if it was that simple, wouldn't 23andMe have just hired some of these people? it might cost them, but probably cheaper than losing their entire business. how useful is it to the average person to gut a bunch of raw genetic data dumped on them?
It would be great to see a secondary market in this kind of analysis emerge.
so, after the FDA forced 23andMe to stop analyzing, you think it's a good idea for another company to come along and do the same thing? i have a nice bridge you might be interested in...
um, do you work for the chinese govt or otherwise have some special knowledge? even with open books to the chinese govt, do you have expertise to evaluate their capabilities?
i'm not knocking what they've accomplished, but it isn't anything better than the US did 40 years ago.
exactly what amazing liberal freedoms do you posses that the rest of the country is lacking? marijuana? everyone will have that in a few years.
if you are referring to the people, step outside your little 'hood on capital hill or the U district or wherever. the 'burbs and outlying areas of WA are filled with hicks and hillbillies. pretty much like any modern city.
We have awesome weather
you don't have awesome weather. you have 3 months of decent weather and the rest of the year it's cloudy, dark, and drizzling. you have 58 clear days. where i live, we have 300+.
better than a lot of places though. at least it's rare to get appreciable snowfall and it rarely gets below 20 or the winter.
multicultural diversity
like any other metropolitan area.
surf and ski on the same day
well, it's a 4 hour drive from snoqualmie summit to the ocean and that's the best you are going to do. in that day, you'll spend at least 8 hours driving, probably much more unless you happen to live at either of those locations. definitely more if there's actually snow in the mountains.
on that day you went skiing, it's going to be 45 and windy at the beach, and the water will be about the same. can't wait to build that sand castle! if it's warm at the ocean (oh wait, it's NEVER warm at the ocean in WA), there's certainly not going to be any snow in the mountains.
if all that's not enough, the seattle area is in the top 10 worst commutes in the nation, and it only has token mass transit (aside from buses). the monorail doesn't count you know.
With one fumble after another, with more and more alternatives to Microsoft's products
when the government of the largest country in the world is petitioning you for support, you don't have much to worry about.
Right now they are so desperate that they are trying to milk Windows 8 as much while the going is still good.
they are trying to migrate people onto the latest version of their software so they don't have to staff to support earlier versions. pretty common and well understood practice.
how great "the man" is (Amazon) because their size allows them to offer slightly cheaper prices on stuff
it's not just (or necessarily) price. they just are really, really good at what they do.
i don't know anyone that supports smaller businesses just because they are smaller. if the little coffee shop on the corner treated you like crap and brewed terrible coffee, would you go there just because they are small? it's because they offer better service, or more personable service, better selection, a better shopping experience, etc. however, newegg and amazon are essentially identical as far as customer experience is involved.
I like the idea of Firefox OS phones though, in that environment you don't have that many layers, just the web crap and javascript host that you needed anyway to look up web pages. It has the uglyness and inefficiency you complain about but at the same time the OS is kept small, gets security updates and you would be able to download those security updates easily enough through 3G/4G or wifi. The execution speed problem is dealt with by throwing brute force at it (low power, 1GHz ARM). If security/privacy features are adequate that's the first smartphone/phablet thing I can consider owning. (domain blocker, NoScript equivalent, fine grained permissions along with global rules like "any application that uses GPS can't use networking")
exactly, the *idea* of FFOS. how do you know carriers don't add tracking / spying software into the phones running FirefoxOS? i don't think FirefoxOS is in some commanding market position where they can demand carriers don't touch the software of devices running on their network.
and you're a narcissist that thinks the boring facts of your daily existence are something to be guarded. unless you are the president of a large company or a politician, nobody cares about you... and if you were, they wouldn't have to break into google to steal your data.
You are one overly uptight asshole if you really think that.
you are nihilistic and self centered if you think it's okay to make people handle disgusting stinking cat poop because you are too lazy to provide an environment for your own pet in your own yard.
i challenge you to ask 5 of your non-pet owning friends how they feel about stepping in shit from other people's pets in their own yard. to the rest of humans, this is common sense but i think you might be surprised at the answers.
You call the cops on them because the damn birds broke the law?
i guess you are trying to use some absurd logic here? birds and squirrels are a natural part of the environment. your pet is not. my yard is not your cat's ecosystem. you want to have a cat, good for you. take care of it in your house and your yard. you smell the poop in the little box or in your flower bed.
what's wrong with obeying the law and keeping your pet out of other people's yards? if you obey the law in the first place, problem solved. don't ask others to spend money and time to protect against your animals. do you really feel okay about making people pick up your cat's crap, or scrape it off their shoes?
and seriously, do you expect that i cover every square foot of my yard with overpriced cat repellent?
what happened during your upbringing that made you think it's okay for you to drop crap in my yard? seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
but anyway, i have a simple solution: control your animal. it's illegal for your animal to poop or pee in my yard. keep it out, obey the law of the land, the have some common courtesy, and we'll be fine.
You'd be amazed at how many new problems even talking about shooting a domestic animal can bring into your life.
