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by Merrill 7y ago
ISCHEMIA: Invasive Strategy No Better Than Meds for CV Events https://www.tctmd.com/news/ischemia-invasive-strategy-no-bet... I haven't been able to find out what the medical alternative treatment consists of othe
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>He died at age 53 on February 8, 1957, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., under military security lest he reveal military secrets while heavily medicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_
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I thought that lots of senior housing establishments offer what is essentially dorm living as an option in between independent apartment living and full nursing care? In college, Mrs B's rooming house was about the best accommodations
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Is there an effective way to suppress denial of service attacks in a decentralized network? Given that there are DNS root servers, isn't the internet actually centralized?
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The early American synthetic diamond producers, such as GE, mainly focused on producing industrial diamonds for grinding and other applications not requiring gem quality. They were never interested in taking on the DeBeers monopoly with gem
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It's not uncommon for engagement and wedding expenditures to exceed what could otherwise be the down payment on a starter home.
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One of the last innovations at HP was the work on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing and Very Long Instruction Word architectures that led to the Itanium IA-64 processors produced by Intel. By putting the burden of scheduling paralle
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De Beers fights lab-grown diamonds with technology as China’s synthetic gems threaten viability of their market >Companies producing such stones have sprung up all over China, churning out an estimated 160,000 to 200,000 carats of gem-qu
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It was the unusual case of a competent son of the founder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Watson_Jr . >Although the initiative, and as such much of the credit for the birth of the information revolution, must g
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The problem with wind and solar is that they both require extensive spatially distributed energy collection systems, storage to overcome intermittent generation, and complex transmission networks to collect, manage, and distribute the elect
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The scale on the right for temperature is a change of about 2 parts per 255 degrees Kelvin. The scale on the left is about 3 parts in 1361. It's not clear whether the much smaller variation in irradiance would be expected to cause the
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It's my impression that Germany and Japan are leaders in producing the capital equipment needed to set up manufacturing, although the US is fairly capable in some areas. I think that China imports a lot of equipment from them and then
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People generally overestimate the difficulty of designing a product and underestimate the difficulty of designing the equipment, processes, and systems needed to mass produce the product economically.
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The Winchester '94 rifle has been in production for 125 years now, and is still available for the 30-30 brass case, centerfire, smokeless powder cartridge. There was a rapid evolution of rifles from the flintlock, black-powder, muzzle-
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This is partly due to the application of computer controls and partly due to the application of things like direct fuel injection, turbocharging, etc. that were previously available only on racing or aircraft engines. For example, the Coswo
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>The first patent for using a gas turbine to power an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Maxime Guillaume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_engine After close to a century of development, one would think it would be nea
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California now has the biggest legal marijuana market in the world. Its black market is even bigger >“The illegal market is competitive because legal marijuana is so expensive to produce under Prop. 64,” said Dale Gieringer, director of
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It would seem that our soldiers current experience would be most like that of the British Army soldiers of the late-Victorian era from the Crimean War to the Boer War, when they were largely engaged in policing the colonies of the British E
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I'm assuming that Bezos sells his stock to some private equity firms, investment bankers, etc., for cash, and that he then uses the cash to build another company with the same ratio of assets to employees. Or, more improbably, that the
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> I wonder how many people could be elevated to comfortable middle class status with all the money hoarded so Jeff Bezos can have over 20 different extravagant homes? Jeff is worth $112 Billion. Amazons total assets are $162.6 B, and it
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Is Inequality Inevitable? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine... >Wealth inequality is escalating in many countries at an alarming rate, with the U.S. arguably having the highest inequality
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One of the reasons the British decided to cut their losses in America was that they had more important opportunities in India, where they were consolidating power after their victory over the French at Plassey.
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The US would not have developed as fast if it had continued to be a British colony. A major cause of the War of Independence was that when Britain took control of the Ohio after the French and Indian War, the crown claimed the right to all
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A's are in part due to attention to detail - reading the instructions very carefully, interpreting the questions just right, setting up problems as intended by the test writer,...
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1066? Lucky for us that Britain and France didn't get along or the US War of Independence would not have succeeded.
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So B students are learning fastest, and A students are just idling. OTOH, I graded for a Physics prof where 50/100 on his test was about average.
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23 people born in the same year with the same name.
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Names are associated with roles, not with persons. This is particularly true for prefix and suffixes. Mayor Lyndon Smersh and Lyndon Smersh, Esq. are different roles as politician and lawyer of the underlying person Lyndon Smersh. Many wome
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Edison was later backed by the big venture capitalists of his day -- JP Morgan, Vanderbilts, etc.
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Machine-readable Passport Name Standards https://egov.ice.gov/sevishelp/schooluser/machine-readable_p... Actually, names should be considered to be descriptor data that can be searched on, not as identifiers.

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