No. He means one bit. One byte (8 bits) is completely uncompressed. But English text will compress down by nearly 90%, which leaves about 1 bit per character.
The best compression ratios are for large texts using a consistent writing style and vocabulary, so tweets would yield less than 90% compression, but would likely still be better than 85%.
Flight attendants suffer increased risk of cancer.
Only for skin and breast cancer.
Skin cancer is correlated with exposure to sunlight, but not so much with radiation that can reach deep tissue.
Breast cancer is correlated with NOT HAVING CHILDREN, something many career women do. It is also correlated with not breastfeeding, another thing that many career women do.
Indeed. I remember learning this in elementary school 40 years ago. You get way more radiation by living in Colorado than by living nextdoor to a nuclear power plant.
The issue isn't radiation from being around a well-operating nuclear plant, which should be negligible. The issue is when those plants fail
This is the problem with stupid "factoids" like "coal is more radioactive than nuclear". They always consider nukes that are "operating normally", and leave out Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, TMI, etc.
Considering it only costs $150(or less) and 6hrs of your time to get the training?
It also costs only $150 for waitresses and mechanics. So that is not a good argument for singling out a particular group.
is it not worthwhile to have people with that training everywhere.
They are already everywhere. They are called "ex-cub-scouts". There are millions of us.
Those plumbers, barbers, or accountants aren't traveling on the roads and carrying people in their vehicles now are they.
Most injuries occur at home or at work, not while sitting in the backseat of a vehicle. Unless you can show evidence to the contrary, I would say that a driver is about the least likely to need 1st aid skills. Most likely may be a cook using knives and hot liquids.
He is not "working for Amazon". He is operating an independent business that uses the Amazon Echo platform. He can take the same content and put it on Google Home and Apple HomePod.
really shitty pay!
$9k/mo ($108k/yr) for a part time side job is not "shitty pay".
I would be fine with this, if he isn't ranting to stop the funding of these "socialist" universities.
Could you provide a link to whatever the heck you are talking about? I Googled for several minutes and found absolutely nothing about Jeff advocating for reduced scientific research funding. To the contrary, he seems to be very pro-science, pro-education, and generally supportive of progressive policies.
It's as if the other more than 10 ride sharing companies/services just do not exist!
People use "Uber" as a generic term, sort of like when you google using Bing, people also uber using Lyft.
Free business advice: Don't use a common generic word as your company name. Even if you do something cute with the spelling, it will still sound awkward to say "I am going to lift a ride". If people don't say it, they don't think it, and if they don't think it, they don't use it. This mistake likely cost Lyft more business than their stupid pink mustaches (at least that was fixable).
Here in Canada, taxi drivers are required to have first aid
That seems like a silly requirement. How often is this skill actually used in a way that makes a difference?
Sure, it is possible that a taxi driver could use first aid skills, but you could make the same argument for requiring that plumbers or barbers or accountants learn first aid.
Disclaimer: When I was a cub scout, I earned the 1st aid merit badge.
What health care really needs though is the return of home visiting doctors.
Actually, home visiting nurses would make more sense. 90% of health problems are totally routine, and we do not need an expensive MD to treat every sniffle or cough. We only use doctors for everything because of legal concerns, and this is a major inflator of medical costs in America.
In other countries, with far lower medical costs than America, when you "go to the doctor" you are much more likely to actually be seeing a nurse or PA.
So these cities refused to allow taxis to operate prior to Uber?
The cities set the price and restrict entry to the market. The obvious response from taxi drivers is to focus on the core urban area where they can get the most fares and ignore suburbs and outlying areas. If you need a taxi from a suburban area, you may have to wait for an hour or more for a taxi doing a dropoff from the city or airport, and looking for a return fare.
Uber provides a solution to this problem: Prices based on supply and demand.
If you are interested in reading more about this concept, try googling for "Why communism doesn't work".
Uber/Lyft is more responsive than a taxi, and since they are depending on a good review, they are more likely to be helpful and patient.
Most Uber/Lyft customers are not former taxi customers. People see "ride-sharing" as something new and different, not as a drop-in replacement for taxis.
I use Lyft mostly when I travel on business, whereas 5 years ago, I would rent a car at the airport.
It depends on where you define the boundaries of the Star System
I was thinking of the time to pass through the Goldilocks zone, where liquid surface water can exist. It would zip through that in about an hour at 0.1c.
Duh. Both the summary and TFA make it clear that this would be a probe, not a manned mission. It would be a flyby, passing through the Alpha Centauri solar system in minutes, since slowing down and going into orbit would require exponentially more fuel. The proposals are for a probe the size of a pack of cigarettes, or even the size of a postage stamp, driven by a laser boosted sail.
The proposed budget is ~ $100M. A manned mission would cost many many trillions.
Not sure how he got 100x better than her, with no work history.
He may have been exaggerating, but even if he is really only 10x better, he would still be a great employee.
