For the past three or four years I've used freefilefillableforms.com,
This means you gave all your private financial information to a 3rd-party, who then transmitted a copy of it to the IRS.
They still have a copy, which can use, bundle, aggregate, and sell... that's why it's "free". It's also sitting on their servers, vulnerable to exposure by hackers.
You're getting marked as flame-bait, but I agree. Try reading (and typing in) code from a book with C (or practically any other language), and you'll have no problems. Try the same with a book with Python code that spans a page-break, and you'll have to break out a ruler to figure out the correct number of syntactic spaces.
It's a fine scripting language, but it's hard to take seriously with limitations like that.
The liver produces upwards of 1-2 g/day of cholesterol on its own, quite a bit more than the cholesterol in a few a couple eggs.
What's probably more interesting here is the oil used to cook these eggs. Things like canola oil and vegetable oil are high in Omega-6 and are inflammatory in the body.
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual culprit here was the fairly unnatural oils the eggs were cooked in.
They will probably not get any business from his family and friends in the future though.
As if Americans have much choice about where they get their medical coverage. Most get the insurance their employer provides and can't afford to go "outside of network" because it's ridiculously expensive to do so. With this one being KP, they can only go to a KP facility and they'll get the providers KP decides they'll get.
Often much more. This is why in the classes I teach, I specifically choose books published under licenses like the Creative Commons. And if those aren't available for what I need, I'll "recommend" old versions of text books as a resource (e.g. "if you need more practice exercises, see ch 5 of ___, which you can get at the library or for about $10 used). Nobody needs to buy a brand new $200 "Intro to Statistics for Business" book, especially since they'll probably never look at it again. I also tend to draw from published papers and even well-written blogs.
I can create and assign my own problems and exam questions, so there's no need for rip-offs like Cengage.
It's a little more work on my part, but much more satisfying and a lot better value for my students.
I can't remember the novel it came from, but there was a sci-fi book where there's a flashback about one of the main characters when he ran a marathon on the moon. It was a neat account of overcoming the challenges of running in a specialized suit that could handle the challenges of air processing, temperature, sharp regolith, etc. for running on the moon. I imagined it with various logos from current sporting goods companies. It puts a different twist on Nike's "Lunar Flyknit" shoes.
Did it use the machines that you rolled the paper around a tube, then the two ends had to synchronize spinning - then as one end had a head scan the source paper, the receiving end would use a pen to draw on the destination paper?
I remember using one of these in the Army a while back. I'm having no luck finding an example of one on google.
So why is it that conservatives are big supporters of Israel?
For many, it's a religious thing for bringing about the "end times" from the Bible's Revelations. For the end times to come, all the Jews have to go back to Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, before Jesus will come back for his second-coming.
It's not that these religious conservatives like Jews or Israel in themselves. Supporting Israel is a means to an end, and they're gleeful at the idea of Jews (and all the rest of the heathens) being cast into lakes of fire if they don't convert to Christianity.
There are real-world problems in supply chain and logistics that blockchain might be a good tool.
Can you point me to any good references or resources about using blockchain in supply chain? I try searching, but a majority of the results are either articles with a lot of hype or companies trying to sell their blockchain solution as the "solution to all your problems" without any particular details.
From the face detection in your phone, to the fuzzy logic controllers in washing machines, to the ant colony algorithms being used to route network traffic, to finding directions with google maps, to Netflix and Amazon's recommendation algorithms, to OCR for cheques and mail, to NEST thermostats, to robot vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers, to expert systems in medical diagnosis... (I could keep going)
When I took an AI class a few years ago, one of my favorite things the professor said was, "What we called 'AI' yesterday is simply the algorithm for how we do a thing today."
"Tariffs are a tax on imports. They're typically charged as a percentage of the transaction price that a buyer pays a foreign seller. Say an American retailer buys 100 garden umbrellas from China for $5 apiece, or $500. The U.S. tariff rate for the umbrellas is 6.5 percent for umbrellas. The retailer would have to pay a $32.50 tariff on the shipment, raising the total price from $500 to $532.50."
I thought I was going to old-school school people by mentioning QBasic's "type" structures, but you punked me with Cobol.
