Get paid on friday, put it in the bank. Buy everything with your credit card. Come end of the month, you can't cover your bills, end up paying 27% interest on your Starbucks double cappuccino mocha mint grande.
Or there's the technique I use - get paid on Friday, put it in the bank, buy everything with my credit card, pay the credit card at the end of the month.
Yeppers, I use credit cards for everything, and it's been literally decades since I came up short at the end of the month and had to roll over my credit card balance till the next month....
Here's the trick, by the way - know how much you can afford to spend, and don't spend more than that, even if you really, Really, REALLY want that neat new toy....
accident statistics prove that humans can't be trusted to steer cars.
Yep. More than a thousand times as many fatal auto accidents so far this year** as nuclear power has killed in all of history....
** number of automobile fatalities estimated from last year's number. But last year's numbers would have hit that 1000x figure by the beginning of March, so it's a pretty safe bet....
Nuclear's drawbacks are severe enough that the standard should be perfection. There should be failsafes for the failsafes for the failsafes, and no problem should ever actually result in a meltdown condition. If you can't guarantee zero meltdowns, then you simply shouldn't do nuclear, period.
So, historically, the two worst meltdowns in history caused fewer fatalities than died in traffic accidents today in the USA.
Now, the question seems to be "why must nuclear power be held to a standard that is orders of magnitude higher than other things which cause far more problems?
Like, driving.
Or hydroelectric power (the worst hydroelectric accident in history killed three orders of magnitude more people than the two worst nuclear accidents in history combined).
Or medical mistakes (in any given year in the USA, medical errors kill three orders of magnitude more people than the two worst nuclear accidents in history).
Or riding horses (in any given year, more people die from riding accidents than from the two worst nuclear accidents in history).
Or riding bicycles (an order of magnitude more deaths in any given year than the two worst nuclear accidents in history).
Yeah, I could continue finding things that kill people in greater numbers than nuclear power has. But I'm getting bored finding things that kill people more often than nuclear power (sex, by the way, is another thing that kills more people than nuclear power, in case you were unaware. Not as often as bike-riding, but more often than nuclear power accidents) because it looks like almost everything kills people more often than nuclear power....
So, I repeat, why must nuclear power be held to a standard of "perfection" that we don't hold all the things that kill MORE people to (like jaywalking - an order of magnitude more deaths annually than nuclear power in all of history)?
WeÃ(TM)ve been staring at space and the stars for a while now and have seen no evidence of superluminal travel.
I'm curious. What possible evidence of superluminal travel could we have seen through our telescopes? I mean, other than entire solar systems moving FTL, has there been ANYTHING that we could have seen that even implies superluminal travel?
(I think its a good idea, but don't know how a bill now enforces things in the future)
It's like this. Lawmakers make laws. New laws automagicly supersede older laws.
Soooo, as soon as a future legislature decides this law doesn't make sense (for whatever reason - they are anti-solar, they are pro-nuclear, they're getting kickbacks from Big Coal, whatever), it vanishes in a puff of new law.
Net effect: it looks good on the Governor's Presidential bid, gives the Washington State pols something to tell their constituents about next election, and doesn't commit either the Governor or the legislators to do a damn thing....
I can totally understand an issue with earbuds being in if audio is playing at all, that could indeed be a distraction.
More or less of a distraction than, say, having the car radio turned up to "11"? Which, so far as I know, has never been reason enough to give someone a ticket (or at least, I have never heard of anyone getting a ticket for having their radio turned up really loud)....
So, what you're saying is that it has nothing at all to do with having to route many more planes through the same set of skies as were considered crowded 30+ years ago?
Yeah, sometimes it's as simple as "you can't fly straight from NYC to DC because there are already 49 flights using that airspace right now"....
Do try to remember that the airlines do NOT control ATC. Rather the reverse....
Let's hope that they won't raise the poorest regions' prices up to the level of the richest regions' levels.