As mentioned in a previous comment, prison is primarily used as a punishment here not as much for protection of general society.
you can keep saying that but it doesn't make it true. people that commit violent crimes in a fit of rage, because of mental issues, etc are not discouraged by penalties. sane people generally understand penalties but still commit crimes... for many reason, but for example, because the lure of reward for committing the crime (robbery, embezzlement, etc) it makes the risk of penalty acceptable.
prison also serves to keep the offenders from committing the crime again, for at least a period of time. if you lock up a guy that walks around town punching people in the face, he's not going to be be able to do that for a while right? and if he does it again after he gets out, he'll be locked away for even longer, and so on.
If a DA doesn't throw the book at defendants, they get replaced next election by one that will. If a judge doesn't rubber-stamp maximum sentences and keep a high conviction ratio, they also get voted out.
that's not a problem w/ the system, it's problem with society. you are saying the system is giving society what it wants. after all it's the people that voting for those officials.
I've quit before and was asked on many occasions if I remembered passwords, specifics of certain processes, etc. My answer was simple, "I don't work for you anymore and this conversation is not appropriate".
and you are perfectly within your rights doing so. but anyway, that's great information for future employers. you should always recount that little anecdote when interviewed.
whenever i've quit a position, i make sure everyone knows my personal contact information if they need anything from me. i do that because i'm not a dick. oddly enough, i'd actually get some pleasure from helping my ex-colleagues in a time of need.
that being the case, i've never been bothered by an ex-employer or ex-colleague. i'm sure it could happen, but basically people are decent and know to reserve that offer for help from me for when and if they really, really need it.
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if it was that simple, wouldn't 23andMe have just hired some of these people? it might cost them, but probably cheaper than losing their entire business. how useful is it to the average person to gut a bunch of raw genetic data dumped on them?
It would be great to see a secondary market in this kind of analysis emerge.
so, after the FDA forced 23andMe to stop analyzing, you think it's a good idea for another company to come along and do the same thing? i have a nice bridge you might be interested in ...
um, do you work for the chinese govt or otherwise have some special knowledge? even with open books to the chinese govt, do you have expertise to evaluate their capabilities?
i'm not knocking what they've accomplished, but it isn't anything better than the US did 40 years ago.
it's a liberal's paradise.
exactly what amazing liberal freedoms do you posses that the rest of the country is lacking? marijuana? everyone will have that in a few years.
if you are referring to the people, step outside your little 'hood on capital hill or the U district or wherever. the 'burbs and outlying areas of WA are filled with hicks and hillbillies. pretty much like any modern city.
We have awesome weather
you don't have awesome weather. you have 3 months of decent weather and the rest of the year it's cloudy, dark, and drizzling. you have 58 clear days. where i live, we have 300+.
better than a lot of places though. at least it's rare to get appreciable snowfall and it rarely gets below 20 or the winter.
multicultural diversity
like any other metropolitan area.
surf and ski on the same day
well, it's a 4 hour drive from snoqualmie summit to the ocean and that's the best you are going to do. in that day, you'll spend at least 8 hours driving, probably much more unless you happen to live at either of those locations. definitely more if there's actually snow in the mountains.
on that day you went skiing, it's going to be 45 and windy at the beach, and the water will be about the same. can't wait to build that sand castle! if it's warm at the ocean (oh wait, it's NEVER warm at the ocean in WA), there's certainly not going to be any snow in the mountains.
if all that's not enough, the seattle area is in the top 10 worst commutes in the nation, and it only has token mass transit (aside from buses). the monorail doesn't count you know.
The sun just causes cancer and makes you wrinkle.
depression, mold spore, inhalation, and vitamin D deficiency are better?
With one fumble after another, with more and more alternatives to Microsoft's products
when the government of the largest country in the world is petitioning you for support, you don't have much to worry about.
Right now they are so desperate that they are trying to milk Windows 8 as much while the going is still good.
they are trying to migrate people onto the latest version of their software so they don't have to staff to support earlier versions. pretty common and well understood practice.
yes, for sale on amazon for $466,
http://www.amazon.com/Epson-V11H423020-Moverio-See-Through-Wearable/dp/B007ORN0LS
2 stars from 5 reviews.
these are nothing like google glass. this is like saying "i know you wanted a new bicycle, but this fruit cup is for sale NOW and at a lower cost!"
no, it's not.
720p is lines of 720 pixels sent to your device progressively (one after the other).
1080i is lines of 1080 pixels sent interlaced.
1080i is still 1080 resolution, but takes 2x as long to completely refresh the screen.
I am disappointed the new Playstation 4 and XBox One won't support 4k gaming though
from what i read, it seems to be questionable whether or not they'll be able to support 1080 gaming (well).
framerate > pixel count anyhow.
how great "the man" is (Amazon) because their size allows them to offer slightly cheaper prices on stuff
it's not just (or necessarily) price. they just are really, really good at what they do.
i don't know anyone that supports smaller businesses just because they are smaller. if the little coffee shop on the corner treated you like crap and brewed terrible coffee, would you go there just because they are small? it's because they offer better service, or more personable service, better selection, a better shopping experience, etc. however, newegg and amazon are essentially identical as far as customer experience is involved.
