The only food that is unhealthy are those pre-packaged with tons of salt, sugar and fat and have had all it's nutrients removed in the cooking and preserving stages.
If it is full of sugar and fat then it's full of nutrients, not void of them.
My town in CA just removed the cap on the number of taxi medallions (value just went from 993 x $140,000 to Zero) but is simultaneously not allowing Uber to pick up fares at the airport. So not always.
It probably should be mentioned (since few seem aware of it) that they also provide their UberX/UberXL* drivers with supplemental commercial insurance.
While at the same time they suspend drivers if they register their cars as commercial vehicles - even though that is what the DMV tells the drivers to do. Also, the insurance only covers when there is a fare in the car, not when they are driving to pick up a fare.
If you base it on revenue, it wasn't. Period. But if you base it on the value of SMS and MMS services income in (mostly foreign) markets that it destroyed in the last fiscal year, it destroyed about $9B in revenue for telephone companies. so $18B is worth 2X revenue destroyed, then its valuation makes a lot of sense: it's worth ~$9B/year in *leverage* over these telephone companies. Facebook needs this, if it wants to achieve additional marketshare by growing its available customer base.
Question: how the hell do you think he was able shove internet.org down the throat of reliance communications in India?
These valuations are based on more than "grab as many customers as you can before someone else does, then figure out some way to monetize them", which was the Netscape model, and the model everyone at the time was using before the dot-com collapse. They are based on the value of leverage. This is why so many of these companies are being acquired for vastly more than they could possibly IPO at: they are being acquired for their value as leverage, not on their revenue.
If you've got a $1.25T/year industry by the balls, and all it cost you is $18B, you got a deal.
How exactly does the revenue destruction leverage calculation work as a business model? Blackmail?
"Can you drop Carol and Benji at the mall on your way to pick up the rest of the kids?
But it is on substantially the same route, just like other carpooling. Plus Mom might get gas money, but doesn't turn a profit no matter how many kids get dropped at the mall. No taxi medallion for Mom.
They are sharing a ride in their personal vehicle.
Because they were going that way anyway? No, they are a transportation service for hire. The only reason the companies call it ridesharing is because of the legal loophole big enough to drive a Toyota Prius through.
I agree it's not a problem. But who cares. If the result is important it will be replicated....if it's not important then no one will cite it... People will make errors. If they weren't then then were not paying for aggressive enough research.
The problem is opportunity cost. There's usually a big lag between research getting published and being formally replicated - or debunked. Meanwhile, grants are awarded and lots of FTEs get burned to do research based on work that turns out to have been shoddy. All that time and money could have spent on research that actually proved or disproved something. "Aggressive" doesn't really enter into this problem (lack of aggression is a better topic for a discussion on science funding priorities, not design of experiments). Are skiers who take the time to buckle their boots not being aggressive enough?
Stock valuations are based not only on actual assets, but future growth and earnings potential. If I buy company X, it's because I think company X has a good product, business plan, and management and is going to be able to grow faster than inflation and faster than their competitors..
That's a very quaint view, which is definitely not held by the parties which conduct the most trading. Stocks' values are mostly determined by what institutional traders think will happen to the stock's value in the next 3 seconds to 30 days.
While some multi-center studies may receive data with patient identifiers, they will either be rejected or scrubbed of these identifiers prior to being added to the database and being analyzed.
Things like age, sex, geographic location, occupation, genetic information, and medical histories are also patient identifiers. If you scrub those you can't even determine whether the subject should be in the study, let alone score them or put them in subgroups.
I have to throw away a ton of plastic just because nobody bothered to stamp a number on it when they molded it.
Not much difference between you throwing it away or recycling it these days. China became much more strict about importing recyclables two years ago, plus the price of oil dropped. Unless it is stamped #1 or #2 it's probably headed from the blue bin to a landfill.
Lots of smaller high tech operations, especially in fields related to biomedical and defense research. Be one of the first hires at a microfluidics startup, join a big fast growing company like Illumina (next generation DNA sequencing), or an old company like General Atomics (predator drones). Plenty to choose from these days.
The 'virtual class' will be introduced, guided, and curated by one of the country's best teachers (a.k.a. a "super-teacher"), and it will include professionally produced footage of current events, relevant excerpts from powerful TedTalks, interactive games students can play against other students nationwide,
"will contain whatever buzzword content sounds good regardless of its impact on understanding of geometry, grammar, US history, chemistry, foreign languages, or coding" more like.
