Modern walls are not being built with 2x6's because of some conspiracy by big lumber to make you buy more expensive wood, they're being built that way because insulation standards are going up, and the walls need to be deeper to hold it. Also, a 2x6 wall requires fewer studs, which means faster construction.
No, you're the one who is wrong. 2x4 is rough cut size, the dimensions 1.5 x 3.5 have been used even since the advent of balloon framing when the mills started delivering dressed lumber. Prior to that boards would be dressed at the site. These measurements haven't changed in a long time, here's information about it from 1905.
Violating labor laws, which the type of retaliation she is talking about is clearly an example of, is not "Political Correctness." "Real companies with real money" know this. Did you ever bother to read what she wrote, or are you just making up a version of it in your mind?
I actually took the time to read the linked article, it seems the primary concern is that avocados are so profitable for small farmers that cartels and big agribusiness is muscling them to get their profits. As near as I can tell, the general idea is don't buy a profitable crop from an impoverished area because if you do it will give small farmers money and someone might steal the money from them. This does not seem fully thought out.
I lived in Virginia, and I always believed it takes voter security more seriously than many other locations, so I thank you for your work.
That said, I think there is a lack of imagination when it comes to these things. Why couldn't source code be modified long before the election, and then activated through updates or maintenance? How many precincts would need to be compromised to throw a close election? How many highly positioned people would need to be compromised at the Department of Elections to influence counts? What would it take to actually trigger a recount?
Yes, elections are hundreds of years old, but there have been fraudulent elections for just as long.
What is your definition of mass shooting? It sounds like you have a relatively unusual one, since there have been hundreds of shootings not in "gun-free zones", mostly in private residences.
Gabby Giffords was/is a democrat, I don't know what you are talking about. I'm not going into his political leanings, since he is crazy, but Jared Loughner is certainly not "extreme left-wing."
Most of the objections I've seen as to why Russian hacking couldn't work have been along the lines of "It would take a lot of effort" or "it would be too complicated". Given the available resources of Russia and the stakes in play I can't really say those objections hold any water. Without the ability to review the source code of all voting machines and randomized auditing of paper ballots there is simply too much potential for influence in a close race, which seems to be the de facto standard these days.
The group that was being analyzed was already considered "high risk", out of 5,167 cases there were 3,250 attempted suicides. So even if those were false positives, it wasn't an amount that dwarfs the actual predictions. Now if they expand this to a larger, less risky group, who knows, but at this stage the false positive rate seems more than acceptable.
I've heard this objection from the a ways back, and as a result I started asking Uber drivers how long they had worked for Uber whenever I got a ride. My initial hypothesis was that I'd get something between two weeks and two months, as they would quickly realize it wasn't sustainable, and that in the end they were spending more on their car than they were making. That's not what I found though, in practice most had been driving for a year, one as much as three years, meaning he started soon after they came to my area. Most worked part time. If they were truly losing money, they would just stop. Seriously, I don't think there's a an easier job to quit. (the one exception being people who bought cars through Uber, I think this is a very bad practice and should be discouraged)
Oh it's rank speculation, I'll grant you that, I haven't the foggiest idea how to prove it one way or the other. I'm sure I'll get downvoted for it as well. That said, it's the explanation that fits best in my mind. If true, it puts Uber in a bind since they can't run to conservative politicians for help, because their customer base is overwhelmingly liberal. If they get painted as being Red Team(TM), it will hurt them immensely.
As I said before, the question will be answered if Lyft gets the same treatment, despite having a much better corporate culture and more driver-friendly policies.
Uber has a lot of dirt, but my guess that a lot of this negative media has been influenced by the Teamsters Union. The Teamsters have deep pockets, years of experience in influencing public and political opinion, and a real reason to destroy Uber. The proof will be if once Uber goes down they turn the guns on Lyft, and we start seeing a similar blitz on them.
Personally, I prefer Uber as a service, so I'll be sorry to see it go, but they should have realized from the get go who they were up against.
There are mechanisms for estimating the "value" of currencies, hence accusations that the Chinese were undervaluing their currency that have been expressed the last few years. I'm not an economist, so I'm not going to try and explain them. The question here isn't can a currency be valued, it's is Bitcoin a true currency, an asset, a store of value, or something else? What it is will determine how you value it, and at this point it may be the case that we don't really know how to value it.
This should be rated higher. The effort should not go towards censuring Mylan, but to breaking the exclusive marketing rights. Mylan is contributing literally nothing to this equation except regulatory capture for the EpiPen brand name.
Wouldn't this be a decent project for a machine learning solution? It sound like a tedious job that requires a comparison between two inputs and correction based on what was observed.
Also to echo some skepticism, I've listened to music reels from the 60s and they don't seem significantly degraded. Is video more fragile?
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Apparently, the future is now.
Yes, but Apple's goal is not to accumulate bugs, it's for there to be as few bugs as possible. Increasing the rarity of unreported bugs is their goal.
Are we living the Foundation series?
