You do realize that the vast majority of Facebook is fake-as-hell information
This is an example of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
But that doesn't much diminish the value of the remaining 10%. Knowing everyone's friend graph is valuable information. Knowing everyone's interests is also valuable. Knowing who is easily influenced by the false information is very valuable.
Forward projections of material facts issued by corporation directors are required to be issued to all shareholders simultaneously, and to be accompanied by specific legal disclaimers.
The proper way to release material information is in quarterly reports, or in pre-announced earnings calls.
Issuing these projections by tweet is never ok. It is especially bad for Elon because he has already been spanked once for this behavior, and had signed a consent decree to not do it again.
Yes bad things will happen...like a criminal will pay my electric bill. Thanks, bad guy!
Many people use the same password for everything. So if you know the password they use to pay their electric bill, you also know the password to their bank account.
We need to have some basic security education. People should know that password reuse is bad, but they should also know that a website should not be offering to email them their plaintext password.
The faster left, or the farther right, you go the more likely you are to see the U,S, military involved in foreign wars.
This is not supported by evidence. The 2003 Iraq War was one of our dumbest wars, and it was supported overwhelmingly by centrists. It was the left (including Bernie) and the "paleo-conservatives" on the right (including Pat Buchanan), who opposed it.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, that was the legal basis for the Vietnam War, was also supported by centrists.
The court can't make the defence's argument for them. If the defence doesn't bring up the context, it has t be ignored.
This is yet another defect of the British/American adversarial legal system. Decisions should be based on evidence, not on the performance skills of the attorneys.
It is not always like that. In hearings before the US Supreme Court, the justices will directly question the attorneys, and often make a better case than the opposing attorney. Some US military courts allow the jurors to ask questions.
This is why we need to colonize Mars, so when the sun swells into a red giant, we can survive the earth being devoured. Mars funding needs to be a top priority, before it is too late.
To be honest, I am not sure what his point was. About 1000 species go extinct every year, or about 3 per day. Almost all of them are because of human activity. Should we be doing something about that? Yes. I agree we should be trying to reduce extinctions. I just disagree that the malaria protozoa is the best candidate for preservation. Perhaps a rainforest tree frog instead?
Corn doesn't contain any notable nutrients so how exactly is it supposed to end a famine?
Corn/maize is a good source of many minerals and micronutrients, and even contains reasonable amounts of protein, although it is deficient in lysine. Famine victims can't survive indefinitely on a 100% corn diet, but it has plenty of calories, and when combined with pulses (beans and peas) or supplemented with meat, fish, eggs, or dairy, it is nutritious.
There is more than one type of famine. Kwashiorkor is a type of starvation resulting from a lack of nutrients and protein deficiency, even if calories are adequate. Marasmus is starvation caused by lack of calories. Corn/maize can relieve either.
The elephant in the room is that we don't actually require more humans and more developed regions of the planet.
Malaria is a major cause of childhood mortality in Africa. High child mortality causes parents to have more children, and to invest fewer resources in each child. Reducing childhood mortality lowers population growth. This has happened repeatedly, over and over, all around the world. It is happening now even in Africa... except where malaria (or war) is still endemic.
The idea is that the gene passes on through male offspring and dooms only the female offspring.
The other part of the idea is that the gene copies itself into the matching diploid DNA, so it has twice the propagation rate of a normal gene.
Most likely there would be enclaves of surviving mosquitoes that would repopulate the species, so the mosquitoes with the gene drive would need to be periodically re-released. But we don't need to kill every one, we just need to reduce R0 to well below one for the mosquito borne diseases.
My intestines aren't prone to religious or political nonsense that would motivate them to do such a thing.
I am not sure what you point is. Are you saying that if the Italian scientists refrain from completing their trails, religious and political terrorists will also agree to refrain from using GMO?
Do you really believe that a gene drive, which takes a generation (roughly 30 years for humans) to move from one person to another, is going to be an effective terrorist weapon?
How is it that humans are not a natural animal on this planet?
If I type "define:natural" into Google, the first definition is "not made or caused by humankind".
