Maybe have a "sleep for x minutes" switch where it would stop recording, yet start recording again after a certain amount of time has passed.
That would protect the privacy of restroom patrons, but disallow the excuse of "I forgot to turn it on".
There were no obese people at Auschwitz, hormones or not. Uncle Adolf's diet went to the other side, by being nutritionally deficient, but you can't deny it prevented being fat. Limit food intake, and you will not get obese, period.
Technically correct. But you aren't assuming that all people's hunger drives are the same strength, are you? Because that would be rather foolish.
Protective gear depends on the specifics of the job, and you damn well should have been taking the supplements if you were working anywhere near the reactor. The last thing you want is the thyroid absorbing radioactive isotopes. Thyroid cancer is one of the big concerns that comes from exposure to nuclear radiation.
How would radioactive iodine be released by the normal functioning of a nuclear reactor?
And in abnormal functioning, would the problem of being right next to a nuclear reactor with breached containment make any questions about developing thyroid cancer a few years down the road a rather trivial concern?
People need to stop looking down on blue collar jobs, and stop treating "going to college" as the highest honor they can bestow upon on themselves.
The average student loan debt is around $23k. Like other purchases, the more you pay for it, the more you will value it (regardless of its true value). It's easier to look down on blue-collar jobs than it is to admit that you just spent $23k on a basket weaving degree.
Sheesh folks are getting bent over Yahoo increasing an already generous benefit for women but, not for men.
Lets say you have two classes of workers (men and women, both of child-bearing age). If a certain even happens (a new child), one class of those workers will be out for eight weeks, while another class will be out for sixteen weeks.
If you were a manager, working with a small group where ever member's contribution counted, and whose success directly influences your success, which class of people would you want to hire?
It's obvious that, from an employment perspective, policies such as these make men more valuable than women to employers.
While extended leave for women may stem from good intentions, such policies just reinforce traditional gender-based divisions of labor.
in 2008, china produced 5.3 tonnes per capita of CO2, whereas the US produced 18.5 tonnes per capita
It's PPP GDP per ton of CO2 is not as good though.
The US produces $2,291 per ton of CO2, China produces $1,003 per ton of CO2 (international dollars used for dollar amounts).
China is actually near the bottom. The US is not that ideal either (we're basically the same as Canada). Countries like Norway and Sweden are about 2.5x more productive per ton of CO2 than the US.
A lot of people have some minor interest in their ancestry. However, with few exceptions, our ancestors were people just like any other, with lives interesting only to themselves. Those few exceptions are people who will be in the historical record, and have no need of this kind of service.
So I'm a bit of a geography and history geek, as well as an amateur genealogist. Obviously this reply is going to be a tad biased.
I find lists of ancestors going back centuries to be quite boring (as well as frequently genealogically questionable). But when placed into the larger historical context, I find it far more fascinating.
To use the mandatory car analogy, would you rather read just a list of models Ford has produced, and the years of their manufacture, or would you find it far more interesting to read a history of the models and the technological, social and even political changes that drove design decisions?
The other point to take issue with is the idea that this is "healthy". As one gets older, there is a danger of living more and more in the past. The happiest and healthiest elderly people I have known are the ones who avoid this
While "living in the past" may be unhealthy, I don't think an obsession with the past necessarily is. The trick is not to stagnate. That tends to involve learning new things and having new experiences, but neither requires that the "things" nor "experiences" need to be new. Someone in their fifties starting out the first time on their garden may be doing an activity that is quite "old", but they are enjoying an experience that's new to them.
It's more difficult to bribe computers, so I'd doubt this is what big pharma wants. A properly designed diagnosis system (open source, or government-managed) should offer the cheapest efficacious drug, rather than the latest drug that has been shown to be more effective than a placebo (but curiously untested in effectiveness against the most effective generic drug).
Don't forget, the placebo effect may also apply to doctors, who could be biased towards the latest and greatest drugs.
A computer would not have that bias, and may start prescribing older drugs (and learning that older drugs are more effective).
So we should squeeze into bad fitting three piece suits and talk in inane buzzphrases, i.e. turn into a middle management idiot? Sorry, but then I couldn't take myself serious anymore.
Well, you could squeeze into good fitting three piece suits. Since we're all geeks who should be able to adeptly use the Internet and learn new things, one would imagine, in theory, that we should be able to learn enough fashion to pick a good suit. In theory. In practice, for a group of people who seem to be quick to deride anyone who can't administer computers or code, we sure aren't doing well in other areas.
Buzz-phrases are optional.;) So is being an idiot.
