"Most people" are not Tesla drivers. You can't buy or drive a Tesla without being tediously told, over and over, that the car is NOT self-driving (yet), and that you need to KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL and YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD.
Do people take their eyes off the road anyway? Sure. But it is not because of a lack of knowledge or understanding.
Farts contain both. A typical fart is about 60 percent nitrogen, 20 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane, and 4 percent oxygen. All of these are odorless. Only about one percent of a fart is the smelly stuff: hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans.
The idea that activists are stopping you creating this magical solution to climate change because they're focused on use of CRISPR reeks of bullshit.
indeed. It isn't clear from TFA if the scientist is an idiot, the journalist is an idiot, or perhaps both. The Salk Institute is in La Jolla, California. La Jolla is the world's biggest center for biotech research. It is about the last place on earth where "GMO activists" are going to hinder research. TFA gave zero examples of any actual interference. GMO activists are toothless in America. They can't even pass ballot initiatives for labelling laws. It's over. Science won, scare-mongering lost.
I think the real reason her research hasn't yet saved the world is that capturing CO2 by "growing plants" isn't particularly innovative.
Pretty much describes the life cycle of every country and corporation, from its idealized conception to its fall into the corrupt and greedy abyss.
This is not true. Plenty of corporations start in the corrupt and greedy abyss right from the beginning. For instance, Microsoft never went through an "idealistic" phase. Oracle is another example of primordial slime.
Of course not. But it is a rough proxy for GDP. Why would it systematically differ between authoritarian and non-authoritarian countries? An obvious answer is data fudging.
A city with street lights but no people do not produce GDP. On the other hand, a factory that only works in the daytime
Why would these differ between authoritarian and non-authoritarian countries?
China is known for "ghost cities", but they were never really that common, many of them are now occupied, and they would lead to under reporting of GDP, not the over reporting actually observed.
If you don't teach kids how to spell, then they will just use emoji to convey their thoughts. In the corporate world, this is completely unprofessional.
Emojis are a far more compact. A single Unicode emoji can convey as much information as several dozen words, with fewer keystrokes and fewer bits to transmit. They are only considered "unprofessional" for cultural reasons. Once the baby boomer executives retire, and the Millennials are running things, emojis will be fully accepted by corporate America.
If the computer can do it for them, why should the kids need to learn spelling? It is a useless skill. It makes as little sense as teaching math, another useless skill that can be automated away.
It would confuse neither. An engineer would not say it that way, but would know what it means. Pendants also understand, but object anyway, because that what pedants do.
Take "ten times lower" that a hilltop. Is that 1/10th the altitude of the hilltop, or is that 9 times the hilltop altitude below ground which makes 10 times after adding the hilltop, or does it mean ten times the hilltop altitude below ground?
You could make the exact same objection to "ten times higher". You need to have a common reference point going up or down.
TFH is unambiguous because the reference point is obviously zero Kelvin.
Saying "X times lower", "X times smaller" and "X times colder" is common in English, and everyone knows what it means. "Times" means multiplication. You can multiply by 10 to make X ten times bigger. You can multiply by 1/10 to make X ten times smaller. If you make X ten times bigger, and then make it ten times smaller, you end up right back where you started, which is what you would logically expect. Stop nitpicking.
California is the biggest economy in the country and pays more taxes than they receive. They also have a homeless problem that a lot of states with less money don't have.
A big reason for California's large homeless population is the nice weather. If you are going to be sleeping in a park, Los Angeles is a lot better than Chicago.
Yeah, it wasn't a good exchange. Definitely should have put more thought into it before emptying out the insane asylums.
The theory was that newly developed anti-psychotic medications solve much of the problem.
In practice, anti-psychotics have some very negative side effects (tremors, weight gain, etc.), and people don't take them if they aren't supervised. Think about it: If in your mind you are the king of the world, and a pill could bring back a reality of poverty, no friends, an alienated family, and little hope, would you take it?
pick those people up and put them in protected housing.
Good luck getting the courts to authorize you to compel innocent people into confinement. If you think the homeless will voluntarily go into your "shelters" then you know nothing about the history of homelessness policy.
