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by Merrill 7y ago
"Music Theory Everyone Should Know" by Rick Beato and many additional videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9d26tpvA4U He also publishes a book on music theory, but I've not reviewed it.
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>Organizational Complexity. Measures number of developers workong on the module, number of ex-developers that used to work on the module but no longer does, how big a fraction of the organization as a whole that works or has worked on th
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GDP = C + G + I + NX Since cities are centers of consumption (C) and government spending (G), and those that are ports do exporting (NX=net exports), the concentration seems reasonable.
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The 1947 anti-trust lawsuit was settled by the 1956 consent decree which forced AT&T to exit all businesses not related to providing a national telecommunications network and which also required royalty-free licensing of all patents. Fo
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1.5 MW is the output of a medium sized wind turbine. Of course, the "battery" has controllable, rather than variable, output.
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Modern technology is mainly the result of chemistry and materials sciences. Key events are the discovery of nitrocellulose in the 1840s and the introduction of the Bessemer process of steelmaking in the 1850s. Nitrocellulose starts the deve
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With approaches like Amazon's PillPack and CVS Multidose, it's not clear why either AI or a pharmacist is needed. Pharmacist jobs at a drugstore, grocery store, Walmart, Costco are probably not the road to riches. Managing the pha
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One of the recent HN postings from CityLab was authored by Brooks Rainwater, who works for the National League of Cities in their Center for City Solutions. https://www.nlc.org/program-initiative/center-for-city-solut..
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You can search for Amazon Basics or Amazon Essentials, which seem to be listings of high volume commodity products. However, I don't see adult dress gloves in Amazon Essentials. There are kids gloves. And if you want high style, these
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Probably done by a senior hunter to explain how to corner and kill food animals. The earliest known example of a PowerPoint presentation.
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Their P/E ratio is 13.36. Perhaps they don't? The slide seems to have been first disclosed by ASML, which has a vested interest in selling new generations of manufacturing tools. ASML's P/E ratio is 48.02.
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Current video is a pretty good match for the needs of advertisers, who are the major source of funding for video. There is relatively little market for video that is not either free or heavily subsidized by advertisers. TV manufacturers are
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Once you can process high-definition video there is little need for further performance in mass-market processors. Progress thereafter would be mainly in lowering power consumption, reducing cost, and greater integration of more functions o
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Based on recent discussions here, "keypunch operator" should be added to the list.
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Commercial aircraft are much safer than they ever were. In the 60s-80s there were typically just over 2000 fatalities per year. In the last decade typically under 1000 fatalities per year, despite the increase in passenger miles since the &
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True, but it would reflect real experiences of patients having the respective procedures done under normal conditions by ordinary surgeons, rather than under trial conditions. If there is a big difference in real world clinical outcomes, it
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Most everyone can look "rich" with cheap imported knockoffs of expensive clothing. But peoples' choice of whether to dress "rich" or "poor" provides information about them.
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Since 2016 there must have been 10s of thousands of stents placed and 10s of thousands of surgeries. What has been the actual results of following the recommendation? What percentage of each have had recurring heart attacks, second procedur
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60 years ago you could hire plenty of bright, talented high school graduates, especially those with poor English/History grades but good Math/Shop grades. Now the high school counselors push all of the bright, talented students an
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I went to grades 1 to 8 at a rural one room school house with about a dozen other kids. My high school was about 600 students. Then I went to a university with about 20,000. Adjustment in that direction is not easy either.
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It all depends on your point of view. I have a nephew who lives outside of Roy, population 108. He grew up in central South Dakota but moved to Montana because South Dakota was getting way too crowded.
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Looks like a corral for rodeo, cattle auction, county fair, etc. next door just south of the bar. Appears to be used.
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Most repos involve banks, investment banks, money dealers and various investors. >What Is a Repurchase Agreement? >A repurchase agreement (repo) is a form of short-term borrowing for dealers in government securities. In the case of a
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"Economics of Money and Banking" - https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking is a great course on the structure and operation of the money market, including repos. It's way more complicated that I eve
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Not every science project results in a commercially viable product. Remember Bell Labs bubble memories and round lead acid batteries? So it is probably time to sort through the Alphabet ventures, pick the one or two that have a good chance,
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Vehicle manufacturers care about battery chemistry because they have to manufacture batteries. They also have to manufacture electric motors and the power electronics to manage charging and vehicle operation. Vehicle manufacturers currently
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The notion that the Anglosphere, especially the US, is less corrupt requires further examination. Local governments, and their special purpose entities like MTA, have complex relationships between politicians, officials, bonding firms, cons
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The report seems to deal mainly with freedom of expression by journalists, members of NGOs, activists, widely read bloggers and other members of the gadfly class. I wonder whether freedom of expression by the average citizen is decreasing
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Much of the philosophizing about consciousness is complicated by attempts to preserve a role for something other than an information theoretic entity operating on an electrochemical substrate. The attempts are motivated by a desire to have
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The CCP is probably content to let the HK situation continue to fester. The economic role of HK relative to the PRC will continue to wane. HK will continue to be portrayed as an object lesson in the dysfunction of democracy. The CCP can ass

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