There are a decent number of jobs in Pittsburgh. Aside from Duolingo, there is a NetApp office, a Google office, a (new) Microsoft development office, Uber's self-driving car lab, Argo's (Ford's) self-driving lab, Aurora's (yet another self-driving car company), CERT, the Software Engineering Institute, the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, many jobs at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, an Apple machine learning office, and a small Amazon development office. There are a bunch of startups, as well.
That's off the top of my head. Don't get me wrong, even the relatively large offices are less than 1000 employees each; we're not talking about something like Amazon or Microsoft's *home* office, with 10s of thousands of employees. But there are a decent number of interesting jobs in Pittsburgh, and the place has more character than a random Silicon Valley town. And housing is definitely affordable; you can get a 4 BR house in the city for about $400-500K, and probably a bit less in a suburb with a good school system.
They sacrificed the rats at 105 weeks in the table I was looking at, when looking for tumors.
But the majority of the examples I saw showed fewer rats with tumors at 6W of exposure than at 0W. The numbers were all pretty small, and the total number of male rats (the one study I looked at) was something like ~100.
In virtually no tumor example did the # of tumors go up with the radiation exposure.
If you want to end exploitation of H1B visa holders, it seems like the easiest step would be to let visa holders change employers without restarting the H1B process. This would reduce the exploitation factor, since employees could walk away from bad jobs. It wouldn't require guessing what a reasonable salary bound would be, but would let the market decide that, instead.
Trump's immigration ban is even worse than GoDaddy's CEO points out. Right now, people from 7 countries are seeing the US back out of its promise that they could come here and finish their degrees, or work here. These people invested years of their lives on their education and/or careers, only to fall afoul of an illogical whim of the current Pr*sident.
If this type of crap continues, international students from all over the world will stop trusting that they can make a good life here. We'll stop getting the sharpest people immigrating, and those people will go elsewhere, and establish companies elsewhere.
* -- popular vote loser
Actually, my bad, I didn't realize that a Thunderbolt 3 port can operate as a USB C port, so a USB A to USB C adapter is all you need to insert a USB drive.
However, on a dual Thunderbolt system, can you get power *and* a USB port on the same Thunderbolt port?
I've been looking to replace my 15" late 2011 MacBook Pro. The specs I'm looking for are 16 GB of memory and a 512 GB SSD drive.
I can't really see why I'd prefer the newer ones. It's not that they're just poor in comparison to the older systems, they're much worse. No USB ports, no MagSafe cord, the price is $400 more, and while I'd rather have a 4 lb computer instead of a 4.5 lb computer, I just don't care enough to abandon USB ports and the MagSafe adapter. There isn't even a good dongle for attaching a couple of USB 3 drives to the machine, which is bona fide insane.
It seems like my decision is made. What I *don't* understand is why Apple came up with these deliberately crippled machines. They're close to unusable.
There's no comparison between this behavior and what MSFT did with Window 10. The system preferences for the App Store lets you specify whether you want automatic downloading done, automatic installation of downloaded apps, and/or automatic installation of OS/X updates (and I'm not even sure a new version of OS/X counts as an OS/X update). And by default, IIRC, it doesn't install anything. Apple leaves you in full control of when or whether the update occurs.
Windows, on the other hand, did its very best to nag you to death to install Windows 10, including ignoring your attempts to say "no."
I thought the postpaid $50 plan is 2 GB + 480p video and free music.
I'm on the family plan, which now is 4 phones at 6 GB of data and roll over (and all the usual 480p video, international roaming, etc), for $120. Except when we signed up, we got 10GB/month/phone. But only one of us ever makes it to 6 GB.
The nice thing about Simple Choice is that you get to tether the data, which is great when traveling. That's why the new Tmobile 1 plans look so poor: you pay more, and get more data than you need, and lose tethering at any decent speed.
In today's SimpleChoice plans, you can use any of your bandwidth for tethered access. But in the new Tmobile One plans, tethering is capped at 2G speeds, i.e. 128KB/s, which is just too slow.
That's a show-stopper for me on with this plan. It's a pity, really, because otherwise the plan looks pretty good.
AFAICT, the only tethering that comes with this plan limits you to edge speeds, which are pretty close to useless, since you can't watch *any* video at that speed.
It is almost too slow to use for any real web browsing.
Actually, I'm not moving from my current plan. Right now, I have 3 phones with 10GB/month (with rollover, too), and one at 20GB/month, all for $130/month+taxes. Each phone can tether its full amount, and we use this a *lot*. Meanwhile, 10GB/month is essentially infinite; no one's come close to using it during any month, except for one kid, who has the 20GB/month plan.
