The cops show up. Position themselves across the street in body armor, behind multiple cars, with a dozen guns pointed at the house.
Then an unarmed guy comes out, hands clearly empty, clearly confused, with a bright searchlight pointed at his face.
Then a cop murders him in cold blood.
Even if the call was real, there was absolutely no excuse to just kill the first guy they see. They had no idea if he was the "bad guy" or one of the "hostages".
That was actually a mix up. Most of the people working in Intel's Santa Clara facility commute from the neighboring (and much larger) City of San Jose, California.
But when HR was told to "layoff those San Jose guys", they thought the CEO meant the other San Jose.
You can have: 1-A user pay for profit system (excludes the poor, divert research funds to profit), 2-a user pay co-op system(pay what you can is "unfair" and hard to organize), or 3-a taxpayer funded and run one (ick more taxes why do I need to pay for this?).
Or you could, you know, use a website, which costs almost nothing.
The Physics community has been using ArXiv since 1991. There is no good reason that other fields can't do the same.
A huge part (most) of the world's science is currently funded by government
Station wagons were effectively banned by the CAFE standards passed by congress in the late 1970s. People with a need for cargo space switched to less efficient and more polluting SUVs, trucks, or vans.
Yes, this was stupid and counter-productive, and yes, this is a great example of unintended consequences from poorly thought out regulation.
it would take millions of years for the solar winds to get rid of the atmosphere.
On geological time scales, a million years is the blink of an eye. The summary claims that liquid water persisted for billions of years after the atmosphere was mostly gone.
I don't see how that is plausible. Even near freezing, water has a vapor pressure over 600 pascals, or 0.006 atm.
But the summary says that the rivers continued to flow after most of the atmosphere had been stripped away.
That seems implausible. If the solar wind was strong enough to strip away CO2 and CH4, it would have also been strong enough to strip away water vapor.
Don't forget the total amount spent on tuition includes the outrageously priced schools as well.
Bernie and AOC think those should be free too.
A big problem with their proposal is they assume the number of people going to college would stay the same. Most likely it would go up dramatically if there was no cost.
They also assume that the extra education would boost the GDP. But free colleges tend to have far higher dropout rates, since the students have less skin in the game. So it is unclear if completion rates would go up even with far more students attending.
Universities would even less incentive to control costs, or to care about outcomes for their graduates.
The only people that were happy with Fukushima were the geologists that use nuclear markers in sediment samples. With air testing of nukes long gone and Chernobyl fading there were plenty of labs that popped champagne that day.
New conspiracy theory: The geologists somehow triggered the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in order to cause the meltdown and create new radioactive markers in the sediment.
Proof: Why else would they have champagne chilled and ready to go?
Indeed. Your body treats cesium like potassium. It does not bioaccumulate. You pee it out. You can speed up this process by using Lite-Salt or No-Salt to boost the level of potassium in your diet, and increase the excretion of both potassium and cesium in your urine.
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all of the resources and press attention is going into the production side over the demand side.
American demand for electricity is declining, and is 4% below the peak.
LED lights, better insulation, more efficient appliances, are all driving the decline.
This doesn't make the news because it isn't flashy like a big new solar battery installation.
The adoption of electric cars may reverse the decline.
"Dumbasses don't factory reset their Teslas, and leave a lot of personal info in them."
Maybe they aren't dumb, but just don't care.
If someone got all the data from my Tesla, the worst they would see is me picking my nose while I drive.
Why should I care?
As a civilized society, we are somewhat reluctant to recognize the most uncivilized elements of humankind must be dealt with
The first step is to make sure we don't give them a badge and a gun.
The cop opened the door expecting a shooter about to execute a number of people
Nonsense. He was standing on his front porch, unarmed, with his hands visible, and the cop shot him from across the street.
Go watch the videos on YouTube.
Or read the description of the shooting.
Go watch the youtube videos.
It is nothing like what you describe.
The cops show up. Position themselves across the street in body armor, behind multiple cars, with a dozen guns pointed at the house.
Then an unarmed guy comes out, hands clearly empty, clearly confused, with a bright searchlight pointed at his face.
Then a cop murders him in cold blood.
Even if the call was real, there was absolutely no excuse to just kill the first guy they see. They had no idea if he was the "bad guy" or one of the "hostages".
This guy does deserve the sentence he got.
Perhaps.
But the cop who pulled the trigger, and murdered the unarmed victim in cold blood perhaps should serve some time as well.
Having been given access to their source code, the British judgement seems to be that it is truly and irredemably awful
Have the Brits looked at any other commercial closed source software?
It is all awful.
I personally didn't know much about Huawei till the fella in the White House started blabbing about it.
If the US is so shrill in denouncing Huawei, they must have a reason.
Most likely Huawei's is the only router the NSA can't crack.
One of these things is not like the others...
