Genetic engineering is something entirely different.
No, it's not. You can, given time, obtain the same results with GE that you can with selective selection. In the end it's about nucleotide sequences and getting them to line up how you want them to. Selective selection just takes a more time and resources.
Genetic engineering is something entirely different. Clearly, genetic engineering does NOT use mother nature's tools, but rather a toolkit which isn't found anywhere in nature.
And this, Mr anonymous, is a complete load of uneducated horse shit. "Natural" gene splicing has been around practically forever in the form of viruses. In fact, the human genome has some 100,000 DNA sequences inserted into it from exactly that. Some of them are big enough to be complete gene sequences, such as that of the human placenta.
IPv6 could solve that problem. Your/64 prefix likely won't change unless you change ISP's or move to another house. Your device could learn your/64 prefix and the remaining/64 of the hub device it's supposed to connect to. Even in DHCPv6, it's stateless so you don't have to worry about a lease renewal giving you a new IP.
Alternatively (and this would work now) you could set up your choice of a dropbox, google drive, onedrive, amazon, etc cloud locker and have your automation hub store a file on it with IP address information, in addition to other details as needed. In the event of a connect failure, the remote app could just log in to your cloud storage provider to fetch the latest details, and you're good to go. The end user wouldn't have to know what an IP address is, let alone a domain name.
It's really disingenuous to say that people did this to themselves. After the repairs were complete, the phone worked perfectly fine, meaning that as far as they knew they had done the job correctly. What happened is that a later update came around and bricked the device if somebody had repaired it.
But that's not even the worst part, the worst part was that Apple refused to unbrick the devices, and basically forced everybody to come to their repair shops. Why is that bad? Because right to repair is actually codified in US law, meaning it's illegal for a manufacturer to create countermeasures for you doing self repairs and/or going to third parties for repair.
Furthermore, the whole argument in favor of that brick was absurd. Is somebody really supposed to steal your iphone, swap their own fake fingerprint sensor in it, and then put it back as if nothing happened? That sounds like a cheesy plot to a mission impossible movie.
I think the dumbest part of this is that the preferred gender of the voice tends to go by cultural norms rather than the company that made the damn thing. Middle eastern cultures, which are by far more male dominant than even the most male dominant tech company in the US, will either get offended or pissed off (or both) if a female voice gives them directions.
In western cultures, women are just more culturally inclined to take caretaker (as in medicine, grade school teacher, babysitter) or assistant type jobs (for an anecdote, my uncle's family is really into computers, and all three of his boys are going into tech related jobs, but his daughter wants to be a dentist even though she's had the same tech exposure that they had.)
Don't assume that I'm defending Christians, because I'm not. What irks me is that if you speak against Islam, you get shouted down, whereas speaking against Christianity is perfectly acceptable. Take this for example:
Well, it is a mistake to use consensus as validation when it comes to anything. After Einstein's theory of relativity came about, somebody published a work titled "100 authors against Einstein" that was trying to "disprove" relativity by means of scientific consensus. Einstein correctly pointed out that it should only take one of them to prove him wrong.
Why would it be? Islam isn't a race. Even though I'm an atheist, it bugs the shit out of me that ultra liberals will bash Christians just for being Christians, but if you bash a Muslim even if they do their backwards third world shit (i.e. women in burkas) then you get an earful from ultra liberals about how it's racist.
Whenever I hear business say that they are "following the law" it's a wonderful copout because they are the ones who use their clout to make the laws - the rules.
I haven't heard of any Taxi companies setting the laws, however I have heard of Taxi driver unions doing so.
First you're incorrect: BMI is segmented by gender.
No, it's not. The world health organization only gives one number for each weight classification threshold, not two. That is less than 18.5 is underweight, >25 is overweight, >30 is Obese 1, >35 is Obese 2, >40 is Obese 3 or also called morbidly obese. There is no distinction between male and female, period, and the formula for calculating BMI doesn't take into account male or female.
Second it's not a load of crap: the thresholds are set such that if it says you're obese, there's a 95% chance you are (statistically), but if it says you're not you still may be.
