Vegetarian diets that include milk and/or eggs have all needed nutrients. Vegan diets do not, and need supplements. The supplements are easy to get, but they are not "natural" and neither is veganism.
I don't think so. My daughter is a vegan, and she says she wouldn't eat this, because the original stem cells still came from an animal. It may be grown in a vat, but it is still "meat".
A person drinks a gallon of bacon grease a day for 40 years, then suddenly dies of a heart attack.
Here's a better analogy: Millions of people eat bacon everyday. The medical establishment claims this is a crisis and many bacon eaters are going to die within 40 years unless the medical establishment gets a lot of money to "fix" the problem. The money isn't spent, and 40 years comes and goes. Few people die, and bacon eaters aren't dying any faster than danish eaters.
Would you still insist that the "crisis" was real? Or would you maybe consider that bacon isn't as bad as you were told?
Yet the people yelling "The infrastructure is falling! The infrastructure is falling!" are always people like the DOT or ASCE, that have the most to gain from additional spending. They have been predicting the imminent collapse of every bridge in America for decades, yet somehow the bridges are still standing. Of course we need to do maintenance and routine inspections, but the notion that there is some crisis is nonsense.
Here is the number of people that were killed or injured in the Oroville dam spillway failure: 0.
This article says the autistic brains are bigger and therefore I assume have more neural connections.
I don't see any reason to assume that. Autism is correlated with fewer connections per neuron, so there could still be more total neurons. There is also a lot of white matter in brains that can add a lot of volume without adding to the number of connections.
It is saying more than that. It is mostly hand waving blather, but mentions some specific guidelines, such as an emphasis on curing diseases rather than "enhancements". The summary is a lot worse. It uses the term "prove safe" several times, which is nonsense, since nothing can be "proved" outside of mathematics. TFA is better, and doesn't use meaningless terms like "proof" or "prove" even once.
every LEO has a favorite judge on speed-dial and can get pretty much any warrant signed he/she wishes...
Warrants are recorded, and eventually become public. So that is still a big improvement over cops spying on citizens with no accountability. Warrants are also required to specify the persons that can be monitored, and the duration. They cannot be issued for broad surveillance or fishing expeditions.
Please contact your congressperson and senator and ask them to support this legislation.
The actual article is about how they can detect autism before symptoms start.
That could already be done. Autism can be predicted by extracting stem cells, and prompting them to grow into little bundles of nerve cells. If each neuron has fewer than a normal number of connections, that person is predisposed to develop autism. A higher than normal number of neural connections correlates with Williams Syndrome, which is sort of "inverse-autism", with a high level of empathy and social engagement, but an astonishing inability to reason quantitatively.
Even poor people value their time. Buses take two or three times as long as a car.
Using a large vehicle and a steady route is more efficient time and money-wise
Hogwash. Buses make sense only if you are trying to minimize the salary of the driver. Otherwise two or three vans would be cheaper to purchase and far more convenient for the passengers, since they could drive more frequent and more flexible routes. Once you deploy self-driving technology, buses make very little sense.
Indeed. There is no evidence, and even if there was evidence, it would be meaningless, because even the hypothesis is invalid. The hypothesis was that the mercury based preservatives ( thimerosal) in some vaccines caused autism. There were a few reports of a correlation. Those reports were discredited, and the researcher was accused of fraud and lost his medical license. But even if there was evidence (there is not), it wouldn't matter because mercury based vaccine preservatives are no longer used.
I can't see that happening in cities where buses carry 100-ish passengers.
Standard buses have a capacity of about 40. On average, they have seven passengers on board (nine in Europe). Obviously, it would be more at rush hour and fewer toward the end of the lines, but still there are often a lot of empty seats. Buses have a different rhythm, and disrupt car traffic. SDCs, on the other hand, can drive in tight "platoons" that maximize lane utilization, and since they are not driving fixed routes, they can route around congestion.
Uber/Lyft are already causing a decline in bus ridership. On-demand SDCs will kill them.