I like the idea of Firefox OS phones though, in that environment you don't have that many layers, just the web crap and javascript host that you needed anyway to look up web pages. It has the uglyness and inefficiency you complain about but at the same time the OS is kept small, gets security updates and you would be able to download those security updates easily enough through 3G/4G or wifi. The execution speed problem is dealt with by throwing brute force at it (low power, 1GHz ARM). If security/privacy features are adequate that's the first smartphone/phablet thing I can consider owning. (domain blocker, NoScript equivalent, fine grained permissions along with global rules like "any application that uses GPS can't use networking")
exactly, the *idea* of FFOS. how do you know carriers don't add tracking / spying software into the phones running FirefoxOS? i don't think FirefoxOS is in some commanding market position where they can demand carriers don't touch the software of devices running on their network.
you're still conned into giving yourself over
and you're a narcissist that thinks the boring facts of your daily existence are something to be guarded. unless you are the president of a large company or a politician, nobody cares about you ... and if you were, they wouldn't have to break into google to steal your data.
jupiter jack does not support 8-track.
not to mention that the PS4 has an internal power supply, where the XBO has a massive external brick.
the point is, duh, UAVs are aircraft and are similar to any modern aircraft in their susceptibilities.
You are one overly uptight asshole if you really think that.
you are nihilistic and self centered if you think it's okay to make people handle disgusting stinking cat poop because you are too lazy to provide an environment for your own pet in your own yard.
i challenge you to ask 5 of your non-pet owning friends how they feel about stepping in shit from other people's pets in their own yard. to the rest of humans, this is common sense but i think you might be surprised at the answers.
You call the cops on them because the damn birds broke the law?
i guess you are trying to use some absurd logic here? birds and squirrels are a natural part of the environment. your pet is not. my yard is not your cat's ecosystem. you want to have a cat, good for you. take care of it in your house and your yard. you smell the poop in the little box or in your flower bed.
i'll also peg cats that hang out stalking under my bird feeder. poor kitty? do your research.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cats+invasive+species&oq=cats+invas&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.2955j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8
what's wrong with obeying the law and keeping your pet out of other people's yards? if you obey the law in the first place, problem solved. don't ask others to spend money and time to protect against your animals. do you really feel okay about making people pick up your cat's crap, or scrape it off their shoes?
and seriously, do you expect that i cover every square foot of my yard with overpriced cat repellent?
what happened during your upbringing that made you think it's okay for you to drop crap in my yard? seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
but anyway, i have a simple solution: control your animal. it's illegal for your animal to poop or pee in my yard. keep it out, obey the law of the land, the have some common courtesy, and we'll be fine.
You'd be amazed at how many new problems even talking about shooting a domestic
animal can bring into your life.
nah, i'm good.
it's also illegal to allow your pet to poop and piss on other people's property.
Hactivisim: You don't get those defenses. You get 10-25 in federal PMITA prison.
except he didn't get 10-25, he got 10, which will probably end up being about 3. he's also not going to a PMITA prison.
As mentioned in a previous comment, prison is primarily used as a punishment here not as much for protection of general society.
you can keep saying that but it doesn't make it true. people that commit violent crimes in a fit of rage, because of mental issues, etc are not discouraged by penalties. sane people generally understand penalties but still commit crimes ... for many reason, but for example, because the lure of reward for committing the crime (robbery, embezzlement, etc) it makes the risk of penalty acceptable.
prison also serves to keep the offenders from committing the crime again, for at least a period of time. if you lock up a guy that walks around town punching people in the face, he's not going to be be able to do that for a while right? and if he does it again after he gets out, he'll be locked away for even longer, and so on.
If a DA doesn't throw the book at defendants, they get replaced next election by one that will. If a judge doesn't rubber-stamp maximum sentences and keep a high conviction ratio, they also get voted out.
that's not a problem w/ the system, it's problem with society. you are saying the system is giving society what it wants. after all it's the people that voting for those officials.
Once I sued my neighbor because her cat kept defecating in my potted plants
you'd be amazed how many problems a BB gun will solve.
Groupon is worth US$6.86 billion right now. In hindsight, turning Google's offer down was a wise move.
no. $6B in the hand is much, much greater than $6.8B in the bush.
groupon has a lot of competition now from the big boys. both google and amazon have local deals. that wasn't the case when the google offer was made.
I've quit before and was asked on many occasions if I remembered passwords, specifics of certain processes, etc. My answer was simple, "I don't work for you anymore and this conversation is not appropriate".
and you are perfectly within your rights doing so. but anyway, that's great information for future employers. you should always recount that little anecdote when interviewed.
whenever i've quit a position, i make sure everyone knows my personal contact information if they need anything from me. i do that because i'm not a dick. oddly enough, i'd actually get some pleasure from helping my ex-colleagues in a time of need.
that being the case, i've never been bothered by an ex-employer or ex-colleague. i'm sure it could happen, but basically people are decent and know to reserve that offer for help from me for when and if they really, really need it.