It could also be the female cardiologists are less experienced, less senior or less competent. Therefore they are only assigned the easier, more routine, lower-risk cases.
If this was the case, then the disparity would show up for both male and female patients. Yet according to TFA, the survival difference for male patients was not statistically significant.
The Clapper can only control one light. Alexa controls lights throughout my house. I can also use it to start my robotic vacuum, unlock the front door, answer questions, give me a news briefing and summarize my schedule while I prepare breakfast.
The X10 System is four decades old and much more useful.
I used X10 back in the 1990s. It was a failure for good reasons. It was hard to setup, difficult to use, and failed often. It also did not respond to voice commands. Alexa is way more capable, and way more popular.
Disclaimer: I have never used Alexa to order anything.
This is the first news about Oracle doing something that I think might not be evil that I have seen.
Being right is not the same as being good. Oracle is right, but for reasons of pure self-interest. They got a late start in cloud services, lack scale, and are still sucking hind tit, so they have no hope of getting a big winner-takes-all contract. If they can force the DoD to break it up, they have a good chance of getting some portion today, and even more in coming years.
They say that the problem was people that 'abused' the system, meaning people that took them up on the original offer as stated.
No, some of the abuse was much worse than that. For instance, I installed my Moviepass app on my burner phone so I could loan it to other people. My wife watched several movies per week, my daughter used it, and she also loaned it to her friends. We were probably doing 20 movies a month, costing them 20 times the subscription fee.
For three movies per month, we will likely still keep it.
Once a critical nuber if bugs is introduced the software becomes unusable hence making it unattractive for hacz0rz to exploit.
The bugs are not at the UI level. The "bugs" are exploitable code that is never actually executed. Black hats would find them when scanning the code, and try to exploit them, but the exploits wouldn't work because the code never executes.
The "bugs" would add a trivial amount of bloat, but will otherwise not affect performance or behavior.
int main(void) {//...
if (somethingThatWillNeverHappen()) {
char buffer[20];
gets(buffer);// Buffer overflow target
mysql_query(buffer);// SQL injection target//...
}//... }
Disclaimer: I think this is a dumb idea. I am just explaining it, not endorsing it.
Smartphones use three (USB micro-B, USB C, and Lightning)
Lightning is being phased out. USB micro-B is most common. USB C is the future. The market is already converging. Regulation may have made sense a decade ago to nudge the manufacturers along, but is mostly pointless today.
The source of much waste is the excess numbers of cables and chargers, not the type. I already have dozens of USB dongles and cables. I don't need yet another included with every gadget I buy. They should be sold separately, so only those who need them can to buy them.
Also, 51,000 tonnes per decade is negligible. We throw out many times that mass in disposable diapers EVERY DAY. Maybe the regulators should focus on something that actually matters.
Well, I was a grunt. I joined for adventure rather than tech. I wanted to travel the world and jump out of helicopters. The Marines turned out to be a good choice. In the Army and Air Force you can spend your entire enlistment sitting on one base. But Marines deploy. I traveled to nearly a dozen countries, although some just for a 4 day port call.
I got a global perspective, and realized that people are basically the same wherever you go. I also learned to speak basic Japanese and Tagalog (Filipino), and started learning Chinese. I grew up in a small town in Tennessee, and I don't know what I would have done if I had stayed there. My military experience put my life on a completely different track.
As a grunt, you learn people skills, how to talk with confidence, and how to organize, train, and motivate people. Those are valuable skills. When co-workers talk about the "stress" of dealing with a software deadline, I just smile. They have obviously never done a night insertion off an LHA in heavy seas and driving rain. If you don't have to worry about people dying, then it is not "stressful".
Your test scores may not have been high enough, or just as likely, your timing was wrong and you enquired when the quota for your target MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) was already filled.
If you tried again a few months later, you may have gotten a different answer. Or if the Army couldn't give you what you want, then you should have talked to the Air Force and Navy.
