In some sense, yes, that is exactly the problem with Big Data. Many people expect it to be some panacea, when it is merely a tool. A tool that is difficult to use effectively.
You're missing the point of the analysis (as is this Housman fellow). Which browser is the better choice is irrelevant. The analysis shows that better employees are currently more likely to use Chrome or Firefox. Whether or not Firefox/Chrome are better doesn't matter, all that matters is that, on average, better people use them (according to their measures).
This is consistent with the overall American trend of replacing solid blue-collar jobs with entry-level service type jobs.
I fail to see how trucker is a "solid blue-collar job" while "gas station refueler" is somehow an "entry-level service type job". They're both pretty typical blue collar jobs.
I would say adding a full-service attendant at every truck stop gas station is probably the least complicated and easiest-to-implement part of an automated nation-wide self-driving truck shipping system. You're really focusing on the simplest part of the problem.
It would settle the issue very quickly. What is the problem? That some investigator will see her talking about personal matters? What could possibly be that private?
Are you joking? Think about how heavily scrutinized her personal emails would be. Anyone running against her could take comments completely out of context and absolutely destroy her in attack ads.
Given that there are gaps of MONTHS in the records she provided there is no way that she didn't unless she didn't send a government email despite being the head of the state department for months.
This actually isn't that unlikely. Many politicians don't use email at all for government business, exactly for this reason (it all gets preserved).
Honestly, this preserving all emails is rather stupid to begin with. We don't preserve other communication media completely, I see no reason why email should somehow be special. It just forces politicians to use private accounts or not use email at all.
Because she self hosted her own email there is no such third party and we have to "trust" that she didn't delete government emails.
Not really. If she sent them to someone else's government email address, then they would still be preserved.
Of course, if she sent an email to someones private email address then that would be lost... but I don't think you would have access to that email anyway, as it would just be an email between two private email accounts.
Yes, so his "simple" solution was to have the company literally double their workforce.
I'm sure it's just *so* easy to find that many reliable people with commercial drivers licences.
The thing is, in the provided picture, the dress actually IS white and gold, or at least grey and gold
I'm sorry, but it is definitely not. I just opened it up in GIMP, and the blue areas have hue values between 225 and 230. While yes, the saturation is low (30-40), that definitely still makes it blue, albeit a washed out blue.
Load it up in an editor and snip pieces of it out if you don't believe me, look at them on their own, compare them to color swatches
I did. It's definitely blue. Not highly saturated blue, but blue nonetheless. It's certainly not white/grey.
From any angle, it looks blue to me. Very distinctly blue. I'm actually somewhat baffled that anyone (nevermind the majority of people) perceives it as white and gold.
The best solution to union meddling concerning the split shifts is to employ half of the drivers in the morning and the other half in the evening.
This has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
Tell me genius, how are you going to drive the same amount of buses with half the employees on a shift? Or are you under the impression that people can drive two buses at once?
Seriously... what's the point of putting someone in prison for four years for that? If anything a sentence like that is just as likely to turn them to harder, more violent crime than rehabilitate them.
It makes much more sense to give first time offenders for stupid crimes like this a year of probation, a significant amount of community service, and forced enrollment in some sort of vocational school / work program.
You don't reform people by making them sit on their asses for four years talking to other criminals. You reform them by putting them to useful work.
Except that two singers performing the same song will often produce two very different results. So clearly there is at least some artistic license in singing.
Your "typing in a program from a magazine" analogy is completely flawed since two people typing in a program from a magazine will produce identical code. Two singers singing the same song will obviously not produce identical performances.
The Constitution is there to GRANT the federal govt very limited, enumerated rights.
This is not really true. The Bill of Rights is a list of things that the government specifically cannot do. It would not be necessary if the Constitution didn't grant the federal government some pretty broad powers (such as the power to make and enforce laws).
Of course the government creates wealth when it spends money on projects. Any spending creates wealth, it doesn't matter if it's a private company spending the money or the government.
Either way, someone gets money and someone else gets a product. So where before you only had money, now you have money and some product (say, a rocket). Thus "creating wealth".
Where did you get this idea that the government doesn't create wealth just like any other investor?
Anything that gov't purports it wants to provide 'for free' to the poor ends up being unaffordable by the majority because government money and regulations create monopolies and push prices up by making end clients price insensitive and promotes the idea of entitlement not based on productivity.
Ahh yes, such as roads, water, power, gas, fire departments, police, primary education, &c...
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I would assume you could see search results but can't open any of the links... which would be incredibly frustrating.
In some sense, yes, that is exactly the problem with Big Data. Many people expect it to be some panacea, when it is merely a tool. A tool that is difficult to use effectively.
