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No Texas Roadhouse on Times Square, but there are 8 in the surrounding counties, e.g. at New Rochelle, Deer Park, and East Meadows, NY. It was founded in Indiana and is now headquartered in Louisville. There are a few hundred locations, and
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According to http://www.h-gac.com/regional-growth-forecast/documents/Curr... In 2020, 691 K jobs are inside I-610, while 911 K jobs are in the ring between I-610 and TX-8. The other 1850 K jobs are in various sect
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Women 'Cross The River - Linda Ronstadt, song written by David Olney; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XElGDuCUUd4
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According to the Citizen's Budget Commission >The Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization whose mission is to achieve constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New
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Interesting article, but normally "network effect" is associated with the concept that the value of membership in a network increases as a power of the size of the network. Rather than size, it seems that the type and quality of t
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Various compounds, including caffeine, that are present in coffee beans have antimicrobial properties. Additional Maillard reaction products that have antimicrobial properties are created by roasting. Coffee is also pretty acidic - IIRC, do
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Coffee (and tea) have some antimicrobial action. They made it safer to drink the water, and did not have the disadvantages of the other alternative, alcoholic drinks.
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MEGAMISTAKES: Forecasting and the Myth of Rapid Technological Change by Steven P Schnaars. From '89, somewhat dated now, but still interesting.
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People do move. Silicon Valley itself is a product of people moving to the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Of the eight founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, only Gordon Moore was from the Bay Area. Large, successful companies create t
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The conviction rate in criminal trials should be high, perhaps 90% or higher. A low conviction rate implies that a lot of shaky cases with poor evidence are being brought. This exposes innocent people to the inconvenience and expense of mou
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After Brexit, why would the working language of a European military be English? Are the Irish that influential?
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>While Secretary General, Ismay is also credited as having been the first person to say that the purpose of the alliance was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down," https://en.wikipedia.or
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I wonder what fraction of a battery's mass is the ions that move from plate to plate, versus the plates, separator, electrolyte, casing, terminals and any other inactive parts?
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About 37% of homeowners own their homes free and clear. The other 63% have mortgages that require regular monthly payments. The mortgage payments are in addition to regular payments of property taxes. The result is that the burden of debt a
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>"These results suggest that students with high levels of internet addiction may be particularly at risk from lower motivations to study, and, hence, lower actual academic performance." Too bad that they didn't collect gra
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>But for the past 2,000 years or so, the climate of the Sahara has been fairly stable. The northeastern winds dry out the air over the desert and drive hot winds toward the equator. These winds can reach exceptional speeds and cause seve
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The core assumption is that 3 billion out of a total of 4.7 billion acres of desert currently existing can be reforested by planting trees and irrigating them for 20 years, after which they will continue growing without irrigation. Is this
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Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults(sciencedaily.com)
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>Other processes regenerate ATP so that the human body recycles its own body weight equivalent in ATP each day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate When ATP is used to power a biological process, it
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In the normal course of check processing, a device reads the MICR line of characters at the bottom of the check and the amount. The name, address, signature and other features are usually not processed unless the amount is high, the account
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Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is fascinating stuff. Your body makes roughly its own weight of ATP daily.
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And Fleetwood Mac.
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>In Vermont, three colleges have ceased operations this year, losing roughly 1,000 students. So 333 students per college or an average freshman class of about 100 per college?
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I may have erred in commiserating with the young officer attempting to extricate one neighbor's cat from another neighbor's tree? (The neighbor with the tree is a lawyer, but he's not my lawyer and he wasn't home at the
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Since the participation rate for women peaked around 2000, the participation rate for men and women both declined a few percent. The curves are essentially parallel. The graph is from "Labor force participation: what has happened since
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This story really needs another graph showing "NOT-IN-LABOR FORCE RATES FOR WOMEN AGES 25-54; 1965 TO 2019". See https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/images/hipple-fig6.png It appears that the non
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>But all shortcomings of these theories – the lacking quantization of gravity, dark matter, the quantum measurement problem, and more – have been known for more than 80 years. And they are as unsolved today as they were then. Would solvi
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In the study, the organizational performance metric was the safety of patients undergoing medical procedures. It's not clear whether the generative culture would be optimal if a different metric, such as return on investment, had been
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Poor, but capable and deserving, students should be given scholarships, not saddled with debt.
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>In a recent analysis, we found that 53 million workers ages 18 to 64—or 44% of all workers—earn barely enough to live on. >The majority of low-wage workers (77%) have less than a college degree, So there are 53 (1-0.77) = 12.2 millio

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