Having Kennedy run a study on the autism-vaccine link is like having Daniel Shenton (president of the flat earth society) run a study on weather or not the earth is a spheroid, or Bill Kaysing (if he were still alive) running an investigation into whether the moon landings in the 60s and 70s were a hoax.
Having ANYONE run a meta-study on what is , essentially, established science to try and find proof that it is not - and damaging national and world health in the process - is not just irresponsible but downright dangerous.
Oh, and DeVos basically wants to defund public schools by shifting as many dollars as possible to vouchers for people to use at privately-run schools, with essentially no oversight. Whether she intends to make public schools worse or not is somewhat irrelevant when her goal is to eliminate their source of funding.
The entire Trump administration is a perfect Bizarro world. Anti-school as sec of ed, anti-vaxxer running vaccine study, etc... I don't think it's even possible that Snowden doesn't get a pardon on Jan 22. It'll be part of the new US-Russian intelligence partnership.
Yep - and as a kid, we always had a vial around for veterinary use (for the animals). It probably also may have saved my father when he got stung by a bee and had an allergic reaction (none of us had a known allergy that would have caused us to have an epipen around). But, you know, it's too dangerous to have the average human know how to read a label, choose a medication dose (to within about factor of 3 - which is the "safe" range for epinephrine) and give a proper IM injection.
That's how companies in healthcare can get away with the prices they charge. They look at a $30 drug or $120 component (build cost) and ask "what would saving your [wife|child|eyesight] be MIN(worth to you, how much could you pay if you sold everything you owned and mortgaged your life's work potential). Then they look at the data a fit a curve which chooses a price which maximizes the return. Naturally, that cuts some people out of the game - but that's life (or death, or the use of a limb).
What you have to realize is (a) 1 in 10,000 is about 3 orders of magnitude greater than the average human can evaluate or imagine - we are VERY bad at outcome choices where probability estimates exceed about 1 in 5 to 1 in 8 and (b) the name brand has a finite failure rate which is often very similar to the generic. So, in your example, if the name brand had a 1 in 10,000 change of being "better", the likelihood is that there would be (and, yes, I'm making this up, but the efficacy rules support this general concept) a 1000 in 10,000 chance of a failure of the name brand, and a 1001 in 10,000 chance of failure of a generic. The difference is ridiculously small. (Note that a 90% efficacy of a single-shot medication is actually rather high, on average)
It's not that it's not workable, it's that the markets are not efficient (in the economic sense). Note that this took TEN YEARS to occur. Had the reaction been on the order of 3-6 months, I'd say it worked properly. The time from the beginning of price gouging to the current state where the cost is a single digit multiple of the production cost means that the marketplace is only reactive to massive imbalances.
In a way, it's worse, because ratios for theaters are 1.85:1 (vs ~1.78:1 for a 16:9 screen) and 2.35:1 (vs 2.33:1 for 21:9). The only real ratio that matched was the classic 4:3, which was cinema, TV, and computers back in the stone age.
I'm a fan of 1.41:1. The A sizes work the best, especially if you're going to go split screen (where you get exactly two portrait 1.41:1 screens in a landscape 1.41:1)
Not sure when "you" could swap out 1200 pound battery in under 20 minutes from the bottom of a vehicle. Maybe a dozen 20# deep cycles in your trunk. Heck, even if it were accessible, 15 seconds to detach/undock and move a module to a shelf, and the same to move one back and latch into place means you can only move 40 batteries in 20 minutes. So for a Tesla S, that's 30# per battery. The average user (not you - I'm sure you're buff like Chris Helmsworth) is going to be exhaused from something like that.
To be fair, nobody really charges at 120V. Any decent charger is going to be off of a 240V single phase (for residential) and most commercial is going to have access to (at least) 480V/3phase or three 277V phase-to-ground legs (which is what many commercial fluor ballasts run, iirc). And that presumes that they even bother transforming down from the 7.2kV main before distributing to the DC. Now, I haven't the faintest idea what state of the art is for high amperage AC-DC conversion, but just looking at building systems that's the equivalent of probably 10,000SF of restaurant/retail or 20,000 SF of office building. If local energy storage becomes a "thing" and allows buffering of the power, you could probably service 8 charging stations from a service the size of a 4 - restaurant outparcel (Darden-chain size buildings). Not insignificant, but not out of the realm of possibility.
