30% of traffic in SF may be cars circling the block while looking for parking. Since Uber/Lyft drivers don't park, they may be relieving more congestion than they are causing.
As "ride-sharing" becomes more popular, and there is less need for parking, the best way to reduce congestion is to eliminate curbside parking, especially on busy streets. This opens up an additional lane in each direction for traffic.
having said that, they are a private school and can admit or refuse anyone for any reason
No they can't. Federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit discrimination against specific classes of people, and some of those laws, including the ADA, apply to college admissions.
Harvard also receives federal grants and is a government contractor, so that adds additional requirements and obligations.
However, no anti-discrimination laws protect racist assholes, so Harvard should be okay in this case.
They don't sell oodles of them. They sell very few. That is why they haven't done an update in more than three years: It just doesn't sell well enough to bother. Rumors are that the new Mac Pro will be expandable and upgradable, and will be a box not a cylinder, so Apple may have learned a lesson. But it is unlikely they will announce a new Mac Pro today.
What should the default be if not the most popular?
The default should be the brand you ordered last time... which is the default. Amazon's first step is to search your order history.
Also, instead of "Alexa, order toilet paper", you can say "Alexa, add toilet paper to my shopping cart", and later review the items on your laptop before committing.
I have never used mine to order anything. I buy toilet paper in bulk at Costco, not online, and the things I do buy from Amazon are rarely consumables.
So what do I use it for? First thing every morning while I am making tea: "Alexa, news report". While I am making dinner: "Alexa, set a timer for 5 minutes" and "Alexa, play a Willie Nelson song". I also use it to connect to my IoT hub: "Alexa, turn off the sink light" and "Alexa, lock the front door".
Marketing. If the data shows you go into a barbershop every other Tuesday, then Monday evening would be a great time to popup a coupon for a competing barber.
If you want the convenience of popup ads on your mobile device, then you have to accept police surveillance along with it. I think we can all agree that the tradeoff is worth it.
Does your doctor own your medical info, or do you? The answer to this question leads you to the answer to yours.
No it doesn't, because there are specific laws that apply to medical records. If medical records were the same as any other records, then those laws would be meaningless.
The ISS served a purpose but no one has had the vision to build on what has been learned.
There was very little learned from the ISS that we hadn't already learned from Skylab and Mir. We could have kept Mir in orbit, and retrofitted it for 1% of what was spent on the ISS. Instead, deorbiting Mir was a precondition for Russian participation in the ISS.
It gives us a better understanding of how life happens, how it evolves. If we find evidence of life on Mars, or if we fail to find evidence, that helps us to understand life on earth. It is hard to point to a direct application of basic scientific research, but it has historically proved to be a very wise investment.
Can anyone justify the value of this research?
The "value" has to be compared against the cost. These unmanned robotic missions are way cheap. If you want to look for poor value/cost, look at the $100B squandered on the ISS.
Back in the 1980s I worked for a defense contractor, and we were required to have flowcharts for all our code. In theory, we were supposed to design the algorithms using flowcharts, and then write the code. But that is stupid, and no one ever did it that way. Instead, we had a program to generate the flowcharts from the code, and then we printed them on a plotter.
One page of code generated about ten pages of flowcharts, so we went through a lot of paper. Each time the shelves filled up with flowcharts, we would stuff them all in boxes, put them on a pallet, and have them moved to a warehouse.
AFAIK nobody ever looked at them. Other than as carbon sequestration, flowcharts are useless.
Interesting. So police self-reporting shows a less dramatic fall in crime compared to direct surveys. So instead of hiding crime (as GPP claimed) the police are actually inflating crime rates, most likely to justify keeping their jobs.
Crime hasn't gone down, they just got better at ignoring or reclassifying it.
Bullcrap. The most reliable measures of crime are independent surveys. You call people up at random and ask them if they have been crime victims in the last year. This completely bypasses police self-reporting.
Independent surveys show that crime has decreased dramatically over the last 25 years.
There is no reason that we still need the same number of police. "More police" would have done nothing to prevent a car from swerving onto a sidewalk.
