Do you know how rare of an event it is to die from the measles in the United States? At 387 cases/year, and a death rate of 1 in 1,000, that's about one death every three years.
Let me put it this way, about 17 people died from a confirmed negative reaction to the MMR vaccine in 2017 (most recent year I could find good data for).
Another point of comparison... 60,000 people die from the flu each year. Wouldn't it make sense to worry a little bit more about preventing the spread of the flu than about measles (a few cases mostly imported from abroad), at this point? You can influence that with sick leave policies, cultural changes like convincing people to wear medical masks when they walk around and are sick, etc... As bonus, that will all also have a slight positive impact by minimizing the spread of other diseases like measles a little bit.
You aren't going to have a meaningful impact on the one death every three years from the measles pretty much whatever you do, unless you're going massively intrusive, like 100% screening of everyone entering the country.
Naw, the flu. About 60,000 people in the United States die on average each year from the flu and people are worried about the (at the reported rate of 387/year w/measles) one person every three years in the United States who would die on average from measles.
Speaking of a sense of proportion.... in the United States you're three times as likely to die from a shark attack (1 death per year on average) as you are from from the measles (1 death every 3 years on average from 387 reported measles cases per year).
To put that into further perspective, the U.S. averages 11 deaths from fireworks and 24 from train crashes per year. Death from a literal lightning strike is 141 times as common than dying from the measles in the United States.
The Nazis, AKA the National Socialists, and the fascists were against the International Socialists, AKA the Communists. Their platforms in terms of demands had about 90% overlap. They mostly differed in terms of who should be in charge, them or the other guys, not in what they promised to do once they were in charge.
It was more like an argument between Southern Baptists and the Baptists General Convention over whether to marry homosexuals or not. Beyond that one issue, they're basically the same, with very similar beliefs and tactics.
That's why pretty much all the major fascist leaders were members of socialist and "worker's" parties.
Yeah, you can also find DRM-free books at Amazon. Look for "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" in the ebook details. It's up to the publisher whether to enable DRM or not on a per book basis on Amazon. Even with it on, book pirates have it stripped off within minutes of publication, so more and more publishers are choosing to disable it.
There is a virtually unlimited amount of available work which could be done, if only we were wealthier and had more people freed up to work on it. We'll never run out.
Get back to us when the galaxy has been remodeled to suit us and we need to start talking about how we're going to begin arranging the rest of the universe...
Which is why for the longest time we focused on hitting ICBMs while they were still on their way up or at the top of their arc. This test is specifically to prove out having the capability to also hit the ones remaining at the end.
Even if you can kill 99% of what is launched at you before the MIRVs separate, it's still really nice to save a few more nuclear detonations by taking out what remains on it's way down at you. Otherwise, by the time you know which ones you missed, it's too late to do anything about them except hide your head under your desk.
Exactly. Facebook and others who support a wide range of views (unlike a single topic forum, or something like that) should just accept that some people will be offended some of the time. They should block illegal stuff and and leave everything else alone as a platform.
At the same time, they can still create easy ways for people to voluntarily restrict what they see. If you don't want anything from group X, or about topic Y, then make it easy if that shows up to just block it from your feed so it no longer exists for you.
Yeah, they'll get accused of "supporting" Z when really they're just tolerating Z, just like they tolerate everything else, but going beyond that to pick sides in cultural wars and the like doesn't end well. There is a bright line of legal/illegal, stick to that and tell the people who complain how to block it for themselves.
Ah yes... Parliament passes the Corn Laws, overtaxing grain imports so that corn and bread become prohibitively expensive, so people rely on eating potatoes instead, then a potato blight hits and the suddenly the over-reliance on potatoes is the "free market" in action and the government tariffs which created the situation are to be ignored.
The problem is that you're ignorant to the negative side effects of what really happens when people try to control vast swaths of the economy, not the least of which is regulatory capture where the most powerful companies being regulated end up over time influencing the regulations to mostly hurt any new competition from being started against them, which is mostly how we got in the current situation in the first place.
But sure, it's always more regulation is needed to fix the bad effects of the previous rounds of regulations and this time it'll be different. Have you actually read the NN rules? They're not exactly a statement of NN principles.
Pretty sure he's saying that he's against tyranny altogether, by anyone. The basic concept is that people have certain inalienable rights and that other people under the cloak of government can't morally violate them, even if they can convince a majority of the people who live in a geographic region to agree that they want to.
