Wages are not proportional to profit you generate.
Seems to me that in a competitive environment it would be. After all, if hiring you is so profitable, their competitors should be bidding very high for your services. And if there's a large supply of very profitable employees compared to employers, it would be very profitable to start a new business or expand an existing one.
Of course, there's always the chance that you don't produce as much as you think you do.
Programmers are hired for their programming skills. Very few programmers are hired for their skill at training their cheap foreign replacements, and so might be very bad at it, yet good enough to get the severance pay which depends on it.
believes nearly all diamonds consumers purchase will be man-made in a few decades
What, just because they're cheaper and of higher quality, and don't involve unethical and environmentally unfriendly mining operations, and as a bonus reduce the money earned by a nasty cartel?
voters who agreed with the statement “people like me don't have any say about what the government does” were 86.5 percent more likely to prefer Trump. This feeling of powerlessness and voicelessness was a much better predictor of Trump support than age, race, college attainment, income, attitudes towards Muslims, illegal immigrants, or Hispanic identity.
Trump's support comes from people who feel they are disenfranchised. It should be no surprise that poorly educated white men feel disenfranchised; poor education has always reduced one's influence, and currently being white and male each mean you are openly discriminated against.
Oh please. Don't even try to make that false equivalency. Hillary's lies are typical politician fudging of the truth. Trump's lies are so stratospheric that
I don't know a single person who would prefer to be lied to in a subtle way than in an obvious way. From a mathematical perspective, sure, a bigger lie is more false than a small lie. From a trustworthiness perspective, an obvious lie is not actually a lie at all. I do not know a single person who, when Trump fails to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, would say "you tricked me".
Yes, and from what I calculated the energy needed to heat the sewage would be approximately equal to the energy in the oil produced (~34 kJ to produce ~46 kJ), although I imagine that a good portion of that would come from exothermic reactions from the ~40% carbon that doesn't end up as oil.
The more important thing though, is that what's being processed is not sewage as many people got the impression, but sewage sludge, the solid portion. This means that this would not replace any of the sewage processing (unless you count "trucking the sludge to a landfill"), and more importantly that a lot less material is available (the sludge is a tiny fraction of the total sewage).
It's not at all insignificant. The carbon needs to be removed from the sewage before it is released to the environment, and that isn't free no matter how it's done. Heat+Pressure isn't that complicated to do, especially if some of the heat can be generated from exothermic processes. However, I'm not sure it would actually compare too well with processes involving bacteria.
The spyware is able to collect chats and messages sent and received via SMS, MMS, and popular email and IM apps; record audio and telephone calls; collect pictures and take screenshots; collect contacts, browser histories, the contents of the calendar, and so on.
Sounds to me like pretty much what a standard phone OS does, except the OS is more advanced and doesn't need screenshots. I guess it's malware because it shares the information with the wrong person?
I wonder how they accounted for any correlation between people with known risk factors for heart disease being more worried about heart disease? For example, an overweight smoker with a stressful life and a family history of heart disease would be quite likely to both worry* about heart disease and end up suffering from it.
* yes, lots of time people will substitute "doing something about it" with "worrying"
The purpose of this may well be to delay bills someone doesn't like while also making it harder to compromise, but it would be nice to see what the bills say before they're voted on.
Part of it is that by default Chrome will report your browsing habits, partly because Google's OS might (just guessing on this), and partly because Google search returns links to Google which then redirect to the target website.
Not so; profits are revenue minus cost. Sometimes this is negative, in which case it is usually called a loss. However, people would get very angry at you if you told them the profit one year was zero when actually it was a negative number. Suppose a company's profits were 100 in 2014, and -5 in 2015. For all that people will insist the -5 profit was really a 5 loss, when asked what was the 2-year profit of the company none of them are going to say it was 100 rather than 95, and when asked the profit in 2015 none would say zero.
Furthermore, no one bothered making a special word for when each of various definitions of profit turn negative, such as gross profit, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), earnings before taxes (EBT), net income.
Let me once again reiterate how grateful I am for Apple to have the courage to put the first nail in the coffin of the old, mildly annoying USB type A. I like the USB type C port better, and hope it replaces not just the Type A but also other ports. And, as a non-Apple user, this doesn't inconvenience me in the least and also gives me a good chuckle and another anecdote to point out the dangers of vendor lock-in.
If you can't trust your operating system, you can't trust anything on your computer. Linux might not be user-friendly, but at least it's not actively user-hostile. Resetting user settings is hostile. Showing ads is hostile. And automated updates means they can run any code they want on your machine, which requires trust or at least naivete. And to be honest, user-hostile is much harder to debug than any Linux problems you might have.
On Magic Leap's hardware a Pokemon might escape capture by ducking behind your couch or, assuming you live in a "smart" home, turning off your lights and hiding in the dark.
