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"Would the Grand Canyon be less grand if it was only a couple millennia old?" Yes.

This page seems to suggest that poplar seedling density in clearcut areas is on the order of thousands per acre, which then thin out considerably as the trees mature. See the "seed…

It's a testament to the brilliance of game show producers that they took something like this that both the contestant and the audience will misunderstand (but looks so simple!) and…

Where did you find that 100 trees per acre figure? That sounded really low to me, so I did some googling and found numbers more along the lines of 300-400 per acre. In fact, 100 tr…

Poplars are considered to be among the best trees in terms of carbon sequestration according to studies done thus far. In addition, if they're converted to paper and other wood pro…

Yellow Poplars in Georgia grow at pretty much that same rate naturally. When I was living there I let a portion of my backyard go from lawn to natural, and the poplars were amazing…

Speed- The difference is after that 10 minutes, the transaction is settled. The money has moved. What you have with a credit card in 10 minutes is a promise that the money will mov…

I was looking for something on r/askhistorians I saw a while back about a hot sauce bottle found in Virginia City ruins, indicating a brand that had gone national in the 1870s or s…

Trendy brands are fashion items with limited product histories? Who would have guessed? In any case, it's instructive to look at old menus and wine lists to get a feel for what was…

This was also part of the Survival Swimming course that used to be mandatory at Georgia Tech back in the olden days. At some point in the class, we had to jump off the high dive, u…

Combine this with pg's essay on the importance of importing the 'best and brightest' to America and some things start to make sense. More minds working where they can be aimed in t…

What if the AI was integral to the design and manufacturing processes of all the airplanes, which is a much more likely path? Then you can see how it gains 'control', in the senses…

Large corporations "restructure" all the time. Most often this consists of a periodic pruning of exactly these jobs, which really are worthless. The company continues on, wholly un…

When I worked as a bartender, if we didn't know what a particular drink was, and the customer didn't know what was in it, we just asked "What color is it?". We usually came up with…

Hinton's Coursera class a couple years ago pulled me in. I wish there were more Coursera classes at that level.

Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. I stayed on 10.04 as long as I could, but eventually the lack of support for Chrome and so on convinced me to update. Plus I have 14.04 running on all th…

Certainly my impression of everything that pg has said is that solo founders have the odds stacked heavily against them when it comes to YC acceptance. I'm surprised that you're su…

While having a co-founder might indicate you have trouble convincing people of things, or that you have no desire to do so, it's also the case that having a co-founder is no indica…

I wonder why it's obscured so much by what looks like protective housing in some shots. I also wonder how much of its navigation it's actually doing, as opposed to being remote con…

You seem like someone tuned in. So what art is happening in San Francisco right now?

Computers are magic. Dragons are magic. QED. I'm actually kinda serious. Also, humans are monkeys. Ergo, "monkey" is popular.

My brother is a restaurant owner. He bought the building one of his places was in, along with several other businesses. Initially it was a struggle to keep the mortgage payments go…

It happens with US accounts too. Banks have a strong incentive to avoid money laundering activities, and no real penalty for false positives.

He made the post mentioning Silk Road on Jan 29, 2011. He made the post looking for a developer 9 months later, on October 11, 2011. And as I mentioned below, the fake ID issue see…