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Site won't connect with https, this works for me. http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

Can someone explain to me where the feeling_lucky variables comes from in the match example? I don't get it. The variable isn't defined anywhere in the relevant scope.

> For the same reason, the enthusiasm for the idea of installing solar plants in north africa and exporting power over interconnectors to Europe is gone. It's cheaper to install tw…

It's still not believed. It's just Twitter that I've seen the juicy stuff, like a (very sketchy) claimed replication from a Russian, and now another claim from a Chinese group. I c…

No no no, this eliminates the need for cryo, not crypto.

Fusion was already starting to heat up in recent years. The entire SPARC reactor concept is based on (low-temp) superconductor materials breakthroughs. If these room-temp supercond…

The ideal conditions to stimulate daydreaming seems pretty obvious to me - sit me down in any class lecture. Imagine that my mind like a glider. Glider is connected to a Cessna by …

Yeah, good to bring it back to the original point. Reading the article felt exciting, but in hindsight I am now missing a key detail. The equations all seem to be matrix operations…

Yes, I should have Googled that before using the wrong word. I am also operating on old information, perhaps the law changed and this it varies by state now.

As in, they use tax to avoid reporting the earnings? That works fine for the scale of a lemonade stand.

Higher cash prices are a violation of the card-holder agreement.

In fact, I have increasingly seen the pattern of adults who work from home but have a commute to drive their children in the morning / afternoon. That's 2-ways both times, for the …

I hope/believe that we are near a tipping point. There is a very large and very substantial neighborhood premium based on what's around it, but the zoning is the same everywhere so…

I've been following Terraform Industries for a while, and it does strike me as obvious that H2 will be the preferred form of energy storage medium in the long run, not just an inte…

I tried this about a year ago and it was alright. I wanted to like Photonix, as it was a python library and I expected would be easier to hack, but I couldn't lie to myself. PhotoP…

So is it basically true that there is no objective information out there anymore, because anyone running a successful site gets corrupted with money?

Also, builders want to build high-margin houses, not low-margin houses. Also, high-margin housing gets advertised, low-margin housing does not.

They see new builds hitting the market and look at the (aspirational) price put there by the builder. It's a borderline conspiracy that Zillow lists certain high-end new developmen…

I have been, personally, figuring that I should wear mostly cotton clothing and glass / ceramic (as opposed to plastic) dishware. Limiting material choices for household items woul…

Maybe get rid of them in clothes and personal care products at least?

It needs to be more expensive to hire lawyers (and lobbyists) than to hire engineers to solve the problem. Some companies will fail to adapt and continue to fight legally in lieu o…

I clicked on a few data links from the paper... not ideal, but you take some of the identifiers, Google for them, adjust the criteria a bit... https://ncpfastnetwork.com/data And t…

Not trying to be the troll, but this debate is missing the obvious retort. > Why aren't we forcing the polluters to pay for the cleanup Because then the manufacturing goes to China…

I honestly, genuinely, fail to understand the meaning of that. It can't possibly be true that homeless people didn't exist before the 1980s. What does this actually mean?