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Kenya is an equatorial country so they basically have steady ~12 hours of sunlight every day year round. Pretty cool!

And, much of the rural population is in the Great Rift Valley, a particularly high elevation region which as a result enjoys higher solar flux.

They should just put one on a windmill and make it to brrrr

Wikipedia was never a primary source to begin with


If America saves Argentina, and Argentina becomes a powerful country again, that is a powerful ally we could have for a century.


Have you paid any attention to how the US has been treating its actual existing powerful allies this year? Is Argentina a more valuable ally than, say, Canada?


Is it possible that this was a bullet?

A 50 cal bullet is estimated to reach 15,000 feet if fired straight up.

But this is Colorado: in the most extreme scenario, standing atop Mount Elbert, you’re already at ~15,000 feet.

Combine these two — and account for the dramatically reduced air resistance along the bullet’s path starting from high altitidue — you could conceivably get a bullet that high

Some dope standing at high elevation blasting bullets into the sky in Colorado seems as plausible as a meteor


There actually is some coal in New England, and if there was (for some reason) a desire for New England to be energy independent, coal might be part of the mix as a result. This article discusses some less-successful attempts to get into that coal.. and it’s delightful to see the date of its publication.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massachusetts-coa...


Is insider trading even illegal with bitcoin?


Insider trading of Bitcoin is illegal under CFTC regulations. It won't be enforced because crime is legal though.


This President, too, will pardon his son and the rest of their family. So, it doesn't really matter if it's a crime or not.


making emergency vehicles unable to access a street, very cool!


AirBnB is far more likely to help


The hypothesis is true for housing at least. Immigrants need to live somewhere, and that puts upward pressure on rents (which are part of CPI).


On the other hand, cheap labor lowers labor costs for producers and increased supply should lower the average wage?


While there is validity to this logic, the slightly lower labor cost does not offset the need to house more people, particularly when the cost of land and materials is so astronomical


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