Modern walls are not being built with 2x6's because of some conspiracy by big lumber to make you buy more expensive wood, they're being built that way because insulation standards are going up, and the walls need to be deeper to hold it. Also, a 2x6 wall requires fewer studs, which means faster construction.
The standards haven't changed for over 100 years. A link to a 1905 manual I posted elsewhere in this thread.
Good on you for learning.
Why is this downvoted? This is absolutely correct.
No, you're the one who is wrong. 2x4 is rough cut size, the dimensions 1.5 x 3.5 have been used even since the advent of balloon framing when the mills started delivering dressed lumber. Prior to that boards would be dressed at the site. These measurements haven't changed in a long time, here's information about it from 1905.
Violating labor laws, which the type of retaliation she is talking about is clearly an example of, is not "Political Correctness." "Real companies with real money" know this. Did you ever bother to read what she wrote, or are you just making up a version of it in your mind?
I actually took the time to read the linked article, it seems the primary concern is that avocados are so profitable for small farmers that cartels and big agribusiness is muscling them to get their profits. As near as I can tell, the general idea is don't buy a profitable crop from an impoverished area because if you do it will give small farmers money and someone might steal the money from them. This does not seem fully thought out.
That said, I think there is a lack of imagination when it comes to these things. Why couldn't source code be modified long before the election, and then activated through updates or maintenance? How many precincts would need to be compromised to throw a close election? How many highly positioned people would need to be compromised at the Department of Elections to influence counts? What would it take to actually trigger a recount?
Yes, elections are hundreds of years old, but there have been fraudulent elections for just as long.
What is your definition of mass shooting? It sounds like you have a relatively unusual one, since there have been hundreds of shootings not in "gun-free zones", mostly in private residences.
Gabby Giffords was/is a democrat, I don't know what you are talking about. I'm not going into his political leanings, since he is crazy, but Jared Loughner is certainly not "extreme left-wing."
Most of the objections I've seen as to why Russian hacking couldn't work have been along the lines of "It would take a lot of effort" or "it would be too complicated". Given the available resources of Russia and the stakes in play I can't really say those objections hold any water. Without the ability to review the source code of all voting machines and randomized auditing of paper ballots there is simply too much potential for influence in a close race, which seems to be the de facto standard these days.
This is what I was thinking, the office isn't "beautiful", it's basically a cavernous empty room. I can only imagine how much it echos...
The group that was being analyzed was already considered "high risk", out of 5,167 cases there were 3,250 attempted suicides. So even if those were false positives, it wasn't an amount that dwarfs the actual predictions. Now if they expand this to a larger, less risky group, who knows, but at this stage the false positive rate seems more than acceptable.
I've heard this objection from the a ways back, and as a result I started asking Uber drivers how long they had worked for Uber whenever I got a ride. My initial hypothesis was that I'd get something between two weeks and two months, as they would quickly realize it wasn't sustainable, and that in the end they were spending more on their car than they were making. That's not what I found though, in practice most had been driving for a year, one as much as three years, meaning he started soon after they came to my area. Most worked part time. If they were truly losing money, they would just stop. Seriously, I don't think there's a an easier job to quit. (the one exception being people who bought cars through Uber, I think this is a very bad practice and should be discouraged)
Oh it's rank speculation, I'll grant you that, I haven't the foggiest idea how to prove it one way or the other. I'm sure I'll get downvoted for it as well. That said, it's the explanation that fits best in my mind. If true, it puts Uber in a bind since they can't run to conservative politicians for help, because their customer base is overwhelmingly liberal. If they get painted as being Red Team(TM), it will hurt them immensely.
As I said before, the question will be answered if Lyft gets the same treatment, despite having a much better corporate culture and more driver-friendly policies.
Yep, who cares if their vehicles are powered by a forsaken child
Rusty Venture runs Uber???
Uber has a lot of dirt, but my guess that a lot of this negative media has been influenced by the Teamsters Union. The Teamsters have deep pockets, years of experience in influencing public and political opinion, and a real reason to destroy Uber. The proof will be if once Uber goes down they turn the guns on Lyft, and we start seeing a similar blitz on them.
Personally, I prefer Uber as a service, so I'll be sorry to see it go, but they should have realized from the get go who they were up against.
There are mechanisms for estimating the "value" of currencies, hence accusations that the Chinese were undervaluing their currency that have been expressed the last few years. I'm not an economist, so I'm not going to try and explain them. The question here isn't can a currency be valued, it's is Bitcoin a true currency, an asset, a store of value, or something else? What it is will determine how you value it, and at this point it may be the case that we don't really know how to value it.
Do you honestly not know how surveys work?
In The Year Two Thouuuusand....
This should be rated higher. The effort should not go towards censuring Mylan, but to breaking the exclusive marketing rights. Mylan is contributing literally nothing to this equation except regulatory capture for the EpiPen brand name.
Wouldn't this be a decent project for a machine learning solution? It sound like a tedious job that requires a comparison between two inputs and correction based on what was observed.
Also to echo some skepticism, I've listened to music reels from the 60s and they don't seem significantly degraded. Is video more fragile?