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by qndreoi 6y ago
I've been intrigued by property taxes since reading a book by Heinlein that sat on the shelf for 40 years before being published last year, "The Pursuit of the Pankera". In this otherwise forgettable story, the family settles
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Predicting the future is difficult. IEA's track record is particularly poor at predicting increases in renewables.
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by qndreoi 6y ago
"Enjoy your electric car, champ, but carbon-wise it's actually better to keep a mid-2000's Toyota running for an extra decade so that all the carbon that was released in its manufacture is amortized over a longer lifetime.&qu
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by qndreoi 6y ago
I don't buy the premise. The question just turns reading books into a task. I don't feel bad if I watch sportsball or doomscroll instead of reading something. I also don't feel bad if I miss watching a game because I'm r
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by qndreoi 6y ago
"This is tricky. GoodReads doesn't let you send messages to your friend connections." Yes, it does. There is a button saying "more" below the name and next to the photo of your friend. Click the down arrow, and &quo
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by qndreoi 6y ago
It seems, if we did reduce global wind speeds with all the new friction of turbines, their would be less transfer of air between poles and tropical areas. Thus, the northland wouldn't warm as much as it currently is. Then a cooler Arct
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Personal anecdote: A soon to be 62 year old restaurant owner I know will retire in 2021, because his income is so reduced. He can still keep the business and earn about as much as he'll make this year without reduction of SS benefits.
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by qndreoi 6y ago
"Why build an email-connected dumpster fire? Why not." Pollute your neighbor's air for no good reason. Real sweetheart. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930124&slug...
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by qndreoi 6y ago
I think the lender's clock would be most valid. If I go to the bank for a loan, they usually aren't open to negotiation. They say "Here are the terms. Want the money?"
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by qndreoi 6y ago
When the adults take charge in a few weeks, things will go much faster. Six million New Yorkers got smallpox vaccinations in one month in 1947. There is no leadership now. https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/history&
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by qndreoi 6y ago
It could end up like Whole Foods. As long as the original owner was around, it was always a highly rated place to work. He even wrote a book about how a business could be profitable if employees, customers and suppliers were respected. Sinc
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by qndreoi 6y ago
I typed keys at random. On twitter and disqus, I use my real name. On others I chose a different random sequence of letters for each.
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Deaths had already outnumbered births since 2016, and population had fallen in 2018 and 2019 in Russia. This will exacerbate their demographic problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#After_W...
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Rogers put a lot of thought into how to talk with children, this other Atlantic article explains: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers...
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Here are two inexpensive 8x8 and 32x24 sensors: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32951451513.html This person made a video about using them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xre5y_jYn8c
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Apparently, it is a thing in prairie Canada, where juneberries are grown "for wholesale processing, with some fresh market and you-pick sales." https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2011/10/juneberries-they-go-w
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Tetris would be fun.
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Photographer Captures ISS Passing Between Jupiter and Saturn(petapixel.com)
19 points by qndreoi 6y ago|0 comments
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by qndreoi 6y ago
The data for the bottom chart of US mortalities comes from this source, updated each weekday: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Others here refer to the author as Dr. Hossenfelder. But to you she is Sabine. Would you refer to Brian Greene as Brian or Sean Carroll as Sean? It seems you are not even aware of your biases.
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Just two days ago, BC noted that two panels could be thrown away on Sunday. https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2020/11/22
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by qndreoi 6y ago
Author says "Most of the structure is exposed to air, which is generally much colder than the ground, so I'm going to ignore the floor." The floor in Boston will be about 40 degrees F in winter. Cold feet are a miserable expe
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by qndreoi 6y ago
This author maintains that fountain pens are amenable to cursive, whereas ballpoints are better at printing. Thus, the demise of Palmer method and Spencerian script and the preponderance of printing. link: https://www.theatlantic
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The Computer-Free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)(youtube.com)
1 points by qndreoi 7y ago|0 comments
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Brown Is Context Dependent(youtube.com)
5 points by qndreoi 7y ago|0 comments
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by qndreoi 7y ago
The video notes that it is also the 33rd day of the year and 333 days remain. Thus another palindromical event.
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by qndreoi 7y ago
It is interesting that Kiwis call them Holstein-Friesian cattle. In 1994, USA breeders dropped the second part of the name. http://www.holsteinusa.com/holstein_breed/breedhistory.html
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by qndreoi 7y ago
>It further ignores that most of us aren't competing with the 1%. The pitting of one 99%er against one 1%er is totally removed from reality. Except it is not. The lower class in Chile recently burned subway stations down over a five
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by qndreoi 7y ago
In Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell", a woman becomes a victim of organized online harassment. The harassers keep repeating the same accusation. She has a rich tech friend who invents "Organized Proxies for Exec
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by qndreoi 7y ago
Rubber is a latex or elastomer, not the substance described here. The original article used rubbery in the title, an adjective that means tough and elastic. Better not to have been changed.

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