Standard Oil and AT&T were not monopolies either, but the courts in both America and Europe have long applied antitrust laws to companies that were short of an absolute monopoly.
VR is a Billion for Doctors handling motion sickness, etc.
You don't need to go to a doctor for motion sickness. You just turn off the computer, and five minutes later you're fine.
I get motion sickness with on screen VR, when the turning and acceleration don't match what my inner ears sense. But helmeted VR is okay, because my head physically turns with the display. Also, motion sickness goes away as your body adjusts to it, just like sea sickness. When I was at sea, I felt nauseous for the first week, and then I was fine.
You don't lose weight because of the water loss, but because of the calories lost. A pint of blood contains about 650 calories, which is what you burn by running 6 miles. Except instead of exercising your legs, you exercise your bone marrow.
In the UK it's a minimum of 12 weeks between donations.
I have donated through the American Red Cross in several states, and the limit was always 8 weeks. Even 8 weeks is a silly limit. That is what is deemed safe for a 110 lb menstruating woman donating a pint of blood. There is no reason that a 6 foot tall 170 lb male should be held to the same frequency.
except it won't, as some simply won't submit their tips.
More than 90% of bomb threats are hoaxes. Either there is no bomb, or the "bomb" is inert. The most common reason is pranks at schools, such as kids hoping to get a test canceled.
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the odds of driving poorly are much higher while texting - which is very true; however just pull over people that are driving poorly.
You could use the exact same logic to argue that drunk driving should be legal.
Driving while texting may be worse than driving while drunk.
How is a double parked Uber different than a double parked Yellow Cab?
The big difference is that taxi companies spend way more on political donations and lobbyists.
30% of traffic in SF may be cars circling the block while looking for parking. Since Uber/Lyft drivers don't park, they may be relieving more congestion than they are causing.
As "ride-sharing" becomes more popular, and there is less need for parking, the best way to reduce congestion is to eliminate curbside parking, especially on busy streets. This opens up an additional lane in each direction for traffic.
The Apple HomePod can do most of what Alexa can do, and it only costs twice as much.
having said that, they are a private school and can admit or refuse anyone for any reason
No they can't. Federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit discrimination against specific classes of people, and some of those laws, including the ADA, apply to college admissions.
Harvard also receives federal grants and is a government contractor, so that adds additional requirements and obligations.
However, no anti-discrimination laws protect racist assholes, so Harvard should be okay in this case.
they wouldn't sell oodles of them like they do.
They don't sell oodles of them. They sell very few. That is why they haven't done an update in more than three years: It just doesn't sell well enough to bother. Rumors are that the new Mac Pro will be expandable and upgradable, and will be a box not a cylinder, so Apple may have learned a lesson. But it is unlikely they will announce a new Mac Pro today.
What should the default be if not the most popular?
The default should be the brand you ordered last time ... which is the default. Amazon's first step is to search your order history.
Also, instead of "Alexa, order toilet paper", you can say "Alexa, add toilet paper to my shopping cart", and later review the items on your laptop before committing.
But very few Alexa owners actually use it for shopping. Only 10% use it to order things.
I have never used mine to order anything. I buy toilet paper in bulk at Costco, not online, and the things I do buy from Amazon are rarely consumables.
So what do I use it for? First thing every morning while I am making tea: "Alexa, news report". While I am making dinner: "Alexa, set a timer for 5 minutes" and "Alexa, play a Willie Nelson song". I also use it to connect to my IoT hub: "Alexa, turn off the sink light" and "Alexa, lock the front door".
Why the fuck is the past location data even kept?
Marketing. If the data shows you go into a barbershop every other Tuesday, then Monday evening would be a great time to popup a coupon for a competing barber.
If you want the convenience of popup ads on your mobile device, then you have to accept police surveillance along with it. I think we can all agree that the tradeoff is worth it.
Does your doctor own your medical info, or do you? The answer to this question leads you to the answer to yours.
No it doesn't, because there are specific laws that apply to medical records. If medical records were the same as any other records, then those laws would be meaningless.
The ISS served a purpose but no one has had the vision to build on what has been learned.
