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The tents huddled together on the high prairie. For seven months, they had borne deluge, frost and blizzard. In that time, the occupants—more than 1,000 striking coal miners and their families—had also endured the fear and fact of violence. On April 20, 1914, the sun rose at 5:20 am. It was the 209th daybreak over the ... |
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There is racism, and then there is not racism. There are varying degrees of prejudice, from assumptions to flat-out hatred. But, for the love of God, there is no such thing as "reverse racism." Treating individuals poorly or differently on account of the happenstance of their race is racism.
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Recalibrating the DNA clock
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I have a 1 billion point CSV file and a shapefile with around 5,000 polygons. What would be the fastest way to spatially join points and polygons? For each point, I need to get the containing polygon id. (Polygons don't overlap.)
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America's Titan Supercomputer Is the Fastest in the World
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I understand that the Qumran monastic community—those primarily responsible for having collected and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls and other works—endorsed the Pesharim approach to scriptural interpretation.
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Space Opera Has Come Of Age — But Has It Left Humans Behind?
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When the power gets knocked out, you might think you're out of luck if you need to make a call on your cell phone. However, Make shows off how to pull power from a phone line to charge your cell phone long enough to make a call.
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Suppose that $$r=\frac{p^m+1}{2}$$ is a prime number, where $p$ is also prime. Does the equation $$p^{2}-2\equiv 0 \pmod{r}$$ have any solutions?
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Suppose I denote $G_3$ be the set of all $3\times 3$ matrices with positive determinant, and consider the map $\pi:G_3\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^3\setminus\{0\}$ define by $\pi(g)=ge_1$ where $e_1=(1,0,0)$ then i want to know about the set $\{g:ge_1=e_1\}$, is it connected? is this set homeomorphi... |
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Is it possible to learn ring theory if one is familiar with but not good at group theory?
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Is there a $C^{2}$-function $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ that is bounded and such that $f'(x)$ is unbounded, but $f''(x)$ is bounded again? For example, $f(x)=\sin(x^2)$ is bounded and has unbounded derivative $f'(x)$, but its second derivative is also unbounded.
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Recently I was introduced to the concept of Orthogonal Polynomials through the poly() function in the R programming language. These were introduced to me in the concept of polynomial transformations in order to do a linear regression. Bear in mind that I'm an economist and, as should be obviou... |
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Given a Borel probability measure $\mu$ on the real line, is it possible to construct a purely atomic random measure $M$ whose mean is $\mu$?
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Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE
Saudi Arabia. The seven million foreigners in Saudi Arabia are 30 percent of the 23 million Saudi Arabian residents, but foreigners are 70 percent of the 6.5 million strong total labor force, and 95 perc... |
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring why was Aragorn an exile at the beginning? Did a certain event cause him to become an exile?
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Well, isn't a single point already a location? So I guess the terms in this statement are a bit fuzzy, anyway. – Tom Cody Dec 18 '11 at 21:27
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has released a 57-page outline of his idea for a “Hyperloop” transportation system. The plan is for it to carry passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 30 minutes.
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Is That Fish Worth Chasing? A Seal's Whiskers Know
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Using Nanotechnology to Preserve Wood
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There is a momentum associated with the em field that ensures the conservation of total momentum for a system of interacting charges.
Can the same be done in an analagous way to ensure Newton's third law is also true?
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If one takes a bundle of wood up high to the mountains so its potential energy increases, would there be obtained more heat by burning it?
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tasks represent all known work to be done in the sprint. Finishing up the task estimates is a pivotal point in the sprint. Until then the team had been building up energy and knowledge to maximize its efficiency in the implementation of the sprint stories, and the end of the planning steps is like the start of a rac... |
This ancient remedy has been known for centuries in South America and Orient. Thanks to its medicinal properties it healed thousands of people all around the world. The Japanese use it very frequently and they nick-named it “the silent healer”. The following recipe has been ideated by Father Arno Reckziegel, Sister Mar... |
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Why are Bibles not supplied for Mass? In fact, at my parish, no printed copies of the readings are supplied. Why?
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