As "tyranny of the majority" is a known failure mode for governments in which leadership is selected via voting, several safeguards were designed into the U.S. Constitution to limit this, and other risks. These involved super-majority requirements for changing the structure of the government, various hard-coded limitations on power and authority, plus splitting power between various groups selected or elected by different methods. The minority is much less likely to have the power to tyrannize anyone without support from the larger population, but most of the same safeguards limiting various people's power to violated our rights work against them as well. It's not perfect as a safeguard against tyranny, but at least it's been failing relatively slowly compared to most places.
Exactly. I have gigabit up and down, from Google. They can't currently stream YouTube at 4k without buffering, it stalls occasionally. Seems like they're going to have some growing pains on this while they create gaming content servers in every local area.
The good news is that they'll probably be underutilized for a long time, until more people get good enough connections for it to matter.
Bad start, when the headline writer and the article author feel the need to lie to their readers from the very beginning.
All of the "kickstarters staff" isn't unionizing, the article writer tries his hardest to claim this is on behalf of all of their staff, but it's obvious from the end that there are some people who work at Kickstarter (how many exactly isn't stated... hmmm.... wonder why?) who want them to unionize, but they haven't actually unionized yet. That requires and actual vote of the staff who would be effected, which apparently hasn't happened yet.
As far as I can tell from the various articles, there are some members of staff who are working on "forming" a labor union called Kickstarter United.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara? he said.
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.
Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheatlands, while the Soviet Union could reap bumper crops if it adapts its agriculture in time, according to a study by UNEP and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Excess carbon dioxide is pouring into the atmosphere because of humanity’s use of fossil fuels and burning of rain forests, the study says. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than it radiates, much like a greenhouse.
The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.
Of course, this story was published 30 years ago, so we might need to take the predictions with a grain of salt, considering even the most pro-climate change sources only think we had maybe 0.7 degrees of global warming in the last 30 years and none of the predicted effects have happened. I guess the "most conservative scientific estimate" wasn't conservative enough.
But don't worry, this time it'll be different and the sky really is falling...
Exactly. The odds of people relying on "luck" as the driving force for success are going to have their odds of being successful be about the same as winning the lottery. For the people who rely on working hard and doing the right things instead, the vast majority of them will be successful.
To think the first attitude is "better" than the second is crazy and self-defeating. Did the article writers "luck" into the article, having it appear magically fully formed for them on their computer, or did they put out some tiny amount of effort in writing it and that was required to accomplish it?
Sure, there are some fields and endeavors where lottery-style luck plays more of a part than in others where it doesn't. The genetic lottery-based NBA is one of those where it does. But even if you are given the right genetics, parents and opportunities, to be great in the NBA still requires hard work. Luck, or privilege, or whatever isn't sufficient. You can succeed on pure hustle, but you can't reliably succeed by doing nothing and being "lucky".
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
Americans consume a lot more than those in Europe but have a similar or lower quality of life
People in the United States are much wealthier than those in Europe in general, with a much higher quality of life. From the OECD Society at a glance figures, Sweden and Germany have about the same average disposable income as Alabama, Kentucky and Montana, not exactly considered economic power houses. Places like Portugal or Poland are at half of Mississippi's level. Most European countries fall within the bottom third of the United States when you compare them to specific States.
As carbon use correlates with wealth, it's obvious that the US will use more than Europe and Europeans will use more than third-world and developing nations, on a per person basis.
A study published in the Journal of Economic Growth in 2013 finds that between 1949 and 2005 the accumulation of federal regulations slowed US economic growth by an average of 2 percent per year.[5] Had the amount of regulation remained at its 1949 level, 2011 GDP would have been about $39 trillion—or 3.5 times—higher than it was.
From: John W. Dawson and John J. Seater, “Federal Regulation and Aggregate Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic Growth 12, no. 2 (2013): 137–77.
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Do you know how rare of an event it is to die from the measles in the United States? At 387 cases/year, and a death rate of 1 in 1,000, that's about one death every three years.
Let me put it this way, about 17 people died from a confirmed negative reaction to the MMR vaccine in 2017 (most recent year I could find good data for).
