Economist Thomas Malthus explained that a country’s food production increases at an arithmetic rate, while population grows at a geometric rate.

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Public records clearly shows that for the past 25 years, CERN has repeatedly built inadequate FPGA-based Level-1 Triggers, necessitating multiple rebuilds. During the Higgs boson discovery ...

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