That's because mobile makers have the FM capability switched off. The National Association of Broadcasters has been asking mobile makers to change this. But the mobile industry, which profits from selling data to smartphone users, says that with the consumer's move toward mobile streaming apps, the demand for radio simply isn't there."
It's not the mobile makers (excepting Apple) that don't want FM turned on, it's the carriers who want you to upgrade to a plan with more data.
Washington would still get the lion's share of Microsoft-based taxes since the lion's share of employees live there, and are well-paid.
In other news:
Back in 2010, Smith, Steve Ballmer, and Microsoft Corporation joined forces to defeat Proposition I-1098, apparently deciding there were better ways to address the state's needs than a progressive income tax.
Grid transmission has losses of about 7% from the power station to you, but will likely be higher if it is peer-to-peer.
I'm not following. Why would peer to peer, with all of the electricity produced and consumed within the same area (short trip at low voltage), be less efficient than electricity from the power station (long trip at high voltage plus short trip at low voltage). Conversion losses at the grid tie?
Except that for many people they are very aware of what's happening and what they are losing. They are intensely angry and frustrated when they lose the ability to verbalize all (or part) of what they are thinking and then it gets worse when they can no longer hold onto the complete thought. Plus as they lose executive function it is harder to control that anger and frustration. Sure, some folks have a stroke and seem to enter a second childhood, but for many it's a living hell of isolation from everyone you know - including yourself.
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The only food that is unhealthy are those pre-packaged with tons of salt, sugar and fat and have had all it's nutrients removed in the cooking and preserving stages.
If it is full of sugar and fat then it's full of nutrients, not void of them.
Paypal: We're not a bank either. (Dodges many laws about banks everywhere).
Bank: We're a bank. (Dodges many laws about banks everywhere).
My town in CA just removed the cap on the number of taxi medallions (value just went from 993 x $140,000 to Zero) but is simultaneously not allowing Uber to pick up fares at the airport. So not always.
It probably should be mentioned (since few seem aware of it) that they also provide their UberX/UberXL* drivers with supplemental commercial insurance.
While at the same time they suspend drivers if they register their cars as commercial vehicles - even though that is what the DMV tells the drivers to do. Also, the insurance only covers when there is a fare in the car, not when they are driving to pick up a fare.
https://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/99491/dry-bubble-may-means/
Check out the charts.
If you base it on revenue, it wasn't. Period. But if you base it on the value of SMS and MMS services income in (mostly foreign) markets that it destroyed in the last fiscal year, it destroyed about $9B in revenue for telephone companies. so $18B is worth 2X revenue destroyed, then its valuation makes a lot of sense: it's worth ~$9B/year in *leverage* over these telephone companies. Facebook needs this, if it wants to achieve additional marketshare by growing its available customer base.
Question: how the hell do you think he was able shove internet.org down the throat of reliance communications in India?
These valuations are based on more than "grab as many customers as you can before someone else does, then figure out some way to monetize them", which was the Netscape model, and the model everyone at the time was using before the dot-com collapse. They are based on the value of leverage. This is why so many of these companies are being acquired for vastly more than they could possibly IPO at: they are being acquired for their value as leverage, not on their revenue.
If you've got a $1.25T/year industry by the balls, and all it cost you is $18B, you got a deal.
How exactly does the revenue destruction leverage calculation work as a business model? Blackmail?
"Can you drop Carol and Benji at the mall on your way to pick up the rest of the kids?
But it is on substantially the same route, just like other carpooling. Plus Mom might get gas money, but doesn't turn a profit no matter how many kids get dropped at the mall. No taxi medallion for Mom.
They are sharing a ride in their personal vehicle.
Because they were going that way anyway? No, they are a transportation service for hire. The only reason the companies call it ridesharing is because of the legal loophole big enough to drive a Toyota Prius through.
This comment is actually relevant to the topic. WTF are you doing on Slashdot??
I agree it's not a problem. But who cares. If the result is important it will be replicated. ...if it's not important then no one will cite it... People will make errors. If they weren't then then were not paying for aggressive enough research.