But then again, not even Python does this well if you need a structure with specific data types to match a binary stream you need to read/write reading/writing.
The independence and protection of its usersâ(TM) data is a core tenet of WhatsApp that Koum and his co-founder, Brian Acton, promised to preserve when they sold their tiny start-up to Facebook.
Really? Just try to print out or save a chat history more than a couple days old and you'll see just how much independence a user has with their data on Whatsapp.
We have a family group where family members have chatted, shared stories, pictures, etc. around one of the growing children in our family. Wouldn't it be great, I thought, to print all of that to a PDF (especially since some of those family members are no longer with us) so this little girl, when she's grown up, can see what her family were saying about her in their own voices.
It's almost impossible to do anything usable. They have an "email chat" but if you can only get the chats if you exclude media - but this won't include any text included in captions of pictures and videos. If you include media, it only goes a day or two back. Try Whatsapp Web and you can see the stuff there, but you have to keep scrolling back to the beginning, page by page, clicking on every picture to download it as you go... only to find you can't print that part of the window.
I've resorted to spending a couple hours clicking on every picture, then slowing scrolling through with a video screen-capture with the hope that some future AI will be able to pull it back apart and make a single printable document of it.
> Universities and colleges in the US don't provide textbooks out of tuition costs. Pushing it down a level or two makes just as much sense as not doing so.
I worked at a rural school district for a while and part of my job was doing analysis of student performance compared to various out-of-school factors. I was stunned and humbled to find out how many of the kids literally had no permanent home. They'd move throughout the school district several times a year because their families were couch-surfing from house to house. And these weren't high-school kids (almost adults)... these were kids younger than 10. Their only regular meals came from the school.
With kids in this kind of situation, there's no way their parents are buying books when they can't even feed them and put a roof over their heads.
This situation reminds me of Digg. If you don't recognize that name it's there was a mass migration (many to Reddit) off the platform after they made very unpopular changes back in 2010.
If your money comes from having a network of "users" who you can sell ads for and sell information about, then you probably want to work to grow that network, not diminish it. This is especially the case when there are competitors who can easily snap up your alienated users.
> I'd quite like to keep that for sentimental reasons.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Some family members have set up a WhatsApp group for sharing pictures and stories about a toddler in our family. I've been wanting to capture all of this to share with her when she's older - especially things from her grandmother who's in ill health.
I'm on Android, using Linux on my home computers. One thing you can do from the WhatsApp app is "Email Chat". If you don't attach media, you can send at least up to 9 months of the texts of the messages to an email address. This won't include media, nor text that's a caption for the media.
Another option is to set up WhatsApp Web. This works okay if your phone is on your home wifi - the phone essentially becomes a web server and you can interact with WhatsApp on your computer. You can NOT print the messages, unfortunately (arg!). But I've found you can save the html and all the contents seem to be in there - except for the media itself. That may still be on the phone in the WhatsApp folder - however the names of media dn't match what's in the folder on the phone. I also found that I was able to use a media downloading app to capture and download all the pictures. It's not ideal, but at least the filenames seem to match what's in the html - and with some tweaking/scripting, it might be possible to get the html to refer to the downloaded pictures instead of "blob" images that are served by the phone.
Another thing I did was set up a screen capture tool to capture a video of me scrolling through the WhatsApp Web so that everything is in that and maybe some future technology can break it all back apart into something usable.
It's been a while since I ran a Windows natively (I now do Linux with Windows in a Virtual Machine), but way back then, I used to use a "clone" tool to make a perfect copy of the hard drive.
Get a big external drive and use a tool like Clonezilla, or Partition Magic (if that's still around) and clone the hard drive once to that external drive before you ever use it. (This lets you reset the machine to "new").
Then get the machine set up "just so", installing all the software, security stuff, settings you like, and then make a clone of that. Then when the machine gets all crufted up, restore from your cloned image, do updates, install new security software, etc., and clone that again. Rinse and repeat.
Installing Windows from scratch and getting all your stuff set up the way you want to takes hours and hours. Just do it once, clone that, and then you have a nice starting point for the next time.
