That's not true. Placebos do usually have physiological effects. Very few clinical trials use "how you feel" as an endpoint. Instead they use objective measures like change in tumour size, lung capacity and did the patient die? Placebos do improve those things. They also have effects on body chemistry.
We generally consider it unethical to claim something is medicine if it doesn't have any intrinsic effect of it's own. That's not the same thing as not having any physiological effect.
Placebos usually have a fairly large effect. On average it's about 30%, which is greater than the additional advantage afforded by lots of actual treatments. In certain areas, like pain and depression, the placebo effect is more like 50%.
What do you mean by a "native Linux laptop?" Linux runs just fine on Mac or Windows notebooks. This notebook happens to come with ChromeOS instead of OS X or Windows. I couldn't find details on the current one, but the old Pixel didn't have a standard BIOS so you had to hack that to get a regular Linux install to work. Then you're left with a notebook with an undersized hard drive because Google expected you to store everything in the cloud.
I guess if you want to call expensive industrial laser sintering "3D printing." I think most people, me included, see "3D printing", as opposed to "additive manufacturing techniques we've been using for thirty years", as something you might want to do in your home.
Yes, as 3D printers improve they will find some uses. Currently I don't think there are any good ones. There ARE interesting things being done to develop 3D printing into a useful tool, but we keep getting hype-filled stories like this one instead.
It's a transmission sure. But the "for Toyota Engines" from the title might be a bit problematic. The "it could function as a replacement for the real thing" even more so.
Economics isn't quite that simple. If you decrease the demand for coal, the price does drop. But the dropping price also decreases the supply. Supply and demand is an equilibrium. There are also hard limits imposed by what it actually costs to dig coal out of the ground and send it to the customer.
Sure, except for the part where the denominator is the total amount of added capacity from all sources. So when your hamster wheels add a third of the total new capacity, you might just have something.
Pumped hydro is around 80% efficient as currently implemented. That only means an extra 100 km on a side for your giant collector in the Sahara. Molten salt might be even more efficient, particularly if you also used it to provide heat directly.
Problem is, there aren't any of those. The nearest anybody seems to have found is printing gun parts, and that's only because the parts in question are weirdly regulated by the US government.
Yup. Simple C++ code is a bit ugly, but it's readable. Even using the straight STL is fine - there's a lot of useful stuff in it. The problem with C++ seems to be that people just can't seem to prevent themselves from being smartasses. Oh look, I can do this, and then this all happens automagically! You just have to remember to.
Fortunately, enough of those Christians realize that both freedom of speech and the separation of church and state are important things. That doesn't hold in all places of course there are US states that still have blasphemy laws.
Spraypainting racial slurs wouldn't be hate speech in most places, with the possible very specific exceptions of places like Germany with things like Naziism.
Where I live, the hate speech laws require that you're inciting violence against a particular group. So "lefties suck" wouldn't be hate speech, but "kill all lefties" could be.
You could argue that spray painting racial slurs falls afoul of the "fighting words" clause in the US first amendment, except that judicial precedent pretty much papers over that bit.
It's much easier than that. Just call the cops. Cops get a subpoena, Yik Yak coughs up the details of the poster. The idiot who posts a threat on this kind of service is easier to find than someone who called one in from a pay phone or slipped a note under the admin building door.
The article seems to be conflating actual threats and random idiot posts to try and claim that this thing is dangerous. It "creates a destructive environment." Personally, having YouTube and Slashdot -1 comments streamed direct to my phone sounds horrible, but I guess some people get off on that. If you don't, don't use the app.
I ran into someone once while travelling, and we had a conversation about tourists versus travellers. That sort of thing definitely falls under the "tourists" category. The GP is right - it misses the point. You're right, most people do it.
I was there last spring. There wasn't any flash photography. If the guards were paying attention and would give a warning if they saw you raise a camera. Ignore it and you're out. There was kind of a dull roar in the room because so many people were packed in, but the guards would shush everyone regularly.
It depends what you're doing with it. On the rare occasion I wear a watch it's for keeping time for celestial navigation. Keeping very accurate time is it's only function. I hear people with nothing better to do often wear jewellery to impress each other though.
Complexity of the type has a mathematical definition similar to entropy. It's related to the number of interacting parts and/or the number of states the system can be in. It doesn't need to be subjective at all, although our gut instinct estimates may be.
You can't be jailed indefinitely unless they manage to convince a judge you're a dangerous offender. This guy is charged with obstruction which, IIRC, is a maximum one year sentence.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out, and I certainly hope a judge throws it out, but let's avoid the hyperbole: "jailed indefinitely," "search everyone's phone," etc.
Electricity is so simple hey? Those electrons what are they? The reason they have all the effects we call electricity is because they have "charge" and that "charge" creates an "electric field." So what exactly is "charge"? What is an "electric field" and how does "charge" create it?
If you want to get mystical about gravity, we really don't know that much about what electricity actually is deep down at the same level either. A bit higher up though, sure. Just like life: we have decent definitions of it and various people have demonstrated that various aspects of it, like cell walls, can be spontaneously formed from collections of particular chemicals. These guys are working from the other direction, looking at how those chemicals could be manufactured by non-living processes.
He's charged with obstruction. He might have spent a night or two in jail, but he's out on bail now. Even so, I'd much rather go to prison in Canada than the Dominican Republic. I'm pretty sure I'd rather possibly go to prison for a bit in Canada than become a stateless person as well.
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That's not true. Placebos do usually have physiological effects. Very few clinical trials use "how you feel" as an endpoint. Instead they use objective measures like change in tumour size, lung capacity and did the patient die? Placebos do improve those things. They also have effects on body chemistry.
We generally consider it unethical to claim something is medicine if it doesn't have any intrinsic effect of it's own. That's not the same thing as not having any physiological effect.
