They had a lot of interesting items, for example their math clock. I kept seeing items that I would have bought if they were half the price. But they weren't, so I didn't.
He didn't directly justify violence. But just like "what do you expect, she was wearing a miniskirt" is a disgraceful response to a rape, this is a disgraceful response to a murder.
SAMe is not comparable to SSRIs. They have different mechanisms, work on different people (no antidepressant works on everyone with depression), and on average, SSRIs have a more potent effect. And I'd be shocked to hear that SSRIs are not covered by the Canadian health system.
I know people who have been in exactly the situation you're in, and SSRIs have helped them function to the point where they could change the other things that needed changing, and stay functional in the long term without SSRIs. There are no guarantees, but the chances are very good.
So go to your doctor and start taking an antidepressant. It works sort of like caffeine but 100 times stronger. Once you've been on it for a couple months, you will be able to make the choices regarding work, moving, etc. that you can't motivate yourself to make now.
You haven't seen it all. Many people live 80 or 90 years and will tell you that they haven't come close to seeing or experiencing everything there is to life.
Your "can't build up much of an excitement for anything" is a textbook symptom of clinical depression, which is a treatable medical condition.
And even among non-depressed people, middle age very often corresponds to a dip in happiness which passes on its own as people get older.
So many billionaires in Silly Valley, and none of them is willing to invest more than $1 million in extending their lifetime to forever? Clearly they don't expect much to come out of this research.
If Israel sold rockets to the Palestinians, the rockets would be used against Israel and Israelis would die. You don't get your citizens killed for money.
If Intel sold fab capacity to a competitor, it might hurt Intel's own CPU sales. But lost money can be made up for with other money. For the right price, why wouldn't Intel do this? Particularly as Intel has an interest in keeping companies like AMD alive to avoid antitrust action, while Intel is looking for customers for its custom foundry.
At least WebMD doesn't have editors going around changing medical articles to make them more negative and pessimistic, while no more informative or accurate than before.
It's like, The placebo effect is one of the most important contributors to patient recovery, so why are you TRYING to destroy it?
Not millions. You would need about 100 reports for a given store ("local Walmart") and time ("8-9am Friday") to get a reliable estimate for them. (100 data points is enough to give a normal distribution, which is why you hear about medical studies with fewer than 100 patients.) If your data base is an average over 5 Fridays from 8-9AM, you need to gather 20 data points each hour. There are ~40k supermarkets inthe US, so 800k reports per hour, each one a couple kB. So even when your app is universally used across the US, your bandwidth is only a few GB per hour.
But that's beside the point. More important is not the number of connections, but the ratio of marketing profit vs server load for each user; that's what determines profitability. And in contrast to successful apps like Waze which do fancy data downloads and routing calculations in order to show a little ad at the bottom of the screen, this app could send a much smaller amount of data, entirely precomputed, in order to show the same ad. The marginal profitability per user would be much higher.
Each user submits maybe a kB of data when they visit the store. And makes a couple queries for several kB each when choosing a store. Store visits are at most once a day, so per user, that's very little usage. You could get a high level of marketing exposure, relative to your server requirements, by say sending a push notification once every couple weeks.
When you get in line at the supermarket, you press "start". When you finish checking out, you press "stop". The time you waited in line is uploaded to a database.
When you are at home, trying to decide which supermarket to visit, you can check "which supermarket near me has the shortest lines at this day/hour?" and thereby decide where to visit.
Some sort of statistical analysis would have to be done to filter out fake data inputted by store employees.
I'm not willing to wait an extra 10 minutes in line to save 50 cents on a quick shopping trip - my time is worth way more than that. But until now, there is no way of knowing how long you will wait (besides past experiences which generally do not form a statistically significant set). So stores have little incentive to compete by improving the wait time. If a critical mass of consumers used this app, that could change.
I think you worry too much - I'm in the best part of Africa, the most progressive, the most modern, and even here the government can't even keep the lights on.
Sounds familiar. I know people in the best part of the US, the most progressive, the most modern, and even there the government can't even keep the lights on.
I look at it this way. Even if you assume that "fine-tuning" implies that our universe was created by some higher intelligence. Which higher intelligence was it? The Christian god? The Muslim god? The satanist god? Some "I don't give a damn what you do or don't do" god? There's no evidence for which of those it would be, no convincing indication of what a "fine-tuning higher intelligence" might have to say about human choices, and therefore little to no basis for choosing a particular religious view. And that's even if you accept the fine-tuning argument.
Just last week I encountered a cop with a lighted baton who was directing traffic from the side of the road. He would stop traffic, walk to the middle of the road while motioning people across the road with his baton, then walk off the road while waving the baton *behind his back* to signal "go ahead". Does the self-driving car recognize this sort of thing?
Yes. It would recognize the policeman as a jaywalker and stop to avoid hitting him.
I can post the exact same article and everyone will think it is new and original. It will get shared widely, and I'll make a day's salary from the ads on the article.
Just another few hundred more somewhat-obscure topics (I can google for ideas), and I'll have a steady indefinite income at the cost of posting a "new" link per day.
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They had a lot of interesting items, for example their math clock. I kept seeing items that I would have bought if they were half the price. But they weren't, so I didn't.
He didn't directly justify violence. But just like "what do you expect, she was wearing a miniskirt" is a disgraceful response to a rape, this is a disgraceful response to a murder.
