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  2. Dropping out - Wikipedia

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    The consequences of dropping out of school can have long-term economic and social repercussions. Students who drop out of school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless, receiving welfare and incarcerated. [5] A four-year study in San Francisco found that 94 percent of young murder victims were high school dropouts. [6]

  3. Packet loss - Wikipedia

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    This type of packet dropping is called tail drop. Other full queue mechanisms include random early detection and weighted random early detection . Dropping packets is undesirable as the packet is either lost or must be retransmitted and this can impact real-time throughput; however, increasing the buffer size can lead to bufferbloat which has ...

  4. High school dropouts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    More children drop out of high school in US states with higher economic inequality. The United States Department of Education's measurement of the status dropout rate is the percentage of 16 to 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. [1]

  5. IPv4 address exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    IPv4 address exhaustion timeline. IPv4 address exhaustion is the depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses.Because the original Internet architecture had fewer than 4.3 billion addresses available, depletion has been anticipated since the late 1980s when the Internet started experiencing dramatic growth.

  6. Facebook outage: Why the world’s largest social ... - AOL

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    The company’s stock, meanwhile, took a nasty hit during the outage, dropping nearly 5% on an already rough day for the rest of the tech sector with competitors including Apple, Amazon, and ...

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    What addicts face is a revolving door, an ongoing cycle of waiting for treatment, getting treatment, dropping out, relapsing and then waiting and returning for more. Like so many others, Tabatha Roland, the 24-year-old addict from Burlington, wanted to get sober but felt she had hit a wall with treatment.

  8. Barometer question - Wikipedia

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    These answers were also correct, yet none of them proved the student's competence in the specific academic field being tested. The barometer question achieved the status of an urban legend ; according to an internet meme , the question was asked at the University of Copenhagen and the student was Niels Bohr . [ 2 ]

  9. Random early detection - Wikipedia

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    Random early detection (RED), also known as random early discard or random early drop, is a queuing discipline for a network scheduler suited for congestion avoidance. [ 1 ] In the conventional tail drop algorithm, a router or other network component buffers as many packets as it can, and simply drops the ones it cannot buffer.