The problem with the US health "system" is that it even relatively wealthy patients are at risk of bankruptcy paying for it. Just bite the 'socialist" bullet and introduce a sane UHC system like most other western nations did 30-40yrs ago. Also "the invisible hand" == "government regulation", by that I mean even your "frictionless free enterprise" cannot exist without some form of property law.
The Abbot luddites have just been rolled here in Oz. Abbot and Harper are ideological soulmates, the same anti-science tactics were used here in Oz while they were in charge, although I must say that eating a raw onion was a unique and entertaining diversion.
Yes, sometime the branches on the tree rub together and the consequences can be huge, such as when mitochondria 'decided' to take up residence in a larger cell and created the common ancestor of all animals. We don't know nearly enough about "open source" mutations to start mapping them, however if we took this tree and added genome sequences to the leaves and branch points, we might get some more hints.
OTOH a "tree of life" doesn't really care about how the mutations occurred because 'species' is a somewhat arbitrary term that divides a continuum of tiny changes, much like the continuum of real numbers that exists between two integers. This is best illustrated with Ring Species
I have been atheist/agnostic for over 50yrs, CSM has been in print for 100. In my experience CSM understands (and chronicles) science better than most MSM rags. Unlike Isaac Newton, I have never heard them spewing religious nonsense at their audience.
While Ahmed may have been innocent (but that's not been proved as yet [my emphasis]
Somehow I missed this gem in my first reply? Did you realise that you are now so scared of terrorists that you are willing to throw out the Magna Carta? Is that how you "defend your freedoms"? - by capitulating to their demands?
If the teachers/cops thought the box was a credible threat, the school would have been evacuated and the bomb squad called in, they do the evacuation part even if they think it is a prank call. Neither action was taken here, yet they had physical 'evidence' of the bomb. To me this indicates they thought the kid was being a smart-arse and gave him the "scare the naughty boy" routine. The only thing different about the millions of other kids around the world who have received a traditional "official scare," is that this time it backfired on the officials. Which IMO is a good thing, since the practice does nothing but stamp the "might is right" message on its hapless victims.
The odd thing here is that one teacher knew he had the clock and it knew was harmless, that teacher "saw something", why did he not speak up when the others thought it was a "credible threat"?
I've been on FB for about a year, it is actually a very good way for we boomers to keep in touch with our family and frienemies.
Buttons I would like (pun intended)
-Pseudoscience
-Shill
-Paid propaganda.
-Unpaid propaganda.
-Dog whistle
-Bad medicine
-Inconvenient truth
-Convenient truth
-Mostly harmless.
-Useful idiot
-Useless idiot
-If the author is not on drugs, he should be.
- All of the slashdot mod labels.
People don't want to take the time to say how they really feel.
I have a standard one word reply to far-right propaganda from FB friends that tells them exactly how I feel, "Unsubscribe". I haven't lost any FB friends, and the "offensive material" dried up more or less as soon as I started doing it. Try it on your own pet peeve, you will be surprised at just how powerful one word can be.
If as you say, "most folks are on it at least 1-2x a day, if not longer" then clearly it is relevant news to "most folks". Is it 'important'? - No, and few people would claim that it was, but it doesn't have to be "important news" to be "news".
Back OT - I agree with Zuckerberg, a "dislike" button would be the death of FB, it's bread and butter comes from millions of old fart "sheeple" like me who do not want to keep in contact with their grandkids via reddit, tyvm.
It's a brilliant troll, in my experience as a grandad of three, I have found that 14yr olds have a tendency to bear bait authority figures in imaginative ways. Of all the people in the world, you would think professional teacher's and cops could find a better way to show the kid that bear baiting doesn't work.
What the royal family thinks may not matter to the commoner but it certainly matters to a "potentially government-forming political party". Not so-much in a legal/constitutional sense, but in a social-networking sense they can cannot (in practice) be totally ignored by anyone with political ambitions in the United Kingdom.
I know jack shit about the guy but most western politicians* are "honest" and virtually all of them firmly believe they are "making the world a better place". That doesn't stop the opposition's attempts to make mud from dust.
* - For example, Trump is clearly a xenophobic lunatic, but it's hard to argue he is insincere.
Homeopathic medicine is fucking water, that's it, plain old water. You may get some minor placebo benefits from drinking magic water, but literally ANYTHING (including real medicine) can act as a placebo if the patient has blind faith it will work.The problem here is that the vast majority of politicians do not understand how to research an everyday scientific question, which is ironic because they all claim to follow science based policy. The real problem is the don't need to understand the philosophy of science to get elected because the vast majority of the electorate either don't understand it, or don't appreciate its utility.
Mine often fills up, when it does it sends memories to the bit bucket. Sometimes I can't make it from one room to another before it throws away what I was thinking, other times it puts the soy-sauce in the microwave rather than the fridge.
