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by westcort 3y ago
He was let go based on his political position. The Venmo transactions look more than a little incriminating: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-accused-sex-traffic...
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by westcort 3y ago
Companies are buying houses at inflated rates with the expectation that cash will lose value due to further inflation. To me, this is the only explanation for mass-buying of homes at a premium price even when interest rates are high.
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by westcort 3y ago
Based on structure (but not the Ames test), phentolamine has some genotoxic metabolites. I wonder why they chose that alpha agonist and not a different one (of which there are many).
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by westcort 3y ago
Although this is a good one, there are other interesting books and resources on knots here: https://www.locserendipity.com/TitleSearch.html?q=knot
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by westcort 3y ago
To be fair, Y2K would have been a major issue, but it was remediated before it became an issue. There may be a narrow window to do that with the dangerous revolution in systems that maintain a habitable climate for humanity, but the remedy
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by westcort 3y ago
For those who are seeking out and reading reputable science, rather than searching for support for a predefined belief, what has been until now been innocuously referred to as “global warming” or even more innocently as “climate change” is
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Spaghetti plot of Hurricane Lee track as of 0000UTC 07 Sept 2023(hurricanes.ral.ucar.edu)
1 points by westcort 3y ago|2 comments
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by westcort 3y ago
The folder of PNG files, as they are updated, will be here: https://hurricanes.ral.ucar.edu/realtime/plots/northatlantic... To find the long term track of a hurricane, in this case with codename AL13 (substitute t
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by westcort 3y ago
Exactly. Some crucial resources need to be managed with a long-term outlook or risk market failures. Helium is one such resource.
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by westcort 3y ago
Meanwhile, patients need 6 weeks of physical therapy before they can get an MRI as a direct result of a lack of helium. Even diagnostic MRIs in which PT is not indicated. The government trying to sell a crucial asset necessary for healthcar
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by westcort 3y ago
If this isn’t a sign of the collapse, I don’t know what is.
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Show HN: “Open As Tabs”–open multiple URLs or search queries simultaneously(locserendipity.com)
2 points by westcort 3y ago|0 comments
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by westcort 3y ago
That’s not what this website is for.
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by westcort 3y ago
Technically true, but sometimes you need a diagnosis code to fill the prescription. Also pharmacists will often talk to the physician. Since this was 2017, the medicines in question were probably donepezil and memantine. With that combinati
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by westcort 3y ago
After reading this, I spent several weeks reading about climate change. I concluded that there is a solution, which was suggested alongside the first well-done climate model: a solar shield. Manabe and Wethereld in 1975 found that a 2% redu
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by westcort 3y ago
I made a static page that points to the 78RPM collection, but it is more of a novelty than a real source of entertainment. Nobody would pay for these scratchy records! The content is here: https://www.locserendipity.com/Push
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by westcort 3y ago
You can stream them here: https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html And LPs here: https://locserendipity.com/LP.html These websites do not hold the data itself, but only the links to the IA data (don’t w
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by westcort 3y ago
Enjoy them while they last by streaming them here: https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html And LPs here: https://locserendipity.com/LP.html (And donate to IA)
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by westcort 3y ago
Most were made when I was a child. The first was a power stealer that used radio waves to power an LED. The second was a large wooden glider around 5 feet long and wide. The third was a pair of glasses for reading while walking using a half
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by westcort 3y ago
The definition of phrases like “Customer Content” and “Service Generated Data” are unclear. It is disingenuous to say that the headline is the “opposite” of what the headline suggests. You really think that the engineers in China are not ac
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by westcort 3y ago
It is defined not at all. Sorry if this is bad for your investment decisions, jxf, but this company is not trustworthy.
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by westcort 3y ago
You will have to excuse me if I don’t trust a company that kicks off users at the behest of the PRC! https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/zoom-admits-to-shutting-do... Quibbles over the definition of phrases lik
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by westcort 3y ago
This comment reminded me to thank my wife for doing the hard work of being a homemaker.
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by westcort 3y ago
Yes it does. I don’t remember agreeing to have my computer files backed up to OneDrive. Then, one day, they just were.
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by westcort 3y ago
I have been buying up all the Disney movies my kids like. We are back to DVDs. No paid streaming services. I have had it with algorithms and endless back to back movies on Plus.
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by westcort 3y ago
A 2% reduction in insolation is consistent with solar cycle variations. Aerosols are not the way to do it because they are not reversible, but a shield at L1 is.
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by westcort 3y ago
The first well-done climate models by Manabe and Wethereld in 1975 found that a 2% reduction in solar radiation would cancel the effect of a doubling in atmospheric CO2 levels.[0,1] This problem has an engineering solution that should be im
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by westcort 3y ago
If governments wait too long some rogue organizations might start geoengineering efforts. A few orbiting Mylar shields are in order.
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by westcort 3y ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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by westcort 3y ago
The first well-done climate models by Manabe and Wethereld in 1975 found that a 2% reduction in solar radiation would cancel the effect of a doubling in atmospheric CO2 levels.[0,1] This problem has an engineering solution that should be im

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