A drop in plasma prices is not a good thing. If billionaires like Peter Thiel pay even less to their penurious blood boys, that just increases income inequality in America.
This was 4000 times the safe limit for exposure in 30 minutes.
No, it is 4000 times the federal regulatory limit, which is way lower than the safe limit because of all the extra caution and margins of error built into the federal regulations.
This was naturally occurring uranium ore. If you don't ingest it, and you have enough ventilation to prevent radon build up, it isn't that dangerous.
We didn't give Iran their nuclear capability, but Trump is wanting to give it to the Saudi.
Fuel for power plants is not even close to weapons grade, and the power plant deal includes extra safeguards. It actually lowers the chance of the Saudis building a bomb.
TFA contains implications of guilt-by-associate and innuendo about "potential conflicts of interest" but it didn't mention a single concrete problem with the deal. It means jobs for Americans, and lower CO2 emissions in Saudi Arabia.
And weekly productivity went up 20%. Which, given the 20% reduction in hours, means hourly productivity went up ~50%.
No, this is wrong. TFA clearly says that the amount of work done per week stayed the same. Productivity (work/time) went up by 20%. So they got 20% more done during each of the 4 days they worked, which made up for the day off.
The phrase "hourly productivity" makes as little sense as saying "hourly velocity". Productivity is not a lump of production, it is a rate of production.
"If you tell everyone you are happy, and fudge the numbers to look productive, then you can continue to get an extra day off every week".
You really can't see an incentive to lie?
What is kinda strange is the math... So they say no loss in productivity (as opposed to a gain) and they furthermore talk about a 20% increase in productivity.
The summary says "20% gain in productivity" and "same amount of work gets done". So they are getting 20% more done each day they work, with makes up for the day they don't work.
So far, I have not had any issue hiring people and determining that they knew what they were talking about versus faking it.
Then I doubt if you have done much, if any, hiring. We try to weed out the fakers with phone conversations before inviting them for a face-to-face interview, but the only way to be sure is to have them write some simple code like a program to find the 1000th prime number. That is trivial, but about a third of candidates can't do it. These are people with CS degrees from reputable universities, with plenty of code samples, apparently from group projects, that they are able to discuss intelligently, yet clearly didn't write.
If you want a job writing code, you need to demonstrate that you can write code, not just talk about it.
It is a dumb direction to take. It will add an enormous layer of bureaucracy, with a new hierarchy going all the way to a four star general on the joint chiefs of staff and a top level political appointee as the "Secretary of Space". Every decision will traverse up that hierarchy, until the buck stops at the person least qualified to make it. The primary job of all the bureaucrats will be to deal with all the infighting and turf battles with both NASA and the USAF.
As our space priorities shift to the military, expect big cutbacks on planetary exploration, deep space science, or anything beyond low earth orbit.
Our militarization of space will compel our geopolitical adversaries to respond with their own buildup. The Chinese and Russian buildups will be used by the USSF (United States Space Force) to say "We told you so" and justify even bigger budgets in the future.
How do you "walk away" from Equifax? The people exposed were their product, not their customers.
In every one of the other breaches, no customer knew about the sloppy practices until it was too late. So saying that "customer choice" is the solution doesn't work. Even when customers do have a choice, they are not able to make an informed decision.
TFA is written my someone who doesn't even understand the issues. He complains that Google "sells data about you to advertisers". No they don't. That is not how their business model works. They use your data to place ads on behalf of advertisers, but they do not, and never have, sold or transferred the data to the advertisers.
If I have to choose, I'll deal with giant mountains of garbage Python over even a small hill of garbage C++
That is backwards.
Python is great. I use it all the time. For scripts. Small programs that are fast to write, easy to read, and avoid all the complexity of type checking and memory management. Python is also easy to learn. It is taught in elementary schools.
But for a 200,000+ line project written by a team, with coders coming and going during the project, Python is a very poor choice. "Quick and easy" doesn't scale. For big projects you need rigid type checking, complex data structures, fine tuned encapsulation, compile time error checking, static and dynamic analysis, verifiable memory allocation and release, etc. C++ has all of that, Python does not.
So you want to use C++ for the "giant mountains" of code. Python is for the "small hills".
Nobody would ever get a patent on anything if the test was some beer-bottle patent attorney saying "oh yeah, I could have thought of that."
If you give the beer drinker the solution, and they say "I could have thought of that", then that doesn't mean much, because most innovations are "obvious" in hindsight.
But if the beer drinker knows a bit about computers, and you ask them "How would you solve this problem?", most would come up with a solution involving a database and either a barcode or some sort of OCR. This is the true test of "obviousness", and this patent appears to fail it.
