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    Covid-19 Vax Rate and New Cases
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    Covid-19 Vax Rate and New Cases

    Robert Hamill 14 Jul 202129 May 2022Leave a comment

    If your state has a low vaccination rate, you are four times as likely to catch the disease than if your state has a high…

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    Diophantine Solution
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    Diophantine Solution

    Robert Hamill 11 Jul 202130 Mar 2024Leave a comment

    A equation relating Halley's Comet, the 17-year cicadas, and the calendar year is a Diophantine equation, an equation which only permits integer solutions.

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    Bitcoin, should it be in your portfolio?
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    Bitcoin, should it be in your portfolio?

    Robert Hamill 31 Mar 202111 Dec 20232 Comments

    Updated Dec 19, 2022. Bitcoin trades at $16,700., down from $60,000 in early 2021.

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    Covid World Counts

    Robert Hamill 22 Mar 202130 May 20222 Comments

    Brazil is in the direst situation. Its density of new cases is twice that of the USA.

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    Company Pension Rule of Thumb
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    Company Pension Rule of Thumb

    Robert Hamill 6 Jan 202127 Apr 20221 Comment

    A good rule of thumb for a snapshot analysis: Years of coverage equals asset balance divided by net outlay.

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    Thinking Dimensions
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    Thinking Dimensions

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    Our dimensional favoritism is preconscious, yet it affects us daily.

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    Crime and Order
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    Crime and Order

    Robert Hamill 3 Jan 202126 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    With the improved skilled workforce, the United States economy will flourish under the stimulus of fixing and managing the ecology of our piece of the…

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    Postal Service and Covid
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    Postal Service and Covid

    Robert Hamill 12 Dec 202030 May 20221 Comment

    Rural postal areas with small staff. It’s there that, by ill luck, when a worker catches covid there is less staff to pick up the…

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    Good For One
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    Good For One

    Robert Hamill 1 Dec 202028 Sep 20241 Comment

    A single action may seem good for us, but if everyone does the same, the result is bad.

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    Covid by Age Group
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    Covid by Age Group

    Robert Hamill 26 Nov 202030 May 20221 Comment

    Children under 5 account for about 1% of all covid hospitalizations. Not zero. It does happen, but it's a low rate.

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    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)