Generally monitored and controlled one person studio style apartments
In what NIMBY free neighborhood will you place these studio apartments? Prepare for the political fight of your life. NOBODY will want these people anywhere near their homes. They don't want to deal with the drugs, broken glass from booze bottles, vomit, urine, etc., nor do they want their kids to have to walk past that on their way to school.
Also what are you going to do with the homeless guy that takes a claw hammer and smashes holes in all the walls to get the demons out? You could try to build the walls out of solid concrete instead of drywall, but good luck getting a building code variance for that.
if they were that cheap, it would make a large difference in homelessness.
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I could not afford a home, and I was "homeless". I lived in a van, which was worth about $10k, in my employer's parking lot. I had a gym membership, and took showers there. I got a $200 a month bonus for being "on call" and in the machine room within 5 minutes of notification.
I lived this way for two years. So sure, if housing was $10k, I would not have been homeless. But when people talk about "homelessness" they are not talking about people like me. I was employed, earning good money, and had a clear (but not immediate) path out of my situation.
Money can make a difference for short term homelessness, caused by a job loss or healthcare issue. These are often families with a single (usually female) parent. These people just need a roof over their head and some groceries till they get back on their feet. They don't have the mental issues and substance abuse problems.
For hardcore homeless, usually adult males, living on the street, with no steady income, often with mental health and substance abuse issues, even $10k is out of reach. Even shared housing doesn't work, since they are often belligerent and uncooperative. Homelessness is a difficult problem, and there are no simple solutions. Almost any idea you can imagine has been tried, and nothing has worked.
Sure it is. Just tell your boss that you want as much vacation as a European, and also want to be paid as much as a European. He will be happy to oblige.
America lacks proper laws, since the American employment system is a race to the bottom as far as vaca time and working hours.
But not pay. Americans earn more than any country in Europe except Norway (offshore oil) and Luxembourg (tax haven). They also keep more of what they earn.
This is "proper" since most Americans would rather earn more than have more time off.
If you want more time off, then ask your employer. But don't try to force your preferences on me.
Do you not have proper employment laws in your country?
Yes we do. America has minimal government interference in transactions between consenting adults, which is proper.
If you want extra vacation rather than higher pay, then that should be between you and your employer, not something imposed on every worker by the government.
We're not living in 1958 where someone could go to work for GM or IBM at 21 and work there for 40 years till retirement.
This is a myth. Average job tenure is higher today. Some people had "jobs for life" back in the 1950s, but that was not common, and plenty of people worked as day laborers, or in short term work. This was especially true if you were not both white and male.
Also, productivity is higher in states and countries that have lower job tenure. Vibrant and flexible job markets mean unhappy people can easily go where they are more productive and cross pollinate their skills. One of the reasons for the success of Silicon Valley is California's ban on non-compete agreements, which makes both job hopping and recruiting easier.
The internet use to be voluntary interconnection of private business and educational circuits. The internet was free.
This is false nostalgia. The Internet was never free. In its early days it was very expensive, and there were severe restrictions on who could connect and what sort of information could be transmitted.
They killed it long ago when ISPs roes
The ISPs dramatically reduced the cost, gave access to normal people, and obviated the NSF content restrictions.
No politician wants to risk being Willy Horton'd because of such a program
Mike Dukakis deserved to be Horton'd. Furloughs are a good idea to keep petty offenders socialized, and to help inmates nearing release to start reintegrating into society.
But giving furloughs to murderers serving life sentences, with a long history of violent offenses? Willie had robbed and murdered a man by stabbing him 19 times. Giving this guy a weekend pass was insane.
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FWIW Tesla has approx. 5-10X more fatal crashes than do similar cars driven by similar drivers on similar roads.
Where does this factoid come from? Can you provide a citation?
Here are some citations that you're full of crap:
Tesla’s Autopilot makes driving much safer
Tesla's Model X is the safest SUV ever tested
For most people "autopilot" means self-driving.
"Most people" are not Tesla drivers. You can't buy or drive a Tesla without being tediously told, over and over, that the car is NOT self-driving (yet), and that you need to KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL and YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD.
