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  • Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
    Worldle is played with 5 letter English words. You get 6 guesses. For each guess, the right letter in the right place is indicated as green, and the right letter in the wrong place turns yellow....
  • Commented on What happens now?
    I know pi to ~140 decimal places (I was bored). In college/university, I knew it past 100 decimal places at least. A friend of mine helped me figure out how many significant figures of pi we would need in order...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    @926 - Greg, I can't resist giving you a bit of a hard time: Meanwhile ... repeat - time for a sweepstake / bet / choice game: Where is DJT going to be at 12.00 hrs, EST on 20/1/2121? Given...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
    Point of correction: Powell's City of Books is in Portland, Oregon; I shopped there somewhat more often than I could afford when I lived in Portland. I like how new and used books are shelved together and found the Burnside...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Yes, there will be WiFi, but the ping times will be unusually long.......
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    May I infer that the Shadow Health Secretary picked at least Option 3? Side note from a practicing Quaker: I'm praying for a sane outcome in today's UK election....
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Some of the books might be on Project Gutenberg - Gutenberg.org ....
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    No asset testing for healthcare.gov - that's Medicaid. To get the discount on insurance premiums, the check is annual income and household size. Base price of the premiums is calculated on age and whether one uses tobacco....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    XKCD uses "update": https://xkcd.com/2224/...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    If that isn't a joke, I'm confused as to how it applies in this case....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    ... Pick a different pronoun....
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    Well, I learned from my father that words have gender, while people have sex (not to be confused with sexual intercourse). Which makes German a lot easier to accept. As you say, there are at least three concepts which are...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Oh! And I could sell our farm's meat on a sliding scale to keep it affordable....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    The surgery my elder child is planning to have is now called gender affirmation surgery....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Probably true but in my case it's Midwestern US understatement as I am a native Michigander....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    I have two offspring to figure in to my budget. (Ages 15 and 13). Our family income is currently about 1600 times 36, from Social Security survivor's benefits, so tax free, and I'm spending above my means. (I have a...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    A 401K is a type of retirement savings account....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Correction: ...limiting the top income in a firm......
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    I can live comfortably on say a quarter million per year. For the first phase, I'll risk my head on a stick while I do the following: Establish one or more think tanks. Goals as discussed in assorted previous posts....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    I'll definitely have the R&D team look into measles as well as other options, e.g. Ebola, zika, etc....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Measles and polio do not have a sufficiently high fatality rate. For instance, my mother says she thinks she had all three major sorts of measles. Not sure why climate emergency accelerationists are defined as being mutually exclusive with those...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    While I draft my "altruistic centibillionaire", here's a short evil plan. I did some worldbuilding about 20 years ago for a story called "The Stupidity Virus", where a very virulent disease killed off the dumbest 50% of humans. I would...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Either the earworm went completely over my head, or the above referenced comment linked to a different comment than intended....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    I'm a woman. Educating girls is number six on Project Drawdown's list. Still working on my answer to the challenge... but part of it will be establishing good relations with First Nation elders in Nunavet....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    GT @ 30: As a practicing Quaker, I'll be trying to convince you to approach religion with more nuance....
  • Commented on Creative writing challenge!
    I wouldn't mind reading your short story....
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    I'm taking two college level classes this fall for the first time in years, so I haven't sought out Fall yet as I know I won't have the headspace for a complex novel....
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. was also faster-paced than recent Stephenson books, in a way I like. I credit the coauthor. As an aside, I fear Stephenson is suffering from Successful Author Syndrome, where the editor doesn't have the...
  • Commented on Tentative hypothesis
    Coming in late with my demographics. White, 47 year old cis female, socially awkward but probably not on the autism spectrum, with two children at home, currently ages 13 and 15....
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    Yes. Classifying books correctly is key. It seems that the libraries near Charles H are not in the category of "libraries that routinely keep physical books". It is possible to do tool libraries elegantly. The library I use most often...
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