The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is a rounding error compared to water vapor and should have a negligible effect unless it somehow behaves differently than water vapor. I honestly would like to know is C02 that much more potent than water vapor or does it somehow behave differently?
Yes, different gasses have different levels of greenhouse effects. This EPA site shows the relative effect of some of them but doesn't mention water vapor. They call it GHP, or Global Warming Potential. CO2 is the baseline by definition at 1. I think water vapor is excluded because its effects are transient as the amount of water vapor itself fluctuates a lot. It looks like some consider the changes in water vapor a side effect of the other GHGs and that it functions more as a mechanism of warming rather than a cause (that is, change in other GHGs drive changes in water vapor as part of the warming mechanism).
The probem with that is that they are most likely doing some kind of reinforcement learning. That requires not just an input, but also an ability to respond to the input, and then be scored on the response.
A game that simulates driving like this might be an excellent way to get a baseline level of training for the AI, since it can experience many more combinations of situations in simulation than it can in real life driving.
I really hate the for-profit servicers as well. "Obtuse" is a polite term for them. I really miss when my loan was serviced directly by the Department of Education.
To deal with this kind of issue (I had this with Verizon), I encode my payment amount so I can know what's paid and when. For example, let's say the actual amount due is $253.12. I'll put the month as the last dollars and the cents for the day. So making that payment on June 4th, I'd actually pay $256.04. A payment on July 3rd would be $257.03. So even if they don't post it to my account for 2 months, I know which payment it was.
Next, use your bank/credit-union's bill pay to send payments so you have an audit-trail. NEVER let them draft from your account - it's just not worth the.25% rate break.
Lastly, if they're servicing federal loans and still jerking you around, write to your senators and congresspeople. They have staff who are good at helping un-f*ck bureaucratic organizations.
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For the past three or four years I've used freefilefillableforms.com,
This means you gave all your private financial information to a 3rd-party, who then transmitted a copy of it to the IRS.
They still have a copy, which can use, bundle, aggregate, and sell... that's why it's "free". It's also sitting on their servers, vulnerable to exposure by hackers.
You're getting marked as flame-bait, but I agree. Try reading (and typing in) code from a book with C (or practically any other language), and you'll have no problems. Try the same with a book with Python code that spans a page-break, and you'll have to break out a ruler to figure out the correct number of syntactic spaces.
It's a fine scripting language, but it's hard to take seriously with limitations like that.
The liver produces upwards of 1-2 g/day of cholesterol on its own, quite a bit more than the cholesterol in a few a couple eggs.
What's probably more interesting here is the oil used to cook these eggs. Things like canola oil and vegetable oil are high in Omega-6 and are inflammatory in the body.
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual culprit here was the fairly unnatural oils the eggs were cooked in.
They will probably not get any business from his family and friends in the future though.
As if Americans have much choice about where they get their medical coverage. Most get the insurance their employer provides and can't afford to go "outside of network" because it's ridiculously expensive to do so. With this one being KP, they can only go to a KP facility and they'll get the providers KP decides they'll get.
All bollocks. Small 20 inch wheels are only used on BMX bicycles, and children's bikes, not on adult-sized MTBs.
They're also pretty popular on folding bikes, which often have 16 or 20 inch wheels.
Text books can cost $100+
Often much more. This is why in the classes I teach, I specifically choose books published under licenses like the Creative Commons. And if those aren't available for what I need, I'll "recommend" old versions of text books as a resource (e.g. "if you need more practice exercises, see ch 5 of ___, which you can get at the library or for about $10 used). Nobody needs to buy a brand new $200 "Intro to Statistics for Business" book, especially since they'll probably never look at it again. I also tend to draw from published papers and even well-written blogs.
I can create and assign my own problems and exam questions, so there's no need for rip-offs like Cengage.
It's a little more work on my part, but much more satisfying and a lot better value for my students.
Fix Firefox so that it does useful things again and tons of people would be glad to switch back.
I can't remember the novel it came from, but there was a sci-fi book where there's a flashback about one of the main characters when he ran a marathon on the moon. It was a neat account of overcoming the challenges of running in a specialized suit that could handle the challenges of air processing, temperature, sharp regolith, etc. for running on the moon. I imagined it with various logos from current sporting goods companies. It puts a different twist on Nike's "Lunar Flyknit" shoes.
