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by Merrill 7y ago
>The current eastbound record was set by the American ocean liner United States in July 1952: the ship made the crossing in 3 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_crossing There
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by Merrill 7y ago
This is valid for rail travel in Europe if the energy for electrified intercity rail is not sourced from hydrocarbons. The energy efficiency in MegaJoules per passenger-kilometer are about equal between rail and air. For freight, rail is mu
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by Merrill 7y ago
Interesting summary of biomedical progress, but the extrapolation at the end is a leap too far.
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by Merrill 7y ago
A difference is that the "unacceptable" opinions people once expressed to their friends in the neighborhood bar can now be broadcast over the internet to a wider audience. The Intenet is only one piece though. The other piece is h
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by Merrill 7y ago
Use of telecom networks for criminal activities predates the Internet, and the use of computer networking for fraud and abuse was recognized long before the Internet was opened for commercial use. The movie War Games was released in '8
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by Merrill 7y ago
>Even a one-time increase of 10% to 15% is unlikely to dissuade large numbers of customers from dining out. That would amount to an extra $1.20 on a $12 burger. On the other hand, an extra $1.20 on a $3.50 burger might dissuade large num
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by Merrill 7y ago
United States National Radio Quiet Zone which also covers Sugar Grove. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...
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by Merrill 7y ago
We do have restaurant washroom signs - "Handwashing Laws For All 50 States" - https://www.signs.com/blog/handwashing-laws-for-all-50-state...
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by Merrill 7y ago
If we just disconnect from the internet, then the local politicians will still be able to fix the elections. Unscrupulous local politicians are a bigger problem than foreign interference.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Just put a heavy crawling international distress orange outline around political ads with a watermark saying "not fact checked".
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by Merrill 7y ago
Haven't looked recently, but in the early '90s there were about twice as many private guard service employees than there were sworn law enforcement officers. The ratio has gone down to about 1.4, probably because rich people and b
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by Merrill 7y ago
It appears that CA power line vegetation management is woefully lacking. Given the fire risks, the right of way for high tension power lines should be essentially bare of vegetation. PG&E is less than one-third done with its 2019 tree-
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by Merrill 7y ago
CA appears to require lots of power lines because of sprawling development patterns, electricity generation located away from population centers, and a significant proportion of electricity imported from other states which must then be dist
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JPMorgan Weighs Shifting Thousands of Jobs Out of New York Area(bloomberg.com)
1 points by Merrill 7y ago|1 comments
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by Merrill 7y ago
With the newer DNA editing tools becoming available more widely, perhaps there can be a "Free and Open Source Genetics" movement that will curtail the power of corporations to control genetic modification.
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African Swine Fever Will Impact Global Protein Market for Years(agweb.com)
2 points by Merrill 7y ago|0 comments
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by Merrill 7y ago
A good step would be to cut down and destroy every eucalyptus tree in CA and make it illegal to harbor the species. It is an invasive species from Australia and should not exist in North America. It has shredding bark which ignites, breaks
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by Merrill 7y ago
The patents on golden rice should begin to expire next year. Not only will farmers be able to propagate it without running afoul of IP restrictions, but hobbyist gene hackers will be able to create new varieties.
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by Merrill 7y ago
If it becomes a real problem, the comments in this thread indicate that there are feasible solutions. However, no incipient problem that requires political action is ever solved until it becomes urgent.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Lawrence Livermore National Labs publishes a great chart of US energy sources and consumption. In 2018 we used over 101 quadrillion British Thermal Units of energy. Renewables are a tiny fraction, mostly hydro and biomass. https:/&#x2
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by Merrill 7y ago
The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1965 was the first real vehicle pollution control act and it limited certain tailpipe emissions. However, it was one of the stupidist regulations ever, since it limited the proportion of unburn
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by Merrill 7y ago
Petroleum and Sea Power -- https://aoghs.org/petroleum-in-war/petroleum-and-sea-power/ Before airplanes, before tanks, the oil-fired battleship was a vast improvement over coal-fired battleships. Also "The Pr
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by Merrill 7y ago
In 1982 we had just emerged from the decade where the 1973 Yom Kippur War oil crisis and the 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock has us waiting in line for gasoline and filling only on odd/even days depending on whether we had odd or ev
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by Merrill 7y ago
>The new urbanisation guidelines encourage mixed-use development and recommend that all residents should have improved access to a diverse range of public and commercial amenities – schools, supermarkets, retirement centers, hospitals, p
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by Merrill 7y ago
This doesn't appear to include tipping in cash, only tips include in the payment via Uber.
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PG&E says 850k could lose power Saturday as winds fuel CA wildfire risk(sacbee.com)
1 points by Merrill 7y ago|0 comments
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by Merrill 7y ago
There are only a limited number of markets where large numbers of buyers and sellers transact for commodities of well understood characteristics. The fundamental transaction of capitalistic societies is the "deal", where sellers v
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by Merrill 7y ago
I doubt that there was ever any illusion that if financiers could arbitrage labor rates between nations that they would. Hence the expectation always was that living standards among nations would tend to equalize. Post WW II the US had abou
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by Merrill 7y ago
The warranty should be optional, though, since otherwise people who properly care for their phones will be paying to repair/replace phones of people who abuse them.
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by Merrill 7y ago
My phone was $7 / month during the two years that I was paying for it. That was a small fraction of the amount that the carrier is charging me for service. People who buy more expensive phones also tend to buy more expensive service pl

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