Carlsen will play as white in Wednesday’s first tiebreak stage after the drawing of lots following Monday’s game: a best-of-four rapid match with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move. (This is where the Norwegian was able to close the show after he was pushed to tie-breakers against Russia’s Sergey Karjakin two years ago in New York.)
If that is not enough to settle matters, they will play up to five mini-matches of two blitz games (five minutes for each player with a three-second increment). If all five mini-matches are drawn, it will come down to one sudden-death Armageddon match in which white receives five minutes, black receives four minutes and both will receive a three-second increment after the 60th move. If that game is drawn, black will be declared the winner.
Instead of speed chess, I would back a proposal I read once for more comprehensive scoring than just Win / Loss / Draw. Giving partial points for having more pieces than your opponent during a draw, being the one to force a stalemate, etc. With over 80% of World Championship Chess games ending in draws, either add a time element to all games or find a way to award a partial winner even in a draw.
buying is almost always better than renting. My TOTAL expenditures on mortgage/insurance/taxes for my condo is still 1000 less per month than the guy living next to me renting the same place. And I bought it in 2013. Yes, I might have moved. IN which case I"d have sold this place and made roughly 150 K.
While buying is often better than renting, that has more to do with forced savings than it actually being a good investment. Your own figures leave out a huge number of factors, such as how much your down payment was and the cost of repairs. A $150k down payment invested in the stock market instead should be expected to make $1000 per month in returns over the long run, and over a few decades you are probably spending a few hundred dollars per month more on repairs, updates, etc. that the renter isn't. And considering real estate on average only increases at the speed of inflation, it isn't a great long term investment compared to the stock market.
Your case could be different, as the "averages" don't hold up for everyone. But it still doesn't make your situation common.
I'm torn between feeling sorry for and laughing at the folks that voted for Trump because of his promises to keep factories open
As opposed to someone who didn't...how would you be torn about an obvious calculated risk, despite the outcome?
Listening to a populist con man is not a calculated risk. It is like playing the lottery... in a state with a long track record of never announcing a winner.
If you look up directions on a computer and send them to an email, for example, they don't put the directions in the email, they put a link in the email--this means that they are prioritizing tracking your use of the app over giving you directions
This is simply a lie. I had never even tried to save directions in an offline format in years (internet coverage has been very good for at least a decade), so I just tried to do it on both my Android and laptop. On the Android I instantly found the ability to share directions within the main menu, and if sent to email it prints the directions in text.(along with a link to real time directions). On my computer it allows me to "Send a link" (as you described), "Embed a map", and print the directions including the map and/or text directions. All were incredibly intuitive for me to find and it's been a decade since I have even tried to find these features.
Also, the google maps app is clunky on old phones. An S5 is not quite a five-year-old phone, but services like Google Maps have to work for your grandmother's phone, not just your engineer friend's phone.
This is a problem for nearly all mobile devices, as everything is generally developed with 3-4 year old phones being considered outdated. But I just grabbed my Note 4, which has no cell service but still is usable over wifi, and Google Maps was plenty responsive. That is only a 4 year old phone but that is still not a new phone. The S5 wasn't as powerful as the Note 4 when released, so I cannot comment on whether the Snapdragon 801 has aged as well as the 805, but I doubt Google Maps is unusable on an S5. Certain individual smart phones age better than others, and I used insurance in 2016 to get a new refurbished Note 4 so that could be why it has held up better than yours.
I'm also confused at how anyone can be confused when using Google for directions. I can understand a learning curve on the new features, but getting directions is very easy and has only gotten easier lately.
My guess is the article's author simply had a deadline to produce a story, and this was the best he could think of.
I missed the part of the story where Comcast was punished at all. Lengthy costly lawsuits and in the end they only have to give the money back with no punitive penalties? That's a real sweet deal there.
Two stock market crashes have robbed over 2/3rds of my balances in retirement over time.
You are either lying (most likely) or incredibly stupid. Even if you invested all your money in an S&P tracking index fund in March 2000 (just before the crash), you would have double your money today adjusted for inflation (triple your money not adjusted for inflation). The same is approximately true if you invested all of your money in September 2008.
