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by rmah 6y ago
The original Macintosh was developed in 1983 and was released in 1984 with 128KB of RAM and 64 KB of ROM. In that, they packed a full windowing interface (menus, overlapping windows, multiple fonts, text edit fields, buttons, radio & c
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by rmah 6y ago
Why?
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by rmah 6y ago
Outdoor schools were a thing in recent history. It gained a lot of traction about 100 years ago until the 1930's. It was called the "open air school" movement. I think it was started mostly to combat a rise tuberculosis.
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by rmah 6y ago
Just to clarify, their average life span if they didn't die young of sickness or injury was 70 years.
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by rmah 6y ago
Um, then why are there 22.5 mil sheep in the UK for just 67mil people? Contrast this to 5.2 mil sheep in the US for 330 mil people. It must be at least marginally profitable for so many sheep to be raised in the UK (or are agriculture su
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by rmah 6y ago
Why think twice? There are many many large predators in the US and we get along fine. The US outside of Alaska has thousands of wolves, 10's of thousands of mountain lions, 100's of thousands of bears, millions of crocodiles, mi
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by rmah 6y ago
Well no, but people would be robust and healthy, without disease. And IMO, that's a positive even if all our other failings are still there.
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by rmah 6y ago
They're in their second year.
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by rmah 6y ago
In korea, they'd be age 2. There (and possibly other east asian nations?) count "age" in terms of which year you're in. 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, etc. The way americans do school year, except it starts at birth.
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by rmah 6y ago
It's not a binary question -- every factory pollutes. If only because energy, transport, etc is necessary and people generate biowaste. The question is how much and what types. The best way to clean up any environmental damage in a
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by rmah 6y ago
Well sure. And there may have been a dino civilization. But without evidence, what's the point of speculating?
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by rmah 6y ago
It appears so. Is this surprising?
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by rmah 6y ago
Did ShapeShift migrate to a Uniswap-like dex?
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by rmah 6y ago
This isn't a trade union. It barely qualifies as a union at all.
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by rmah 6y ago
Aren't you just redefining the word "real" there to mean "the idea exists" instead of "a physical person existed"? But by that definition, Han Solo and Bilbo Baggins are also "real". At what poi
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by rmah 6y ago
Except that, generally speaking, larger companies do indeed provide better pay and benefits than smaller firms in the same line of business.
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by rmah 6y ago
What makes you think they don't grow food there now? Hint: they do.
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by rmah 6y ago
I suspect it's being downvoted because the pixel resolution on the various species included have little to do with how healthy their populations are or are not. For example, it's simply impossible for large predators like tigers
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by rmah 6y ago
10 mil pounds of salmon is about $30mil worth of salmon a year at today's retail prices. And more salmon would depress those prices. Economically speaking, the entire aboriginal catch is a drop in the bucket and not worth the benefit
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by rmah 6y ago
There is more forest cover now in the US than in 1900 [1]. While a lot of "old growth" is indeed gone, the idea that the US has been deforested is not really correct. Moreover, vast areas of the east coast has been returned to f
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by rmah 6y ago
The M1 chip is a good example of where vertical integration is helpful. My understanding is that apple spent considerable effort on baking into silicon the ability to do some common memory-management related OSX/iOS low-level operatio
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by rmah 6y ago
Many decades ago, when I was a young adult, I probably spent around $30 a month purchasing music (CD's and, before that, vinyl records), $30 a month on newspapers, $30 on magazines, another $40 a month on books, $20 a month on cable TV
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by rmah 6y ago
Changes in GDP can be used a proxy for economic progress. GDP itself is a measure of economic activity . The underlying assumption is that the overall structure of the economy does not change much from one year to the next. Thus, while
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by rmah 6y ago
I don't know about France, per se, but in most western nations, gasoline/petrol used by farmers is not taxed (or taxed much less) vs the same fuel used by industry or regular people. I suspect france was the same. The yellow ves
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by rmah 6y ago
US manufacturers and service providers would benefit from a weaker USD. It would mean our exports are, relatively speaking, cheaper for others to buy with USD. US consumers would be hurt as it would mean imports are more expensive for US
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by rmah 6y ago
Typical retailers have around 20% to 40% gross margins and about 6% net margins (on average). Even grocery stores (the sector with the thinnest margins) do better than 0.5% at around 2% net margins on average. Large retailers can easily af
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by rmah 6y ago
Hyundai is a South Korean chaebol (sort of like a conglomerate). While it was ostensibly restructured into "independent" groups a while back, let's just say that, in practice, they're not really independent in the weste
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by rmah 6y ago
In summary, for normal people, taxes in the US come at federal, state and local levels. 1. Federal: a) Income tax of 10% on income over around $12k (single) or $24k (married) up to 37% on income over $518k (single) to $622k (married). Capi
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by rmah 6y ago
I guess the issue is that I (and I suspect many others) do not consider the qualities you listed as having anything at all to do with spirituality.
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by rmah 6y ago
The logical implication of that chart is that the CPI overestimates "real inflation". Most people who dislike the CPI argue the exact opposite of that. Could you share the source of that chart?

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