You mis-quoted your link, which states that obesity is now a bigger killer than hunger. But not, in fact, the biggest (from the article):
In charting risk factors, the researchers found that diets low in fruit were responsible for more disease than obesity or physical inactivity. That conclusion was reached through analysis of the health effects of various components of diet and the number of people consuming diets high or low in those components.
"We were very surprised," Murray said of the fruit finding. "I'm a pretty profound diet skeptic. But the evidence on diet is as convincing as on obesity."
I guess I can admit to being completely surprised by that, if the study's authors were too.
I've used gogo on Southwest a few times. It worked fine for email, text chat, and web browsing. It warns you before you connect that high bandwidth applications won't work and some are blocked outright. Security is the same as any access point in a public place - if you care, use end-to-end encryption.
I disagree. First, because all of England's former colonies are now independent, and most never had a revolutionary war (Canada, Australia, and India, for example). And second, if you want to argue about a future civil war in the US by analogy, at least use examples of civil war (not rebellion against a distant empire) and in modern times. Maybe Bosnia, Libya, Egypt, or Iraq. Even the US Civil War is a much better model than the Revolutionary war.
target shooting? hunting? both seem like amusements that maybe we could afford to lose in the name of safety...
If it's something else you'd miss, sorry, but those are my best guesses.
Nope, just that. (Already I don't keep ammo in the house because I have teenagers).
My point is, what can we realistically do? There are so many guns in the US, and so many people determined not to give them up unilaterally - if at all - that I see no feasible solution. I don't have much hope in the efficacy of the little half-measures that might be politically feasible.
NYC seems like the last place I would expect solar panels on private residences. It's cloudy, at a northern latitude, most people are renters, and each roof is a shared by the ten families stacked on top of each other underneath it.
Equating the cost of solar panels to a portable generator makes absolutely no sense. The generator is worthless 99.9% of the time, whereas the solar panels would power your home every day for the next 30 years. That in itself doesn't mean solar panels are a good deal for you. But they're simply two different questions.
I've had Comcast (previously, @home) broadband at my current address for a little over 10 years. Figure $60/mo, that's $7,200. Obviously there will be maintainence and upstream bandwidth costs, but the numbers don't seem so out of line to me, especially with borrowing money being so cheap right now.
You just reminded me of a relevant anecdote about cave paintings:
The work of other artists didn't often reduce Pablo Picasso to a state of utter humility, but that's exactly what happened just after World War II, when he was mucking about in a cave in southwestern France. This wasn't just any cave, however -- its walls were festooned with striking pictures of horses and bulls that date from the Ice Age, all rendered with exquisite sophistication and symbolic force. Upon exiting the cave, an awed Picasso declared, "We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years."
Interestingly, the economist Paul Krugman was influenced by an early Heinlein story about a goverment that had to actually destroy wealth in order to keep the economy flowing.
Uh, that's not wild-eyed sci-fi extrapolation about the future, it's social commentary.
I think there is a good reason why you referenced our grandfathers rather than our fathers. Even then your claim is dubious. My grandfather, on "just" a bachelor's degree, single-handedly supported a family, owned a home in Long Beach and a vacation cabin and a boat, and retired on an inflation-adjusted pension after only 25 years of work at a company, from which he drew for 25 years. He even owned real furniture, not this particle-board and plastic crap of today. Granted, he didn't have slashdot.
Since you are paraphrasing Jesus, just think, anything he said was already 3/4 of the way from 7500 years ago until now. I find it hard to wrap my mind around how long people were sentient beings with fully developed social interactions (and cheese!) before they figured out writing and "history" began.
I wonder if we shouldn't just de-emphasize the number and phase in a "Help!" button on the devices (I guess then we'd need a universal "Help!" symbol - maybe a little stick figure with two arms up). Phone numbers in general seem kind of kludgy. Internet users generally aren't exposed to IP addresses any more.
It is good for the government to step in when competition creates a situation that is counter-productive, even for the "winner" of the competition. If advertisers are allowed to turn ads up to 11, then they are effectively forced to do so (by competition) even though in the end they're right back where they started (all the same volume), but now with lower sound quality (clipping) and annoyed consumers. You could view this as a rule imposed on advertisers, or instead as a negotiated truce among them.
You probably already know this, but linux never did run on a 286. The 386 was the first Intel processor with a viable "protected mode," giving each process its own address space, thus making it capable of properly running a multi-tasking OS.