You've never heard of rural areas or other such where it takes longer for the ambulance to get there than friends or family, have you? Especially when time is of the essence and every second counts? Also, knowing how occupied emergency services are I much prefer to get to the hospital on my own if I can. Oh, and being able to call your employer you're not going to be able to get to work? Calling your friends to come and take care of your pets? Calling your kids that you won't be able to come and pick them up? Letting your partner know that you won't be able to come home and he/she must be able to handle things on his/her own? There's PLENTY of reasons to have a cell phone.
So get a cheap $30 pre-paid phone and put $30 on it every 3 months. That's a yearly cost of $150 for the first year, and $120 for every year after that. You'll only have 160 minutes every 3 months. But for emergency calls, it should be good enough. And it's $12.50/mo.
Yeah, if you manage to build a few thousand new reactors that might work but I have a feeling that's not realistic.
Lets run the numbers. US-version. Google states about 8 x 10^19 joules for total energy consumption. A 1 GW nuclear reactor running 24 x 365 is about 3 x 10^16 joules. So roughly 2,700 nuclear reactors.
"Crime rate", yes. But the presence of guns determines the murder rate.
It isn't that simplistic. Else states like Iowa, which have a sizable percentage of households with guns, wouldn't have a lower murder rate than some European nations with strict gun control laws.
Dwarf Fortress would be better then SimCity. While it allows you the overall control and planning element (managing many little minions who do all the work), it still offers you a great amount of creativity (which all variants of SimCity lack). What Simcity does better, Dwarf Fortress does even better.
Having a Samsung phone is like having a nametag that says "hello, i'm a cheap fucker" on it.
No, my phone says "hey, I'm cheap". It's an old LG dumbphone on a very low-cost plan.
Sooner or later you'll hopefully grow up and realize that some people use a phone as a phone, and some people are willing to pay for a high tech phone with all the bells and whistles. Neither are necessarily bad, but if you're running around judging people on a phone, you're pretty dumb. It's like judging people based on the computer they have or the car they drive or where they live.
One day you may have the maturity to realize items you purchase should serve you, and not the other way around. That includes the cost of obtaining and maintaining those items. I've splurged before and I'll splurge again when it comes to buying stuff that's important to me. But I'm not going to sink money into a phone just to raise myself a notch or two on the public coolness meter.
For some people, they find a high-tech smartphone useful enough or desirable enough to justify the cost. More power to them. I'd rather spend my money on something else, or save it in a bank.
I know which cars in my own neighborhood belong to residents, because I live here and have a set of eyes that let me learn shit like that. I assume the person you are responding to has a set of eyes as well.
In the US at least, some apartment complexes have a mixture of subsidized and unsubsidized apartments.
A previous coworker of mine lived in one, and while he wasn't on federal assistance, he did buy a nicer BMW. I used to joke that when people saw his car pull into his apartment building, they'd bitch and moan about welfare leaches.
Usually with these mining scenarios, you go from super high grade (ore) scenarios to poorer and poorer ones
Not always the case. Up by the small mining town of Tower, Minnesota, is a mine. To science geeks, the mine is notable for detecting neutrinos fired from Fermilab (near Chicago) in a long-running physics experiment.
It's rather rich in hematite, with high grade ore, some so high grade a magnet will stick to it.
The mine closed down decades ago. Ores nearer to the surface, even low grade ores such as taconite, were preferred due to lower costs to extract. Open pits are cheaper than deep mines.
Economics leads to some "weird" solutions. Some ores aren't considered viable, even if they are high grade, because other ores are cheaper. The reverse is also true - oil sands and shale are now viable because the cost of oil has risen, even though oil sands/shale are poorer producers.
47 million on food stamps, average welfare spending per poor household is HIGHER than median income
Lets do a back of the napkin check for that.
Median household income is $50k (roughly) in the US. Assume all 47 million on food stamps are poor. (Seems fair enough). Assume average household size in the US is 2.6, and that poor people are similar (some poor with kids, some elderly single poor, should average out.)
So that's 18 million households in poverty. At $50k per household, that's 18 * 50 billion in spending. Or.9 trillion.
Seems doable. So I dug up what appears to be your source of the information, and find it's roughly $60k of spending per poor household, and a hair over a trillion total spent.
[Just an aside - this is why back of the napkin estimates can be pretty accurate - I probably screwed up on some of the estimates, but it's close enough that the errors somewhat balance out.]
