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by todd8 5y ago
According to [1], the fraction of the USA that is evangelical has been declining: it claims white evangelicals made up 13% of the US population in 2018, while Catholics were 22%, and people with no religion were 21%. [1] https://
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I learned chess at an early age; this is perhaps not surprising, I was a nerdy kid and went on to get degrees in math, electrical engineering, and computer science. However, I am a very mediocre player. I’ve studied chess on and off for m
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Postmortem – Information for Partners and Dependents to Be Opened Upon Death(nurdletech.com)
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I don't really see it that way. Yes, the about link leads to a page where the goal of improving the way people can read is described, but it would be odd to see them say, "and we expect to make money from working on this project
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Yes, but wouldn’t it be better to simply replace dirty power generation with this new renewable electricity rather than expending all of the renewable power on this hypothetical CO2 extraction facility. At some point, I suppose, the overall
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The numbers seem to indicate some challenges. This is just back of the envelope and this isn't my field so I may be misinterpreting the data, but it looks like extracting 1 million tons of CO2 per year has the following costs (at lab
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(1) Eat only once per day and (2) weigh yourself every day. Advantages: easy to incorporate within an ordinary lifestyle because you can join friends for dinner or get togethers without worrying about what will be served, your single meal c
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Beancount.io – Double-entry bookkeeping made easy for living your best(beancount.io)
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I've used all three of these programs and never knew that the same person had written all of them. I still occasionally use bc--I started using it decades ago and prefer it to any calculator for basic use. For more complicated calcula
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I have ordered a number of computers directly from Apple and had them delivered without problem. My last big online Apple purchase (a new M1 MacBook Pro Max) was expensive and was scheduled for delivery weeks after I made the order. I follo
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Nice question, but it reminds me of a flawed question that appeared on one of my kid's high school science quizzes. It should have been easy, here it is" True or False, turning off the radio in the car gives you better gas mileage
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"Which phone brand are you using?" Why is this one of the worst questions? It doesn't provide information that seems significant to most jobs, but I wouldn't characterize as even in the same ballpark as "Which Presi
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I like the functionality of the AirTags so I don't want them nerfed, but I can think of no way to fix their fundamental problem of being such easy to use stalking devices. Chefs knives are great for cooking and are inexpensive and easy
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Even flat for 10 years isn't great.
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Since inception, Twitter is down 10.4%. Starting at the same time (Oct 3, 2013), S&P 500 is up 153.45% and the NASDAQ is up 260.30%
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Can someone explain how 30 authors, from different institutions wrote the paper?
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The real problem is the potential energy one has at even a low altitude is enough to kill you, even without a jet powered velocity towards the ground. A fall from just 100ft (~ 30m) is like being hit by a train traveling at 54mph (87kph). A
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Why?
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I have been intrigued by the idea of visual coding tools for many years, but these kind of tools have always disappointed me. They remind me of the system used to teach small children to program in the programming language Scratch, see [S
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What a nice set of tutorials. I want to thank the author for putting it together. I rarely write or look at assembly language anymore because of three factors: * Hardware is so fast that I don't need register level control of my code.
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Off topic, I suppose, but this seems like the place to ask if anyone knows how to find a book's library call number (like Dewey Decimal or LCCN) from knowing the ISBN for the book. I've played around with various MacOS apps, EndNo
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I can recommend a book written by Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood . See [1]. It's a touching autobiographical account of growing up in Rhodesia during a tumultuous time. I've a
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Anton Petrov has a YouTube video discussing the research on quantum entangled organisms: https://youtu.be/xxIP9tITiwA
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Frozen tardigrade becomes first 'quantum entangled' animal in history(livescience.com)
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Interesting, but I see it differently. I believe you might be referring to 2021 Nobel Prize winner David Card’s paper A Re-analysis of the Effect of New Jersey Minimum Wage with Representative Payroll Data (with Alan Krueger) written ove
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There is also the effect that buses arrive imprecisely and consequently may be best modeled as a Poisson distribution of arrival times. If this is the case and buses arrive on average every 15 minutes, then passengers arriving at random
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Humans have approximately 30,000 genes. These genes are sequences that appear in our DNA which is divided up amongst our 23 chromosomes. Offspring receive these genes from their two parents so during meiosis we receive some genetic material
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Strangely, tornados are largely a phenomenon a of the USA. Canada (the worlds second biggest country), has about 100 tornadoes per year putting it in second place; the US has 1200. See [1]. The most powerful tornados are the terrifying F5 c
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Kamikaze drones: A new weapon brings power and peril to the U.S. military(nbcnews.com)
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This prediction is based on feeding past hurricane data into a global climate model. Here is the abstract of the research paper that TFA (in Wired) is based on: > ABSTRACT: Tropical cyclone (TC) track characteristics in a changing climat

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