I think it might have been a Heinlein book.
Did it use the machines that you rolled the paper around a tube, then the two ends had to synchronize spinning - then as one end had a head scan the source paper, the receiving end would use a pen to draw on the destination paper?
I remember using one of these in the Army a while back. I'm having no luck finding an example of one on google.
So why is it that conservatives are big supporters of Israel?
For many, it's a religious thing for bringing about the "end times" from the Bible's Revelations. For the end times to come, all the Jews have to go back to Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, before Jesus will come back for his second-coming.
It's not that these religious conservatives like Jews or Israel in themselves. Supporting Israel is a means to an end, and they're gleeful at the idea of Jews (and all the rest of the heathens) being cast into lakes of fire if they don't convert to Christianity.
For the rest, it's a geo-political power play.
There are real-world problems in supply chain and logistics that blockchain might be a good tool.
Can you point me to any good references or resources about using blockchain in supply chain? I try searching, but a majority of the results are either articles with a lot of hype or companies trying to sell their blockchain solution as the "solution to all your problems" without any particular details.
From the face detection in your phone, to the fuzzy logic controllers in washing machines, to the ant colony algorithms being used to route network traffic, to finding directions with google maps, to Netflix and Amazon's recommendation algorithms, to OCR for cheques and mail, to NEST thermostats, to robot vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers, to expert systems in medical diagnosis... (I could keep going)
When I took an AI class a few years ago, one of my favorite things the professor said was, "What we called 'AI' yesterday is simply the algorithm for how we do a thing today."
i guess the importer pays them?
I believe import tariffs are paid by the party doing the importing. In the US, that extra payment goes directly to the federal government.
From: http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
"Tariffs are a tax on imports. They're typically charged as a percentage of the transaction price that a buyer pays a foreign seller. Say an American retailer buys 100 garden umbrellas from China for $5 apiece, or $500. The U.S. tariff rate for the umbrellas is 6.5 percent for umbrellas. The retailer would have to pay a $32.50 tariff on the shipment, raising the total price from $500 to $532.50."
What is this horrible fascination with light grey text on white backgrounds?
Cobol anyone?
I thought I was going to old-school school people by mentioning QBasic's "type" structures, but you punked me with Cobol.
But then again, not even Python does this well if you need a structure with specific data types to match a binary stream you need to read/write reading/writing.
Really? Just try to print out or save a chat history more than a couple days old and you'll see just how much independence a user has with their data on Whatsapp.
We have a family group where family members have chatted, shared stories, pictures, etc. around one of the growing children in our family. Wouldn't it be great, I thought, to print all of that to a PDF (especially since some of those family members are no longer with us) so this little girl, when she's grown up, can see what her family were saying about her in their own voices.
It's almost impossible to do anything usable. They have an "email chat" but if you can only get the chats if you exclude media - but this won't include any text included in captions of pictures and videos. If you include media, it only goes a day or two back. Try Whatsapp Web and you can see the stuff there, but you have to keep scrolling back to the beginning, page by page, clicking on every picture to download it as you go... only to find you can't print that part of the window.
I've resorted to spending a couple hours clicking on every picture, then slowing scrolling through with a video screen-capture with the hope that some future AI will be able to pull it back apart and make a single printable document of it.
I'm desperately looking for an alternative.
> Universities and colleges in the US don't provide textbooks out of tuition costs. Pushing it down a level or two makes just as much sense as not doing so.
I worked at a rural school district for a while and part of my job was doing analysis of student performance compared to various out-of-school factors. I was stunned and humbled to find out how many of the kids literally had no permanent home. They'd move throughout the school district several times a year because their families were couch-surfing from house to house. And these weren't high-school kids (almost adults)... these were kids younger than 10. Their only regular meals came from the school.
With kids in this kind of situation, there's no way their parents are buying books when they can't even feed them and put a roof over their heads.
This situation reminds me of Digg. If you don't recognize that name it's there was a mass migration (many to Reddit) off the platform after they made very unpopular changes back in 2010.