My first thought on reading TFS was that the simple solution is to set one price in the EU - the highest price they are currently charging any member nation....
Which'll probably cost them some customers, and might even cut into their profit margin. But you never can tell, since most of the customers in the richer countries will probably just pay the higher fee....
That is not what TFA is saying. It is saying even untargeted ads can be discriminatory.
Yeah, who even suspected that men and women might be interested in different things?
I mean, really! Men are more inclined to look at ads for body-building businesses, and women are more inclined to look at ads for cosmetics?!? Is that even possible without deep, systemic bias in Facebook???
Yeah, never mind whether the guy held responsible had anything to do with the crime...
Note that most CEO's, while they may be responsible for the decision to gather massive amounts of data, aren't actually writing code, so holding them responsible for bad code is...questionable.
A quick check of Clark County, WA, indicates that of 73 cases reported at the time of the article, 63 were NOT vaccinated, three had had only one vaccination (as opposed to the two that are standard), and the remaining seven were "vaccination status unknown".
So, I repeat, where is the evidence that "EVERYONE who got the measles had been vaccinated"? Evidence seems to support at least 90% NOT vaccinated....
Interestingly, EVERYONE who got the measles had been vaccinated.
Citation?
I've seen several articles discussing the current outbreak as happening to people who were not vaccinated in areas where lack of vaccination was more common than normal for the USA as a whole....
Measles vaccine, as an example, is only about 97% effective. It's good enough to stop the spread of measles, but not good enough to absolutely guarantee that you won't get measles....
44% larger is the number I've been seeing for the extra risk.
So, what's the baseline risk? 0.01% chance of being hit any given year? 44% larger then becomes 0.0144% chance of being hit with the debris of that satellite. Hardly a significant risk, really....
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Hmm, that's not the definition of molecule *I* was taught in school.
And oddly enough, that's not the definition of molecule I find in dictionaries, online or offline....
Or there's the technique I use - get paid on Friday, put it in the bank, buy everything with my credit card, pay the credit card at the end of the month.
Yeppers, I use credit cards for everything, and it's been literally decades since I came up short at the end of the month and had to roll over my credit card balance till the next month....
Here's the trick, by the way - know how much you can afford to spend, and don't spend more than that, even if you really, Really, REALLY want that neat new toy....
Yep. More than a thousand times as many fatal auto accidents so far this year** as nuclear power has killed in all of history....
** number of automobile fatalities estimated from last year's number. But last year's numbers would have hit that 1000x figure by the beginning of March, so it's a pretty safe bet....
So, historically, the two worst meltdowns in history caused fewer fatalities than died in traffic accidents today in the USA.
Now, the question seems to be "why must nuclear power be held to a standard that is orders of magnitude higher than other things which cause far more problems?
Like, driving.
Or hydroelectric power (the worst hydroelectric accident in history killed three orders of magnitude more people than the two worst nuclear accidents in history combined).
Or medical mistakes (in any given year in the USA, medical errors kill three orders of magnitude more people than the two worst nuclear accidents in history).
Or riding horses (in any given year, more people die from riding accidents than from the two worst nuclear accidents in history).
Or riding bicycles (an order of magnitude more deaths in any given year than the two worst nuclear accidents in history).
Yeah, I could continue finding things that kill people in greater numbers than nuclear power has. But I'm getting bored finding things that kill people more often than nuclear power (sex, by the way, is another thing that kills more people than nuclear power, in case you were unaware. Not as often as bike-riding, but more often than nuclear power accidents) because it looks like almost everything kills people more often than nuclear power....
So, I repeat, why must nuclear power be held to a standard of "perfection" that we don't hold all the things that kill MORE people to (like jaywalking - an order of magnitude more deaths annually than nuclear power in all of history)?
I'm curious. What possible evidence of superluminal travel could we have seen through our telescopes? I mean, other than entire solar systems moving FTL, has there been ANYTHING that we could have seen that even implies superluminal travel?