This is not true. Maternal folic acid supplements will, on average, increase IQ by 3 points. Breastfeeding for the first 3 months of life will also raise IQ by an average of 3 points, although the two gains may not be accumulative. Reducing exposure to lead, cadmium, and mercury during early childhood also helps, as does ensuring that all pregnant women and children receive sufficient iodine.
There are many simple things we could be doing to reduce the number of stupid people in the world. If you look at all the problems caused by excessive stupidity, from low incomes to high prison populations, our failure to address this issue is, well,... stupid.
Just because you cured HepC, hell, even curing AIDS in a person does not mean they can't get infected again and need your cure again.
If there is a cure, then the rate of re-infection will decline, possibly to zero, as the cure is applied to the population. Nobody gets smallpox anymore.
One of the problems with our current medical system is that there is no incentive to develop cheap reliable effective cures.
They could chose to not use that type of loophole and pay a reasonable amount of tax to the country that allows them to make billions in profit.
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." -- Judge Learned Hand
This is why we need to make sure all levels of government affected by such actions are involved.
Even better, the government can just keep their snoot out of location decisions, and corporations can make the decision based on business efficiency rather than bribe size.
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Hopefully this will lower young blood prices
A drop in plasma prices is not a good thing. If billionaires like Peter Thiel pay even less to their penurious blood boys, that just increases income inequality in America.
This was 4000 times the safe limit for exposure in 30 minutes.
No, it is 4000 times the federal regulatory limit, which is way lower than the safe limit because of all the extra caution and margins of error built into the federal regulations.
This was naturally occurring uranium ore. If you don't ingest it, and you have enough ventilation to prevent radon build up, it isn't that dangerous.
We didn't give Iran their nuclear capability, but Trump is wanting to give it to the Saudi.
Fuel for power plants is not even close to weapons grade, and the power plant deal includes extra safeguards. It actually lowers the chance of the Saudis building a bomb.
TFA contains implications of guilt-by-associate and innuendo about "potential conflicts of interest" but it didn't mention a single concrete problem with the deal. It means jobs for Americans, and lower CO2 emissions in Saudi Arabia.
Still doesn't add up.
This is economic journalism, not precision science. Productivity is not something that can be measured accurately anyway. This is all handwavy stuff.
And weekly productivity went up 20%. Which, given the 20% reduction in hours, means hourly productivity went up ~50%.
No, this is wrong. TFA clearly says that the amount of work done per week stayed the same. Productivity (work/time) went up by 20%. So they got 20% more done during each of the 4 days they worked, which made up for the day off.
The phrase "hourly productivity" makes as little sense as saying "hourly velocity". Productivity is not a lump of production, it is a rate of production.
So who'd be lying and to what end?
"If you tell everyone you are happy, and fudge the numbers to look productive, then you can continue to get an extra day off every week".
You really can't see an incentive to lie?
What is kinda strange is the math... So they say no loss in productivity (as opposed to a gain) and they furthermore talk about a 20% increase in productivity.
The summary says "20% gain in productivity" and "same amount of work gets done". So they are getting 20% more done each day they work, with makes up for the day they don't work.
So far, I have not had any issue hiring people and determining that they knew what they were talking about versus faking it.
Then I doubt if you have done much, if any, hiring. We try to weed out the fakers with phone conversations before inviting them for a face-to-face interview, but the only way to be sure is to have them write some simple code like a program to find the 1000th prime number. That is trivial, but about a third of candidates can't do it. These are people with CS degrees from reputable universities, with plenty of code samples, apparently from group projects, that they are able to discuss intelligently, yet clearly didn't write.
If you want a job writing code, you need to demonstrate that you can write code, not just talk about it.
I agree it's a direction to take
It is a dumb direction to take. It will add an enormous layer of bureaucracy, with a new hierarchy going all the way to a four star general on the joint chiefs of staff and a top level political appointee as the "Secretary of Space". Every decision will traverse up that hierarchy, until the buck stops at the person least qualified to make it. The primary job of all the bureaucrats will be to deal with all the infighting and turf battles with both NASA and the USAF.
As our space priorities shift to the military, expect big cutbacks on planetary exploration, deep space science, or anything beyond low earth orbit.
Our militarization of space will compel our geopolitical adversaries to respond with their own buildup. The Chinese and Russian buildups will be used by the USSF (United States Space Force) to say "We told you so" and justify even bigger budgets in the future.
None of us were told there was a programming exercise
Do you really need to be told this? Were you expecting to be hired as a programmer without demonstrating that you can program?