When they calculated these numbers, they didn't come up with i.e. >25 for overweight for males, they actually came up with 26.4 for males and 25.8 for females. They also came up with obese at 32.1 for females and 31.1 for males. By the way, did you notice how those numbers obviously don't scale linearly? Another thing this ignores is that it's actually healthier to slowly gain weight as you age. This is why the percentile figure is a better guideline. Oh and by the way, 18.5 BMI is well below a safe threshold for being underweight for males who shouldn't be under 20.7. It is unsafe for females as well, but only just barely, and again, due to rounding they chose that number.
They chose 25 and 30 respectively, for both males and females, because they round nicely and are easier to remember, but still remain problematic unless you happen to be just the average person at the average age. However if you're just trying to get a quick measurement on the spot and you don't have a calculator on hand, 25 is ok.
In fact, I recently had a new appointment with a doctor I hadn't seen in the past, and I told him I was aiming for 161lbs, (BMI of 23.235) and he didn't understand why I was making the effort because he had just calculated my BMI at 25.8, which he said is perfectly healthy. (I explained to him my renal impairment immediately afterwards and he agreed that it would probably be a good idea.)
Most people use the World Health Organization metric of a BMI of 30 to define obesity, but it's kind of a load of crap because it assumes that everybody is the same age and gender, both of which have different ranges for what is probably healthy and what isn't. What's best is if you figure out what weight percentile you reside in for your age and gender. This calculator for example:
If you're at 45 then you're in good shape. If you're 50 or above, then you will probably benefit from weight loss, but not necessarily. Believe it or not you can be obese by every definition and still be perfectly healthy. I dropped a lot of weight myself (about 90 lbs) because I have kidney disease caused by an immune disorder (IgA nephropathy) and being at a light weight reduces the burden on my weakened kidneys, meaning they'll last longer. (Light weight includes not having a lot of muscle mass either, as more muscle means more creatinine, which is fine for healthy people but bad if your renal system is compromised.)
Also I think the #1 thing anybody can do for fat loss is to remove all sugar from their diet. Most sugars found in sodas, candy, pastries, etc, has high amounts of fructose (and no, HFCS isn't alone here, ordinary cane sugar and even fruit based sugars contain basically the same amount) which is well documented to give you a caloric load without triggering the release of leptin in your blood to signal fullness. It also raises your LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides (also bad.) Using that theory worked pretty well for me.
The rising rate of obesity *may* be because sugar has lowered in price over the last few decades, so now more people can afford more of it than in the past. It's one of those things that used to be a rich man's luxury, along with salt.
However, what do you now do with 10 million unemployed people?
I don't know yet. We still don't have anything close to fully automating any given need that people have, so there's still not a clear picture of how the future would look to be able to make that call. Though hypothetically, suppose you had a personal robot butler that could do anything and everything you ask, including make a copy of itself. See where I'm going with this? If you had nothing at all, I'm sure you could bum a friend's robot just long enough to have it make a copy of itself for you. The problem at that point would arise from raw materials though, in which case we'd need star trek style replicators.
Yes, I know, "basic income", except that as it goes further and further, you have to keep taxing those who actually earn money more and more to pay for it.
No I don't think a basic income would be a good idea. At least, not while there's an actual need for an income.
There's more to it than that. You don't need burger flippers in a society where people can do what they love. There are so many people who like to cook, you could probably find somebody to do it for you in exchange for something you're good at. Installing Linux perhaps.
I really doubt that. Personally, I know really how well to fix somebody's computer when there's something wrong with it, but hell no I'm not going to do it every time somebody asks. I know chefs who are the same way. This is exactly what's wrong with communism.
Oh and notice how on that graph that none of those real wage rates were anywhere close to $15 an hour, which is an absurdly high number. It's impossible to tell what will happen to California's economy once that happens, (because we've never seen anything like it) but I'm leaning towards "not good".
This is exactly the point that I think a lot of people miss about automation. There's a lot of menial jobs that suck, and a perfect example of such a job is flipping burgers. Wouldn't it be better if nobody had to do it at all, and you could spend your time doing better things? Yet it needs to get done somehow.