You're missing the point of the analysis (as is this Housman fellow). Which browser is the better choice is irrelevant. The analysis shows that better employees are currently more likely to use Chrome or Firefox. Whether or not Firefox/Chrome are better doesn't matter, all that matters is that, on average, better people use them (according to their measures).
This is consistent with the overall American trend of replacing solid blue-collar jobs with entry-level service type jobs.
I fail to see how trucker is a "solid blue-collar job" while "gas station refueler" is somehow an "entry-level service type job". They're both pretty typical blue collar jobs.
I would say adding a full-service attendant at every truck stop gas station is probably the least complicated and easiest-to-implement part of an automated nation-wide self-driving truck shipping system. You're really focusing on the simplest part of the problem.
I don't believe all telephone conversations and text messages are recorded... but I could be wrong...
It would settle the issue very quickly. What is the problem? That some investigator will see her talking about personal matters? What could possibly be that private?
Are you joking? Think about how heavily scrutinized her personal emails would be. Anyone running against her could take comments completely out of context and absolutely destroy her in attack ads.
Given that there are gaps of MONTHS in the records she provided there is no way that she didn't unless she didn't send a government email despite being the head of the state department for months.
This actually isn't that unlikely. Many politicians don't use email at all for government business, exactly for this reason (it all gets preserved).
Honestly, this preserving all emails is rather stupid to begin with. We don't preserve other communication media completely, I see no reason why email should somehow be special. It just forces politicians to use private accounts or not use email at all.
Because she self hosted her own email there is no such third party and we have to "trust" that she didn't delete government emails.
Not really. If she sent them to someone else's government email address, then they would still be preserved. Of course, if she sent an email to someones private email address then that would be lost... but I don't think you would have access to that email anyway, as it would just be an email between two private email accounts.
White/grey have nearly equal levels of R,G,B. This color clearly has a higher intensity in the blue channel.
Yes, so his "simple" solution was to have the company literally double their workforce. I'm sure it's just *so* easy to find that many reliable people with commercial drivers licences.
The thing is, in the provided picture, the dress actually IS white and gold, or at least grey and gold
I'm sorry, but it is definitely not. I just opened it up in GIMP, and the blue areas have hue values between 225 and 230. While yes, the saturation is low (30-40), that definitely still makes it blue, albeit a washed out blue.
Load it up in an editor and snip pieces of it out if you don't believe me, look at them on their own, compare them to color swatches
I did. It's definitely blue. Not highly saturated blue, but blue nonetheless. It's certainly not white/grey.
From any angle, it looks blue to me. Very distinctly blue. I'm actually somewhat baffled that anyone (nevermind the majority of people) perceives it as white and gold.
The best solution to union meddling concerning the split shifts is to employ half of the drivers in the morning and the other half in the evening.
This has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
Tell me genius, how are you going to drive the same amount of buses with half the employees on a shift? Or are you under the impression that people can drive two buses at once?
It makes much more sense to give first time offenders for stupid crimes like this a year of probation, a significant amount of community service, and forced enrollment in some sort of vocational school / work program.
You don't reform people by making them sit on their asses for four years talking to other criminals. You reform them by putting them to useful work.
Not to mention that I doubt the university you turned down would give you grief if you called them and explained the situation.
Actually digging down from anywhere is moving orthogonal to the N/S/E/W plane, so it's zero motion, neither north nor south.
Your "typing in a program from a magazine" analogy is completely flawed since two people typing in a program from a magazine will produce identical code. Two singers singing the same song will obviously not produce identical performances.
Isn't genetic engineering on humans generally not allowed?
Even adjusting for population and number of employees (Standard Oil - 60,000, Apple 100,000), it's still seems rather absurd.
The Constitution is there to GRANT the federal govt very limited, enumerated rights.
This is not really true. The Bill of Rights is a list of things that the government specifically cannot do. It would not be necessary if the Constitution didn't grant the federal government some pretty broad powers (such as the power to make and enforce laws).
Washington has no state payroll tax, sorry.
Of course the government creates wealth when it spends money on projects. Any spending creates wealth, it doesn't matter if it's a private company spending the money or the government. Either way, someone gets money and someone else gets a product. So where before you only had money, now you have money and some product (say, a rocket). Thus "creating wealth". Where did you get this idea that the government doesn't create wealth just like any other investor?
Anything that gov't purports it wants to provide 'for free' to the poor ends up being unaffordable by the majority because government money and regulations create monopolies and push prices up by making end clients price insensitive and promotes the idea of entitlement not based on productivity.
Ahh yes, such as roads, water, power, gas, fire departments, police, primary education, &c...
It wouldn't be very smart to put your name and copyright on a file which is being disseminated with pirated material. Just sayin.
Where in the US can you cast ballots from your home computer?