That's how I felt reading it... so it pulls Vines or whatever into a chat feed, so it would be like automatically posting things to your Facebook wall. So this is to maintain visibility on whatever platform the teens use with minimal effort. I think, anyway.... I don't even use Twitter so I may have it wrong. At least with the latter it seems it is only used these days to give people the opportunity to say something that will get them publicly shamed.
It is surprising how many people seem to think that biology is this binary as to whether an individual is a man or woman. Usually it is easy enough to tell, but there are certainly plenty of edge cases.
I've not used it a whole lot as it is far less useful than the commercials make it look, but all Siri normally does with anything complicated is transcribe your query into a Bing search. Other than that you can get it to call someone in your address book or give you directions from the map applet. Much else is easier to type than get the thing to understand you properly, and when it mishears you then you get some nonsensical Bing search. While I'd suppose MS gives them a tithe of the ad revenue it can't be much.
You were drinking 3-4 20 oz bottles of Dr Pepper a day? That'd make me pretty anxious and jittery, too, and I'd not consider myself overly sensitive to caffeine. Although I do stick to tea since coffee is too much caffeine all at once for me, so perhaps I am in the same boat as you... it just sounds like overuse more than oversensitivity to me, offhand. Conversely I could have a coke and then go to sleep without issue, whereas my wife gets nervous about having caffeine after 2 pm or so.
Now I understand why Facebook has a separate app for messaging... we only recently got around to getting smart phones but I recall thinking about how smartphones had eliminated charging for SMS since it was trivial to use the internet and whatever people use these days instead of AIM/ICQ/etc. I didn't realize that the majority of the world still paid for SMS; I always assume our networks and services are inferior here in the US to Europe, but I guess not in this case.
Contagious cancer is rare for the same reason that organ transplant is hard: your immune system already largely ignores your own cells, of which cancer is just a broken subtype of. Implanting random tissues from other individuals causes rejection of the tissue unless they are closely related to you and you take immunosuppressants. For this same reason, foreign cancer would be expected to be quickly destroyed unless you had AIDs or similar.
I don't have a link handy, but I do recall reading a story about a man who had AIDs and contracted cancer from an ill intestinal worm (or other helminth... I can't recall). This would be especially unusual: cross species cancer should light up all the red flags in your immune system, but obviously his was especially degraded.
It would be highly unlikely that exogenous cancer cells could reach the brain of a second individual. Far more likely is that the laboratory reagents he was working with gave him cancer.
No, the contagious cancer is genetically related to each other instance. Cancers generated via virus in two different individuals will be as distantly related as the individuals.
Usually people are on board with fixing defects (not sure about the religious right... maybe if it means less abortions?), the designer label usually refers to stuff like picking out aesthetic attributes. Think reconstructive surgery versus elective plastic surgery. Generally the authors name stuff like blue eyes or being tall, but that would actually be boring if you were bothering with genetically modifying your offspring for whimsy. I'd expect an oligarch to make children with violet eyes and silver hair and then start trying to figure out how to make some dragons.
That's a good point... the weakness of the federal government at the time may have helped. There wasn't a power structure larger than an individual state to seize.
Also once you stop eating raw meat and develop sanitary sewers, parasitism goes down. This is mostly good, but parasites tend to release immunosuppressants. So, no worms chewing your organs, but your immune system is more active and cranky than the wild-type that you evolved with would have ended up at with all the worms. So you see more auto-immune disorders than the folks eating raw chickens standing in pig excrement. On the plus side you get to live long enough to die of cancer instead of infection.
You can't be allergic to flashing lights, an allergy is an immune response. You could be sensitive to flashing lights, and maybe WiFi, but the latter certainly hasn't be shown in any testing I've seen. It seems like pedantry but if you're trying to engage with scientists and medical professionals and they scoff at the idea of allergies to certain things it would be because there isn't a mechanism for that phenomena to interact with the immune system.
Things can be unintuitive: iodine is too small to cross link antibodies but people can be allergic. How? It binds to epitopes on your cells that are large enough to cross link antibodies and changes their conformation to something sensitive people's immune systems target as foreign.