Another point of comparison... 60,000 people die from the flu each year. Wouldn't it make sense to worry a little bit more about preventing the spread of the flu than about measles (a few cases mostly imported from abroad), at this point? You can influence that with sick leave policies, cultural changes like convincing people to wear medical masks when they walk around and are sick, etc... As bonus, that will all also have a slight positive impact by minimizing the spread of other diseases like measles a little bit.
You aren't going to have a meaningful impact on the one death every three years from the measles pretty much whatever you do, unless you're going massively intrusive, like 100% screening of everyone entering the country.
Naw, the flu. About 60,000 people in the United States die on average each year from the flu and people are worried about the (at the reported rate of 387/year w/measles) one person every three years in the United States who would die on average from measles.
Time to get a sense of proportion....
Speaking of a sense of proportion.... in the United States you're three times as likely to die from a shark attack (1 death per year on average) as you are from from the measles (1 death every 3 years on average from 387 reported measles cases per year).
To put that into further perspective, the U.S. averages 11 deaths from fireworks and 24 from train crashes per year. Death from a literal lightning strike is 141 times as common than dying from the measles in the United States.
So let's not overreact quite yet.
The Nazis, AKA the National Socialists, and the fascists were against the International Socialists, AKA the Communists. Their platforms in terms of demands had about 90% overlap. They mostly differed in terms of who should be in charge, them or the other guys, not in what they promised to do once they were in charge.
It was more like an argument between Southern Baptists and the Baptists General Convention over whether to marry homosexuals or not. Beyond that one issue, they're basically the same, with very similar beliefs and tactics.
That's why pretty much all the major fascist leaders were members of socialist and "worker's" parties.
Yeah, you can also find DRM-free books at Amazon. Look for "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" in the ebook details. It's up to the publisher whether to enable DRM or not on a per book basis on Amazon. Even with it on, book pirates have it stripped off within minutes of publication, so more and more publishers are choosing to disable it.
There is a virtually unlimited amount of available work which could be done, if only we were wealthier and had more people freed up to work on it. We'll never run out.
Get back to us when the galaxy has been remodeled to suit us and we need to start talking about how we're going to begin arranging the rest of the universe...
Inside the United States, global income inequality is also falling. The United States is part of the globe....
Which is why for the longest time we focused on hitting ICBMs while they were still on their way up or at the top of their arc. This test is specifically to prove out having the capability to also hit the ones remaining at the end.
Even if you can kill 99% of what is launched at you before the MIRVs separate, it's still really nice to save a few more nuclear detonations by taking out what remains on it's way down at you. Otherwise, by the time you know which ones you missed, it's too late to do anything about them except hide your head under your desk.
Exactly. Facebook and others who support a wide range of views (unlike a single topic forum, or something like that) should just accept that some people will be offended some of the time. They should block illegal stuff and and leave everything else alone as a platform.
At the same time, they can still create easy ways for people to voluntarily restrict what they see. If you don't want anything from group X, or about topic Y, then make it easy if that shows up to just block it from your feed so it no longer exists for you.
Yeah, they'll get accused of "supporting" Z when really they're just tolerating Z, just like they tolerate everything else, but going beyond that to pick sides in cultural wars and the like doesn't end well. There is a bright line of legal/illegal, stick to that and tell the people who complain how to block it for themselves.
Ah yes... Parliament passes the Corn Laws, overtaxing grain imports so that corn and bread become prohibitively expensive, so people rely on eating potatoes instead, then a potato blight hits and the suddenly the over-reliance on potatoes is the "free market" in action and the government tariffs which created the situation are to be ignored.
The problem is that you're ignorant to the negative side effects of what really happens when people try to control vast swaths of the economy, not the least of which is regulatory capture where the most powerful companies being regulated end up over time influencing the regulations to mostly hurt any new competition from being started against them, which is mostly how we got in the current situation in the first place.
But sure, it's always more regulation is needed to fix the bad effects of the previous rounds of regulations and this time it'll be different. Have you actually read the NN rules? They're not exactly a statement of NN principles.
Funny, but radioactive materials which keep their radiation levels up for thousands of years aren't very energetic emitters.
So really, they just find some more radioactive than usual dirt.
Don't worry, you can probably just play a video of you paying attention to the phone and it'll take in place of you actually watching the ad.
Oh, you mean MU*s? The first truly multiplayer online one was available in 1978, but of course, they didn't hook it up to arpanet until about 1980....
