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It's hard to find good information on the simulation, but the reference appears to be to the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 The NYT reported many years later: "In the simul
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Wikipedia claims that Feynman's first job after Los Alamos was at Cornell for $4,000 per year (~$54k/year inflation-adjusted). This claim is repeated in many sources, including the book "Genius: the life and science of Richa
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Can you elaborate on "the unbanning of the Bible"? Thank you.
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For some context, it appears that the minimum salary in 2007 was $275k/year nominally ($325k/year inflation-adjusted) for rookies, increasing by $75k/year each year until the fifth. My research suggests that the minimum salar
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For some context, the Kaiser family foundation's 2016 Employer health benefits survey available at http://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2016-summary-of-findi... suggests that the average in-network deductible fo
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> Let's take Standard Oil. They never had a monopoly - at their peak they had a 90% market share. Out of curiosity in calibrating your definition of "monopoly", can you give an example of a monopoly (past or present) toget
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For some context, it appears the law in question is the German Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code) section 86a. Wikipedia believes the use of a swastika (as a representation of the Nazi party) is banned in all contexts except "art or scie
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For a carry-on in addition to one personal item: Allegiant charges $15--50 depending on when you pay. https://www.allegiantair.com/popup/optional-services-fees#ba... Frontier charges $30--60 depending on when you pay
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For some context, the population of New York city (NYC) in the 2010 US Census was ~8.1 million, which is ~42% of the ~19.4 million for the state. Of the 63 seats in the New York State Senate, 26 represent NYC. Of the 150 seats in the New Y
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> (just look at space investment pre and post '92) For some context for anyone curious about this, my summary of the tables at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA is the following: It appears that the
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For anyone curious about the rate, these articles https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/27/acid-at... https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/z4dy43/why-ac
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It was somewhat challenging to find good information online on crime at the PABT, but I found a few things that give some indication of how it has changed over time. Between extrapolations from https://www.panynj.gov/corpora
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> They don't fly non-stop to Oslo, apparently. Itineraries to Oslo from OAK connect in London, Gatwick. There is a non-stop flight, Norwegian Air Shuttle 7064. You can look at its flight path here: https://flightaware.co
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For some context for those interested: It's not entirely clear what "traditional family" means, but a plausible definition is married parents with children, where the husband is employed but the wife is not. (This is the di
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For some context, the document http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/075/75-1/CMH_Pub_75-1... indicates on page 50 that in December 1860, "on the Eve of War", the army had a total strength of
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For some context: according to US News, the most expensive college in the United States (among schools it ranks) with respect to tuition (and fees) is Columbia at ~$55k/year. Below that, there are many schools in the $52--53k/yea
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I found it hard to find good numbers, so hopefully this research will be of use to other people: Yesterday, Uber co-founder Garrett Camp wrote "Uber has become a global service providing roughly 15 million rides per day across 500 citi
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You're welcome to look at https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list yourself. The store you're remembering might be at 475 Wilmington West Chester Pike in Glen Mills, PA, which is plenty close to Wilmingt
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My research suggests that 42 states contain at least one Whole Foods. The eight states excluded are (west to east) Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Delaware, and Vermont. These are exactly the seven sta
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For some context, it is relatively easy to cheat at the IMO if a team wants to do so. See for example this thread: https://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-i... It is my understanding that plenty of peopl
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According to http://www.housing.berkeley.edu/policies and other related pages online it appears that a student only receives this room from approximately August 15 to May 14, with a mandatory move-out for three weeks during
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> UC Berkeley alone enrolls more low income students than the entire Ivy League combined (this is true of several UCs). Some context for those interested: Berkeley enrolls approximately 30k undergraduates; the Ivy League combined enrolls