But here we measured 80 pairs of jeans that all boasted a 32 inch waistband, meaning that these jeans were all made to fit the same size person.
This is not true. Many might not know this, but the "inches" advertised for jeans, and sometimes printed on the back are not real inches. For men, the waist size is around 1-2" more than the figure stated. For women, the waist size is around 3-5" more than the figure stated. A man that wears size 34 jeans can easily fit into women's size 32 jeans. But neither a "34" man nor a "32" woman can wear a 34" belt - that's honest inches, and won't fit either.
The reason? If I were to venture a guess, it's a "feel good" factor, selling more jeans by not letting people in general, but women in particular feel as big as they really are.
Thankfully, our ability to migrate and mitigate has increased 100 times what it was, just 100 years ago. 100 years ago, airplane travel was non-existent, the car was a novel thing, and coal boats were still slowly replacing sailing ships.
You ignored his "and the same is largely true of the rest of nature". Or do you propose that e.g. maple forests should just get on a plane to colder climates instead of relying on wind-borne propeller seeds that travel a few hundred feet at most?
It might be beneficial for an assassin to be able to walk out of the hospital, because the monitoring still shows plausible values despite the target being dead. Or even abduct the patient. Or fake half a dozen emergencies, so staff all mill around and don't notice who walks off with all the morphine. Or play mind games with a staff member you hate, causing him or her to rush back and forth to patients all night.
The possibilities will include many other scenarios - you just have to think of them.
Orkn means seal in Old Norse. Neyjar means islands. So the name Orkney is a corruption of the words "Seal Islands." But it does not literally mean Orkn Islands, as the name isn't Orkneyjar but merely Orkney.
Your attempted at being even more pedantic isn't an improvement. Ey is singular, eyjar is plural. Orkneys is an English plural to a Norse word for island on a gaelic stem. Much like the individual islands with names like Westray, Sanday and Ronaldsay. The ey still very much part of the word, whether in singular Orkney or plural Orkneys, it means "island".
Isn't "Orkney Islands" like saying "the La Brea tar pits" or "Rio Grande river", given that "ey" means island? I've always heard them referred to as just the Orkneys.
And rooks, which is the crow family member here, especially so.
Probably too intelligent for this system to work for long, because they'll quickly figure out how to deposit the same loot twice, or what else can be substituted that's easier to find, how to raid other sources, or something else we haven't anticipated.
(For those who don't know, a jackpot is called so because of the jackdaw, a member of the crow family, being notorious for stealing shiny things. So a jackpot is a nest full of shinies.)
No, they are taking the jobs of the immigrants because, as seems to be common knowledge, is that there are some jobs that Americans simply will not do.
Oh, I didn't mean good fits from a human perspective, but from a work function perspective. There are some work functions where it's hard to find someone who either has a experience or interest in a narrow field, or is interested in delving into a type of work that isn't going to be useful for more than a small handful of companies in the world. It's great if you are forward-thinking and graduated summa cum laude, but if you aren't willing to adapt to technologies of the past, you won't fit in for a job servicing 30-60 year old stuff, for example.
They should open source their linux client then. I bet this boils down to them thinking that it cost them more money to maintain the client then the number customers they will lose by not having it.
Or it boils down to National Security Letters telling them that someone wants access to the unencrypted data, on a file system that doesn't do automatic wiping.
really? So, all big tech companies are immoral while small ones are moral?
Non sequitur. Big tech companies probably are immoral, because you don't become truly big without stepping on a few bodies. That does not imply that small ones are moral - they could be either. If I were to guess, a small and profitable company without aspirations to grow big is more likely to display high moral values.
...for every one person like that there are a thousand who would like to work for Google.
"Would like to" does not equate "is an asset" or even "is qualified for".
Having gone through my share of job interviews, I'd say it's fairly hard to find good fits, and job recruiters make this even more difficult with their keyword matching and not understanding even an iota about the skills required or offered. A reduction in the number of good applicants would be significant - the signal to noise ratio is already too low.
It's the damnedest thing too, we're starting to see signs of this in the human population as well. My wife just spontaneously got pregnant a few weeks back, and I know it wasn't me because I was out of town. Incredible stuff.
It's been going on for a while. It was described happening in Palestine two thousand years ago. The resulting specimen didn't reproduce, though, and died at a relatively young age, so there may be some complications.
