Wait, did I just get schooled by one of the actual researchers? That's awesome! Thank you so much for clarifying.
I'm still wary of the size of that number though. 10 ug/m3 is a pretty low concentration, right? So I'd expect there to be thresholds and plateaus instead of a smooth curve. As in a noticeable difference in effect if you go from 100 ug/m3 to 200 ug/m3, but not if you go from 100 to 120. Which might be hard to see if the data isn't fine grained enough or other variables might be involved. But I haven't seen the data and you have, so I'll defer to you.
I figure the ran a ton of linear regressions and found a correlation between nitrous oxides and early deaths - like for every 1 ton increase there are 3 more deaths. Or, going by the numbers in the article,.0076 deaths per ton, or 131.57 tons per death.
That's just plain dumb, right? Flight crews can't remember more than one 4 digit number?
Why not distinct codes for each plane, or each flight? If there's only one master code for all planes, all a potential hijacker has to do is kidnap a flight attendant and beat it out of them.
As it is, there might as well not be a code at all. It'd be just as secure to use "Shave and a haircut" as a secret knock.
Really? 'Pin to taskbar' has been around for so long I don't remember when it was introduced. But the GUI people at both companies have been 'borrowing' from each other and other others since Apple lifted the idea from Xerox.
I was just thinking that sensor area would obviously matter more than the size of the processing region. If someone who knows more about the topic than I do agrees, then I must be awesome. So thanks!
It sounds like those are competing goals - if information is freely available then it cannot be private, if it's private then it cannot be free. Am I missing something?
That I don't understand. Are they saying that MS should keep supporting XP or that they didn't do enough to get people to upgrade? I don't see either as making any sense.
What Zillow does is called a Comparative Market Analysis. You take the value of similar properties recently sold in the area to estimate the value of the one you're doing it for. Agents, not appraisers, do CMAs. Appraisers will put together somethign like a CMA, but only after inspecting the home. Basically, the set of things an appraiser does is a superset containing the set that defines a CMA.
The most important distinction being that a CMA is not an official determination of value, it's a non-binding estimate. Agents get mad at appraisers all the time for using properties they don't think are comparable when putting the appraisal together. Agents and appraisers both get mad at Zillow for using a pretty weak CMA algorithm. They both use tools that give them something like a Zillow estimate, but then dig into it manually.
Something that doesn't exist? Like poor people in Silicon Valley?
Seriously though, I think it's an investment opportunity with revolutionary potential. But I'm kinda guessing, so maybe you shouldn't put too much weight on my answer. Even if it's exactly what I think it is, I still have no idea why they'd call it a unicorn.
I can say that there are probably poor people everywhere because the poverty threshold is defined regionally according to the cost of food - 3x what it costs to buy just enough food to survive.
I'm looking forward to the speed boost as my cell phone use can be very aggressive. For example, yesterday I shoved it up two asses and jammed it down one throat. I'm not sure how Qualcomm is going to be enhancing that, but I'm excited to find out.
Okay, that's a good point. At least I assume it is, I'm not automotively inclined nor can I afford a BMW.
As for Exchange, I found out about how lacking support for it is on Macs because a group of Mac users in my company wanted a bunch of shared resources setup. The sorts of features that only exist on proprietary email platforms like Exchange or business Gmail, so I don't know if "shackled" is the right term. Large businesses need those features, which is why I found the lack of support for them on Apple's side to be so disappointing. To be fair, I was appalled by the number of Microsoft apps for iOS that were needed to get everything working on iPhones. What could have been done with one instead needed two or three. Ick. But everything could be made to work, so it could have been made to work on Macs, but hasn't been so Microsoft shares the blame.
I thought Wikileaks was for blowing the whistle on wrongdoing. Is the CIA using these tools to spy on innocent civilians? Are they using them in domestically in the US in violation of Federal law? Was there some pressing public need to have the tools spies use to spy on each other revealed?
Where is the public benefit to this leak? If these tools were not being misused, isn't this just harming public security?
Yet somehow they provide the majority of all taxes collected. In 2012, the top 1% paid an average rate of 22% (the highest) and provided almost 40% of all taxes, top 5% accounted for almost 60% of collected taxes. Paying an average rate of 21%.
It would still be very far from where it started in the desert. Better to launch when nobody's looking, land it back on the pad (I'm still amazed they can do that), and tell the tax man, "Dude, it's right there, same place it was yesterday. What's the tax on not moving?"
