You think people with food allergies don't need to know what foreign genes are in the tomatoes?
GMO needs to be labeled- not just as GMO but with what is in the mix. If you put wheat genes in the tomatoes to make them resistant to crops, people with celiac disease would like to know about it.
With diabetes, at least you can test and determine which foods are screwing up your blood sugar.
I think in your haste, you took my point backwards.
Mainly, people should just take a 5 minute hard break every hour. Standing is great as an alternative to sitting. And sitting is great as an alternative to standing. I wouldn't do more than a couple hours in either position unless one of those positions is painful.
The main issue I see with standing desks is frozen butt muscles (maximus mostly). This produces a sharp threatening pain. The quadratus lumborum causes more of a dull ache.
Standing or sitting- doesn't matter-- holding your arms out is a recipe for messed up infraspinatus muscles and messed up teres major/minor muscles.
This is the other reason I left the republican party.
That video is explicitly edited and the full video with the full context is widely available and has been posted in response to that video multiple times.
Republicans (Despite many being christians) have become massive liars. I don't know how they can do it in good concience. You know.. the whole devil is the lord of lies things and a couple hundred quotes in the bible against lying and being denied heaven for being a liar.
Seriously-- if you are sincerely religious- how do you tolerate all the fucking lying in the republican party these days?
The full context of Biden's quote was that IF the president sent a hard right wing nominee, Biden would vote no and recommend other senators vote no... and if the president a well qualified nominee who was not hard right- Biden would consider the candidates qualifications.
What republicans said was, "We don't care who you pick. We will not even consider your nominee. We will not give them a vote." which was about the same as saying, "Fuck the constitution. We don't give a shit about it. We are playing to win now and have been since the policy of NO was declared by the republican party back in 2009. "
That's because the people who wrote the constitution were brilliant and reasonable men. They never foresaw the possibility that senators would refuse to perform their assigned duties.
By the precedent being set- there is no reason the next senate should even hold confirmation hearings for any candidate nominated by the president next election either. On day one the next presidents term, either party could now refuse to hold hearings and push it off to the next election-- four years later.
The point is, for being so pro-constitution, this is hypocrisy of the highest order. They are refusing to advise, consent, hold a hearing, or have any part of the process which IS THEIR JOB to do. It makes any statement by them that they honor the constitution as written to be rank hypocrisy.
That and their excessive lying is the reason I left the party.
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I think his best move was a qualified hispanic judge. That would have cost the republicans several states. But we'll see how this plays out.
I think Obama misplayed this one. It should have been an equally qualified hispanic.
Perhaps when merrick withdraws, obama can now nominate a more liberal, highly qualified hispanic candidate.
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And republicans have shown themselves to be hypocrites who don't care one bit about following the constitution as written.
I used to vote for them (voted for Reagan and Bush Sr.) I think it's likely now that I will never vote for a republican candidate in any race, no matter how small, again in my life.
I wouldn't ban housing. I would designate areas which were not eligible for disaster assistance. Which would mean you couldn't borrow money to build there at low rates.
Which would mean either very expensive houses (from very wealthy people who can afford to cover damages) or inexpensive housing would be in those areas.
It might to authoritarian socialist countries (China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam) under the definition of the state owning the means of production. It's more about them being authoritarian than being socialist.
It does not apply to democratic countries with socialism policies. (Most of 1st world Europe, Almost all of the U.S., Japan, etc.)
Welfare, child food programs, universal health care, etc. do not relate to being imprisoned.
Our right wing in the u.s. is increasingly authoritarian so you could be right. They've done everything they can to dismantle social welfare programs and their policies have lead to the U.S. having the highest rate of imprisoned citizens in the entire world (defacto evidence of our authoritarian policies).
People give up their families, their personal lives, their ability to see and do wonderful things so they can work to earn more money so they can get more stuff which they need work more to pay for.
Work is dumb. Only do it as long as you have too.
then find something you love doing. maybe people will give you money- but if not, you love what you are doing.
Actually analysis shows it's going to be at least 2045 before china nears parity and 2065 before india nears parity. And that was before the chinese economy hit the wall.
So yes-- things will work out in the long run. But 2 to 4 decades is longer than many people's working careers.
We need for the u.s. to stop artificially inflating it's economy. it's no longer sustainable. A period of deflation would ALSO be extremely harsh (Great Depression) but be over in under a decade.
A large food delivery company laid off most of their IT employees back in 2012. They went with Infosys as the main contractor in their conversion to SAP.
Now- the SAP had been going on with heart attack inducing, divorce causing hours for a few years at that point so my first advice is that if you are on an SAP conversion project with indian contractors there is a 95% chance you will be laid off AFTER doing a lot of crazy hard work. (Shell used the same exact plan just a year before to their IT employees). So if an SAP conversion starts and they have indian contractors, start training and getting certifications and leave as soon as you can. It will be much harder to find work when several hundred people are released on the market at the same time.
If you check the news, a large food delivery company's SAP conversion finally failed as the ground people (and even the CIO) could see it would from the beginning. This was driven by the board of directors- specifically a guy named "Manny" who had ties to SAP. So the schedule was crazy from the beginning since it wasn't really and IT project and it wasn't really with their input.
Now, the next thing to know is that Infosys overpromised and under delivered. They lacked the SAP skill they said they had. And they had challenges getting and keeping qualified people to work the older technology (what smart young indian college grad wants to be put on dead mainframe technology). Turnover was high.