The stock market has done quite well over the past 20 years, although arguably it may have shown you cannot expect returns seen in the decades preceding the turn of the century. As long as you don't do something stupid like panicking during a recession your retirement savings should have done just fine during either of the last two recessions.
On top of that, there are former iPad owners who now have phones large enough to fill the need I once filled with a tablet. I had an iPad when my smart phone screen was only 4", because it gave a much better media consumption experience than my phone. Now that my phone screen is 6"+, it's no longer worth it to lug a phone and tablet around. Based on just cost I wouldn't mind paying for both but it is simply much easier to carry around a smart phone.
I still have tablets for my kids, but only because they don't have phones yet. My guess is they won't get new tablets once I feel they are ready for phones.
Sorry, but if you "suffered" studying Spanish, which is among the easiest languages for a native English speaker to learn, you would have never hacked it studying German, let alone Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, or Hindi.
I think you are confusing the words "suffer" and "struggle".
I suffered through 3 hours of an opera once, but that doesn't mean it was difficult for me to sit there doing nothing.
Because of all the liberal idiots that just LOVE illegal immigration, pretty soon English won't even be the dominant language spoken in the United States.
So currently about 80% of households speak English as their dominant language at home, as opposed to 13% of those who speak Spanish as their dominant language at home. Other than ignorance, I'm not sure how you have come to the conclusion that English won't be the dominant language in the United States for the foreseeable future.
My Amazon Echos are the easiest way I know of to play a playlist or album, or check the weather in the morning. Before I would have needed to either always have my phone on me (not always true at home as it might be charging or I might not be wearing pants), or I need to go find my phone, open an app, and select a playlist.
They certainly aren't that useful, but they do a small number of jobs very well. I sure get a lot less long term use out of other things I have spent $100 on.
But ultimately no business can entirely prevent fraud
But they sure can be held to a much higher standard than Facebook currently is. I work at a financial institution and our fraud prevention techniques are certainly not foolproof. Although if we ever found out that one group attempted to receive distributions for 100 of our clients, while contacting us with the email address 'youreasucker@cantbelievethisworks.com', and we were willing to give them our clients money, we would and should be shut down.
I'm not saying Facebook should be held to the same standard as a hospital or bank, but it is bullshit to hide behind the argument that no one can prevent all fraud. It is a straw-man argument.
what is with the militant liberal bias on this site?
Reality only seems to have a liberal bias because of how off the rails conservatives have gotten over the past couple decades. I voted for Bush Jr. twice, but being a "conservative" in today's political climate is a sign of either severe indoctrination or a severe lack of critical reasoning skills. Or perhaps treating abortion or gun control as a voting litmus test, but I would consider those to being a single issue voter and not actually conservative (and in many cases another example of a lack of education).
We are gradually shifting towards applied science and mere technology. All of three fields, basic science, applied science and technology are essential for humanity, but the fact is that the first one is almost over or probably over already.
When you see a shift away from basic science and into applied science / technology, it generally just means our instrumentation is not sufficient for basic science to march forward at an equal pace. Once technology improves enough to enable new methods in basic science, the pendulum swings back.
We have so much left to learn that we are nowhere near hitting the limits of what science can discover.
How can you say, "Past your prime". I am 80 and doing hardware and software design. I am inspired and I enspire others.
Past your prime does not mean useless. Tom Brady is past his prime but still one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Humans peak physically earlier than we peak mentally, but both still happen. And it is long before we reach 80. Not all aspects of mental acuity peak; vocabulary for instance steadily climbs through age, while working memory peaks in our mid-30's.
I am pretty sure David Patterson is out there doing it. He is a professor in the field who has accomplished plenty. He is 70 now and is likely past his academic prime, so now he is doing what he should be doing at this time in his career: teaching, mentoring, and inspiring the next generation.
Well, everyone going back to subsistence farming is such an obvious response to improvements in technology, that I just don't see what else we can do.
