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by peter303 7y ago
Or a financial institution could create read-only accounts with no permission to transfer any money anywhere. Besides fintech apps, these are useful for guardians of young or elderly to monitor them. Or when I am traveling in an area with u
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Also Heinleins Stranger in A Strange Land. Martian speakers unlock psychic powers.
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Knock. Knock. The average human body is rather boring. especially for the 3/4ths that outside the young adult age range of 15-35. As to insurance company exposure, almost all of these imaging procedures were paid by health insurance co
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$500 wholesale a scooter, $2 average revenue a ride, $5 a day to juice them. If one lasts several hundred rides it might make a profit.
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I recall similar happening during Bush admin during 2000s. Many of our software customers were international. To obtain an export license we were required to scan our source code with an approved Dept of Commerce scan software vendor to loo
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Maxar
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Don was worked near the beginning of CS and could fashion it whatever way he thought best. Which reminds me its time to view his annual emeritus youtube lecture he gives in December. Still working.
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by peter303 7y ago
A variant of reason #11 is that you improve your own skills by being able to teach it to others. That is why course tutors are people who have recently taken a course. The material and obstacles are fresh in their minds.
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Rarely do I have income not on a W2 or 1099. Should automated.
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First, fracking has done in vertical wells for six decades. It when it was combined with precision horizontal drilling and applied to previously overlooked shales, that oil production really took off. Second, not paying $100s of billions fo
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GPS may be reliable for early warning of larger quakes. Both seismic waves and seismometers saturate at magnitudes above M7.5. That is to say its hard to tell a 7.5 from a 8 or 9 because appear similar size waves. It takes sophisticated com
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These services are currently highly subsidized by venture capital. I wonder what happens when these services have to make a profit.
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50 years ago parents didnt always pay for a college education. A student could pretty much earn his/her way through working quarter-time during school year and full time in the summer. Thats what I did (at MIT). These days college cost
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Andreason said this more succinctly in 'Software eats the world'.
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I have bern doing vigorous exercise for 51 years and still love it. Outdoor running up to 70 miles a week for the first 46 years, high speed walking 25 miles a week the last 5 years. The secret is doing something that is fun so you look for
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The Internet of Things is still developing. A wireless security system may contain several dozen wireless sensors. Another recent trend is to put all sorts of devices under voice assistant control.
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China is looking for an African location for its deep space network. Perhaps a dual use station in Ethiopia will fill in that gap. The third partner is Argentina.
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There is a more interesting article in Scientific American and other places that humans evolved requiring an hour of vigorous exercise a day to avoid metabolic diseases like diabetes and dementia. Our closest relatives chimps and gorillas d
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by peter303 7y ago
The largest HMO in the US billed medicare $90 for a flu shot. A drug store would have done so for $19 without insurance.
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My notebook at work was a yellow legal pad: records of meetings, todo lists, code outlines, debug lists, etc. Maybe a page or so a day, two 100 page pads a year.
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Kotlin is people impatient with the glacial evolution of Oracle Java.
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Who will interpret the 9 trillion hours of resulting video then? Every person in the world would have to spending three work shifts a week watching and evaluating it.
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You sound elitist. Not everyone has the family support or smarts for better paying jobs. I admire the woman for for working so hard.
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McDonald, bless them, gives some education aid to employees, up to $5000. http://www.archwaystoopportunity.com/tuition_assistance.html Seems like giving up your best employees who are motivated to improve themselves. Unfort
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They have dozens of Neanderthal DNA going back to 70K years. (They stopped being a distinct sub-species 30K years ago) In humans the skull next to the ear are good place to find intact DNA.
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We have been breeding housecats for 3,000 years and they arent as friendly as dogs or foxes yet.
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Fiber also can be a property surveillance tool. Place a loop around a boundary and listen for interlopers. You quickly discover their location and time too. A seismic DAS loop around the Stanford campus detects lots of traffic. Seismic wave
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The method is becoming very popular in the oil industry as a robust method of instrumenting oil wells. Fiber can measure temperature and pressure as well as seismic waves. A well can be a harsh environment to place electronic sensors and th
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I distrust some graphs that dont start at zero origin. The trend is magnified then.
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Frankly I dont respect investors as much as engineers and scientists who invent clever technology. The latter add things to the world. The former just push money around. Yawn.

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