The problem is opportunity cost. There's usually a big lag between research getting published and being formally replicated - or debunked. Meanwhile, grants are awarded and lots of FTEs get burned to do research based on work that turns out to have been shoddy. All that time and money could have spent on research that actually proved or disproved something. "Aggressive" doesn't really enter into this problem (lack of aggression is a better topic for a discussion on science funding priorities, not design of experiments). Are skiers who take the time to buckle their boots not being aggressive enough?
People fear exotic deaths.
Death by lethal injection or beheading, results are the same. One is much scarier than the other, why?
Pshaw. A few movies with really creepy anesthesiologist villains in them will get everyone nicely worked up.
Stock valuations are based not only on actual assets, but future growth and earnings potential. If I buy company X, it's because I think company X has a good product, business plan, and management and is going to be able to grow faster than inflation and faster than their competitors..
That's a very quaint view, which is definitely not held by the parties which conduct the most trading. Stocks' values are mostly determined by what institutional traders think will happen to the stock's value in the next 3 seconds to 30 days.
Yup. The only difference is that instead of talking about a rotary motor/generator, it's a vibration motor/generator.
And what about when your employer does something to bring you disrepute?
You're free to fire them?
While some multi-center studies may receive data with patient identifiers, they will either be rejected or scrubbed of these identifiers prior to being added to the database and being analyzed.
Things like age, sex, geographic location, occupation, genetic information, and medical histories are also patient identifiers. If you scrub those you can't even determine whether the subject should be in the study, let alone score them or put them in subgroups.
The number tied back to a list of data about the patient - not including anything personally identifying.
Now that is specious, considering how little it takes to de-anonymize data and how often it will include genetic info in the future.
I have to throw away a ton of plastic just because nobody bothered to stamp a number on it when they molded it.
Not much difference between you throwing it away or recycling it these days. China became much more strict about importing recyclables two years ago, plus the price of oil dropped. Unless it is stamped #1 or #2 it's probably headed from the blue bin to a landfill.
"Detroit" could also mean Metro Detroit, which means Detroit's suburbs, which also means some of the most affluent areas in the US.
OP is a fucking idiot.
Used to mean, but not since the recession:
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20100924/oakland-plummets-on-list-of-wealthy-counties
Lots of smaller high tech operations, especially in fields related to biomedical and defense research. Be one of the first hires at a microfluidics startup, join a big fast growing company like Illumina (next generation DNA sequencing), or an old company like General Atomics (predator drones). Plenty to choose from these days.
Making decisions based on research that can't be independently validated or audited is the very definition of junk science.
You do reallze you just included all medical research that respects the confidentiality of human subjects?
The 'virtual class' will be introduced, guided, and curated by one of the country's best teachers (a.k.a. a "super-teacher"), and it will include professionally produced footage of current events, relevant excerpts from powerful TedTalks, interactive games students can play against other students nationwide,
"will contain whatever buzzword content sounds good regardless of its impact on understanding of geometry, grammar, US history, chemistry, foreign languages, or coding" more like.
That's because mobile makers have the FM capability switched off. The National Association of Broadcasters has been asking mobile makers to change this. But the mobile industry, which profits from selling data to smartphone users, says that with the consumer's move toward mobile streaming apps, the demand for radio simply isn't there."
It's not the mobile makers (excepting Apple) that don't want FM turned on, it's the carriers who want you to upgrade to a plan with more data.
Washington would still get the lion's share of Microsoft-based taxes since the lion's share of employees live there, and are well-paid.
In other news:
Back in 2010, Smith, Steve Ballmer, and Microsoft Corporation joined forces to defeat Proposition I-1098, apparently deciding there were better ways to address the state's needs than a progressive income tax.
Grid transmission has losses of about 7% from the power station to you, but will likely be higher if it is peer-to-peer.
I'm not following. Why would peer to peer, with all of the electricity produced and consumed within the same area (short trip at low voltage), be less efficient than electricity from the power station (long trip at high voltage plus short trip at low voltage). Conversion losses at the grid tie?
Across 2 million people with a median starting age of 55, BMI works just fine.
but I bet it isn't that bad on the inside.
Except that for many people they are very aware of what's happening and what they are losing. They are intensely angry and frustrated when they lose the ability to verbalize all (or part) of what they are thinking and then it gets worse when they can no longer hold onto the complete thought. Plus as they lose executive function it is harder to control that anger and frustration. Sure, some folks have a stroke and seem to enter a second childhood, but for many it's a living hell of isolation from everyone you know - including yourself.