There was very little learned from the ISS that we hadn't already learned from Skylab and Mir. We could have kept Mir in orbit, and retrofitted it for 1% of what was spent on the ISS. Instead, deorbiting Mir was a precondition for Russian participation in the ISS.
How does this affect anyone?
It gives us a better understanding of how life happens, how it evolves. If we find evidence of life on Mars, or if we fail to find evidence, that helps us to understand life on earth. It is hard to point to a direct application of basic scientific research, but it has historically proved to be a very wise investment.
Can anyone justify the value of this research?
The "value" has to be compared against the cost. These unmanned robotic missions are way cheap. If you want to look for poor value/cost, look at the $100B squandered on the ISS.
Back in the 1980s I worked for a defense contractor, and we were required to have flowcharts for all our code. In theory, we were supposed to design the algorithms using flowcharts, and then write the code. But that is stupid, and no one ever did it that way. Instead, we had a program to generate the flowcharts from the code, and then we printed them on a plotter.
One page of code generated about ten pages of flowcharts, so we went through a lot of paper. Each time the shelves filled up with flowcharts, we would stuff them all in boxes, put them on a pallet, and have them moved to a warehouse.
AFAIK nobody ever looked at them. Other than as carbon sequestration, flowcharts are useless.
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Interesting. So police self-reporting shows a less dramatic fall in crime compared to direct surveys. So instead of hiding crime (as GPP claimed) the police are actually inflating crime rates, most likely to justify keeping their jobs.
Crime hasn't gone down, they just got better at ignoring or reclassifying it.
Bullcrap. The most reliable measures of crime are independent surveys. You call people up at random and ask them if they have been crime victims in the last year. This completely bypasses police self-reporting.
Independent surveys show that crime has decreased dramatically over the last 25 years.
There is no reason that we still need the same number of police. "More police" would have done nothing to prevent a car from swerving onto a sidewalk.
Even better, just put the raw anonymized recidivism data on Kaggle and let everyone compete to come up with the best model.
Even the idea of forcing all future software to be open source is unrealistic because companies won't do the R and D without profit potential.
Open source does not mean non-profit. There are plenty of profitable open source companies.
They sound like they don't know what they are doing. I have actually worked on drones prototypes, and here are the first two things I learned:
1. You keep them tethered until you get the bugs worked out.
2. You don't test them where they can "blow up a lot of sand"
Trying to extend our lives beyond it's natural course is a path leading to pain, suffering, and evil.
So then we should ban antibiotics and measles vaccinations?
Should we reintroduce smallpox into the population?
It may be "dominant", but it's not a "monopoly".
Standard Oil and AT&T were not monopolies either, but the courts in both America and Europe have long applied antitrust laws to companies that were short of an absolute monopoly.
Then move out of there! I live in Mississippi and fresh/healthy food is dirt cheap here at farmer's markets.
Food is not expensive in SV. It is about the same as everywhere else. The only thing that is considerably more expensive than elsewhere is housing.
VR is a Billion for Doctors handling motion sickness, etc.
You don't need to go to a doctor for motion sickness. You just turn off the computer, and five minutes later you're fine.
I get motion sickness with on screen VR, when the turning and acceleration don't match what my inner ears sense. But helmeted VR is okay, because my head physically turns with the display. Also, motion sickness goes away as your body adjusts to it, just like sea sickness. When I was at sea, I felt nauseous for the first week, and then I was fine.
You don't lose weight because of the water loss, but because of the calories lost. A pint of blood contains about 650 calories, which is what you burn by running 6 miles. Except instead of exercising your legs, you exercise your bone marrow.
In the UK it's a minimum of 12 weeks between donations.
I have donated through the American Red Cross in several states, and the limit was always 8 weeks. Even 8 weeks is a silly limit. That is what is deemed safe for a 110 lb menstruating woman donating a pint of blood. There is no reason that a 6 foot tall 170 lb male should be held to the same frequency.
except it won't, as some simply won't submit their tips.
More than 90% of bomb threats are hoaxes. Either there is no bomb, or the "bomb" is inert. The most common reason is pranks at schools, such as kids hoping to get a test canceled.