The real inspiration was marrying a capacitive screen large enough for fingers with a finger-centric (finger-exclusive) OS. That, and "app" pricing at $free-$5 as opposed to the traditional $15-50/app desktop pricing which was carried over to WinMo. I owned several WinMo phones before switching to a 3G(s?) simply due to the effortless touch screen.
For TV and movies, perhaps, but I'm still waiting for it for desktop use. And, by desktop, I mean like a Surface Studio with a 48-50" monitor for working on full size E architectural prints. I may not be able to see pixels on more than a portion of the screen, but there's no bigger productivity killer than having to constantly scroll around a print looking through a little "window" onto the page. Right now I use a pair of 42" 4k monitors which is good for a D size drawing at nearly 1:1. Even so, at my normal 20-24" viewing distance there is considerable pixelization. Pushing the dpi to 200 for rendering prints would be nice, but I'd settle for 160-180dpi and full size E prints.
If you just want a way to digitally pay for things with limited (but far from perfect) anonymity, bitcoin is a fine mechanism if you can stomach the wild fluctuations in valuations relative to governmental currencies. But if you actually want something independent of government currency, you don't want to jump overboard into an exchange based on artificial scarcity backed by nothing but the good will of mathematicians; you want durable commodities. Bitcoin is simply a zero-value hash which a subset of people have agreed has value. Nothing less, nothing more.
It depends on the circumstances. If I offer you half an ounce of lead, it's not a criminal act. If I send it to you at 700MPH, the courts always seem to think that I meant you harm. It's just a bit of metal, so there should really be no restriction on how I offer it to you or how I obtained it - right?
It's hard, cold dollars. The US will spent 5x the cost of the Afghanistan war over the next few decades just taking care of all of the humans that were injured in the fight - and nobody has budgeted for that.
We gave up feeling the warm blood, entrails, and life draining from our vicims when we invented firearms.
>however he is not evil incarnate as some would like to portray him.
Indeed. However, the people he is putting in charge of major departments of the government ARE evil incarnate, and that's what worries those who value scientific freedom.
As for eating the newborn - nobody is worried about that. They can fend for themselves. What we have to worry about is him going after the unborn, for they are more important than their mothers under the new rules the hard core right wingers will propose over the next 4 years.
So have hand-written notes of uncertain authenticity and eyewitness reports conjured from memory. The fact that the data base is accessible means that the data has always been suspect until corroborated - and any lawyer who doesn't challenge the integrity of computer data of any kind is a fool.
The benefits of Reddit Gold are pretty well defined. I didn't see any guarantee of message integrity beyond what is available at the free tier in their description.
If they knew the exact reason, they could reproduce the conditions which caused the fire. If the tolerances are so tight, it's simply a matter of simulating the conditions on expansion - which they failed to even attempt.
If you believe them - and since you can't audit their code personally you shouldn't - then they cannot decrypt your encrypted notes without brute forcing it. They claim not to store you key: https://help.evernote.com/hc/e... You have to decide whether or not to believe them.
There isn't a single cloud service provider with both open source software and zero knowledge servers, so right off the bat you're looking at rolling your own if you want any semblance of privacy/security. If you're not hosting it, or didn't write (or at least fully audit) the pre-uploading encryption, what ever you choose will be no more secure than pinning your notes to the wall of the local courthouse. You could pay someone like Rackspace to make something from scratch for you, but unless you can audit their code, you still don't really have any control and every good programmer will put in a back door so that they can monitor and verify things are running smoothly - the perfect vector for someone to steal your stuff.
This isn't some legal filing server, or your email provider. It's a fucking web forum. And one that lets you use it for free. If the CEO if a dick, take your eyeballs and go elsewhere*.
Oh, hell, sure - we're still going to do this thing, we just need another round of funding. I swear just a few million (billion) more and we're going to absolutely get this to fly. Right after I finish paying of the yacht.