We're subject to the same laws of nature that everything else on the planet does.
No we aren't. For instance, a gene drive would not work on humans, because we have the intellect to understand what is happening and counteract it. No other species can do that.
the natural world will impose a new balance on us. It may mean putting the world through another extinction event to kill us off
There is no evidence that the "natural world" has the will and directed purpose that you seem to be ascribing to it.
Do you understand that CRISPR already commonly exists in nature?
The only way for this gene to "kill everything" would be for it to spread asexually between species by a virus. But if that was a danger, it would have already happened, since the mechanism is already common in procaryotes, including trillions of the bacteria in your intestines.
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You do realize that the vast majority of Facebook is fake-as-hell information
This is an example of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
But that doesn't much diminish the value of the remaining 10%. Knowing everyone's friend graph is valuable information. Knowing everyone's interests is also valuable. Knowing who is easily influenced by the false information is very valuable.
Forward projections of material facts issued by corporation directors are required to be issued to all shareholders simultaneously, and to be accompanied by specific legal disclaimers.
The proper way to release material information is in quarterly reports, or in pre-announced earnings calls.
Issuing these projections by tweet is never ok. It is especially bad for Elon because he has already been spanked once for this behavior, and had signed a consent decree to not do it again.
Why would a short be sweating bullets? The stock is down 15% over the last 12 months.
Shorties may still be sweating if their strike price is lower than 15%. Many shorties were betting on a collapse into bankruptcy.
Yes bad things will happen...like a criminal will pay my electric bill. Thanks, bad guy!
Many people use the same password for everything. So if you know the password they use to pay their electric bill, you also know the password to their bank account.
We need to have some basic security education. People should know that password reuse is bad, but they should also know that a website should not be offering to email them their plaintext password.
Nah. Porn would have picked up the slack.
Porn is a consumer of tech, and provides market incentives for innovations, but they don't fund research.
Porn drove wide adoption of VCRs and DVDs, but pornographers exploited the tech, they did not create it.
The faster left, or the farther right, you go the more likely you are to see the U,S, military involved in foreign wars.
This is not supported by evidence. The 2003 Iraq War was one of our dumbest wars, and it was supported overwhelmingly by centrists. It was the left (including Bernie) and the "paleo-conservatives" on the right (including Pat Buchanan), who opposed it.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, that was the legal basis for the Vietnam War, was also supported by centrists.
The court can't make the defence's argument for them. If the defence doesn't bring up the context, it has t be ignored.
This is yet another defect of the British/American adversarial legal system. Decisions should be based on evidence, not on the performance skills of the attorneys.
It is not always like that. In hearings before the US Supreme Court, the justices will directly question the attorneys, and often make a better case than the opposing attorney. Some US military courts allow the jurors to ask questions.
This is why we need to colonize Mars, so when the sun swells into a red giant, we can survive the earth being devoured. Mars funding needs to be a top priority, before it is too late.
can you address the point he actually made
To be honest, I am not sure what his point was. About 1000 species go extinct every year, or about 3 per day. Almost all of them are because of human activity. Should we be doing something about that? Yes. I agree we should be trying to reduce extinctions. I just disagree that the malaria protozoa is the best candidate for preservation. Perhaps a rainforest tree frog instead?
And it's happening faster than new jobs can be created.
No it isn't. We have record low unemployment, and productivity growth is sharply lower than in the past.
A big problem in our economy is that automation is happening too slowly, causing weak wage growth.
So you think they're gonna move the bottling to India and then ship the product back here? Okay.............
RTFA. They aren't laying off the bottlers. It is white collar "corporate" employees getting the ax.
The problem is that with ACA and Medicare, my tax dollars pay for your obesity.
Instead of taxing my income, they should be taxing your soda.
Or maybe instead of reporting our income on April 15th, we should report our weight.
but they really mean that their jobs are safe
RTFA. These are white collar "corporate" jobs being eliminated. They aren't laying off workers at the bottling plants.
A new rookie to the NFL can expect to make around $365,000 per year
99.9% of wannabe football players never make it to the NFL. The vast majority earn nothing.
