I mean, you really shouldn't be feeding your baby processed food to begin with.
"Baby food" started out as an American thing, promoted by corporate marketing and TV advertising. It has been pushed into some other countries, but in most of the world, once kids are weaned they just eat mashed up adult food. "Baby food" is overpriced and over processed crap, that is best avoided.
The article itself is garbage. It contains no useful information whatsoever, other that that lead is "detectable". Well, no shit. Lead is detectable in seawater, and even in the atmosphere. The only curious fact is that there were actual a few samples that did NOT detect lead. The only plausible explanation for that is that they were using crappy instruments.
If TFA had been written by a non-idiot, it would have listed the actual levels and compared them to safety standards, or at least normal background levels. But then it would have been obvious that there was actually no "news" worth reporting.
Market forces and simple exhaustion of supply will greatly reduce the use of coal to make electricity.
Bullcrap. There is no "exhaustion of supply". America, China, India, and Europe all have enough coal to last for centuries. Coal is dirt cheap and in many areas of the world it will continue to be the most cost effective source of power, as long as the emissions are ignored. Coal needs to die, and market forces alone are not going to accomplish that.
Reforestation is also a thing. Deforestation is rapidly diminishing. It is still bad in Africa and Indonesia, but has fallen dramatically in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Forests are increasing in North America, Europe, and China.
CO2 is not in decline and it will take hundreds of years for it to decline.
That is assuming that we don't actively do anything about it. There are plenty of things we can do to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, such as ocean fertilization, growing biofuel crops and sequestering the CO2, and enhanced weathering. It is also plausible that we can learn something new in the future and develop new technology.
Self-checkouts are improving rapidly. You might want to try again. Where I get my groceries, self-checkout is always faster. There are 4 self checkouts, usually with no wait, and 1 or 2 staffed checkouts with a few people in line, who I assume are either luddites or are buying booze and cigarettes.
We will always use all the space and time we have.
This truism isn't true anymore. When disk space was scarce, drives were alway 95-99% full. I remember years ago, walking around the office trying to convince people to delete or compress files on a network drive to free up enough space for me to get my work done. Today, we have 60% free space on our servers. It is so cheap that we don't even bother to clean up anymore. It is more cost effective to just slap on a few more terabytes.
Likewise with cpu time. In the olden days, I can remember logging into a timeshare machine on Christmas Eve, just to experience the luxury of a 4 Mhz machine all to myself.
Once SDCs are available, home delivery will likely be cheaper than going shopping. Amazon is getting ready for the future. They can sacrifice profit in the short run, so they have the infrastructure in place to profit in the long run.
Since they have an astronomically high P/E of over 500, their investors seem to agree that this is a smart strategy.
Yes, it works with HTTPS. They don't scan the incoming HTML, they scan the outgoing URL. In a GET request the outgoing URL along with any embedded search terms, are in plaintext. To hide those parameters, the target site would have to use a PUT request, which is more complicated.
Improved techniques have often reduced the price of production and expanded accessible reserves in the past
That is true, but it has never before happened on the scale of what is happening today. In the past, the improvements were incremental, and never deprived the Saudis of their ability to set the price by adjusting their production. Today, America is on track to being the world's largest producer of oil. The Saudis have cut production and instead of stabilizing, prices have continued to fall. Saudi Arabia can't afford to cut production any further, and are in the process of selling shares in ARAMCO, which is tantamount to auctioning off their reserves, just to keep their economy afloat.
My prediction (you heard it here first): Within ten years the Saudi Royal Family will be gone.
Correct. ISPs can save money with caching, and they can pass those savings on in aggregate to their customers. But they should not be allowed to differentially charge less for cached data, since that is open to obvious abuse. They will cache their own content, refuse to cache independent content, and then use monopoly power to push their own content, or extort money from other content producers as a "caching fee".
real people DO NOT WANT bits to cost the same regardless of source
People that understand the issues certainly do. Consumers are not "demanding" to pay extra for uncached content. That is bullcrap.
Or learn to travel light. Even for a two week trip, everything I need fits in my backpack. If I fly SWA, I am not subsidizing people that bring an extra 50 lbs of crap.
Prices are low because of improved techniques for hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery. These improvements are not going to "unhappen", so it is unlikely that we will every again see $100/barrel oil. American frackers, not Saudis, are the swing producers that set the price. The era of expensive oil is over.
If they charge the same amount, regardless of where that bit came from, then that is network neutrality.
At that point those end users who are clogging up the Internet...
