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by Merrill 6y ago
Thanks. That's a good thread. I was there only part of a day. Had a day off in Phoenix, and a colleague and I drove to Flagstaff via Arcosanti and Sedona. Discussion on that thread gives a lot of information about what has happened sin
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by Merrill 6y ago
A more modest, but no less idealistic, example is Arcosanti north of Phoenix. I visited it in the late '80s when it was just getting started. There was not a lot then, but at least work continues. Paolo Soleri's visions were much
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by Merrill 6y ago
Paris' straight, wide avenues and beautiful parks are the result of Emperor Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Eug%C3%A8ne_Haussmann
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by Merrill 6y ago
Perhaps Amazon would require third-party sellers to have liability insurance or post an adequate bond to cover claims for goods shipped to California. Sellers then might need to increase prices for goods shipped to California. Alternatively
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We Were Pirates, Too >The ship carrying Francis Cabot Lowell and his family home from England in the summer of 1812 was intercepted by a British war squadron, which held the passengers and crew for some days at the British base at Halifa
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by Merrill 6y ago
In many applications, such as filtering queries to a data store (Figure 1), the Bloom filter will start out empty and fill as items are added to the data store and inserted into the Bloom filter. The false positive rate will be very low and
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by Merrill 6y ago
Not eating out is a definite plus. Infrequent trips to the supermarket is also a plus, since that one bag of chips now has to last a week until the next trip. In general, the ratio of junk food to real food purchases has decreased.
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by Merrill 6y ago
Last week the power was out Tuesday 2 pm until Friday 8 pm, 78 hours. I left the lid shut on a 7 cubic foot chest freezer in the garage, where the ambient was in the 70s F most of the time due to the cool weather. When the power came back o
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Table 1 gives the relation between mask names and numbers. Having to use the table to relate the pictures to the results does seem very poor.
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World War I resulted in huge change in governance of the world. By its end the monarchies of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires had been swept away. If you include the Chinese Revolution of 1911 that ended the Ming D
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by Merrill 6y ago
The discussion of risk is interesting. It is not uncommon for small farms with one or a few crops or animal species to have an annual net income which varies considerably from year to year depending on weather, disease, pests, market prices
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by Merrill 6y ago
Maybe FedEx, UPS, and DHL should start first? Possibly they could go to single pilot operation on freighters?
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Back in the day when online learning was channels on Community Antenna TeleVision systems reserved for Community Colleges, I was studying the digital bandwidth required for online learning via telecommunications. Although I don't have
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by Merrill 6y ago
There are some open pit mines that are likely to last quite a while. The largest is 4 km wide by 1.2 km deep and even if filled in by drifting sands, it would be unmistakably artificial. https://blog.iseekplant.com.au/blog&
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by Merrill 6y ago
Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science - Part 1 https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UBCx+China300.1x+3... Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science - Part 2 https://courses.edx
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by Merrill 6y ago
>For a long time, adult NHSTA and IIHS tests used a 1970s 50%-ile male dummy, which is 5'9" and 171lbs. ... >For reference, in 2019, the average weight of a U.S. adult male was 198 lbs and the average weight of a U.S. adult
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by Merrill 6y ago
International travel may never be the same, particularly if there is never an effective vaccine. It looks like the globe is breaking down in to areas where Covid-19 is effectively suppressed and other areas where it is not and herd immunity
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>The 9M730 Burevestnik (Russian: Буревестник; "Petrel", NATO reporting name: SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is a Russian experimental nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile under development for the Russian Armed Forces. The missile i
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by Merrill 6y ago
It appears that the Fujitsu A64FX is planned for Cray as well as its own A64FX machines, the PRIMEHPC FX1000 and PRIMEHPC FX700 models. https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/11/12/cray-fujitsu-both-bringin... >The
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It looks like this is not an ARM core, but a Fujitsu implementation of the Arm v8-A instruction set and Fujitsu-developed Scaleable Vector Extension. Most likely the latter is doing all the heavy lifting. https://www.fujitsu.com&
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by Merrill 6y ago
"Conceptual entrepreneurs" might describe most conspiracy theorists.
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The photons from the screen are real. Everything else is conjecture. If I look back at photos I've taken, I can conjecture that they appear to be an accurate record of what I was seeing when I took them, and that no one has surreptitio
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by Merrill 6y ago
Remind yourself occasionally that none of what you see on a screen is real - it is only colored dots on a piece of glass.
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But why did worker power decline? I think that a major factor is the increasing number of roles occupied by workers. Workers were easier to organize when large numbers performed similar job functions in large manufacturing industries. Now m
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The spread of Covid-19 appears to be heavily dependent on individuals who are "super-spreaders" and on "super-spreading events". For example, the guy who was involved in horse-racing at Yonkers, the choir practice in Was
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I've long thought it illogical that people slave away in wretched conditions for 8 hours per day, bookended by long commutes, in order to afford a nice home that they don't actually spend many daylight hours in. Sometimes, a non-w
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In IT you need to average a few hours per week learning new things just to keep up, since the half life of what you already know is probably about 5 to 10 years. Other professionals also need continuing education, such as doctors, veterinar
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At least in colonial and the early United States the colleges were originally heavily oriented to training the clergy. Medical training came later, and lawyers for some time were trained by being apprenticed to practicing lawyers, e.g. Abra
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“It’s Collapsing Violently”: Coronavirus Is Creating a Fast Fashion Nightmare https://www.gq.com/story/coronavirus-fast-fashion-dana-thoma...
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You also have to adjust for the people who are already sick but haven't died yet. That would likely get you somewhere between 1 and 1.5%. So for herd immunity in the US at 200,000,000 recovered, that would be 2 to 3 million. That'

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