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by peter303 8y ago
My neice once missed work when her phone broke and she hadnt learned they way there. I imagine there would be thousands if not millions in a similar situation should GPS go down.
812.
by peter303 8y ago
Previously they used pulverized mica. Mylar is cheaper and more manageable.
813.
by peter303 8y ago
Half of the population cannot have natural children, i.e. the median age of 47 is past menopause. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/median-age/ (Prefrozen or surrogate embryos can make it into their 50s)
814.
by peter303 8y ago
You need three different flags for China: (1) Ching dragon flag until 1911, (2) Taiwan sun flag until 1948 and (3) red Communist flag thereafter.
815.
by peter303 8y ago
US travelers to China should beware. Three caucasian Canadians are languishing in Chinese jails due to the Huawei executive. Chinese practice allows six months confinement while the prosecutor conducts an investigation. Meng has relatives a
816.
by peter303 8y ago
DK still gives an annual lecture at Stanford at the end of the year. Here is this years: http://scpd.stanford.edu/free-stuff/live-webinars-lectures/d...
817.
by peter303 8y ago
I have had such an account at Fidelity for years. However they only pay lower money market rates which are based on bonds less than 30 days.
818.
by peter303 8y ago
Biomaterial Books have to copied to survive the centuries. First the knowledge has to be written down, which was not the uniform practice in pre-scientific craft guilds. Second it has to be deemed significant enough to be worth expensive pa
819.
by peter303 8y ago
The trend has been relentlessly toward petroleum self sufficiency 2005. Here is the five week data table showing such: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35032 The detail is somewhat overwhelming, but then
820.
by peter303 8y ago
Net export of products leads to a slight total surplus. This EIA has the gory detail of contributing factorsin below link. Note third section for the botton shows a net export surplus. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/
821.
by peter303 8y ago
It is more efficient to export Alaska oil to Asia than to refine it in the lower 48. Alaska is only 4% of US production these days because North Slope is a more exornsive operating location than lower 48 shale oil.
822.
by peter303 8y ago
The US is also selling its Strategic Peroleum reserve at about a million barrels (0.15%) a week. This is mandated by the Trump tax reform law to make the federal deficit. This makes net imports appear smaller.
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by peter303 8y ago
Its a function you have to do 30,000+ times in your life. People in the Western world are too shy to talk about. The Gates Foundation has cheap modern toilets at the top of its list in improving the Welfare of Mankind. So many painful and f
824.
by peter303 8y ago
The game of large numbers: so hackers obtain a million passwords. How with they decide to waste their time on any of them? In Quora's case that requires real identities and institutional affiliations will they go after the cream of the
825.
by peter303 8y ago
Not there are several vastly different genetic identity tests. You would game each kind differently. The oldest was blood types. This can in sone, but not all situations exclude paternity. Next more detailed is antigen matching for transpla
826.
by peter303 8y ago
Agreed. The somatic genome changes a tiny amount every cell division (1 miscopy per 100 million bases) due to spontaneous mutations, gene expression and occasional recombination. These may be useful for diagnosing disease and determining ef
827.
by peter303 8y ago
McWhoter has fascinating podcast on Slate.com (sans the #$&*() Slate ads) All a couple of great popular science books on language.
828.
by peter303 8y ago
At a recent Boulder deep learning talk a distibuished scientist asked the speaker 'how can I use your result?' There are not easy ways to publish and distribute such results / models.
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by peter303 8y ago
He didnt mention Federal Thrift program which is like five giant index funds of five asset classes. I dont think they have any activism. But some top federal official could polticize them like you-know-who who often disparages individual co
830.
by peter303 8y ago
'I scratch back, you scratch mine' Generous reciprocity of free service keeps the system going.
831.
by peter303 8y ago
Note several major research universities require faculty to place an online copy of their papers in an open university server within a year of publication. The problem may be subject-themed fashion like in a journal. Now and them an energet
832.
by peter303 8y ago
Until 2010 A.I. was pretty synomynous with LISP.
833.
by peter303 8y ago
Custom hardware language machines fall behind firmware on general purpose CPUs because the latter have an order of magnitude faster hardware releases. There were all kinds of clever architectures coming out in the 1980s- LISP machines, prol
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by peter303 8y ago
They are called UNIX conferences. C and UNIX (now mainly Linux, MacOs and Android) grew together dependent on each other.
835.
by peter303 8y ago
Like Coptic to Egyptian, modern Greek to Old Greek, Italian to Latin, etc.
836.
by peter303 8y ago
I heard brand talk about his 2009 book Whole Earth Discipline. He surprised me as not being a rabid environmentalism but what he called a pragmatic environmentalism supporting urbanization, nuclear and genetic engineering as a way to improv
837.
by peter303 8y ago
'Understanding' is a matter of degree. Humans do not know very well how their own brains generate ideas, thought or language. Yet they appear to be capable of understanding.
838.
by peter303 8y ago
Frankly this idea has been repeated every few years since the invention of tomography 40 years ago. Hopefully someone will actually do it one of these years.
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by peter303 8y ago
A Colorado study of 5 year trends in pot use found 19% of high school students have used it in the oast month. It is almost same percentage reported in a national survey. The Colorado number was based 47K respondents. http://cdps
840.
by peter303 8y ago
I suggest a remarkably useful device: Four circular disks when attached to a cart make it easy to move the cart from location to another. Furthermore you could put goods in that cart and move them too. A lot easier than carrying the goods o

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