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Someone who recently became a new first-time mom credits Amazon's same-day delivery, Target's same-day pickup, and a supermarket's online order / bring to your car service with making life a lot easier. Her sister, who h
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"Do polyphenols enter the brain and does it matter? Some theoretical and practical considerations" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316747/ >In this paper, we summarize published d
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From the Abstract - >"We find a robust positive effect of increased air pollution on violent crimes, and specifically assaults, but no relationship between increases in air pollution and property crimes." https://www
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Interesting concept. When combined with a self-driving car, you could drive through a particularly unpleasant neighborhood and instead look at views of whatever scenic trip you fancy.
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They did a 3-month followup: >Of the 33 individuals who were able to be contacted, 7 (21.2%) said they had maintained the diet, 19 (57.6%) reported they had maintained some aspects of the diet and 7 (21.2%) reported they had not maintain
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About 1970 the first minicomputers were being applied to operations, administration and maintenance functions in the Bell System. The PDP-7 was too expensive and the PDP-8 was too limited to compete favorably with others. The PDP-11 was app
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From the PLOS paper >To assist in complying with diet recommendations, participants in the diet change group each received a small hamper of food items including olive oil (Cobram Estate), natural nut butter (Mayvers), nuts and seeds (wa
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I think there is a fundamental difference. Gulags destroy the body through forced labor. Prisons destroy the mind through forced idleness.
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There seems to be lots of forward progress in physics, e.g. in condensed matter physics, quantum computing, etc. Grand unified theories are sort of irrelevant so long as there are not measurable phenomena that cannot be explained without th
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It appears that Whittingham did his work at Exxon, and Yoshino did his at Asahi Kasei. So both were at industrial research labs when they did the Nobel prize-winning work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Stanley_Whitti
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Most Americans seem to regard literature, art and other cultural subjects as an innocuous recreational activity. Since they are not taken seriously, there is not much call for censorship. On the other hand, perhaps our freedom of expression
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Grammatical and structural complexity is a problem that should be corrected. However, the use of specialist terms and abbreviations is not a problem so long as they are understood by the audience for the paper. The example given is OK if un
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PG&E to cut power to 800k customers across California early Wednesday morning(sfchronicle.com)
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I sort of did that for a while. The differences between what management thinks they have, what is actually running, what data centers are charging back, what licenses are being invoiced, what finance is depreciating, and what is actually ne
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>"The Unicorn is allured by scent." >Tretres writes, that the Unicorn so hunts after young Virgins, that he will grow tame with them. And sometimes he will fall asleep by them, and be taken and bound. The hunters cloth som
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The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with the EU was $109 billion in 2018. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China was $378.6 billion in 2018.
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In the US there is a faction that is extremely strong on "privacy rights". This seem motivated by the idea that you are free to do as you please so long as you can prevent others from knowing about it, rather than depending on hav
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I thought that "blacklist" was deprecated and that "denylist" or "blocklist" were appropriate usages? https://developers.google.com/style/word-list#letter-B
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I recommend "Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science - Part 1" and "Part 2". Chinese philosophy from ancient times had given much thought to the nature of people and the problem of how to organize society.
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Free trade works so long as you are the economic hegemon. After the Napoleonic Wars, Britain was the strongest economic power and championed free trade until the 1870s. Then German and French manufacturing, US and Argentinian agriculture co
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North Korea is totalitarian, and it will hopefully change to something acceptable. I think of the current regime in China as more an authoritarian single party regime. We have tolerated or been allied with authoritarian single party regimes
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Not all subnets have Internet access, HTTPS is proxied for those that do, email attachments are scanned, and there is a large list of web sites to which access is blocked, likely including social networks like twitter and facebook. Dependin
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Every large organization has firewalled its internet protocol networks for decades. It's incomprehensible why some thought nations wouldn't do so as well.
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Since diversity is a strength, it would seem that the ideal situation globally is to have a diversity of economic, political and legal systems. If instead, these systems around the globe tend towards similarity and strong coupling, the resu
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Maybe you mean 1940s? The Bay Area benefited from fairly massive government subsidies to the Military Industrial Complex in California. WW II shifted military attention to the West Coast and San Francisco Bay was a major Naval Base. The Ato
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The statistics would be different if based on country of origin, rather than current citizenship or location. Peebles, for example, completed his bachelor's at the University of Manitoba before coming to Princeton. https://e
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Not quite the true experience. It should first start with writing the program on a standard coding form ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FortranCodingForm.pn... ), after which it is sent to the keypunch departme
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>Big Bill, the largest hog ever recorded at 2,552 lb (1,157 kg), was a Poland China. Poland Chinas rank highest in U.S. pork production in pounds of hog per sow per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_China H
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Is the main difference between CLT and plywood that CLT is a crossed grain stack of sawn lumber instead of peeled veneers?
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Probably mostly syndicated loans and bonds that the banks sell on to other investors. I doubt that more than a small fraction of the loans are held by the banks. So the more relevant question is who is holding the debt?

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