As far as why are so many being diagnosed now? It's because of better detection, plain and simple. In the past, many with autism were written off as being "shy" or "weird" or (worse) "retarded." (NOTE: Don't use that last word around a parent of a child with autism. I'm only including it as a reference of what was used in the past.) Furthermore, theories of what causes autism have changed. In the past, mothers were blamed. The so-called "refrigerator mom" theory said that moms who weren't loving enough made their kids autistic.
Yes, more are being diagnosed now because it has a) become acceptable to be autistic and b) we have a more encompassing definition of what symptoms are to be called autism, but we still have little clue to the causation. In short, we still have little clue with ASD what it really is and what it's root causes are. Until we do, we're merely acting like the late 1800s physicians and throwing all people with a set of symptoms into a single ASD bucket.
Whether Apple paid for Xerox's ideas or not, the fact is, the flow of ideas from Xerox to Apple meant that the state of art moved forward. When Microsoft copied similar ideas to Apple, the state of art didn't stagnate either.
The easiest way to solve the 2 party issue is to disallow party affiliation on all ballots. Only names for the position, listed in alphabetical order on first or last name ascending or descending decided randomly per spot, and ideally per ballot with electronic voting. You either know them, or you don't. Voters can't just pull a red or blue lever. Instant destruction of the 2 party system for many of the lower level positions. As soon as that happens, you may see it bubble on up the hierarchy, as people realize that their segment of the party doesn't really match up with the "national" party view, and diversification ensues. Or so I would hope.
Oh and I forgot, at least one treatment for it, Flagyl, actually makes you feel worse. But at least then you're done and can stop taking it.
As a bonus, while you're on Flagyl you can't even drink to forget your problems.
That's ok, you won't want to, as you'll be too busy moaning that you're dying already, provided it doesn't kill you. That is one of the "side effects" not listed there but was on the bottle I saw that you should immediately contact your physician for...
Homeopathy is bunk, and throwing it out wholesale would be as big a leap forward as throwing out astrology. Studying the claimed effects of an item is actually medicine. Treating the entire person is now possible in western medicine, earlier they were concerned about actually fixing what was going to kill you tomorrow or the next day. We've solved many of those challenges, and are now looking for much longer term solutions.
Nah, the article claims that the internet is causing us to lose our ability to read deeply. It's pure nonsense. Anyone that dealt with writing reports and research papers in school using, gasp, dead tree encyclopedias certainly had highly developed skimming skills, jumping around through those pages looking for the pieces they needed to complete their papers with all the required footnotes and bibliography. And then they still had to read through more dead tree novels, if they were in the appropriate english classes, thus both skill sets were needed. I do both on a regular basis still, both on and offline.
Now what might be happening is that schools today have declined to the point that students are no longer required to read those more challenging novels, and thus never develop the deeper reading skills in the first place. Given all the group-think "learning" now in schools, this is quite easy to believe, and the blight (and savior) that is Cliff notes and the like along with mostly average teachers. It takes a great teacher to get students to actually read some of the admittedly dredge crap (Dostoyevsky, I'm looking at you for one) which at best is unpleasant reading and write about something that cannot be gleaned out of those abridged notes. There's many others, but it will vary by reader, which is why literature is such a great thing. Someone will love the Canterbury Tales, others will not be able to tolerate reading it by choice, Beowulf? Steinbeck? Hemingway? Bronte (any of the three)? But without exposure to the actual works, and the effort to absorb them, most will never know. (FYI - I threw in a mixture of authors and works considered classics that should prove challenging to any student to read that's not already read other peer works, I make no voucher of my opinion of any but Crime and Punishment, of which I feel I was sentenced without committing a crime...)
Merely reading at 400 words per minute is trivial. Reading *some kinds* of materials at 400 words per minute is a problem. I guess Amdahl's law is sort of universal.
Reading TMZ at 400 words per minute is seriously absorbing the material.
Hollywood has been reacting for years. Just look at a movie from 50 years ago compared to today. Lawrence of Arabia was considered the greatest action movie made. Today it would be a drama at best.
It was always a drama, with some action. There was no "action" movie per se until the 60s starting more or less with the Bond movies. Everything prior to that could be more or less described as a story with action sequences rather than an action movie tied together with story sequences. The Michael Bey variety could be said to be just a series of action sequences with not much else...
