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muti··on Donate Unrestricted
The lottery is effectively a regressive tax. I would prefer increasing taxes in a progressive or at least proportional scheme.
muti··on Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall
Why compare marginal rates? plugging 250k USD and 211k Euro into California/France tax calculators.

California effective tax rate: 36% France effective tax rate: 48%

Using a different calculator with $19000 into 401k and the California effective tax drops to 32%

https://us.icalculator.info/salary-calculator/california.htm... https://www.icalculator.info/france.html

muti··on The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water
But cooling rate is proportional to the temperature difference (see Newton's law of cooling). Thus the hotter water may start cooling faster, once it reaches the initial temperature of the cooler water, it would cool at the same rate as the cooler water did initially. It then couldn't possibly reach freezing point earlier.

But in some conditions it does, which is the surprising result.

muti··on Show HN: Cycell2d.com – A Cellular Morphogenesis Sandbox
Very cool! It reminds me of the game of life

For anyone that would like a glimpse of what this looks like in action without downloading anything, there are many videos on the tutorial pages [0]

In part 3, the tutorials show a simulation of growing a flatworm [1], and a flatworm growing a second head [2]

[0] http://www.cycell2d.com/tutorial.html [1] https://youtu.be/-cK64r_FQS0 [2] https://youtu.be/LBeMur1mJVk

muti··on Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
I remember seeing a DIY video on how to make a light panel that simulates light coming from very far away using large Fresnel lenses from old TVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JrqH2oOTK4

muti··on Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city
OpenGeofiction seems like it would fit the bill
muti··on Bitcoin has risen more than eightfold in past year
If the price is determined by how much someone is willing to buy or sell for, how do you determine the price when there are no trades being made?

How does simply deciding 1 bitcoin is worth $1b effect the value of bitcoin if no one is willing to buy at that price?

muti··on Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
You can generate a sequence like this if you can see what the program thinks your next input will be, and choosing different.

It's fairly easy to debug/modify the javascript to do this

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