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by wycx 10y ago
It is not that puzzling if you live in Australia and pay attention to the economy. We have a residential real estate bubble that is worse than that of the US in 2006. Median house price to median income ratios in Sydney are worse than almos
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Global volcanic activity is an imperfect proxy, however. For instance, about 20% of present day global volcanic SO2 emissions are from a few volcanoes in Vanuatu (Yasur, Lopevi, Ambrym, Ambae, Gaua and Vanua Lava).
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by wycx 10y ago
You don't try and control house prices directly. You use regulations to make unproductive real estate speculation unattractive relative to productive investment. You control the supply of credit available for real estate speculation, v
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I suggest In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides. More bad luck for Arctic explorers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Kingdom_of_Ice Also, The Man Who Ate His Boots which covers some of Franklin's earlier ov
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I imagine that the hyper-laissez faire libertarian sitting in the passenger seat of a crashing (unregulated) commercial airliner would fondly reflect on the fact that they are about to be part of an event that will transmit information to t
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by wycx 10y ago
I think of in terms of the data we collect. Make a single measurement over a range of energies/wavelengths/frequencies and you have collected a spectrum. Repeat that measurement or make measurements covering different energies&#x2
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by wycx 10y ago
I suspect we are confident that Pu is there because there are spectra indicating its presence, as opposed to a single spectrum.
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This may be of interest: http://jeelabs.org/2013/09/08/3-years-on-one-set-of-batterie...
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I would also add that as real incomes have not really increased since the 1970s the inflation in real estate has been accommodated by widespread increase in private debt, on which interest must be paid, decreasing disposable income and lead
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Gordon Murray is also responsible for the BT-46B fancar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B.C2....
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by wycx 10y ago
The used U-Pb dating of zircons. They did not date the fossil directly, instead they dated other rocks in the same stratigraphic sequence (Isua supracrustal belt). The relevant sentences: The stromatolite discovery locality (Extended Data
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by wycx 10y ago
Also: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/commentary/what-i-lear...
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by wycx 10y ago
I thought similarly, and did some searching and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KALI_(electron_accelerator)
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Are you familiar with the many examples of the privatisation of public utilities and deregulation?
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World’s largest solar power plant planned for Chernobyl nuclear wasteland(electrek.co)
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by wycx 10y ago
Any guesses on what the sensor is in this device? The marketing material says semiconductor sensor, which is a little vague.
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Silicon Chip http://www.siliconchip.com.au/
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Dense urban areas provide excellent opportunity for rent seeking by urban land owners. The mobility provided the automobile (also rail and bicycles) made it practical to live outside urban areas where land is cheaper, which also permitted l
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by wycx 10y ago
In addition to bainal brines, lithium is also produced by mining spodumene from pegmatites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spodumene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegmatite
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by wycx 10y ago
Rather than single crystal diamond, nano-polycrystalline diamond[1](npd) is probably an all-round better structural material, as you don't have to worry about the cleavage planes of single crystals. Unfortunately, it can only be made a
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by wycx 10y ago
It is also the rate of sea level rise. If sea level rises faster than the coral platforms can keep up, then they will drown. See the figure here [1] for a summary of reef responses to sea level rise. Also, if the corals die, then they stop
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by wycx 10y ago
Please elaborate on how they are being selective with their history. It is demonstrable that during the post-war period when the suggested policies were in place was the period when the middle class was ascendant and wealth inequality was l
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by wycx 10y ago
How about that school of thought that had its genesis in Europe with the Mont Pelerin society (i.e. Hayek and friends), and then evolved in the US to the movement that could be described as Monetarism (i.e. Freidman and friends). A poorly d
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by wycx 10y ago
The idea of the transistor was patented in 1926, but it took all the hard work of making a transistor by the Bell Labs team for discrete transistors to become a reality. See [1] for an excellent summary of the birth of the transistor. [1]
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by wycx 10y ago
55.7 x 26 mm 580 MHz MIPS single board computer with micro sd and wifi. http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/LinkIt-Smart-7688-p-2573.ht...
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I also found the Telegraph's explanation lacking. Their explanation they give makes me think that the interior of the glass bulb has some coating or special composition. This impression is quite distinct from the reality of the filamen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHz7wOjb9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXWspo5hrc Perhaps you could say that hooking an axle to a pulsejet is impractical, rather than impossible.
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4DOS. Tab complete in DOS! Wikipedia says its now open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4DOS
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I agree. The important advance in the first half of the 20th century was understanding how atoms work, and that knowledge lead directly to semiconductors, the nuclear industry, and laid the foundation for modern chemistry, materials sci
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For those interested in the relevant history that lead the US to this point, may I suggest American Character by Colin Woodard [1]. The ideology that drives the oligarchy (and arguably modern libertarianism) is descended from that which inf

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