That only nullifies the ordering issue (first in, maximum profit) You still get in on the next tick at 'x' price, which should be close to what you were looking at. Your solution only stops the ever faster links and programs from improving results by merely being first in. Mine also addresses the issue of attempting to ride the small changes and skimming profit. It would reduce market volume, and likely volatility, as profit would have to go looking elsewhere other than the small fluctuations. Maybe even enhancing that aspect of the stock market that is its raison d'etre: actually investing in an activity.
My solution was intended to not only nix the advantages of those with higher speed links over other high speed links, but also remove the advantage over those without high speed links. 30s may actually be too short. Perhaps a 5 minute window would be more appropriate.
It would be better to have random delays introduced from 0-30s, which causes out of order sequencing on trades, making HFT relatively unreliable and unusable, since the high speed links currently used to facilitate those ms advantages will be entirely negated.
What is needed is a LIMIT or CAP on legal fees that can be spent in a court case to 10% of the lowest income persons total income, so if AT&T sues you, they cant spend more than 10% of your income, thus keeping them from bleeding you dry.
Now I like that idea, except if you're suing a homeless person. I'd say keep recoverable fees at 10% and actual expenditures under the median income. Still a nice limiter that's automatically indexed to inflation.
*GASP* Whatever did people do before the internet???!?!?
Wasted a lot of time going to the bank, lawyer's office, USPS/UPS/FedEx, listening to crappy NOAA for the item of interest to come up, spend hours getting through to your broker to sell during a market drop, etc etc.
While you may have the time to do all those things, some of us are actually working and fully booked. I can live without all of them, much like I can live without electricity, gas, or even sewer/water service (solar/generators, wood fired stoves, septic systems and wells) but those are all much more inconvenient than the "utility" services.
c) Take the excess and form the most successful R&D lab and innovation engine the world has ever known.
And, while prices didn't drop a lot, service certainly improved in leaps and bounds. We used to have party lines (shared lines where only 1 subscriber could talk at a time to an outside number, but all members of the party line could chat with each other however much they wanted. We also used to have manually operated switches, 5 digit numbers, etc etc etc. All of those were "upgraded" within the monopoly window to the systems that we still use today.
Yep - average car 35.6 mpg. I know there's a whole slew of them below 30, meaning there's another slew in the 40+ range. There's only 17 motorcycles above 45 (which is still below the lowest rating on a prius) 7 of which are 250cc or less and don't really count IMNSHO.
My point here is that there are a whole slew of cars available that are equal to motorcycle MPG, which, honestly, removes any fuel saving argument from the motorcycle camp as most won't buy/ride those motorcycles anyways. Only 2 Harley's beat (barely) the prius' city mileage. So again, what's your point? Oh, and here's a nice list of numbers Honestly, motorcycles should be getting a minimum 70 MPG to be worth a look given those numbers, and a gas guzzler tax applied for anything below 50.
I certainly did - the passenger vehicle *average* for 2013 is right about inline with a large percentage of the motorcycles. The 200cc mopeds or scooter equivalents I discount, as there are passenger vehicles that are similarly much higher, a Tesla, for instance, goes to infinity for MPG. Your point?
Honestly, it's a stupid question for the CTO of a company with the implied sizing and complexity of the codebase. His better question would have been "how do we bring this in house to better utilize our resources and improve productivity". The cloud is the opposite on both questions at the implied scale.
If you really want to improve fuel economy, drive a motorcycle. You'll get FAR better gas mileage than any car you can buy and you won't have to drive slower than my grandmother while doing it.
This is a provably false statement. The average MPG of motorcycles is actually worse than passenger vehicles. Then you have to consider the additional risks of riding a motorcycle, and it's a no brainer - just buy a slightly more efficient car since those are averages for cars, so half will be more efficient.
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As far as why are so many being diagnosed now? It's because of better detection, plain and simple. In the past, many with autism were written off as being "shy" or "weird" or (worse) "retarded." (NOTE: Don't use that last word around a parent of a child with autism. I'm only including it as a reference of what was used in the past.) Furthermore, theories of what causes autism have changed. In the past, mothers were blamed. The so-called "refrigerator mom" theory said that moms who weren't loving enough made their kids autistic.