Do people take their eyes off the road anyway? Sure. But it is not because of a lack of knowledge or understanding.
Flatulence is methane (CH4), not CO2.
Farts contain both. A typical fart is about 60 percent nitrogen, 20 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane, and 4 percent oxygen. All of these are odorless. Only about one percent of a fart is the smelly stuff: hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans.
The idea that activists are stopping you creating this magical solution to climate change because they're focused on use of CRISPR reeks of bullshit.
indeed. It isn't clear from TFA if the scientist is an idiot, the journalist is an idiot, or perhaps both. The Salk Institute is in La Jolla, California. La Jolla is the world's biggest center for biotech research. It is about the last place on earth where "GMO activists" are going to hinder research. TFA gave zero examples of any actual interference. GMO activists are toothless in America. They can't even pass ballot initiatives for labelling laws. It's over. Science won, scare-mongering lost.
I think the real reason her research hasn't yet saved the world is that capturing CO2 by "growing plants" isn't particularly innovative.
Pretty much describes the life cycle of every country and corporation, from its idealized conception to its fall into the corrupt and greedy abyss.
This is not true. Plenty of corporations start in the corrupt and greedy abyss right from the beginning. For instance, Microsoft never went through an "idealistic" phase. Oracle is another example of primordial slime.
GDP is NOT night time light volume.
Of course not. But it is a rough proxy for GDP. Why would it systematically differ between authoritarian and non-authoritarian countries? An obvious answer is data fudging.
A city with street lights but no people do not produce GDP. On the other hand, a factory that only works in the daytime
Why would these differ between authoritarian and non-authoritarian countries?
China is known for "ghost cities", but they were never really that common, many of them are now occupied, and they would lead to under reporting of GDP, not the over reporting actually observed.
If you don't teach kids how to spell, then they will just use emoji to convey their thoughts. In the corporate world, this is completely unprofessional.
Emojis are a far more compact. A single Unicode emoji can convey as much information as several dozen words, with fewer keystrokes and fewer bits to transmit. They are only considered "unprofessional" for cultural reasons. Once the baby boomer executives retire, and the Millennials are running things, emojis will be fully accepted by corporate America.
If the computer can do it for them, why should the kids need to learn spelling? It is a useless skill. It makes as little sense as teaching math, another useless skill that can be automated away.
Yep, it might confuse engineers and pedants
It would confuse neither. An engineer would not say it that way, but would know what it means. Pendants also understand, but object anyway, because that what pedants do.
Take "ten times lower" that a hilltop. Is that 1/10th the altitude of the hilltop, or is that 9 times the hilltop altitude below ground which makes 10 times after adding the hilltop, or does it mean ten times the hilltop altitude below ground?
You could make the exact same objection to "ten times higher". You need to have a common reference point going up or down.
TFH is unambiguous because the reference point is obviously zero Kelvin.
What would happen to a can of beer if I put it inside that "fridge"?
You could turn a Beck's Beer into a BEC beer.
Saying "X times lower", "X times smaller" and "X times colder" is common in English, and everyone knows what it means. "Times" means multiplication. You can multiply by 10 to make X ten times bigger. You can multiply by 1/10 to make X ten times smaller. If you make X ten times bigger, and then make it ten times smaller, you end up right back where you started, which is what you would logically expect. Stop nitpicking.
California is the biggest economy in the country and pays more taxes than they receive. They also have a homeless problem that a lot of states with less money don't have.
A big reason for California's large homeless population is the nice weather. If you are going to be sleeping in a park, Los Angeles is a lot better than Chicago.
Yeah, it wasn't a good exchange. Definitely should have put more thought into it before emptying out the insane asylums.
The theory was that newly developed anti-psychotic medications solve much of the problem.
In practice, anti-psychotics have some very negative side effects (tremors, weight gain, etc.), and people don't take them if they aren't supervised. Think about it: If in your mind you are the king of the world, and a pill could bring back a reality of poverty, no friends, an alienated family, and little hope, would you take it?
pick those people up and put them in protected housing.