He is likely very good, since he clearly doesn't waste time on silly trivialities like grammar, spelling, and coherent thinking, leaving more time to get important stuff done.
Meat is the most calorically efficient food on the planet.
Look around at your fellow humans. Dense calories was a benefit in the stone age, not today. Even in poor countries, obesity is more common than hunger.
it is still possible that they feel worse off despite this due to divisive politics, terrorist threats,
Politics was WAY more divisive in 1967 than it is today, with race riots in hundreds of cities, anti-war protests, etc. In the 1960s we had real home-grown terrorism.
mass immigration etc.
I live in San Jose, which has a higher ratio of immigrants than any other big city in America. We also have the lowest crime rate of any big city, the best schools in the country, and fantastic restaurants. Why would "immigration" make things worse?
When it comes to how people feel the only practical measure is to ask them and trust their responses.
Except that almost none of the people being asked can actually remember 1967.
if you were getting out of college with -any- degree, you pretty much were set for life
Except few people had degrees back then.
jobs were plentiful
Both 1967 and today we had/have full employment economies. You may have to move to get a job, buy you had to do that in 1967 too.
government gave a shit about doing the job right
In 1967 there were bloody riots in numerous cities. The worst was in Detroit, but riots occurred in 158 other cities as well.
If I graduated with an engineering degree back then, my life was pretty much set.
If you graduate with an engineering degree today, your life is pretty much set. The big difference is that today you have a far greater chance to get that degree.
Most people will agree that life was better when they were a child
Not me. When I was a kid, my mom would take me to the diner, and order me a coke and a burger. I drank the coke while I was waiting for the burger, and then had nothing to drink with my meal. My mom would always say "You should have planned ahead and saved your coke."
But once I grew up, I was earning my own money, and when my burger came, I could just ORDER ANOTHER COKE. When the waitress brought me that second coke, I felt liberated, and for the first time I knew what it was like to be an adult in control of my own life.
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1 byte. you mean 1 byte.
No. He means one bit. One byte (8 bits) is completely uncompressed. But English text will compress down by nearly 90%, which leaves about 1 bit per character.
The best compression ratios are for large texts using a consistent writing style and vocabulary, so tweets would yield less than 90% compression, but would likely still be better than 85%.
Flight attendants suffer increased risk of cancer.
Only for skin and breast cancer.
Skin cancer is correlated with exposure to sunlight, but not so much with radiation that can reach deep tissue.
Breast cancer is correlated with NOT HAVING CHILDREN, something many career women do. It is also correlated with not breastfeeding, another thing that many career women do.
Everyone knows this or should.
Indeed. I remember learning this in elementary school 40 years ago. You get way more radiation by living in Colorado than by living nextdoor to a nuclear power plant.
The issue isn't radiation from being around a well-operating nuclear plant, which should be negligible. The issue is when those plants fail
This is the problem with stupid "factoids" like "coal is more radioactive than nuclear". They always consider nukes that are "operating normally", and leave out Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, TMI, etc.
Considering it only costs $150(or less) and 6hrs of your time to get the training?
It also costs only $150 for waitresses and mechanics. So that is not a good argument for singling out a particular group.
is it not worthwhile to have people with that training everywhere.
They are already everywhere. They are called "ex-cub-scouts". There are millions of us.
Those plumbers, barbers, or accountants aren't traveling on the roads and carrying people in their vehicles now are they.
Most injuries occur at home or at work, not while sitting in the backseat of a vehicle. Unless you can show evidence to the contrary, I would say that a driver is about the least likely to need 1st aid skills. Most likely may be a cook using knives and hot liquids.
Now you can work for Amazon
He is not "working for Amazon". He is operating an independent business that uses the Amazon Echo platform. He can take the same content and put it on Google Home and Apple HomePod.
really shitty pay!
$9k/mo ($108k/yr) for a part time side job is not "shitty pay".
I would be fine with this, if he isn't ranting to stop the funding of these "socialist" universities.
Could you provide a link to whatever the heck you are talking about? I Googled for several minutes and found absolutely nothing about Jeff advocating for reduced scientific research funding. To the contrary, he seems to be very pro-science, pro-education, and generally supportive of progressive policies.
It's as if the other more than 10 ride sharing companies/services just do not exist!
People use "Uber" as a generic term, sort of like when you google using Bing, people also uber using Lyft.
Free business advice: Don't use a common generic word as your company name. Even if you do something cute with the spelling, it will still sound awkward to say "I am going to lift a ride". If people don't say it, they don't think it, and if they don't think it, they don't use it. This mistake likely cost Lyft more business than their stupid pink mustaches (at least that was fixable).
Here in Canada, taxi drivers are required to have first aid
That seems like a silly requirement. How often is this skill actually used in a way that makes a difference?
Sure, it is possible that a taxi driver could use first aid skills, but you could make the same argument for requiring that plumbers or barbers or accountants learn first aid.
