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by Merrill 7y ago
My experience is the same. Children drank milk with meals, while adults drank coffee, tea, or water and juice at breakfast. I got my first taste of coffee at about 7 while eating lunch with my father in the fields. Perhaps someone in the re
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by Merrill 7y ago
>19%: The Great Water-Power Wake-Up Call >A few years back, number crunchers at the California Energy Commission tried to add up how much electrical power (and other forms of energy) goes into using water in California. The bottom lin
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by Merrill 7y ago
It's surprising that Monday was the best day. I'd expect the surgeons and staff to be impaired from weekend activities, and back to normal on Tuesdays. Tuesday was not much different from Monday and may be the wiser choice, in cas
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by Merrill 7y ago
Paging Inspector Morse.
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by Merrill 7y ago
In the 50s the US held huge stocks of "surplus cheese" that was bought up by the USDA price support programs. When it was close to going bad, it was shipped in large blocks to schools, where it was made into some of the nastiest m
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by Merrill 7y ago
>There is no more quintessential image of Wisconsin than a red barn with a herd of cows grazing in a green field against a blue sky. This traditional farm cannot compete with modern operations of 30,000 cows or more. It's too bad, b
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by Merrill 7y ago
>Processor design pitfalls - Designing a high-level ISA to support a specific language of language domain Is there an equivalent pitfall in designing the ISA to support a specific Virtual Machine? For example, wouldn't the performan
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by Merrill 7y ago
Will this test whether pilots have the upper-body strength necessary to manually turn the cockpit trim wheels considering the size and aerodynamic forces for this large an aircraft? Unless there has been some change other than to MCAS, the
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by Merrill 7y ago
True, although I know people who neither watch much TV nor have lots of social interactions with people. There engage in other passive activities like reading or they have a variety of hobbies, sports, etc. Some people have little need to l
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by Merrill 7y ago
The linear presentation of audio or video is inefficient because it is tedious to refer back in order to recover a train of thought or search for previous material. Some MOOC courses are given primarily by video lectures with a side-by-side
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by Merrill 7y ago
>Immediate and delayed verbal verbal memory were assessed using a word learning task in which participants were presented with 10 common words by a taped voice, one every 2 seconds. Participants had to recall as many words as possible im
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by Merrill 7y ago
If the company is trying so hard to keep you that they try to keep you from interviewing, why would they fire you or persecute you if you did do an interview? The policy that you must be at your desk 9 to 5 sound like it is motivated by som
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by Merrill 7y ago
9000 km by the great circle route is too far for executive jets. And you'd go via Turkey to avoid flying over Syria and Israel.
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by Merrill 7y ago
>Bradstock says research “overwhelmingly” demonstrates that creating a 40- to 50-metre fuel break around a house can give it a much greater chance of surviving fires.
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The big barrier to Trump’s 5G America(politico.com)
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by Merrill 7y ago
The evolution of minicomputers recapitulated the evolution of mainframes. The evolution of microprocessors recapitulated the evolution of minicomputers.
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Christmas tree lit with first electricity, Arctic floating nuclear-power plant(thebarentsobserver.com)
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by Merrill 7y ago
More metro areas should have mass transit along the ring highways connecting the edge cities and close in suburbs. Airports and commuter rail stations are also often along the ring highways or on short stubs off them. There is no reason to
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by Merrill 7y ago
Having commuted by car and by train, I think train commuting is more stressful. First is the stress of getting ready on time, driving to the station, finding a parking spot and getting on board the right train. Second, arriving at the stati
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by Merrill 7y ago
Disconnecting the Russian ISP to the German one doesn't disconnect the leased line internal to Globocorps intranet which connects the Gobalcorp intranets in Russia and Germany.
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by Merrill 7y ago
How do they handle corporate intranets? Normally I'd expect Globocorp to configure its intranet with, for example, a separate AS each for Germany and Russia. But the AS in Germany may be connected to the Russia AS via a 155 Mb/s l
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by Merrill 7y ago
Banning glyphosate would have some interesting effects: - more tillage would be required causing more soil erosion and a higher consumption of fossil fuels resulting in more CO2 emissions from agriculture. - yields would decline due to more
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by Merrill 7y ago
China would no doubt take legal action to insist that other organizations and countries respect their intellectual property, license it, and pay royalties. By the time all the agreements with China to respect IP are in place, China will be
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by Merrill 7y ago
They would patent it and license the patents to corporations in other countries.
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by Merrill 7y ago
I hope we hear from him again as a Senior at Yale.
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Global urban growth typified by suburbs, not skyscrapers(sciencedaily.com)
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by Merrill 7y ago
There is a whole existing structure to influence government decisions and policies. First, there is are the Democratic and Republican party organizations which range from precinct workers up to the national committees. Typically, the only w
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by Merrill 7y ago
ACM and IEEE are organizations run by academics for academics. I've belonged to both. At this point, with all the resources available on the net, there's little point in a practicing engineer or computer scientist to belong to eit
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by Merrill 7y ago
Motivation is key. The successful apprentice is one who is motivated to learn from the master. The only problem with the classroom method is that it is often demotivating for the students. With all the online information available, autodida
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by Merrill 7y ago
>He never imagined, 30 years ago, that the internet would become a medium for dark forces: disinformation, espionage, and war. “I look for the best in people. I want to live in a world where computing and technology are used for the good

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