There is also the temptation to publish a lot of really conventional stuff that basically just takes someone else's work and modifies it slightly, or applies it to a slightly different framework. This is the academic equivalent of shovelware... At least 99% of the articles and papers coming out in my field fell into this category.
Don't worry, lower-tier conferences and "journals" aren't confused with top journals. And the lower-tier venues play an important role. You can't have major leagues without minor leagues feeding into them, and their pipeline is in turn filled by colleges, then highschools, all the way down to little league. It takes years to work up to publishing in top-tier journals, and lower-tier venues are where you develop the chops. Most never make it to the summit after all, but still do useful applied work during their careers.
You see conspiracy in some people at your school setting up a student workshop or conference as a venue for their work. To me that sounds like an enriching activity for those involved. Are you afraid they will somehow use this to leapfrog you into professorships at Stanford? Don't be. At most, this is the first of many steps towards such a goal.
Of course, the fraud this story is about is a whole different matter.
I don't think the ability to brute force 6-character passwords once you have a local copy of the hashes has any significance to satellite security. A thousand-fold increase in key cracking speed only strips about 10 bits from the 2048 or 4096 (or who knows how many?) bit encryption they would be using. They could launch those things with terabytes of shared keys if they felt the need.
Is the amount of material used just the weight of the finished product, or is there some overhead / waste (like in woodworking?) Second, do they analyze your design ahead of time and tell you exactly what the print cost would be?
I also wondered, is there any way to know if a design will print out correctly? For example if I designed a pencil balancing on its tip with no supports, does the software, or somebody at shapeways, alert me that I'm being stupid?
Interesting ideas. I suppose the security of this "downlink" (flying the data back to the earth) is very good, but the latency is killer - the previous mission was over a year long! And I don't see how this would reduce the blackout period after an anti-satellite attack.
I don't see it. US politics are fractious but nothing like Europe has long been (as you said). And we're not undergoing any dramatic upheavals at the moment or in the near future as far as I can tell. If anything, China seems more likely to erupt into infighting, simply because it is changing so fast that some internal rebalancing might be in order (e.g. the newly wealthy wanting more political power).
I am curious of what is the point of an unmanned space plane? There's nobody on it, so why make the return trip? The ability to fly down must compromise the design for everything else to some degree.
The ability to boot into different ARM systems using a single kernel is kind of cool, but the need to do it is kind of scary. Is ARM not actually a single instruction set architecture, and if so, what is it?
I would be delighted if this leads to commodity implementation of optical Thunderbolt. Compared to copper Thunderbolt, which is limited to 3m, optical Thunderbolt can run tens of meters. Instead of maintaining and powering so many computers around the home or office, you could have a centralized "mainframe" with a strand of fiber for each terminal, because you could send uncompressed video signals without the computational load or latency of re-compression.
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Now, does it mean we can have faster internet download speeds or quicker latency? My answer is, unequivocally, yes. Because the technology for those things already exists. Adoption is a therefore a function of cost. There will be no single moment at which Verizon will say "thanks to Intel's new manufacturing process we're going to roll out Fios nationally!" But this is exactly the kind of progress that has moved computers from central bank offices to your jeans pocket over the last 50 years.
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I guess I can admit to being completely surprised by that, if the study's authors were too.
I've used gogo on Southwest a few times. It worked fine for email, text chat, and web browsing. It warns you before you connect that high bandwidth applications won't work and some are blocked outright. Security is the same as any access point in a public place - if you care, use end-to-end encryption.
I disagree. First, because all of England's former colonies are now independent, and most never had a revolutionary war (Canada, Australia, and India, for example). And second, if you want to argue about a future civil war in the US by analogy, at least use examples of civil war (not rebellion against a distant empire) and in modern times. Maybe Bosnia, Libya, Egypt, or Iraq. Even the US Civil War is a much better model than the Revolutionary war.
Nope, just that. (Already I don't keep ammo in the house because I have teenagers).
My point is, what can we realistically do? There are so many guns in the US, and so many people determined not to give them up unilaterally - if at all - that I see no feasible solution. I don't have much hope in the efficacy of the little half-measures that might be politically feasible.
I would miss it some, but to me, it's not worth this.
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But isn't it too late? There is no way to get from here to there.
NYC seems like the last place I would expect solar panels on private residences. It's cloudy, at a northern latitude, most people are renters, and each roof is a shared by the ten families stacked on top of each other underneath it.
Equating the cost of solar panels to a portable generator makes absolutely no sense. The generator is worthless 99.9% of the time, whereas the solar panels would power your home every day for the next 30 years. That in itself doesn't mean solar panels are a good deal for you. But they're simply two different questions.