Quite a bit actually. Invasive species from the US is probably a bigger problem in China than invasive species from China is in the US. Pine wood nematodes devastate pine forests and smooth cord grass smothers mangroves, for example - both originating in North America.
What could possibly go wrong in the long run with such genetic uniformity?
Given all the species that do asexual reproduction, not much.
And not just bacteria and plants either. Bdelloid rotifers were sexual at one time, but got rid of their males, and now they're all female and adapting well enough with parthenogenetic asexual reproduction.
To quote the same Wikipedia article you linked to - emphasis mine:
In veterinary medicine ivermectin is used against many intestinal worms (but not tapeworms), most mites, and some lice. It is not effective for eliminating ticks, flies, flukes, or fleas.
Spinosad based pills like Comfortis work great, though.
The tick, the Asian longhorned tick (or Haemaphysalis longicornis), has the potential to transmit an assortment of nasty diseases to humans, including an emerging virus that kills up to 30 percent of victims. So far, the tick hasn't been found carrying any diseases in the U.S.
And there's this other species[*] that has the potential to transmit an assortment of nasty diseases to humans, including an emerging virus that kills up to 80 percent of victims.
I'm not sure that's the cause. The study also shows that male doctors with more experience with female patients have a better outcome than male doctors with less experience with female patients. There are things women and men might lie about or unconsciously "adjust" in different ways. If you had a non-obese patient, the male might claim he weighs a little more than he does, and a woman might claim she weighs a little less than she does. But in a hospital setting, I'm sure they do actual measurements instead of relying on the patient.
But you may have touched upon a potential factor here: communication. It may be, for example, that female patients are less good at volunteering the important information, and that female doctors and male doctors with experience treating females have less problems communicating in a way where the female patient tells important things. Which may include things that a female patient may be uncomfortable disclosing to a young male, like also having an UTI, yeast infection, irregular periods or copper implant. And a younger male doctor may be more uncomfortable with and less good at getting this information, perhaps expecting "any other problems?" to cover that. A doctor that's experienced with either being a women or treating female patients may just be better at asking direct questions.
"Well Mr. Regulator, it's faster than Dail-Up!"[sic]
Not necessarily, no. You could possibly bond 672 dial-up modems with compression in parallel on each T3... (Although the fattest bonding I read about "only" scaled to 30 ISDN channels, and was only used because it was significantly cheaper to jump through hoops to scale than paying for the entire E1 all the time.)
It's not just a problem with bases and exact positions. It's a problem that individuals can be tracked over time. If you see someone one week do runs in Langley, and the next week do runs in a remote location in Nicaragua, you may have a diplomatic crisis on your hands.
Indeed. Not being able to edit or delete posts is a big plus that has helped Slashdot survive for as long as it has. You can always reference and quote a post knowing that what you referenced and quoted won't change under your feet. Instead, some people here want to introduce redactionism? Either they really haven't thought this through, are incapable of doing so, or don't care. In either case, they are the problem, not the commenting system.
That said, it would be nice to get a WARNING after the submit, if there are unmatched tags (especially quote and blockquote), requiring a second confirmation in those particular cases. But editing? No, that is what makes Slashdot special enough to warrant its life. Make it like other sites catering to the lying and the stupid, and it will perish.
I don't get why the notion of "full stack developer" is such a big deal. I mean, do people go to build a home and say, "I want an 'all trades craftsman'."? Or do people go looking for a doctor and say, "I want an 'all specialties surgeon'."?
I want someone to be in charge of building my house that understand enough about wood, concrete and plumbing to safely fuse the different work, without it falling apart next year. And when I have surgery on my foot, and the surgeon spots a rupturing blood vessel, I want him to be able to deal and not have to put me on ice while attempting to find someone who knows something about veins.
A strong base with branching out into special areas is what I want to see. Not specialists who have no fundamental knowledge, unskilled labor who fall apart when instructions don't match reality, nor generalists that are so general that they can't actually do anything.
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But here we measured 80 pairs of jeans that all boasted a 32 inch waistband, meaning that these jeans were all made to fit the same size person.
This is not true.
Many might not know this, but the "inches" advertised for jeans, and sometimes printed on the back are not real inches.