Indeed. TFA says that "in ten years buses will be electric" is a "bold prediction". Nonsense. Here is a bold prediction: In ten years buses will be gone. When (or if) self-driving technology takes off, buses will be replaced with much smaller vehicles that take one, or a few, passengers from wherever they are to exactly where they want to go whenever they want to go there. Since there is no driver to pay, this will likely be cheaper than current bus fare. No one will want walk ten minutes to stand in the rain at as bus stop, waiting for a bus that is late, and then creeps through traffic, stopping every other block, and then finally arrives 30 minutes late so you can walk another 15 minutes to get to your office. Ten years from now people will look back on that and laugh.
Well for one, ICE vehicles don't come with a shitload of radioactive byproducts being spewed into the air.
Neither do coal plants. The radiation is in the ASH, not the fumes, and nearly all of it is in the form of thorium, which is not biologically active, and does not bioaccumulate. If you inadvertently eat some thorium, you will just poop it right back out. Thorium is already pervasive in the environment. Every cubic meter of the earth's crust contains about a gram or so. There are plenty of good reasons to phase out coal, but "radiation" isn't one of them.
The Democrat party is the owner of slavery, eugenics, segregation, and the KKK.
Back then the Democrats represented Southerners, rural farmers, and working class ethnics. Republicans represented blacks and the urban middle class. Today, the parties have nearly completely swapped constituencies. The only constituency that was Democrat then and is still Democrat are Jews, and they are in the process of slowly turning Republican.
Blame for the things you mention should go with the constituency rather than the label they use. Or, even better, we should judge the parties on what they stand for today, rather than a century ago.
Damn. If your entire metric for worth is $$ generated - $$ consumed, remind me never to let you near my puppy.
It may seem heartless, but if you are going to spend public funds to fix the air pollution, you should ensure that is the best use of the money. Should they put scrubbers on smokestacks, or would the money be better spent on education, better nutrition, or vaccinations? A spoiled first-worlder will of course say "do all of those things", but a poor country like India can't always afford that.
Hence the word "premature". Re-read the very first sentence.
Sure, but the amount of prematurity matters. If these were mostly sick old people that would have died soon anyway, then this isn't that big of a loss. If they were collecting publicly funded pensions, they were a net drain, and their premature death would actually be a win. A better measure would be total years of life lost.
But seriously: how is the EHang "drone" any different than a crappy little helicopter?
Stability. A quadcopter is inherently more stable than a traditional helicopter with a single main rotor and a stabilizer rotor on the tail. The reason for the traditional design is that a human doesn't have four arms and the mental flexibility to control four rotors at once. But with a computer, that is not a problem.
So the real issue here is why Trump seems so keen to placate Russia, when the US's military and economic might literally dwarfs Russia's abilities.
That is a really backwards way of looking at it. We do indeed have all the power in the bilateral relationship, but how should we use that power? The Russians are a very paranoid people, who think the whole world is out to "get them". By trying to push them down, we are playing into their paranoia, and making them turn inward. But the end result will not be good. They are going to keep Crimea and Donbas no matter what. So should we accept that and move on to other issues? Or should we try to "punish" them, and end up with a frozen conflict and instability in Ukraine, and continued military tensions with Poland and the Baltic countries, while the war in Syria goes on and on, and more and more refugees pour into Turkey and Europe? The Russians have had a bad couple decades, and they feel like the West, and especially America, is bullying them. Treating them with some respect may go a long way. This is not a zero-sum relationship.
one of Trump's longest supporters has been outed being chatty with the Russian Ambassador
No. That isn't the problem. There is nothing wrong with having a chat with a Rusky. Just like with Watergate, and Monicagate, the problem was LYING ABOUT IT.
If you increase the supply of something and demand remains fixed - the cost of that something will go down.
If the cost goes down, why would the demand remain fixed?
According to your theory, since the supply of programmers is high in Silicon Valley, the cost there will be low. And since the supply in Nebraska is low, the cost will be high. Do you think that matches reality?
If H1Bs are bad, why are illegal immigrants from Mexico good?
