It's widely known birth rate reduces with the increase of the standards of living.
Not fundamentally standard of living, but rather female education. Although those two tend to be correlated as well. e.g. http://www.economist.com/node/...
If you spend a month in Europe and eat at McDonald's you're doing it wrong.
My British sister and her young kids (7 and 9) visited my partner and me in Paris - McDonald's was the only place they liked to eat. At any other place the kids objected because the food wasn't like they were used to back home. That even included pizza and Indian food.
according to the Labor Department, employment of tellers is projected to decline 8% over the next decade. The number of bank branches is now declining rather than increasing “because of industry consolidation and technological change.”
To fix this, "take ownership" of your property on Zillow and edit the property details and add an extra 1,000 sqft to it. Magically your value will go up. Thats what I did 5 years ago!
Maybe have to be careful that your property taxes don't go up because of this...!?
A fairly small thing, but please can not use "kW" but use the correct "kW".
Unit symbols are written in lower case letters except for liter and those units derived from the name of a person (m for meter, but W for watt, Pa for pascal, etc.).
Why would I store an address in Contacts if it's a one-shot? For example I'm going to ${CITY} on business and staying at ${HOTEL}. Why would I want to put ${HOTEL}'s address in contacts?
In my contacts I have a specific "one shot" entry, and when I need something for one-time usage, I just overwrite with my the latest temporary entry. Seems to work pretty well...
And isn't that comparable to being able to store in Uber?
But the app wouldn't let me pre-save an address. So I had to write it down to type in to my phone later. Strike one.
For this surely the natural place to store an address is in contacts, isn't it? Then you can select the address in contacts and choose "Uber" as the app. At least it works that way on my android phone.
For the rest, I've also recently started having problems with the app. I made the mistake of updating the app just before I went on a business trip, and found Uber was only intermittently working for me. (I had planned to rely on Uber, rather than renting a car which I'd previously done on similar trips.) I find it amazing that they didn't test their app better before making changes when their whole business is centered on a working app.
Self driving cars are another solution he has proposed to ease traffic congestion.
My suspicion is that self-driving cars will not ease traffic congestion at all, and may make it worse. i.e. they won't reduce the number of car trips but could increase them. Self-driving cars may reduce parking problems - which could therefore result in the increased car usage/congestion.
Those stories about the wonderful life of those Native Americans kinda left out the fact that the Iroquois had to move because they stripped the local area completely bare.
As long as it's a moderately small area that's affected, and it regrows after the humans have moved to a new area allowing people to return again after some years, that's a perfectly sustainable approach.
... there are some things that are simply not possible in this universe no matter how many tweaks and improvements you try to make. Self-aware sentient AI is one, small portal Mr. Fusion type reactor that gives useful net surplus energy is probably another.
We do already have a "proof of concept" in that in the universe we have self-aware sentient entities consuming only 100 W and massing (very roughly) ~100 kg (i.e. us). On the other hand, we know of no natural fusion reactors producing significant energy that mass less than about 1/10 of a solar mass.
Well, more accurately, perhaps the experiment hasn't been running long enough to even see if extended longevity kicked in. The animals don't actually need to die for the experiment to demonstrate life extension.)
To quantify longevity median lifetime is often used, so to get that value you need half of your mice to die. But of course you can still get a lower bound on it before then.
I'm wondering if there are models and estimates for life expectancy in a forward-looking way, perhaps with alternative scenarios for future medical advances.
"The Lee–Carter model is a numerical algorithm used in mortality forecasting and life expectancy forecasting. The input to the model is a matrix of age specific mortality rates ordered monotonically by time, usually with ages in columns and years in rows. The output is another forecasted matrix of mortality rates." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Genetic disorder mitigated by genetic manipulation. Yes?
Instead of progeria-afflicted mice, why not attempt the technique on otherwise healthy mice? If that can be made to result in a 30% lifespan extension, that would be notable.
"The team also saw improved organ health in normal mice but, because the mice are still living, could not yet say if longevity was extended."
Better yet, I'd just say that it's your duty to use an ad blocker, mich like it was to use antivirus software in the past.
The trouble is that more and more sites are now not allowing you to access them without turning off your ad-blocker. So far I've been avoiding those sites, but if the trend continues I might have to do so for at least some sites...
I've seen people hit the lottery for $5 million, quit their job, and come back in a year poor. I can retire on a tenth of that, even planning for long-term inflation.