For men, the waist size is around 1-2" more than the figure stated. For women, the waist size is around 3-5" more than the figure stated.
A man that wears size 34 jeans can easily fit into women's size 32 jeans. But neither a "34" man nor a "32" woman can wear a 34" belt - that's honest inches, and won't fit either.
The reason? If I were to venture a guess, it's a "feel good" factor, selling more jeans by not letting people in general, but women in particular feel as big as they really are.
Thankfully, our ability to migrate and mitigate has increased 100 times what it was, just 100 years ago. 100 years ago, airplane travel was non-existent, the car was a novel thing, and coal boats were still slowly replacing sailing ships.
You ignored his "and the same is largely true of the rest of nature". Or do you propose that e.g. maple forests should just get on a plane to colder climates instead of relying on wind-borne propeller seeds that travel a few hundred feet at most?
The sticker covering your laptop's camera might be a good security idea ;-)
I wonder...
Do anyone make laptop camera stickers that look like laptop cameras?
It might be beneficial for an assassin to be able to walk out of the hospital, because the monitoring still shows plausible values despite the target being dead.
Or even abduct the patient.
Or fake half a dozen emergencies, so staff all mill around and don't notice who walks off with all the morphine.
Or play mind games with a staff member you hate, causing him or her to rush back and forth to patients all night.
The possibilities will include many other scenarios - you just have to think of them.
Your attempted pedanticism is false. So lame.
Orkn means seal in Old Norse. Neyjar means islands. So the name Orkney is a corruption of the words "Seal Islands." But it does not literally mean Orkn Islands, as the name isn't Orkneyjar but merely Orkney.
Your attempted at being even more pedantic isn't an improvement.
Ey is singular, eyjar is plural. Orkneys is an English plural to a Norse word for island on a gaelic stem. Much like the individual islands with names like Westray, Sanday and Ronaldsay.
The ey still very much part of the word, whether in singular Orkney or plural Orkneys, it means "island".
Isn't "Orkney Islands" like saying "the La Brea tar pits" or "Rio Grande river", given that "ey" means island?
I've always heard them referred to as just the Orkneys.
Crows are surprisingly intelligent.
And rooks, which is the crow family member here, especially so.
Probably too intelligent for this system to work for long, because they'll quickly figure out how to deposit the same loot twice, or what else can be substituted that's easier to find, how to raid other sources, or something else we haven't anticipated.
Jackpot!
Nicely done!
(For those who don't know, a jackpot is called so because of the jackdaw, a member of the crow family, being notorious for stealing shiny things. So a jackpot is a nest full of shinies.)
No, they are taking the jobs of the immigrants because, as seems to be common knowledge, is that there are some jobs that Americans simply will not do.
Cleaning French theme parks being one of them.
Oh, I didn't mean good fits from a human perspective, but from a work function perspective. There are some work functions where it's hard to find someone who either has a experience or interest in a narrow field, or is interested in delving into a type of work that isn't going to be useful for more than a small handful of companies in the world. It's great if you are forward-thinking and graduated summa cum laude, but if you aren't willing to adapt to technologies of the past, you won't fit in for a job servicing 30-60 year old stuff, for example.
They should open source their linux client then. I bet this boils down to them thinking that it cost them more money to maintain the client then the number customers they will lose by not having it.
Or it boils down to National Security Letters telling them that someone wants access to the unencrypted data, on a file system that doesn't do automatic wiping.
really? So, all big tech companies are immoral while small ones are moral?
Non sequitur. Big tech companies probably are immoral, because you don't become truly big without stepping on a few bodies. That does not imply that small ones are moral - they could be either. If I were to guess, a small and profitable company without aspirations to grow big is more likely to display high moral values.
...for every one person like that there are a thousand who would like to work for Google.
"Would like to" does not equate "is an asset" or even "is qualified for".
Having gone through my share of job interviews, I'd say it's fairly hard to find good fits, and job recruiters make this even more difficult with their keyword matching and not understanding even an iota about the skills required or offered. A reduction in the number of good applicants would be significant - the signal to noise ratio is already too low.
It's the damnedest thing too, we're starting to see signs of this in the human population as well. My wife just spontaneously got pregnant a few weeks back, and I know it wasn't me because I was out of town. Incredible stuff.
It's been going on for a while. It was described happening in Palestine two thousand years ago. The resulting specimen didn't reproduce, though, and died at a relatively young age, so there may be some complications.
