Most people who are capable of making the vehicle make substantially more power, for example, are also capable of understanding the value of increasing braking force.
Nuclear is the safest power source man has ever invented. Even with the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, it has killed fewer people per TWh generated than any other power source.
What's going on is that people are really bad at appraising big but rare risks. Their mind focuses on the magnitude of the risk, exaggerating the larger risks. Simultaneously, their mind glosses over the lower frequency of the risk. Consequently, big, rare events like nuclear disasters get overemphasized in people's minds, while small, common events like maintenance workers falling from wind turbines get overlooked.
Comparisons rarely get more stupid than this. Events like Chernobyl and Fukushima impact not only the people who died as a direct consequence of the event (for example during or in the direct aftermath), but they have long lasting effects on the environment and the generations that follow those who worked and lived there. A maintenance worker falling from a wind turbine usually only impacts the ground directly beneath.
It's the same reason plane crashes are splashed over all the TV news, while car crashes rare make the news, even though going to a destination by car is 1-2 orders of magnitude more dangerous than going by plane. The magnitude of the carnage from a plane crash is greater and overwhelms our minds, while the much lower frequency of plane crashes is overlooked. Or on the flip side, it's why people spend money on lottery tickets even though on average they'll lose money. The magnitude of the payoff if you win overwhelms our mind, to where we completely ignore the infinitesimal odds of winning.
No, this has nothing whatsoever to do with assessing the risk of nuclear energy. A more apt comparison with plane crashes would be terrorist attacks.
I am so looking forward to the day insurance companies start inserting clauses that they won't cover smart home related cases, insisting that you have to prove your smart home devices weren't to blame for your insurance case. That's probably the only way the current idiotic trend can be averted.
You are absolutely right of course on how proper and final diagnoses is established. The problem is, and your wife will probably agree, is that the initial diagnoses, you may even call it suspicion, is the most important because it determines whether follow-up tests will be conducted at all. My point is, actually two points are that 1) fewer first patient facing physicians (the front line if you will) will be taught and gain the experience to recognise melanomas (or the likelihood of it being one) in the first place and 2) automated testing will be more expensive in some health systems leading to diminished access to proper diagnoses and eventually treatment for many, thus exacerbating the original problem.
Technology is far more useful when it complements expertise and experience not when it merely replaces it.
The obvious conclusion is therefore not to train more doctors to correctly diagnose melanomas but to have them photograph parts of your body and submit the pictures to an IT system which will in turn deliver a diagnosis. While this may be beneficial for a health system in general (not necessarily the US, where the CNN diagnosis will of course be an order of magnitutde more expensive than traditional methods...) it may lead to less well trained physicians in front of the patient. Which may sound like technophobia is in fact happening, or rather has been happening for quite some time. Many orthopedic and trauma surgeons solely rely on imaging systems for diagnosis, while older clinicians or those trained in less advanced health systems could perform reliable first diagnosis with conventional means. You can stilll witness this in parts of Germany with physicians trained in the GDR.
In theory, modern technology should supplement experience when in fact it far too often replaces it, increasing the overall financial burden to the system.
If Amazon is willing to relocate or not grow a business that already employs 40.000 people in the local economy just to avoid 10.000.000 USD in taxes annually, I would say let them. Who needs an asshole company like this? I know it's currently en vogue in the US, or at least for a lot of people, to piss on anything remotely related to social responsibility, but if your economy is dependent on businesses ripping off the state and the people, it's fucked anyway.
....acrylamide, a substance created naturally during the brewing process...
Acrylamide is created during the roasting process and not during brewing. The temperatures during brewing are way too low and the time far too short for the Maillard reaction to happen.
The researchers found they were less depressed, less likely to make trade-offs between food and health care, and more likely to stick with their medications.
Environmental regulations should be strictly based on science, but it should be on published research with publicly available, peer reviewable data.
Absolutely! I would in fact propose a law that requires any company that challenges EPA regulation based on this argument to open all their own books and research in the interest of transparency.
Do you want the Trump Administration to make new environmental rules based on secret science?
I don't want the Trump Administration to make any new environmental rules because they can be trusted to protect anything and anyone but the environment and the public.
It's actually more surprising that it's only people considering that almost 50% of a recent poll thought it was a good idea to make Trump US president....
A file manager to access network shares like Total Commander doesn't work for you? I have a similar problem with USB, for different reasons (it's not vendor lock in, it just doesn't work on LineageOS with my device), and got around it using Total Commander with TotalCmd-LAN.
What? It's unfair to compare one software platform with another because one is tied to one hardware platform while the other isn't? If anything, software loyalty should be greater with the system that locks you in to one vendor, especially considering it being touted as the one that "just works" and stuff...
Protesting at the G20 or Occupy Wall Street the "spoiled overgrown children" expressed support for which ideology exactly? Or are you talking about your own?
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Most people who are capable of making the vehicle make substantially more power, for example, are also capable of understanding the value of increasing braking force.
You mean like chip tuning?
Nuclear is the safest power source man has ever invented. Even with the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, it has killed fewer people per TWh generated than any other power source.
What's going on is that people are really bad at appraising big but rare risks. Their mind focuses on the magnitude of the risk, exaggerating the larger risks. Simultaneously, their mind glosses over the lower frequency of the risk. Consequently, big, rare events like nuclear disasters get overemphasized in people's minds, while small, common events like maintenance workers falling from wind turbines get overlooked.
