are well protected under Copyright Law. This is not a problem of Copyright Law. This is a problem with the Youtube 3 Strikes rule. If youtube is not going to do legal reviews of takedown notices and instead depend on crowd's intelligence that is Youtube's choice but then it should not use a 3 strikes rule on such takedown notices which have not gone through proper review.
Not really. I was tongue in cheek referring to mandatory Kaiser Permanente style HMO-Hospital groups. Assign everyone to HMOs. No Copays. No out of pocket. Just a fixed premium every month based on your current health status. Car Insurance style. If you drive unsafe and have accidents your insurance goes up. if you lead unhealthy lifestyle your health insurance will go up. However for things you are born with in your genes you will not be penalized. Everyone gets treated free and in fact have to come in for mandatory annual health checks (like annual car inspections to keep driving) so preventive measures can be taken. Its in the HMOs interest to spend on preventive medicine and keep people healthy instead of letting them get sick and then have to spend on expensive specialist treatment. Also we have too many specialists and too few GPs. This model will take the charm away from being a Specialist as it no longer will be a shortcut to millionaire status and more doctors will choose to become GPs.
Basically move the profit motive to prevention instead of cure. Currently doctors dont make as much money on keeping you well as on curing you once you are sick. Lets swap the motives.
Also break pharmaceutical patents. No product patents only process patents. If a company comes up with a drug good for them. They need to keep the process secret. if another company manages to manufacture the same drug they should be free to sell it without another set of clinical trials.
Fund clinical trials out of taxes. treat it like NSF grants. A company comes up with a drug. When they want to go to human trials they need to convince a NIH panel its a worthwhile drug and not just the next Viagra and the Govt will fund the trial. Once trial costs are out not much excuse for companies to have blockbuster margins on new drugs and once process patents replace product patents no drug will stay on patent for years and years.
I regularly switch off my email when I have to concentrate. Every few hours I will open my inbox - reply to what can be replied in less than 2 minutes, what I just need to be informed of I glance over and move to saved folder if I will need the information later, and anything which actually needs me to gather information and compose a longer email or hold a meeting etc i flag and move to a to do folder. Everyday I have a block of time to go over my todo folder and get as much done or scheduled as possible. For short things which are urgent like whats the password to this server I ask people to ping me on IM. Of course I also switch off IM when I am trying to do deep thinking. For real emergencies people can always call but again I tell them the phone is for emergencies. If they call me too many times for not real emergencies I start responding to their calls with the autotext - In a meeting will call you back. There are of course exceptions- family calling I will pick. Or if I am waiting for someone to call back with certain information that I am waiting for I will pick. But you have to protect your time. if your focus is on being responsive then it wont be on being productive. Sure there are jobs where it is more important to be responsive than productive - those are mostly jobs where your role is a coordinator - but if your role needs deep thinking being responsive should not be your priority. With this system End of most days I have 0 unread emails though I may have many todos. Of course this is for genuine work mails. Spam gets filtered away and I dont even look at it before it gets deleted.
The cure can be sold with a lifetime Warranty where if they get infected again the company will cure them and in return for the warranty they pay a monthly warranty fee. This also acts as quality control so the companies are motivated to find permanent cure so that they dont have to actually honor the warranty.
The Jews in India came to India when the early Christians were massacring them for being complicit in the death of Christ. Hindu kings gave them sanctuary. Hindu kings also gave sanctuary to early Christians when the Romans were oppressing them. They gave sanctuary to Zoroastrians from iran when the Iranians were being forced to convert to Islam. India has a long tradition of sanctuary and allowing people to continue to practice their religion. This is a function of the Hindu religion which is Polytheistic with many gods. For a typical Hindu there is no contradiction in someone believing in a different god - for all they care it's just one more God in the Hindu Pantheon whether the god is called Jehovah, Jesus Dad or Allah.
Couldn't they sell cures on the subscription model. You keep paying 30 dollar a month for as long as you live. For every cure you use your monthly subscription goes up. if you ever stop paying you will be barred forever from signing up again till you pay all your back dues. So if you get the cure and then stop paying next time you get sick and need a cure you need to pay all your backdues. 40 years of subscription is surely more than what they could charge for a one time cure.
A hotter world is a wetter world. Already data shows since the 1970s as the world has got warmer rain in the Shara has increased and the edges are now scrubland instead of pure desert. Also famines in Africa have gone down since the 1980s as a hotter world is leading to more rain in Africa. Global Warming may suck for Britain and Northern Europe as the Guf Stream will switch off and these places will be frozen wastelands but there are areas like Canada, Siberia which will be warmer and areas like Tibet, Sahara, Australia which will be wetter hence increasing the amount of arable land. We can adapt to Global Warming as long as we are willing to have immigration. Anti Global Warming folks are basically from countries which have a good climate today and dont want to share their prosperity or from countries who will have warmer climates but dont want browner people to come over there.
