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He wrote a book finally published in 2020 called "The Pursuit of the Pankera", that featured the main character living in a fantasy version of this house in the same city.

There's a website for that: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html#sectio...

It seems they could have put a sentence on the bottom of the screen "There is no credible evidence for Trump's claim of a stolen election." Takes approximately zero effort to solve…

"IIRC, all vaccines were 100% effective against "hospitalizations" and "death" (severe)." Very close to 100%, but not quite. In US state of Ohio, 2.8 million vaccinated, 14 hospita…

Same thing seems to be happening to Great Lakes freighters crossing UP of Michigan over land.

Vietnam and New Zeeland have had no flaws. They don't preach, but could be an excellent example of how to do right. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-vietnam-2020

I think the Greeks had it right when the original Olympians competed naked. Running and swimming require no equipment at all, skaters need nothing more than boots, throwing sports …

The dude buries the lede in the last minute of the interview. Part two should be really interesting.

In US State Ohio recently, the benchmark for restrictions was changed to the number of people hospitalized for COVID in the state. When it fell below a threshold, bars and restaura…

Interesting idea. I think if you put perfectly reflective mirrors inside a Dyson sphere larger in radius than Earth's orbit, the photons would bounce around until they hit the Sun,…

You can't reflect all the energy of the sun onto the earth with a mirror or a lens. Put a one million mile wide source 93 million miles from the earth. The photons from the left si…

2nd law says heat flows from hot to cold. Mirrors are passive, temperature of target, (Earth), must be lower than surface temperature of source (Sun).

The sun has surface area of 6 x 10^18 m^2. Earth has surface area of 5 x 10^14 m^2. Earth can not be bombarded by more than the ratio of these to numbers with solar radiation using…

Author doesn't speak of lasers. Author says to use mirrors. The sun takes up about 1/2 degree width as seen from Earth. This limits the focus you can get using mirrors. (see 2nd la…

It may, but source says "You will need: Means for focusing a good few percent of the Sun's energy output directly on the Earth.", then posits using mirrors to do this. Mirrors coul…

"Cooked in a solar oven You will need: Means for focusing a good few percent of the Sun's energy output directly on the Earth." Mirrors don't work that way. Mirrors can't focus to …

Texas just isn't prepared for these kinds of temperatures. They had natural gas pipelines freeze up. "Temperatures are low enough to trigger so-called freeze-offs, when wells shut …

1) Billionaires would love if the poors were distracted. 2) Religious bigots would be upset if Gays or Muslims or atheists were ever happy. Thus fact two will prevent the first gro…

AS Mencken said: "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Too many people would be upset if we had a fantasy land where people they don't approve of c…

RTK is certainly handy. Autosteer would be a neat addition.

Fewer users, they are countable

Author asks for "Strava for reading". Goodreads already has this functionality. You show off which books you have read, rate and review them, and set goals for books read per year,…

With gerrymandering, the ruling party will pack voters in districts by party. Instead of competitive districts, one party districts are formed, and more extreme candidates win prim…

It seems that gas stations would not work during a power outage. Santa Ana winds cause lots of edge case problems.

Hence the last part of the question, "Why?" I doubt even someone with a PhD in an unrelated field could bullshit the experts in fusion research.