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Fair enough - that's just as likely I suppose. Either way - a new era of US-Russian cooperation will begin. ;-)
Having Kennedy run a study on the autism-vaccine link is like having Daniel Shenton (president of the flat earth society) run a study on weather or not the earth is a spheroid, or Bill Kaysing (if he were still alive) running an investigation into whether the moon landings in the 60s and 70s were a hoax.
Having ANYONE run a meta-study on what is , essentially, established science to try and find proof that it is not - and damaging national and world health in the process - is not just irresponsible but downright dangerous.
Oh, and DeVos basically wants to defund public schools by shifting as many dollars as possible to vouchers for people to use at privately-run schools, with essentially no oversight. Whether she intends to make public schools worse or not is somewhat irrelevant when her goal is to eliminate their source of funding.
The entire Trump administration is a perfect Bizarro world. Anti-school as sec of ed, anti-vaxxer running vaccine study, etc... I don't think it's even possible that Snowden doesn't get a pardon on Jan 22. It'll be part of the new US-Russian intelligence partnership.
52 Billion images a year? Damn, that's way more traffic than I ever would have expected on G+
Yep - and as a kid, we always had a vial around for veterinary use (for the animals). It probably also may have saved my father when he got stung by a bee and had an allergic reaction (none of us had a known allergy that would have caused us to have an epipen around). But, you know, it's too dangerous to have the average human know how to read a label, choose a medication dose (to within about factor of 3 - which is the "safe" range for epinephrine) and give a proper IM injection.
That's how companies in healthcare can get away with the prices they charge. They look at a $30 drug or $120 component (build cost) and ask "what would saving your [wife|child|eyesight] be MIN(worth to you, how much could you pay if you sold everything you owned and mortgaged your life's work potential). Then they look at the data a fit a curve which chooses a price which maximizes the return. Naturally, that cuts some people out of the game - but that's life (or death, or the use of a limb).
What you have to realize is (a) 1 in 10,000 is about 3 orders of magnitude greater than the average human can evaluate or imagine - we are VERY bad at outcome choices where probability estimates exceed about 1 in 5 to 1 in 8 and (b) the name brand has a finite failure rate which is often very similar to the generic. So, in your example, if the name brand had a 1 in 10,000 change of being "better", the likelihood is that there would be (and, yes, I'm making this up, but the efficacy rules support this general concept) a 1000 in 10,000 chance of a failure of the name brand, and a 1001 in 10,000 chance of failure of a generic. The difference is ridiculously small. (Note that a 90% efficacy of a single-shot medication is actually rather high, on average)
It's not that it's not workable, it's that the markets are not efficient (in the economic sense). Note that this took TEN YEARS to occur. Had the reaction been on the order of 3-6 months, I'd say it worked properly. The time from the beginning of price gouging to the current state where the cost is a single digit multiple of the production cost means that the marketplace is only reactive to massive imbalances.
In a way, it's worse, because ratios for theaters are 1.85:1 (vs ~1.78:1 for a 16:9 screen) and 2.35:1 (vs 2.33:1 for 21:9). The only real ratio that matched was the classic 4:3, which was cinema, TV, and computers back in the stone age.
I'm a fan of 1.41:1. The A sizes work the best, especially if you're going to go split screen (where you get exactly two portrait 1.41:1 screens in a landscape 1.41:1)
Not sure when "you" could swap out 1200 pound battery in under 20 minutes from the bottom of a vehicle. Maybe a dozen 20# deep cycles in your trunk. Heck, even if it were accessible, 15 seconds to detach/undock and move a module to a shelf, and the same to move one back and latch into place means you can only move 40 batteries in 20 minutes. So for a Tesla S, that's 30# per battery. The average user (not you - I'm sure you're buff like Chris Helmsworth) is going to be exhaused from something like that.
To be fair, nobody really charges at 120V. Any decent charger is going to be off of a 240V single phase (for residential) and most commercial is going to have access to (at least) 480V/3phase or three 277V phase-to-ground legs (which is what many commercial fluor ballasts run, iirc). And that presumes that they even bother transforming down from the 7.2kV main before distributing to the DC. Now, I haven't the faintest idea what state of the art is for high amperage AC-DC conversion, but just looking at building systems that's the equivalent of probably 10,000SF of restaurant/retail or 20,000 SF of office building. If local energy storage becomes a "thing" and allows buffering of the power, you could probably service 8 charging stations from a service the size of a 4 - restaurant outparcel (Darden-chain size buildings). Not insignificant, but not out of the realm of possibility.