Some may say this new category of folding phones are too expensive
Apple has clearly demonstrated that all the profits in mobile are at the high end of the market.
Apple has raised prices, seen their market share sink, and their profits rise.
This is a smart move by Huawei, I can easily see my spouse buying one of these.
It wasn't in the hands of humans with an interest in wiping out other humans long ago.
Italians are not as evil as you think they are, and without a time machine they are not going to be able to wipe out other humans long ago.
Corn doesn't contain any notable nutrients so how exactly is it supposed to end a famine?
Corn/maize is a good source of many minerals and micronutrients, and even contains reasonable amounts of protein, although it is deficient in lysine. Famine victims can't survive indefinitely on a 100% corn diet, but it has plenty of calories, and when combined with pulses (beans and peas) or supplemented with meat, fish, eggs, or dairy, it is nutritious.
There is more than one type of famine. Kwashiorkor is a type of starvation resulting from a lack of nutrients and protein deficiency, even if calories are adequate. Marasmus is starvation caused by lack of calories. Corn/maize can relieve either.
It may well be that africanized bees are slowly but surely replacing honeybees.
The "killer" bees are honeybees. African-European hybrid honeybees are replacing European honeybees. Neither is a native species in North America.
Since the new arrivals are more active, the biggest effect has been increased honey production.
The elephant in the room is that we don't actually require more humans and more developed regions of the planet.
Malaria is a major cause of childhood mortality in Africa. High child mortality causes parents to have more children, and to invest fewer resources in each child. Reducing childhood mortality lowers population growth. This has happened repeatedly, over and over, all around the world. It is happening now even in Africa ... except where malaria (or war) is still endemic.
The idea is that the gene passes on through male offspring and dooms only the female offspring.
The other part of the idea is that the gene copies itself into the matching diploid DNA, so it has twice the propagation rate of a normal gene.
Most likely there would be enclaves of surviving mosquitoes that would repopulate the species, so the mosquitoes with the gene drive would need to be periodically re-released. But we don't need to kill every one, we just need to reduce R0 to well below one for the mosquito borne diseases.
My intestines aren't prone to religious or political nonsense that would motivate them to do such a thing.
I am not sure what you point is. Are you saying that if the Italian scientists refrain from completing their trails, religious and political terrorists will also agree to refrain from using GMO?
Do you really believe that a gene drive, which takes a generation (roughly 30 years for humans) to move from one person to another, is going to be an effective terrorist weapon?
How is it that humans are not a natural animal on this planet?
If I type "define:natural" into Google, the first definition is "not made or caused by humankind".
We're subject to the same laws of nature that everything else on the planet does.
No we aren't. For instance, a gene drive would not work on humans, because we have the intellect to understand what is happening and counteract it. No other species can do that.
the natural world will impose a new balance on us. It may mean putting the world through another extinction event to kill us off
There is no evidence that the "natural world" has the will and directed purpose that you seem to be ascribing to it.
Those of us who are older might remember similar claims being made about Africanized Honeybees
I am old enough to remember the "killer bee" hysteria. It was a media phenomena, that had little to do with "science".
And they’d never, EVER make it to the US...
That is not at all what I remember. The media reports were that killer bees were unstoppable and were going to destroy western civilization.
What the scientists were saying is that hybrid bees would likely reach the US around 1990 (accurate) and that it would be no big deal (also accurate).
How many of your friends and neighbors have been victims of "killer bees"?
About 100 Americans die annually from bee stings, mostly due to allergic reactions. Since 1990, that number has gone down.
The thing I'm afraid of kills ALL the things.
Do you understand that CRISPR already commonly exists in nature?
The only way for this gene to "kill everything" would be for it to spread asexually between species by a virus. But if that was a danger, it would have already happened, since the mechanism is already common in procaryotes, including trillions of the bacteria in your intestines.
We should not be going down that road AT ALL.
Are you willing to volunteer your child to help keep Plasmodium malariae from extinction?
Or are you only against extinction if the victims are black kids in Africa?