It's all fun and games until someone dies from falling down the stairs in the dark because a pokemon switched off their internet-vulnerable lights.
From everything I've read about USB C, I really like it, except for its lack of widespread adoption. I'm actually happy that Apple is leading the way in this upgrade, and expect it will be a big benefit to me.
Of course, if I intended to buy any Apple products, I'd be pissed.
Capacity would be mostly a function of mass, wouldn't it? And discharge rate would be based largely on surface area. Both can be increased if you have enough cheap material, although putting the cathode and anode near each other would be more of a problem. If I could build a powerful battery from cheap scrap, I probably would. Although lots of people would make a combination battery-deathtrap, with a weak container and a nasty electrolyte.
What does a junkyard have to do with it? Is it because a steel-brass battery is a complete waste of steel and brass?
I suspect so. I mean, my car was largely built from scraps of metal from a junkyard, reforged into good steel, but really the source of a material has little to do with anything.
These batteries are not rechargable and a complete waste of time and effort.
Then how come they recharged them 5000 times with only 90% loss of capacity?
Nah, no one has put a stop to anything. Facebook just said what they needed to say to prevent their users from feeling uncomfortable having much of their life on the Internet for all to see. Anything that can get your data will sell it to anyone who wants it, whether it be apps or malware, or perhaps Facebook itself (or one of their employees). If they want to keep it hidden, it can always be sold via a shell company and bought as "information" with no reference to Facebook.
Let's face it, using the battery level for tracking purposes is malware. And, while it would be possible to serve simpler, lower computational cost websites when battery levels are low, or increase autosave frequency, its main use has been hostile to the user. I would say that if a website didn't make use of the battery state information in any way that helps the user, but asks for it anyways, then it is a malware website. Admittedly very mild malware, but if this had been severely punished early on, we wouldn't now be removing this abused functionality.
They found that the Trump Organization owns more than 3,600 web addresses, including names of his properties, products and progeny, as well as Trump-bashing names. [...] donaldtrumpsucks.com, no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen others that appear to be bashing the billionaire Republican presidential nominee.
These show a blank page; they are defensively bought domains and most certainly not Trump-bashing in any way. The fact that Clinton doesn't own similar ones could reflect on her incompetence, but most likely on her political career pre-dating the internet.
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Wages are not proportional to profit you generate.
Seems to me that in a competitive environment it would be. After all, if hiring you is so profitable, their competitors should be bidding very high for your services. And if there's a large supply of very profitable employees compared to employers, it would be very profitable to start a new business or expand an existing one.
Of course, there's always the chance that you don't produce as much as you think you do.
Programmers are hired for their programming skills. Very few programmers are hired for their skill at training their cheap foreign replacements, and so might be very bad at it, yet good enough to get the severance pay which depends on it.
' a headache for diamond mine owners, who are under pressure
If they were under enough pressure, they could turn coal into diamonds.
believes nearly all diamonds consumers purchase will be man-made in a few decades
What, just because they're cheaper and of higher quality, and don't involve unethical and environmentally unfriendly mining operations, and as a bonus reduce the money earned by a nasty cartel?
Your statement was probably modded down for being misleading. I too can show where Trump's support comes from:
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
voters who agreed with the statement “people like me don't have any say about what the government does” were 86.5 percent more likely to prefer Trump. This feeling of powerlessness and voicelessness was a much better predictor of Trump support than age, race, college attainment, income, attitudes towards Muslims, illegal immigrants, or Hispanic identity.
Trump's support comes from people who feel they are disenfranchised. It should be no surprise that poorly educated white men feel disenfranchised; poor education has always reduced one's influence, and currently being white and male each mean you are openly discriminated against.
Oh please. Don't even try to make that false equivalency.
Hillary's lies are typical politician fudging of the truth. Trump's lies are so stratospheric that
I don't know a single person who would prefer to be lied to in a subtle way than in an obvious way. From a mathematical perspective, sure, a bigger lie is more false than a small lie. From a trustworthiness perspective, an obvious lie is not actually a lie at all. I do not know a single person who, when Trump fails to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, would say "you tricked me".
Yes, and from what I calculated the energy needed to heat the sewage would be approximately equal to the energy in the oil produced (~34 kJ to produce ~46 kJ), although I imagine that a good portion of that would come from exothermic reactions from the ~40% carbon that doesn't end up as oil.
The more important thing though, is that what's being processed is not sewage as many people got the impression, but sewage sludge, the solid portion. This means that this would not replace any of the sewage processing (unless you count "trucking the sludge to a landfill"), and more importantly that a lot less material is available (the sludge is a tiny fraction of the total sewage).
It's not at all insignificant. The carbon needs to be removed from the sewage before it is released to the environment, and that isn't free no matter how it's done. Heat+Pressure isn't that complicated to do, especially if some of the heat can be generated from exothermic processes. However, I'm not sure it would actually compare too well with processes involving bacteria.