Lots of companies try and do interviews on Skype to make sure the person they talk to remotely is the person who turns up. Especially in the contract workforce there is not always a in person interview. And there are many unscrupulous contracting bodyshoppers who have someone else take the interview. If Microsoft can provide a Skype Professional version which can do real time deepfakes on Skype than they can sell many licenses.
At least in the US Indians and Chinese have much smaller families than folks of European origin. It is almost impossible to find an Indian family with more than 2 kids but white families regularly have 3-4 kids. So your argument is flawed.
Yes they are related but temperature (which is a function of the speed at which particles are moving in a substance) determines both Pressure and Volume in nature. So pressures dont change temperature, temperature changes pressure and volume. Unless you want to add a world wide compressor pump, temperature depends on how much energy is in the atmosphere and not on pressure.
Given that the world has some negative feedback loops built in , Once Glaciers melt the rock exposed is much more heat absorbing than the white ice. This means less heat reflected back into the atmosphere. Higher CO2 also means denser forests. So runaway global warming is not possible. We will just hit a hotter and wetter equilibrium.
The industrial side products of Solar panel manufacturing are just as nasty as nuclear waste. The difference is panel manufacture can be done in third world countries whereas nuclear plants need to be int he consuming countries. The US has reduced its CO2 demand by not doing the manufacturing where the consuming happens and not by actual less wasteful consumption. Solar is more of the same. Moving the problem elsewhere.
India and China have always had larger populations than the rest of the world for the same reason Europe has a larger population than Antarctica even though Antarctica is larger. The carrying capacity of the land matters.
Monsoons depend on the North Indian Plains getting really hot in the summer, the hot air rising up and creating a vacumn and hence pulling in moisture laden air from the Indian ocean. with Global Warming the summer temperatures in North India will go up higher leading to a stronger monsoon. Also the moisture holding capacity of air goes up with temperature so more moisture will reach the northern plains and the Himalayas. Given these 2 facts I have a serious doubt on the report stating that the snowfall will go down with Global Warming. For India Global Warming means more rains as well as more snow (which means more water during the dry season). I dont see how that is bad.
The mob may be distracted by shiny toys today but at some point when the snooping gets too much the mob will get ugly and when they start the pogrom they will go after all techies not just the ones at NEST. Hence we crib about privacy and try to prevent overreach.
I dont have a dog in this fight. i am neither black nor white and recent immigrant to US but the Northerners were not fighting out of the pureness of their hearts. The northern economy was based on manufacturing for which they needed cheap factory labor. One large available source was freed slaves. hence they wanted to abolish slavery to give a boost to their manufacturing. At the same time they wanted high tariffs to protect their factories from European imports. The Southern economy was on the other hand based on agricultural plantations which needed both slaves to run and export markets in Europe so the Southerners were against abolishing slavery and for low tariffs (tariffs are generally mutual - if you put high tariffs on European imports they will put high tariffs on Southern exports). The country basically had 2 economies and each needed a different handling from the center. So the Southerners decided to go their separate way which was their right under the Constitution as understood at that time.
This is not very dissimilar from Brexit however I don't see a European army invading Britain to keep it in the EU.
I think the original interview answered that questions. Normal steels become brittle at cryogenic temperatures whereas stainless steel actually becomes stronger at those temperatures
The US Military is 10 times the size it needs to be because at its core it is a jobs program. It keeps millions of high school graduates employed, teaches them job skills. It also funds thousands of researchers both in Univerisites and Private arms firms. Without all this welfare many firms, Universities would go bankrupt and street gangs would get much worse. The military is the most communist thing we have.
What you are suggesting would have developers scrambling twice a year - once for the hardware update and once for the OS update. The way its done now is better. Actually most people are keeping phones for 2 years so maybe they can move to releasing a flagship model every 2 years along with a well tested OS. the intervening year can be used to release cut price models with crippled functionality.
Apple needs to get off its ass and monetize all the user data they have. Google and facebook have been pretty successfull at it. Tim your responsibility is to your shareholders not your users.
Funny thing is its the Chinaman automating their factories. Man are the Indians pissed. They thought they would get the factories when China becomes expensive
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are well protected under Copyright Law. This is not a problem of Copyright Law. This is a problem with the Youtube 3 Strikes rule. If youtube is not going to do legal reviews of takedown notices and instead depend on crowd's intelligence that is Youtube's choice but then it should not use a 3 strikes rule on such takedown notices which have not gone through proper review.
