That's not the point. You live (I presume) in a democracy, where there are 3 kinds of information: 1. Information the government approves of. 2. Information the government tolerates. 3. Information that is illegal.
In authoritarian countries, there is no #2. So if the government tolerates it, people assume that the government also approves of it. So, if they don't approve of it, they have to ban it. They aren't trying to keep people from "knowing" the information, they are just signaling their disapproval.
In a democracy, strong leaders tolerate dissent, and lashing out at criticism makes a leader look petty and weak.
In an authoritarian country, leaders have no democratic legitimacy, and tolerating criticism is perceived as weakness. So if they want to keep power, they need to keep the reins tight.
These differences are part of the reason that a transition from authoritarianism to democracy is difficult. The leaders need to change how they lead and build coalitions, but the people also need to change how they perceive their leaders, and what they expect from their government.
Edge phones do look pretty slick, but they also allow more touchscreen pixels without increasing the size of the phone, so there is some functional improvement.
Convex. The main surface of the screen is still flat, but the edges wrap around, so instead of a bezel, you have additional touchscreen area. At least that's how it works on a Samsung Galaxy Edge. You get an extra row of icons down the side of the phone.
My wife has a Galaxy Edge, and she likes it. When I try to use it, I keep accidentally clicking the edge buttons. She tells me that I'm holding it wrong.
Only so long as the ones in the higher quintiles are willing to pay more.
As robots take over, and productivity increases, returns on capital will soar, and the top quintile will pay plenty of additional tax even if rates stay the same.
And it was always a questionable ingredient, despite an overwhelming amount of sponsored research claiming that it's all ok.
A good rule of thumb is don't eat anything that we didn't evolve to eat. If hunter-gathers didn't eat it, neither should you. I eat mostly roots, berries and grubs.
Citation provided. Smoking does not lead to higher healthcare costs. Neither does obesity. The savings from their shorter lifespans cancel out the costs of their poorer health.
Disclaimer: The citation is only for lower healthcare costs. There are other costs associated with smoking, such as pregnant smokers having stupider children, by about 3 IQ points on average. Income is depressed by about 1% for every IQ point below 120, so that will mean a cost of roughly $100k over the kid's lifetime ($3k per year * 35 working years).
Personally I think we should just roll out communism for the lower and middle class masses.
The bottom quintile (20%) of households already get about 40% of their income from government transfer payments (SS, SSDI, SNAP, etc). As technology improves productivity and reduces prices, that percentage can easily increase.
As opposed to what other politician? Take everything they say with a healthy dose of skepticism.
More importantly, you need to be able to translate political speech into plain English. When a politician says he is "setting up a committee to investigate", that does NOT mean he is going to actually do anything to solve that problem. It means the opposite.
Today, you need to set your expectations and hopes realistically... a raspberry pi or less
A Raspberry Pi has more transistors than a top end 1980s supercomputer. It is a million times more complex than anything you could ever hope to etch in a garage. Maybe you could do a 4004 (~2000 transistors) with tape and etchant, but a Raspberry Pi has billions.
This will get really fun the day someone manages to make an CPU on his own garage.
That day is in the past, not the future. Some early cpus were taped out, etched, and metallized by hand. Today, you need nano-scale photolithography and a multi-billion dollar fab. You can load this CPU into an FPGA, but if you want it directly in silicon, you ain't gonna do that in no garage.
I don't remember journalism being involved in any way.
Some journalists, such as Joe Wilson, exposed some of the lies. They had evidence, but they didn't get much attention. If more journalists had done their job, instead of just parroting propaganda, they might have prevented one of history's dumbest wars.
You could practically feel the embarrassment of Colin Powell when he was showing images with gray smudges on them to the UN
Colin Powell also wrote the cover-up of the My-Lai Massacre when he was a young officer in Vietnam, proclaiming that the relationship between the soldiers and villagers was "excellent". His career was bookended at both the beginning and the end by allowing himself to be used as a tool for spreading lies.
Forgive my ignorance, but how does Adobe Digital Insights know how much all, or even a small majority of online retailers sold yesterday.
