What's the false negative rate for people who never go to the doctor and never monitor their heart? If you are only at the doctor's office for 10 minutes a year and the doctor is only checking your heart rate for 60 seconds under regular resting conditions, then what is the chance that they will catch an abnormal heart rate that may only come up when you're exercising or sleeping?
This sounds like a very useful tool, even if it isn't 100 accurate for positives and negatives all the time. What's the big harm if it says you have a heart condition and you go to your doctor and they detect no problems? A little extra cost on the medical system, but probably less than the offset from others that caught a problem early. And as long as people understand that just because their watch says that they are ok, that's no substitute for going to see your doctor on a regular basis, especially if you are experiencing other problems.
Good story, but I think that stories like yours are the exception rather than the norm. This kind of seems like survivor bias to me. Of all the people who entered similar government run programs there's probably a large number who just couldn't make the cut and we'll just never hear about them.
In just about any machine, you'd probably be better off with an SSD. Even in a cheap laptop, you're better off just getting an SSD and if you really need the extra space, just hook up an external drive over USB. SSDs are so much faster than any other option that trying to still use HDDs as they are cheap per gigabyte just doesn't make sense in the vast majority of cases.
The province will explore the effectiveness of providing a basic income â" no matter what â" to people who are currently living on low incomes, "whether they are working or not," Wynne said.... A single person could receive up to about $17,000 a year, minus half of any income he or she earns.
None of these studies really seem to study true universal basic income, in which everybody, rich or poor, regardless of how much money they make, receives the same basic amount.
All the current trials going on seem to be focused on giving money to people who have no jobs or make very little. We already have program in place that do this kind of thing already, so they probably won't find a whole lot of difference with the systems that we already have. They are basically making small changes to the welfare system in order to not cut off benefits as soon as you find a job. But other than that, there isn't much difference.
I just googled it "which airlines fly denver to chicago", and it shows 5 different airlines that will do that route directly. Spirit, United, Frontier, American, and Southwest. 2 of those names I don't recognize, but 3 of those names are major airlines. I think the choices aren't really as bad as you're making them out to be.
I'll almost always go with Amazon if the item is available from them. However, being from Canada, I find that quite often going through third party Amazon sellers and eBay is really the only way of finding quite a few products online. Americans don't realize how much better their e-commerce selection is than what we get in Canada.
Yeah, I really want to know if this is just a vocal minority thing, or is this a real problem. If you spend $300,000+ on a tractor, is the farmer or some other non-certified technician really qualified to perform software updates on the tractor? modern tractors probably have more in common with industrial robots than they do with the tractors of 50 years ago. You probably won't find a modern factory owner complaining that they can't go around and put whatever software they want on the robotics systems that build their widgets. A farm is basically a food factory, and things will only get more automated in the future.
This is just plain good business sense. Getting hit by a truck is somewhat of a rare experience, but there could be any number of reasons why an employee might need to take extended time off or leave the company at a moments notice. Anything from actually being hit by a truck, having to take time off to look after a family member, serious illnesses like cancer, winning 50 million on the lottery, a new lucrative job offer.
Exactly. We get plenty of applicants for our jobs, but a large number of them are not qualified to do the job. The people who are qualified are already working somewhere else. If and when they are hired, at any price, the company they left will now have to find another person. There is a limited number of skilled individuals to go around.
I guess it depends on what kind of junk you have running in the background. Some people have quite a bit of junk running in the background. It it means that the machine doesn't start lagging right at a crucial moment in the game, then it's probably worth enabling it. I've always thought it was weird that they didn't have a more dedicated gaming mode. Completely shut down all unnecessary background services. This would have been much more useful back in the day of single core processors and spinning hard drives, because a single rogue background process could easily bring your machine to a crawl.
I guess it depends what qualifies as data harvesting. Having crash reports automatically sent off to the developer could help to fix bugs that users just didn't bother to report. The bug can then be fixed, and fixing bugs in software definitely does provide something of value to the users. However, sending out a crash report with pertinent information about what may have caused the crash could very much be described as data harvesting.
How many Uber drivers would be required to get everybody to that train station who is parking there? And they probably all want to be there at about 8AM so they can get to work on time. You'd basically need as many Uber drivers as there are people parking in that lot every day.
The buses have a little "yield" sign on the back that flashes to tell you the driver isn't looking when they pull out
In Ontario (and many other places) it's actually required to yield to a bus driver who is re-entering the lane. Otherwise, buses would pull over and never be able to get back into the lane because people would just keep on passing them. The flashing yield sign is probably to just remind the drivers that an actual law exists and to obey it.
Elliot Lake has only 10,000 people and has a bus service with 4 routes that costs $2.50 a ride or $62 a month. The routes run Monday-Saturday, once an hour from 7 AM to 6 PM, and 9PM on Thursday and Friday. The bus routes cover the majority of the town, especially those with apartment buildings which would be more likely to require buses, as well as the commercial areas.
For the picture in picture mode, you can just set VLC for "Always On Top". I don't know why this was never made an option for every Window. There are various hacks to make it available for all windows but it really should be something that's available by default.
