Both Type 1 and Type 2 have a genetic component, but it is actually stronger for type 2. The heritability for type 1 is about 3% if you mother has it, and about 5% if your father has it. For some Native American tribes, such as the Pima people, the type 2 rate is nearly 40%, nearly all of which is heritable because their genetic heritage isn't adapted to a modern diet.
The article does not say that. There is no plausible mechanism for this to work on type 2.
The sample size in the study (12 people, 9 getting the treatment, and 3 in the control group, and only 3 receiving the treatment were followed for the full duration) is so small, that it is not even clear if it works on type 1.
You read about new cures several times a month, but they're never allowed to be used.
That is because this cure won't work on Republicans. It is for type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disorder. It is also known as "childhood onset" diabetes, although that is not entirely accurate. Like many other autoimmune disorders, it is correlated with excessive hygiene in early childhood, which is mainly a problem with neurotic overprotective Democrats.
Republicans suffer from type 2 diabetes, which is mostly lifestyle related, correlated with obesity and crappy diets.
But humans can also be bribed, and that's not fine.
Programmers can also be bribed. In addition to ref-bots, we should also replace the players with robots. That may make sports interesting enough to actually watch.
Depleted uranium is radio-active for billions of years
DU is only mildly radioactive, about 60% the level of natural uranium, and emits mostly alpha particles, which don't penetrate the skin. If you have a warehouse full of DU, the biggest risk is accumulation of radon, which can be prevented with a ventilation fan.
and it's extremely toxic.
It isn't really all that toxic in practice. In high enough concentrations, uranium can cause kidney problems. Ingesting or inhaling uranium dust can cause cancer. But dust does not easily form, and people working with DU usually just wear gloves, and don't bother with respirators or filter masks, unless they are directly involved with milling or machining operations.
DU is mostly used for sabot penetrators and other kinetic energy weapons. It is also used in armor, radiation shielding, and counterweights.
The Pythagoreans are reputed to be willing to outright murder people to keep their mathematical secrets.
According to legend, Pythagoras himself was murdered. He could have escaped, but only by crossing a bean field. He hated beans and forbade his followers to eat them. So he stood his ground, faced his pursuers, and was killed.
Disclaimer: I like beans, and eat them almost everyday.
Well part of the problem can be fixed by just writing multiple tests
That does NOT fix the problem.
This is the problem: 1. Exams are passed out. 2. Cheater snaps a photo of the exam and transmits it. 3. Parents or other collaborators receive the photo, quickly work the problems and transmit back the answers.
This is done in near realtime. They will not get every question right, but will get enough to give the cheater an edge.
So in many countries, do parents actually help their kids cheat? Yes. Yes they do.
It is not just a cultural difference. It is also the importance of the test. In America, if you do well on the SAT you may to an Ivy League school. If you slightly less well, you will still go to a good state university. The next tier will start at a community college, and maybe transfer later to a four year college. Others may go to vocational colleges, etc.
But in many other countries, a single exam is an educational death sentence. If you don't make the cutoff you are put on a different track, with little hope of recovering later. In countries with either high rates of female infanticide and/or customary polygamy, this means little chance for males to marry and have children.
In N' Out pays very well. They start at $13 an hour in my area. They train and promote from within, have good benefits, etc.
They also hire very few teenagers. They provide long term "careers" for adult burger flippers. I am not sure this is a good thing. It is harder to climb the economic ladder when the bottom rung is missing.
Like the North American continent, Antartica is rising in response to the end of the last ice age.
I don't think so. Antarctica is so cold that most moisture condenses and falls as snow over the floating ice pack, and little reaches the interior. Warming temperatures mean that more snow falls further inland, over continental ice, thickening the ice.
TFA only measured the area around the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, which is warmer and closer to the coast than the much larger East Antarctic ice sheet.
ProTip: If you work for Wageworks and not directly for your startup, you are getting screwed and are most certainly not going to get rich for your efforts.
ProTip: If you work directly for a startup, instead of for Wageworks, you are getting screwed and are most likely not going to get rich because, like most startups, yours is likely to fail. Better to get a steady paycheck.
"You'll, of course, make it illegal to use this money for anything else, right?"
What difference would that make? It's a zero-sum game.
Indeed. Money is fungible. Taxes targeted for specific spending priorities are just a way to dupe voters into accepting stupid taxes. Like lotteries targeted for education. So do states with lotteries spend more on education? Of course not.
