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Adjust rainfall for growing season, and it might straighten out the bend in the Dakotas & Minnesota.

The elevation contour lines run pretty much north-south in the middle of the continent. The dark-light line seems to be around 1000 feet of elevation.

Don't try this with a government contract.

The USDA sounds like a shitshow in general. http://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/the-rogue-agency/6/

They succeeded, the singularity happened in secret, and we've been controlled by skynet ever since. How else do you think the world survived the cold war?

Cabinet seems to specialize in insane true stories.

This is why I always put books on the save-for-later list for at least a few days.

Might just be a typo/autocorrect for "schools of thought".

If you're upset about exclusivity in this deal I don't understand. These movies won't be on Hulu or Prime after this deal, but they aren't there currently. A whole bunch of movies are going to become more available for more people.

Wasn't the plan just "Squeeze through a gap, then slide down a pipe"? I'd hope that most humans could come up with that.

Oh wow, that really had me going for a while.

"Then he outlined some of the new texts soon to be released: a chart for multiplying and dividing complex numbers"

I'm assuming that this a journalist using the word "complex" in a vaguer sense than a mathematician would. But that would be a pretty stunning thing to find on 2500 year-old strips of bamboo.

Sure. Employer observes that they can spend $10,000 on wages to increase the employee's take-home pay by $1,000; or they can spend spend $5,000 on insurance premiums and buy the employee an excellent health plan. The employee and employer both have incentive to take the tax break.

I'm taking about the 1950 here, when the top marginal rate was around 90%.

Edit: grammar.

Employee health benefits been tax free since at least 1954, and the top marginal rates were much higher then. So WWII controls were an early factor, but marginal tax impacts were significant too.

Rate of delinquency seems like it would it helpful map to include. (As I read it, the "Delinquency" map reflects the average size of delinquent loans in the region, so it has a different denominator than the other maps.)

Am I missing something? They say they have "$1 million in donations spent ... and $1 million in the bank to back any bad loans". For a bank/CU this sounds like pocket change. Later they say they have "almost unlimited capital". What gives?

Thus Seal Team "Six".

They were also at the wrong DEFCON level for that kind of order, so protocol acted a partial failsafe too.

For something as fungible as credit card transactions, it's hard to understand how a "brand" could be truly valuable. (Or is the grocery store cashier secretly really impressed when I produce my Amex Blue?)

Economists might be surprised. Actuaries are not. In most actuarial health cost models, cost sharing induces changes in utilization, not cost-per-service.

Yes, speaking as someone without firsthand experience of this sort of event, the "no contracts" rule sounds bizarre and reckless.

I'd like to think that those who appropriate the poem for car commercials and such and fully aware of the poem's meaning, but are exercising a subversive irony.

I've found that playing back a recording at 90% speed can make speakers sound strangely hostile and sarcastic...

Average LSAT scores took a dive for class of '14 too. The schools lowered standards circa 2011 as fewer students applied. Three years later they graduate and, yeah, their scores are lower on average.

Will this work when its -30F?

You can use array formulas to make one formula operate on many values at once. In your example, there'd be one same formula in C2:C4 which would be {=B2:B4/B1:B3-1}.

When I had to use Excel a lot I would follow this pattern as much as possible. (As a side effect, every normal Excel user I worked with hated maintaining my workbooks.)

The uncle from Napoleon Dynamite is super excited for this.

Yes, but the real treasure would be the improvisations. Beethoven was a legendary improviser, and all those performances are completely lost (except for phrases and ideas incorporated later into written compositions, from memory).

If you know the one H1Ber in Alaska, you now know their salary.

You're right, of course, but it would be nice if "comprise" didn't have to have two opposite meanings.