Also, it's a lofty goal and all to say that we should pay all of the burger flippers six figures, however, that's just not realistic because you're effectively asking somebody else to pay them a salary that you yourself wouldn't ever pay them, even if you had that kind of money to begin with. Another reason is because the people that can do that kind of job are a dime a dozen (and I almost want to use that expression literally, because it fits so well here.) The high paying jobs come from skills that are both in demand AND difficult to find, because the would be employers need to outbid other employers for your time.
But, imagine if all of the (menial) bare necessities in life were available to you if you just asked for it, and didn't have to give anything in return, (nor would you be expected to, as in communism) then as AC alluded to, what would you need an income for?
I don't care about Karma. However if the comment is going to be quickly buried to the point that users with the default settings won't see it, then why bother?
Typically, yes. Again, going back to Bernie, I compare his views on taxation as being remarkably similar to Hollande's, which was a disaster (and yes, links provided in those cases, but not going to do so here because I don't want to debate that here.)
Nevermind the NSA, I think slashdot's moderation system probably does a better job at suppressing minority opinions. Or at least, I've had a lot of posts of mine modded flamebait or trolling for i.e. being critical of Bernie Sanders, even though there was no trolling or flaming going on. Likewise I've avoided painting what is IMO a realistic picture of what a Sanders administration would look like (the Francois Hollande government in France) because I know it will just get buried.
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Genetic engineering is something entirely different.
No, it's not. You can, given time, obtain the same results with GE that you can with selective selection. In the end it's about nucleotide sequences and getting them to line up how you want them to. Selective selection just takes a more time and resources.
Genetic engineering is something entirely different. Clearly, genetic engineering does NOT use mother nature's tools, but rather a toolkit which isn't found anywhere in nature.
And this, Mr anonymous, is a complete load of uneducated horse shit. "Natural" gene splicing has been around practically forever in the form of viruses. In fact, the human genome has some 100,000 DNA sequences inserted into it from exactly that. Some of them are big enough to be complete gene sequences, such as that of the human placenta.
IPv6 could solve that problem. Your /64 prefix likely won't change unless you change ISP's or move to another house. Your device could learn your /64 prefix and the remaining /64 of the hub device it's supposed to connect to. Even in DHCPv6, it's stateless so you don't have to worry about a lease renewal giving you a new IP.
Alternatively (and this would work now) you could set up your choice of a dropbox, google drive, onedrive, amazon, etc cloud locker and have your automation hub store a file on it with IP address information, in addition to other details as needed. In the event of a connect failure, the remote app could just log in to your cloud storage provider to fetch the latest details, and you're good to go. The end user wouldn't have to know what an IP address is, let alone a domain name.
It's really disingenuous to say that people did this to themselves. After the repairs were complete, the phone worked perfectly fine, meaning that as far as they knew they had done the job correctly. What happened is that a later update came around and bricked the device if somebody had repaired it.
But that's not even the worst part, the worst part was that Apple refused to unbrick the devices, and basically forced everybody to come to their repair shops. Why is that bad? Because right to repair is actually codified in US law, meaning it's illegal for a manufacturer to create countermeasures for you doing self repairs and/or going to third parties for repair.
Furthermore, the whole argument in favor of that brick was absurd. Is somebody really supposed to steal your iphone, swap their own fake fingerprint sensor in it, and then put it back as if nothing happened? That sounds like a cheesy plot to a mission impossible movie.
I think the dumbest part of this is that the preferred gender of the voice tends to go by cultural norms rather than the company that made the damn thing. Middle eastern cultures, which are by far more male dominant than even the most male dominant tech company in the US, will either get offended or pissed off (or both) if a female voice gives them directions.
In western cultures, women are just more culturally inclined to take caretaker (as in medicine, grade school teacher, babysitter) or assistant type jobs (for an anecdote, my uncle's family is really into computers, and all three of his boys are going into tech related jobs, but his daughter wants to be a dentist even though she's had the same tech exposure that they had.)