An obvious way to do it would be to look at Visa/Mastercard "card-not-present" transactions. That wouldn't give you an exact number, but it would be good enough to print in a headline. Another obvious method would be to just make up a number by extrapolating from last year's data.
Would the world one day get tired that Africa looks hopeless and let it go their way?
Unlikely. Africa is not hopeless. Africans have a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world, but they are making huge progress. People there are growing more prosperous, longevity and literacy are rising, birthrates are falling. Many areas of Africa are joyful, and wonderful places to visit. I have been to Ghana and Senegal, and in both places the people were friendly and helpful, had plenty of great food, and had really good taste in music.
if you donate like me, what do this kind of news make you think?
Uganda is backsliding, but that is an exception. But I would recommend that you donate carefully. Africa needs opportunities, not hand-outs. Bill Gates does good bottom-up work, focusing on health and education, but many other charities likely do more harm than good. Instead of donating to charity, you might consider investing in an "Africa fund" that helps African businesses grow and create jobs. That will do more good than most charities, while also giving you a return on your investment. Win-win.
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That's not the point. You live (I presume) in a democracy, where there are 3 kinds of information:
1. Information the government approves of.
2. Information the government tolerates.
3. Information that is illegal.
In authoritarian countries, there is no #2. So if the government tolerates it, people assume that the government also approves of it. So, if they don't approve of it, they have to ban it. They aren't trying to keep people from "knowing" the information, they are just signaling their disapproval.
In a democracy, strong leaders tolerate dissent, and lashing out at criticism makes a leader look petty and weak.
In an authoritarian country, leaders have no democratic legitimacy, and tolerating criticism is perceived as weakness. So if they want to keep power, they need to keep the reins tight.
These differences are part of the reason that a transition from authoritarianism to democracy is difficult. The leaders need to change how they lead and build coalitions, but the people also need to change how they perceive their leaders, and what they expect from their government.
I am pretty sure this is just an aesthetic thing.
Edge phones do look pretty slick, but they also allow more touchscreen pixels without increasing the size of the phone, so there is some functional improvement.
Also, would it be convex or concave?
Convex. The main surface of the screen is still flat, but the edges wrap around, so instead of a bezel, you have additional touchscreen area. At least that's how it works on a Samsung Galaxy Edge. You get an extra row of icons down the side of the phone.
My wife has a Galaxy Edge, and she likes it. When I try to use it, I keep accidentally clicking the edge buttons. She tells me that I'm holding it wrong.
Only so long as the ones in the higher quintiles are willing to pay more.
As robots take over, and productivity increases, returns on capital will soar, and the top quintile will pay plenty of additional tax even if rates stay the same.
How about a cite for them so we can check it?
Smoking in late pregnancy is linked to lower IQ in offspring.
(check out the stats on hunger in America)
I did. Among the poor, obesity is a far bigger problem than hunger.
all this study tells us that overeating while drinking diet sodas is worse than just overeating
Most people already overeat, so information about whether diet sodas benefit overeaters is more useful than whether they benefit moderate eaters.
And it was always a questionable ingredient, despite an overwhelming amount of sponsored research claiming that it's all ok.
A good rule of thumb is don't eat anything that we didn't evolve to eat. If hunter-gathers didn't eat it, neither should you. I eat mostly roots, berries and grubs.
Hate to be that guy, but:
[citation needed]
Citation provided. Smoking does not lead to higher healthcare costs. Neither does obesity. The savings from their shorter lifespans cancel out the costs of their poorer health.
Disclaimer: The citation is only for lower healthcare costs. There are other costs associated with smoking, such as pregnant smokers having stupider children, by about 3 IQ points on average. Income is depressed by about 1% for every IQ point below 120, so that will mean a cost of roughly $100k over the kid's lifetime ($3k per year * 35 working years).
Personally I think we should just roll out communism for the lower and middle class masses.
The bottom quintile (20%) of households already get about 40% of their income from government transfer payments (SS, SSDI, SNAP, etc). As technology improves productivity and reduces prices, that percentage can easily increase.
We'll have the rich, the poor, and little in between.
