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by Merrill 7y ago
On the other hand, there are non-plants that are green and have chloroplasts. I cultured them from pond water in high school Biology. Interesting creatures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglena
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by Merrill 7y ago
Back in the '90s a cable company started to also provide phone service in the LA area. One little problem was that their billing software was unable to calculate the up to 6 different taxes applicable on an address by address basis.
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by Merrill 7y ago
There is nothing like a moonless winter night (<20 below) in far rural Minnesota. Either you get a vast number of stars or you get the Northern Lights. Eastern North Dakota is probably a good choice as well.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Are there no orange/yellow LEDs? Seems odd, since LEDs were red long before other colors were available. Years ago, Pickett slide rules were a greenish yellow, which, according to their advertising, was the color that provided the sha
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by Merrill 7y ago
It appears that the critical decisions on the Max design were made during Raymond Conner's tenure as head of Commercial Airplanes. He was a sales executive. His successor, Kevin McAllister was also a sales executive, and worse, was ex-
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by Merrill 7y ago
Science is about developing models of reality that allow us to make better than random predictions. A model that says that unkempt hair in elderly female patients is a signal of distress is a scientific model. It is a probabilistic model ba
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by Merrill 7y ago
When I see pictures of cities with lots of bikes, they are usually cities in South and East Asia. How did they become so successful? Is there anything to learn from their experience?
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by Merrill 7y ago
NINJA mortgages. No Income, No Job, or Assets. There is actually a good business in providing mortgages to people who have income, jobs or assets, but who can't/won't provide documentation because of their legal status or the
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by Merrill 7y ago
"Investment banks" were only colloquially banks. They were not members of the Federal Reserve, not regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and not FDIC insured. Survivors became banks after the crisis, but in t
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by Merrill 7y ago
Problems with weak banks are usually solved by merging them with stronger banks. It's the non-bank financial institutions that are more worrisome. Recall that Lehman Brothers and AIG were not banks.
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by Merrill 7y ago
My GP's practice went to a SaaS provider for electronic health records. Never mind transmission costs -- there is no standard way to export their patient records in order to move to a different provider. It requires a custom consulting
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by Merrill 7y ago
Target same day pickup is good. Not a Costco member, so have only used the pharmacy. Bought a microwave from Walmart that came in a severely damaged carton, although there were no dents or scratches. But the microwave died a few months late
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by Merrill 7y ago
I've bought online from probably two dozen major retailers. Where to go depends on selection, price, availability and risk. On the other hand, I don't buy from small unknown vendors, either on their own site or via third-party agg
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by Merrill 7y ago
Amazon's sold and fulfilled by third-party is basically like buying on Ebay.
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by Merrill 7y ago
https://www.stilltasty.com/
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by Merrill 7y ago
It reduces the risk, because more of the inventory will be genuine, returns are simpler, and you have "one throat to choke" if something is bad. You can reduce risk further by buying Amazon essentials or Amazon's own brands,
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by Merrill 7y ago
On the left panel under "Seller" there is a Amazon.com check box you can use to eliminate third party sellers from the product search. I tend to select sold by Amazon unless the seller is the actual manufacturer of the product, e.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Do investors know 1) how much oil can be extracted at what levels of cost and 2) how much royalties and taxes will the company have to pay to the Saudi government in the future? Current cash flow based on current costs, levels of production
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by Merrill 7y ago
It seems odd to associate risk with "NG". Any risks would be more likely related to the frequency spectrum being used and the signal power than to the modulation techniques and communications protocols. 5G can be deployed in the s
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by Merrill 7y ago
Innovation is easy if you can do it for yourself, by yourself, using stuff you have. That's a paraphrase of something in somebody's book. but it is really true. If costs and benefits don't accrue to the same organization or i
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by Merrill 7y ago
California has 10 times as many lawyers as Taiwan. http://www.twba.org.tw/en/Report.htm https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
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by Merrill 7y ago
The real threat to jobs is business process automation. The ideal is to change business processes to be like self serve gas stations where in the usual case the customer does all the labor required and the individual transaction never requi
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by Merrill 7y ago
Unsheltered, unclothed humans are pretty much limited to south of the Line of Palms. Living north of the Line of Palms requires either or both clothing and shelter. With effective clothing, minimal shelter is needed until conditions become
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by Merrill 7y ago
Manufacturers are motivated to make products that can't be repaired so that a) customers will buy more frequently and b) the manufacturer does not have to stock and supply repair parts. The latter is particularly onerous as the lifetim
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by Merrill 7y ago
1.68 million in 2018 with a 40% growth rate. That's an incredible number, soon growing to reach one self-published title per hundred literate adults.
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by Merrill 7y ago
We could do a debt for equity swap. Set up a Government Sponsored Entity like Fannie Mae to issue bonds equivalent to the market value of the equity. Essentially a government sponsored leveraged buyout.
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by Merrill 7y ago
This can be done by converting "for profit" corporations into "not for profit" corporations and having them finance investments with debt instead of equity.
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by Merrill 7y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-11/oracle-gr... >Hurd, one of the company’s two CEOs, is struggling with an illness that has occasionally taken him in and out of the public eye for more tha
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by Merrill 7y ago
Re the 6 deaths in as many months: http://nationalcosh.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2019_Dir... >All six workers who died at Amazon facilities and operations during the past six months were employe
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by Merrill 7y ago
Around 45 to 50 years old, systems administrator, who had a heart attack. Did some work in the server room, but nothing strenuous as far as I know. I've worked in a number of buildings with 4 to 7 K employees, and with that large a pop

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