Really? I thought the complaint about systemd is that it doesn't follow the unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well".
Don't assume that I'm defending Christians, because I'm not. What irks me is that if you speak against Islam, you get shouted down, whereas speaking against Christianity is perfectly acceptable. Take this for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yet the ones who walked off the stage about a very mild remark about Islam routinely bash Christians.
What if the NT kernel itself just became POSIX compliant?
https://i-msdn.sec.s-msft.com/...
Well, it is a mistake to use consensus as validation when it comes to anything. After Einstein's theory of relativity came about, somebody published a work titled "100 authors against Einstein" that was trying to "disprove" relativity by means of scientific consensus. Einstein correctly pointed out that it should only take one of them to prove him wrong.
Note that there are basically no slaves in the sex industry of The Netherlands, even if you throw in bullshit qualifiers like "virtually".
But you qualified it with "basically".
And why shouldn't they? You use someone else's property, you should pay them for it. End of story.
I have absolutely no sympathy for people profiting off of other's work.
The founding fathers apparently didn't see it that way.
http://www.victorianweb.org/au...
I think their agenda is this:
http://imgur.com/j95hMhn
Why would it be? Islam isn't a race. Even though I'm an atheist, it bugs the shit out of me that ultra liberals will bash Christians just for being Christians, but if you bash a Muslim even if they do their backwards third world shit (i.e. women in burkas) then you get an earful from ultra liberals about how it's racist.
Whenever I hear business say that they are "following the law" it's a wonderful copout because they are the ones who use their clout to make the laws - the rules.
I haven't heard of any Taxi companies setting the laws, however I have heard of Taxi driver unions doing so.
Just respond and give an example. I get 15 mod points all the time on slashdot, but I rarely use them because of situations exactly like this.
First you're incorrect: BMI is segmented by gender.
No, it's not. The world health organization only gives one number for each weight classification threshold, not two. That is less than 18.5 is underweight, >25 is overweight, >30 is Obese 1, >35 is Obese 2, >40 is Obese 3 or also called morbidly obese. There is no distinction between male and female, period, and the formula for calculating BMI doesn't take into account male or female.
Second it's not a load of crap: the thresholds are set such that if it says you're obese, there's a 95% chance you are (statistically), but if it says you're not you still may be.
When they calculated these numbers, they didn't come up with i.e. >25 for overweight for males, they actually came up with 26.4 for males and 25.8 for females. They also came up with obese at 32.1 for females and 31.1 for males. By the way, did you notice how those numbers obviously don't scale linearly? Another thing this ignores is that it's actually healthier to slowly gain weight as you age. This is why the percentile figure is a better guideline. Oh and by the way, 18.5 BMI is well below a safe threshold for being underweight for males who shouldn't be under 20.7. It is unsafe for females as well, but only just barely, and again, due to rounding they chose that number.
They chose 25 and 30 respectively, for both males and females, because they round nicely and are easier to remember, but still remain problematic unless you happen to be just the average person at the average age. However if you're just trying to get a quick measurement on the spot and you don't have a calculator on hand, 25 is ok.
In fact, I recently had a new appointment with a doctor I hadn't seen in the past, and I told him I was aiming for 161lbs, (BMI of 23.235) and he didn't understand why I was making the effort because he had just calculated my BMI at 25.8, which he said is perfectly healthy. (I explained to him my renal impairment immediately afterwards and he agreed that it would probably be a good idea.)
Most people use the World Health Organization metric of a BMI of 30 to define obesity, but it's kind of a load of crap because it assumes that everybody is the same age and gender, both of which have different ranges for what is probably healthy and what isn't. What's best is if you figure out what weight percentile you reside in for your age and gender. This calculator for example:
http://halls.md/body-mass-inde...
If you're at 45 then you're in good shape. If you're 50 or above, then you will probably benefit from weight loss, but not necessarily. Believe it or not you can be obese by every definition and still be perfectly healthy. I dropped a lot of weight myself (about 90 lbs) because I have kidney disease caused by an immune disorder (IgA nephropathy) and being at a light weight reduces the burden on my weakened kidneys, meaning they'll last longer. (Light weight includes not having a lot of muscle mass either, as more muscle means more creatinine, which is fine for healthy people but bad if your renal system is compromised.)