It's not some magical way to gain skills or potential you don't already have to some extent.
Actually it is. Where else can an 18 year old kid with no experience, who has never had a job before, walk in and say "I want to be an aircraft mechanic. I want you to train me at your expense, and I want to be paid while I learn. I also demand free food and housing, and 30 days of vacation every year. Also, I plan to quit after 4 years, and then I want you to then pay my college tuition."
For many young Americans, the military is a very good deal. It was for me. Semper fi.
How about will a kid benefit from playing Farmville, or from actually getting their hands dirty?
Nobody considers Farmville to be educational, and nobody is advocating it as an alternative to gardening. So that is a silly example.
Computers are used as an alternative to books and classroom lectures. That is what they should be compared to.
Sure, kids often learn better by doing, rather than watching/reading, but that is an argument against books as much as an argument against computers. Saying "computers are bad" is as meaningless as saying "books are bad".
If "doing" was always superior to reading and online-learning, then the illiterate would be the kings.
TFA is not realistic. Sure, a kid will learn more riding a horse than watching a video of a horse? So what? How many parents have a horse available?
A more realistic question is a comparison of actual realistic alternatives. Is a kid likely to learn better from a computer or a book? In many cases, the more immersive experience of the computer will win.
The article, presumably written by a liberal arts major, extols the importance of "critical thinking", yet is just a string of conjectures based on no evidence, displaying a clear lack of critical thinking.
You are likely motivated by non-monetary factors more than you realize. My company used to give semi-annual bonuses, and then decided to redirect that money toward "adventures". We had a company river rafting trip, went skydiving, hot air ballooning, and skiing. We sent many of the programmers on a "coding cruise" to Alaska. The result was better retention, better morale and camaraderie, and easier recruitment.
Why is it so difficult for economists to acknowledge that people may and do derive value from things other than money?
The do acknowledge non-monetary incentives, and this is a fashionable focus of economic research. They just have difficulty building models that accurately predict behavior.
Cryptocurrencies are not stocks. Their raison d'etre is that they are outside the system, and free of government control. Now some speculators bought into the hype, bet the wrong way, and are whining that the government didn't spend my tax dollars to protect them. Why should I care?
It's funny how people just associate socialism and communism to any government not working out.
Perhaps because the socialists and commies, including Bernie Sanders, praised Venezuela back when oil prices were high, and only fell back on the standard lack-of-purity excuse when Venezuela ran out of OPM and the failure became obvious.
The dumbest thing they do is prevent building housing, but allow building office space.
Nope. That is the smartest thing to do. It pushes up demand for housing, while constricting supply, thus driving up prices. I am a property owner in San Jose, and the value of my house has quintupled since I bought it 20 years ago.
Development policies based on localized greed are not in the best interests of America, or low income people, or humanity, but they are certainly in the best interests of the property owners that vote for them.
Democracy doesn't work that way. In theory, all citizens should be treated equally. But residents can vote themselves privileges that are not extended to future residents. Using permitting restrictions and zoning regulations to inflate the price of housing is one way. Tax laws like Prop 13 are another way. In California, two families living in adjacent identical houses can pay vastly different tax rates. New residents sometimes pay 300 or 400% more than incumbent residents, who are usually wealthier.
Slashdot Mirror
It could also be the female cardiologists are less experienced, less senior or less competent. Therefore they are only assigned the easier, more routine, lower-risk cases.
If this was the case, then the disparity would show up for both male and female patients. Yet according to TFA, the survival difference for male patients was not statistically significant.
That's more like a 4% rise, not a 12% rise. Overstating threefold much?
To be fair, the mathematical blunders only occur in TFA, not in the original report.
The Clapper is only two decades old.
The Clapper can only control one light. Alexa controls lights throughout my house. I can also use it to start my robotic vacuum, unlock the front door, answer questions, give me a news briefing and summarize my schedule while I prepare breakfast.
The X10 System is four decades old and much more useful.
