dollar from around $20 and ounce to $35 and ounce.
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by njarboe 2y ago
More like if they buy your mineral rights they now own your oil and have the right to extract it.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Thanks for the info. I was just using ice age in the same way the parent was. Glacial Period is more technically correct.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Also theorized as the source of the great flood myths. As the Gulf flooded the shore line would be moving around a meter per day for centuries/millennia.
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by njarboe 2y ago
The last ice age ended around 12,000 years ago and started about 115,000 years ago[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period
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by njarboe 2y ago
Does this mean we can get the 5 year cancer survival rate to 100%?
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by njarboe 2y ago
Or if they had gone full nuclear like France. From the article: "While Germany's power carbon intensity vastly exceeds the roughly 45g of CO2/KWh of France's nuclear-heavy system, the 166g reading at 1 p.m. on May 13 was
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by njarboe 2y ago
Do you have full coverage on your car? You should consider dropping that. Vehicle theft should not be increasing liability costs that much.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Driving is an amazing. It allows everyone huge amounts of freedom in what they do and who they spend time with. Having lots of shops and workplaces near your home is great and should be encouraged, but we should try and find ways to keep th
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by njarboe 2y ago
It's already being done. Check out these Russian improvised "Turtle Tanks"[1]. A big, light, metal canopy to keep drones from exploding next to the tank. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfkwlMaK7g
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by njarboe 2y ago
Here is a link to how the senators voted[1]. [1] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1... Unfortunately both my senators voted for it. I did call their offices Thursday to no avail.
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by njarboe 3y ago
"dumb midcentury infrastructure decisions." Keeping in mind that mid-century Japan and Germany were in ruins and the possibility of nuclear annihilation of urban centers very much at the top of many people minds. 50 years may have
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by njarboe 3y ago
Yes. You need to know how things were for the span of history to understand how today is different.
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by njarboe 3y ago
I would suggest reading some more ancient history to get a larger view of the great accomplishments of the west and you might feel a little different. Some of them are: Abolition of slavery world wide (almost everywhere) Women liberation Th
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by njarboe 3y ago
I was talking about really large trees like you get in true old growth forests (ie never cut. Many people see 100 year old second growth forests and think they are old growth, but they are not). Tree plantations are a whole different eco-sy
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by njarboe 3y ago
It is not inherently unsustainable but practically so. You can cut down one thousand year old tree per year for every thousand trees of similar size. I have not done the calculation but maybe a few trees per square mile per year.
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by njarboe 3y ago
The main reason old growth trees have tight rings is not that the tree is growing slowly (in mass) but that the diameter and height of the trunk is so large that the rings are very narrow. A 200ft tall tree with a 8ft diameter trunk with a
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by njarboe 3y ago
Having enough personal solar for your car charging solves this problem for now but who know what kind of fuckery there will be around home solar rules in California in the future.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Off shore platforms. Most large cities are on or near an ocean or large lake.

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