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I find their write ups to be fascinating.

Damn, Bluefin checks 1–4

Yeah it’s very surprising to me as well. As a life-long resident of one of the states mentioned, having lived in both major cities as well and small-medium towns, I don’t think I’ve experienced this “aggression”

To be pedantic, it’s 100%–(162%)^(1/6)=8.4% per year. Still a great number, until you consider that their wages have been pretty stagnant for years.

Edit:

That may sound like an extreme demand, but workers would point out that wages for veteran dockworkers have increased 11% since the start of the last six-year contract, while inflation has jumped 24% in the same period.

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/09/29/get-ready-for-more-supply-chain-chaos

Ah so similar to Oreo “crème,” because “cream” is a protected word in the US

More like $9.75B (–$2)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/30/echostar-to-sell-dish-to-directv-combining-major-pay-tv-providers.html

https://explainxkcd.com/1084

Edit: seems I was wrong about the escape mechanism for helium, it seems the primary mechanism is polar wind escape.

Also, hydrogen can also apparently escape from the Earth.

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

http://faculty.washington.edu/dcatling/Catling2009_SciAm.pdf

The redefinition of the mole in 2019, as being the amount of substance containing exactly 6.02214076×10^23 particles

Since the 2019 SI redefinition, avogadro’s number is a constant.

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

Edit: looks like we were both right! I was reading through your link and it seems the work reported by the NIST led to the exact definitions for Avogadro’s number and the Planck constant.