One assemblyman can not just "edit" the bill without the rest of the committee approving the changes. The committee is majority Democrats. So he is not alone in trying to undermine NN. Perhaps he is the only one willing to do so openly, since "in committee" votes are often secret in California. There is more to this story that what is in TFA.
The poor are getting wealthier too, just not as fast as the rich.
Not true. Over the last 30 years, the group that has done the best, BY FAR, are the extremely poor, those making less than $1 per day. BILLIONS of people have moved up and out of that segment.
The group that has done the least well (but still better off than 30 years ago) are "poor" people in rich countries. A household at America's poverty line is still better off than 85% of the world.
With automation, as well as outsourcing, there will be a growing percent of people in 1st world countries who's IQ will no longer allow them to be productive citizens.
Indeed. One of the first jobs being eliminated by AI is radiologists. They have an average IQ of 125. We need to find a way to lower their IQs so they are happy being plumbers. In "Brave New World" they did this by injecting alcohol into artificial wombs.
I thought UBI was to support the population when no jobs were available because they were lost to automation.
Jobs are not lost to automation. As processes are automated, production costs fall, freeing up money to invest or spend on other things, creating new jobs and increasing living standards. There is no evidence that "this time is different".
Open your eyes and look at the world. There are rich countries and poor countries. A country is prosperous IF AND ONLY IF it has automated production. Automation not only reduces poverty, on a large scale it is the ONLY THING that reduces poverty.
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Type 1 diabetes is inherited, it is not from germ phobia.
Type 1 diabetes, like many other autoimmune disorders, is correlated with excessive cleanliness.
Both Type 1 and Type 2 have a genetic component, but it is actually stronger for type 2. The heritability for type 1 is about 3% if you mother has it, and about 5% if your father has it. For some Native American tribes, such as the Pima people, the type 2 rate is nearly 40%, nearly all of which is heritable because their genetic heritage isn't adapted to a modern diet.
The article suggests that it might
The article does not say that. There is no plausible mechanism for this to work on type 2.
The sample size in the study (12 people, 9 getting the treatment, and 3 in the control group, and only 3 receiving the treatment were followed for the full duration) is so small, that it is not even clear if it works on type 1.
Would this work for type 2?
Nope. Type 1 only.
I am on 2 medications that are low dosages for it
Try cutting back on the soda and fries. Walking or biking to work may also help.
You read about new cures several times a month, but they're never allowed to be used.
That is because this cure won't work on Republicans. It is for type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disorder. It is also known as "childhood onset" diabetes, although that is not entirely accurate. Like many other autoimmune disorders, it is correlated with excessive hygiene in early childhood, which is mainly a problem with neurotic overprotective Democrats.
Republicans suffer from type 2 diabetes, which is mostly lifestyle related, correlated with obesity and crappy diets.
But humans can also be bribed, and that's not fine.
Programmers can also be bribed. In addition to ref-bots, we should also replace the players with robots. That may make sports interesting enough to actually watch.
Depleted uranium is radio-active for billions of years
DU is only mildly radioactive, about 60% the level of natural uranium, and emits mostly alpha particles, which don't penetrate the skin. If you have a warehouse full of DU, the biggest risk is accumulation of radon, which can be prevented with a ventilation fan.
and it's extremely toxic.
It isn't really all that toxic in practice. In high enough concentrations, uranium can cause kidney problems. Ingesting or inhaling uranium dust can cause cancer. But dust does not easily form, and people working with DU usually just wear gloves, and don't bother with respirators or filter masks, unless they are directly involved with milling or machining operations.
DU is mostly used for sabot penetrators and other kinetic energy weapons. It is also used in armor, radiation shielding, and counterweights.
there is a company that's trying to do it now for decentralized long-term waste storage.
What is the point of waste storage being "decentralized"?
Why wouldn't it make more sense to pick the most geologically stable location and put it all there, so we only have one site to monitor?
That is in line with their "Do No Evil...except in oppressive nations" motto.
American military meddling has a mixed record of reducing oppression.
A camera, battery, and transmitter can also fit into a partially hollowed out pencil.
Answers can be transmitted back using a receiver and piezoelectric vibrator in the cheater's shoe.
The Pythagoreans are reputed to be willing to outright murder people to keep their mathematical secrets.
According to legend, Pythagoras himself was murdered. He could have escaped, but only by crossing a bean field. He hated beans and forbade his followers to eat them. So he stood his ground, faced his pursuers, and was killed.