Not really.
I was tongue in cheek referring to mandatory Kaiser Permanente style HMO-Hospital groups.
Assign everyone to HMOs. No Copays. No out of pocket. Just a fixed premium every month based on your current health status. Car Insurance style. If you drive unsafe and have accidents your insurance goes up. if you lead unhealthy lifestyle your health insurance will go up. However for things you are born with in your genes you will not be penalized.
Everyone gets treated free and in fact have to come in for mandatory annual health checks (like annual car inspections to keep driving) so preventive measures can be taken.
Its in the HMOs interest to spend on preventive medicine and keep people healthy instead of letting them get sick and then have to spend on expensive specialist treatment.
Also we have too many specialists and too few GPs.
This model will take the charm away from being a Specialist as it no longer will be a shortcut to millionaire status and more doctors will choose to become GPs.
Basically move the profit motive to prevention instead of cure. Currently doctors dont make as much money on keeping you well as on curing you once you are sick. Lets swap the motives.
Also break pharmaceutical patents. No product patents only process patents. If a company comes up with a drug good for them. They need to keep the process secret. if another company manages to manufacture the same drug they should be free to sell it without another set of clinical trials.
Fund clinical trials out of taxes. treat it like NSF grants. A company comes up with a drug. When they want to go to human trials they need to convince a NIH panel its a worthwhile drug and not just the next Viagra and the Govt will fund the trial. Once trial costs are out not much excuse for companies to have blockbuster margins on new drugs and once process patents replace product patents no drug will stay on patent for years and years.
I regularly switch off my email when I have to concentrate. Every few hours I will open my inbox - reply to what can be replied in less than 2 minutes, what I just need to be informed of I glance over and move to saved folder if I will need the information later, and anything which actually needs me to gather information and compose a longer email or hold a meeting etc i flag and move to a to do folder. Everyday I have a block of time to go over my todo folder and get as much done or scheduled as possible.
For short things which are urgent like whats the password to this server I ask people to ping me on IM. Of course I also switch off IM when I am trying to do deep thinking.
For real emergencies people can always call but again I tell them the phone is for emergencies. If they call me too many times for not real emergencies I start responding to their calls with the autotext - In a meeting will call you back.
There are of course exceptions- family calling I will pick. Or if I am waiting for someone to call back with certain information that I am waiting for I will pick.
But you have to protect your time. if your focus is on being responsive then it wont be on being productive. Sure there are jobs where it is more important to be responsive than productive - those are mostly jobs where your role is a coordinator - but if your role needs deep thinking being responsive should not be your priority.
With this system End of most days I have 0 unread emails though I may have many todos. Of course this is for genuine work mails. Spam gets filtered away and I dont even look at it before it gets deleted.
The cure can be sold with a lifetime Warranty where if they get infected again the company will cure them and in return for the warranty they pay a monthly warranty fee. This also acts as quality control so the companies are motivated to find permanent cure so that they dont have to actually honor the warranty.
The Jews in India came to India when the early Christians were massacring them for being complicit in the death of Christ. Hindu kings gave them sanctuary. Hindu kings also gave sanctuary to early Christians when the Romans were oppressing them. They gave sanctuary to Zoroastrians from iran when the Iranians were being forced to convert to Islam. India has a long tradition of sanctuary and allowing people to continue to practice their religion. This is a function of the Hindu religion which is Polytheistic with many gods. For a typical Hindu there is no contradiction in someone believing in a different god - for all they care it's just one more God in the Hindu Pantheon whether the god is called Jehovah, Jesus Dad or Allah.
Couldn't they sell cures on the subscription model. You keep paying 30 dollar a month for as long as you live. For every cure you use your monthly subscription goes up. if you ever stop paying you will be barred forever from signing up again till you pay all your back dues. So if you get the cure and then stop paying next time you get sick and need a cure you need to pay all your backdues. 40 years of subscription is surely more than what they could charge for a one time cure.
Maybe trying to find a good doctor? Thats where the good ones are trained.
I said Indians not Pakistanis.
Thy could go for 2 birds with one stone and also test their anti Satellite missiles at the same time on these ummm "Backup Circuits?"
A hotter world is a wetter world. Already data shows since the 1970s as the world has got warmer rain in the Shara has increased and the edges are now scrubland instead of pure desert. Also famines in Africa have gone down since the 1980s as a hotter world is leading to more rain in Africa.
Global Warming may suck for Britain and Northern Europe as the Guf Stream will switch off and these places will be frozen wastelands but there are areas like Canada, Siberia which will be warmer and areas like Tibet, Sahara, Australia which will be wetter hence increasing the amount of arable land.
We can adapt to Global Warming as long as we are willing to have immigration.