Disclaimer: When I was a cub scout, I earned the 1st aid merit badge.
What health care really needs though is the return of home visiting doctors.
Actually, home visiting nurses would make more sense. 90% of health problems are totally routine, and we do not need an expensive MD to treat every sniffle or cough. We only use doctors for everything because of legal concerns, and this is a major inflator of medical costs in America.
In other countries, with far lower medical costs than America, when you "go to the doctor" you are much more likely to actually be seeing a nurse or PA.
So these cities refused to allow taxis to operate prior to Uber?
The cities set the price and restrict entry to the market. The obvious response from taxi drivers is to focus on the core urban area where they can get the most fares and ignore suburbs and outlying areas. If you need a taxi from a suburban area, you may have to wait for an hour or more for a taxi doing a dropoff from the city or airport, and looking for a return fare.
Uber provides a solution to this problem: Prices based on supply and demand.
If you are interested in reading more about this concept, try googling for "Why communism doesn't work".
An obvious question is "why Uber".
Uber/Lyft is more responsive than a taxi, and since they are depending on a good review, they are more likely to be helpful and patient.
Most Uber/Lyft customers are not former taxi customers. People see "ride-sharing" as something new and different, not as a drop-in replacement for taxis.
I use Lyft mostly when I travel on business, whereas 5 years ago, I would rent a car at the airport.
you don't even get a Mars probe for $100M.
The proposed mission to Alpha Centauri has a thousandfold smaller payload than the recent Mars missions.
It depends on where you define the boundaries of the Star System
I was thinking of the time to pass through the Goldilocks zone, where liquid surface water can exist. It would zip through that in about an hour at 0.1c.
The plan is to use a laser boosted sail. No fusion needed.
So it'd have to be a robot mission.
Duh. Both the summary and TFA make it clear that this would be a probe, not a manned mission. It would be a flyby, passing through the Alpha Centauri solar system in minutes, since slowing down and going into orbit would require exponentially more fuel. The proposals are for a probe the size of a pack of cigarettes, or even the size of a postage stamp, driven by a laser boosted sail.
The proposed budget is ~ $100M. A manned mission would cost many many trillions.
Not sure how he got 100x better than her, with no work history.
He may have been exaggerating, but even if he is really only 10x better, he would still be a great employee.
He is likely very good, since he clearly doesn't waste time on silly trivialities like grammar, spelling, and coherent thinking, leaving more time to get important stuff done.
Plants are living things too, what makes you think that its ok to eat plants but not animals?
It is stupid to put forward an argument that you don't even believe yourself.
But so far there has NOT been a good substitute in terms of taste, texture, and nutritional value.
There is not (yet) a good substitute for beef, but fake chicken is pretty good.
How about those who want artificial beef eat that, and those who want genuine beef eat that.
Sounds good, as long as the omnivores keep all the methane in their own private atmosphere.
Meat is the most calorically efficient food on the planet.
Look around at your fellow humans. Dense calories was a benefit in the stone age, not today. Even in poor countries, obesity is more common than hunger.
it is still possible that they feel worse off despite this due to divisive politics, terrorist threats,
Politics was WAY more divisive in 1967 than it is today, with race riots in hundreds of cities, anti-war protests, etc. In the 1960s we had real home-grown terrorism.
mass immigration etc.
I live in San Jose, which has a higher ratio of immigrants than any other big city in America. We also have the lowest crime rate of any big city, the best schools in the country, and fantastic restaurants. Why would "immigration" make things worse?
When it comes to how people feel the only practical measure is to ask them and trust their responses.
Except that almost none of the people being asked can actually remember 1967.
if you were getting out of college with -any- degree, you pretty much were set for life
Except few people had degrees back then.
jobs were plentiful
Both 1967 and today we had/have full employment economies. You may have to move to get a job, buy you had to do that in 1967 too.
government gave a shit about doing the job right
In 1967 there were bloody riots in numerous cities. The worst was in Detroit, but riots occurred in 158 other cities as well.
If I graduated with an engineering degree back then, my life was pretty much set.
If you graduate with an engineering degree today, your life is pretty much set. The big difference is that today you have a far greater chance to get that degree.
Most people will agree that life was better when they were a child
Not me. When I was a kid, my mom would take me to the diner, and order me a coke and a burger. I drank the coke while I was waiting for the burger, and then had nothing to drink with my meal. My mom would always say "You should have planned ahead and saved your coke."
But once I grew up, I was earning my own money, and when my burger came, I could just ORDER ANOTHER COKE. When the waitress brought me that second coke, I felt liberated, and for the first time I knew what it was like to be an adult in control of my own life.
This! My boomer grandpa while working as a welder making 30 grand a year
I am not sure what your point is, but today a master MIG/TIG welder can make over $100k/yr.
is that important?
Given that people, except for the Amish, universally abandoned that way of life as soon as they had an alternative, no, it is not important.