Merrill

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by Merrill 7y ago
The Enterprise Architect's job is rather more like that of an Urban Renewal Planner than an architect. There are many pre-existing structures, many interested parties with varying degrees of control, and many economic and technical con
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by Merrill 7y ago
I would have thought that that the "one child" policy played a large part, since it allowed a larger investment in fewer children by parents and society. This, coupled with an educational system that is able to spot talent and dev
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by Merrill 7y ago
Odd, since a birth certificate is not actually a valid proof of identity. There is no biometric associated with a birth certificate created in year X that can be used to prove that the baby named in it has grown up to become the person clai
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by Merrill 7y ago
There seem to be counterexamples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Raised_in_confinem... "Isabelle (1938) was almost seven years old when she was discovered. She had spent the first years of her life isol
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by Merrill 7y ago
Arctic Sea Ice News and Analyis - the August 6 update is up. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
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by Merrill 7y ago
It depends on the situation. Email should be accompanied by a messaging system that a) lets you know if the other person is available to chat, and b) provides real-time interaction. The combination is more efficient than phone or video conf
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by Merrill 7y ago
I stand corrected. The percentage in 1920 was about 30%. However, another large slice, probably over 20%, lived in rural small towns and villages where life wasn't much different. The Rural Electrification Act was signed in 1936. Befor
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by Merrill 7y ago
A century ago most housewives were farm housewives. The housewife on a pre-electric, pre-running water farm could not have spent 60 hours/week on what is now "housework", since considerable time had to be devoted to caring fo
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by Merrill 7y ago
The combination of climate change and increased competition from a growing population will make meat unaffordable for all but the very rich. "We're Already Starting To Ration Our Corn" - Perfect Storm Could Send Spot Prices H
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by Merrill 7y ago
About 11 cubic kilometers from an area of 2,166,086 square kilometers. Or about 5 millimeters thickness?
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by Merrill 7y ago
The times involved are too great for biological beings like us. But for our AI successors, who's personality can be uploaded anew to new versions of IT substrates, a million years would be nothing. Interstellar travel, if it is happeni
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San Francisco airport bans sale of plastic bottles(france24.com)
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by Merrill 7y ago
For decades broadcasters have converted movies to NTSC video using three-two pull down, where each movie frame is converted to either three or two video fields in order to convert the 24 frame rate to the 60 field rate (well, actually 29.97
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by Merrill 7y ago
Animals have to act in order to find food, water, mates, escape predators, etc. Therefore, they need a nervous system that includes a fantasy machine that can imagine alternative futures and that includes a choice machine which can initiate
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by Merrill 7y ago
Suppose that it is true that it takes 10,000 hours to become expert at software development, just like for other arts and skills. Then, if the half life of IT is 10 years, you have to accumulate 5,000 hours of new learning every 10 years. C
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by Merrill 7y ago
Those are the weak connections I referred to. Last I looked, the volume of financial transactions was about two orders of magnitude larger than the volume of purchases of goods and services. So maybe a couple percent of futures transactions
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by Merrill 7y ago
Business produces goods and services. Finance is an online multiplayer game. They are two weakly-connected systems.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Vegetation management is an ongoing task for solar farms. Herbicides can be used to keep weeds and vines from growing on the panels, and grasses should be mowed to keep down pollen which dusts the panels and reduces efficiency.
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by Merrill 7y ago
If you are deep in debt, you are not middle class.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02310-3
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by Merrill 7y ago
18,000 years ago Manhattan was under 2000 feet of ice. An ice-covered Canada has been the usual state of nature for the last couple million years. The current warm period is highly unusual and probably unstable, although AGW may prolong it.
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by Merrill 7y ago
But how are their digital advertising revenues doing? Aren't digital ads the main revenue source for most newspaper web sites beyond the "big 3" in digital subscriptions? Website readership might be a better indication of rel
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by Merrill 7y ago
Where? Not where it will grow up into utility lines, or where it will fall into utilities or onto a structure. What type? Small and strong species that will not uproot, snap off or shed branches in a windstorm, and will tolerate heavy loads
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by Merrill 7y ago
A healthy steel industry would seem to be fundamental to having a healthy auto industry. But the UK's steel industry is in trouble as well. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/22/what-went-
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by Merrill 7y ago
More practical would be the removal of the Board of Directors and the CEO of the corporation, with the forfeiture of any unpaid future compensation and the ineligibility to serve as a director or officer of any other corporation. They are r
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by Merrill 7y ago
"Helm will provide technical support services to software users of Stripe," ... "Under Armour previously had a call center in the building." Looks like the 200 jobs will be customer support call center jobs, which may no
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by Merrill 7y ago
China disrupting world’s diamond sector, tapping sophisticated technology to produce cheap synthetic alternatives https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3020399/china-disrupti... Seems pointless for a country
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by Merrill 7y ago
Alibaba crafts world's 'fastest' 'open-source' RISC-V processor yet: 16 cores, 64-bit, 2.5GHz, 12nm, out-of-order exec https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/27/alibaba_risc_v_chip...
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by Merrill 7y ago
The roots are when they moved the Boeing Headquarters from Seattle, where they made airplanes, to Chicago, where they did not. They stopped being an engineering and production company and became a marketing and accounting company.
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by Merrill 7y ago
I'd think that most writers who get paid are writing about some domain knowledge. This would seem to be true of fiction writers, even if the domain is an understanding of human relationships, insights about sex or ambition, etc. Otherw

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