I just, as in earlier this week, cancelled my landline. It was part of a cable bundle deal that was cheaper (though not by much) than just both cable and internet for two years. Deal ended, I cancelled the voice service. Never did hook up a phone.
I'm about to turn 40 and my girlfriend is about to turn 50, so I think we're in the "old farts that probably still have a landline" demographic.
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But let's not forget that there's an exemption for use in parody.
Wow, they're going to be in so much trouble for presciently violating Apple's patent.
Look at what? Apple patented the Samsung S8. What's so weird about that?
And remembering a 4 digit number for a few hours isn't exactly a feat of memorization. It's well within the average person's ability.
I'm still wary of the size of that number though. 10 ug/m3 is a pretty low concentration, right? So I'd expect there to be thresholds and plateaus instead of a smooth curve. As in a noticeable difference in effect if you go from 100 ug/m3 to 200 ug/m3, but not if you go from 100 to 120. Which might be hard to see if the data isn't fine grained enough or other variables might be involved. But I haven't seen the data and you have, so I'll defer to you.
I'm not very convinced by those numbers .
Why not distinct codes for each plane, or each flight? If there's only one master code for all planes, all a potential hijacker has to do is kidnap a flight attendant and beat it out of them.
As it is, there might as well not be a code at all. It'd be just as secure to use "Shave and a haircut" as a secret knock.
I thought it was 0451.
Really? 'Pin to taskbar' has been around for so long I don't remember when it was introduced. But the GUI people at both companies have been 'borrowing' from each other and other others since Apple lifted the idea from Xerox.
I was just thinking that sensor area would obviously matter more than the size of the processing region. If someone who knows more about the topic than I do agrees, then I must be awesome. So thanks!
It sounds like those are competing goals - if information is freely available then it cannot be private, if it's private then it cannot be free. Am I missing something?
That I don't understand. Are they saying that MS should keep supporting XP or that they didn't do enough to get people to upgrade? I don't see either as making any sense.
Okay, not really the same thing.
The first reply was excellent, very funny. But I think this one is my favorite.
The most important distinction being that a CMA is not an official determination of value, it's a non-binding estimate. Agents get mad at appraisers all the time for using properties they don't think are comparable when putting the appraisal together. Agents and appraisers both get mad at Zillow for using a pretty weak CMA algorithm. They both use tools that give them something like a Zillow estimate, but then dig into it manually.
Seriously though, I think it's an investment opportunity with revolutionary potential. But I'm kinda guessing, so maybe you shouldn't put too much weight on my answer. Even if it's exactly what I think it is, I still have no idea why they'd call it a unicorn.
I can say that there are probably poor people everywhere because the poverty threshold is defined regionally according to the cost of food - 3x what it costs to buy just enough food to survive.
I'm looking forward to the speed boost as my cell phone use can be very aggressive. For example, yesterday I shoved it up two asses and jammed it down one throat. I'm not sure how Qualcomm is going to be enhancing that, but I'm excited to find out.
As for Exchange, I found out about how lacking support for it is on Macs because a group of Mac users in my company wanted a bunch of shared resources setup. The sorts of features that only exist on proprietary email platforms like Exchange or business Gmail, so I don't know if "shackled" is the right term. Large businesses need those features, which is why I found the lack of support for them on Apple's side to be so disappointing. To be fair, I was appalled by the number of Microsoft apps for iOS that were needed to get everything working on iPhones. What could have been done with one instead needed two or three. Ick. But everything could be made to work, so it could have been made to work on Macs, but hasn't been so Microsoft shares the blame.
Where is the public benefit to this leak? If these tools were not being misused, isn't this just harming public security?
Wait until it matures and takes root deep enough so that it can't just pack up and move.
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Yet somehow they provide the majority of all taxes collected. In 2012, the top 1% paid an average rate of 22% (the highest) and provided almost 40% of all taxes, top 5% accounted for almost 60% of collected taxes. Paying an average rate of 21%.
It would still be very far from where it started in the desert. Better to launch when nobody's looking, land it back on the pad (I'm still amazed they can do that), and tell the tax man, "Dude, it's right there, same place it was yesterday. What's the tax on not moving?"
It is a plot from The X Files. Evil alien virus-goo, frozen for tens of thousands of years.
I'm about to turn 40 and my girlfriend is about to turn 50, so I think we're in the "old farts that probably still have a landline" demographic.