SAMe is not comparable to SSRIs. They have different mechanisms, work on different people (no antidepressant works on everyone with depression), and on average, SSRIs have a more potent effect. And I'd be shocked to hear that SSRIs are not covered by the Canadian health system.
I know people who have been in exactly the situation you're in, and SSRIs have helped them function to the point where they could change the other things that needed changing, and stay functional in the long term without SSRIs. There are no guarantees, but the chances are very good.
It's better for the IT guy who has to help the user install something over the phone...
So go to your doctor and start taking an antidepressant. It works sort of like caffeine but 100 times stronger. Once you've been on it for a couple months, you will be able to make the choices regarding work, moving, etc. that you can't motivate yourself to make now.
You haven't seen it all. Many people live 80 or 90 years and will tell you that they haven't come close to seeing or experiencing everything there is to life.
Your "can't build up much of an excitement for anything" is a textbook symptom of clinical depression, which is a treatable medical condition.
And even among non-depressed people, middle age very often corresponds to a dip in happiness which passes on its own as people get older.
So many billionaires in Silly Valley, and none of them is willing to invest more than $1 million in extending their lifetime to forever?
Clearly they don't expect much to come out of this research.
And you think the US overextended itself in Vietnam and Iraq...
Interesting. Funny that it's made by Swiss developers :)
Of course! Look at the bottom of the screenshot. Does the circle take you to the home screen? Or the square? Better try both and see!
It will display your alarm clock in beautiful blue and hot pink, colors not user-changeable, of course. How could you not upgrade?
I would have thought the same thing, but just today a Marxist group carried out a suicide bombing in Istanbul...
If Israel sold rockets to the Palestinians, the rockets would be used against Israel and Israelis would die. You don't get your citizens killed for money.
If Intel sold fab capacity to a competitor, it might hurt Intel's own CPU sales. But lost money can be made up for with other money. For the right price, why wouldn't Intel do this? Particularly as Intel has an interest in keeping companies like AMD alive to avoid antitrust action, while Intel is looking for customers for its custom foundry.
At least WebMD doesn't have editors going around changing medical articles to make them more negative and pessimistic, while no more informative or accurate than before.
It's like, The placebo effect is one of the most important contributors to patient recovery, so why are you TRYING to destroy it?
Not millions. You would need about 100 reports for a given store ("local Walmart") and time ("8-9am Friday") to get a reliable estimate for them. (100 data points is enough to give a normal distribution, which is why you hear about medical studies with fewer than 100 patients.) If your data base is an average over 5 Fridays from 8-9AM, you need to gather 20 data points each hour. There are ~40k supermarkets inthe US, so 800k reports per hour, each one a couple kB. So even when your app is universally used across the US, your bandwidth is only a few GB per hour.
But that's beside the point. More important is not the number of connections, but the ratio of marketing profit vs server load for each user; that's what determines profitability. And in contrast to successful apps like Waze which do fancy data downloads and routing calculations in order to show a little ad at the bottom of the screen, this app could send a much smaller amount of data, entirely precomputed, in order to show the same ad. The marginal profitability per user would be much higher.
Each user submits maybe a kB of data when they visit the store. And makes a couple queries for several kB each when choosing a store. Store visits are at most once a day, so per user, that's very little usage. You could get a high level of marketing exposure, relative to your server requirements, by say sending a push notification once every couple weeks.
When you get in line at the supermarket, you press "start". When you finish checking out, you press "stop". The time you waited in line is uploaded to a database.
When you are at home, trying to decide which supermarket to visit, you can check "which supermarket near me has the shortest lines at this day/hour?" and thereby decide where to visit.
Some sort of statistical analysis would have to be done to filter out fake data inputted by store employees.
I'm not willing to wait an extra 10 minutes in line to save 50 cents on a quick shopping trip - my time is worth way more than that. But until now, there is no way of knowing how long you will wait (besides past experiences which generally do not form a statistically significant set). So stores have little incentive to compete by improving the wait time. If a critical mass of consumers used this app, that could change.
Sounds familiar. I know people in the best part of the US, the most progressive, the most modern, and even there the government can't even keep the lights on.
Africa, meet California.
I look at it this way. Even if you assume that "fine-tuning" implies that our universe was created by some higher intelligence. Which higher intelligence was it? The Christian god? The Muslim god? The satanist god? Some "I don't give a damn what you do or don't do" god? There's no evidence for which of those it would be, no convincing indication of what a "fine-tuning higher intelligence" might have to say about human choices, and therefore little to no basis for choosing a particular religious view. And that's even if you accept the fine-tuning argument.
"the difference between typing on a sweet mechanical keyboard with luxurious key action, versus pounding away on a run-of-the-mill squishy plank"
Get rid of all the sports involving scantily clad women? Don't count on it happening.
That's not my observation. Where I work, white males are slightly underrepresented. (Asian males are drastically overrepresented...)
If your basic observation is wrong, what does that say about all the speculative analysis you've based on it?
Yes. It would recognize the policeman as a jaywalker and stop to avoid hitting him.
for two years from now.
I can post the exact same article and everyone will think it is new and original. It will get shared widely, and I'll make a day's salary from the ads on the article.
Just another few hundred more somewhat-obscure topics (I can google for ideas), and I'll have a steady indefinite income at the cost of posting a "new" link per day.
This is what passes for "news" nowadays...
Texas has about 26 million residents. And according to you 800k of them have permits, that's about 1 in 32.
Are you telling me that the average busy Starbucks in Texas has 390 people in it? I knew things were bigger in Texas, but... really?