To break down the spending, a third of that is healthcare. The elderly poor are probably eating up a big chunk of that, as well as poor kids. About a quarter of that is "state contributions to federal welfare", which I assume is the state's share of the cost of federal welfare programs. (Not sure how the state contribution works - is it mostly medicare/caid, or SNAP, or housing assistance, etc?). $245 billion goes to direct cash aid and foodstamps, or roughly $13,600 per household. Another $90 billion, or $5,000 per household, goes to housing programs. $70 billion is other social programs, which seems vague (are Pell grants counted, even if they don't go to the poor? Does it count unemployment payments?).
To put it politely, the quality of USB chargers and powered hub wall warts is excitingly variable. If you are trying to run an ARM SoC, a USB ethernet controller, and possibly a couple of other downstream devices, all with just a +5 rail of potentially erratic specs, that isn't good for reliability. By going with the USB socket, they opened the field to every last dollar-store iCharger knockoff and its creative interpretation of what +5vDC looks like...
Agreed. I picked up a microUSB "travel charger" for my Pi. Claims 1000 ma. It doesn't give the USB enough power to find a network with a wireless dongle.
A kindle keyboard charger at 850 ma powers up the network every time. So does feeding the Pi off a USB hub.
So, lesson learned. Weird issues -> check the power adapter.
From Wikipedia: On returning to the house after the fire in the company of fireman Ron Franks, Willingham said that he had been over earlier and poured flammable British Sterling cologne in the hallway from the bathroom to the bedroom in which the twins had died, because they had loved its smell when they were alive.[9]
You would have found him guilty because he poured cologne on the remains of the house after the fire?
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Maybe have a "sleep for x minutes" switch where it would stop recording, yet start recording again after a certain amount of time has passed. That would protect the privacy of restroom patrons, but disallow the excuse of "I forgot to turn it on".
Technically correct. But you aren't assuming that all people's hunger drives are the same strength, are you? Because that would be rather foolish.
How would radioactive iodine be released by the normal functioning of a nuclear reactor?
And in abnormal functioning, would the problem of being right next to a nuclear reactor with breached containment make any questions about developing thyroid cancer a few years down the road a rather trivial concern?
The average student loan debt is around $23k. Like other purchases, the more you pay for it, the more you will value it (regardless of its true value). It's easier to look down on blue-collar jobs than it is to admit that you just spent $23k on a basket weaving degree.
Lets say you have two classes of workers (men and women, both of child-bearing age). If a certain even happens (a new child), one class of those workers will be out for eight weeks, while another class will be out for sixteen weeks.
If you were a manager, working with a small group where ever member's contribution counted, and whose success directly influences your success, which class of people would you want to hire?
It's obvious that, from an employment perspective, policies such as these make men more valuable than women to employers.
While extended leave for women may stem from good intentions, such policies just reinforce traditional gender-based divisions of labor.
It's PPP GDP per ton of CO2 is not as good though.
The US produces $2,291 per ton of CO2, China produces $1,003 per ton of CO2 (international dollars used for dollar amounts).
China is actually near the bottom. The US is not that ideal either (we're basically the same as Canada). Countries like Norway and Sweden are about 2.5x more productive per ton of CO2 than the US.
My Kindle e-ink screen is perfectly readable in daylight. Is the Nook's e-ink screen different somehow?
So I'm a bit of a geography and history geek, as well as an amateur genealogist. Obviously this reply is going to be a tad biased.
I find lists of ancestors going back centuries to be quite boring (as well as frequently genealogically questionable). But when placed into the larger historical context, I find it far more fascinating.
To use the mandatory car analogy, would you rather read just a list of models Ford has produced, and the years of their manufacture, or would you find it far more interesting to read a history of the models and the technological, social and even political changes that drove design decisions?
While "living in the past" may be unhealthy, I don't think an obsession with the past necessarily is. The trick is not to stagnate. That tends to involve learning new things and having new experiences, but neither requires that the "things" nor "experiences" need to be new. Someone in their fifties starting out the first time on their garden may be doing an activity that is quite "old", but they are enjoying an experience that's new to them.
Don't forget, the placebo effect may also apply to doctors, who could be biased towards the latest and greatest drugs.
A computer would not have that bias, and may start prescribing older drugs (and learning that older drugs are more effective).
Well, you could squeeze into good fitting three piece suits. Since we're all geeks who should be able to adeptly use the Internet and learn new things, one would imagine, in theory, that we should be able to learn enough fashion to pick a good suit. In theory. In practice, for a group of people who seem to be quick to deride anyone who can't administer computers or code, we sure aren't doing well in other areas.
Buzz-phrases are optional. ;) So is being an idiot.