There are a few blocks with "input" and "hidden layer 1"/ hidden layer 2. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing
At some point you have to stop explaining subject specific phrases in an article, "hidden layer" means something something to people who have a basic understanding of the subject, google it if you don't.
The #1 goal of a university degree is to teach the student how to research a topic, or at least it should be. Youtube is a very good source of self-learning material, unfortunately the good stuff is buried under a mountain of crap, if you don't know how to research you will be more easily mislead by the shills and scammers no matter where you look. YT is also pretty good for handyman demos, eg: I know how to hang a door, when my daugher and her hubby recently asked me how to do it, I sent them a YT link, I didn't demo it myself because they live a few hours drive away. They hung six doors that afternoon.:)
TED talks are great way to expand your interests but they are about "exchanging ideas", they are not aimed at teaching you a new skill. Tracking that sort of thing may say something about the person's intellectual curiosity but it won't say much about their actual skills (in the same way a 'real' CS degree won't teach you how to code in a commercial environment).
Not at all, I work for a Japanese multinational in Oz, the boss is always telling us there is money for training courses if anyone wants it. I usually take a few days a year for "self-learning", basically if I see something that may be useful to our work, I spend a day or two reading up on it, try out some demos, etc, then book it to training. The company WANT me to do that because the "training" is relevant and there is a $1.20 tax deduction for every $1.00 they spent on training (up to some fixed limit). Some people spend it on formal training courses, most of the devs in my group are degree qualified and are more comfortable/efficient researching a (tech) topic alone.
The great thing is that I do things such as watch MIT lecture courses to satisfy personal curiosity anyway, I just have to connect it to work to be paid for doing it.
Yep, dangerous hoons do not become famous Oz, and rarely are they able to bait cops into doing something stupid. In my state they have their supercars crushed in front of the local media, they don't have to watch, and rarely do. It's a 'cultural' norm that was fostered by a science based bi-partisan approach to the road toll that started way back in the 70's. In Victoria the toll is numerically ~1/10th of what it was in 1970, yet an order of magnitude more cars are on the road.
Spot on, in fact there's a fair number of responsible petrol heads amongst the NSW highway patrol, and they have been in their ranks for a couple of generations now. IMO they're "eating their own dog food" and genuinely trying to set a good example for the bogans to follow.
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The problem with the US health "system" is that it even relatively wealthy patients are at risk of bankruptcy paying for it. Just bite the 'socialist" bullet and introduce a sane UHC system like most other western nations did 30-40yrs ago. Also "the invisible hand" == "government regulation", by that I mean even your "frictionless free enterprise" cannot exist without some form of property law.
The Abbot luddites have just been rolled here in Oz. Abbot and Harper are ideological soulmates, the same anti-science tactics were used here in Oz while they were in charge, although I must say that eating a raw onion was a unique and entertaining diversion.
Yes, sometime the branches on the tree rub together and the consequences can be huge, such as when mitochondria 'decided' to take up residence in a larger cell and created the common ancestor of all animals. We don't know nearly enough about "open source" mutations to start mapping them, however if we took this tree and added genome sequences to the leaves and branch points, we might get some more hints.
OTOH a "tree of life" doesn't really care about how the mutations occurred because 'species' is a somewhat arbitrary term that divides a continuum of tiny changes, much like the continuum of real numbers that exists between two integers. This is best illustrated with Ring Species
He's dead.Jim.
I have been atheist/agnostic for over 50yrs, CSM has been in print for 100. In my experience CSM understands (and chronicles) science better than most MSM rags. Unlike Isaac Newton, I have never heard them spewing religious nonsense at their audience.
While Ahmed may have been innocent (but that's not been proved as yet [my emphasis]
Somehow I missed this gem in my first reply? Did you realise that you are now so scared of terrorists that you are willing to throw out the Magna Carta? Is that how you "defend your freedoms"? - by capitulating to their demands?
If the teachers/cops thought the box was a credible threat, the school would have been evacuated and the bomb squad called in, they do the evacuation part even if they think it is a prank call. Neither action was taken here, yet they had physical 'evidence' of the bomb. To me this indicates they thought the kid was being a smart-arse and gave him the "scare the naughty boy" routine. The only thing different about the millions of other kids around the world who have received a traditional "official scare," is that this time it backfired on the officials. Which IMO is a good thing, since the practice does nothing but stamp the "might is right" message on its hapless victims.
The odd thing here is that one teacher knew he had the clock and it knew was harmless, that teacher "saw something", why did he not speak up when the others thought it was a "credible threat"?
I've been on FB for about a year, it is actually a very good way for we boomers to keep in touch with our family and frienemies.
Buttons I would like (pun intended)
-Pseudoscience
-Shill
-Paid propaganda.
-Unpaid propaganda.
-Dog whistle
-Bad medicine
-Inconvenient truth
-Convenient truth
-Mostly harmless.
-Useful idiot
-Useless idiot
-If the author is not on drugs, he should be.
- All of the slashdot mod labels.
