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by Merrill 7y ago
2a: limited in outlook : NARROW - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provincial "Provincial" in the sense of being preoccupied with themselves and not knowing much and caring less about the rest of t
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by Merrill 7y ago
New York and San Francisco are two of the most provincial cities in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...
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by Merrill 7y ago
Pedestrian and bicycle roads aren't necessarily built to support 25000 kilo trucks, e.g. a concrete mixer truck on the way to a construction site.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Not sure what the actual statistics would be, but using Google streetview, it seems that trucks/vans are maybe 20% of traffic. Taxis, limos, Uber, etc. probably make up another 30%. Private autos are probably on the order of half. It w
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by Merrill 7y ago
This seems to ignore freight. First, since there are no freight railroads into Manhattan; everything consumed by the residents and the much larger daytime population has to arrive by truck. Most freight into Manhattan comes via the Hudson R
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by Merrill 7y ago
The more common scenario is for the cookies, chips and coke to come from the respective aisle-long displays at the supermarket. Ready to eat frozen meals tend to be high calorie as well. As for eating out, fast food is bad, but fast casual
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by Merrill 7y ago
The average age is up to 11.8 years for the 278 million car, SUVs and light trucks in the US. The market shift to SUVs was also a shift to more durable vehicles, as was the shift away from US cars to foreign cars. As more and more stringent
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by Merrill 7y ago
Apparently the auto manufacturers are doing their own designs, and at first glance, it would appear that they need some of the same metalworking skills as ICE engines. Although in setting up new lines, they are probably much more automated.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Fujitsu, Toshiba, Panasonic and Sony are among the largest outsourcers of manufacturing, with many factories outside of Japan and sourcing many components from non-Japanese vendors. So Japan has been going down the same path as the US, just
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by Merrill 7y ago
The main problem in the US with food is not the type, quality, or purity -- it's the quantity. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html >The prevalence of obesity was 39.8% and affected about 93.3 milli
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by Merrill 7y ago
JPMorgan to boost security after employee punched by Hong Kong protester as tensions run high https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3031642/jpmo... >The employee, who was not identified in a
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by Merrill 7y ago
Libraries have two problems - guessing what books their patrons need and should be acquired, and guessing what books they have that their patrons no longer need. The second process, "weeding the collection", at least can be inform
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by Merrill 7y ago
Actually the 1899 Hague Convention, and the US is not a signatory. The US reserves the right to use expanding bullets when there is a clear military necessity. Until 2010 the prohibition only applied to warfare between military units, not t
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by Merrill 7y ago
Soft, expanding bullets stop more easily when they hit something. Full metal jacket military bullets penetrate things like auto bodies, walls, etc, and pose a greater threat to innocent bystanders. Plus, the real reason is that in war, woun
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by Merrill 7y ago
So imaging technology can be used to facilitate inter-group conflict as well as governmental oppression.
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by Merrill 7y ago
I don't recall the use of masks being prevalent during either the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations or the Civil Rights demonstrations of the '50s and '60s. The adoption of masks is probably driven by the digital imaging chip a
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by Merrill 7y ago
Whether pre-agricultural societies were generally peaceful is a matter of some debate. If they were, it is probably because disease, accident and predators kept the population in balance with resources. See, for example, "Resource scar
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by Merrill 7y ago
There will continue to be unrest in Iraq until an all-Shiite government is in control. At the time of Gulf War II under W, the population was about 20% Sunni, 20% Kurdish, and 60% Shiite. So if you disarm the minority ruling Sunni establish
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by Merrill 7y ago
Standards actually help somewhat, since standards committees generally require that participants disclose their patents that are essential to practice of the standard and pledge to license them on "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminat
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by Merrill 7y ago
See Figure 1 in https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/2018-December-... Checks are down to a third of what they were in 2000. The fastest growing type of non-cash payment is debit card, and a lot of these are c
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by Merrill 7y ago
An earlier transition to chip cards may have reduced costs to the US economy as a whole and thus citizens in general. On the other hand, it would have shrunk the size of the credit card business. It's not politics. It's simply sel
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by Merrill 7y ago
US payments is a very complex system - there are around 4900 banks and a similarly large number of non-bank players. Managing change is really hard. Not everyone wants a change. One person's costs are another person's revenues. Th
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by Merrill 7y ago
It's an ongoing process. 10s of thousands of jobs were taken out the last two decades by changes to check processing. Check imaging and clearing by image transmission or conversion to ACH, along with more payments being made by credit
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by Merrill 7y ago
Glucose is the main source of energy for the brain. So corn syrup, the Karo kind, being pure glucose produced by depolymerizing corn starch, is fine for the brain. High fructose corn syrup, made by enzymatic conversion of about half the glu
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by Merrill 7y ago
It would be nice if natural regeneration worked, but in this area an idle plot quickly becomes overrun with invasive species. Some of these are foreign trees, such as alianthus, and some are US trees not native to this area, such as black l
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by Merrill 7y ago
Where there are no existing civilian emitters, such as FM stations, it would seem possible to deploy transmitters deliberately to create a hostile RF environment to assist the passive radars.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The recommendation is to reforest 103 million hectares of the US. That is about 400,000 square miles in a country of about 4,000,000 square miles, i.e. 10% of the surface area. It's not clear where there is that much land suitable for
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by Merrill 7y ago
If you intend to go into industry, what is the industrial job market for interactive theorem proving? If it is not so good, then you will be doing a career change at the end of your PhD and at least part of the degree's value will have
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by Merrill 7y ago
It took about 11 years to go from Kitty Hawk to the first scheduled passenger flights in 1914. On the other hand, about 40 years elapsed between Gargarin in '61 until Dennis Tito's paid flight aboard a Soyuz in 2001. The interval
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by Merrill 7y ago
Given the price/performance characteristics of electromechanical relay computers, he was probably about right. The introduction of vacuum tube electronic logic, subsequently replaced by discrete transistors, and the integrated circuit

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