With the new plan, we'd pay $160/month, and lose *all* tethering!! A terrible proposition.
Really, I'm very disappointed; this is the first t-mobile "new product" release that's clearly inferior to the plans they'd like to replace. And the lack of tethering is hidden in the fine print, too.
I'm using a relatively old late 2011 Macbook Pro. I'd probably update to a lighter machine with good specs (USB 3 especially, and a retina display), if one were available. But I'm *not* going to buy that joke of a Macbook, with the yucky keyboard and the single USB C port, and a 12" screen.
I'm amazed Apple is leaving this much money on the table. Do they not have any business sense?
In any event, they should be putting denser memory in their current lineup. 8 GB is really a minimum for today's OS/X versions.
This is basic stuff. Have they caught the Republican party's disease, and lost the ability to execute their basic functions?
Exactly -- the article is nonsense. If the plane leaves Russian airspace, that's a pretty clear warning that they want to attack. It's pretty much the same thing as seeing an ICBM launch. And submarine-based missiles are already able to hit by surprise any city in much less than two hours.
Exactly right. The last car we replaced was 13 years old, and the previous one was a 9 year old Civic hybrid whose (big) battery died. The annual maintenance costs beyond what a new car would require was probably less than $300 per year at the worst. Of course, these were Hondas; no idea what a GM car's maintenance would be after 10 years:-)
A classic example of how to lie with statistics, by using medians for income stats, and averages for car price stats. A new Honda Accord is something along the lines of $23,000. The car is spacious, reliable, and about $11,000 below the "average" price discussed in this article. If buying a new Accord is slumming it, well, tant pis.
Also, just because someone finances a car, especially in these low interest rate times, doesn't mean they couldn't afford it. It usually makes sense to keep a certain amount of your assets liquid, and if someone offers you free liquid money, you take it.
The Milkyway's diameter is 100,000 light years, so even if we were in the center, we'd need at least about 35,000 years for our signal to reach 50% of the volume of the galaxy. If the reply took 17,000 years to get back (probably doesn't originate at the most distant part), then you're talking about 52,000 years. Minus the 50 or so during which "I Love Lucy" has already been traveling.
Radio is exactly comparable to other free tier (i.e. ad-supported) services. We're talking Pandora, Spotify, and most Internet radio stations, all of which are ad supported and pay royalties. Youtube may have a lot of pirated content (I really don't know how much is being put there by artists, and how much by pirates), but the others pay royalties.
So, I think Trent is just shilling for his new employer, Apple, which has no free tier for its lame Apple Music service.
My wife's new HP laptop runs Windows 10, and the printer drivers for our C6100 HP driver are terrible -- they need to be reinstalled at least once per week. On top of that, when plugged into a dock, we've been unable to get Windows 10 to utilize the laptop's screen and the external monitor at the same time (both work, and can be used one at a time, but Windows 10 doesn't seem to understand how to use them at the same time.
Also, the external USB keyboard needs to be unplugged and plugged back in frequently.
These problems weren't present on Windows 7, which ran on similar hardware (same display, same keyboard, different laptop and dock).
Basically, I'm pretty amazed that Windows 10 actually shipped in this state. But I walked away from MSFT's stuff in 2010, when I asked a friend who worked for MSFT what they did about the frequent virus infections that hit Windows (XP at the time, I think), and he replied that they just "reimaged" their systems every week.
TL;DR -- the study's control rats died young, and comparing the tumor incidences with NTP control rat tumor incidences averaged over more studies indicates that the tumor rate in the exposed rats is very close to the average control rate incidence. The brain results, at least, may be explained simply by the high mortality rate of the control rats in this study. Perhaps the study should be entitled 'Cell phone use kills other rats in same study'
This is another study with p less than 0.05 as the criterion for significance, which means that 1/20 such studies should get these results by chance. I'm curious how many parallel studies are running.
The study has a sample size of 90 rats in each of control, 1.5 W/kg, 3 W/kg and 6 W/kg groups. Looking at the brain tumor results, 0 tumors were reported in the control rats, but the average number of brain tumors in control rats in NTP studies is reported as about 2%, which is about 2 in a group of 90. The # of brain tumors in the male rats varied by exposure level between 0 and 3, i.e. not that far off from the average number of tumors in all control groups in rats in NTP studies. Oddly, the GSM numbers are twice as high as the CDMA numbers. The CDMA numbers are actually half as large as normal control group brain tumor incidence.