Disclaimer: I like beans, and eat them almost everyday.
Well part of the problem can be fixed by just writing multiple tests
That does NOT fix the problem.
This is the problem:
1. Exams are passed out.
2. Cheater snaps a photo of the exam and transmits it.
3. Parents or other collaborators receive the photo, quickly work the problems and transmit back the answers.
This is done in near realtime. They will not get every question right, but will get enough to give the cheater an edge.
So in many countries, do parents actually help their kids cheat? Yes. Yes they do.
It is not just a cultural difference. It is also the importance of the test. In America, if you do well on the SAT you may to an Ivy League school. If you slightly less well, you will still go to a good state university. The next tier will start at a community college, and maybe transfer later to a four year college. Others may go to vocational colleges, etc.
But in many other countries, a single exam is an educational death sentence. If you don't make the cutoff you are put on a different track, with little hope of recovering later. In countries with either high rates of female infanticide and/or customary polygamy, this means little chance for males to marry and have children.
I wouldn't go out of my way to eat there.
I would, at least once, just to see it in operation. I even live in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, I am a veggie.
In N' Out pays very well. They start at $13 an hour in my area. They train and promote from within, have good benefits, etc.
They also hire very few teenagers. They provide long term "careers" for adult burger flippers. I am not sure this is a good thing. It is harder to climb the economic ladder when the bottom rung is missing.
Like the North American continent, Antartica is rising in response to the end of the last ice age.
I don't think so. Antarctica is so cold that most moisture condenses and falls as snow over the floating ice pack, and little reaches the interior. Warming temperatures mean that more snow falls further inland, over continental ice, thickening the ice.
TFA only measured the area around the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, which is warmer and closer to the coast than the much larger East Antarctic ice sheet.
ProTip: If you work for Wageworks and not directly for your startup, you are getting screwed and are most certainly not going to get rich for your efforts.
ProTip: If you work directly for a startup, instead of for Wageworks, you are getting screwed and are most likely not going to get rich because, like most startups, yours is likely to fail. Better to get a steady paycheck.
"You'll, of course, make it illegal to use this money for anything else, right?"
What difference would that make? It's a zero-sum game.
Indeed. Money is fungible. Taxes targeted for specific spending priorities are just a way to dupe voters into accepting stupid taxes. Like lotteries targeted for education. So do states with lotteries spend more on education? Of course not.
One assemblyman can not just "edit" the bill without the rest of the committee approving the changes. The committee is majority Democrats. So he is not alone in trying to undermine NN. Perhaps he is the only one willing to do so openly, since "in committee" votes are often secret in California. There is more to this story that what is in TFA.
The poor are getting wealthier too, just not as fast as the rich.
Not true. Over the last 30 years, the group that has done the best, BY FAR, are the extremely poor, those making less than $1 per day. BILLIONS of people have moved up and out of that segment.
The group that has done the least well (but still better off than 30 years ago) are "poor" people in rich countries. A household at America's poverty line is still better off than 85% of the world.
What do you call this then?
It is called "inequality", which is not the same thing as "job losses".
If the stipend is removed once you make about a certain amount ...
If so, then it is not a UBI. The "U" in UBI means unconditional.
With automation, as well as outsourcing, there will be a growing percent of people in 1st world countries who's IQ will no longer allow them to be productive citizens.
Indeed. One of the first jobs being eliminated by AI is radiologists. They have an average IQ of 125. We need to find a way to lower their IQs so they are happy being plumbers. In "Brave New World" they did this by injecting alcohol into artificial wombs.
I thought UBI was to support the population when no jobs were available because they were lost to automation.
Jobs are not lost to automation. As processes are automated, production costs fall, freeing up money to invest or spend on other things, creating new jobs and increasing living standards. There is no evidence that "this time is different".
Open your eyes and look at the world. There are rich countries and poor countries. A country is prosperous IF AND ONLY IF it has automated production. Automation not only reduces poverty, on a large scale it is the ONLY THING that reduces poverty.
Oops. Real life isn't like Star Trek. Who knew.
Scott Adams knew.
I don't think you are cutting insolation by any measurable amount with space debris.
Insolation is improved with every collision. For a given mass, total insolation is inversely proportional to the debris radius.
I'm in Shenzhen till Saturday.
Sorry, I am in San Jose, California. I won't be back in China until August, and then only for a few weeks.