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by peter303 5y ago
"just around the corner" quote from 1955
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They do this to a lesser degree with human teeth and bones, but not with a precision of long, continuously growing tusk.In addition human tarter reveals diet.
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They have dozens of terms for states of mind and brain activity. Many are more precise than in western science.
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I have heard of some success with mental exercises helping cold hand/feet syndrome. That is a fairly common condition for people in the winter.
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by peter303 5y ago
IRAs/401ks are top out at upper middle class. They assuming you are deferring 15% of income until you hit $26,000, i.e. and income of @173,000. Employer match and HSAs save you some more. Then you start using rich people tax breaks lik
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The book has two messages: (1) Spend less than you earn. Thats why your unassuming neighbor could be well off. (2) Businesspeople build wealth faster than employees, even if they fail a couple times along the way.
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by peter303 5y ago
Someone who has accumulated a million likely has had a above average salary and SS pension, i.e. probably $30K a year. A spouse will make that $45K to $60K total. Thats a decent place to start, with additional retirement savings income.
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by peter303 5y ago
A number of people in the FIRE subteddit claim they saving big money living with parents who pay most living expenses until 30 or later. I know my ethnic would not tolerate perpetual adult children tenants. But this is encouraged in other g
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Correcting for inflation since 1996 book publication, a 1996 "million"is about $1,700,000 now. The word million just sounds catchy. About 1 in 12 Americans is a millionaire in assets. But these assests may include real estate and
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There is a busy subreddit- financialindependence- comprised of people hoping to retire by 40. Its a mixture of a frugal lifestyle and high savings. The rough formula is you a financially independent when you have 25 times your annual expens
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Usually not over 35 unless special circumstances such as active war or rare skill, e.g. doctor. Plenty of middle aged signed up for 911 war.
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by peter303 5y ago
FEED ME! -Audry II
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I do not have a smartphone. The rudeness of users around me convinced me not become one of them. I have had iPads since the beginning. They run 80%-90% of smartphone apps. So I am well acquainted with their potential.
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Most of my hundreds of spreadsheets are simple: rarely larger than screen with about 20 columns and 50 rows. Error creeps in with size.
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Some physicists will get an idea for a new particle or decay mode. Then they will postulate various decay modes that could be captured by the detectors. The short-lived new particle arent directly detectable, but daughter particles may be.
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I just heard Wilczek describe this
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In the Ten Commandment movie Nefertiti plays a different actual Egyptian game called Hounds and Jackals.
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Parts are 40 years old and parts 12 years old- fourth servicing mission.
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The Webb which was originally the 2000s decade premiere project has be holding up the queue for 13 years. The next Roman optical space telescope is slated for 2025.
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by peter303 5y ago
I wonder why they deploy the Webb telescope near the ISS until its working, then send it to L2. It will never be repairable like the Hubble. The Webb should be launched by November, but I am not holding my breath.
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The Moons gravity is more lumpy than the Earths due to variety ofnear surface terrains. I doubt whether a closein orbit would be stable for a long period of time. Some of the modules were smashed into the surface to provide seismic sources
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by peter303 5y ago
In the various STEM fields I work in the Masters degree and PhD coursework is essentially the same. You learn most of what there is to know about the subject. The doctorate bolts on another 2-4 years of learning how to research in that fiel
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by peter303 5y ago
Battery powered long distance flight is unlikely because gasoline/kerosene has 5 times the weight energy density of lithium ion. Short haul flights may be viable. Hydrogen fuel cell planes even better because hydrogen has 3 times the w
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CO2 half life is 5,000 years. Methane is 50 years.
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Harvard professor David Reich wrote a popular science book "Who We Are" in 2018 about the analysis of of 900+ ancient human genomes. He identified the subpopulations mentioned in thus article, plus additional ones that dont have s
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Besides acoustic waves, fiber measures strain, pressure and temperature. One proposed application is to line a water ar oil pipeline to quickly locate a leak. Currently pressure sensors every few miles. The you have to visually inspect the
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Energy companies like these for collecting data in harsh environments (e.g. hot geothermal wells) which would degrade conventional electronics quickly.
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Stanford geophysics was the first university to run a optical fiber for studying ambient sound. Now there are dozens of these for research.
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Natural selection will help rodents. They could have 200-300 generations by 2100. Big mammals not so lucky. Just 4-6 generations
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Yes. This was known as a Dark Age when the quantity and quality of texts declined along with the strength of governments. As this book probably covers (I did not read it) this Dark Age has been blamed on everything from climate change, new

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