It used to be that a degree would get you good money, and many well paid jobs required one. The subject wasn't that important - my mum did Latin - it was a demonstration of your ability to learn independently and reach a high standard.
As the economy shifted from manual labour to services the demand for graduate level education rose. There are actually two problems here.
1. Employers want highly educated employees instead of offering training like they did with manual workers.
2. The economy does need a lot of highly skilled workers, but it also needs a lot more medium skilled workers. Extremely expensive degrees are geared towards the former who have a chance of earning enough to pay them off, but need the high numbers of medium skill people to make universities economically viable.
I can usually find the right printer, but getting the printout right the first time is pretty hit and miss. You have a 50/50 chance with portrait A4 document, but anything else will probably need several attempts to get the right paper size, orientation, scaling, page selection and collation.
It's a proof of concept, not a product being offered to you. You should be welcoming this, it's a step towards the ultimate goal of a high quality synthetic steak, the thing you actually want.
If all you do is shit on everything until it's absolutely perfect you will find that it takes much longer to get the things you want than if you try to be constructive about it.
The problem here is lack of education. People don't learn to spot fake news or properly evaluate information they receive.
A few simple tools could really help fix this issue. Social media and chat apps could have a little button next to widely posted images that links to a reverse image search or fact checking site. They could use image analysis or AI to add warnings to photoshopped images (wouldn't that be great for airbrushed fashion models too).
Web browsers could add known fake images and fake news to a database of fake news, just like they have a database of malware sites.
People will now start screaming about censorship and putting companies in charge of determining the truth (because in the past newspapers were all non-commercial and totally unbiased), but it's worked pretty well for malware. There is the occasional false positive but 99.99% of the time malware protection is a net benefit to the user. Plus if it was going to be abused then political web sites would get added to the malware lists anyway.
It's interesting how the far right has done a 180 on this, but with the same basic goal: to deceive people.
Used to be that they would try to control the media so that only their approved messages would be published. Now they can't control the media they have switched to attacking it, claiming that it's all fake an unreliable and, most ironically, that it's under state control. Instead people should listen to social media and preacher-like speakers-of-truth.
One way they do that is to present a false dichotomy where the only options are giving fake news equal weight or suffering the kind of totalitarian control they secretly dream of. Of course, since they are the ones producing much of the fake news, the result in either case is more or less the same.
Typically the female contraceptive pill is about 90-95% effective, because people don't use it perfectly. So if you want to avoid having kids it's a good idea to use some other form of contraceptive too.
Some men may welcome the hormonal changes. Testosterone levels go up and down naturally and generally are not something most men need to worry about, but for some excessive libido and the like can be an issue. There are treatments like amitriptyline, but it requires a prescription, can be expensive and has a lot of side effects.
According to TFA the extra testosterone is to prevent side effects like loss of libido and sexual function.
Anyway, this is just the trial, it may improve given time with no ways to apply it.
And really this is a huge game changer for men. It will give us a level of control over our own fertility that we have never had before, and maybe even lead to other liberating changes just like the pill did.
If they revolt they will be killed or sent to re-education camps. If they just use the US version of Steam at worst one or two of those millions might go to jail and more likely the government will just block it one day.
Also this is a bunch of gamers, probably lacking much political engagement and given all the bad press about video games in China at the moment probably lacking much public support too.
In the longer term it should be possible to make them very good. Plant food is much cheaper than meat to start with, so there is plenty of margin to work with. There is a market for good food too, and of course we can regulate it to ensure that manufacturers don't get silly.
Put it this way, it can't be any worse than Turkey Twizzlers.
The "printed" part refers to arranging the extruded material in a specific pattern under computer numerical control (CNC). As opposed you the uncontrolled shape of toothpaste that you extrude by hand.
This has in fact been around for a while in the food industry, e.g. confections with CNC printed decorations.
Vegan's aren't interested, it's us meat eaters who are. I've tried some of these non-meat burgers and they are excellent. Environmental concerns aside, if I can eat something as delicious as that but more nutritious, lower calorie, doesn't require so much infrastructure to enforce animal welfare... Well it's a huge benefit to me.