So, these results seem primarily due to a particularly low incidence of tumors in the control group. The study mentions that the survival rate of the control group was 28%, compared to an average of 47% in all NTP studies. If the tumors develop uniformly in life, or relatively late in life, the study's inability to keep the control rats alive may have been responsible for their relatively low rates of tumors.
It would be interesting to see if each of these groups of rats were kept in the same labs. Lots of that type of information is missing from the linked article.
It sounds like Verizon figures people just compare the base rates, and is taking a page from the airlines and is trying to get revenue from anything you do.
Does anyone believe that the FBI has programmers who could even *build* iOS with the source code, but no active assistance from Apple? Much less then get their patched OS right enough to actually not destroy the contents of the iPhone in question.
Apple should definitely take them up on this offer: no assistance but enjoy the source code.
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There are a decent number of jobs in Pittsburgh. Aside from Duolingo, there is a NetApp office, a Google office, a (new) Microsoft development office, Uber's self-driving car lab, Argo's (Ford's) self-driving lab, Aurora's (yet another self-driving car company), CERT, the Software Engineering Institute, the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, many jobs at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, an Apple machine learning office, and a small Amazon development office. There are a bunch of startups, as well.
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That's off the top of my head. Don't get me wrong, even the relatively large offices are less than 1000 employees each; we're not talking about something like Amazon or Microsoft's *home* office, with 10s of thousands of employees. But there are a decent number of interesting jobs in Pittsburgh, and the place has more character than a random Silicon Valley town. And housing is definitely affordable; you can get a 4 BR house in the city for about $400-500K, and probably a bit less in a suburb with a good school system.
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But the majority of the examples I saw showed fewer rats with tumors at 6W of exposure than at 0W. The numbers were all pretty small, and the total number of male rats (the one study I looked at) was something like ~100.
In virtually no tumor example did the # of tumors go up with the radiation exposure.
This was the plot of an episode of the short-lived TV show "Journeyman". Just sayin'
If you want to end exploitation of H1B visa holders, it seems like the easiest step would be to let visa holders change employers without restarting the H1B process. This would reduce the exploitation factor, since employees could walk away from bad jobs. It wouldn't require guessing what a reasonable salary bound would be, but would let the market decide that, instead.
Trump's immigration ban is even worse than GoDaddy's CEO points out. Right now, people from 7 countries are seeing the US back out of its promise that they could come here and finish their degrees, or work here. These people invested years of their lives on their education and/or careers, only to fall afoul of an illogical whim of the current Pr*sident. If this type of crap continues, international students from all over the world will stop trusting that they can make a good life here. We'll stop getting the sharpest people immigrating, and those people will go elsewhere, and establish companies elsewhere. * -- popular vote loser
Actually, my bad, I didn't realize that a Thunderbolt 3 port can operate as a USB C port, so a USB A to USB C adapter is all you need to insert a USB drive. However, on a dual Thunderbolt system, can you get power *and* a USB port on the same Thunderbolt port?
Even worse, Apple doesn't even have a good way to attach a couple of USB 3 drives to a Thunderbolt port. What's *wrong* with these people?
I can't really see why I'd prefer the newer ones. It's not that they're just poor in comparison to the older systems, they're much worse. No USB ports, no MagSafe cord, the price is $400 more, and while I'd rather have a 4 lb computer instead of a 4.5 lb computer, I just don't care enough to abandon USB ports and the MagSafe adapter. There isn't even a good dongle for attaching a couple of USB 3 drives to the machine, which is bona fide insane.
It seems like my decision is made. What I *don't* understand is why Apple came up with these deliberately crippled machines. They're close to unusable.
There's no comparison between this behavior and what MSFT did with Window 10. The system preferences for the App Store lets you specify whether you want automatic downloading done, automatic installation of downloaded apps, and/or automatic installation of OS/X updates (and I'm not even sure a new version of OS/X counts as an OS/X update). And by default, IIRC, it doesn't install anything. Apple leaves you in full control of when or whether the update occurs. Windows, on the other hand, did its very best to nag you to death to install Windows 10, including ignoring your attempts to say "no."
I thought the postpaid $50 plan is 2 GB + 480p video and free music. I'm on the family plan, which now is 4 phones at 6 GB of data and roll over (and all the usual 480p video, international roaming, etc), for $120. Except when we signed up, we got 10GB/month/phone. But only one of us ever makes it to 6 GB. The nice thing about Simple Choice is that you get to tether the data, which is great when traveling. That's why the new Tmobile 1 plans look so poor: you pay more, and get more data than you need, and lose tethering at any decent speed.
