Category: Location
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World War II Deaths
We may never know the real number of this horrible time in history, here is just an attempt. It is sorted by countries. Country Military Deaths Civilian and Military Deaths Soviet Union 9,500,000 24,000,000 China 4,000,000 20,000,000 Germany 5,533,000 8,000,000 Poland 240,000 5,600,000 Dutch East Indies 3,500,000 Japan 2,120,000 2,900,000 India 87,000 2,000,000 French Indochina…
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Spam, Spammer, Spamming
A few thoughts on this garbage done by people and businesses. Spam is opposite of productive, it is destructive, it kills the internet and it also costs us a ton of money. You are online, you probably have and use email and you know what is spam. An email message that was not requested, that…
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USA Is Rich or Bankrupt or Stupid
We are not stupid Americans, right? I heard this definitely top news item for today or for this year and it assumes we are all stupid. We are either rich or completely bankrupt. And Musk talks like a total idiot. “Billionaire DOGE head Elon Musk said on X, formerly known as Twitter, he would ask…
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Instacart Late Deliveries
Another late delivery from Instacart. In fact all of my orders with them for the past 3 weeks were late. It is never 5 minutes, it is always hours. I’ll try to collect some numbers. Date Ordered at Promised Delivery Real Delivery 10-22 2:20 pm 6 pm 8:50 pm 10-25 2 pm 4 – 7…
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Names of Large Numbers
1 million = 1 × 106 or 1,000,0001 billion = 1 × 109 or 1,000,000,0001 trillion = 1 × 1012 or 1,000,000,000,000 1 quadrillion = 1 × 10151 quintillion = 1 × 10181 sextillion = 1 × 10211 septillion = 1 × 10241 octillion = 1 × 10271 nonillion = 1 × 1030 1 decillion…
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Mile to Kilometer
The world uses kilometers to measure the distance. Almost entire world, we still use miles. Reason? Nobody knows. But if you have a mile or a few, how do you get those km? Calculate! 1 mile is officially 1.60934 km. Not an easy number to deal with but possible. So … 5 miles is what?…
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Bitcoin, Crypto, Principles
We all have heard about crypto, bitcoin. Digital currency supported by nothing, only by math and trust. But why is it suddenly so popular? Why so many even conservative people go there, investigate, learn? Many different reasons. but all of them reasonable. It is all good about crypto but mostly all bad about current currency.…
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USA Has Metric System
Not really, but officially sort of yes, if you ask any government person. They are a bit uneducated, they are paid to lie and it is mostly marketing. If you ask what is our official language and look a bit European, the answer will be French for sure. USA METRIC SYSTEM IS IN … A…
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Converting Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin Temperature Scales
Celsius to Fahrenheit dF = (dC . 1.8) + 32 Example when it is 20 degrees Celsius: (20 . 1.8) + 32 = ? 36 + 32 = ? 68 = result Fahrenheit to Celsius dC = (dF – 32) / 1.8 Example when it is 68 degrees Fahrenheit: (68 – 32) / 1.8 =…
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Bitcoin Crashes?
I like the principle of Bitcoin and crypto currency. The system is fair, if it becomes standard it could remove all problems current currency causes. Try inflation, it could be gone. Value of your money will remain the same for life. Borders will not mean much, exchange rate will be just some silliness from the…
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Bitcoin
We are probably bankrupt. In 1971 Nixon took money off of the gold standard so we could print more money. The reason he did it was to pay for the Vietnam war. Dollar lost purchasing power. The more they print, the more it gets dilluted. With Bitcoin you just can’t do that. Businesses collapse, families…
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Cholesterol Is Bad or Good?
Don’t Worry About “Bad” Cholesterol, Says Dr. Paul Saladino https://youtu.be/aBg7fhsCU2Y?si=LD29hfx375ukaovD