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by Merrill 7y ago
"How many films are released each year?" https://stephenfollows.com/how-many-films-are-released-each-... The graph shows "Hollywood Wide Releases" at about 100/year for 1995 to 2016. The rate is alm
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by Merrill 7y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium#Production "Only two sites produce californium-252: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in D
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by Merrill 7y ago
Maybe if Whitehurst becomes President of IBM? Currently, Rometty is Chairman, President, and CEO. Best practice is to split the Chairman and President positions.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The training set for the classifiers must not contain real-world traffic signs which are weathered, rusted, peeled, bent, smudged, and spray paint tagged.
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by Merrill 7y ago
A clear glass window is about a 10 dB drop at 28 GHz. Windows with film and foil-faced insulation in walls result in more like a 20 dB drop. The obvious solution is a CPE in the window that converts to WiFi within the dwelling. Alternativel
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by Merrill 7y ago
5G can eliminate the need to provide fiber or cable to the home. Instead, radio is used for the last hundreds of meters. Physical drops into homes are expensive to install and maintain.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Only about a third of new pilots in the US now come from a military background, and it is probably less globally. Commercially trained pilots probably have less stringent physical conditioning and experience. Female pilots and pilots from e
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by Merrill 7y ago
In rural societies, children are productive members of the workforce and the care of the aged depends on having surviving children. This encourages large families. In urban societies, children are expensive to rear and educate until they ca
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by Merrill 7y ago
In the case of WW II the undamaged US was able to deploy its industrial capacity to "restart" the other industrial countries, first in Europe with the Marshall Plan and later subsidizing Japan as the "unsinkable aircraft carr
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by Merrill 7y ago
>"The firmware contained a few certificates and a corresponding private key." A cunning plot by Huawei to distribute private keys in Cisco firmware?
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by Merrill 7y ago
Maybe we'll get to McLuhan's global electronic village after all. Having come from a rural area, in a village it is just like in Cheers - "Everybody knows your name". They also know a lot about you, your family, friends
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by Merrill 7y ago
The other way is to create a "De-Militarized Zone", e.g. Korea and Cyprus.
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by Merrill 7y ago
From Mother Jones: "Chill Out: Frozen Foods Are Just Fine", https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/09/benefit-of-f... TJ's frozen Brussels sprouts at 99 cents for 16 oz are a winner.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Yes, especially for fruits that don't freeze well and for vegetables like crushed tomatoes, pickled beets, sauerkraut, etc. But one needs to watch the sodium and sugar content.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Buying frozen, rather than fresh, vegetables is a good way to avoid waste. They are processed and frozen soon after picking, so nutrients are well preserved. They are kept in large frozen food warehouses which are energy efficient. There is
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by Merrill 7y ago
The success of intelligence and code breaking during WW II apparently convinced the elites that a small elite intelligence and criminal investigation force could effectively control terrorism, criminality and excessive dissent in society. T
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by Merrill 7y ago
To replace autos, buses need to have routes and frequencies that satisfy the larger travel purposes: 30% social/recreational 19% to/from work 16% other family/personal errands 14% shopping 6% work-related business 6% school&#
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by Merrill 7y ago
Net food exporters are typically countries with a lot of arable land or with relatively low populations. This includes the US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine, and a few others. However, they have a lot of existin
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by Merrill 7y ago
Can Africa produce enough calories of food to sustain a tripled population?
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by Merrill 7y ago
Do Human Computer Interfaces developed by Chinese language programmers differ from HCI developed by English language programmers? It would seem that Chinese characters might be used instead of icons in some applications. Native Chinese OSS
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by Merrill 7y ago
It is simply one facet of more pervasive deceit in society. Back in the day, when you placed a long distance call, an operator would come on to ask you what your number was so the call could be billed to you. A single call might be a dollar
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by Merrill 7y ago
This probably depends on: - fuel being cheap, - time spent driving having a low value, - zoning that discourages high-density development, and - overhead costs of buying and selling homes high enough to discourage moving nearer to work.
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by Merrill 7y ago
More than faking documents such as confessions, the government has a strong interest in faking documents to provide covers for detectives, legends for spies, etc. A robust crypto signature infrastructure that is widely used and immune to go
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by Merrill 7y ago
A trade war may stimulate Open Source. Each adversary might subsidize the development of Open Source equivalents of the other's key proprietary products and services protected by Intellectual Property.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Media that is not cryptographically signed and authenticated by inclusion of the signature in a trusted register or blockchain cannot be trusted to be authentic.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The China Tribunal has been initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), an international not for profit organisation, with headquarters in Australia and National Committees in the UK, USA, Canada, New Z
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by Merrill 7y ago
It all goes back to Christian Friedrich Schönbein, who invented nitrocellulose in 1845. This became celluloid, used in photography as well as other things like billiard balls. It was the first real plastic. The other application was nitroce
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by Merrill 7y ago
An acquaintance who worked in QA for a foundry producing alloy castings for the aerospace industry swore they shipped a greater weight of paper than metal.
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by Merrill 7y ago
"The majority of the head wounds were believed to have been caused by shell and grenade fragments." So two possibilities might be that bullet wounds to the head would be more often fatal or that most deaths and wounds come from ar
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by Merrill 7y ago
The sun moves at about 828,000 km/hour around the glactic center. Thus, it moves about 7250 million km each year. The distance from the earth to the sun is about 150 million km. Therefore, the earth's "orbit" is actually

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