I think it's important to note that this study had a 21% death rate, that implies the participates where older individuals. Looking at the actual study, it says that the mean age at the start of the trial was 51.6 years old. The median study follow-up was 17.5 years, so the mean age at the end of the study was 69.1 years old.
While this study is indeed interesting, I would like to see another study involving healthy young and middle aged adults.
The age old adage still applies... never talk to the police. The police are law enforcers, they are not there to protect you. Sometimes when they act as enforcers they protect you, but you should never confuse the relationship between cause and effect.
No, the idea was to save electricity, as in switching on lights later etc.
The idea was to save the whales, as in lamp oil, or I mean, at least, to save money on candles and lamp oil.
Electricity is dirt cheap now, but lives aren't. Driving home from work in the dark after you're exhausted and tired from a long days work is a recipe for disaster and the crash statistics bear this out. The winter time is when we need extra light hours in the evening because winter road conditions and it being dark outside can lead to more vehicle accidents.
I agree with a UBI, but I think if we did that then there would be a very restricted worker supply for jobs that are currently at or below minimum wage. Why would you slave away at a crap job when you have all your basic needs met? This will cause the market to correct itself with much higher wages for everyone, and the corporations don't want that to happen because they like slave labor.
If you increase wages then you increase the supply of workers. The last I checked, working 30 hours a week qualifies you for benefits like insurance. So if they just hire more works, then they can work everyone part time with no benefits. This is simple economics. Because of automation, I think everyone is eventually going to be working part time, so I think the long term solution is to decouple health insurance from employment. I personally feel it should be replaced with a single payer system.
That's interesting, what if the person who uploads the photo has no ownership rights to it? For example, lets say a high school senior had their picture taken by a professional photographer. The standard clause in a professional photographer's contract is that the photographer owns exclusive rights to the photos. Often however many photographers give the client a digital image and a license that permits them to use it for social media. If facebook then takes a professional photographer's photos that was only licensed to a client and distributes them to others then that is probably copyright infringement.
A few years earlier, several Londoners agreed (presumably inadvertently) to give away their oldest child in exchange for Wi-Fi access. Before they could get on the Internet, users had to check a box agreeing to "assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity." According to the Guardian, six people signed up, but the company providing the Wi-Fi said the clause likely wouldn't be enforceable in a court of law. "It is contrary to public policy to sell children in return for free services," the company explained.
Haha... Dear company, thank you for assuming the responsibility of raising my offspring, please make child support checks payable to John Smith and send them to 123 Easy St, Anytown, Anystate 12345 USA.
I would actually be more interested in seeing them break apart into hardware / software / licensed entertainment.
I don't think the mobile computing vs. desktop computer is a big deal. The real issue is that the same people making the hardware are making the software. If you can buy yourself an iphone and decide whether to install android or ios, then it's all good.
If that gets me a legal copy of macOS for PC then I'm all for it. IMHO the only usable unix desktop is macOS, so if I could legally run it on off the shelf PC hardware without any more difficulty then installing Windows then I would pay good money for that software license. If Mac has 6.37% of world OS market share and total internet users is just over 4 billion then that implies 266 million Mac devices exist on the internet. I would pay a $100 a year for a macOS subscription, so that times 266 million would be nearly 27 billion in income alone without adding in PCs running macOS.
Breaking up Amazon? I don't see why. People buy from Amazon because it's a trusted entity and probably the only online store that's achieved that. The issues with Amazon, such as shitty employment conditions, would get worse, not better, if it was broken up into other companies that have to go into a race to the bottom as far as costs go.
You are forgetting about AWS, which should be spun off into its own company.
That's interesting. What if the mechanism behind this action of the chromosomes moving is related in some way to quantum mechanics. For instance, what if when we are asleep we no longer have an observer effect.
IIRC, if you adjust the price of gold to the PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures) index it's basically a flat line. Gold is a very good value store. The sad part is if you also adjust incomes based on the PCE then we are basically working for slave labor wages... you would have to be making $250k to have the same income as an average family in the 1950s.
Because they are designed as burner phones. You wouldn't want to take your main phone into a foreign country like Russia because you will be hacked the moment your plane lands. Instead you leave your main phone at home and buy a burner phone with dual SIM so you can put your main SIM and an international roaming SIM into your phone. When you get back home you wipe the burner phone back to factory defaults.
