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by westcort 3y ago
Copper reserves are insufficient to manufacture even the first generation of EVs.[0] The decarbonized economy will require horses and bicycles (both net zero emissions). The good news is that reducing solar intensity by 2% would compensate
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by westcort 3y ago
Too early to draw any conclusions
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by westcort 3y ago
To simulate the experience of browsing a physical library in digital form, I made this from visual resources in the LOC: https://www.locserendipity.com/LOCVIS.html Also, for books: https://www.locserendipity.com&
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by westcort 3y ago
Goodbye AMOC
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The indictment is the most important document you will read this year [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
4 points by westcort 3y ago|0 comments
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by westcort 3y ago
I used the world book (2021) to reduce the need for computer use in my kids. They have computers, but they are Alphamsmart Danas and they can use them to write, code in C, play chess, and read books I load on there. The World Book has great
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by westcort 3y ago
I made an application to read the weather for a given zip code and to read the news from VOA, NPR, and SKY: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html To customize it for your zip code, add your zip code to the end, like thi
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by westcort 3y ago
Basically, getting rid of dopamine-driven entertainment has been the key. Going back to the 90s with pocket versions of games like Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego has been helpful. Board games, card games, lots of bo
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by westcort 3y ago
Yes, the compiler is available here: https://palmdb.net/app/PocketC-Compiler And an editor is available here: https://palmdb.net/app/editc
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by westcort 3y ago
Certain classic computers powered by “AA” batteries are amazing to use today. I have an Alphasmart Dana set up for my children to play chess, do word procession, and learn to program in C. It is much better than dealing with the potential h
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by westcort 3y ago
Could buy another few days before the debt limit hits
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by westcort 3y ago
You are right. That would be around 1 million dollars per person at the rate I mentioned. At $16 dollars per hour, that would be 160,000 per person. Yes, that might make a difference. Though I think still with the terrible legacy of enslave
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by westcort 3y ago
There were an estimated 410 billion hours of enslaved labor contributed in the United States between 1619 and 1865.[0] There are about 41 million African Americans in the United States. That would be 10 hours of labor per person. This does
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by westcort 3y ago
That could be a clever way of checking for bots if a captcha needs to be solved to log back in.
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by westcort 3y ago
An essentially no-risk intervention plausibly reduces infection risk and all of a sudden the bar of evidence to practice basic hygiene ratchets up to randomized phase 3 studies. Meanwhile, the same people will cite this preclinical, specula
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by westcort 3y ago
Even with no mandate, masks alongside other factors, helped reduce COVID infection rates and mortality in Japan [1]. Meanwhile, this article is grasping for a mechanism of toxicity when no epidemiological evidence of toxicity exists, and ma
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by westcort 3y ago
The primes >3 are all of the form 6k+1 or 6k-1, so they are close to 6k. As k increases, the resulting marks on the polar coordinate system form nearly complete turns because 6 is close to 2 pi. Hence, spirals. See my other comment for a
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by westcort 3y ago
One of the thrills of studying the primes is the discovery that all primes greater than 3 are of the form 6k+1 or 6k-1. And for primes greater than 2, all primes are of the form 4k+1 or 4k-1. It is something that is commonly rediscovered by
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by westcort 4y ago
You can adapt this to your needs by hosting a version on your own site, or locally: https://www.locserendipity.com/LP.html Just replace the 20,000 or so links to archive.org music with local links to your songs and you will
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by westcort 4y ago
Taken another way, imagine a future where dramatically longer human lifespans are possible. Assuming there was fraud here, normal-lifespan individuals could pretend to be a single individual for an even greater period of time. Even with cur
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by westcort 4y ago
Converting those sounds to human-audible noise would be an interesting project, and maybe even a product for gardeners if it could be made inexpensive enough.
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by westcort 4y ago
A free alternative, based on LPs streaming from the Internet Archive, can be found here: https://locserendipity.com/LP.html
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by westcort 4y ago
If you are in the US, this weather and news broadcast application is a good resource: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html
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Use of Chinese ammunition by Russia confirmed in Ukraine(japantimes.co.jp)
21 points by westcort 4y ago|4 comments
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by westcort 4y ago
I watched this documentary last night. The fact that quantitative easing has continued since the 2008 financial crisis was previously unknown to me. This documentary helped me understand some of the financial manias that we have experienced
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by westcort 4y ago
Will do! Thank you so much for the great info!
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by westcort 4y ago
It was Office 2013. I tried CrossOver on Linux, but found it to be unreliable, unfortunately. It is discouraging that a multi-billion-dollar company can steal from paying customers. Office, with no real features for most users but bloat and
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by westcort 4y ago
I did, but it is not compatible with the docx format, which is used by many clients I work with. I tried installing Office on a Linux Mint PC with CrossOver, but that was unreliable. My main gripe is that software I paid for was stolen by t
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by westcort 4y ago
I had a valid for-life license of Office on my Windows 10 PC. When I converted to 11, the software was so slow it was completely unusable. I had to buy a 365 subscription. Then they empowered employers with a nightmarish suite to monitor pr
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by westcort 4y ago
My family was always late with holiday cards, and it made the holidays way more stressful, so I made a holiday card maker and batch addresser for the yearly newsletter: https://locserendipity.com/Holiday.html I also became

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