I am not sure if I took your analogy the right way but here is something they once did with rats. They had a bounty where if you brought them rats they would pay you money for cleaning up the streets. The problem is once this happened people began to breed rats for the purpose of getting the bounty.
As for revitalizing the news, they have to get paid from somewhere and that is the problem. If you do not pay them then you get garbage or fake news as you see it today (trolls paying them behind the scene). The problem is who is going to pay for it? Do you trust someone like FB to direct only authorized sources and pay them? Do you pay them with ads as TV news is done? In that case more views = more money. Do you have a government run news program?
To throw another wrench into this, what is news vs what is not news? Is sharing an opinion with a link news? Is what a talk show does news?
This would only make things worse. Can you imagine giving click-bait companies more money for making those headlines? Or maybe letting face book or (your most hated left or right wing outlet) the ability to say what is news or what is not news?
You are observing the effect not the cause. You see a class of people who are under paid and are making the assumption that it is due to their gender. The cause could be that the women who decide to work instead of have a family are hard to work with, not team players? Maybe they gossip all the time and get into trouble? I don't know.
Did you know ice cream sales and murders both rise at the same time? It must mean that ice cream causes people to kill other people, right?
We had this problem with tobacco for a long time. They couldn't definitively prove that it caused cancer as any number of factors could have led someone to smoke that also caused cancer, such as stress. They eventually found a way around this by doing a study where they had participants quit smoking.
Maybe someone should do a study of post op patients and see if the salary of male - female ones go down and the female - male ones go up?
Every quarter their gross profit increases by a nice healthy amount. Maybe they are cutting costs in places they shouldn't be and causing the fires?
The only quarter they had a problem with as Q2 of 2018, where they made a big payout of 2.2 billion. Their filing shows this really odd though, not sure why it came out the way it did.
There is already precedent for compensation requirements for non-competes. Here is a link to some information about a supreme court decision in 2016: https://eela.org/news/the-empl...
This is simply a case mod for a raspberry pi. This should be on indestructible or hack-a-day, but not here. This also is the most useless thing I have ever seen. Who wants to look at a screen when moving it?
Is this going to make it easier to mine, or is it only going to help with transactions? I though that the majority of energy was in the process of trying to mine the next coin, not verifying transactions. Would this be akin to saying we are going to cut energy consumption by using lower-resistance power lines?
Lets see, assuming you get 150kcals for a gerbil, and you burn them at 100% efficiency, that is about 600 btu. Texas used 12,898 trillion BTU in 2015 (https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13163312&cid=57903968) That would be 21.5 trillion gerbils.Texas is approximately 7.48 Trillion square feet. This would only be 3 gerbils / square foot. Totally doable.
Agreed, Plants have a long history. If we can create so many complicated organs and functions, i would assume they would have developed more. Watch all the plants die when O2 spikes after we get rid of the carbon dioxide in the air.
The only reason we probably hear of it is that the people who are content don't complain. Part of the reason we probably see it as so bad is that the medicare (senior care, disability) system here is forked and unsustainable. I am also in Minnesota, rated something like #3 in health care for the US. That being said, I see so much abuse in our system (druggies, lawsuits, etc) that it makes it hard to say that the same system that works for X will work here. There are a lot of things that need improving, but just switching over to a single payer system will not fix them.
The biggest issue is cost, for example, a hospital stay in the US is around $5,000 vs $400 in spain. If we were able to drop our costs to 10% i really think no one would complain anymore. (well, for a while)
So I got a little more specifics this morning. Just some background for who I am hearing this story from. She used to be a nurse and is very much against their country's health care system (because of her previous experience), so the story may be a bit tainted because of this. They were waiting on test results, tests, and other things for weeks. They did get into the doctor for having chest pains but were still waiting on the results. This story of course is not a representation of the entire medical system, simply one person's experience at the end of their life.
I have some colleagues I work with in two other countries that have socialized medicine, Germany and Turkey. In both countries the people I work with have private insurance on top of the government health care because, in their opinion, the government hospitals are bad. The people in turkey actually went on strike to get the health insurance.
In the US I have some experience in the medical area as I have been in the hospital several times. Here is my experiences.
1st experience with private practice doctor (able to get into often same day, worst case next day, unless he is on vacation than I can either see an associate of his or wait for him to get back) I got a referral to a MRI at a private practice. This was for a minor annoyance, took about 3 weeks.
Went into ER 3 times after this for headaches. I had a MRI done within a hour each of these times. These were performed by the hospital the ER was associated with.
After surgery I went to my normal doctor with a pain in my leg, I ended up going to the hospital and had a ECG of my heart and a echo of my leg done within a hour (including the 15min drive). Within the next hour i had a CAT done of my lungs looking for blood clots. These were private practices simply located in the hospital for ease of access to patients.
Again, i will state, this are all individual experiences not necessarily the experience of everyone. I agree that the prices in the US are too high. My sister had some twins born premature and each baby ended up costing $500k, my 2 hour surgery cost over $20k, but when I look at what kind of service you get In my experience and of those that I know, it is better.
Oh, and another side note, not all states have sales tax. And many cross-state sales do not have sales tax as well, unless they have an agreement in place.
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Because I assumed it was going to be news for nerds, stuff that mattered.
Why is everything here getting so political? I read about this on every other news feeds, I don't need it here as well.
I am not sure if I took your analogy the right way but here is something they once did with rats. They had a bounty where if you brought them rats they would pay you money for cleaning up the streets. The problem is once this happened people began to breed rats for the purpose of getting the bounty.
