Recent content by Bronzeage

The pennies for a decade promise was based on the current understanding of the problem. It was assumed engineering would solve all the obvious problems in the future. It didn't work that way. The actual production of energy through atomic reactors was so expensive, just like the railroads, it...

The Economics and Mathematics Departments are next door to each other. The current capital investment in AI is roughly $200 billion. The US GNP is roughly $30 trillion, so there is room in the economy for commerce to increase by using AI and produce the profits which will pay back the...

I remember attending a lecture by a visiting Economic Professor. He talked about the business cycles in the US during the second half of the 19th century. There was a boom in railroad building. Huge amounts of capital was poured into railroads and it wasn't long before they discovered a harsh...

I wear a 9&1/2, which is a 42 in Europe. Shaquille O'neal wears a size 22, which is 15 inches long. There is definitely something wrong with that chart.

There is rarely a subject where Mendacious did not make a pertinent observation, mainly because he was a shameless plagiarizer.

We should reflect on the words to the great Philosopher, Mendacious of Bogusia, "Whenever you see a supermodel grade beautiful woman, somewhere there is a man who is sick of her shit." I'm sure there is a corollary which applies to romance novel cover grade men. I used to employ a lot of...

11% of a group or subgroup does not "more" of anything and a five point difference between two subgroups is not significant when the question is a hypothetical. In any case, I'd like to see the same poll taken the week Ruth Bader Ginsberg died.

It doesn't really matter what scale a man uses to rate the relative attractiveness of a woman. If she manages to flip his "Hey, I think she likes me" switch, she immediately jumps two places.

I've lived in the Kreme zone all my life and I've never seen the appeal.

They first 10 Amendments were part of the original ratification. The 18th Amendment was for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages and the 21st Amendment repealed it.

I watched the video many years ago and I don't remember the details. Did they push it to get it started? It reminds me of the Sterling engine videos about a device powered by ambient heat in the room and produces .001 horsepower.

The windmill powers a traction drive axle. The challenge is to produce a vehicle speed faster than the wind ground speed. Considering the drive train has to make two 90 degree turns, that's a tall order.

The US Constitution was ratified in 1789 and it's been tweaked 17 times, as the situation demanded. One of the seventeen Amendments repealed a previous Amendment. At that time, the King of England still held a great deal of power, especially in foreign policy, and more importantly to us...

Back to second place.

It's not an aspiration, it's an observation. I think the US has done a pretty fair job of adapting and aggregating over the past 250 years and we still have a President, a Congress, and a Supreme Court.