Yes, more are being diagnosed now because it has a) become acceptable to be autistic and b) we have a more encompassing definition of what symptoms are to be called autism, but we still have little clue to the causation. In short, we still have little clue with ASD what it really is and what it's root causes are. Until we do, we're merely acting like the late 1800s physicians and throwing all people with a set of symptoms into a single ASD bucket.
Sure it is, according to my map anyways, N America. Now, it is not the USA.
Whether Apple paid for Xerox's ideas or not, the fact is, the flow of ideas from Xerox to Apple meant that the state of art moved forward. When Microsoft copied similar ideas to Apple, the state of art didn't stagnate either.
Nope, it went backwards.
The easiest way to solve the 2 party issue is to disallow party affiliation on all ballots. Only names for the position, listed in alphabetical order on first or last name ascending or descending decided randomly per spot, and ideally per ballot with electronic voting. You either know them, or you don't. Voters can't just pull a red or blue lever. Instant destruction of the 2 party system for many of the lower level positions. As soon as that happens, you may see it bubble on up the hierarchy, as people realize that their segment of the party doesn't really match up with the "national" party view, and diversification ensues. Or so I would hope.
Oh and I forgot, at least one treatment for it, Flagyl, actually makes you feel worse. But at least then you're done and can stop taking it.
As a bonus, while you're on Flagyl you can't even drink to forget your problems.
That's ok, you won't want to, as you'll be too busy moaning that you're dying already, provided it doesn't kill you. That is one of the "side effects" not listed there but was on the bottle I saw that you should immediately contact your physician for...
Hey, she might be a mexican immigrant with a Filipino ancestry, to Canada. How do you know?
Homeopathy is bunk, and throwing it out wholesale would be as big a leap forward as throwing out astrology. Studying the claimed effects of an item is actually medicine. Treating the entire person is now possible in western medicine, earlier they were concerned about actually fixing what was going to kill you tomorrow or the next day. We've solved many of those challenges, and are now looking for much longer term solutions.
Substituting one god for another isn't going to effect your well-being to any great extent. Substituting homeopathy for medicine will.
That entirely depends upon which "god" you substitute.
Nah, the article claims that the internet is causing us to lose our ability to read deeply. It's pure nonsense. Anyone that dealt with writing reports and research papers in school using, gasp, dead tree encyclopedias certainly had highly developed skimming skills, jumping around through those pages looking for the pieces they needed to complete their papers with all the required footnotes and bibliography. And then they still had to read through more dead tree novels, if they were in the appropriate english classes, thus both skill sets were needed. I do both on a regular basis still, both on and offline.
Now what might be happening is that schools today have declined to the point that students are no longer required to read those more challenging novels, and thus never develop the deeper reading skills in the first place. Given all the group-think "learning" now in schools, this is quite easy to believe, and the blight (and savior) that is Cliff notes and the like along with mostly average teachers. It takes a great teacher to get students to actually read some of the admittedly dredge crap (Dostoyevsky, I'm looking at you for one) which at best is unpleasant reading and write about something that cannot be gleaned out of those abridged notes. There's many others, but it will vary by reader, which is why literature is such a great thing. Someone will love the Canterbury Tales, others will not be able to tolerate reading it by choice, Beowulf? Steinbeck? Hemingway? Bronte (any of the three)? But without exposure to the actual works, and the effort to absorb them, most will never know. (FYI - I threw in a mixture of authors and works considered classics that should prove challenging to any student to read that's not already read other peer works, I make no voucher of my opinion of any but Crime and Punishment, of which I feel I was sentenced without committing a crime...)
Merely reading at 400 words per minute is trivial. Reading *some kinds* of materials at 400 words per minute is a problem. I guess Amdahl's law is sort of universal.
Reading TMZ at 400 words per minute is seriously absorbing the material.
Hollywood has been reacting for years. Just look at a movie from 50 years ago compared to today. Lawrence of Arabia was considered the greatest action movie made. Today it would be a drama at best.
It was always a drama, with some action. There was no "action" movie per se until the 60s starting more or less with the Bond movies. Everything prior to that could be more or less described as a story with action sequences rather than an action movie tied together with story sequences. The Michael Bey variety could be said to be just a series of action sequences with not much else...
