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by peter303 6y ago
"Road trip" a labspring break
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by peter303 6y ago
Add that few children living with parents have children of their own. The population shrinks, the GDP stagnates.
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by peter303 6y ago
Grinder was owned by a Chinese video game company from 2016 to 2020. Under pressure from from the US government it was sold to a southern california company.
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by peter303 6y ago
Many compact cars were discontinued in the US in 2020 due to low sales- Toyota Yaries, Honda FIT, Chevy Sonic. sUVs and trucks account for 78% of new sales. Especialy with gasoline testing $2.00 a gallon.
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by peter303 6y ago
The minimum necessary CO2 level for plant life is about 100 ppm. That is a quarter of current levels. No plant life, no animal life, no life on the continents. Only a few chemeotroph bacteria survive. The long term geobiological trend is fo
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by peter303 6y ago
The US government- Trump plus his cabinet- consists of nut cases who make up stuff for imaginary enemies. Perhaps this will stimulate college students who notoriously do not vote to get out and vote for their lifestyles.
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by peter303 6y ago
These arguments go all the way back to Thomas Edison. He promoted the phonograph and motion pictures as beneficial educational tools, not for baser entertainment pleasure. Many new media since then such as television and computers have been
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by peter303 6y ago
It hypothesized that cellular life evolved in deep, dark, warm places in the ocean. Geoboiologist Robert Hazen experimentally found that most stages of basic metabolic citric cycle and RNA reactions do not require enzyme catalysts to procee
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by peter303 6y ago
Trump attacks a children's app because he is unable to do much against China otherwise. US apps from Facebook and Google collect far more personal data and use it more malevolently.
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by peter303 6y ago
That part of the Constitution applies to Congress. They can not single out individuals (or individual corporations by Amendment 14) for punishment by legislation. Punishment is the role of a court trial.
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by peter303 6y ago
"Having a window relaxes your eyes during this era of stay-at-home pandemic and 10+ hours of screen time." I view screens all day for both work and recreation. This much more than when I was in an employers office where I could mo
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by peter303 6y ago
Its a similar situation with clothing and furniture donation. 90%+ goes to the dump or international rag merchants. If it doesnt appear to have immediate resale value- easy to unpack, in style, gently used, clean- they dont want it. I watch
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by peter303 6y ago
With a billion cellphone cameras out there there are both things that have become more believable because there is video now. And things less believable Because no one has really captured them. An example of the former is tornadoes which fo
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by peter303 6y ago
Shared delusions can be fun and entertaining. As long as they dont rob you or your family important resources or make you do dangerous things.
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by peter303 6y ago
Baby boomers will remember a wonderful musical made off the poem shown on TV during the Thanksgiving weekend. It used a lot of Greig music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin_(195... In its heyday
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by peter303 6y ago
The galactic GPS would be based quasars, e.g. far away galaxies, that would pretty much appear the same positions anywhere in the Milky Way. Quasar spins are gradually slowing down. So you could tell how many light years you are from the q
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by peter303 6y ago
3 million veterans of these wars will require up to 80 years of veteran pension, health and disability services. WWII had 16 million veterans and Vietnam 9 million.
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by peter303 6y ago
Chalamet's Paul seems to lack the unshakeable self-confidence of McLaughlin's Paul from the few seconds I saw in the trailer. Paul should not wince during gob-jabber. Nor should he grimace in pain or fear in battle.
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by peter303 6y ago
The universe may have alway been infinitely large. Its just that 14.8 billion years it started expanding, first at inflationary rates, then a slower strain of 10E-18 / second. Its a lot like looking at a number line. That is infinitely
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by peter303 6y ago
Library of Congress should preserve them.
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by peter303 6y ago
Careful. You could end up on a no-fly list or worse for consorting with persona non grata. (I am paranoid)
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by peter303 6y ago
I think A.I. chatbots have been in online discussion groups for decades, if not the beginning, e.g. Eliza. They are posts that almost make sense, but are off the mark again and again. A current candidate is Craiglist forum astrophysics freq
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by peter303 6y ago
Various tax breaks introduced in the past 30 years contributed. Direct tax breaks like cost and loan credits. Plus indirect breaks like tax-advantaged savings plans like 529. A similar thing has happened in housing. Various tax breaks intro
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by peter303 6y ago
I thought I saw an app that would spoof a false location for a mobile device. That app would be more practical.
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by peter303 6y ago
A hoverboard with fuel container on back looks like a jetpack. One guy crossed the English Channel on one in two hops. He had to refuel midway. Thats more distance in a flying device than I had heard before. https://www.theverge.
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by peter303 6y ago
Exact opposite true too. The lack of routine during covid lockdown made days blur into one another.
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by peter303 6y ago
A long-lived Roman would live to their 70s just like today. Fewer of them made it that far due to war disease. Early Rome had a celebration called a Jubilee. It was held when the last living person from the previous Jubilee died, typically
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by peter303 6y ago
The daily lethargy may be low grade covid isolation depression. Most of my regular social contacts ended six months ago. I am not dysfunctional, but less productive. Summer outdoors helped a bit.
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by peter303 6y ago
Karp and Thiel are a pair.
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by peter303 6y ago
In an infinite universe you will repeat exactly an infinite number of times. You will repeat with any possible variation even more times. -From physicist Brian Greenes multiverse book.

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