So get a cheap $30 pre-paid phone and put $30 on it every 3 months. That's a yearly cost of $150 for the first year, and $120 for every year after that. You'll only have 160 minutes every 3 months. But for emergency calls, it should be good enough. And it's $12.50/mo.
Lets run the numbers. US-version. Google states about 8 x 10^19 joules for total energy consumption. A 1 GW nuclear reactor running 24 x 365 is about 3 x 10^16 joules. So roughly 2,700 nuclear reactors.
We may need a long-term plan. ;)
FYI: This can often be found at your local thrift store for a very reasonable price.
Move north then into Minnesota. Sizeable urban population, still a lower homicide rate than some other states with similar demographics.
It isn't that simplistic. Else states like Iowa, which have a sizable percentage of households with guns, wouldn't have a lower murder rate than some European nations with strict gun control laws.
DF teaches you that the people need alcohol. ;)
Less meetings.
No, my phone says "hey, I'm cheap". It's an old LG dumbphone on a very low-cost plan.
Sooner or later you'll hopefully grow up and realize that some people use a phone as a phone, and some people are willing to pay for a high tech phone with all the bells and whistles. Neither are necessarily bad, but if you're running around judging people on a phone, you're pretty dumb. It's like judging people based on the computer they have or the car they drive or where they live.
One day you may have the maturity to realize items you purchase should serve you, and not the other way around. That includes the cost of obtaining and maintaining those items. I've splurged before and I'll splurge again when it comes to buying stuff that's important to me. But I'm not going to sink money into a phone just to raise myself a notch or two on the public coolness meter.
For some people, they find a high-tech smartphone useful enough or desirable enough to justify the cost. More power to them. I'd rather spend my money on something else, or save it in a bank.
In the US at least, some apartment complexes have a mixture of subsidized and unsubsidized apartments.
A previous coworker of mine lived in one, and while he wasn't on federal assistance, he did buy a nicer BMW. I used to joke that when people saw his car pull into his apartment building, they'd bitch and moan about welfare leaches.
Why are you assuming that anger and terrorism are exclusive?
I'm guessing that angry people are more likely to become terrorists and support terrorism than happy people.
Not always the case. Up by the small mining town of Tower, Minnesota, is a mine. To science geeks, the mine is notable for detecting neutrinos fired from Fermilab (near Chicago) in a long-running physics experiment.
It's rather rich in hematite, with high grade ore, some so high grade a magnet will stick to it.
The mine closed down decades ago. Ores nearer to the surface, even low grade ores such as taconite, were preferred due to lower costs to extract. Open pits are cheaper than deep mines.
Economics leads to some "weird" solutions. Some ores aren't considered viable, even if they are high grade, because other ores are cheaper. The reverse is also true - oil sands and shale are now viable because the cost of oil has risen, even though oil sands/shale are poorer producers.
Lets do a back of the napkin check for that.
Median household income is $50k (roughly) in the US. Assume all 47 million on food stamps are poor. (Seems fair enough). Assume average household size in the US is 2.6, and that poor people are similar (some poor with kids, some elderly single poor, should average out.)
So that's 18 million households in poverty. At $50k per household, that's 18 * 50 billion in spending. Or .9 trillion.
Seems doable. So I dug up what appears to be your source of the information, and find it's roughly $60k of spending per poor household, and a hair over a trillion total spent.
[Just an aside - this is why back of the napkin estimates can be pretty accurate - I probably screwed up on some of the estimates, but it's close enough that the errors somewhat balance out.]
To break down the spending, a third of that is healthcare. The elderly poor are probably eating up a big chunk of that, as well as poor kids. About a quarter of that is "state contributions to federal welfare", which I assume is the state's share of the cost of federal welfare programs. (Not sure how the state contribution works - is it mostly medicare/caid, or SNAP, or housing assistance, etc?). $245 billion goes to direct cash aid and foodstamps, or roughly $13,600 per household. Another $90 billion, or $5,000 per household, goes to housing programs. $70 billion is other social programs, which seems vague (are Pell grants counted, even if they don't go to the poor? Does it count unemployment payments?).
Agreed. I picked up a microUSB "travel charger" for my Pi. Claims 1000 ma. It doesn't give the USB enough power to find a network with a wireless dongle.
A kindle keyboard charger at 850 ma powers up the network every time. So does feeding the Pi off a USB hub.
So, lesson learned. Weird issues -> check the power adapter.
You can get compilations of the Playboy Interviews in book form.
They are worth the read.
Ironically, for all the jokes about getting those types of magazines for the articles, some of them had really decent articles and short fiction.
You would have found him guilty because he poured cologne on the remains of the house after the fire?