Food production is one of the most efficient industries of our modern economy. The US has went from 90% of our population being farmers in 1800 to 2% today, and we export about 20% of what we produce. Subsistence farming is a hobby, not a practical way for citizens in the developed world to feed themselves. Some form of basic income which covers necessities such as food is far more realistic than a return to subsistence farming.
Who want their kid to grow up in the middle of a race war? (Yeah, I am Swedish) Maybe in fifteen years when the dust settles.
If you are Swedish you are on the winning side of any race wars I know of. Unless perhaps you are a Laplander, but considering you are worried about an Islamic takeover I doubt that is what you were referring to.
Well that is dumb... if everyone delayed having kids till they had better financial situation then we would have a near zero birthrate
Considering how expensive having kids is today, it's borderline insane to not delay having kids until your financial situation is in order. In my mid-20's I was making about a third of what I was making in my mid-30's when I had my first child. Not only that, but my wife and I were able to get youthful things like partying and traveling out of our system before settling down.
Accidents happen, but choosing to have kids in your 20's is a lifestyle choice I would never recommend.
Same but 42 and 40, plus weâ(TM)re millionaires a couple times over with all the money we saved not having kids, and our lives are a hell of a lot more fun than our friends with kids.
Fun is quite subjective. Your life is probably more fun to you than theirs would be. But fun isn't the same to everyone. I for instance don't like vacations, so I would never trade places with a childless couple constantly taking vacations around the world.
Fun is also a very shallow way to measure a life. I prefer to strive for meaningful and purposeful experiences, rather than simply pursuing happiness. Having kids is certainly not the only way to find purpose, building your own company or becoming a top performer in your chosen profession are other great ways to lead a meaningful life. Having kids is one of the easiest way for your life to have meaning, though, which is one reason it is so common. That and the fact sex is so much fun.
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Carlsen will play as white in Wednesday’s first tiebreak stage after the drawing of lots following Monday’s game: a best-of-four rapid match with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move. (This is where the Norwegian was able to close the show after he was pushed to tie-breakers against Russia’s Sergey Karjakin two years ago in New York.)
If that is not enough to settle matters, they will play up to five mini-matches of two blitz games (five minutes for each player with a three-second increment). If all five mini-matches are drawn, it will come down to one sudden-death Armageddon match in which white receives five minutes, black receives four minutes and both will receive a three-second increment after the 60th move. If that game is drawn, black will be declared the winner.
Instead of speed chess, I would back a proposal I read once for more comprehensive scoring than just Win / Loss / Draw. Giving partial points for having more pieces than your opponent during a draw, being the one to force a stalemate, etc. With over 80% of World Championship Chess games ending in draws, either add a time element to all games or find a way to award a partial winner even in a draw.
buying is almost always better than renting. My TOTAL expenditures on mortgage/insurance/taxes for my condo is still 1000 less per month than the guy living next to me renting the same place. And I bought it in 2013. Yes, I might have moved. IN which case I"d have sold this place and made roughly 150 K.
While buying is often better than renting, that has more to do with forced savings than it actually being a good investment. Your own figures leave out a huge number of factors, such as how much your down payment was and the cost of repairs. A $150k down payment invested in the stock market instead should be expected to make $1000 per month in returns over the long run, and over a few decades you are probably spending a few hundred dollars per month more on repairs, updates, etc. that the renter isn't. And considering real estate on average only increases at the speed of inflation, it isn't a great long term investment compared to the stock market.
Your case could be different, as the "averages" don't hold up for everyone. But it still doesn't make your situation common.
I'm torn between feeling sorry for and laughing at the folks that voted for Trump because of his promises to keep factories open
As opposed to someone who didn't...how would you be torn about an obvious calculated risk, despite the outcome?
Listening to a populist con man is not a calculated risk. It is like playing the lottery ... in a state with a long track record of never announcing a winner.
Dull and stable == bitcoin bad
I never saw that sentiment in the article or summary. They simply said it was dull and stable with no indication that is a bad thing.