As the child of somebody who spent her last few years in a nursing home, I think that having as many machines helping out as possible would be wonderful. My mother was disabled, but still very sharp mentally. She needed help to be able to use the toilet, get washed, have food provided for her, etc. Although the staff were basically OK, the number of staff wasn't that high and so she sometimes had to wait a considerable amount of time for a staff member to respond to her buzzer requesting help. (Particularly with other residents requesting help at the same time.) In addition, having a machine helping you rather than a person can help maintain a little bit more dignity. In principle, that would help free up staff for those cases where human attention is really required. And hopefully could enable people to remain in their own homes for longer.
Right. And that could come in the form of a special tariff. I'm told the cost to make an iPhone is around $178. So add a $178 tariff to each one, and it makes the choice very easy for Apple. They can either start making them in the US, providing jobs to Americans
And the Japanese government should charge Toyota several thousand dollars for each car that Toyota makes in the US or other foreign (non-Japan) countries rather than making them in Japan, providing jobs to Japanese workers?
Also the airfair from a decent american destination can hardly be over $500 per person.
More like generally around (or over) $1000 with major airlines. I've been going twice a year - in summer and over the winter holiday season - for the last several years as my French girlfriend spends those times of the year back over in France. The cheapest ticket I've managed to get in the summer was ~$800 with Wow airlines, after including extra baggage charges and seat reservation fees etc.
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It's widely known birth rate reduces with the increase of the standards of living.
Not fundamentally standard of living, but rather female education.
Although those two tend to be correlated as well.
e.g.
http://www.economist.com/node/...
Dictionaries are descriptive and NOT proscriptive.
Don't you mean: "dictionaries are descriptive and not prescriptive",
which is the standard expression?
Or am I just missing the joke...?
http://wikidiff.com/proscripti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you spend a month in Europe and eat at McDonald's you're doing it wrong.
My British sister and her young kids (7 and 9) visited my partner and me in Paris - McDonald's was the only place
they liked to eat. At any other place the kids objected because the food wasn't like they were used to back home.
That even included pizza and Indian food.
This is analogous to the way that ATMs increased jobs for human tellers.
From the article you link to:
according to the Labor Department, employment of tellers is projected to decline 8% over the next decade. The number of bank branches is now declining rather than increasing “because of industry consolidation and technological change.”
To fix this, "take ownership" of your property on Zillow and edit the property details and add an extra 1,000 sqft to it. Magically your value will go up. Thats what I did 5 years ago!
Maybe have to be careful that your property taxes don't go up because of this...!?
"but please can not use "kW" but use the correct "kW"" :-D
Heh, and you made the same mistake in trying to correct him
I think it's some rule of slashdot that any post (particularly ones I make) that attempts
to correct a typo also have a typo...
But I didn't make the same mistake exactly, I typed the correct version twice.
100Kw
A fairly small thing, but please can not use "kW" but use the correct "kW".
Unit symbols are written in lower case letters except for liter and those units derived from the name of a person (m for meter, but W for watt, Pa for pascal, etc.).
https://www.nist.gov/pml/weigh...
Metric prefixes for 1000 and below are lower case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thanks!
and Blade Runner
Seriously, how is this any better than working at your kitchen table?
If you're single, maybe slightly more chance of getting laid?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12...
The first problem can be summed up with the old saying, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, research.".
That's not the old saying. You just made it up.
Why would I store an address in Contacts if it's a one-shot? For example I'm going to ${CITY} on business and staying at ${HOTEL}. Why would I want to put ${HOTEL}'s address in contacts?
In my contacts I have a specific "one shot" entry, and when I need something for one-time usage, I just
overwrite with my the latest temporary entry.
Seems to work pretty well...
And isn't that comparable to being able to store in Uber?
But the app wouldn't let me pre-save an address. So I had to write it down to type in to my phone later. Strike one.
For this surely the natural place to store an address is in contacts, isn't it?
Then you can select the address in contacts and choose "Uber" as the app. At least it works that way on my android phone.
For the rest, I've also recently started having problems with the app.
I made the mistake of updating the app just before I went on a business trip, and found Uber was only
intermittently working for me. (I had planned to rely on Uber, rather than renting a car which I'd previously done on similar trips.)
I find it amazing that they didn't test their app better before making changes when their whole business is centered on a working app.
Self driving cars are another solution he has proposed to ease traffic congestion.
