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I remember that storm too. I slept through the entire thing, despite all the damage done outside (greenhouses moved houses away, the roof of our school ripped off, trees down, and …

Where I am there’s been a huge increase in houses being bought for cash by equity hedge funds, like 25% of houses going on the market. Nearby Kushner bought hundreds of houses in B…

Congrats on the app! If you want an example of an 'odd' case for your app, one thing I would never expect, is that my car dealer apparently recently titled my car in VA while I liv…

Actually, in case it's of interest to her, over at the American Institute of Physics in the DC metro area, I'm looking for a solutions architect to help support the institute and t…

All this talk about debt and nothing about the main reason why: taxes are too low. By that I mean if you compare like with like, for example healthcare costs which are paid by taxe…

This is something I know a little about. Back in 2005/06 I asked Google who was doing non-destructive scanning of their books as I needed to scan our back issues to 1948 and no one…

Also missing are viable costs. If arXiv didn't have the support of some nonprofit societies and grants from foundations, it would be in significant trouble.

I think one point is that a profit margin of 40% is only viable because of the size of their platform. If they were broken up and smaller, on competing platforms, then it would be …

Reminds me a bit of this old 1970 article in Physics Today: The Stability of the Bicycle. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3022064

Usually it's still lighter. When I have back problems I will pick up the iPad and take it with me rather than my MacBook Pro. It has the added bonus of being easier to read pdfs an…

I'm jealous about the Saab. Worst mistake I did was getting rid of mine (I loved that car but GM was going bankrupt and wouldn't sell it to me off lease for a reasonable price).

Sony shortwave/FM radio. Purchased in 1988. I think it's jumped continents at least 5 times. The contacts are a tad corroded, and the antenna is held on with a safety pin, but it s…

I agree. It was a great guy. However, I think its worth pointing out that JSTOR didn't want him prosecuted and they came to a viable agreement. SciHub on the otherhand is plain the…