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by Merrill 7y ago
The Best Online Photo Printing Services for 2019 https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/353850/the-best-photo-printing... I use Walgreen's with local pickup for prints.
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by Merrill 7y ago
A Master's Degree seems most useful in two cases: 1. to change field if you made a mistake with your Bachelor's, or 2. to enter the US after getting a Bachelor's in your home country.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Systems Engineering -- The art of working on the overall design while not overlooking any detail that later turns out to have been important.
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by Merrill 7y ago
To quote from the 2018 Nature article: "During these cruises, Rare Earth Yttrium-rich mud having a maximum of almost 8,000 ppm of total REY content (ΣREY) was confrmed." 8000 ppm would be 0.8% concentration. Most of the samples ar
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by Merrill 7y ago
The rare earth oxides are in mud on the seafloor in 18,700 feet of water. The concentration is only 0.66%, which is a lot lower than other known ore bodies on land. Mountain Pass in California is about 8.9% rare earth oxides. https:/
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Can China Refactor Western IT?
9 points by Merrill 7y ago|4 comments
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by Merrill 7y ago
Potatoes and milk was the diet that enabled the Irish population explosion prior to the famine. https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/food-history/food-in-irela... "The burgeoning population lived on a diet compr
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by Merrill 7y ago
There is hardly anything easier than microwaving a potato and microwaving frozen vegetables, which are just as nutritious as fresh and a lot cheaper on sale. Add a piece of protein fried in a pan and you are done. Rice cookers have also bec
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by Merrill 7y ago
I'm serious. If the final backup system is to revert to mechanical cranks, pulleys, and cables to move the horizontal stabilizer, then the pilots have to be able to exert sufficient torque and power on the control wheels to do so.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Besides retraining, it seems that there must be upper-body strength tests that 737 MAX pilots will have to pass to ensure that they will be able to manually trim the stabilizer. Are such tests part of flight crew physicals?
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by Merrill 7y ago
While Brunner's forecasts may have been prescient, that might be due to the freedom he enjoyed as a science fiction writer. Forecasters making earnest and serious attempts to predict technological and social change over a couple decade
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by Merrill 7y ago
In the case of nuclear weapons, the knowledge of the science of how they work is not sufficient. The "industrial arts" of making fissionable material and then weapons are complex, expensive, and large scale. Just knowing the scien
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by Merrill 8y ago
In a country with a fairly low GDP/capita, the form of development must have been heavily influenced by economics. The capital cost per dwelling unit and the cost of delivering utilities (electricity, communications, water, sewerage, e
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by Merrill 8y ago
With the 996 system (9 am to 9 pm, 6 days per week), this would leave very little time for anything but working and sleeping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system https://www.cnn.com/20
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by Merrill 8y ago
On youtube there are plenty of videos of people eating old military rations. The oldest is from the Boer War. But here is "1942 WW2 US Army Field Ration C B Unit MRE Taste Test Vintage Meal Ready to Eat Oldest Food Review" at htt
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by Merrill 8y ago
Population growth depends on cheap food using cheap energy for tillage, fertilizers, irrigation, pesticides/herbicides, transportation, processing and so forth. If energy becomes expensive, as it most likely will, then population growt
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by Merrill 8y ago
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes&#x2
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by Merrill 8y ago
The spire which collapsed was a reconstruction built during the restoration in the mid-19th Century. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, Restored by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Jean Baptiste Lassus -- http://www.victorianw
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by Merrill 8y ago
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." -- Max Planck https:&#x
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by Merrill 8y ago
Could be, but it appears that the price of paper started its decline long before movable type was invented. Using the internet analogy, movable type printing would be more like the LCD flat screen, which contributes mightily to the internet
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by Merrill 8y ago
It was actually the development of cheap paper that propelled the use of Gutenberg's movable type. So long as either writing or printing was done on very expensive parchment and vellum made from animal hides, there was not much economi
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by Merrill 8y ago
The cost of printing and shipping the book is only part of the cost. There are additional costs as part of the initial storage, such as the administrative function of issuing the LCCN, cataloging, and shelving the book. Once shelved, the bo
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by Merrill 8y ago
One of the brain's most important abilities to maintain sanity is the ability to forget the unimportant and remember the important. The internet will need that ability as it becomes more intelligent. Having AI reasoning based on vast p
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by Merrill 8y ago
How did Boeing decide to kill the 757 and to continually delay the "New Midsize Airplane", and to progressively extend and modify the 737 until it reached 757 size in the 737 MAX 9? I would bet good money that there is a wonderful
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by Merrill 8y ago
Effects of Melatonin in Age‐Related Macular Degeneration https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1196/ann... "We conclude that the daily use of 3 mg melatonin seems to protect the retina and
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by Merrill 8y ago
I would rather read news on web sites than listen to TV news channels. But that is probably not the average case. There are standard pictographs for "fire exit" and "do not open door" that are used where not everyone rea
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by Merrill 8y ago
Within some decades, text-to-speech and speech-to-text will make it unnecessary for the average person to know how to read and write. Reading and writing as we know them will be limited to a fraction of the population that engage in high-le
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by Merrill 8y ago
Widespread use of this technology would be a problem for government, since it would be difficult to insert fake records to create "legends" for undercover detectives, spies, and people in witness protection, etc.
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by Merrill 8y ago
There are Chromebooks with touchscreens available from several manufacturers. There are also touchscreen laptops - I use a Lenovo Windows 10 touchscreen laptop every day.