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by Merrill 7y ago
I would expect that the type of immigrants who typically enjoy lots of economic success are from middle to upper socioeconomic groups with cultural values that encourage discipline, hard work and getting ahead. In many cases it appears that
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Lawyers probably get paid the most for writing.
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So also known in English as Hakka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people#Hong_Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_Chinese#Etymology Historic genocidal wars are probably still remembered.
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Is the population of the New Territories North region less sympathetic with the pro-democracy protesters than Hong Kong Island and Kowloon? They appear to have commercial ties to Shenzhen across the border. https://en.wikipedia.o
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The population of PRC is approximately 200 times the population of Hong Kong.
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It's the Game of Life. People play it according to whatever rules and penalties they perceive to be in place using whatever strategies and tactics they think will succeed.
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The plastic celluloid slightly predates the beginning of crude oil extraction. Plastics can be made starting with non-petroleum chemicals, such as cellulose. See also Henry Ford's plastic car made from soybeans, wheat, and corn, and de
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After concluding that "management" and "natural" were a contradiction in terms, I resigned.
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I was involved in management of a small natural preserve. One of the activities was to control some of the more pestilential invasive species, such as Oriental bittersweet. But without a huge expensive effort, invasives really can't be
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The lands around the Arctic Ocean are really dry, since the winds off the Arctic Ocean blow over ice much of the year. Therefore, in summer what vegetation there is may rapidly dry out on the surface and burn easily. Once the Arctic Ocean i
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Apparently the ideas and mental concepts in one person's brain are roughly similar to those in another's, at least similar enough so that common sets of symbols, semantics, and syntax can be agreed such that communication is possi
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While natural languages and mathematics are two important formalisms by which technologists communicate, it seems to me that we also use a much broader set of visual symbolic systems. These include tables of data in various formats and figu
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A lawsuit has been filed challenging New York's rent control laws on constitutional grounds as an illegal taking of private property and as a violation of due process. Landlords File Federal Lawsuit Challenging New York's Rent Con
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This is good, more because it will make searching for information easier than because it will avoid copyright. Searching through journal articles to find information about a given topic is very hard, even at a university with more or less u
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How did the author not quote the metaphor "tying two bricks together won't make them float"?
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I used PL/I in about '68 to do transmission line calculations. It was great for the task because it had a complex float type and a full set of complex math functions. It was a lot better than Fortran or Cobol at the time. I think
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The Z114 can be had with a power option to run off of 380-570 volts DC. See page 6 of "zEnterprise 114 System Overview" https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2350bc7c39...
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Outsourcing of financial services processing has been a big business for decades. However it is usually provided to small/medium banks or credit unions by specialized firms or by big banks. A big bank will usually do its own ledger pro
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Do all these new digital currency schemes have the two important properties that inflation is prevented and that transfers are anonymous? The first is realized by ensuring that the calculation for minting a coin requires the expenditure of
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There is also evidence of admixture with archaic species within Africa. The picture within Africa is probably even more complex, and analysis is made more difficult by the absence of ancient DNA due to the warm climate. "Outstanding qu
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This is true, but the function of the compliance department is to ensure that the company operates within the boundaries set by law and regulation. They typically operate with the authority and access to top management. They would report in
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Yes, I googled Meredith Whittaker before commenting. She joined Google in 2006 after getting a bachelor's degree from Berkeley, apparently in literature and psychoanalytic theory. By 2012 she appears to have been a program manager in i
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Isn't a "protected concerted activity" an activity that is done for "mutual aid and protection"? It may be closer, but I don't see a case being made under NLRA either.
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What did she do that is protected under the various whistleblower protection laws? https://www.whistleblowers.gov/sites/wb/files/2019-06/whistl... I don't think that objecting to your company's
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Gustave Whitehead appears to have focused on more powerful engines. His Whitehead No. 21, which allegedly flew in 1901, had a 20 hp acetylene engine to drive the propellers. Power makes up for poor aerodynamics. https://en.wikipe
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Will they change the scalloped trailing edge of the engine nacelle?
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I'd prefer not to, since correcting runaway horizontal stabilizer trim requires pilots to manually turn control wheels that many pilots lack the arm and upper body strength to turn. The plane has become too large to rely on muscles and
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Even if wind and water erosion were eliminated, modern agriculture is fundamentally a form of mining. Farmers grow crops that remove nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and a variety of other minerals from the soil. The crops are shipped to ci
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Quote 1 "Clearly, a computer science curriculum must not, and doesn’t have to, become a vocational training ground for the latest industrial programming language and programming tools. Superficial aspects of industrial practice change
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In section "1.2 Setup and Interface" there is a very short description of the REPL and how it can be downloaded from julialang.org, as well as a much longer description of JuliaBox and how Jupyter notebooks can be run from juliabo

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