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FreeInFlorida

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About FreeInFlorida

Retired former 35-year computer industry technical executive, now living in a tropical garden Paradise in Central Florida.

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    Comment #29365679

    KitchenCraft pots and pans https://waterlesscookware.com/ We paid $1,000 (a LOT of money) for our set when we were just married in 1980. Every piece of that set still looks like ne…

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    Comment #21883545

    Their answer to Firefox Send? send.firefox.com

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    Comment #20100116

    Twice the fuselage weight, cost for same number of seats, plus two gigantic engines located well aft of Center of Pressure. There’s a good reason we don’t see any aircraft with a d…

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    Comment #18650710

    Wait... Google+ had 52 million users? That should be the headline.

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    Comment #15308054

    Yes, sea levels are constantly rising -- at exactly the same slow, steady, manageable rate they have been rising for as long as we have been measuring them. Modifying flood insuran…

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    Comment #15306528

    Greenland usually gains about 350-400 billion tons of ice over the summer, but this year, it gained 550 billion tons and is still gaining. Temperatures in the center of Greenland's…

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    Comment #15306439

    Whatever the reason for the change in flood zone lines -- less risk tolerance by the insurers, more accurate mapping, over-development, etc. -- it shouldn't be because of a change …

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    Comment #15305579

    As far as Greenland goes, this year is beating last year's immense gain in surface ice coverage (just past the middle of summer there), and is on track to do even better than 2016'…

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    Comment #15305528

    Unless you build your house less than 18 inches above sea level, you will not live long enough to have the long-run trend in sea level rise affect where you live. Humans have been …

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    Comment #15305047

    And yet, there has been no increase in the rate of sea level rise for as long as records have been kept. Here's the sea level data for San Francisco, CA since Abraham Lincoln was P…