Perhaps. But thanks to technology, today even the poor live better than kings did a few centuries ago.
You have to allow for the "stupid" people unless you want to promote extermination
If you are willing to be patient, then extermination is not necessary. Sterilization is enough.
the more programmers competing for jobs, the lower the wages that corporations can pay those programmers.
If that were true, wages would be lowest in Silicon Valley, where there are many programmers and a large percentage are foreign born.
Labor markets are not zero-sum.
Except that everywhere he goes, he compromises education.
In Uganda, pretty much anything he could possibly do would be an improvement.
As opposed to what other politician? Take everything they say with a healthy dose of skepticism.
More importantly, you need to be able to translate political speech into plain English. When a politician says he is "setting up a committee to investigate", that does NOT mean he is going to actually do anything to solve that problem. It means the opposite.
The corporate lobbyists will influence the FDA to put a stop to this, pronto.
Why? Wouldn't corporations benefit from fewer employee sick days?
They did this scam last year too
The point was to give their workers the day off, which they did, so I don't see how it is a "scam".
... and it increased their online sales by a large amount due to the free publicity.
Good. They deserve it. Maybe this will serve as an example for others that treating workers well can be good business.
A lot of minimum wage people would love to get 60 hours a week of work.
The workers are not the protesters. The workers themselves are likely happy for the overtime pay.
Today, you need to set your expectations and hopes realistically ... a raspberry pi or less
A Raspberry Pi has more transistors than a top end 1980s supercomputer. It is a million times more complex than anything you could ever hope to etch in a garage. Maybe you could do a 4004 (~2000 transistors) with tape and etchant, but a Raspberry Pi has billions.
This will get really fun the day someone manages to make an CPU on his own garage.
That day is in the past, not the future. Some early cpus were taped out, etched, and metallized by hand. Today, you need nano-scale photolithography and a multi-billion dollar fab. You can load this CPU into an FPGA, but if you want it directly in silicon, you ain't gonna do that in no garage.
Who can hand solder QFN chips?!
Get a tube of solder paste (good old PbSn, not RoHS) and a $29 toaster oven from Walmart for reflow.
Pro-tip: Use a different toaster oven for grilled cheese sandwiches.
If you want hardware open to the transistor level and not just the microcode level ...
Like most RISC processors, RISC-V doesn't use microcode. Microcode is a CISC thing.
I don't remember journalism being involved in any way.
Some journalists, such as Joe Wilson, exposed some of the lies. They had evidence, but they didn't get much attention. If more journalists had done their job, instead of just parroting propaganda, they might have prevented one of history's dumbest wars.
You could practically feel the embarrassment of Colin Powell when he was showing images with gray smudges on them to the UN
Colin Powell also wrote the cover-up of the My-Lai Massacre when he was a young officer in Vietnam, proclaiming that the relationship between the soldiers and villagers was "excellent". His career was bookended at both the beginning and the end by allowing himself to be used as a tool for spreading lies.
Forgive my ignorance, but how does Adobe Digital Insights know how much all, or even a small majority of online retailers sold yesterday.
An obvious way to do it would be to look at Visa/Mastercard "card-not-present" transactions. That wouldn't give you an exact number, but it would be good enough to print in a headline. Another obvious method would be to just make up a number by extrapolating from last year's data.
Would the world one day get tired that Africa looks hopeless and let it go their way?
Unlikely. Africa is not hopeless. Africans have a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world, but they are making huge progress. People there are growing more prosperous, longevity and literacy are rising, birthrates are falling. Many areas of Africa are joyful, and wonderful places to visit. I have been to Ghana and Senegal, and in both places the people were friendly and helpful, had plenty of great food, and had really good taste in music.
if you donate like me, what do this kind of news make you think?
Uganda is backsliding, but that is an exception. But I would recommend that you donate carefully. Africa needs opportunities, not hand-outs. Bill Gates does good bottom-up work, focusing on health and education, but many other charities likely do more harm than good. Instead of donating to charity, you might consider investing in an "Africa fund" that helps African businesses grow and create jobs. That will do more good than most charities, while also giving you a return on your investment. Win-win.