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mgdo··on The most dangerous thing about the Amazon fires is the apocalyptic rhetoric
[...] the number of fires in Brazil this year is more than last year, but about the same as in 2016 and less than in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2012. [...]
mgdo··on Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid
You can ask questions to the authors of this paper here: https://fermatslibrary.com/arxiv_comments?url=https%3A%2F%2F...
mgdo··on Is The Guitar Market Really Dying?
Some interesting and related Google Trends:

- "Learn Guitar": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=learn%20...

- "Play Guitar": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=play%20g...

- "Guitar vs Piano": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=guitar,p...

mgdo··on 1924 US Immigration Act – country based immigration quotas
> The ultimate goal of the immigration act according to the U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity" and preserve racial homogeneity.

Interestingly it not only restricted the immigration of Africans and banned the immigration of Arabs and Asians but also restricted immigration of Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans (especially Italians and Eastern European Jews).

mgdo··on Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem
It would be cool if somenone annotated this paper on Fermat's Library, would to get a better grasp of it: http://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-erdos-discrepancy-problem

Anyone? =)

mgdo··on A Simple Proof That Pi Is Irrational
I think these are simply the paper annotations. It's not that obtrusive.
mgdo··on What making something people want looks like
Good point!
mgdo··on What making something people want looks like
It is working fine for me
mgdo··on What making something people want looks like
Yah but Threes did not go viral as 2048 did
mgdo··on Amazon’s iPhone dynamic pricing prior to the Apple keynote
Good points. But on the US store we can still clearly see the general trend showing that the price has been falling for weeks.