Comparisons rarely get more stupid than this. Events like Chernobyl and Fukushima impact not only the people who died as a direct consequence of the event (for example during or in the direct aftermath), but they have long lasting effects on the environment and the generations that follow those who worked and lived there. A maintenance worker falling from a wind turbine usually only impacts the ground directly beneath.
It's the same reason plane crashes are splashed over all the TV news, while car crashes rare make the news, even though going to a destination by car is 1-2 orders of magnitude more dangerous than going by plane. The magnitude of the carnage from a plane crash is greater and overwhelms our minds, while the much lower frequency of plane crashes is overlooked. Or on the flip side, it's why people spend money on lottery tickets even though on average they'll lose money. The magnitude of the payoff if you win overwhelms our mind, to where we completely ignore the infinitesimal odds of winning.
No, this has nothing whatsoever to do with assessing the risk of nuclear energy. A more apt comparison with plane crashes would be terrorist attacks.
Are only morons and retards submitting stuff these days?
As per usual, the answer is "yes". Slashdot has been useless for quite some time now.
That's sexist and an insult to cunts. :-)
I am so looking forward to the day insurance companies start inserting clauses that they won't cover smart home related cases, insisting that you have to prove your smart home devices weren't to blame for your insurance case. That's probably the only way the current idiotic trend can be averted.
You are absolutely right of course on how proper and final diagnoses is established. The problem is, and your wife will probably agree, is that the initial diagnoses, you may even call it suspicion, is the most important because it determines whether follow-up tests will be conducted at all. My point is, actually two points are that 1) fewer first patient facing physicians (the front line if you will) will be taught and gain the experience to recognise melanomas (or the likelihood of it being one) in the first place and 2) automated testing will be more expensive in some health systems leading to diminished access to proper diagnoses and eventually treatment for many, thus exacerbating the original problem.
Technology is far more useful when it complements expertise and experience not when it merely replaces it.
The obvious conclusion is therefore not to train more doctors to correctly diagnose melanomas but to have them photograph parts of your body and submit the pictures to an IT system which will in turn deliver a diagnosis. While this may be beneficial for a health system in general (not necessarily the US, where the CNN diagnosis will of course be an order of magnitutde more expensive than traditional methods...) it may lead to less well trained physicians in front of the patient. Which may sound like technophobia is in fact happening, or rather has been happening for quite some time. Many orthopedic and trauma surgeons solely rely on imaging systems for diagnosis, while older clinicians or those trained in less advanced health systems could perform reliable first diagnosis with conventional means. You can stilll witness this in parts of Germany with physicians trained in the GDR.
In theory, modern technology should supplement experience when in fact it far too often replaces it, increasing the overall financial burden to the system.
If Amazon is willing to relocate or not grow a business that already employs 40.000 people in the local economy just to avoid 10.000.000 USD in taxes annually, I would say let them. Who needs an asshole company like this? I know it's currently en vogue in the US, or at least for a lot of people, to piss on anything remotely related to social responsibility, but if your economy is dependent on businesses ripping off the state and the people, it's fucked anyway.
Life, a condition that will ultimately lead to death. ;-)
....acrylamide, a substance created naturally during the brewing process...
Acrylamide is created during the roasting process and not during brewing. The temperatures during brewing are way too low and the time far too short for the Maillard reaction to happen.
The researchers found they were less depressed, less likely to make trade-offs between food and health care, and more likely to stick with their medications.
Who? The researchers?
...but, but....freedom!
It doesn't get much lamer than this. Vi vs. Emacs anyone? FFS...
They burn cash until production ramps up, then they actually make money for a quarter before the plow it all back into R&D for the next vehicle.
What you're saying is that they will never be profitable as a company. Way to go then...
...will blockchain the synergies out of AI cloud computing.
Environmental regulations should be strictly based on science, but it should be on published research with publicly available, peer reviewable data.
Absolutely! I would in fact propose a law that requires any company that challenges EPA regulation based on this argument to open all their own books and research in the interest of transparency.
Do you want the Trump Administration to make new environmental rules based on secret science?
I don't want the Trump Administration to make any new environmental rules because they can be trusted to protect anything and anyone but the environment and the public.
It's actually more surprising that it's only people considering that almost 50% of a recent poll thought it was a good idea to make Trump US president....
With someone like this at the helm, divesting from Twitter may be the thing to do.
It's a typo and should read "Creationist Update".
A file manager to access network shares like Total Commander doesn't work for you? I have a similar problem with USB, for different reasons (it's not vendor lock in, it just doesn't work on LineageOS with my device), and got around it using Total Commander with TotalCmd-LAN.
What? It's unfair to compare one software platform with another because one is tied to one hardware platform while the other isn't? If anything, software loyalty should be greater with the system that locks you in to one vendor, especially considering it being touted as the one that "just works" and stuff...
Protesting at the G20 or Occupy Wall Street the "spoiled overgrown children" expressed support for which ideology exactly? Or are you talking about your own?
I can totally see blocking Facebook and Instagram, but I don't really get WhatsApp? You could just as well block the phone network.
This is so far removed from this site's original concept...