Between vegan steak and lab grown meat we could enter a new age of delicious meat products that are healthy to eat regularly and offer new culinary delights.
I see. Isn't the value of the property determined by how sound it is though? Or are they just saying "it would be worth this much assuming it wasn't full of termites so you had better get someone to check that assumption"?
Can someone explain how this works in the US? Presumably people don't buy houses without getting them checked out first, to make sure they are sound and not on top of a disused mine shaft or something.
Is that what this person does? And if so how will the computer do it? Or will the buyer have to get their own human to check?
Rather than estimating why not measure the destructive power of SJWs?
Someone submit a patch that changes all the instances of the word "fuck" to something else, then we can see how much damage that does. My guess is that we will see a lot of outrage over the suggestion but ultimately it will have zero effect on anything.
You cannot question that he is an effective leader -- just look at the success he has at his rallies. I'm not saying you have to like the guy or his methods, but you have to at least acknowledge that he is successful at inspiring people to follow him.
That doesn't make him an effective leader, just popular with a certain segment. For example he has failed to reform healthcare, failed to build the wall or make Mexico pay for it, failed to get the Muslim travel ban in place, failed to fight for LGBT rights as he promised to... Not to mention how many staff members he has been through in just a couple of years.
Trump isn't some genius leader or businessman, he's a failure. His life is littered with failures, from Trump Airlines to Trump Steaks to Trump University to casinos... Why would his presidency be any different?
A lot of US companies were being threatened by those tariffs. 25% on the components they need to do manufacturing in the US. 25% on goods they get OEM'd from China.
Sure Apple could withstand it, but plenty of companies operate on smaller margins than that.
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It used to be that a degree would get you good money, and many well paid jobs required one. The subject wasn't that important - my mum did Latin - it was a demonstration of your ability to learn independently and reach a high standard.
As the economy shifted from manual labour to services the demand for graduate level education rose. There are actually two problems here.
1. Employers want highly educated employees instead of offering training like they did with manual workers.
2. The economy does need a lot of highly skilled workers, but it also needs a lot more medium skilled workers. Extremely expensive degrees are geared towards the former who have a chance of earning enough to pay them off, but need the high numbers of medium skill people to make universities economically viable.
I can usually find the right printer, but getting the printout right the first time is pretty hit and miss. You have a 50/50 chance with portrait A4 document, but anything else will probably need several attempts to get the right paper size, orientation, scaling, page selection and collation.
I imagine they will think of a more practical method of application if it proves effective.
It's a proof of concept, not a product being offered to you. You should be welcoming this, it's a step towards the ultimate goal of a high quality synthetic steak, the thing you actually want.
If all you do is shit on everything until it's absolutely perfect you will find that it takes much longer to get the things you want than if you try to be constructive about it.
The problem here is lack of education. People don't learn to spot fake news or properly evaluate information they receive.
A few simple tools could really help fix this issue. Social media and chat apps could have a little button next to widely posted images that links to a reverse image search or fact checking site. They could use image analysis or AI to add warnings to photoshopped images (wouldn't that be great for airbrushed fashion models too).
Web browsers could add known fake images and fake news to a database of fake news, just like they have a database of malware sites.
People will now start screaming about censorship and putting companies in charge of determining the truth (because in the past newspapers were all non-commercial and totally unbiased), but it's worked pretty well for malware. There is the occasional false positive but 99.99% of the time malware protection is a net benefit to the user. Plus if it was going to be abused then political web sites would get added to the malware lists anyway.
It's interesting how the far right has done a 180 on this, but with the same basic goal: to deceive people.
Used to be that they would try to control the media so that only their approved messages would be published. Now they can't control the media they have switched to attacking it, claiming that it's all fake an unreliable and, most ironically, that it's under state control. Instead people should listen to social media and preacher-like speakers-of-truth.
One way they do that is to present a false dichotomy where the only options are giving fake news equal weight or suffering the kind of totalitarian control they secretly dream of. Of course, since they are the ones producing much of the fake news, the result in either case is more or less the same.