1. H1Bs are not "bad", but with some minor reforms they could be a lot better for both America and the visa holders. 2. Illegal immigration from Mexico is neither good nor bad because it is NOT HAPPENING. Net immigration from Mexico was a problem a decade ago, but is now around zero. The "solution" to illegal immigration is solid economic growth in Mexico. The best that America can do to achieve that is through free movement of goods and services across the border in both directions. This, of course, is exactly the opposite of the direction we are heading.
H1Bs are not "free market", since it is difficult (although not impossible) for the visa holder to change employers. There should be several reforms to the H1B program: 1. The workers should be able to change employers at will. 2. Instead of a lottery, there should be an auction. That way the quotas go to the companies that need/value them the most, and it is doubtful they could be used for "cheap labor".
There are several big problems with the article: 1. It covered the period from 1994 to 2001, when anyone remotely qualified could get a tech job, and companies were desperate to hire. In 1998-2000, my company was offering college freshmen $10k bonuses to quit school and come work for us. I am extremely skeptical that 11% of techs were unemployed during this period. 2. It assumes that nearly every job taken by an H1B is one less job for an American. That is not true, since some of these jobs would have otherwise been moved overseas, or the company may have never filled the job opening at all. Job markets are not zero-sum.
I can't see anywhere where the researchers say "Oh, you won't be able to use this for that".
Not in TFA, but you are allowed to read other sources, and educate yourself about batteries in general and flow batteries in particular. Flow batteries are big. They use pumps and valves. They are for industrial grid scale storage, or maybe grid endpoint storage for a homeowner with solar. They ain't going in no stinkin cellphone.
What if the heaters are only turned on when people are home?
Then their water pipes will freeze and crack, and they will have a flooded basement. People who live in -30C climates don't turn the heat completely off and then go on vacation for a week. If they do, then a non-working battery will be the least of their problems.
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People have been living on meat-free diets for centuries
Vegan != "meat-free"
Vegan == "meat+dairy+egg+honey-free"
Vegetarian diets that include milk and/or eggs have all needed nutrients. Vegan diets do not, and need supplements. The supplements are easy to get, but they are not "natural" and neither is veganism.
Vegans rejoice!
I don't think so. My daughter is a vegan, and she says she wouldn't eat this, because the original stem cells still came from an animal. It may be grown in a vat, but it is still "meat".
A person drinks a gallon of bacon grease a day for 40 years, then suddenly dies of a heart attack.
Here's a better analogy: Millions of people eat bacon everyday. The medical establishment claims this is a crisis and many bacon eaters are going to die within 40 years unless the medical establishment gets a lot of money to "fix" the problem. The money isn't spent, and 40 years comes and goes. Few people die, and bacon eaters aren't dying any faster than danish eaters.
Would you still insist that the "crisis" was real? Or would you maybe consider that bacon isn't as bad as you were told?
Disclaimer: I eat oatmeal for breakfast.
You can't Chicken Little away negligence.
Yet the people yelling "The infrastructure is falling! The infrastructure is falling!" are always people like the DOT or ASCE, that have the most to gain from additional spending. They have been predicting the imminent collapse of every bridge in America for decades, yet somehow the bridges are still standing. Of course we need to do maintenance and routine inspections, but the notion that there is some crisis is nonsense.
Here is the number of people that were killed or injured in the Oroville dam spillway failure: 0.
This article says the autistic brains are bigger and therefore I assume have more neural connections.
I don't see any reason to assume that. Autism is correlated with fewer connections per neuron, so there could still be more total neurons. There is also a lot of white matter in brains that can add a lot of volume without adding to the number of connections.
TFA is just saying be careful. Umm... duh?
It is saying more than that. It is mostly hand waving blather, but mentions some specific guidelines, such as an emphasis on curing diseases rather than "enhancements". The summary is a lot worse. It uses the term "prove safe" several times, which is nonsense, since nothing can be "proved" outside of mathematics. TFA is better, and doesn't use meaningless terms like "proof" or "prove" even once.
every LEO has a favorite judge on speed-dial and can get pretty much any warrant signed he/she wishes...
Warrants are recorded, and eventually become public. So that is still a big improvement over cops spying on citizens with no accountability. Warrants are also required to specify the persons that can be monitored, and the duration. They cannot be issued for broad surveillance or fishing expeditions.