I used X10 back in the 1990s. It was a failure for good reasons. It was hard to setup, difficult to use, and failed often. It also did not respond to voice commands. Alexa is way more capable, and way more popular.
Disclaimer: I have never used Alexa to order anything.
This is the first news about Oracle doing something that I think might not be evil that I have seen.
Being right is not the same as being good. Oracle is right, but for reasons of pure self-interest. They got a late start in cloud services, lack scale, and are still sucking hind tit, so they have no hope of getting a big winner-takes-all contract. If they can force the DoD to break it up, they have a good chance of getting some portion today, and even more in coming years.
Marketing axiom.
Yet many gadget boxes say "batteries not included".
They say that the problem was people that 'abused' the system, meaning people that took them up on the original offer as stated.
No, some of the abuse was much worse than that. For instance, I installed my Moviepass app on my burner phone so I could loan it to other people. My wife watched several movies per week, my daughter used it, and she also loaned it to her friends. We were probably doing 20 movies a month, costing them 20 times the subscription fee.
For three movies per month, we will likely still keep it.
A good compiler for a sane language would simply remove the dead code. If it's not dead code, then it's exploitable.
That's why you don't say if (0} { ...
Instead you do something like:
if (findCounterExampleForGoldbachsConjecture()) { ...
Good luck deciding if that code is dead.
Or just call something like foo() { return FALSE; } in a separately compiled module.
This is a stupid idea and Apple should feel bad.
Companies file patents for silly stuff all the time. That doesn't mean they are going to do anything with it.
Apple already has a good solution to their keyboard problem: Go back to the 2015 keyboard.
They just need to give up a millimeter of thinness.
Once a critical nuber if bugs is introduced the software becomes unusable hence making it unattractive for hacz0rz to exploit.
The bugs are not at the UI level. The "bugs" are exploitable code that is never actually executed. Black hats would find them when scanning the code, and try to exploit them, but the exploits wouldn't work because the code never executes.
The "bugs" would add a trivial amount of bloat, but will otherwise not affect performance or behavior.
int // ... // Buffer overflow target // SQL injection target // ... // ...
main(void) {
if (somethingThatWillNeverHappen()) {
char buffer[20];
gets(buffer);
mysql_query(buffer);
}
}
Disclaimer: I think this is a dumb idea. I am just explaining it, not endorsing it.
Smartphones use three (USB micro-B, USB C, and Lightning)
Lightning is being phased out. USB micro-B is most common. USB C is the future. The market is already converging. Regulation may have made sense a decade ago to nudge the manufacturers along, but is mostly pointless today.
The source of much waste is the excess numbers of cables and chargers, not the type. I already have dozens of USB dongles and cables. I don't need yet another included with every gadget I buy. They should be sold separately, so only those who need them can to buy them.
Also, 51,000 tonnes per decade is negligible. We throw out many times that mass in disposable diapers EVERY DAY. Maybe the regulators should focus on something that actually matters.
Well, I was a grunt. I joined for adventure rather than tech. I wanted to travel the world and jump out of helicopters. The Marines turned out to be a good choice. In the Army and Air Force you can spend your entire enlistment sitting on one base. But Marines deploy. I traveled to nearly a dozen countries, although some just for a 4 day port call.
I got a global perspective, and realized that people are basically the same wherever you go. I also learned to speak basic Japanese and Tagalog (Filipino), and started learning Chinese. I grew up in a small town in Tennessee, and I don't know what I would have done if I had stayed there. My military experience put my life on a completely different track.
As a grunt, you learn people skills, how to talk with confidence, and how to organize, train, and motivate people. Those are valuable skills. When co-workers talk about the "stress" of dealing with a software deadline, I just smile. They have obviously never done a night insertion off an LHA in heavy seas and driving rain. If you don't have to worry about people dying, then it is not "stressful".
Your test scores may not have been high enough, or just as likely, your timing was wrong and you enquired when the quota for your target MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) was already filled.