If you look up directions on a computer and send them to an email, for example, they don't put the directions in the email, they put a link in the email--this means that they are prioritizing tracking your use of the app over giving you directions
This is simply a lie. I had never even tried to save directions in an offline format in years (internet coverage has been very good for at least a decade), so I just tried to do it on both my Android and laptop. On the Android I instantly found the ability to share directions within the main menu, and if sent to email it prints the directions in text.(along with a link to real time directions). On my computer it allows me to "Send a link" (as you described), "Embed a map", and print the directions including the map and/or text directions. All were incredibly intuitive for me to find and it's been a decade since I have even tried to find these features.
Also, the google maps app is clunky on old phones. An S5 is not quite a five-year-old phone, but services like Google Maps have to work for your grandmother's phone, not just your engineer friend's phone.
This is a problem for nearly all mobile devices, as everything is generally developed with 3-4 year old phones being considered outdated. But I just grabbed my Note 4, which has no cell service but still is usable over wifi, and Google Maps was plenty responsive. That is only a 4 year old phone but that is still not a new phone. The S5 wasn't as powerful as the Note 4 when released, so I cannot comment on whether the Snapdragon 801 has aged as well as the 805, but I doubt Google Maps is unusable on an S5. Certain individual smart phones age better than others, and I used insurance in 2016 to get a new refurbished Note 4 so that could be why it has held up better than yours.
I'm also confused at how anyone can be confused when using Google for directions. I can understand a learning curve on the new features, but getting directions is very easy and has only gotten easier lately.
My guess is the article's author simply had a deadline to produce a story, and this was the best he could think of.
I missed the part of the story where Comcast was punished at all. Lengthy costly lawsuits and in the end they only have to give the money back with no punitive penalties? That's a real sweet deal there.
Two stock market crashes have robbed over 2/3rds of my balances in retirement over time.
You are either lying (most likely) or incredibly stupid. Even if you invested all your money in an S&P tracking index fund in March 2000 (just before the crash), you would have double your money today adjusted for inflation (triple your money not adjusted for inflation). The same is approximately true if you invested all of your money in September 2008.
The stock market has done quite well over the past 20 years, although arguably it may have shown you cannot expect returns seen in the decades preceding the turn of the century. As long as you don't do something stupid like panicking during a recession your retirement savings should have done just fine during either of the last two recessions.
I'm sure everyone who wants one already owns one.
On top of that, there are former iPad owners who now have phones large enough to fill the need I once filled with a tablet. I had an iPad when my smart phone screen was only 4", because it gave a much better media consumption experience than my phone. Now that my phone screen is 6"+, it's no longer worth it to lug a phone and tablet around. Based on just cost I wouldn't mind paying for both but it is simply much easier to carry around a smart phone.
I still have tablets for my kids, but only because they don't have phones yet. My guess is they won't get new tablets once I feel they are ready for phones.
Sorry, but if you "suffered" studying Spanish, which is among the easiest languages for a native English speaker to learn, you would have never hacked it studying German, let alone Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, or Hindi.
I think you are confusing the words "suffer" and "struggle".
I suffered through 3 hours of an opera once, but that doesn't mean it was difficult for me to sit there doing nothing.
Because of all the liberal idiots that just LOVE illegal immigration, pretty soon English won't even be the dominant language spoken in the United States.
So currently about 80% of households speak English as their dominant language at home, as opposed to 13% of those who speak Spanish as their dominant language at home. Other than ignorance, I'm not sure how you have come to the conclusion that English won't be the dominant language in the United States for the foreseeable future.
From the Summary:
>English has become the undisputed lingua franca
I wonder if they know what that means... or if they were going for that on purpose.
I wonder if the author also confuses words like pizza and lasagna as being English words.
My Amazon Echos are the easiest way I know of to play a playlist or album, or check the weather in the morning. Before I would have needed to either always have my phone on me (not always true at home as it might be charging or I might not be wearing pants), or I need to go find my phone, open an app, and select a playlist.
They certainly aren't that useful, but they do a small number of jobs very well. I sure get a lot less long term use out of other things I have spent $100 on.