Please contact your congressperson and senator and ask them to support this legislation.
The actual article is about how they can detect autism before symptoms start.
That could already be done. Autism can be predicted by extracting stem cells, and prompting them to grow into little bundles of nerve cells. If each neuron has fewer than a normal number of connections, that person is predisposed to develop autism. A higher than normal number of neural connections correlates with Williams Syndrome, which is sort of "inverse-autism", with a high level of empathy and social engagement, but an astonishing inability to reason quantitatively.
The poor still need some sort of system.
Even poor people value their time. Buses take two or three times as long as a car.
Using a large vehicle and a steady route is more efficient time and money-wise
Hogwash. Buses make sense only if you are trying to minimize the salary of the driver. Otherwise two or three vans would be cheaper to purchase and far more convenient for the passengers, since they could drive more frequent and more flexible routes. Once you deploy self-driving technology, buses make very little sense.
There is no ACTUAL EVIDENCE.
Indeed. There is no evidence, and even if there was evidence, it would be meaningless, because even the hypothesis is invalid. The hypothesis was that the mercury based preservatives ( thimerosal) in some vaccines caused autism. There were a few reports of a correlation. Those reports were discredited, and the researcher was accused of fraud and lost his medical license. But even if there was evidence (there is not), it wouldn't matter because mercury based vaccine preservatives are no longer used.
I can't see that happening in cities where buses carry 100-ish passengers.
Standard buses have a capacity of about 40. On average, they have seven passengers on board (nine in Europe). Obviously, it would be more at rush hour and fewer toward the end of the lines, but still there are often a lot of empty seats. Buses have a different rhythm, and disrupt car traffic. SDCs, on the other hand, can drive in tight "platoons" that maximize lane utilization, and since they are not driving fixed routes, they can route around congestion.
Uber/Lyft are already causing a decline in bus ridership. On-demand SDCs will kill them.
Note to the people who'll say kids can travel alone on subway, bus, etc now. That's sort of true, but they have age cut-offs
That is a cultural convention. In Japan, it is normal to see 5 year olds travelling alone on the subway to and from kindergarten.
Yeah, but thing is....it is still a BUS.
Indeed. TFA says that "in ten years buses will be electric" is a "bold prediction". Nonsense. Here is a bold prediction: In ten years buses will be gone. When (or if) self-driving technology takes off, buses will be replaced with much smaller vehicles that take one, or a few, passengers from wherever they are to exactly where they want to go whenever they want to go there. Since there is no driver to pay, this will likely be cheaper than current bus fare. No one will want walk ten minutes to stand in the rain at as bus stop, waiting for a bus that is late, and then creeps through traffic, stopping every other block, and then finally arrives 30 minutes late so you can walk another 15 minutes to get to your office. Ten years from now people will look back on that and laugh.
Well for one, ICE vehicles don't come with a shitload of radioactive byproducts being spewed into the air.
Neither do coal plants. The radiation is in the ASH, not the fumes, and nearly all of it is in the form of thorium, which is not biologically active, and does not bioaccumulate. If you inadvertently eat some thorium, you will just poop it right back out. Thorium is already pervasive in the environment. Every cubic meter of the earth's crust contains about a gram or so. There are plenty of good reasons to phase out coal, but "radiation" isn't one of them.
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The Democrat party is the owner of slavery, eugenics, segregation, and the KKK.
Back then the Democrats represented Southerners, rural farmers, and working class ethnics. Republicans represented blacks and the urban middle class. Today, the parties have nearly completely swapped constituencies. The only constituency that was Democrat then and is still Democrat are Jews, and they are in the process of slowly turning Republican.
Blame for the things you mention should go with the constituency rather than the label they use. Or, even better, we should judge the parties on what they stand for today, rather than a century ago.
Damn. If your entire metric for worth is $$ generated - $$ consumed, remind me never to let you near my puppy.