How do they get around disability laws with this? There are a fair number of people that go into computer assisted professions because they have reading and/or writing disorders such as dyslexia or dysgraphia. I'm at a serious disadvantage on a paper test because I have both. Spell check, grammar check, and syntax highlighting are fundamental requirements for me.
Yet one more reason why I won't do business with Oracle. These updates and firmware use to be free, now they're throwing people in prison because they got free updates that fixed Oracle's shitty products. Screw HPE too... Dell still offers free unencumbered firmware updates.
As a farmer, why would you even consider buying a mission critical machine that you can't service? Harvesting is time and weather sensitive, so why don't these machines have modular components that can be swapped out with a standby part by the farmer? The computer should be a redundant hot swap module that can be swapped out by the farmer in just a few minutes. You should be able drive to your local JD dealer and exchange the computer module with one off the shelf.
That's only 3 cents per email.... worth it, and would do it again. The minimum they should have been fined for each message is whatever the postage is for a first class letter.
This makes sense if you adjust for inflation using the PCI index instead of the CPI. Using the PCI, the average household income in today's dollars of a family from the mid 1950s is close to $250k a year. This means that if you are making $50k a year today, you are only actually making about 1/5th of what your forebears did. This is why you can't afford college, this is why you have no retirment savings, this is why you and your spouse have to work, and this is why you live pay check to pay check.
We're basically getting paid slave wages, and the masters in charge have created a system of laws to prevent us from ever taking up arms to rise up... we're fucked. Watch the movie "In Time" if you want to get a glimpse into the world you've been born into, when watching the movie just replace their plot concept of "Time credits" with money and it all makes sense.
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I think it's important to note that this study had a 21% death rate, that implies the participates where older individuals. Looking at the actual study, it says that the mean age at the start of the trial was 51.6 years old. The median study follow-up was 17.5 years, so the mean age at the end of the study was 69.1 years old.
While this study is indeed interesting, I would like to see another study involving healthy young and middle aged adults.
The age old adage still applies... never talk to the police. The police are law enforcers, they are not there to protect you. Sometimes when they act as enforcers they protect you, but you should never confuse the relationship between cause and effect.
No, the idea was to save electricity, as in switching on lights later etc.
The idea was to save the whales, as in lamp oil, or I mean, at least, to save money on candles and lamp oil.
Electricity is dirt cheap now, but lives aren't. Driving home from work in the dark after you're exhausted and tired from a long days work is a recipe for disaster and the crash statistics bear this out. The winter time is when we need extra light hours in the evening because winter road conditions and it being dark outside can lead to more vehicle accidents.
I agree with a UBI, but I think if we did that then there would be a very restricted worker supply for jobs that are currently at or below minimum wage. Why would you slave away at a crap job when you have all your basic needs met? This will cause the market to correct itself with much higher wages for everyone, and the corporations don't want that to happen because they like slave labor.
If you increase wages then you increase the supply of workers. The last I checked, working 30 hours a week qualifies you for benefits like insurance. So if they just hire more works, then they can work everyone part time with no benefits. This is simple economics. Because of automation, I think everyone is eventually going to be working part time, so I think the long term solution is to decouple health insurance from employment. I personally feel it should be replaced with a single payer system.
That's interesting, what if the person who uploads the photo has no ownership rights to it? For example, lets say a high school senior had their picture taken by a professional photographer. The standard clause in a professional photographer's contract is that the photographer owns exclusive rights to the photos. Often however many photographers give the client a digital image and a license that permits them to use it for social media. If facebook then takes a professional photographer's photos that was only licensed to a client and distributes them to others then that is probably copyright infringement.
A few years earlier, several Londoners agreed (presumably inadvertently) to give away their oldest child in exchange for Wi-Fi access. Before they could get on the Internet, users had to check a box agreeing to "assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity." According to the Guardian, six people signed up, but the company providing the Wi-Fi said the clause likely wouldn't be enforceable in a court of law. "It is contrary to public policy to sell children in return for free services," the company explained.
Haha... Dear company, thank you for assuming the responsibility of raising my offspring, please make child support checks payable to John Smith and send them to 123 Easy St, Anytown, Anystate 12345 USA.