The U.S. has high-speed internet as well. I get 1 GB up and down at my house for $70/month. So what?
Are you attempting to imply that every single point on the map in Finland has access to inexpensive high-speed internet, or what?
Pretty sure he's saying that he's against tyranny altogether, by anyone. The basic concept is that people have certain inalienable rights and that other people under the cloak of government can't morally violate them, even if they can convince a majority of the people who live in a geographic region to agree that they want to.
As "tyranny of the majority" is a known failure mode for governments in which leadership is selected via voting, several safeguards were designed into the U.S. Constitution to limit this, and other risks. These involved super-majority requirements for changing the structure of the government, various hard-coded limitations on power and authority, plus splitting power between various groups selected or elected by different methods. The minority is much less likely to have the power to tyrannize anyone without support from the larger population, but most of the same safeguards limiting various people's power to violated our rights work against them as well. It's not perfect as a safeguard against tyranny, but at least it's been failing relatively slowly compared to most places.
What specific crime of Russian collusion related to the Trump campaign do you allege Manafort either confessed to, or was convicted of?
So, you've never heard of Keith Bostic, nor of BSD, then?
Next someone will invent a cistern and a system for collecting rain water into it and really blow their minds....
Exactly. I have gigabit up and down, from Google. They can't currently stream YouTube at 4k without buffering, it stalls occasionally. Seems like they're going to have some growing pains on this while they create gaming content servers in every local area.
The good news is that they'll probably be underutilized for a long time, until more people get good enough connections for it to matter.
Bad start, when the headline writer and the article author feel the need to lie to their readers from the very beginning.
All of the "kickstarters staff" isn't unionizing, the article writer tries his hardest to claim this is on behalf of all of their staff, but it's obvious from the end that there are some people who work at Kickstarter (how many exactly isn't stated... hmmm.... wonder why?) who want them to unionize, but they haven't actually unionized yet. That requires and actual vote of the staff who would be effected, which apparently hasn't happened yet.
As far as I can tell from the various articles, there are some members of staff who are working on "forming" a labor union called Kickstarter United.
In a related AP story sourced from Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program:
Of course, this story was published 30 years ago, so we might need to take the predictions with a grain of salt, considering even the most pro-climate change sources only think we had maybe 0.7 degrees of global warming in the last 30 years and none of the predicted effects have happened. I guess the "most conservative scientific estimate" wasn't conservative enough.
But don't worry, this time it'll be different and the sky really is falling...
Exactly. The odds of people relying on "luck" as the driving force for success are going to have their odds of being successful be about the same as winning the lottery. For the people who rely on working hard and doing the right things instead, the vast majority of them will be successful.
To think the first attitude is "better" than the second is crazy and self-defeating. Did the article writers "luck" into the article, having it appear magically fully formed for them on their computer, or did they put out some tiny amount of effort in writing it and that was required to accomplish it?
Sure, there are some fields and endeavors where lottery-style luck plays more of a part than in others where it doesn't. The genetic lottery-based NBA is one of those where it does. But even if you are given the right genetics, parents and opportunities, to be great in the NBA still requires hard work. Luck, or privilege, or whatever isn't sufficient. You can succeed on pure hustle, but you can't reliably succeed by doing nothing and being "lucky".
Clearly, the other 1.99999 million of them just suffered from bad luck, like Venezuela is currently experiencing. As Heinlein wrote:
People in the United States are much wealthier than those in Europe in general, with a much higher quality of life. From the OECD Society at a glance figures, Sweden and Germany have about the same average disposable income as Alabama, Kentucky and Montana, not exactly considered economic power houses. Places like Portugal or Poland are at half of Mississippi's level. Most European countries fall within the bottom third of the United States when you compare them to specific States.
As carbon use correlates with wealth, it's obvious that the US will use more than Europe and Europeans will use more than third-world and developing nations, on a per person basis.
I didn't give the original figure, but I'll jump in on the topic with some sources:
Regulations Cost U.S. Business More Than Canada’s GDP
The accumulation of rules over the past several decades has slowed economic growth, amounting to an estimated $4 trillion loss in US GDP in 2012 (had regulations stayed at 1980 levels)
From: John W. Dawson and John J. Seater, “Federal Regulation and Aggregate Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic Growth 12, no. 2 (2013): 137–77.