If your money comes from having a network of "users" who you can sell ads for and sell information about, then you probably want to work to grow that network, not diminish it. This is especially the case when there are competitors who can easily snap up your alienated users.
> I'd quite like to keep that for sentimental reasons.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Some family members have set up a WhatsApp group for sharing pictures and stories about a toddler in our family. I've been wanting to capture all of this to share with her when she's older - especially things from her grandmother who's in ill health.
I'm on Android, using Linux on my home computers. One thing you can do from the WhatsApp app is "Email Chat". If you don't attach media, you can send at least up to 9 months of the texts of the messages to an email address. This won't include media, nor text that's a caption for the media.
Another option is to set up WhatsApp Web. This works okay if your phone is on your home wifi - the phone essentially becomes a web server and you can interact with WhatsApp on your computer. You can NOT print the messages, unfortunately (arg!). But I've found you can save the html and all the contents seem to be in there - except for the media itself. That may still be on the phone in the WhatsApp folder - however the names of media dn't match what's in the folder on the phone. I also found that I was able to use a media downloading app to capture and download all the pictures. It's not ideal, but at least the filenames seem to match what's in the html - and with some tweaking/scripting, it might be possible to get the html to refer to the downloaded pictures instead of "blob" images that are served by the phone.
Another thing I did was set up a screen capture tool to capture a video of me scrolling through the WhatsApp Web so that everything is in that and maybe some future technology can break it all back apart into something usable.
Call me when they restore the ability to export and import saved passwords.
It's been a while since I ran a Windows natively (I now do Linux with Windows in a Virtual Machine), but way back then, I used to use a "clone" tool to make a perfect copy of the hard drive.
Get a big external drive and use a tool like Clonezilla, or Partition Magic (if that's still around) and clone the hard drive once to that external drive before you ever use it. (This lets you reset the machine to "new").
Then get the machine set up "just so", installing all the software, security stuff, settings you like, and then make a clone of that. Then when the machine gets all crufted up, restore from your cloned image, do updates, install new security software, etc., and clone that again. Rinse and repeat.
Installing Windows from scratch and getting all your stuff set up the way you want to takes hours and hours. Just do it once, clone that, and then you have a nice starting point for the next time.
Is there a manufacturer who does this list of things? I would really like the phone you just described.
The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is a rounding error compared to water vapor and should have a negligible effect unless it somehow behaves differently than water vapor. I honestly would like to know is C02 that much more potent than water vapor or does it somehow behave differently?
Yes, different gasses have different levels of greenhouse effects. This EPA site shows the relative effect of some of them but doesn't mention water vapor. They call it GHP, or Global Warming Potential. CO2 is the baseline by definition at 1. I think water vapor is excluded because its effects are transient as the amount of water vapor itself fluctuates a lot. It looks like some consider the changes in water vapor a side effect of the other GHGs and that it functions more as a mechanism of warming rather than a cause (that is, change in other GHGs drive changes in water vapor as part of the warming mechanism).
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissio...
That at least gives you a place to start.
The probem with that is that they are most likely doing some kind of reinforcement learning. That requires not just an input, but also an ability to respond to the input, and then be scored on the response.
A game that simulates driving like this might be an excellent way to get a baseline level of training for the AI, since it can experience many more combinations of situations in simulation than it can in real life driving.
I really hate the for-profit servicers as well. "Obtuse" is a polite term for them. I really miss when my loan was serviced directly by the Department of Education.
To deal with this kind of issue (I had this with Verizon), I encode my payment amount so I can know what's paid and when. For example, let's say the actual amount due is $253.12. I'll put the month as the last dollars and the cents for the day. So making that payment on June 4th, I'd actually pay $256.04. A payment on July 3rd would be $257.03. So even if they don't post it to my account for 2 months, I know which payment it was.
Next, use your bank/credit-union's bill pay to send payments so you have an audit-trail. NEVER let them draft from your account - it's just not worth the .25% rate break.
Lastly, if they're servicing federal loans and still jerking you around, write to your senators and congresspeople. They have staff who are good at helping un-f*ck bureaucratic organizations.