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3 times as long (6 years for the Senate vs 2 years for the House)

Alas, net zero carbon is not peak heat. It’s peak carbon dioxide. It’s peak rate of temperature change due to greenhouse gases. Global average temperatures will continue to rise pa…

Edit: Two responses, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252450 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252408 , seem to be dupes. As rickydroll states, the time stamps and i…

Written or printed out at 3 digits per centimeter, 202 trillion digits would make a string about 670 million kilometers long -- or about the distance between Earth and Jupiter.

See: http://literateprogramming.com/cweb_download.html

My oops too. The extra 1 argument belongs with range, as you have it here.

Since the first element in range() will be 0, should the last line be ...? return prod(1,range(n+1))

Solar-powered railgun accelerating rocks to lunar escape velocity in directions chosen to make the desired delta-v. Speed the moon up or slow it down or change whatever other orbit…

Both manufacturing corporations and mutual investment funds are ways to aggregate smaller amounts of capital into big enough sums that large factories or investments are possible. …

Would taxation of intellectual property reduce rent-seeking behavior? Any idea how it might be implemented?

Just before the section on Moore's Law, it says this about silicon purity: > Electronic grade silicon (EG-Si): 99.9999999 pure ('nine nines pure') Thats one impurity atom in every …

Estimates range from about 1 T$ [0] to 4 T$ [1] or 5 T$ [2]. [0] https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Human-and-mate... [1] https://moneywise.com/life/lifestyle/financial-…

A Visa fact sheet [0] claims 276 billion transactions in a 12-month period, which would be less than 9,000 per second, but still an impressive figure. Fedwire, the settlement syste…

archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20240116022603/https://www.popul... also, originally published in 2023

I think that individuals who care about meaningful, non-deceitful content, will have to create their own parallel net in which content can be sanity-checked and fact-checked. Fast,…

Indeed, Neal Stephenson in _Anathem_ (2008), in describing an alternate world (in which his "reticulum" is our "network") wrote "Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it be…

If Congress were interested in policy changes, would a tax on plastic (to cover recycling, cleanup, and future medical costs) be a way to go?

I toured an NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) facility in Boulder around 1979; got to sit on a seat on their Cray-1. So yes, weather and climate calculations.

Required minimum distributions start at about 5% (not 10%) at age 72, and increase with age. But your general point stands. RMDs will add to one's tax bill, by regular tax brackets…

The last sentence said something about a computationally stable (model/state) of society. I suppose such stability would be helpful in looking for a sustainable economy or society.…

Possibly the "Limits to Growth" report (1972) by Meadows, et al. They used a simple model of resources, population, economy, pollution, etc. Some would say an over-simplified model…

If Google didn't index this guide, how would people find it?