Good luck getting the courts to authorize you to compel innocent people into confinement. If you think the homeless will voluntarily go into your "shelters" then you know nothing about the history of homelessness policy.
Generally monitored and controlled one person studio style apartments
In what NIMBY free neighborhood will you place these studio apartments? Prepare for the political fight of your life. NOBODY will want these people anywhere near their homes. They don't want to deal with the drugs, broken glass from booze bottles, vomit, urine, etc., nor do they want their kids to have to walk past that on their way to school.
Also what are you going to do with the homeless guy that takes a claw hammer and smashes holes in all the walls to get the demons out? You could try to build the walls out of solid concrete instead of drywall, but good luck getting a building code variance for that.
if they were that cheap, it would make a large difference in homelessness.
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I could not afford a home, and I was "homeless". I lived in a van, which was worth about $10k, in my employer's parking lot. I had a gym membership, and took showers there. I got a $200 a month bonus for being "on call" and in the machine room within 5 minutes of notification.
I lived this way for two years. So sure, if housing was $10k, I would not have been homeless. But when people talk about "homelessness" they are not talking about people like me. I was employed, earning good money, and had a clear (but not immediate) path out of my situation.
Money can make a difference for short term homelessness, caused by a job loss or healthcare issue. These are often families with a single (usually female) parent. These people just need a roof over their head and some groceries till they get back on their feet. They don't have the mental issues and substance abuse problems.
For hardcore homeless, usually adult males, living on the street, with no steady income, often with mental health and substance abuse issues, even $10k is out of reach. Even shared housing doesn't work, since they are often belligerent and uncooperative. Homelessness is a difficult problem, and there are no simple solutions. Almost any idea you can imagine has been tried, and nothing has worked.
Scooters, and even bicycles, are illegal in Venice.
It is NOT between consenting adults sociopath!
Sure it is. Just tell your boss that you want as much vacation as a European, and also want to be paid as much as a European. He will be happy to oblige.
America lacks proper laws, since the American employment system is a race to the bottom as far as vaca time and working hours.
But not pay. Americans earn more than any country in Europe except Norway (offshore oil) and Luxembourg (tax haven). They also keep more of what they earn.
This is "proper" since most Americans would rather earn more than have more time off.
If you want more time off, then ask your employer. But don't try to force your preferences on me.
Do you not have proper employment laws in your country?
Yes we do. America has minimal government interference in transactions between consenting adults, which is proper.
If you want extra vacation rather than higher pay, then that should be between you and your employer, not something imposed on every worker by the government.
We're not living in 1958 where someone could go to work for GM or IBM at 21 and work there for 40 years till retirement.
This is a myth. Average job tenure is higher today. Some people had "jobs for life" back in the 1950s, but that was not common, and plenty of people worked as day laborers, or in short term work. This was especially true if you were not both white and male.
Also, productivity is higher in states and countries that have lower job tenure. Vibrant and flexible job markets mean unhappy people can easily go where they are more productive and cross pollinate their skills. One of the reasons for the success of Silicon Valley is California's ban on non-compete agreements, which makes both job hopping and recruiting easier.
Churn is good.
The internet use to be voluntary interconnection of private business and educational circuits. The internet was free.
This is false nostalgia. The Internet was never free. In its early days it was very expensive, and there were severe restrictions on who could connect and what sort of information could be transmitted.
They killed it long ago when ISPs roes
The ISPs dramatically reduced the cost, gave access to normal people, and obviated the NSF content restrictions.
They sort of have to. How else do you expect calls to be routed to you? Magic?
They have to know where you are. They don't have to log the information.
Nope, that quote is from Bill Gates, not Steve Jobs.
Neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs ever said that. It is normally misattributed to Bill, but there is no evidence that he ever said it.
No politician wants to risk being Willy Horton'd because of such a program
Mike Dukakis deserved to be Horton'd. Furloughs are a good idea to keep petty offenders socialized, and to help inmates nearing release to start reintegrating into society.
But giving furloughs to murderers serving life sentences, with a long history of violent offenses? Willie had robbed and murdered a man by stabbing him 19 times. Giving this guy a weekend pass was insane.