The real inspiration was marrying a capacitive screen large enough for fingers with a finger-centric (finger-exclusive) OS. That, and "app" pricing at $free-$5 as opposed to the traditional $15-50/app desktop pricing which was carried over to WinMo. I owned several WinMo phones before switching to a 3G(s?) simply due to the effortless touch screen.
It only has to be a loss leader until your competition is driven out of business. Then it's profit as far as the eye can see.
For TV and movies, perhaps, but I'm still waiting for it for desktop use. And, by desktop, I mean like a Surface Studio with a 48-50" monitor for working on full size E architectural prints. I may not be able to see pixels on more than a portion of the screen, but there's no bigger productivity killer than having to constantly scroll around a print looking through a little "window" onto the page. Right now I use a pair of 42" 4k monitors which is good for a D size drawing at nearly 1:1. Even so, at my normal 20-24" viewing distance there is considerable pixelization. Pushing the dpi to 200 for rendering prints would be nice, but I'd settle for 160-180dpi and full size E prints.
If you just want a way to digitally pay for things with limited (but far from perfect) anonymity, bitcoin is a fine mechanism if you can stomach the wild fluctuations in valuations relative to governmental currencies. But if you actually want something independent of government currency, you don't want to jump overboard into an exchange based on artificial scarcity backed by nothing but the good will of mathematicians; you want durable commodities. Bitcoin is simply a zero-value hash which a subset of people have agreed has value. Nothing less, nothing more.
>is sending an animation a criminal act?
It depends on the circumstances. If I offer you half an ounce of lead, it's not a criminal act. If I send it to you at 700MPH, the courts always seem to think that I meant you harm. It's just a bit of metal, so there should really be no restriction on how I offer it to you or how I obtained it - right?
Those aren't laws...they're just theories. ;-)
It's hard, cold dollars. The US will spent 5x the cost of the Afghanistan war over the next few decades just taking care of all of the humans that were injured in the fight - and nobody has budgeted for that.
We gave up feeling the warm blood, entrails, and life draining from our vicims when we invented firearms.
>however he is not evil incarnate as some would like to portray him.
Indeed. However, the people he is putting in charge of major departments of the government ARE evil incarnate, and that's what worries those who value scientific freedom.
As for eating the newborn - nobody is worried about that. They can fend for themselves. What we have to worry about is him going after the unborn, for they are more important than their mothers under the new rules the hard core right wingers will propose over the next 4 years.
So have hand-written notes of uncertain authenticity and eyewitness reports conjured from memory. The fact that the data base is accessible means that the data has always been suspect until corroborated - and any lawyer who doesn't challenge the integrity of computer data of any kind is a fool.
The benefits of Reddit Gold are pretty well defined. I didn't see any guarantee of message integrity beyond what is available at the free tier in their description.
If they knew the exact reason, they could reproduce the conditions which caused the fire. If the tolerances are so tight, it's simply a matter of simulating the conditions on expansion - which they failed to even attempt.
If you believe them - and since you can't audit their code personally you shouldn't - then they cannot decrypt your encrypted notes without brute forcing it. They claim not to store you key: https://help.evernote.com/hc/e... You have to decide whether or not to believe them.
There isn't a single cloud service provider with both open source software and zero knowledge servers, so right off the bat you're looking at rolling your own if you want any semblance of privacy/security. If you're not hosting it, or didn't write (or at least fully audit) the pre-uploading encryption, what ever you choose will be no more secure than pinning your notes to the wall of the local courthouse. You could pay someone like Rackspace to make something from scratch for you, but unless you can audit their code, you still don't really have any control and every good programmer will put in a back door so that they can monitor and verify things are running smoothly - the perfect vector for someone to steal your stuff.
This isn't some legal filing server, or your email provider. It's a fucking web forum. And one that lets you use it for free. If the CEO if a dick, take your eyeballs and go elsewhere*.
*Please
Oh, hell, sure - we're still going to do this thing, we just need another round of funding. I swear just a few million (billion) more and we're going to absolutely get this to fly. Right after I finish paying of the yacht.