That's a show-stopper for me on with this plan. It's a pity, really, because otherwise the plan looks pretty good.
It is almost too slow to use for any real web browsing.
With the new plan, we'd pay $160/month, and lose *all* tethering!! A terrible proposition.
Really, I'm very disappointed; this is the first t-mobile "new product" release that's clearly inferior to the plans they'd like to replace. And the lack of tethering is hidden in the fine print, too.
I'm using a relatively old late 2011 Macbook Pro. I'd probably update to a lighter machine with good specs (USB 3 especially, and a retina display), if one were available. But I'm *not* going to buy that joke of a Macbook, with the yucky keyboard and the single USB C port, and a 12" screen. I'm amazed Apple is leaving this much money on the table. Do they not have any business sense? In any event, they should be putting denser memory in their current lineup. 8 GB is really a minimum for today's OS/X versions. This is basic stuff. Have they caught the Republican party's disease, and lost the ability to execute their basic functions?
Exactly -- the article is nonsense. If the plane leaves Russian airspace, that's a pretty clear warning that they want to attack. It's pretty much the same thing as seeing an ICBM launch. And submarine-based missiles are already able to hit by surprise any city in much less than two hours.
Exactly right. The last car we replaced was 13 years old, and the previous one was a 9 year old Civic hybrid whose (big) battery died. The annual maintenance costs beyond what a new car would require was probably less than $300 per year at the worst. Of course, these were Hondas; no idea what a GM car's maintenance would be after 10 years :-)
Also, just because someone finances a car, especially in these low interest rate times, doesn't mean they couldn't afford it. It usually makes sense to keep a certain amount of your assets liquid, and if someone offers you free liquid money, you take it.
Even if you're in geostationary orbit, the SNR ratio for most of our TV shows is pretty close to zero. At least with the right definition of "noise."
The Milkyway's diameter is 100,000 light years, so even if we were in the center, we'd need at least about 35,000 years for our signal to reach 50% of the volume of the galaxy. If the reply took 17,000 years to get back (probably doesn't originate at the most distant part), then you're talking about 52,000 years. Minus the 50 or so during which "I Love Lucy" has already been traveling.
So, I think Trent is just shilling for his new employer, Apple, which has no free tier for its lame Apple Music service.
Also, the external USB keyboard needs to be unplugged and plugged back in frequently.
These problems weren't present on Windows 7, which ran on similar hardware (same display, same keyboard, different laptop and dock).
Basically, I'm pretty amazed that Windows 10 actually shipped in this state. But I walked away from MSFT's stuff in 2010, when I asked a friend who worked for MSFT what they did about the frequent virus infections that hit Windows (XP at the time, I think), and he replied that they just "reimaged" their systems every week.
This is another study with p less than 0.05 as the criterion for significance, which means that 1/20 such studies should get these results by chance. I'm curious how many parallel studies are running.
The study has a sample size of 90 rats in each of control, 1.5 W/kg, 3 W/kg and 6 W/kg groups. Looking at the brain tumor results, 0 tumors were reported in the control rats, but the average number of brain tumors in control rats in NTP studies is reported as about 2%, which is about 2 in a group of 90. The # of brain tumors in the male rats varied by exposure level between 0 and 3, i.e. not that far off from the average number of tumors in all control groups in rats in NTP studies. Oddly, the GSM numbers are twice as high as the CDMA numbers. The CDMA numbers are actually half as large as normal control group brain tumor incidence.
So, these results seem primarily due to a particularly low incidence of tumors in the control group. The study mentions that the survival rate of the control group was 28%, compared to an average of 47% in all NTP studies. If the tumors develop uniformly in life, or relatively late in life, the study's inability to keep the control rats alive may have been responsible for their relatively low rates of tumors.
It would be interesting to see if each of these groups of rats were kept in the same labs. Lots of that type of information is missing from the linked article.
It sounds like Verizon figures people just compare the base rates, and is taking a page from the airlines and is trying to get revenue from anything you do.
Does anyone believe that the FBI has programmers who could even *build* iOS with the source code, but no active assistance from Apple? Much less then get their patched OS right enough to actually not destroy the contents of the iPhone in question. Apple should definitely take them up on this offer: no assistance but enjoy the source code.
They're worried children will turn gay because they like rainbows? I'm in awe.