I would actually be more interested in seeing them break apart into hardware / software / licensed entertainment.
I don't think the mobile computing vs. desktop computer is a big deal. The real issue is that the same people making the hardware are making the software. If you can buy yourself an iphone and decide whether to install android or ios, then it's all good.
If that gets me a legal copy of macOS for PC then I'm all for it. IMHO the only usable unix desktop is macOS, so if I could legally run it on off the shelf PC hardware without any more difficulty then installing Windows then I would pay good money for that software license. If Mac has 6.37% of world OS market share and total internet users is just over 4 billion then that implies 266 million Mac devices exist on the internet. I would pay a $100 a year for a macOS subscription, so that times 266 million would be nearly 27 billion in income alone without adding in PCs running macOS.
Breaking up Amazon? I don't see why. People buy from Amazon because it's a trusted entity and probably the only online store that's achieved that. The issues with Amazon, such as shitty employment conditions, would get worse, not better, if it was broken up into other companies that have to go into a race to the bottom as far as costs go.
You are forgetting about AWS, which should be spun off into its own company.
is an crime to just leave cash at an cashless place and to not pay with card?
Can you get changed with dine and dash at card only restaurant if you leave cash on the table and walkout?
If you owe the restaurant a debt then they have to accept cash, so I suppose the solution is to take a bite out of it first before you attempt to pay.
That's interesting. What if the mechanism behind this action of the chromosomes moving is related in some way to quantum mechanics. For instance, what if when we are asleep we no longer have an observer effect.
This problem is easy to solve, make a law that requires all batteries to be removable.
IIRC, if you adjust the price of gold to the PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures) index it's basically a flat line. Gold is a very good value store. The sad part is if you also adjust incomes based on the PCE then we are basically working for slave labor wages... you would have to be making $250k to have the same income as an average family in the 1950s.
Because they are designed as burner phones. You wouldn't want to take your main phone into a foreign country like Russia because you will be hacked the moment your plane lands. Instead you leave your main phone at home and buy a burner phone with dual SIM so you can put your main SIM and an international roaming SIM into your phone. When you get back home you wipe the burner phone back to factory defaults.
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How do they get around disability laws with this? There are a fair number of people that go into computer assisted professions because they have reading and/or writing disorders such as dyslexia or dysgraphia. I'm at a serious disadvantage on a paper test because I have both. Spell check, grammar check, and syntax highlighting are fundamental requirements for me.
Yet one more reason why I won't do business with Oracle. These updates and firmware use to be free, now they're throwing people in prison because they got free updates that fixed Oracle's shitty products. Screw HPE too... Dell still offers free unencumbered firmware updates.
I predict a 12-core A12 based Mac Pro. Why else would it take so long to release?
Well, I am writing this on an Intel Core i-7 940, and I *do* need it. I paid quite a lot for this PC (although a while ago)
Do you know that you can pickup a Xeon X5670 for $30 on eBay?
You're listing these wrong on your resume. Start your own business and work corp to corp, then you can list on your resume one continuous employer.
No, at the end of the day it's a pocket computer.
As a farmer, why would you even consider buying a mission critical machine that you can't service? Harvesting is time and weather sensitive, so why don't these machines have modular components that can be swapped out with a standby part by the farmer? The computer should be a redundant hot swap module that can be swapped out by the farmer in just a few minutes. You should be able drive to your local JD dealer and exchange the computer module with one off the shelf.
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That's only 3 cents per email.... worth it, and would do it again. The minimum they should have been fined for each message is whatever the postage is for a first class letter.
This is between two consenting adults? How about you bud out of other people's personal lives.
This makes sense if you adjust for inflation using the PCI index instead of the CPI. Using the PCI, the average household income in today's dollars of a family from the mid 1950s is close to $250k a year. This means that if you are making $50k a year today, you are only actually making about 1/5th of what your forebears did. This is why you can't afford college, this is why you have no retirment savings, this is why you and your spouse have to work, and this is why you live pay check to pay check.
We're basically getting paid slave wages, and the masters in charge have created a system of laws to prevent us from ever taking up arms to rise up... we're fucked. Watch the movie "In Time" if you want to get a glimpse into the world you've been born into, when watching the movie just replace their plot concept of "Time credits" with money and it all makes sense.