Merrill

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by Merrill 7y ago
If cars go electric and there is less demand for gas, oil refineries will produce less asphalt as a byproduct of oil refining. Demand for cement will go up to pave streets for electric cars to run on.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Global warming takes too long. Financial and political systems are unstable on shorter time scales. Current events are paralleling the late 1800s. Interest rates are very low, just as British Consol bonds were earning 2.75% in the late 1800
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by Merrill 7y ago
In some cases, such as the wives of Bedford whalers, the voyages may have been 3 years or more and a significant percentage did not return. Before the last few decades it would have been uncommon to receive daily phone calls.
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by Merrill 7y ago
It depends. For example, if you were drinking you may have been conscious of things the night before that you no longer remember the next morning.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The existing rail system is very efficient for heavy freight. High speed intercity rail needs a new railway system. There can't be any grade crossings with highways - a 200 mph train hitting a flatbed semi with a bulldozer on it is not
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by Merrill 7y ago
Global warming, economic inequality, etc aren't the real problem. The real problem is that the Eurocentric civilization has gone through periodic episodes of general warfare, starting with the Wars of the Reformation, the Thirty Years
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by Merrill 7y ago
We should make it easier for people to relocate to lower cost of living areas with good jobs. It's easier to commute to Jersey City or Newark from New Jersey residential communities than it is to commute from Brooklyn. Plus there are a
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by Merrill 7y ago
As a result of political processes in the USSR and following its collapse, the life expectancy of Russians decreased significantly. Substantial numbers of elderly Russians, including WW II veterans, died early. I don't think ethics had
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by Merrill 7y ago
We should be moving jobs west into New Jersey so less transit across the Hudson is needed. The Hudson is a fjord, a flooded valley carved out by glaciers between the Palisades of New Jersey and the bedrock of Manhattan, and not an ordinary
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by Merrill 7y ago
I wonder whether widows of couples who spend more time apart are similarly affected? There are many occupations where the husband spends days to weeks away - truckers, pilots, seamen, oil rig workers, construction workers, soldiers, etc.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Dreams are maintenance. They are overnight batch processing after the realtime system is largely shut down. Your realtime conscious system then reboots from the now consolidated memory when you wake up. You are a new and different person ea
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by Merrill 7y ago
I think that representative democracy works, while direct democracy has very mixed track record. Generally the public should not be weighing in on issues. The problem is that the public doesn't have the attention, interest or backgroun
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by Merrill 7y ago
Political news can be amusing if you take it the right way. There is no practical need to follow political news until the last few weeks before an election. Intermittent fasting from political and financial news is a good thing. Business ne
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by Merrill 7y ago
The HP 2114 minicomputers had capacitive touch buttons that lit up like elevator call buttons. These were used for loading the boot loader, as well as for a variety of input/output functions. For example, you could insert a "halt&
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by Merrill 7y ago
Partly because we recapitulated the development from 8 or 16-bit instruction sets three times: 1) mainframe (discrete transistors/tubes and magnetic memory), 2) minicomputer (TTL ICs and solid state memory), and 3) personal computers (
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by Merrill 7y ago
According to Pitchbook https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/149415-13 >Primary Office 16/F, No. 127 Guodao Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai China musical.ly appears to have always had its head office in
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by Merrill 7y ago
In Geneva it is easy to walk down the street and see watches selling for prices that vary by over 4 orders of magnitude. They all keep pretty good time. Some of the cheaper digital ones have much more functionality than the expensive mechan
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by Merrill 7y ago
Checks are now often scanned optically, with the MICR line, the courtesy amount field and the legal amount field all being read by software character and handwriting recognition. There is a small security deficit, since a fraudulent check
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by Merrill 7y ago
Musical.ly was started by entrepreneurs in Shanghai. Although it may have had US and Japanese investors, I don't think it was an American company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly >"It’s the first
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by Merrill 7y ago
Garmin vívosmart® 4.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The problem with privacy by obscurity is that once broken it cannot be fixed. Once information is released and becomes public, there is no way to retrieve or expunge it from the public record. The only remedy is law, regulation, and a socia
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by Merrill 7y ago
It's ironic that the "global electronic village" turns out to be just like a real village -- there's very little privacy.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Security by obscurity is no security at all. What is needed is stronger individual rights to access, correct, delete, and control the use of any information collected about us, as well as strong prohibitions on the use of data against our i
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by Merrill 7y ago
I read some of Kierkegaard's works some decades ago. It seemed to me that by his time philosophers had generally concluded that Christian theology, and theology generally, was not worth serious study. And Kierkegaard couldn't acce
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by Merrill 7y ago
It doesn't look like there is enough flow eastward across the Appalachian Mountains to the heavily populated eastern seaboard.
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by Merrill 7y ago
>It’s the rear spar pickle forks which crack The cracks form in the outer chord of the rear pickle forks (Figure 1) and the behind lying safety straps, just where they pass from the rear spar of the center wingbox to the fuselage side of
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by Merrill 7y ago
In the US, electrification of rail is very expensive, since bridges were not built to allow installation of overhead catenaries. Third-rail electrification is inefficient for freight and it interferes with operation of container well cars,
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by Merrill 7y ago
Depending on the country, there are significant requirements on the "box" regarding how much it compresses end-to-end in case of accidents. "Crush" requirements are in the range of hundreds of thousands of pounds of forc
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by Merrill 7y ago
See page 14, 15 of "Energy Efficiency in Air Transportation" by Arturo Benito, Gustavo Alonso. Table 2.3 gives MJ/pkm for the US. Fig 2.8 next page gives ranges of efficiency for both passenger and freight. https:/&#x2F
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by Merrill 7y ago
The US is optimized for very heavy freight cars moving at about 45 mph. It has fairly sharp curves so that changes of elevation (grades) can be minimized, it usually has wooden railroad ties, and street and highway crossings are allowed. Mu

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