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Comment · 10 years ago
I changed the wording. It does not affect my main argument, though.
Comment · 10 years ago
So the share of income going to the top 1% has increased to new heights during the Obama presidency, yet the election of Trump - as opposed to his rival who was expected to continue Obama's policies - is seen as irrational?
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Comment · 10 years ago
My village's voluntary fire department's website has been down for a few days now. Do you think it's related?
Comment · 10 years ago
Edward Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism, it is a standard lower division undergraduate textbook. The only prerequisites are basic calculus and some mechanics.
Comment · 10 years ago
One way is to probe them indirectly. For example, string cosmology makes testable predictions (verifiable by observation, e.g. of the CMB). Conceivably, evidence could be found of something that happened in the early universe that is most easily explained within the string theory.
Comment · 10 years ago
For a typical person, there are no useful news on most days. A personalised, aperiodic list of relevant news would be interesting.
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Comment · 10 years ago
Exactly. It is easy not to read the agreement, general terms of use, fee schedule, terms of use for your particular account or monthly revisions of these documents and then complain. How about you respect the rules for once, OP?
Comment · 10 years ago
Not sure what your problem is. Personal use might include commuting to work, clothes for work, landlord referencing fees, overdraft fees, perhaps some basic food.

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