Placebos usually have a fairly large effect. On average it's about 30%, which is greater than the additional advantage afforded by lots of actual treatments. In certain areas, like pain and depression, the placebo effect is more like 50%.
What do you mean by a "native Linux laptop?" Linux runs just fine on Mac or Windows notebooks. This notebook happens to come with ChromeOS instead of OS X or Windows. I couldn't find details on the current one, but the old Pixel didn't have a standard BIOS so you had to hack that to get a regular Linux install to work. Then you're left with a notebook with an undersized hard drive because Google expected you to store everything in the cloud.
MacBooks run Linux very well. Possibly better than these things. Do you still have to do some hacking to run Linux instead of Chrome?
I guess if you want to call expensive industrial laser sintering "3D printing." I think most people, me included, see "3D printing", as opposed to "additive manufacturing techniques we've been using for thirty years", as something you might want to do in your home.
Yes, as 3D printers improve they will find some uses. Currently I don't think there are any good ones. There ARE interesting things being done to develop 3D printing into a useful tool, but we keep getting hype-filled stories like this one instead.
Apple likes to push "it will take some time" into "soon." Chromecasts/Apple TVs and things like that hooked up to projectors are becoming more common.
Personally, I'm quite happy to trade a bunch of connectors for a lighter notebook.
Unless you really want the touchscreen, I don't really see why you'd buy one of these over another Macbook.
It's a transmission sure. But the "for Toyota Engines" from the title might be a bit problematic. The "it could function as a replacement for the real thing" even more so.
Economics isn't quite that simple. If you decrease the demand for coal, the price does drop. But the dropping price also decreases the supply. Supply and demand is an equilibrium. There are also hard limits imposed by what it actually costs to dig coal out of the ground and send it to the customer.
Sure, except for the part where the denominator is the total amount of added capacity from all sources. So when your hamster wheels add a third of the total new capacity, you might just have something.
Pumped hydro is around 80% efficient as currently implemented. That only means an extra 100 km on a side for your giant collector in the Sahara. Molten salt might be even more efficient, particularly if you also used it to provide heat directly.
Problem is, there aren't any of those. The nearest anybody seems to have found is printing gun parts, and that's only because the parts in question are weirdly regulated by the US government.
Microchips are light. Water and oxygen are heavy, and we use a lot more of those in orbit than microchips. Aluminum might be kinda handy to have too.
Yup. Simple C++ code is a bit ugly, but it's readable. Even using the straight STL is fine - there's a lot of useful stuff in it. The problem with C++ seems to be that people just can't seem to prevent themselves from being smartasses. Oh look, I can do this, and then this all happens automagically! You just have to remember to.
The only thing worse than macros in C is macros in C++. Because doing fancy shit with templates AND macros is more than the sum of it's parts.
Fortunately, enough of those Christians realize that both freedom of speech and the separation of church and state are important things. That doesn't hold in all places of course there are US states that still have blasphemy laws.
Spraypainting racial slurs wouldn't be hate speech in most places, with the possible very specific exceptions of places like Germany with things like Naziism.
Where I live, the hate speech laws require that you're inciting violence against a particular group. So "lefties suck" wouldn't be hate speech, but "kill all lefties" could be.
You could argue that spray painting racial slurs falls afoul of the "fighting words" clause in the US first amendment, except that judicial precedent pretty much papers over that bit.
It's much easier than that. Just call the cops. Cops get a subpoena, Yik Yak coughs up the details of the poster. The idiot who posts a threat on this kind of service is easier to find than someone who called one in from a pay phone or slipped a note under the admin building door.
The article seems to be conflating actual threats and random idiot posts to try and claim that this thing is dangerous. It "creates a destructive environment." Personally, having YouTube and Slashdot -1 comments streamed direct to my phone sounds horrible, but I guess some people get off on that. If you don't, don't use the app.
I ran into someone once while travelling, and we had a conversation about tourists versus travellers. That sort of thing definitely falls under the "tourists" category. The GP is right - it misses the point. You're right, most people do it.
I was there last spring. There wasn't any flash photography. If the guards were paying attention and would give a warning if they saw you raise a camera. Ignore it and you're out. There was kind of a dull roar in the room because so many people were packed in, but the guards would shush everyone regularly.
It depends what you're doing with it. On the rare occasion I wear a watch it's for keeping time for celestial navigation. Keeping very accurate time is it's only function. I hear people with nothing better to do often wear jewellery to impress each other though.
Complexity of the type has a mathematical definition similar to entropy. It's related to the number of interacting parts and/or the number of states the system can be in. It doesn't need to be subjective at all, although our gut instinct estimates may be.
You can't be jailed indefinitely unless they manage to convince a judge you're a dangerous offender. This guy is charged with obstruction which, IIRC, is a maximum one year sentence.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out, and I certainly hope a judge throws it out, but let's avoid the hyperbole: "jailed indefinitely," "search everyone's phone," etc.
Electricity is so simple hey? Those electrons what are they? The reason they have all the effects we call electricity is because they have "charge" and that "charge" creates an "electric field." So what exactly is "charge"? What is an "electric field" and how does "charge" create it?
If you want to get mystical about gravity, we really don't know that much about what electricity actually is deep down at the same level either. A bit higher up though, sure. Just like life: we have decent definitions of it and various people have demonstrated that various aspects of it, like cell walls, can be spontaneously formed from collections of particular chemicals. These guys are working from the other direction, looking at how those chemicals could be manufactured by non-living processes.
He's charged with obstruction. He might have spent a night or two in jail, but he's out on bail now. Even so, I'd much rather go to prison in Canada than the Dominican Republic. I'm pretty sure I'd rather possibly go to prison for a bit in Canada than become a stateless person as well.