I signed up for this, had the measurements and gave the samples. Some may worry about the privacy implications, but I don't see any more risk than that from any other medical care.
the monumental effort to reconcile general relativity with quantum theory flounders in part because of the difficulty of developing a theory of quantum gravity that has the same general covariance Einstein achieved with his field equations. “In some sense you could argue the reason we don’t have an adequate quantum theory of gravity is we don’t know how to express the solutions to Einstein’s equations in a way that completely removes any kind of coordinate dependence,” said Weatherall.
It sounds like he recognized that there was something he couldn't explain, so he backed off a bit and looked for the explanation rather than charge forward and risk looking foolish.
So the answer is more bus lanes - and more buses - and more public transit in general - not less. That's because experience shows that if you've got a city with millions of people living in it, the proper way to organize it is 1) build it at high density and 2) move people around primarily using high-capacity public transit, not cars.
Yes, there are a few places in the center of large cities where there are enough office jobs to make public transportation work (New York and Washington DC here in the US are good examples). But it doesn't work when the jobs are spread out like most US cities.
Try counting the number of people transported by buses sometime; unless the buses are running a few seconds apart they will never move more people that a stream of cars.
It may take longer but it's the more righteous path than censoring.
It's only righteous if they are completely fair in determining when to link to the "accurate" story. But there is no way that can ever happen because you will never get anyone to agree on what's fair (especially with Google making the call).
That just introduces other problems, like trying to separate commercial versus private use inside a private residence. Which also gets you into zoning issues. Bottom line is that they want to sell electricity to residents and businesses that benefit the residents (like restaurants, etc.). There's no reason for them to encourage a short-term fad like coin mining that has no public benefit and then be stuck with extra power capacity when the fad dies.
IHeartMedia has struggled with debt that was taken on to finance a $17.9 billion leveraged buyout in 2008 of what was then Clear Channel Communications Inc...the company spent $1.4 billion on interest payments last year
It's not hard when you pay $18b for a company that isn't profitable enough to pay the interest on the junk bonds.
ord and GM had parts fabricated away from the assembly line, so there was a lot less yield related issues by the time someone was bolting on a part, those were dealt with elsewhere.
Either the manufacturing and inspection processes work, or they don't. It doesn't make any difference where the part is made.
That wasn't insider trading. Hillary went to a crooked stock broker who simply stole money from one client and gave it to another; he wasn't prosecuted by then Attorney General of Arkansas Bill Clinton for some reason.
So as a real-life navigation system, zero usefulness.
That depends on what you mean by "real-life navigation". When you are walking on a named street that you are familiar with you can use street numbers (if you can find them on the buildings). But this system is intended for Google Maps, so a Cartesian grid (or really, a grid of grids) makes perfect sense. Find the 100 x 100 kilometer locality, then zero in on the spot of interest. That is far more efficient than trying to figure out how a street is numbered when looking at a map.
They are an alternative to addresses when an address (i.e. PO box or house number, street, and city) doesn't exist.
Google created “Plus Codes” for addresses that are not easily located through conventional descriptors like street names or house numbers. In fact, according to a World Bank estimate, half of the world’s urban population lives on unnamed streets.
I've been on Slashdot under many different handles almost since its inception, and I would say that in the past 5 years or so it has failed. Why? Probably just because more people are online, and you only get along with most people personally, not by "discussing controversial topics" but by dealing with them in daily interactions.
I agree that slashdot has failed, but i think the reason is different. Back in its heyday, stories in the firehose which were voted up made the front page. Today, voting doesn't really matter; the editors find and post stories according to their own agenda (e.g. Trump bashing and SWJ stories). That filter/selection process by the editors far outweighs any moderation.
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Pat Paulsen has a better chance than Yang.
Sequencing your DNA doesn't tell you your state of health.
Sheesh, at least read the summary. This isn't a one-time DNA sample; the study is to track the volunteers' medical records for several years.
Nope. Pre-existing conditions can't be used to determine your premiums.
data collected by some program like this has no such protections
All medical data (PHI - Protected Health Information) falls under HIPAA, doesn't matter who collects it.
They're following all the HIPAA security rules for protecting PHI.
Within a couple of years DNA testing will be commonplace, your choices will be submit to it or self-treat with herbs (and good luck with that).
