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by peter303 5y ago
Another possibility is a super contagious variant that is much less deadly. Then it replaces its competitor. Perhaps become endemic like the common cold.
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Trillions of stimulus money funneled through Robinhood app.
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They also restored beavers (GO MIT!) to Yellowstone because beavers and ungulates competed for the same pkant food and the latter won.
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Some of the other planets are mapped at better resolution than Earth, especially underseas. Part of this was a prohibition of Earth Observing satellites during the past two republican administrations, because that data might support climate
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by peter303 5y ago
SpaceX is launching their first commercial package(DART) to leave Earth orbit Nov 23(?). They did a demo of this capability with the Mars orbit roadster a few years back. The 2022 manifest has a lunar package and another asteroid probe. (My
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by peter303 5y ago
EV trucks are just coming on the market this year. They require at least 100 kwh to exceed 200 mile range. The leading models have 135 kwh. At $300 a kwh an EV truck was too expensive, but not $100 kwh.
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I remember in junior and high school in the 1960s we'd be shown 16mm film instructional videos usually on social topics. They were kind of heavy handed and propagandistic. I think a lot of these have been digitized into youtube for nos
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by peter303 5y ago
Would this be something like going offgrid and into nature for four hour hike up to a multiweek road trip? That clears your senses.
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Store-bought software was a co-revolution with home personal computers. Before then it was commercial oriented mainframe software. The mainframe computer manufacturers wrote some software; corporate users wrote some software; consulting sof
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by peter303 5y ago
Your food weight sounds low. High fat food may give you 2,000 kcal a pound; while carbs and protein half that. A 60-something might need 3,000 a 25-mile day; closer to 5,000 for a college student. Its OK to hike a week at calorie deficit. B
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A 60-something may have the advantage of requiring less food weight than a young man because metabolism has slowed down. I have certainly noticed this when backpacking with much young college students. I eat like a sparrow; them like hogs.
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Andrew Skurka has done several millennium-mile trips in the US and Alaska. He has resupplied exclusively through US Postal general delivery. He prepares his high calorie 4-5 packets before the trip and has Mom mail them in timely sequence.
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by peter303 5y ago
The ongoing Holmes trial revealed all kinds of celebrity and private equity investors were snookered. Retired politicians are eager to jump onto the Silicon Valley gravy train as directors. George Bush Sr made a killing participating in the
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The two younger authors had a webinar about this book at the Computer History Museum earlier this week. (I presume Henry at the ripe age of 98 cant easily participate in panels anymore. Though Henry showed up at Stanford Memorial Church in
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This talk at MIT a few days ago measured nervous system disruption in rident guts with autism analogs. http://calendar.mit.edu/event/exploring_gut-brain_signaling_... The conclusion is both the gut and brain may be aff
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by peter303 5y ago
WeWorks business model is easy to clone. It also has no advantage of scale. In my city there are many mom-and-pop coworking spaces that easily compete with WeWork.
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Also copper/bronze from graveyard markers, empty house plumbing and irrigation backflow valves.
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Everyone knows crooked scrapyards are fueling the demand, except perhaps the police.
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Why do people listen to this clown? He got lucky with the Meta investment and hacking Roth IRAs. But his ideas are so retro.
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The aFef is broken and two years behind the open market in terms of interest rates. Its like a broken record to see such mismanagement repeat every decade.
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I live in Denver. My monthly housing costs of a fully owned home is $600 a month. The house next to me, very similar, is renting for $2400 a month. Do the math.
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by peter303 5y ago
I wonder who made a fortune from the Feb 2021 price surge? Spot market contracts have a counter party who bets prices will go the other way.
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by peter303 5y ago
Colorado utilities are trying to pass on a half billion dollar gas price surcharge from the same week as the Texas disaster.
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This sounds like 1950s claims of Fission being so cheap and clean that electricity would be almost free. Unanticipated externalities appeared in practice, resulting in high cost and pollution. Fusions heel may stray neutrons turnin reactor
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The mid-1980s to mid-1990s was the golden age of computer architecture experimentation. Computer aided circuit design meant a relatively small group of engineers could design and fabricate a new CPU design. The competition from rapidly evol
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Both Japan and Germany chose to accelerate their nuclear decommissions, thereby extending their use of fossil fuels.
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Strangest borrowing claim I heard was that Germanic strong verbs (hence English) came from Semitic language verb forms. Columbia linguist McWhorter claims this his Story of English book.
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Thats a part of the Greaber hypothesis in his new book The Dawn of Everything. He says anthropologists have had a too simplistic view of prehistory and people were more sophisticated than pop history gives them credit for.
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Organic material didnt survive. What missing would be mattresses, blankets, cushions, rugs, clothing. These items would be be made of basic coarse material for slaves. Upper classes would have more refined and comfortable items.
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About as big as my college dorm room.

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