I can perfectly pay attention to the story I'm hearing, while playing video games, and in a couple days, I'll listen to the entire audiobook.
AD(H)D anyone?
That only nullifies the ordering issue (first in, maximum profit) You still get in on the next tick at 'x' price, which should be close to what you were looking at. Your solution only stops the ever faster links and programs from improving results by merely being first in. Mine also addresses the issue of attempting to ride the small changes and skimming profit. It would reduce market volume, and likely volatility, as profit would have to go looking elsewhere other than the small fluctuations. Maybe even enhancing that aspect of the stock market that is its raison d'etre: actually investing in an activity.
MAC addresses are changeable. Thanks to Digital for forcing that option, IIRC :)
My solution was intended to not only nix the advantages of those with higher speed links over other high speed links, but also remove the advantage over those without high speed links. 30s may actually be too short. Perhaps a 5 minute window would be more appropriate.
It would be better to have random delays introduced from 0-30s, which causes out of order sequencing on trades, making HFT relatively unreliable and unusable, since the high speed links currently used to facilitate those ms advantages will be entirely negated.
What is needed is a LIMIT or CAP on legal fees that can be spent in a court case to 10% of the lowest income persons total income, so if AT&T sues you, they cant spend more than 10% of your income, thus keeping them from bleeding you dry.
Now I like that idea, except if you're suing a homeless person. I'd say keep recoverable fees at 10% and actual expenditures under the median income. Still a nice limiter that's automatically indexed to inflation.
*GASP* Whatever did people do before the internet???!?!?
Wasted a lot of time going to the bank, lawyer's office, USPS/UPS/FedEx, listening to crappy NOAA for the item of interest to come up, spend hours getting through to your broker to sell during a market drop, etc etc.
While you may have the time to do all those things, some of us are actually working and fully booked. I can live without all of them, much like I can live without electricity, gas, or even sewer/water service (solar/generators, wood fired stoves, septic systems and wells) but those are all much more inconvenient than the "utility" services.
c) Take the excess and form the most successful R&D lab and innovation engine the world has ever known.
And, while prices didn't drop a lot, service certainly improved in leaps and bounds. We used to have party lines (shared lines where only 1 subscriber could talk at a time to an outside number, but all members of the party line could chat with each other however much they wanted. We also used to have manually operated switches, 5 digit numbers, etc etc etc. All of those were "upgraded" within the monopoly window to the systems that we still use today.
Yep - average car 35.6 mpg. I know there's a whole slew of them below 30, meaning there's another slew in the 40+ range. There's only 17 motorcycles above 45 (which is still below the lowest rating on a prius) 7 of which are 250cc or less and don't really count IMNSHO.
My point here is that there are a whole slew of cars available that are equal to motorcycle MPG, which, honestly, removes any fuel saving argument from the motorcycle camp as most won't buy/ride those motorcycles anyways. Only 2 Harley's beat (barely) the prius' city mileage. So again, what's your point? Oh, and here's a nice list of numbers Honestly, motorcycles should be getting a minimum 70 MPG to be worth a look given those numbers, and a gas guzzler tax applied for anything below 50.
I certainly did - the passenger vehicle *average* for 2013 is right about inline with a large percentage of the motorcycles. The 200cc mopeds or scooter equivalents I discount, as there are passenger vehicles that are similarly much higher, a Tesla, for instance, goes to infinity for MPG. Your point?
I thought we needed H1-B's because there weren't enough people to fill all these jobs. What, now suddenly all the jobs are filled?
With H1Bs.
Honestly, it's a stupid question for the CTO of a company with the implied sizing and complexity of the codebase. His better question would have been "how do we bring this in house to better utilize our resources and improve productivity". The cloud is the opposite on both questions at the implied scale.
If you really want to improve fuel economy, drive a motorcycle. You'll get FAR better gas mileage than any car you can buy and you won't have to drive slower than my grandmother while doing it.
This is a provably false statement. The average MPG of motorcycles is actually worse than passenger vehicles. Then you have to consider the additional risks of riding a motorcycle, and it's a no brainer - just buy a slightly more efficient car since those are averages for cars, so half will be more efficient.
Have you been watching Helix? (Arctic I know)