If you tried again a few months later, you may have gotten a different answer. Or if the Army couldn't give you what you want, then you should have talked to the Air Force and Navy.
In American military lingo "humping" means carrying a heavy pack on a long route march, often across rough terrain and in a sleep deprived state.
The British call it yomping.
It's not some magical way to gain skills or potential you don't already have to some extent.
Actually it is. Where else can an 18 year old kid with no experience, who has never had a job before, walk in and say "I want to be an aircraft mechanic. I want you to train me at your expense, and I want to be paid while I learn. I also demand free food and housing, and 30 days of vacation every year. Also, I plan to quit after 4 years, and then I want you to then pay my college tuition."
For many young Americans, the military is a very good deal. It was for me. Semper fi.
How about will a kid benefit from playing Farmville, or from actually getting their hands dirty?
Nobody considers Farmville to be educational, and nobody is advocating it as an alternative to gardening. So that is a silly example.
Computers are used as an alternative to books and classroom lectures. That is what they should be compared to.
Sure, kids often learn better by doing, rather than watching/reading, but that is an argument against books as much as an argument against computers. Saying "computers are bad" is as meaningless as saying "books are bad".
If "doing" was always superior to reading and online-learning, then the illiterate would be the kings.
TFA is not realistic. Sure, a kid will learn more riding a horse than watching a video of a horse? So what? How many parents have a horse available?
A more realistic question is a comparison of actual realistic alternatives. Is a kid likely to learn better from a computer or a book? In many cases, the more immersive experience of the computer will win.
The article, presumably written by a liberal arts major, extols the importance of "critical thinking", yet is just a string of conjectures based on no evidence, displaying a clear lack of critical thinking.
I just want money.
You are likely motivated by non-monetary factors more than you realize. My company used to give semi-annual bonuses, and then decided to redirect that money toward "adventures". We had a company river rafting trip, went skydiving, hot air ballooning, and skiing. We sent many of the programmers on a "coding cruise" to Alaska. The result was better retention, better morale and camaraderie, and easier recruitment.
We're going hang gliding next month.
Why is it so difficult for economists to acknowledge that people may and do derive value from things other than money?
The do acknowledge non-monetary incentives, and this is a fashionable focus of economic research. They just have difficulty building models that accurately predict behavior.
Legalized fraud/theft/robbery is the core of the entire problem.
Except in this case, the "victims" volunteered to be robbed.
When the same work should be worth the same.
Compensation should be proportional to the value produced, not the effort expended.
Cryptocurrencies are not stocks. Their raison d'etre is that they are outside the system, and free of government control. Now some speculators bought into the hype, bet the wrong way, and are whining that the government didn't spend my tax dollars to protect them. Why should I care?
The tea party is funded and controlled by a few billionaires...
Yes, it was disgraceful how the Koch brothers were able to just buy the presidency for Jeb Bush.
It's funny how people just associate socialism and communism to any government not working out.
Perhaps because the socialists and commies, including Bernie Sanders, praised Venezuela back when oil prices were high, and only fell back on the standard lack-of-purity excuse when Venezuela ran out of OPM and the failure became obvious.
Socialism Flowchart
The dumbest thing they do is prevent building housing, but allow building office space.
Nope. That is the smartest thing to do. It pushes up demand for housing, while constricting supply, thus driving up prices. I am a property owner in San Jose, and the value of my house has quintupled since I bought it 20 years ago.
Development policies based on localized greed are not in the best interests of America, or low income people, or humanity, but they are certainly in the best interests of the property owners that vote for them.
Democracy doesn't work that way. In theory, all citizens should be treated equally. But residents can vote themselves privileges that are not extended to future residents. Using permitting restrictions and zoning regulations to inflate the price of housing is one way. Tax laws like Prop 13 are another way. In California, two families living in adjacent identical houses can pay vastly different tax rates. New residents sometimes pay 300 or 400% more than incumbent residents, who are usually wealthier.