The spyware is able to collect chats and messages sent and received via SMS, MMS, and popular email and IM apps; record audio and telephone calls; collect pictures and take screenshots; collect contacts, browser histories, the contents of the calendar, and so on.
Sounds to me like pretty much what a standard phone OS does, except the OS is more advanced and doesn't need screenshots. I guess it's malware because it shares the information with the wrong person?
In theory, theory is the same as practice. But in practice, it isn't.
I wonder how they accounted for any correlation between people with known risk factors for heart disease being more worried about heart disease? For example, an overweight smoker with a stressful life and a family history of heart disease would be quite likely to both worry* about heart disease and end up suffering from it.
* yes, lots of time people will substitute "doing something about it" with "worrying"
The purpose of this may well be to delay bills someone doesn't like while also making it harder to compromise, but it would be nice to see what the bills say before they're voted on.
how does Google know these statistics
Part of it is that by default Chrome will report your browsing habits, partly because Google's OS might (just guessing on this), and partly because Google search returns links to Google which then redirect to the target website.
Profits are positive, by definition.
Not so; profits are revenue minus cost. Sometimes this is negative, in which case it is usually called a loss. However, people would get very angry at you if you told them the profit one year was zero when actually it was a negative number. Suppose a company's profits were 100 in 2014, and -5 in 2015. For all that people will insist the -5 profit was really a 5 loss, when asked what was the 2-year profit of the company none of them are going to say it was 100 rather than 95, and when asked the profit in 2015 none would say zero.
Furthermore, no one bothered making a special word for when each of various definitions of profit turn negative, such as gross profit, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), earnings before taxes (EBT), net income.
Let me once again reiterate how grateful I am for Apple to have the courage to put the first nail in the coffin of the old, mildly annoying USB type A. I like the USB type C port better, and hope it replaces not just the Type A but also other ports. And, as a non-Apple user, this doesn't inconvenience me in the least and also gives me a good chuckle and another anecdote to point out the dangers of vendor lock-in.
If you can't trust your operating system, you can't trust anything on your computer. Linux might not be user-friendly, but at least it's not actively user-hostile. Resetting user settings is hostile. Showing ads is hostile. And automated updates means they can run any code they want on your machine, which requires trust or at least naivete. And to be honest, user-hostile is much harder to debug than any Linux problems you might have.
On Magic Leap's hardware a Pokemon might escape capture by ducking behind your couch or, assuming you live in a "smart" home, turning off your lights and hiding in the dark.
It's all fun and games until someone dies from falling down the stairs in the dark because a pokemon switched off their internet-vulnerable lights.
From everything I've read about USB C, I really like it, except for its lack of widespread adoption. I'm actually happy that Apple is leading the way in this upgrade, and expect it will be a big benefit to me.
Of course, if I intended to buy any Apple products, I'd be pissed.
Instead of locking the drones out of prisons, maybe lock them in?
Capacity would be mostly a function of mass, wouldn't it? And discharge rate would be based largely on surface area. Both can be increased if you have enough cheap material, although putting the cathode and anode near each other would be more of a problem. If I could build a powerful battery from cheap scrap, I probably would. Although lots of people would make a combination battery-deathtrap, with a weak container and a nasty electrolyte.
What does a junkyard have to do with it? Is it because a steel-brass battery is a complete waste of steel and brass?
I suspect so. I mean, my car was largely built from scraps of metal from a junkyard, reforged into good steel, but really the source of a material has little to do with anything.
These batteries are not rechargable and a complete waste of time and effort.
Then how come they recharged them 5000 times with only 90% loss of capacity?
Nah, no one has put a stop to anything. Facebook just said what they needed to say to prevent their users from feeling uncomfortable having much of their life on the Internet for all to see. Anything that can get your data will sell it to anyone who wants it, whether it be apps or malware, or perhaps Facebook itself (or one of their employees). If they want to keep it hidden, it can always be sold via a shell company and bought as "information" with no reference to Facebook.
Doesn't the Google stuff on your Android steal your data anyways?
Let's face it, using the battery level for tracking purposes is malware. And, while it would be possible to serve simpler, lower computational cost websites when battery levels are low, or increase autosave frequency, its main use has been hostile to the user. I would say that if a website didn't make use of the battery state information in any way that helps the user, but asks for it anyways, then it is a malware website. Admittedly very mild malware, but if this had been severely punished early on, we wouldn't now be removing this abused functionality.
They found that the Trump Organization owns more than 3,600 web addresses, including names of his properties, products and progeny, as well as Trump-bashing names. [...] donaldtrumpsucks.com, no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen others that appear to be bashing the billionaire Republican presidential nominee.
These show a blank page; they are defensively bought domains and most certainly not Trump-bashing in any way. The fact that Clinton doesn't own similar ones could reflect on her incompetence, but most likely on her political career pre-dating the internet.