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by Merrill 7y ago
It would depend on what "unknown" means. "Unknown" in the sense that they are not on official maps and that Ottawa is unaware? Probably. "Unknown" in the sense that their local neighboring communities are unawa
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Toshiba to gather genetic info from thousands of its Japanese staff(asahi.com)
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>Organic 101: What the USDA Organic Label Means https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-... What about the presumption is wrong? Also https://www.ams.usda.gov/
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by Merrill 7y ago
A similar study on attempted suicides would be interesting. IIRC, the rates of attempted suicides are more equal between men and women, but women fail more often since they use less effective means. There must also be a large number of peop
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by Merrill 7y ago
Contextual Factors Associated With County-Level Suicide Rates in the United States, 1999 to 2016 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
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by Merrill 7y ago
It appears that Medicare keeps the fee for an office visit low. This causes the doctors to schedule frequent, short exams. They also do frequent diagnostic tests to increase revenue per visit. Less frequent, more thorough visits would seem
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by Merrill 7y ago
The benefit of organic is the presumed lower amounts of pesticide and herbicide residues in the product, hence some tiny lessening of the probability of getting cancer. Some would also assert that the products have better nutritional values
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by Merrill 7y ago
Looks like a quite different car market. The first 3-row SUV is the Mitsubishi Outlander in 6th place. The market looks like mostly compact sedans and compact/subcompact SUVs. There is a lack of pickups and mid/large SUVs. From ot
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by Merrill 7y ago
It's not at all clear that NASA has paid for itself in economic benefits to the civilian economy. Most analyses are sponsored by NASA. To the extent that it has had benefits, most of these could be obtained from the satellite programs,
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by Merrill 7y ago
True, but the practical utility of owning versus renting a house is pretty equal. Owning a house has the added utilities of allowing for social signalling through personalized home improvements and selective social group membership, also as
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by Merrill 7y ago
>"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies a
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by Merrill 7y ago
Land is an asset, but if there's a house on it, it is an unproductive asset that you pay property taxes on. The building is an asset, but you also pay property taxes on it, and in the US, about 60% of "home owners" have a mor
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by Merrill 7y ago
Drone racing would be good too.
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>New Energy Vehicles (including full electric and hybrid cars) made up 7 per cent of total car sales in China during the second quarter of 2019, compared to 3 per cent in Europe and just 2 per cent in the United States. Chinese drivers b
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by Merrill 7y ago
True, but since this is a Detroit News story, the real question is whether these will be United Auto Workers union jobs?
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by Merrill 7y ago
One of the local "dead malls" is thriving as a collection of about 3 strip malls surrounding the common parking lot. Each "strip mall" has one or two big box stores and a couple have a line of smaller stores. Of course,
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by Merrill 7y ago
>"State universities located in towns of any size frequently looked upon dormitories as an extravagance and students entirely capable of renting lodging elsewhere. The first dormitory at Rutgers was only built in 1890." Rutgers
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by Merrill 7y ago
It's unclear why lawyers still consider fax signatures to be valid. There are no security features in fax to support that claim.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Typing at 60 words/minute, 5 characters/word and 8 bits/character gives a gross bit rate of 40 bits/second. Of course, the information rate is a lot less, since there are fewer than 8 bits of information per character in
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by Merrill 7y ago
There is probably limited funding for this because even if it is true, it will not result in a large stream of revenue for anyone. In fact, if it works it might reduce some health industry organizations' revenues.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Early VW Beetles had no fuel gauge either. They had a reserve fuel tank, and a lever to switch over to the reserve. Can't recall whether they had a dipstick or not. https://www.manualslib.com/manual/940047/Vo
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by Merrill 7y ago
Research with national security implications should be done by University Affiliated Research Centers, by the National Laboratories, or under contract by corporations. These types of organization can maintain appropriate levels of security
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"On November 10, 2009, Nowak entered a guilty plea to felony burglary and misdemeanor battery. She was sentenced to a year's probation and the two days already served in jail, with no additional jail time." https:/&#x2F
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by Merrill 7y ago
z14 and Power 9 appear to support decimal integer and float. Does Python on those processors support their use?
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by Merrill 7y ago
It goes the other way in countries where matches are based on sexual attraction. Families decay when bright, successful men choose women for their beauty. In societies where matchmaking is done by parents or by recognized matchmakers, the o
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by Merrill 7y ago
The invention of the telephone, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell...
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by Merrill 7y ago
Maybe their business model got too expensive and/or the spam calls for solar installation stopped working. https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
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by Merrill 7y ago
The reservation is roughly 60 x 60 miles and roughly squarish. So it appears that the surveillance is a few mile deep strip along its southern border.
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So the effect would be that the US companies would have to abandon their investments in China? I guess this could be offset by US seizure of Chinese investments in the US. But US investments in China are much greater, so it seems like tradi
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by Merrill 7y ago
I didn't see language which would give the President the claimed authority to order US companies to depart China.

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