I don't think people are that simple, static or homogeneous.

It will be like squeezing down on a watermelon seed. The harder you squeeze the higher the escape velocity.

I mean holy unintended consequences.

Yeah, and half of the population died before age 5.

But that was safe because everything was organic and there were no vaccines.

The problem is that It isn't a closed carbon cycle. There are a lot of inputs into the process that release carbon. For example what do you think the basic ingredients for fertilizer are?

Lots of people keep server logs around for a long time. Now that the requests that cough up private keys have been identified I would think that hack attempts would have been identified by now, just like the ones that are the subject of this story.

They haven't been.

Gun safety is something every parent owes their children. Along with power tools, basic electrical wiring, plumbing, plant a grape vine, how to build a computer, tune an engine, build a computer and compile a Linux kernel.

Fire the administrators immediately and vote the school board out of office.

Nonsense. US Per Capita Median income is $42K. And for sure if you make $25K you aren't paying 30% in taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Exhaustion of the trust fund is NOT the end of SS. There is still enough income to pay some 3/4 of the benefit just from ongoing receipts assuming that there is no change in the current law.

Usually what happens when there are issues like this on the table is the law is changed; on such change is the idea you suggested.

The real issue is Medicare funding. The ACA helps a little with that, but there will be more and fairly drastic changes needed for that.

I use a similar methodology. You might be interested in the web site bogleheads.org which seems to collect asset allocated passive investors.

Slashdot does have problems that way.

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Just turned 64, already retired.

Hundreds of billions sounds like a gross overestimate. Most estimates of US proven reserves are around 30B barrels.

It's part of the Tao of graduate school.

I cheated by marrying while I was a grad student. While my wife didn't have that great of a job we had food. After I finished my PhD I supported her graduate studies, an MLIS.

The human eye has it's own depth of field characteristics plus a much greater dynamic range and resolution than any large flat screen.

So your large screen is going to fall short of that illusion.

I don't thing NSA knew about it. Somebody would have caught the unusual requests.

Not so. For example here is the privacy statement from a well-known university:

Privacy of Information
Information stored on a computer system or sent electronically over a network is the property of the individual who created it. Examination, collection, or dissemination of that information without authorization from the owner is a violation of the ownerâ(TM)s rights to control his or her own property. Systems administrators, however, may gain access to usersâ(TM) data or programs when it is necessary to maintain or prevent damage to systems or to ensure compliance with other University rules.