You are missing the point. The problem is not "users clogging up the internet". The real issue is that ISPs are mostly monopolies and they want to leverage that monopoly to muscle their way into the content business. If they charge differential prices to customers based on where the content comes from, then they can shift users to their own content, and either extort tribute out of Netflix/Amazon/iTunes or drive them out of the content business entirely.
So how the fuck did neither of you think to use a pretty-printer on check-in/out
I suggested that to her attorney during the mediation process, but I don't think he understood. The 4 space indent is the only formatting requirement that made it into the final settlement.
It depends on the language. For bracketed languages like C++, Java, and Javascript, 2 spaces is correct. But for indented languages like Python, 4 is better to make the structure more clear.
What I really can't stand is people that use 8. That is never the right choice. My wife uses 8 spaces, and we have had plenty of arguments over that, especially when she edits my code, changes the indentation and then checks it back into the git repository with 100% of lines changed. But the final straw was when she started teaching the kids to use 8 spaces. We almost got divorced over that. I fought for 2, she fought for 8, so we compromised, and the kids are using 4 space indents, although neither of us is happy about that.
Using spaces to indent is really kind of an OCD thing to do. There's the time and the counting and then redoing when you change something.
Uhh.. no. Whether you use tabs or spaces is an editor config setting. At the human UI level it is barely even noticeable.
I use spaces at work so the code looks the same for everyone. For Python, I always use spaces since whitespace is part of the syntax. For other languages, I am not even sure. I would need to look at my.emacs file.
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I mean, you really shouldn't be feeding your baby processed food to begin with.
"Baby food" started out as an American thing, promoted by corporate marketing and TV advertising. It has been pushed into some other countries, but in most of the world, once kids are weaned they just eat mashed up adult food. "Baby food" is overpriced and over processed crap, that is best avoided.
How does this crap get modded up in a tech forum?
The article itself is garbage. It contains no useful information whatsoever, other that that lead is "detectable". Well, no shit. Lead is detectable in seawater, and even in the atmosphere. The only curious fact is that there were actual a few samples that did NOT detect lead. The only plausible explanation for that is that they were using crappy instruments.
If TFA had been written by a non-idiot, it would have listed the actual levels and compared them to safety standards, or at least normal background levels. But then it would have been obvious that there was actually no "news" worth reporting.
When alarm is scientifically justified, alarmism is moral.
Much past climate alarmism was not justified, and now that credibility has been eroded, many people are no longer listening.
Scientists should stick to the facts, and avoid becoming policy advocates.
Market forces and simple exhaustion of supply will greatly reduce the use of coal to make electricity.
Bullcrap. There is no "exhaustion of supply". America, China, India, and Europe all have enough coal to last for centuries. Coal is dirt cheap and in many areas of the world it will continue to be the most cost effective source of power, as long as the emissions are ignored. Coal needs to die, and market forces alone are not going to accomplish that.
Scale. And deforestation is a thing too.
Reforestation is also a thing. Deforestation is rapidly diminishing. It is still bad in Africa and Indonesia, but has fallen dramatically in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Forests are increasing in North America, Europe, and China.
CO2 is not in decline and it will take hundreds of years for it to decline.
That is assuming that we don't actively do anything about it. There are plenty of things we can do to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, such as ocean fertilization, growing biofuel crops and sequestering the CO2, and enhanced weathering. It is also plausible that we can learn something new in the future and develop new technology.
Self-checkouts are improving rapidly. You might want to try again. Where I get my groceries, self-checkout is always faster. There are 4 self checkouts, usually with no wait, and 1 or 2 staffed checkouts with a few people in line, who I assume are either luddites or are buying booze and cigarettes.
We will always use all the space and time we have.
This truism isn't true anymore. When disk space was scarce, drives were alway 95-99% full. I remember years ago, walking around the office trying to convince people to delete or compress files on a network drive to free up enough space for me to get my work done. Today, we have 60% free space on our servers. It is so cheap that we don't even bother to clean up anymore. It is more cost effective to just slap on a few more terabytes.
Likewise with cpu time. In the olden days, I can remember logging into a timeshare machine on Christmas Eve, just to experience the luxury of a 4 Mhz machine all to myself.
Home delivery is not expensive.
Once SDCs are available, home delivery will likely be cheaper than going shopping. Amazon is getting ready for the future. They can sacrifice profit in the short run, so they have the infrastructure in place to profit in the long run.
Since they have an astronomically high P/E of over 500, their investors seem to agree that this is a smart strategy.
According to the article whether or not HTTPS is used is very relevant to the system employed in this patent.