A reshaping catalyst wouldn't need to last longer than the length of the reaction anyhow. Although depending on how fancy they can be maybe you could intentionally build something that still functions after the scaffolding 'rots' off.
Kids are certainly a system shock as far as sleep goes... I have either learned how to let part of my brain sleep while I'm otherwise lucid enough to function minimally intensive tasks or it is just what happens in a sleep deprived state. It makes my head tingle and I don't feel like I missed as much sleep as I did the next morning.
Carbon is what you use in a respirator cartridge. For stuff like organic vapors, a hobbyist is better off wearing a respirator than trying to filter since the former is cheaper and easier to get right. The same sort of thing you'd wear to spray some lacquer in your garage would do well enough, I'd think.
Perhaps the terminology has evolved some since I studied philosophy, but how can one perform empirical scientific examination of a phenomena without assuming physicalism? The dualism-type thinking I've encountered always reduced to religion or some sort of dualism-of-the-gaps where something like quantum mechanics (which I'd consider compatible with physicalism, although perhaps I err there) is referred to to allow some sort of voodoo dualism to persist perpetually just outside our physics models.
Agreed... with minimal collateral damage, does the technique we use to blow people up carry any particular moral weight over that we blew them up to begin with?
I was about to post that genetic algorithms could cross that gap, but I suppose even if, most likely, the computer could simulate a faster generation time than a fly has, the fly also evolved massively in parallel so maybe the computational cost is still pretty huge.
I was buying headlamps for my (2007) car and complained to the salesman about how I had to look up the instructions online because the manual said to take it to a dealer. He told me that many newer cars required the bumper to be removed to change the bulbs out. I've since heard the EU made or is making some laws about serviceability for bulbs and filters. I'm on my original cabin air filter in that car because you have to remove the glove box to swap it out.
Some of it, though, is clearly just done because it made it easier to assemble. Doesn't make it less annoying.
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That's how I felt reading it... so it pulls Vines or whatever into a chat feed, so it would be like automatically posting things to your Facebook wall. So this is to maintain visibility on whatever platform the teens use with minimal effort. I think, anyway.... I don't even use Twitter so I may have it wrong. At least with the latter it seems it is only used these days to give people the opportunity to say something that will get them publicly shamed.
It is surprising how many people seem to think that biology is this binary as to whether an individual is a man or woman. Usually it is easy enough to tell, but there are certainly plenty of edge cases.
I've not used it a whole lot as it is far less useful than the commercials make it look, but all Siri normally does with anything complicated is transcribe your query into a Bing search. Other than that you can get it to call someone in your address book or give you directions from the map applet. Much else is easier to type than get the thing to understand you properly, and when it mishears you then you get some nonsensical Bing search. While I'd suppose MS gives them a tithe of the ad revenue it can't be much.
You were drinking 3-4 20 oz bottles of Dr Pepper a day? That'd make me pretty anxious and jittery, too, and I'd not consider myself overly sensitive to caffeine. Although I do stick to tea since coffee is too much caffeine all at once for me, so perhaps I am in the same boat as you... it just sounds like overuse more than oversensitivity to me, offhand. Conversely I could have a coke and then go to sleep without issue, whereas my wife gets nervous about having caffeine after 2 pm or so.
Now I understand why Facebook has a separate app for messaging... we only recently got around to getting smart phones but I recall thinking about how smartphones had eliminated charging for SMS since it was trivial to use the internet and whatever people use these days instead of AIM/ICQ/etc. I didn't realize that the majority of the world still paid for SMS; I always assume our networks and services are inferior here in the US to Europe, but I guess not in this case.
Contagious cancer is rare for the same reason that organ transplant is hard: your immune system already largely ignores your own cells, of which cancer is just a broken subtype of. Implanting random tissues from other individuals causes rejection of the tissue unless they are closely related to you and you take immunosuppressants. For this same reason, foreign cancer would be expected to be quickly destroyed unless you had AIDs or similar. I don't have a link handy, but I do recall reading a story about a man who had AIDs and contracted cancer from an ill intestinal worm (or other helminth... I can't recall). This would be especially unusual: cross species cancer should light up all the red flags in your immune system, but obviously his was especially degraded.
It would be highly unlikely that exogenous cancer cells could reach the brain of a second individual. Far more likely is that the laboratory reagents he was working with gave him cancer.