Windows Hello can use any paired iPhone, Android or Windows Phone to detect when you step away from your PC or tablet, automatically locking it behind you for an extra measure of security and privacy. This remote lock feature works with smartphones, fitness bands or any device thatâ(TM)s paired to your PC or table
So it does in fact just lock the computer and not log you out. Whoever wrote the summary obviously screwed up.
Slashdot is missing a few key features. For instance, there is no inbox. I cannot see when people have replied to my comments other than going and clicking on each one of my comments individually. By the time I get around to responding to a reply, it's probably past the point where the person I'm responding to is going to even read my reply.
Really? You don't avoid any taxes whatsoever? You don't claim charitable donations? You don't claim retirement savings? Those are tax deductions that just about everybody does or should be using. What makes claiming your retirement savings any other completely legal way of lowering your taxable income?
At this point the US military is really just a giant citizen employment program. There are about 1.3 million active personnel and they had a total personnel expenditure of around $138 billion.If you all of a sudden decided to slash military spending by a significant amount, you'd have a huge increase in the number of unemployed people. 1.3 million is actually the number of people directly employed by the military and doesn't count the number of people employed as a result of military activities such as the private businesses that sell them food, machinery, vehicles, clothing, and other goods.
My kids use animal jam, which is still working. They seem to enjoy it a lot. There's a free version and paid version where they get access to extra stuff.
That's basically like saying next time you buy a phone you better spend $700 on a phone or you don't deserve to have one running modern software. I can buy a desktop or laptop for half that price and the software remains updated. Why can't the same thing happen on a phone. Is it really too much to ask?
To me, the story seems to be that a bunch of "verified" Twitter accounts can be so easily taken over. All kinds of havoc can be created simply by posting a message to a high profile account. Imagine if somebody were to take over Donald Trump's Twitter account. I think that Twitter should require that all verified accounts undergo extra security to ensure that the accounts aren't taken over. Whether that means two factor authentication, client certificates, or some other means, they should be doing more to ensure that this kind of stuff doesn't happen. That verified checkmark should come with some extra requirement. Twitter currently recommends using two factor authentication for verified accounts, but it isn't a requirement.
Most people forget the very early days of what cable TV was. There's a common short form you'll see on the back of old TVs where the cable plugged in. It was CATV. This stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television. Basically, in areas with poor reception, they would build one giant antenna to get really good reception, and then put a cable to each person's house so that they could get reception of the channels that were coming over the air for free.
I don't think this is anything new. When I was a kid, it was actually more blatant with He-Man, GI-Joe, Thundecats, TMNT, and other shows basically existing only to promote the toys. Going back and watching those shows was almost painful. The quality was so bad. And we watched it anyway because there really wasn't much else on TV.
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What's the false negative rate for people who never go to the doctor and never monitor their heart? If you are only at the doctor's office for 10 minutes a year and the doctor is only checking your heart rate for 60 seconds under regular resting conditions, then what is the chance that they will catch an abnormal heart rate that may only come up when you're exercising or sleeping?
This sounds like a very useful tool, even if it isn't 100 accurate for positives and negatives all the time. What's the big harm if it says you have a heart condition and you go to your doctor and they detect no problems? A little extra cost on the medical system, but probably less than the offset from others that caught a problem early. And as long as people understand that just because their watch says that they are ok, that's no substitute for going to see your doctor on a regular basis, especially if you are experiencing other problems.
Good story, but I think that stories like yours are the exception rather than the norm. This kind of seems like survivor bias to me. Of all the people who entered similar government run programs there's probably a large number who just couldn't make the cut and we'll just never hear about them.
In just about any machine, you'd probably be better off with an SSD. Even in a cheap laptop, you're better off just getting an SSD and if you really need the extra space, just hook up an external drive over USB. SSDs are so much faster than any other option that trying to still use HDDs as they are cheap per gigabyte just doesn't make sense in the vast majority of cases.
None of these studies really seem to study true universal basic income, in which everybody, rich or poor, regardless of how much money they make, receives the same basic amount.
All the current trials going on seem to be focused on giving money to people who have no jobs or make very little. We already have program in place that do this kind of thing already, so they probably won't find a whole lot of difference with the systems that we already have. They are basically making small changes to the welfare system in order to not cut off benefits as soon as you find a job. But other than that, there isn't much difference.
I just googled it "which airlines fly denver to chicago", and it shows 5 different airlines that will do that route directly. Spirit, United, Frontier, American, and Southwest. 2 of those names I don't recognize, but 3 of those names are major airlines. I think the choices aren't really as bad as you're making them out to be.
I'll almost always go with Amazon if the item is available from them. However, being from Canada, I find that quite often going through third party Amazon sellers and eBay is really the only way of finding quite a few products online. Americans don't realize how much better their e-commerce selection is than what we get in Canada.