Being part of a group provides reassurance that other people have reached the same conclusion and think the action is correct.
Typically the female contraceptive pill is about 90-95% effective, because people don't use it perfectly. So if you want to avoid having kids it's a good idea to use some other form of contraceptive too.
Some men may welcome the hormonal changes. Testosterone levels go up and down naturally and generally are not something most men need to worry about, but for some excessive libido and the like can be an issue. There are treatments like amitriptyline, but it requires a prescription, can be expensive and has a lot of side effects.
According to TFA the extra testosterone is to prevent side effects like loss of libido and sexual function.
Anyway, this is just the trial, it may improve given time with no ways to apply it.
And really this is a huge game changer for men. It will give us a level of control over our own fertility that we have never had before, and maybe even lead to other liberating changes just like the pill did.
If they revolt they will be killed or sent to re-education camps. If they just use the US version of Steam at worst one or two of those millions might go to jail and more likely the government will just block it one day.
Also this is a bunch of gamers, probably lacking much political engagement and given all the bad press about video games in China at the moment probably lacking much public support too.
Well they ain't cheap, I'll tell you that much.
In the longer term it should be possible to make them very good. Plant food is much cheaper than meat to start with, so there is plenty of margin to work with. There is a market for good food too, and of course we can regulate it to ensure that manufacturers don't get silly.
Put it this way, it can't be any worse than Turkey Twizzlers.
The "printed" part refers to arranging the extruded material in a specific pattern under computer numerical control (CNC). As opposed you the uncontrolled shape of toothpaste that you extrude by hand.
This has in fact been around for a while in the food industry, e.g. confections with CNC printed decorations.
Vegan's aren't interested, it's us meat eaters who are. I've tried some of these non-meat burgers and they are excellent. Environmental concerns aside, if I can eat something as delicious as that but more nutritious, lower calorie, doesn't require so much infrastructure to enforce animal welfare... Well it's a huge benefit to me.
Between vegan steak and lab grown meat we could enter a new age of delicious meat products that are healthy to eat regularly and offer new culinary delights.
Ah good point, these things tend to escalate quickly. One minute you are adopting a code of conduct, the next...
LOL okay what is this now, cultural Marxism or some other bullshit?
You are seriously comparing SJWs to the USSR...
Pffft... If this is the apocalypse then I'm not impressed.
I see. Isn't the value of the property determined by how sound it is though? Or are they just saying "it would be worth this much assuming it wasn't full of termites so you had better get someone to check that assumption"?
Thanks, similar to the UK then. It's often driven by the bank's requirements, and often kinda useless.
Can someone explain how this works in the US? Presumably people don't buy houses without getting them checked out first, to make sure they are sound and not on top of a disused mine shaft or something.
Is that what this person does? And if so how will the computer do it? Or will the buyer have to get their own human to check?
Rather than estimating why not measure the destructive power of SJWs?
Someone submit a patch that changes all the instances of the word "fuck" to something else, then we can see how much damage that does. My guess is that we will see a lot of outrage over the suggestion but ultimately it will have zero effect on anything.
Come on drinkypoo, you must surely understand I was referring to his interpretation of the CoC.
You cannot question that he is an effective leader -- just look at the success he has at his rallies. I'm not saying you have to like the guy or his methods, but you have to at least acknowledge that he is successful at inspiring people to follow him.
That doesn't make him an effective leader, just popular with a certain segment. For example he has failed to reform healthcare, failed to build the wall or make Mexico pay for it, failed to get the Muslim travel ban in place, failed to fight for LGBT rights as he promised to... Not to mention how many staff members he has been through in just a couple of years.
Trump isn't some genius leader or businessman, he's a failure. His life is littered with failures, from Trump Airlines to Trump Steaks to Trump University to casinos... Why would his presidency be any different?
A lot of US companies were being threatened by those tariffs. 25% on the components they need to do manufacturing in the US. 25% on goods they get OEM'd from China.
Sure Apple could withstand it, but plenty of companies operate on smaller margins than that.