No, the contagious cancer is genetically related to each other instance. Cancers generated via virus in two different individuals will be as distantly related as the individuals.
I do wonder what the legal consequences would be if they did a 'good faith effort' and failed and the phone nuked itself.
Usually people are on board with fixing defects (not sure about the religious right... maybe if it means less abortions?), the designer label usually refers to stuff like picking out aesthetic attributes. Think reconstructive surgery versus elective plastic surgery. Generally the authors name stuff like blue eyes or being tall, but that would actually be boring if you were bothering with genetically modifying your offspring for whimsy. I'd expect an oligarch to make children with violet eyes and silver hair and then start trying to figure out how to make some dragons.
That's a good point... the weakness of the federal government at the time may have helped. There wasn't a power structure larger than an individual state to seize.
Also once you stop eating raw meat and develop sanitary sewers, parasitism goes down. This is mostly good, but parasites tend to release immunosuppressants. So, no worms chewing your organs, but your immune system is more active and cranky than the wild-type that you evolved with would have ended up at with all the worms. So you see more auto-immune disorders than the folks eating raw chickens standing in pig excrement. On the plus side you get to live long enough to die of cancer instead of infection.
I would expect the biggest and most lucrative application for self driving vehicles would be for freight, not commuters.
You can't be allergic to flashing lights, an allergy is an immune response. You could be sensitive to flashing lights, and maybe WiFi, but the latter certainly hasn't be shown in any testing I've seen. It seems like pedantry but if you're trying to engage with scientists and medical professionals and they scoff at the idea of allergies to certain things it would be because there isn't a mechanism for that phenomena to interact with the immune system. Things can be unintuitive: iodine is too small to cross link antibodies but people can be allergic. How? It binds to epitopes on your cells that are large enough to cross link antibodies and changes their conformation to something sensitive people's immune systems target as foreign.
A reshaping catalyst wouldn't need to last longer than the length of the reaction anyhow. Although depending on how fancy they can be maybe you could intentionally build something that still functions after the scaffolding 'rots' off.
Kids are certainly a system shock as far as sleep goes... I have either learned how to let part of my brain sleep while I'm otherwise lucid enough to function minimally intensive tasks or it is just what happens in a sleep deprived state. It makes my head tingle and I don't feel like I missed as much sleep as I did the next morning.
I remember when New Rome, Ohio was dissolved for similar reasons. I wonder how widespread it is for states to dissolve speed trap towns.
Carbon is what you use in a respirator cartridge. For stuff like organic vapors, a hobbyist is better off wearing a respirator than trying to filter since the former is cheaper and easier to get right. The same sort of thing you'd wear to spray some lacquer in your garage would do well enough, I'd think.
Sure, but being unable to quantitate something we're pretty sure is there isn't the same thing as dualism.
Perhaps the terminology has evolved some since I studied philosophy, but how can one perform empirical scientific examination of a phenomena without assuming physicalism? The dualism-type thinking I've encountered always reduced to religion or some sort of dualism-of-the-gaps where something like quantum mechanics (which I'd consider compatible with physicalism, although perhaps I err there) is referred to to allow some sort of voodoo dualism to persist perpetually just outside our physics models.
You can't use chimps unless there's reason to believe nothing else would be close enough. Monkeys ought to be just fine though...
Agreed... with minimal collateral damage, does the technique we use to blow people up carry any particular moral weight over that we blew them up to begin with?
I was about to post that genetic algorithms could cross that gap, but I suppose even if, most likely, the computer could simulate a faster generation time than a fly has, the fly also evolved massively in parallel so maybe the computational cost is still pretty huge.
You could probably have something in hand faster than it'd take to go to the store with a system like they're trying to make.
I was buying headlamps for my (2007) car and complained to the salesman about how I had to look up the instructions online because the manual said to take it to a dealer. He told me that many newer cars required the bumper to be removed to change the bulbs out. I've since heard the EU made or is making some laws about serviceability for bulbs and filters. I'm on my original cabin air filter in that car because you have to remove the glove box to swap it out. Some of it, though, is clearly just done because it made it easier to assemble. Doesn't make it less annoying.