I've had Comcast (previously, @home) broadband at my current address for a little over 10 years. Figure $60/mo, that's $7,200. Obviously there will be maintainence and upstream bandwidth costs, but the numbers don't seem so out of line to me, especially with borrowing money being so cheap right now.
Uh, that's not wild-eyed sci-fi extrapolation about the future, it's social commentary.
I think there is a good reason why you referenced our grandfathers rather than our fathers. Even then your claim is dubious. My grandfather, on "just" a bachelor's degree, single-handedly supported a family, owned a home in Long Beach and a vacation cabin and a boat, and retired on an inflation-adjusted pension after only 25 years of work at a company, from which he drew for 25 years. He even owned real furniture, not this particle-board and plastic crap of today. Granted, he didn't have slashdot.
Since you are paraphrasing Jesus, just think, anything he said was already 3/4 of the way from 7500 years ago until now. I find it hard to wrap my mind around how long people were sentient beings with fully developed social interactions (and cheese!) before they figured out writing and "history" began.
If all they're doing is DDOS'ing websites they disagree with, they're exactly as extremist as Anonymous.
I wonder if we shouldn't just de-emphasize the number and phase in a "Help!" button on the devices (I guess then we'd need a universal "Help!" symbol - maybe a little stick figure with two arms up). Phone numbers in general seem kind of kludgy. Internet users generally aren't exposed to IP addresses any more.
It is good for the government to step in when competition creates a situation that is counter-productive, even for the "winner" of the competition. If advertisers are allowed to turn ads up to 11, then they are effectively forced to do so (by competition) even though in the end they're right back where they started (all the same volume), but now with lower sound quality (clipping) and annoyed consumers. You could view this as a rule imposed on advertisers, or instead as a negotiated truce among them.
Right, they are sold as "nonlethal," as in, an alternative in situations that would otherwise require lethal means. And then used as a cattle prod.
You probably already know this, but linux never did run on a 286. The 386 was the first Intel processor with a viable "protected mode," giving each process its own address space, thus making it capable of properly running a multi-tasking OS.
Don't worry, lower-tier conferences and "journals" aren't confused with top journals. And the lower-tier venues play an important role. You can't have major leagues without minor leagues feeding into them, and their pipeline is in turn filled by colleges, then highschools, all the way down to little league. It takes years to work up to publishing in top-tier journals, and lower-tier venues are where you develop the chops. Most never make it to the summit after all, but still do useful applied work during their careers.
You see conspiracy in some people at your school setting up a student workshop or conference as a venue for their work. To me that sounds like an enriching activity for those involved. Are you afraid they will somehow use this to leapfrog you into professorships at Stanford? Don't be. At most, this is the first of many steps towards such a goal.
Of course, the fraud this story is about is a whole different matter.
I don't think the ability to brute force 6-character passwords once you have a local copy of the hashes has any significance to satellite security. A thousand-fold increase in key cracking speed only strips about 10 bits from the 2048 or 4096 (or who knows how many?) bit encryption they would be using. They could launch those things with terabytes of shared keys if they felt the need.
I also wondered, is there any way to know if a design will print out correctly? For example if I designed a pencil balancing on its tip with no supports, does the software, or somebody at shapeways, alert me that I'm being stupid?
Interesting ideas. I suppose the security of this "downlink" (flying the data back to the earth) is very good, but the latency is killer - the previous mission was over a year long! And I don't see how this would reduce the blackout period after an anti-satellite attack.
I don't see it. US politics are fractious but nothing like Europe has long been (as you said). And we're not undergoing any dramatic upheavals at the moment or in the near future as far as I can tell. If anything, China seems more likely to erupt into infighting, simply because it is changing so fast that some internal rebalancing might be in order (e.g. the newly wealthy wanting more political power).
I am curious of what is the point of an unmanned space plane? There's nobody on it, so why make the return trip? The ability to fly down must compromise the design for everything else to some degree.
The ability to boot into different ARM systems using a single kernel is kind of cool, but the need to do it is kind of scary. Is ARM not actually a single instruction set architecture, and if so, what is it?
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Now, does it mean we can have faster internet download speeds or quicker latency? My answer is, unequivocally, yes. Because the technology for those things already exists. Adoption is a therefore a function of cost. There will be no single moment at which Verizon will say "thanks to Intel's new manufacturing process we're going to roll out Fios nationally!" But this is exactly the kind of progress that has moved computers from central bank offices to your jeans pocket over the last 50 years.