I would suspect that China is also suffering.
Quite a bit actually. Invasive species from the US is probably a bigger problem in China than invasive species from China is in the US. Pine wood nematodes devastate pine forests and smooth cord grass smothers mangroves, for example - both originating in North America.
What could possibly go wrong in the long run with such genetic uniformity?
Given all the species that do asexual reproduction, not much.
And not just bacteria and plants either. Bdelloid rotifers were sexual at one time, but got rid of their males, and now they're all female and adapting well enough with parthenogenetic asexual reproduction.
Ticks are arachnida, not insects.
This is slashdot, of course the details matter more than the joke.
To quote the same Wikipedia article you linked to - emphasis mine:
In veterinary medicine ivermectin is used against many intestinal worms (but not tapeworms), most mites, and some lice. It is not effective for eliminating ticks, flies, flukes, or fleas.
Spinosad based pills like Comfortis work great, though.
That is one very, VERY happy tick!
You have not lived in a house with four females.
Just saying...
The tick, the Asian longhorned tick (or Haemaphysalis longicornis), has the potential to transmit an assortment of nasty diseases to humans, including an emerging virus that kills up to 30 percent of victims. So far, the tick hasn't been found carrying any diseases in the U.S.
And there's this other species[*] that has the potential to transmit an assortment of nasty diseases to humans, including an emerging virus that kills up to 80 percent of victims.
[*]: Homo Sapiens Sapiens
I'm not sure that's the cause. The study also shows that male doctors with more experience with female patients have a better outcome than male doctors with less experience with female patients.
There are things women and men might lie about or unconsciously "adjust" in different ways. If you had a non-obese patient, the male might claim he weighs a little more than he does, and a woman might claim she weighs a little less than she does. But in a hospital setting, I'm sure they do actual measurements instead of relying on the patient.
But you may have touched upon a potential factor here: communication. It may be, for example, that female patients are less good at volunteering the important information, and that female doctors and male doctors with experience treating females have less problems communicating in a way where the female patient tells important things. Which may include things that a female patient may be uncomfortable disclosing to a young male, like also having an UTI, yeast infection, irregular periods or copper implant. And a younger male doctor may be more uncomfortable with and less good at getting this information, perhaps expecting "any other problems?" to cover that. A doctor that's experienced with either being a women or treating female patients may just be better at asking direct questions.
"Well Mr. Regulator, it's faster than Dail-Up!"[sic]
Not necessarily, no. You could possibly bond 672 dial-up modems with compression in parallel on each T3...
(Although the fattest bonding I read about "only" scaled to 30 ISDN channels, and was only used because it was significantly cheaper to jump through hoops to scale than paying for the entire E1 all the time.)
It's not just a problem with bases and exact positions. It's a problem that individuals can be tracked over time. If you see someone one week do runs in Langley, and the next week do runs in a remote location in Nicaragua, you may have a diplomatic crisis on your hands.
Indeed. Not being able to edit or delete posts is a big plus that has helped Slashdot survive for as long as it has.
You can always reference and quote a post knowing that what you referenced and quoted won't change under your feet.
Instead, some people here want to introduce redactionism? Either they really haven't thought this through, are incapable of doing so, or don't care. In either case, they are the problem, not the commenting system.
That said, it would be nice to get a WARNING after the submit, if there are unmatched tags (especially quote and blockquote), requiring a second confirmation in those particular cases.
But editing? No, that is what makes Slashdot special enough to warrant its life. Make it like other sites catering to the lying and the stupid, and it will perish.
I don't get why the notion of "full stack developer" is such a big deal. I mean, do people go to build a home and say, "I want an 'all trades craftsman'."? Or do people go looking for a doctor and say, "I want an 'all specialties surgeon'."?
I want someone to be in charge of building my house that understand enough about wood, concrete and plumbing to safely fuse the different work, without it falling apart next year.
And when I have surgery on my foot, and the surgeon spots a rupturing blood vessel, I want him to be able to deal and not have to put me on ice while attempting to find someone who knows something about veins.
A strong base with branching out into special areas is what I want to see. Not specialists who have no fundamental knowledge, unskilled labor who fall apart when instructions don't match reality, nor generalists that are so general that they can't actually do anything.