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by Merrill 7y ago
A few cubes away from me one of our guys put his head down on his arms on his work surface. No one noticed, but he died. The guys holding a meeting in the cube across the aisle from him felt bad about it, but they thought he was taking a na
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by Merrill 7y ago
Those are all business revenues acquired by the government affairs department, the alumni affairs department, the intellectual property legal group, the provost for research, the athletics department, etc.
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by Merrill 7y ago
2018 Cost of Recruiting an Undergraduate Student Report Benchmarking data for recruitment and admissions costs and enrollment staffing levels for four-year colleges and universities, based on a poll of campus officials http://lea
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by Merrill 7y ago
The old city center is a warren of narrow streets and must have been hell to navigate. Seems that it was a dying city center slum and this was a key step in gentrifying it.
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by Merrill 7y ago
This is quite possible for Manhattan and probably for other cities. Manhattan once had transportation needs for streets since it was ringed with wharves for seaborne and river commerce, had huge warehouses, railroad yards, factories, and al
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by Merrill 7y ago
This looks to be very much a tabloid story. It looks like The Sun and The New York Post had the story a day before the Washington Post.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The Daily Mail has more details. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7577113/Border-offi...
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by Merrill 7y ago
I know one person who works remotely in transcribing and one in editing. They have specific numbers to meet in terms of lines and pages. In fact the transcriber is paid by quantity.
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by Merrill 7y ago
For the section of rail parallel to the tunnel, there is only one grade crossing at Sphinxlunet and one foot crossing in the station. While it is hard to see from satellite view after the tunnel is built, there were likely more crossings at
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by Merrill 7y ago
It looks like there are 66 fans installed with venting at the tunnel ends. https://www.novenco-building.com/media/1166/king-willem-alex...
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by Merrill 7y ago
In Google satellite view, there appears to be a railway about 400 meters west which similarly divides the city. Will that be buried as well?
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by Merrill 7y ago
> #1,986,196 in Patio, Lawn & Garden
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by Merrill 7y ago
I have a 2005 Accord which has been quite reliable, but it is an LX and doesn't have much of an infotainment system. I'm worried about repair of things like the video cameras, LCD screens, and infotainment systems that are in the
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by Merrill 7y ago
Which auto maker's electronics are likely to be reliable for the 25-year nominal life of the vehicle (US fleet average age is 11.8 years and rising)? And which will have spare parts available for that long? I'm thinking about buyi
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by Merrill 7y ago
Wrenches? Clearly those are bottle openers. https://miro.medium.com/max/6516/1*yF6s3HG4AY4WAQruLPSmag.jp...
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by Merrill 7y ago
When we fed a rabbit or squirrel to the farm cats, they always ate the guts first. That's where the vital nutrients are.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The growth of "dark pools" for electronic trading off of the stock exchanges has also been an important development in the last couple of decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pool
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by Merrill 7y ago
Maybe Xi had Taiwan in mind, not Hong Kong. Taiwan is very important to China.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Repairs aren't the only cause of mass transit outages. There are also the occasional MTA strikes, which happened in '66, '80, and 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_New_York_City_transit_str...
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by Merrill 7y ago
The comments on the MIT approach versus the New Jersey style is interesting considering that by '89 MIT's X Window System was a major contributor to the success of Unix Workstations and the X Windows "Principles" seem a
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by Merrill 7y ago
When I was in grade school, students took turns cleaning and maintaining the school. It was also a lesson in democracy, since we had a meeting every month, run according to regular procedure, where students were elected to the various jobs
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by Merrill 7y ago
Sudbury Ontario is farther south and has a warmer climate. However, it is of a similar size, fairly isolated, and has severe environmental problems due to a history of nickel mining and smelting.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Interesting photo, thanks. I was thinking that the top would buckle at the point of impact and fall sideways. Compared with the B-25 collision with the Empire State Building, the B-767s are over 10 times heavier, were moving more than twice
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by Merrill 7y ago
The 208' square floorplan resulted in a slender monolith. With other construction methods, they may have toppled, rather than collapsed within the tube. That may have resulted in even more death and destruction. The development of the
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by Merrill 7y ago
When we had a local packing plant butcher steers, we'd get round steaks with the ring bone, including marrow. My recollection is that it was pretty tasty. The dog loved chewing the bone afterwards.
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by Merrill 7y ago
In the Marines you may not have been 5' 6" and 126 pounds with a BMI of 20.3. Kipchoge and his pacers have a similar physique. https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag...
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by Merrill 7y ago
True, the development groups weren't too keen on Unix. They wanted to choose the minicomputer and operating system from those commercially available and get on with developing applications without the risks and effort of using an unpro
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by Merrill 7y ago
SC has an area of 32,000 square miles or 20,480,000 acres. The average annual rainfall is about 4 feet. So that is about 80 million acre-feet of precipitation. Converting from acre feet to gallons gives 26,000,000 million gallons of rainfal
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by Merrill 7y ago
>In addition to Google’s request in the Charleston area, mega farms in central South Carolina have been under scrutiny over the amount of groundwater they use to irrigate crops each summer. 549 million gallons is about 1685 acre feet, wh
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by Merrill 7y ago
2017 to 2018 Amazon grew from $103 to $121B revenues or by $18B, while Walmart grew from $375 to $388B or by $13B. However, Amazon's revenues include some fast growing areas such as AWS, so the revenues they are taking away from other

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