Yeah, I really want to know if this is just a vocal minority thing, or is this a real problem. If you spend $300,000+ on a tractor, is the farmer or some other non-certified technician really qualified to perform software updates on the tractor? modern tractors probably have more in common with industrial robots than they do with the tractors of 50 years ago. You probably won't find a modern factory owner complaining that they can't go around and put whatever software they want on the robotics systems that build their widgets. A farm is basically a food factory, and things will only get more automated in the future.
This is just plain good business sense. Getting hit by a truck is somewhat of a rare experience, but there could be any number of reasons why an employee might need to take extended time off or leave the company at a moments notice. Anything from actually being hit by a truck, having to take time off to look after a family member, serious illnesses like cancer, winning 50 million on the lottery, a new lucrative job offer.
Exactly. We get plenty of applicants for our jobs, but a large number of them are not qualified to do the job. The people who are qualified are already working somewhere else. If and when they are hired, at any price, the company they left will now have to find another person. There is a limited number of skilled individuals to go around.
I guess it depends on what kind of junk you have running in the background. Some people have quite a bit of junk running in the background. It it means that the machine doesn't start lagging right at a crucial moment in the game, then it's probably worth enabling it. I've always thought it was weird that they didn't have a more dedicated gaming mode. Completely shut down all unnecessary background services. This would have been much more useful back in the day of single core processors and spinning hard drives, because a single rogue background process could easily bring your machine to a crawl.
I guess it depends what qualifies as data harvesting. Having crash reports automatically sent off to the developer could help to fix bugs that users just didn't bother to report. The bug can then be fixed, and fixing bugs in software definitely does provide something of value to the users. However, sending out a crash report with pertinent information about what may have caused the crash could very much be described as data harvesting.
How many Uber drivers would be required to get everybody to that train station who is parking there? And they probably all want to be there at about 8AM so they can get to work on time. You'd basically need as many Uber drivers as there are people parking in that lot every day.
In Ontario (and many other places) it's actually required to yield to a bus driver who is re-entering the lane. Otherwise, buses would pull over and never be able to get back into the lane because people would just keep on passing them. The flashing yield sign is probably to just remind the drivers that an actual law exists and to obey it.
Elliot Lake has only 10,000 people and has a bus service with 4 routes that costs $2.50 a ride or $62 a month. The routes run Monday-Saturday, once an hour from 7 AM to 6 PM, and 9PM on Thursday and Friday. The bus routes cover the majority of the town, especially those with apartment buildings which would be more likely to require buses, as well as the commercial areas.
For the picture in picture mode, you can just set VLC for "Always On Top". I don't know why this was never made an option for every Window. There are various hacks to make it available for all windows but it really should be something that's available by default.
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So it does in fact just lock the computer and not log you out. Whoever wrote the summary obviously screwed up.
Slashdot is missing a few key features. For instance, there is no inbox. I cannot see when people have replied to my comments other than going and clicking on each one of my comments individually. By the time I get around to responding to a reply, it's probably past the point where the person I'm responding to is going to even read my reply.
The battery does.
Really? You don't avoid any taxes whatsoever? You don't claim charitable donations? You don't claim retirement savings? Those are tax deductions that just about everybody does or should be using. What makes claiming your retirement savings any other completely legal way of lowering your taxable income?
At this point the US military is really just a giant citizen employment program. There are about 1.3 million active personnel and they had a total personnel expenditure of around $138 billion.If you all of a sudden decided to slash military spending by a significant amount, you'd have a huge increase in the number of unemployed people. 1.3 million is actually the number of people directly employed by the military and doesn't count the number of people employed as a result of military activities such as the private businesses that sell them food, machinery, vehicles, clothing, and other goods.
My kids use animal jam, which is still working. They seem to enjoy it a lot. There's a free version and paid version where they get access to extra stuff.
That's basically like saying next time you buy a phone you better spend $700 on a phone or you don't deserve to have one running modern software. I can buy a desktop or laptop for half that price and the software remains updated. Why can't the same thing happen on a phone. Is it really too much to ask?
To me, the story seems to be that a bunch of "verified" Twitter accounts can be so easily taken over. All kinds of havoc can be created simply by posting a message to a high profile account. Imagine if somebody were to take over Donald Trump's Twitter account. I think that Twitter should require that all verified accounts undergo extra security to ensure that the accounts aren't taken over. Whether that means two factor authentication, client certificates, or some other means, they should be doing more to ensure that this kind of stuff doesn't happen. That verified checkmark should come with some extra requirement. Twitter currently recommends using two factor authentication for verified accounts, but it isn't a requirement.
Most people forget the very early days of what cable TV was. There's a common short form you'll see on the back of old TVs where the cable plugged in. It was CATV. This stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television. Basically, in areas with poor reception, they would build one giant antenna to get really good reception, and then put a cable to each person's house so that they could get reception of the channels that were coming over the air for free.
I don't think this is anything new. When I was a kid, it was actually more blatant with He-Man, GI-Joe, Thundecats, TMNT, and other shows basically existing only to promote the toys. Going back and watching those shows was almost painful. The quality was so bad. And we watched it anyway because there really wasn't much else on TV.