Yeah, in Shanghai, that sort is shipped off to a camp far away, so they don't embarrass anyone "civilized"....
It's like this. Lawmakers make laws. New laws automagicly supersede older laws.
Soooo, as soon as a future legislature decides this law doesn't make sense (for whatever reason - they are anti-solar, they are pro-nuclear, they're getting kickbacks from Big Coal, whatever), it vanishes in a puff of new law.
Net effect: it looks good on the Governor's Presidential bid, gives the Washington State pols something to tell their constituents about next election, and doesn't commit either the Governor or the legislators to do a damn thing....
A metric fuckton, or an Imperial fuckton?
As are the Dems. Or did you really think they were handing out OPM out of the goodness of their hearts?
Wait! Liverpool, England is part of the USA??? When did that happen?
No, he seems to be insinuating that people might think that Tesla is close to a self-driving car and so not buy a Ford....
The "not buy a Ford" being the critical part.
More or less of a distraction than, say, having the car radio turned up to "11"? Which, so far as I know, has never been reason enough to give someone a ticket (or at least, I have never heard of anyone getting a ticket for having their radio turned up really loud)....
So, what you're saying is that it has nothing at all to do with having to route many more planes through the same set of skies as were considered crowded 30+ years ago?
Yeah, sometimes it's as simple as "you can't fly straight from NYC to DC because there are already 49 flights using that airspace right now"....
Do try to remember that the airlines do NOT control ATC. Rather the reverse....
It should also be noted that if 390Gigatons of ice/snow are melting every year, that translates to an approximate sealevel rise of...
0.755 mm/year. So, rather less than one meter of sealevel rise by 3000AD....
It's not like the AI they're talking about will have any use for rich people. Seriously, what do "the rich" bring to the table that "AI" needs?
Other than the plot of yet another Terminator movie, of course....
My first thought on reading TFS was that the simple solution is to set one price in the EU - the highest price they are currently charging any member nation....
Which'll probably cost them some customers, and might even cut into their profit margin. But you never can tell, since most of the customers in the richer countries will probably just pay the higher fee....
Yeah, who even suspected that men and women might be interested in different things?
I mean, really! Men are more inclined to look at ads for body-building businesses, and women are more inclined to look at ads for cosmetics?!? Is that even possible without deep, systemic bias in Facebook???
Instead of listening to them? Curious...
Wonder if he asked any of them whether they thought Fortnite should be banned? Or just told them it should be banned....
Yeah, never mind whether the guy held responsible had anything to do with the crime...
Note that most CEO's, while they may be responsible for the decision to gather massive amounts of data, aren't actually writing code, so holding them responsible for bad code is...questionable.
Depends on the dino, I suppose. Pretty much any elephant gun should do fine for anything short of the largest plant-eaters.
Though you might want to practice cycling the action quickly before you annoy a T-Rex....
Replying to myself.
A quick check of Clark County, WA, indicates that of 73 cases reported at the time of the article, 63 were NOT vaccinated, three had had only one vaccination (as opposed to the two that are standard), and the remaining seven were "vaccination status unknown".
So, I repeat, where is the evidence that "EVERYONE who got the measles had been vaccinated"? Evidence seems to support at least 90% NOT vaccinated....
Citation?
I've seen several articles discussing the current outbreak as happening to people who were not vaccinated in areas where lack of vaccination was more common than normal for the USA as a whole....
Measles vaccine, as an example, is only about 97% effective. It's good enough to stop the spread of measles, but not good enough to absolutely guarantee that you won't get measles....
44% larger is the number I've been seeing for the extra risk.
So, what's the baseline risk? 0.01% chance of being hit any given year? 44% larger then becomes 0.0144% chance of being hit with the debris of that satellite. Hardly a significant risk, really....
Really? Fewer than 8K hate crimes per year in a country of 330M people, and you see a problem? Out of ~1.1M violent crimes, mind you....
It should also be noted that violent crime rates have fallen by ~1/3 over the last three decades.