I signed up for this, had the measurements and gave the samples. Some may worry about the privacy implications, but I don't see any more risk than that from any other medical care.
the monumental effort to reconcile general relativity with quantum theory flounders in part because of the difficulty of developing a theory of quantum gravity that has the same general covariance Einstein achieved with his field equations. “In some sense you could argue the reason we don’t have an adequate quantum theory of gravity is we don’t know how to express the solutions to Einstein’s equations in a way that completely removes any kind of coordinate dependence,” said Weatherall.
It sounds like he recognized that there was something he couldn't explain, so he backed off a bit and looked for the explanation rather than charge forward and risk looking foolish.
So the answer is more bus lanes - and more buses - and more public transit in general - not less. That's because experience shows that if you've got a city with millions of people living in it, the proper way to organize it is 1) build it at high density and 2) move people around primarily using high-capacity public transit, not cars.
Yes, there are a few places in the center of large cities where there are enough office jobs to make public transportation work (New York and Washington DC here in the US are good examples). But it doesn't work when the jobs are spread out like most US cities.
Try counting the number of people transported by buses sometime; unless the buses are running a few seconds apart they will never move more people that a stream of cars.
It is obvious you don't deal with text day-in and day-out.
My text editing days go back to using SPF on mainframes. Now get off my lawn.
I don't know what this article is about, but I'm sure the Russians are involved somehow.
There are some people on this world that don't believe in basic science.
There are also people on the world who can't see a joke when it hits them in the face.
It may take longer but it's the more righteous path than censoring.
It's only righteous if they are completely fair in determining when to link to the "accurate" story. But there is no way that can ever happen because you will never get anyone to agree on what's fair (especially with Google making the call).
The top vote getters for text editor are vim and emacs? That right there tells you why linux will never succeed on the desktop.
We need to draw a red line in the sand. That'll scare them.
It's a publicly owned utility. The only thing they should be considering is overall public good. The laws capitalism don't apply to the city council.
That just introduces other problems, like trying to separate commercial versus private use inside a private residence. Which also gets you into zoning issues. Bottom line is that they want to sell electricity to residents and businesses that benefit the residents (like restaurants, etc.). There's no reason for them to encourage a short-term fad like coin mining that has no public benefit and then be stuck with extra power capacity when the fad dies.
If you believe the collusion conspiracy, those people are some of Putin's closest aides.
IHeartMedia has struggled with debt that was taken on to finance a $17.9 billion leveraged buyout in 2008 of what was then Clear Channel Communications Inc...the company spent $1.4 billion on interest payments last year
It's not hard when you pay $18b for a company that isn't profitable enough to pay the interest on the junk bonds.
Oh come on, you're going to spoil everyone's outrage with facts. This story is fake news, enjoy it while you can!
ord and GM had parts fabricated away from the assembly line, so there was a lot less yield related issues by the time someone was bolting on a part, those were dealt with elsewhere.
Either the manufacturing and inspection processes work, or they don't. It doesn't make any difference where the part is made.
That wasn't insider trading. Hillary went to a crooked stock broker who simply stole money from one client and gave it to another; he wasn't prosecuted by then Attorney General of Arkansas Bill Clinton for some reason.
So as a real-life navigation system, zero usefulness.
That depends on what you mean by "real-life navigation". When you are walking on a named street that you are familiar with you can use street numbers (if you can find them on the buildings). But this system is intended for Google Maps, so a Cartesian grid (or really, a grid of grids) makes perfect sense. Find the 100 x 100 kilometer locality, then zero in on the spot of interest. That is far more efficient than trying to figure out how a street is numbered when looking at a map.
Google created “Plus Codes” for addresses that are not easily located through conventional descriptors like street names or house numbers. In fact, according to a World Bank estimate, half of the world’s urban population lives on unnamed streets.
I've been on Slashdot under many different handles almost since its inception, and I would say that in the past 5 years or so it has failed. Why? Probably just because more people are online, and you only get along with most people personally, not by "discussing controversial topics" but by dealing with them in daily interactions.
I agree that slashdot has failed, but i think the reason is different. Back in its heyday, stories in the firehose which were voted up made the front page. Today, voting doesn't really matter; the editors find and post stories according to their own agenda (e.g. Trump bashing and SWJ stories). That filter/selection process by the editors far outweighs any moderation.
They're interfering with our electromagnetic interference; better start another investigation. I blame Jared for this.