My suspicion is that self-driving cars will not ease traffic congestion at all, and may make it worse.
i.e. they won't reduce the number of car trips but could increase them.
Self-driving cars may reduce parking problems - which could therefore result in the increased car usage/congestion.
Those stories about the wonderful life of those Native Americans kinda left out the fact that the Iroquois had to move because they stripped the local area completely bare.
As long as it's a moderately small area that's affected, and it regrows after the humans have moved to a new area allowing people to return again after some years, that's a perfectly sustainable approach.
So, will Libratus play against DeepStack (from the University of Alberta etc.), which also claims to be able to beat professional level humans...?
DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence in No-Limit Poker
DeepStack becomes the first computer program to beat professional poker players in heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.017...
... there are some things that are simply not possible in this universe no matter how many tweaks and improvements you try to make. Self-aware sentient AI is one, small portal Mr. Fusion type reactor that gives useful net surplus energy is probably another.
We do already have a "proof of concept" in that in the universe we have self-aware sentient entities consuming only 100 W and massing (very roughly) ~100 kg (i.e. us).
On the other hand, we know of no natural fusion reactors producing significant energy that mass less than about 1/10 of a solar mass.
and it's storage would of been harder to get back / have to pay apple shop pricing to use the there recovery cable.
Just wondering if you're trying to get the largest number of grammatical/word usage errors in a single sentence possible...?
Well, more accurately, perhaps the experiment hasn't been running long enough to even see if extended longevity kicked in. The animals don't actually need to die for the experiment to demonstrate life extension.)
To quantify longevity median lifetime is often used, so to get that value you need half of your mice to die. But of course you can still get a lower bound on it before then.
I'm wondering if there are models and estimates for life expectancy in a forward-looking way, perhaps with alternative scenarios for future medical advances.
"The Lee–Carter model is a numerical algorithm used in mortality forecasting and life expectancy forecasting. The input to the model is a matrix of age specific mortality rates ordered monotonically by time, usually with ages in columns and years in rows. The output is another forecasted matrix of mortality rates."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Genetic disorder mitigated by genetic manipulation. Yes?
Instead of progeria-afflicted mice, why not attempt the technique on otherwise healthy mice? If that can be made to result in a 30% lifespan extension, that would be notable.
"The team also saw improved organ health in normal mice but, because the mice are still living, could not yet say if longevity was extended."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12...
Indeed, there is the German tabloid "Bild Zeitung" which does this (no big loss...). Which other site does this?
Forbes and Wired are the ones I notice the most.
Better yet, I'd just say that it's your duty to use an ad blocker, mich like it was to use antivirus software in the past.
The trouble is that more and more sites are now not allowing you to access them without turning off your ad-blocker.
So far I've been avoiding those sites, but if the trend continues I might have to do so for at least some sites...
I've seen people hit the lottery for $5 million, quit their job, and come back in a year poor. I can retire on a tenth of that, even planning for long-term inflation.
Of course - if you're OK living on $20k/year that is.
https://personal.vanguard.com/...
As the child of somebody who spent her last few years in a nursing home, I think that having as many machines helping out as possible would be wonderful.
My mother was disabled, but still very sharp mentally.
She needed help to be able to use the toilet, get washed, have food provided for her, etc.
Although the staff were basically OK, the number of staff wasn't that high and so she sometimes had to wait a considerable amount of time for a staff
member to respond to her buzzer requesting help. (Particularly with other residents requesting help at the same time.)
In addition, having a machine helping you rather than a person can help maintain a little bit more dignity.
In principle, that would help free up staff for those cases where human attention is really required.
And hopefully could enable people to remain in their own homes for longer.
Or at least that would be the ideal...
Right. And that could come in the form of a special tariff. I'm told the cost to make an iPhone is around $178. So add a $178 tariff to each one, and it makes the choice very easy for Apple. They can either start making them in the US, providing jobs to Americans
And the Japanese government should charge Toyota several thousand dollars for each car that Toyota makes in the US or other foreign (non-Japan) countries rather than making them in Japan, providing jobs to Japanese workers?
Also the airfair from a decent american destination can hardly be over $500 per person.
More like generally around (or over) $1000 with major airlines.
I've been going twice a year - in summer and over the winter holiday season - for the last several years as my French girlfriend spends those times of the year back
over in France.
The cheapest ticket I've managed to get in the summer was ~$800 with Wow airlines, after including extra baggage charges and seat reservation fees etc.
How often do you fly to France?