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cosmic context is NOT astrology mumbo-jumbo, but the actual orientation of the earth and moon in the solar system (coarsely grained)

I watched the entire series, The Americans . It's thrilling and well-crafted television, but totally bogus as a representation of how illegals worked in the USA. Illegals were/are …

That which you incentivize you get more of. That which you tax you get less of. Or, as Charlie Munger famously remarked, Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.

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The real Master and Commander story, https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Cruise-CLASSICS-NAVAL-LITERAT... , is from the American perspective and is way better than the fictional one. To…

Drachinifel is pretty darned knowledgeable. I imagine its not that easy to get enough footage of some American WWII destroyer that is NOT a Fletcher class, (as a made up example), …

This is more and more a problem, not just with images. Even most of the higher quality (better researched) Youtube channels are fast and loose about using irrelevant stock footage …

They had not kidnapped Patty at that point. The only thing the SLA was taking credit for at that time was the Marcus Foster murder. They probably thought they had a safe house in e…

No. There was no reason for this ex-cop to tell me the story 5 years ago about something that happened 45 years earlier. And he didn't make a career as a cop, so he wasn't protecti…

A former Oakland PD officer shared with me insight into how police intelligence worked back in the day. And I'm sure this still goes on. It was back in the time of the SLA terroris…

Nor should it be in our republic. There is no national security override to our rights in the Constitution.

It may not make any significant change in the numbers applying for k-12 positions, but do people really need to go through the torture, indoctrination, and expense of graduate scho…

Spy craft goes way back. You can read about it in Herodotus and the Old Testament. George Washington was a spy master and much of what we think we know about his operations is dot …

To be clear. Geothermal is great in some places and circumstances. It will never be a big enough world-wide market in the foreseeable future to move the needle much in proportion o…

Damn long-form journalism takes forever to get to the point, so my skimming sometimes misses something crucial. With that disclaimer out of the way, (I think) it is distressing and…

The way to determine who sold them the data is a service and agent I've envisioned for a long time, but never had the wherewithal to produce. (I won't go into all the hurdles.) Eve…

What? No. It's how much fluid (not how much heat) and the oil cut of the fluid you are pumping up the borehole in the O&G industry. This has no bearing on whether the hole is frack…

It comes from having researched the GeoThermal market to determine whether the last software company I worked for should enter that market. The answer was a resounding NO.

I've left the Microsoft world. That said the dotnet environment is pretty frickin' cool. Not least of all for the mostly excellent documentation across a lot of libraries. And MS k…

It's not a tunnel, it's a borehole; and therein lies the problem with geothermal power. The usable energy is proportional to the cross-section of the borehole. That's just the begi…

What bothers me about canola oil is it is actually rape seed oil. Rape seed is/was originally toxic. I have heard two different stories on how this was overcome. 1) The toxicity wa…

What is the take on peanut oil from the seed oil bad crowd? IIRC it is usually missing from both the good oil and the bad oil columns.

The second paragraph of the article starts out Most on-line sources claim the phrase originated in 1104 in a small town in Essex, England. In the third paragraph the author states …

I would also say good old small.. but the rest of the adjectives flow as I would expect to hear and say.

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