That was actually a mix up. Most of the people working in Intel's Santa Clara facility commute from the neighboring (and much larger) City of San Jose, California.
But when HR was told to "layoff those San Jose guys", they thought the CEO meant the other San Jose.
If the research is funded by tax money, the publication also ought to be funded by tax money for consistency.
Of course. But that is not the way it currently works.
There are efforts to change this: Fair Acess to Science and Technology Research Act
Let your congressperson know that this bill is something important to you. My congressperson, Zoe Lofgren, is one of the co-sponsors.
All publicly funded science should be available to the public.
You can have: 1-A user pay for profit system (excludes the poor, divert research funds to profit), 2-a user pay co-op system(pay what you can is "unfair" and hard to organize), or 3-a taxpayer funded and run one (ick more taxes why do I need to pay for this?).
Or you could, you know, use a website, which costs almost nothing.
The Physics community has been using ArXiv since 1991. There is no good reason that other fields can't do the same.
A huge part (most) of the world's science is currently funded by government
That is paying for the research, not publication.
This could be a simply be get rid of people they don't want and rehire in other more key groups.
According to TFA, these are net reductions, at least in California.
So it is either a real reduction, or they may be shifting jobs out of state or offshore.
"What's a station wagon?" ;)
Station wagons were effectively banned by the CAFE standards passed by congress in the late 1970s. People with a need for cargo space switched to less efficient and more polluting SUVs, trucks, or vans.
Yes, this was stupid and counter-productive, and yes, this is a great example of unintended consequences from poorly thought out regulation.
Not all people who have bad internet connection are poor.
In the early days of Usenet, a tape was sent to Australia everyday on a flight from the west cost of the US.
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it would take millions of years for the solar winds to get rid of the atmosphere.
On geological time scales, a million years is the blink of an eye. The summary claims that liquid water persisted for billions of years after the atmosphere was mostly gone.
I don't see how that is plausible. Even near freezing, water has a vapor pressure over 600 pascals, or 0.006 atm.
This exploit requires physical access.
If black-hats have physical access to your computer, you are already in deep doo-doo.
But the summary says that the rivers continued to flow after most of the atmosphere had been stripped away.
That seems implausible. If the solar wind was strong enough to strip away CO2 and CH4, it would have also been strong enough to strip away water vapor.
Don't forget the total amount spent on tuition includes the outrageously priced schools as well.
Bernie and AOC think those should be free too.
A big problem with their proposal is they assume the number of people going to college would stay the same. Most likely it would go up dramatically if there was no cost.
They also assume that the extra education would boost the GDP. But free colleges tend to have far higher dropout rates, since the students have less skin in the game. So it is unclear if completion rates would go up even with far more students attending.
Universities would even less incentive to control costs, or to care about outcomes for their graduates.
How is 4/10 of normal an elevated level?
Obviously the journalist is an idiot.
Here is a more competently written source: Fukushima radiation found in Bering Sea.
The concentration of cesium 137 went from 2.0 to 2.4 becquerels per cubic meter.
The only people that were happy with Fukushima were the geologists that use nuclear markers in sediment samples. With air testing of nukes long gone and Chernobyl fading there were plenty of labs that popped champagne that day.
New conspiracy theory: The geologists somehow triggered the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in order to cause the meltdown and create new radioactive markers in the sediment.
Proof: Why else would they have champagne chilled and ready to go?
And of course there is no health concern.
Indeed. Your body treats cesium like potassium. It does not bioaccumulate. You pee it out. You can speed up this process by using Lite-Salt or No-Salt to boost the level of potassium in your diet, and increase the excretion of both potassium and cesium in your urine.
Or you can just not worry about it.
Funny rant from that guy, about roads provided _by_ the very government he's pissed at. Unbelievable unaware.
It happens all the time. For instance, some inmates complain about the prisons provided _by_ the very government they're pissed at.
Nobody should be allowed to complain about the government. They should just be grateful for whatever they get.
I can't find anything on their website indicating that you pay any tuition at all.
TFA states that tuition for the course is $14,987.
It doesn't sound like the worst plan for a new college student
According to TFA the people running the bootcamp have a history of involvement in other scammy organizations.
especially if it enables them to get an entry level position at a company with tuition reimbursement.
TFA implies that employers don't place much, if any, value in the certification.
It is really just a piece of paper that says "I failed an IQ test."
But #2 has to have extensive retraining.
#2 has shown he can learn on his own, without needing babysitting.
But if those are the only two candidates then go digging for more resumes.
For a $20/hour code-monkey position? In today's economy, this is as good as you are gonna get.
More like the HR person only actually sends you Candidate 1 if that.
If HR is the gatekeeper for technical hiring, then you work for a dysfunctional organization.
HR's job is to do the paperwork, not make the decisions.
Hiring good people is the most important competency that an organization can have.
It is astounding how many companies are so bad at it.