Anti Global Warming folks are basically from countries which have a good climate today and dont want to share their prosperity or from countries who will have warmer climates but dont want browner people to come over there.
Lots of companies try and do interviews on Skype to make sure the person they talk to remotely is the person who turns up. Especially in the contract workforce there is not always a in person interview. And there are many unscrupulous contracting bodyshoppers who have someone else take the interview. If Microsoft can provide a Skype Professional version which can do real time deepfakes on Skype than they can sell many licenses.
At least in the US Indians and Chinese have much smaller families than folks of European origin. It is almost impossible to find an Indian family with more than 2 kids but white families regularly have 3-4 kids. So your argument is flawed.
pv/T=k Boyles law.
Pressure *Volume /Temperature = Constant
Yes they are related but temperature (which is a function of the speed at which particles are moving in a substance) determines both Pressure and Volume in nature.
So pressures dont change temperature, temperature changes pressure and volume.
Unless you want to add a world wide compressor pump, temperature depends on how much energy is in the atmosphere and not on pressure.
Given that the world has some negative feedback loops built in , Once Glaciers melt the rock exposed is much more heat absorbing than the white ice. This means less heat reflected back into the atmosphere. Higher CO2 also means denser forests. So runaway global warming is not possible. We will just hit a hotter and wetter equilibrium.
The industrial side products of Solar panel manufacturing are just as nasty as nuclear waste. The difference is panel manufacture can be done in third world countries whereas nuclear plants need to be int he consuming countries. The US has reduced its CO2 demand by not doing the manufacturing where the consuming happens and not by actual less wasteful consumption. Solar is more of the same. Moving the problem elsewhere.
India and China have always had larger populations than the rest of the world for the same reason Europe has a larger population than Antarctica even though Antarctica is larger. The carrying capacity of the land matters.
Monsoons depend on the North Indian Plains getting really hot in the summer, the hot air rising up and creating a vacumn and hence pulling in moisture laden air from the Indian ocean. with Global Warming the summer temperatures in North India will go up higher leading to a stronger monsoon. Also the moisture holding capacity of air goes up with temperature so more moisture will reach the northern plains and the Himalayas. Given these 2 facts I have a serious doubt on the report stating that the snowfall will go down with Global Warming.
For India Global Warming means more rains as well as more snow (which means more water during the dry season). I dont see how that is bad.
The mob may be distracted by shiny toys today but at some point when the snooping gets too much the mob will get ugly and when they start the pogrom they will go after all techies not just the ones at NEST. Hence we crib about privacy and try to prevent overreach.
I dont have a dog in this fight. i am neither black nor white and recent immigrant to US but the Northerners were not fighting out of the pureness of their hearts. The northern economy was based on manufacturing for which they needed cheap factory labor. One large available source was freed slaves. hence they wanted to abolish slavery to give a boost to their manufacturing. At the same time they wanted high tariffs to protect their factories from European imports. The Southern economy was on the other hand based on agricultural plantations which needed both slaves to run and export markets in Europe so the Southerners were against abolishing slavery and for low tariffs (tariffs are generally mutual - if you put high tariffs on European imports they will put high tariffs on Southern exports). The country basically had 2 economies and each needed a different handling from the center. So the Southerners decided to go their separate way which was their right under the Constitution as understood at that time.
This is not very dissimilar from Brexit however I don't see a European army invading Britain to keep it in the EU.
I think the original interview answered that questions. Normal steels become brittle at cryogenic temperatures whereas stainless steel actually becomes stronger at those temperatures
Maybe Bell needs to build a great firewall of Canada to block America's cultural imperialism
The US Military is 10 times the size it needs to be because at its core it is a jobs program. It keeps millions of high school graduates employed, teaches them job skills. It also funds thousands of researchers both in Univerisites and Private arms firms. Without all this welfare many firms, Universities would go bankrupt and street gangs would get much worse. The military is the most communist thing we have.
What you are suggesting would have developers scrambling twice a year - once for the hardware update and once for the OS update. The way its done now is better. Actually most people are keeping phones for 2 years so maybe they can move to releasing a flagship model every 2 years along with a well tested OS. the intervening year can be used to release cut price models with crippled functionality.
Apple needs to get off its ass and monetize all the user data they have. Google and facebook have been pretty successfull at it. Tim your responsibility is to your shareholders not your users.
Funny thing is its the Chinaman automating their factories. Man are the Indians pissed. They thought they would get the factories when China becomes expensive
The job held by most men in US - Truck driver. Google is coming out with a self driving truck
The job held by most women in the US - Retail Clerk/cashier. Amazon has already brought a cashierless retail store
The rioting is not far away