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by peter303 7y ago
The'anti-Walmart', where Walmart is the world leader of mediocrity.
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by peter303 7y ago
Trump gave it back to Russia when Putin asked for it ;-)
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by peter303 7y ago
How many 'Library of Congress' datasets is that? 1 LOC = 15 TB according to google
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by peter303 7y ago
Unhappy incels
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by peter303 7y ago
In many aspects ancient Roman technology was not superseded until the 1800s. 1500 years of unnecessary inferiority.
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by peter303 7y ago
There is a whole genre of of industrial musical shows consisting of composers and actors. They perform at company conventions. In 2018 a collector of industrial musical records made an amusing documentary on the subject called "Bathtub
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by peter303 7y ago
My detailed spreadsheets show a Honda Civic 6 cents a mile to maintain the first six years. And I used dealers due to my two left thumbs. Many owners cut this in half by doing routine stuff themselves.
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by peter303 7y ago
My two Honda Civics had similar profile: pretty reasonable to maintain the first 200K miles. Then not so cost effective afterwards.
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by peter303 7y ago
I wonder if children are the hidden reservoir? They rarely get ill from this disease and could be passing it around.
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by peter303 7y ago
Maybe Apple will do this for MacBooks in the 2030s. Thats about their pace.
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by peter303 7y ago
I use a spreadsheet with rows bulk spending categories and columns months, plus a few summary columns. More than 15 years ago it was just a table on graph paper. I know within a few dollars how much I have earned spent in the past 12 months
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by peter303 7y ago
I recall a SIGGRAPH around that time on synthetic life covering that material.
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by peter303 7y ago
MicroSoft went to sh*t under its 2nd CEO, but recovered under its successor. Hopefully IBM can revive under future leadership.
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by peter303 7y ago
I have a MIT degree and learned these when I encountered them in my work. An important thing is to learn how to learn for the rest of your life.
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by peter303 7y ago
I got budgeting down to two numbers: Total take-home pay past 12 months vs total expenditures past two months. Try to avoid the latter going over 85%.
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by peter303 7y ago
They never stopped voyaging. A dwindling number trained navigators are trying to pass their skills on.
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by peter303 7y ago
Olympics swimming did ban full-body swimsuits after it determined they gave an advantage. These shoes are being studied now.
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by peter303 7y ago
Despite the US leftist whining about the disappearing middle class, the US middle class is still a beacon to the world in actual prosperity. The Us can afford 80% to own vehicles to drive on its still decent roads, while its only 60% in Eur
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by peter303 7y ago
Quite the opposite. Not only are urban populations increasing, but the so-called economies of ride-sharing and same-day delivery increase the number of vehicles on the road significantly. NYC has done studies.
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by peter303 7y ago
In the US road costs are split among the three levels of government. Unfortunately road/fuel taxes at the federal and state level have not increased this century, resulting in a huge maintenance backlog.
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by peter303 7y ago
I live in the state of Colorado where there are a thousand interesting and fun places to drive to. Ditto when I lived in California. Life is too short to be sanctimonious. P.S. I have a vehicle that gets almost 50 mpg, nearly triple the pop
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by peter303 7y ago
Kudos to the scientists who developed this so fast. I rember it took four YEARS to identify the HIV virus and another two years for a test.
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by peter303 7y ago
I grew up in a Brady Bunch house: nine people and 1 1/2 bath. The father had priority, then high school kids, then grade school. The bedroom config was more interesting than bathroom. Always a minimum of two, sometimes up to four. A re
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by peter303 7y ago
I am impressed how fast Chinese scientists developed a genetic test distinguish 2019-coronavirus from other kinds of pneumonia. I am old enough to remember biologists flailing around for 4 years to identify the HIV virus and two years more
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by peter303 7y ago
Average bulk plate motion is about one inch a year. Fastest plate boundaries move about four times that. So on the the surface this would be well within the error of mobile device GPS. A major exception would be major geomorphic events like
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by peter303 7y ago
I have heard of seeding DNA id snippets in materials to prevent counterfeiting. DNA read and write technology is now robust and cheap. When I googled 'DNA stability in ethanol' I was surprised to see that it was being used to stor
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by peter303 7y ago
At 2019 SIGGRAPH a Chinese software company was creating free unique 3D avatar characters for whomever voluntarily stopped at their booth. They probably archived your face photo and badge ID for future research and other database uses(!!!).
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by peter303 7y ago
Minority Report movie predicted eye iris identification. 25 years ago irises were thought to result in fewer false positive matches than facial parameters, but the latter has improved since then. A problem with iris identification is buildi
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by peter303 7y ago
Uranium precipitates out of igneous hydrothermal waters when it encounters organic carbon. So it is probably concentrated in some oil deposits. Then some radiative isotopes of uranium will decay into radium, alpha particles (ionized helium)
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by peter303 7y ago
A siblings results was enough for me. We share the same ancestry. There were no surprises in their result.

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