Also I think the #1 thing anybody can do for fat loss is to remove all sugar from their diet. Most sugars found in sodas, candy, pastries, etc, has high amounts of fructose (and no, HFCS isn't alone here, ordinary cane sugar and even fruit based sugars contain basically the same amount) which is well documented to give you a caloric load without triggering the release of leptin in your blood to signal fullness. It also raises your LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides (also bad.) Using that theory worked pretty well for me.
The rising rate of obesity *may* be because sugar has lowered in price over the last few decades, so now more people can afford more of it than in the past. It's one of those things that used to be a rich man's luxury, along with salt.
However, what do you now do with 10 million unemployed people?
I don't know yet. We still don't have anything close to fully automating any given need that people have, so there's still not a clear picture of how the future would look to be able to make that call. Though hypothetically, suppose you had a personal robot butler that could do anything and everything you ask, including make a copy of itself. See where I'm going with this? If you had nothing at all, I'm sure you could bum a friend's robot just long enough to have it make a copy of itself for you. The problem at that point would arise from raw materials though, in which case we'd need star trek style replicators.
Yes, I know, "basic income", except that as it goes further and further, you have to keep taxing those who actually earn money more and more to pay for it.
No I don't think a basic income would be a good idea. At least, not while there's an actual need for an income.
There's more to it than that. You don't need burger flippers in a society where people can do what they love. There are so many people who like to cook, you could probably find somebody to do it for you in exchange for something you're good at. Installing Linux perhaps.
I really doubt that. Personally, I know really how well to fix somebody's computer when there's something wrong with it, but hell no I'm not going to do it every time somebody asks. I know chefs who are the same way. This is exactly what's wrong with communism.
Oh and notice how on that graph that none of those real wage rates were anywhere close to $15 an hour, which is an absurdly high number. It's impossible to tell what will happen to California's economy once that happens, (because we've never seen anything like it) but I'm leaning towards "not good".
I will never understand why minimum wage is not tied to inflation rates - this is a ridiculous argument to have Every Five Years.
If minimum wage was tied to inflation since it first started, then today it would be at about $4.25 an hour.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
This is exactly the point that I think a lot of people miss about automation. There's a lot of menial jobs that suck, and a perfect example of such a job is flipping burgers. Wouldn't it be better if nobody had to do it at all, and you could spend your time doing better things? Yet it needs to get done somehow.
Also, it's a lofty goal and all to say that we should pay all of the burger flippers six figures, however, that's just not realistic because you're effectively asking somebody else to pay them a salary that you yourself wouldn't ever pay them, even if you had that kind of money to begin with. Another reason is because the people that can do that kind of job are a dime a dozen (and I almost want to use that expression literally, because it fits so well here.) The high paying jobs come from skills that are both in demand AND difficult to find, because the would be employers need to outbid other employers for your time.
But, imagine if all of the (menial) bare necessities in life were available to you if you just asked for it, and didn't have to give anything in return, (nor would you be expected to, as in communism) then as AC alluded to, what would you need an income for?
It's not an ironclad rule, but tends to be the way that the contracts are negotiated when it comes to streaming rights.
I don't care about Karma. However if the comment is going to be quickly buried to the point that users with the default settings won't see it, then why bother?
Did you back up your opinions with evidence?
Typically, yes. Again, going back to Bernie, I compare his views on taxation as being remarkably similar to Hollande's, which was a disaster (and yes, links provided in those cases, but not going to do so here because I don't want to debate that here.)
Nevermind the NSA, I think slashdot's moderation system probably does a better job at suppressing minority opinions. Or at least, I've had a lot of posts of mine modded flamebait or trolling for i.e. being critical of Bernie Sanders, even though there was no trolling or flaming going on. Likewise I've avoided painting what is IMO a realistic picture of what a Sanders administration would look like (the Francois Hollande government in France) because I know it will just get buried.