Walk away from companies that abuse your data.
How do you "walk away" from Equifax? The people exposed were their product, not their customers.
In every one of the other breaches, no customer knew about the sloppy practices until it was too late. So saying that "customer choice" is the solution doesn't work. Even when customers do have a choice, they are not able to make an informed decision.
TFA is written my someone who doesn't even understand the issues. He complains that Google "sells data about you to advertisers". No they don't. That is not how their business model works. They use your data to place ads on behalf of advertisers, but they do not, and never have, sold or transferred the data to the advertisers.
Folic acid is a myth and turned out to be bad for you.
A quick Google search produced nothing that backs up your claim, but dozens of pages emphasizing the importance of folic acid during pregnancy.
So I say you're full of bullcrap. Care to provide a citation to prove you aren't?
There is a correlation between elevated folic acid and prostate cancer, but pregnant women don't have prostates, so that isn't relevant.
If I have to choose, I'll deal with giant mountains of garbage Python over even a small hill of garbage C++
That is backwards.
Python is great. I use it all the time. For scripts. Small programs that are fast to write, easy to read, and avoid all the complexity of type checking and memory management. Python is also easy to learn. It is taught in elementary schools.
But for a 200,000+ line project written by a team, with coders coming and going during the project, Python is a very poor choice. "Quick and easy" doesn't scale. For big projects you need rigid type checking, complex data structures, fine tuned encapsulation, compile time error checking, static and dynamic analysis, verifiable memory allocation and release, etc. C++ has all of that, Python does not.
So you want to use C++ for the "giant mountains" of code. Python is for the "small hills".
Nobody would ever get a patent on anything if the test was some beer-bottle patent attorney saying "oh yeah, I could have thought of that."
If you give the beer drinker the solution, and they say "I could have thought of that", then that doesn't mean much, because most innovations are "obvious" in hindsight.
But if the beer drinker knows a bit about computers, and you ask them "How would you solve this problem?", most would come up with a solution involving a database and either a barcode or some sort of OCR. This is the true test of "obviousness", and this patent appears to fail it.
And there's no cure for stupidity.
This is not true. Maternal folic acid supplements will, on average, increase IQ by 3 points. Breastfeeding for the first 3 months of life will also raise IQ by an average of 3 points, although the two gains may not be accumulative. Reducing exposure to lead, cadmium, and mercury during early childhood also helps, as does ensuring that all pregnant women and children receive sufficient iodine.
There are many simple things we could be doing to reduce the number of stupid people in the world. If you look at all the problems caused by excessive stupidity, from low incomes to high prison populations, our failure to address this issue is, well, ... stupid.
Just because you cured HepC, hell, even curing AIDS in a person does not mean they can't get infected again and need your cure again.
If there is a cure, then the rate of re-infection will decline, possibly to zero, as the cure is applied to the population. Nobody gets smallpox anymore.
One of the problems with our current medical system is that there is no incentive to develop cheap reliable effective cures.
Your caricature is inaccurate. Many Libertarians oppose intellectual property rights. Others support reforms of the existing system.
Libertarian perspectives on intellectual property
They are just freeloading on research done by others, while contributing nothing to the advancement of medical knowledge.
Flat Earthers need to change their name to Square Earthers.
Flat Earthers do not believe the earth is square. They believe it is a circular disk.
It is obviously not square, since the earth casts a circular shadow during a lunar eclipse.
An average of 199 unread messages and all of them unwanted newsletters and spam.
Get a better spam filter. I see a spam email less than once a week.
Seriously, nobody's fool enough to let the government be the power company.
There are plenty of places in America with government run municipal power.
Municipal electric utilities in the United States
They generally work well. Electrical power is a natural monopoly, so free market competition isn't really an alternative anyway.
They could chose to not use that type of loophole and pay a reasonable amount of tax to the country that allows them to make billions in profit.
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." -- Judge Learned Hand
This is why we need to make sure all levels of government affected by such actions are involved.
Even better, the government can just keep their snoot out of location decisions, and corporations can make the decision based on business efficiency rather than bribe size.
I'm sure they'll find some red state willing to give them a few billion for hopes and promises
Good luck finding 25,000 intelligent tech workers in Oklahoma.
In IPv6 every atom (at least - possible even the sub-atomic particles) can have an IP address, right?
No. IPv6 is 128 bits, which is 3.4e38.
The number of quarks in the universe is roughly 1e80.
So you are short by 42 orders of magnitude.
Except the UK is part of Europe, and they don't.
Neither does Ireland.
Luxembourg and Switzerland use both officially.