Well, then since near 100% of ecommerce sites use HTTPS, Amazon's technique will work roughly 0% of the time, and this is a total non-issue.
it was a joke
I am an Aspie. I am immune to jokes.
Yes, it works with HTTPS. They don't scan the incoming HTML, they scan the outgoing URL. In a GET request the outgoing URL along with any embedded search terms, are in plaintext. To hide those parameters, the target site would have to use a PUT request, which is more complicated.
I hope other stores do too and I hope this is actively mentioned in the news.
They could use the same technique to block all news mentioning it.
Then finally maybe there'll be a push towards everything going HTTPS
You are confused. This has nothing to do with HTTPS. Nearly every ecommerce site is already using HTTPS.
Improved techniques have often reduced the price of production and expanded accessible reserves in the past
That is true, but it has never before happened on the scale of what is happening today. In the past, the improvements were incremental, and never deprived the Saudis of their ability to set the price by adjusting their production. Today, America is on track to being the world's largest producer of oil. The Saudis have cut production and instead of stabilizing, prices have continued to fall. Saudi Arabia can't afford to cut production any further, and are in the process of selling shares in ARAMCO, which is tantamount to auctioning off their reserves, just to keep their economy afloat.
My prediction (you heard it here first): Within ten years the Saudi Royal Family will be gone.
Wait till it takes a barrel of oil energy to recover one barrel of oil.
The energy for processing oil doesn't come from oil. It usually comes from NG, or sometimes even from coal.
Cost for 1M BTU of NG: $3
Cost for 1M BTU from oil: $17
$3 for NG is the Henry Hub price. It is going to be much cheaper in the oilfields, where it is sometimes flared off as a waste product.
an ISP cannot charge me less for cached data.
Correct. ISPs can save money with caching, and they can pass those savings on in aggregate to their customers. But they should not be allowed to differentially charge less for cached data, since that is open to obvious abuse. They will cache their own content, refuse to cache independent content, and then use monopoly power to push their own content, or extort money from other content producers as a "caching fee".
real people DO NOT WANT bits to cost the same regardless of source
People that understand the issues certainly do. Consumers are not "demanding" to pay extra for uncached content. That is bullcrap.
Take a beating on the plane, not baggage fees
Or learn to travel light. Even for a two week trip, everything I need fits in my backpack. If I fly SWA, I am not subsidizing people that bring an extra 50 lbs of crap.
Prices are low because of improved techniques for hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery. These improvements are not going to "unhappen", so it is unlikely that we will every again see $100/barrel oil. American frackers, not Saudis, are the swing producers that set the price. The era of expensive oil is over.
you're a heretic who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes!
No, you will just be paid less.
ISPs only need to charge us per bit.
If they charge the same amount, regardless of where that bit came from, then that is network neutrality.
At that point those end users who are clogging up the Internet ...
You are missing the point. The problem is not "users clogging up the internet". The real issue is that ISPs are mostly monopolies and they want to leverage that monopoly to muscle their way into the content business. If they charge differential prices to customers based on where the content comes from, then they can shift users to their own content, and either extort tribute out of Netflix/Amazon/iTunes or drive them out of the content business entirely.
So how the fuck did neither of you think to use a pretty-printer on check-in/out
I suggested that to her attorney during the mediation process, but I don't think he understood. The 4 space indent is the only formatting requirement that made it into the final settlement.
Subsidies for new clean energy tech are not dumb.
Making the subsidies permanent is dumb.
Solar and wind subsidies have worked well.
But it is time to start phasing them out.
First you crawl, then you learn to walk.
It should be 2.
It depends on the language. For bracketed languages like C++, Java, and Javascript, 2 spaces is correct. But for indented languages like Python, 4 is better to make the structure more clear.
What I really can't stand is people that use 8. That is never the right choice. My wife uses 8 spaces, and we have had plenty of arguments over that, especially when she edits my code, changes the indentation and then checks it back into the git repository with 100% of lines changed. But the final straw was when she started teaching the kids to use 8 spaces. We almost got divorced over that. I fought for 2, she fought for 8, so we compromised, and the kids are using 4 space indents, although neither of us is happy about that.
Using spaces to indent is really kind of an OCD thing to do. There's the time and the counting and then redoing when you change something.
Uhh .. no. Whether you use tabs or spaces is an editor config setting. At the human UI level it is barely even noticeable.
I use spaces at work so the code looks the same for everyone. For Python, I always use spaces since whitespace is part of the syntax. For other languages, I am not even sure. I would need to look at my .emacs file.
Great. Let's take away subsidies from coal and oil, then.
Sure. Dumb subsidies don't justify dumber subsidies.