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>Other than Spot, state police has a permanent fleet of robots. As of 2017, the bomb squad had 18 robotic platforms worth $1.8 million that are used on a weekly basis, according to police records. Most of those are tracked robots, not a
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Fair trade laws were repealed by '75, and it took a while for pricing to diverge and become as highly variable as today. Not sure whether anyone is doing it, but an early presumed advantage of internet commerce was that the seller coul
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Best bet would be to find a corporate job that best matched his interests. Back in the day, major corporate labs could manage a limited number of "sheltered workshop" situations for particularly talented people. Academia wouldn&#x
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The next consolidation will be cleaning up the plethora of apps for mobile. User's interactions can be simplified with a few well-designed multifunctional apps. WeChat probably points the way in this regard.
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At least in the case of Klaus Fuchs, he was a member of a family active in communist politics in Germany before emigrating to the UK and then the US. Others are first generation born in the US, but at least in Seborer's case, the entir
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"On the Trail of a Fourth Soviet Spy at Los Alamos" https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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Wonder what percentage of Americans produce 97% of main stream media news and commentary? Would it be over 0.2%?
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This is why basic research is so hard to manage. If a company is no longer interested in researching area X and instead wants to shift focus to area Y, there is no real alternative to outplacing the area X researchers and hiring new for are
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Just finished watching "Bullit". It would be amusing to edit the soundtrack to replace the Charger and Mustang V-8 notes with the whir of a couple electric motors. It would be sort of strange to see the tire smoke and hear the squ
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In the late '60s, the introduction of PL/I, which had complex numbers as a primitive type and a math library of functions of complex numbers, made transmission line calculations much easier.
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"Remembering Phillip H. Smith on his 100th Birthday" - https://faculty.up.edu/ainan/aps2005inanMarch05.pdf >Smith approached a number of technical magazines for publication of his transmission line diagram
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Back in the day, the international switchboard operators at White Plains and a couple other places would be the first to know when a coup happened, since outward calls stopped and inward calls could not be completed.
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They should ban ads for prescription drugs that cannot show through double-blind testing that they are more effective than cheaper branded or generic drugs.
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Local news is more available now than previously. There are mostly-free websites run by former print organizations, news websites started as digital-only by journalists, blog sites by local politically-involved commentators, and sites run b
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See Figure 5 on page 10 of "Prices and the Growth of the European Knowledge Economy, 1200-2007" https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:384596/FULLTEXT0... Note that after the continuous decline
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Sewing is a vital technology, since only with sewn, multi-layer clothing was cold-intolerant Homo sapiens able to colonize the middle and upper latitudes of the Eurasian continent during the last Ice Age. In the referenced article, it menti
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On a site called Literary Hub, they should recognize that the best reason for a "Flax Age" is the production of linen paper beginning about 1350 CE. Previously, parchment made expensively and laboriously from animal hides was the
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913-1914 by Frederic Morton https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-at-Twilight-Vienna-1913-1914/... >In an astonishing work of literary energy and historical insight, the author of The Rothschi
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The college your kids attend isn’t as important as the majors they choose(marketwatch.com)
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You can check the waveform with one of these: https://www.amazon.com/EMAY-Portable-Monitor-Software-Compat...
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https://www.facebook.com/Gnosisretreatcenter/ Gnosis literally means knowledge, but most often it is used to indicate mystical knowledge. Also https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA1MQyM14pcKhu96Zr5e2
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In this article, "in the round" appears to mean freezing the whole fish without removing the head and guts.
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Having taken Amtrack from NY to DC and Boston several times, I made the mistake of doing a NY to Raleigh, NC and back. South of around Richmond the service really deteriorates on single track competing with freight trains. The roadbed is ol
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There is also no practical reason to have windows in a telephone equipment building. They cannot be opened to cool, they only would light a limited area along the wall. The entire building must be air conditioned, and lighting is only turne
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Immersion cooling might not work since it depends on convection flow to move the heated liquid away from the plate. With a cold plate, pumps and pressure can be used to move the chilled water so that water in contact with the plate is alway
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Adding genes for more opsins is interesting. However, the regulatory mechanisms for developing the retina and differentiating cone types appear to be quite complex.
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The 18 foot ceilings accommodated the then standard 11 foot, 6 inch equipment racks, with space overhead for cable racks, bus bars, AC ducts, etc. It was built about the time that the standard was changed to 7 foot racks for the new electro
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A "cold plate" of chilled water cooled metal in direct contact with the wafer.
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Rather than use an AV for the entire trip, might AVs solve the problem of getting to/from mass transit? For example, your personal AV could get you from home to the station and return to your garage. After the train or bus ride, your e
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IIRC about half of medical expenses are incurred in the last 18 months of life. That would be around $1.6 trillion annually.

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