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Gigantic engineering mathematics calculation tools.

The best way I know how to express it- We live short lives, and only have enough time to make a few real investments of our time. We can't throw these investments off too casually,…

Until today I still did not know where a (scantron-required, supposedly) #2 pencil falls on this chart! The other chart in the article shows that #2=HB, which is about as confusing…

Regardless of whether the wealthy people in your country are taxed a small bit or taxed a lot, you should want them to be efficient allocators of capital. Would you rather it be th…

To add onto what others said, insurance companies love loyalty. Loyal customers get charged more. I've found that shopping around about every 3 years is a good idea without too muc…

Dilution is the solution.

The only possible motivation for these dirty corporate pigs to make these foods UNNATURALLY TASTY is, at the least, morally fraught, and, more likely, such an act of villainy as to…

If you don't know already, go look up ABLE accounts. If your child became disabled before the age of 26, they can create an ABLE account and keep much, much more money in their ABL…

>A fish that fell from a bird’s grip landed on a transponder in Sayreville, located just southwest of New York’s Staten Island, according to Jersey Central Power and Light Company …

The college bubble is popping. Enrollment is down 15% from its 2010 peak. My intuition is that the bigger state schools will be well insulated financially, but smaller independent …

So for NPK fertilizer, I now know that nitrogen is manufactured cheaply with the haber-bosch process, and we've got a lot of phosphate available. Do we also have plenty of potassiu…

A pillars are getting wider, and the bottoms of windows are getting higher. These changes are being made for crashworthiness, the effects of visibility on accidents are understudie…

I am often frustrated at the poor visibility out of modern cars and I wonder how many crashes are caused by the poor visibility. It is the other side of the tradeoff that crash sur…

I remember when the egg shortage was going on a few months ago NPR said that we shouldn't expect the retail price of eggs to drop more than about 15% from their then-current highs.…

If you look at social science as an entire discipline (separate from "hard science"- which sounds dismissive- "Hard science" is able to achieve better precision because its experim…

To be fair the french have had some massive problems with their fleet recently. There were issues discovered where (IIRC) a supplier that made pressure vessels used steel that was …

It sure is boring. We probably should eliminate all boring things from the world.

Is a collection of balls falling down a galton board into bins to form a normal distribution a form of processing? How is it materially different than a ball rolling down a hill?

One of the reasons I appreciate for business long-term planning success is that businesses are allowed to die. When a (typical) business fails badly enough for long enough, it dies…