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by Merrill 7y ago
I wonder what the ratio of real versus dummy cameras is? https://www.homedepot.com/b/Electrical-Home-Security-Video-S...
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It is really important to retain an expert criminal defense lawyer. The family of a person accused of attempted murder retained a lawyer that they used for other civil and business matters. The accused was found guilty, almost certainly wro
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Between the Plague and WW I&II there was the Reformation and following religious wars until the Peace of Augsburg, The Thirty Years War, and the French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars. These were periods of major conflict that leveled E
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Socialism gained only after World War I disrupted incumbent powers and wealth. World Wars I and II really need to be considered as a unit. War continued into the '20s in Eastern Europe and then resumes in 1936 in Spain. See "War o
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>Airlines receive only about 60% of their revenue from passengers directly (the other 40% comes from selling frequent-flier miles to credit card companies). But of that 60% of passenger consumer revenue, the big money comes from business
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>that mid-20th-century laws that put brakes on this feedback loop have been removed; I don't believe that the purpose of mid-20th-century laws was to promote equality. Things were more equal then because: a) World Wars I & II de
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Their AMG doing 120 mph in Nebraska on I-80 on Sunday is probably a lot safer than the Governor's Chevy Suburban doing 91 on the Garden State Parkway. "Corzine's car was doing 91 mph before crash" - https://ww
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You could wrap the TV in aluminum foil. >Perhaps the best April Fools’ joke of the (Youth) Journal [a Dutch news program] came in 1969. Special cars would drive around with scanners to track down television owners who hadn’t paid the lic
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True, but I think that the uncle's connections in Washington enabled the brother's and their family's entry to the US. After that it is simply another case of maladaptation to their new situation, conversion to extremism, the
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The Boston Bombings and the CIA Connection. Graham Fuller and Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev - https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-boston-bombings-and-the-ci...
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The local county library, which is quite a large system, doesn't have 3 of 16 books from the NY Times December 5, 1999 non-fiction bestseller list: HAVE A NICE DAY! by Mick Foley, THE NEW NEW THING, by Michael Lewis, and THE CENTURY, b
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What is needed is a detector for the flavor agents given off by the Maillard reaction. If I don't know the proper time in the microwave to heat a dish, I just let it run until it starts to smell right. The same strategy should work for
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by Merrill 7y ago
The face picture is not really the problem. The app slurps other data from the device, such as log files, cookies, identifiers, etc. Of course, this app is probably not dissimilar to many of the other 2.5 million Android, 1.8 million Apple,
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by Merrill 7y ago
Although there may be more total energy in the atmosphere, the polar regions are warming faster than the tropics. This would seem to decrease the temperature gradient as a function of latitude and slow convection. It must be that average wi
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From the wiki reference: >"A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique and logical trick (fallacy)." It is not a specific big lie, but a class of lies that exploit a certain mass naïveté.
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There is also a distinction between logical and quantitative thinking. Some people operate mainly out of a "whether or not" mindset, and they are not inclined to think in terms of "how much", "to what degree",
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If you buy an expensive car, produced in low volumes, with little competition in the independent repair shop and aftermarket parts industry, expect to pay through the nose for maintenance, repairs and body work. That also applies to other e
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It's particularly effective when combined with "Big Lie". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
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It's a crises because establishment media now have difficulty shaping public opinion through the traditional mechanism of editorial choice.
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I would approach it from a "how to use information technology" perspective. This would include how to locate, acquire, validate, transform, store, process and display information. It would also include how to find, download, insta
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The numerator integral must decline rapidly as a function of TH unless the radiative efficiency is a strong function of time, which seems unlikely. Most of the actual warming effect of a methane release would occur in the first three decade
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The article in Nature published as a "Comment" is "Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against" - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0 For the ice sheet collapses, it takes 100s
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>Methane, by contrast, is mostly removed from the atmosphere by chemical reaction, persisting for about 12 years. Thus although methane is a potent greenhouse gas, its effect is relatively short-lived. https://www.theguardian.
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The more probable cause of disrupted agriculture and widespread famine is a volcanic eruption with a rapid, dramatic cooling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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Hasn't Big Oil been a leading edge customer of IT all along? Wasn't processing of seismic data one of the drivers for commercial High Performance Computing and then for Beowulf clusters?
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A common phrase of politicians and commentators objecting to some policy with which they disagree is "That is not who we are as a people!" Unless backed up with really good polling data, the phrase is total nonsense.
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No, but nested groups are the common organization of governments and corporations. The House of Representatives (IQ=38), for example, does little other than vote in session, while all of the actual work is done by committees. A nested model
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Ascribing personhood to countries is weirder than ascribing personhood to corporations. Particularly grating is the common parlance that countries X and Y are "friends" or "enemies". This may have made sense in the world
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The IQ of a group size N is approximately 100/logN for N>10. For the US Senate, N=100 and IQ = 50.
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It's a logical choice. Switzerland is where ISO, IEC, and ITU among other international standards organizations are located.

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