People don't want to take the time to say how they really feel.
I have a standard one word reply to far-right propaganda from FB friends that tells them exactly how I feel, "Unsubscribe". I haven't lost any FB friends, and the "offensive material" dried up more or less as soon as I started doing it. Try it on your own pet peeve, you will be surprised at just how powerful one word can be.
If as you say, "most folks are on it at least 1-2x a day, if not longer" then clearly it is relevant news to "most folks". Is it 'important'? - No, and few people would claim that it was, but it doesn't have to be "important news" to be "news".
Back OT - I agree with Zuckerberg, a "dislike" button would be the death of FB, it's bread and butter comes from millions of old fart "sheeple" like me who do not want to keep in contact with their grandkids via reddit, tyvm.
They say perception is everything, but does it just appear to be that way? ;)
It's a brilliant troll, in my experience as a grandad of three, I have found that 14yr olds have a tendency to bear bait authority figures in imaginative ways. Of all the people in the world, you would think professional teacher's and cops could find a better way to show the kid that bear baiting doesn't work.
What the royal family thinks may not matter to the commoner but it certainly matters to a "potentially government-forming political party". Not so-much in a legal/constitutional sense, but in a social-networking sense they can cannot (in practice) be totally ignored by anyone with political ambitions in the United Kingdom.
I know jack shit about the guy but most western politicians* are "honest" and virtually all of them firmly believe they are "making the world a better place". That doesn't stop the opposition's attempts to make mud from dust.
* - For example, Trump is clearly a xenophobic lunatic, but it's hard to argue he is insincere.
Homeopathic medicine is fucking water, that's it, plain old water. You may get some minor placebo benefits from drinking magic water, but literally ANYTHING (including real medicine) can act as a placebo if the patient has blind faith it will work.The problem here is that the vast majority of politicians do not understand how to research an everyday scientific question, which is ironic because they all claim to follow science based policy. The real problem is the don't need to understand the philosophy of science to get elected because the vast majority of the electorate either don't understand it, or don't appreciate its utility.
Mine often fills up, when it does it sends memories to the bit bucket. Sometimes I can't make it from one room to another before it throws away what I was thinking, other times it puts the soy-sauce in the microwave rather than the fridge.
There are a few blocks with "input" and "hidden layer 1"/ hidden layer 2. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing
At some point you have to stop explaining subject specific phrases in an article, "hidden layer" means something something to people who have a basic understanding of the subject, google it if you don't.
"Models" not "matches", and the results (sometimes literally) speak for themselves.
The #1 goal of a university degree is to teach the student how to research a topic, or at least it should be. Youtube is a very good source of self-learning material, unfortunately the good stuff is buried under a mountain of crap, if you don't know how to research you will be more easily mislead by the shills and scammers no matter where you look. YT is also pretty good for handyman demos, eg: I know how to hang a door, when my daugher and her hubby recently asked me how to do it, I sent them a YT link, I didn't demo it myself because they live a few hours drive away. They hung six doors that afternoon. :)
TED talks are great way to expand your interests but they are about "exchanging ideas", they are not aimed at teaching you a new skill. Tracking that sort of thing may say something about the person's intellectual curiosity but it won't say much about their actual skills (in the same way a 'real' CS degree won't teach you how to code in a commercial environment).
Not at all, I work for a Japanese multinational in Oz, the boss is always telling us there is money for training courses if anyone wants it. I usually take a few days a year for "self-learning", basically if I see something that may be useful to our work, I spend a day or two reading up on it, try out some demos, etc, then book it to training. The company WANT me to do that because the "training" is relevant and there is a $1.20 tax deduction for every $1.00 they spent on training (up to some fixed limit). Some people spend it on formal training courses, most of the devs in my group are degree qualified and are more comfortable/efficient researching a (tech) topic alone.
The great thing is that I do things such as watch MIT lecture courses to satisfy personal curiosity anyway, I just have to connect it to work to be paid for doing it.
The only people that have any legitimate fear of getting shot are criminals.
Nice troll!
Yep, dangerous hoons do not become famous Oz, and rarely are they able to bait cops into doing something stupid. In my state they have their supercars crushed in front of the local media, they don't have to watch, and rarely do. It's a 'cultural' norm that was fostered by a science based bi-partisan approach to the road toll that started way back in the 70's. In Victoria the toll is numerically ~1/10th of what it was in 1970, yet an order of magnitude more cars are on the road.
Disclaimer: Aussie driver's license 1978-2015.
a bridge between petrol heads and police
Spot on, in fact there's a fair number of responsible petrol heads amongst the NSW highway patrol, and they have been in their ranks for a couple of generations now. IMO they're "eating their own dog food" and genuinely trying to set a good example for the bogans to follow.
You have no rights at all when it comes to business.
Keep believing that and it will come true.
If the French State decides that violating it's rules will protect it from future terror attacks the rules will be violated.
The sinking of the 'Rainbow Warrior" is an excellent example.