It may seem heartless, but if you are going to spend public funds to fix the air pollution, you should ensure that is the best use of the money. Should they put scrubbers on smokestacks, or would the money be better spent on education, better nutrition, or vaccinations? A spoiled first-worlder will of course say "do all of those things", but a poor country like India can't always afford that.
Hence the word "premature". Re-read the very first sentence.
Sure, but the amount of prematurity matters. If these were mostly sick old people that would have died soon anyway, then this isn't that big of a loss. If they were collecting publicly funded pensions, they were a net drain, and their premature death would actually be a win. A better measure would be total years of life lost.
But seriously: how is the EHang "drone" any different than a crappy little helicopter?
Stability. A quadcopter is inherently more stable than a traditional helicopter with a single main rotor and a stabilizer rotor on the tail. The reason for the traditional design is that a human doesn't have four arms and the mental flexibility to control four rotors at once. But with a computer, that is not a problem.
So the real issue here is why Trump seems so keen to placate Russia, when the US's military and economic might literally dwarfs Russia's abilities.
That is a really backwards way of looking at it. We do indeed have all the power in the bilateral relationship, but how should we use that power? The Russians are a very paranoid people, who think the whole world is out to "get them". By trying to push them down, we are playing into their paranoia, and making them turn inward. But the end result will not be good. They are going to keep Crimea and Donbas no matter what. So should we accept that and move on to other issues? Or should we try to "punish" them, and end up with a frozen conflict and instability in Ukraine, and continued military tensions with Poland and the Baltic countries, while the war in Syria goes on and on, and more and more refugees pour into Turkey and Europe? The Russians have had a bad couple decades, and they feel like the West, and especially America, is bullying them. Treating them with some respect may go a long way. This is not a zero-sum relationship.
one of Trump's longest supporters has been outed being chatty with the Russian Ambassador
No. That isn't the problem. There is nothing wrong with having a chat with a Rusky. Just like with Watergate, and Monicagate, the problem was LYING ABOUT IT.
If you increase the supply of something and demand remains fixed - the cost of that something will go down.
If the cost goes down, why would the demand remain fixed?
According to your theory, since the supply of programmers is high in Silicon Valley, the cost there will be low. And since the supply in Nebraska is low, the cost will be high. Do you think that matches reality?
If H1Bs are bad, why are illegal immigrants from Mexico good?
1. H1Bs are not "bad", but with some minor reforms they could be a lot better for both America and the visa holders.
2. Illegal immigration from Mexico is neither good nor bad because it is NOT HAPPENING. Net immigration from Mexico was a problem a decade ago, but is now around zero.
The "solution" to illegal immigration is solid economic growth in Mexico. The best that America can do to achieve that is through free movement of goods and services across the border in both directions. This, of course, is exactly the opposite of the direction we are heading.
Sounds like free market competition to me.
H1Bs are not "free market", since it is difficult (although not impossible) for the visa holder to change employers. There should be several reforms to the H1B program:
1. The workers should be able to change employers at will.
2. Instead of a lottery, there should be an auction. That way the quotas go to the companies that need/value them the most, and it is doubtful they could be used for "cheap labor".
There are several big problems with the article:
1. It covered the period from 1994 to 2001, when anyone remotely qualified could get a tech job, and companies were desperate to hire. In 1998-2000, my company was offering college freshmen $10k bonuses to quit school and come work for us. I am extremely skeptical that 11% of techs were unemployed during this period.
2. It assumes that nearly every job taken by an H1B is one less job for an American. That is not true, since some of these jobs would have otherwise been moved overseas, or the company may have never filled the job opening at all. Job markets are not zero-sum.
I can't see anywhere where the researchers say "Oh, you won't be able to use this for that".
Not in TFA, but you are allowed to read other sources, and educate yourself about batteries in general and flow batteries in particular. Flow batteries are big. They use pumps and valves. They are for industrial grid scale storage, or maybe grid endpoint storage for a homeowner with solar. They ain't going in no stinkin cellphone.
What if the heaters are only turned on when people are home?
Then their water pipes will freeze and crack, and they will have a flooded basement. People who live in -30C climates don't turn the heat completely off and then go on vacation for a week. If they do, then a non-working battery will be the least of their problems.