As for revitalizing the news, they have to get paid from somewhere and that is the problem. If you do not pay them then you get garbage or fake news as you see it today (trolls paying them behind the scene). The problem is who is going to pay for it? Do you trust someone like FB to direct only authorized sources and pay them? Do you pay them with ads as TV news is done? In that case more views = more money. Do you have a government run news program?
To throw another wrench into this, what is news vs what is not news? Is sharing an opinion with a link news? Is what a talk show does news?
Wait, you didn't pay for this? Wonder what the motive is of those who did.....
This would only make things worse. Can you imagine giving click-bait companies more money for making those headlines? Or maybe letting face book or (your most hated left or right wing outlet) the ability to say what is news or what is not news?
Here is some info to back some of this up:
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
You are observing the effect not the cause. You see a class of people who are under paid and are making the assumption that it is due to their gender. The cause could be that the women who decide to work instead of have a family are hard to work with, not team players? Maybe they gossip all the time and get into trouble? I don't know.
Did you know ice cream sales and murders both rise at the same time? It must mean that ice cream causes people to kill other people, right?
We had this problem with tobacco for a long time. They couldn't definitively prove that it caused cancer as any number of factors could have led someone to smoke that also caused cancer, such as stress. They eventually found a way around this by doing a study where they had participants quit smoking.
Maybe someone should do a study of post op patients and see if the salary of male - female ones go down and the female - male ones go up?
Sticking your hand in a fire isn't correlation, it is direct observable cause
Wow you took that the wrong way.
Take a look at their financials, 2017 was a golden year for them. Every quarter their gross profits have been going up.
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/...
Every quarter their gross profit increases by a nice healthy amount. Maybe they are cutting costs in places they shouldn't be and causing the fires?
The only quarter they had a problem with as Q2 of 2018, where they made a big payout of 2.2 billion. Their filing shows this really odd though, not sure why it came out the way it did.
The MyTouch 3G had a trackball. By the way, can this even be called a mouse as it is not a peripheral but literally the entire computer?
Instructables*
There is already precedent for compensation requirements for non-competes. Here is a link to some information about a supreme court decision in 2016: https://eela.org/news/the-empl...
Sorry, Destructables.
This is simply a case mod for a raspberry pi. This should be on indestructible or hack-a-day, but not here. This also is the most useless thing I have ever seen. Who wants to look at a screen when moving it?
So if there are no transactions available the processors cannot make new coins?
Is this going to make it easier to mine, or is it only going to help with transactions? I though that the majority of energy was in the process of trying to mine the next coin, not verifying transactions. Would this be akin to saying we are going to cut energy consumption by using lower-resistance power lines?
Lets see, assuming you get 150kcals for a gerbil, and you burn them at 100% efficiency, that is about 600 btu. Texas used 12,898 trillion BTU in 2015 (https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13163312&cid=57903968) That would be 21.5 trillion gerbils.Texas is approximately 7.48 Trillion square feet. This would only be 3 gerbils / square foot. Totally doable.
Agreed, Plants have a long history. If we can create so many complicated organs and functions, i would assume they would have developed more. Watch all the plants die when O2 spikes after we get rid of the carbon dioxide in the air.
It would be great if we could put this to use in something for generating bio-fuels.
This is all about the potential. It is also has the potential to run the state on nuclear without coal. How about algae power? Gerbil power?
You either save labor or it is a lot harder.. I don't think it can be both?
The only reason we probably hear of it is that the people who are content don't complain. Part of the reason we probably see it as so bad is that the medicare (senior care, disability) system here is forked and unsustainable. I am also in Minnesota, rated something like #3 in health care for the US. That being said, I see so much abuse in our system (druggies, lawsuits, etc) that it makes it hard to say that the same system that works for X will work here. There are a lot of things that need improving, but just switching over to a single payer system will not fix them.
The biggest issue is cost, for example, a hospital stay in the US is around $5,000 vs $400 in spain. If we were able to drop our costs to 10% i really think no one would complain anymore. (well, for a while)
So I got a little more specifics this morning. Just some background for who I am hearing this story from. She used to be a nurse and is very much against their country's health care system (because of her previous experience), so the story may be a bit tainted because of this. They were waiting on test results, tests, and other things for weeks. They did get into the doctor for having chest pains but were still waiting on the results. This story of course is not a representation of the entire medical system, simply one person's experience at the end of their life.
I have some colleagues I work with in two other countries that have socialized medicine, Germany and Turkey. In both countries the people I work with have private insurance on top of the government health care because, in their opinion, the government hospitals are bad. The people in turkey actually went on strike to get the health insurance.
In the US I have some experience in the medical area as I have been in the hospital several times. Here is my experiences.
1st experience with private practice doctor (able to get into often same day, worst case next day, unless he is on vacation than I can either see an associate of his or wait for him to get back) I got a referral to a MRI at a private practice. This was for a minor annoyance, took about 3 weeks.
Went into ER 3 times after this for headaches. I had a MRI done within a hour each of these times. These were performed by the hospital the ER was associated with.
After surgery I went to my normal doctor with a pain in my leg, I ended up going to the hospital and had a ECG of my heart and a echo of my leg done within a hour (including the 15min drive). Within the next hour i had a CAT done of my lungs looking for blood clots. These were private practices simply located in the hospital for ease of access to patients.
Again, i will state, this are all individual experiences not necessarily the experience of everyone. I agree that the prices in the US are too high. My sister had some twins born premature and each baby ended up costing $500k, my 2 hour surgery cost over $20k, but when I look at what kind of service you get In my experience and of those that I know, it is better.
Oh, and another side note, not all states have sales tax. And many cross-state sales do not have sales tax as well, unless they have an agreement in place.