But ultimately no business can entirely prevent fraud
But they sure can be held to a much higher standard than Facebook currently is. I work at a financial institution and our fraud prevention techniques are certainly not foolproof. Although if we ever found out that one group attempted to receive distributions for 100 of our clients, while contacting us with the email address 'youreasucker@cantbelievethisworks.com', and we were willing to give them our clients money, we would and should be shut down.
I'm not saying Facebook should be held to the same standard as a hospital or bank, but it is bullshit to hide behind the argument that no one can prevent all fraud. It is a straw-man argument.
And in the meantime, take 50% to 75% of your rate, and provide you with really crappy benefits.
10% - 20% is far more common.
what is with the militant liberal bias on this site?
Reality only seems to have a liberal bias because of how off the rails conservatives have gotten over the past couple decades. I voted for Bush Jr. twice, but being a "conservative" in today's political climate is a sign of either severe indoctrination or a severe lack of critical reasoning skills. Or perhaps treating abortion or gun control as a voting litmus test, but I would consider those to being a single issue voter and not actually conservative (and in many cases another example of a lack of education).
We are gradually shifting towards applied science and mere technology. All of three fields, basic science, applied science and technology are essential for humanity, but the fact is that the first one is almost over or probably over already.
When you see a shift away from basic science and into applied science / technology, it generally just means our instrumentation is not sufficient for basic science to march forward at an equal pace. Once technology improves enough to enable new methods in basic science, the pendulum swings back.
We have so much left to learn that we are nowhere near hitting the limits of what science can discover.
How can you say, "Past your prime". I am 80 and doing hardware and software design. I am inspired and I enspire others.
Past your prime does not mean useless. Tom Brady is past his prime but still one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Humans peak physically earlier than we peak mentally, but both still happen. And it is long before we reach 80. Not all aspects of mental acuity peak; vocabulary for instance steadily climbs through age, while working memory peaks in our mid-30's.
I am pretty sure David Patterson is out there doing it. He is a professor in the field who has accomplished plenty. He is 70 now and is likely past his academic prime, so now he is doing what he should be doing at this time in his career: teaching, mentoring, and inspiring the next generation.
Well, everyone going back to subsistence farming is such an obvious response to improvements in technology, that I just don't see what else we can do.
Food production is one of the most efficient industries of our modern economy. The US has went from 90% of our population being farmers in 1800 to 2% today, and we export about 20% of what we produce. Subsistence farming is a hobby, not a practical way for citizens in the developed world to feed themselves. Some form of basic income which covers necessities such as food is far more realistic than a return to subsistence farming.
I only accept people that A) I actually know and B) am willing to suggest to others for a job.
I feel nearly the same, but add C) those who I think would recommend me for a job.
Who want their kid to grow up in the middle of a race war? (Yeah, I am Swedish) Maybe in fifteen years when the dust settles.
If you are Swedish you are on the winning side of any race wars I know of. Unless perhaps you are a Laplander, but considering you are worried about an Islamic takeover I doubt that is what you were referring to.
Well that is dumb ... if everyone delayed having kids till they had better financial situation then we would have a near zero birthrate
Considering how expensive having kids is today, it's borderline insane to not delay having kids until your financial situation is in order. In my mid-20's I was making about a third of what I was making in my mid-30's when I had my first child. Not only that, but my wife and I were able to get youthful things like partying and traveling out of our system before settling down.
Accidents happen, but choosing to have kids in your 20's is a lifestyle choice I would never recommend.
Same but 42 and 40, plus weâ(TM)re millionaires a couple times over with all the money we saved not having kids, and our lives are a hell of a lot more fun than our friends with kids.
Fun is quite subjective. Your life is probably more fun to you than theirs would be. But fun isn't the same to everyone. I for instance don't like vacations, so I would never trade places with a childless couple constantly taking vacations around the world.
Fun is also a very shallow way to measure a life. I prefer to strive for meaningful and purposeful experiences, rather than simply pursuing happiness. Having kids is certainly not the only way to find purpose, building your own company or becoming a top performer in your chosen profession are other great ways to lead a meaningful life. Having kids is one of the easiest way for your life to have meaning, though, which is one reason it is so common. That and the fact sex is so much fun.