The next thing to consider was there is this model where you document everything on paper and rotate the staff because they are interchangeable cogs. Well... in any complex system, this doesn't really work. it helps to have things documented but productivity comes from the programmers knowing without research which programs will need to be changed for a project and if the project has been tried before and found to be impossible and so on. Essentially, any infosys employee rolling on for a 6 month shift was completely worthless for 4 to 6 weeks- then they were as productive as any apprentice/new employee for 3 to 4 months and then they became worthless again in the 2-4 weeks before they rolled off (lots and lots of certification classes and really training for the new client).
Anyway- Infosys failed miserably and will be replaced by IBM. No one has a clue where THEY are going to find a bunch of experts in the old technology either.
But now -- let's consider the other side. The outsourcing house makes a lot of sense on paper. You can quickly turn on and off employees for a project without heartbreak and legal hassles. And employees of a big outsourcing house get a lot of training, a lot of cross exposure to different clients, and they work for a company that views them as assets.
There is a big "movement" among companies with IT to say, "We are not an IT company. We are a XXXXX company." And it is very challenging to hold 12 to 20 interviews to hire one "meh" candidate. You get good ones in the interviews but they are not interested in you unless you are a top of the line company with a good reputation.
So let me give you a clue. If you have over 5 people in IT, you are an IT company and it gave you a competitive advantage. Back to the dark side here to explain.
Outsourcing companies regularly screw over all but their biggest, highest paying clients. What you actually get from outshored staff is less loyalty and distracted service as they try to balance the needs of multiple clients. And when multiple clients have an emergency- you better be damn sure you have a extremely punitive service level agreement (SLA) because many times, you may find you need service and they just give you $50,000 and say it's going to be 5 to 10 days so good luck running your business that's down in the mean time. Sure this only happens once a year. All business can afford to be down without warning a few days a year, right?
So a large food delivery company has cancelled their SAP projec
And about about a few hours a day of actual privacy. I've had friends get upset (and then as a result get upset with me) because I didn't answer the phone on their schedule.
Work hours didn't extend to 24/7.
When you went to the beach, you were not at work. When you went on a trip, you were not at work- you actually got complete R&R.
People don't count 2 to 3 trillion and 4000 lives lost fighting over oil as a "subsidy" but it is.
People don't count toxic site clean up of fossil fuel sites as a subsidy but it is.
People don't count free right of way land as a subsidy but it is.
I'd still like to see the source for your $5 trillion figure. That's pretty high.
Solar power is reaching a point where a subsidy isn't needed.
However- the network effect of power companies is being lost and they will be forced to charge higher rates as their fixed costs will be spread over fewer customers. One way they are adapting is recognizing the fixed costs and charging them as a base to all customers including solar customers who don't use much electricity.
Likewise, explicit subsidies for solar and net metering are both being aggressively lobbied out of existence.
2013 Solar Panels Now Make More Electricity Than They Use
And by 2020, the solar industry will have completely "paid back" the energy it took to produce the world's panels.
Also--- "rare" earth metals are "rare" at the current low prices. but there are vast quantities available at only slightly higher cost levels. One mine in california has more rare earth than all of china but it's shut down right now because the cost to extract means it isn't profitable right now (partially because of higher labor costs in the U.S. than china which will correct itself by 2045).
Some are stripmined- valid point. Some are conflict materials- a valid point you didn't make.
But that's a case of business externalizing their costs on society.
The future really is solar. Enough solar power to satisfy the globes needs would like like a a half dozen to a dozen little dots scattered around the globe. But even more exciting is decentralized solar power which is
a) Less likely to be stolen/destroyed by bandits. b) Extends lighted hours (for education and business) far into the night. c) Can drive laptops, wi-fi, fans, and small food cooler/heaters (for insulin and similar items more than for sodas).
And solar just keeps getting cheaper. Like the space program, solar power investment has a huge payoff for the startup cost the government funded.
And it has an interesting feedback loop with fossil fuels. It reduces their use by just a tiny amount- but that's enough to significantly drop the prices of fossil fuels because the price of all fossil fuel is set by the cost of the most expensive fossil fuel.
If it costs $90 to get out the last barrel, the $10 a barrel is sold for $90. If you destroy demand for oil over $60 a barrel, then all oil will be sold at $60.
Under reasonable circumstances it's reasonable that many people have the ability to judge whether or not those things are true.
You must be considering an edge case.
For anyone who lived thru live coverage of the events of 9/11, you have > zero.
Oblate spheroid is even easier (and can be done with sticks on earth).
Likewise, for anyone that lived thru live coverage of apollo landings, verifying them first hand is easy (unless you mean literally being on the moon with the astronauts). But the landing sites have been spotted and photographed with telescopes since.
If you are in severely unreasonable, anything's possible- you could be a brain in a jar or even a simulation on a computer.
When there's 1 of you and 17 others hitting or eeriely friendly towards you- it's creepy. When you travel with your advisor and they want to go out and get drunk with you, it's creepy.
But I think you pretty much set the standard so I'll just use your words.
ALL UNWANTED behavior or UNWANTED attention is creepy.
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Or you can simply require labeling of gmo food so the consumer can make informed choices.
You think people with food allergies don't need to know what foreign genes are in the tomatoes?
GMO needs to be labeled- not just as GMO but with what is in the mix. If you put wheat genes in the tomatoes to make them resistant to crops, people with celiac disease would like to know about it.
With diabetes, at least you can test and determine which foods are screwing up your blood sugar.
I think in your haste, you took my point backwards.
It's no different than requiring if the product has gluten, or sugar, or etc.
Labeling the product is the best way to end the stigma- because then they can charge a fair price and people will get used to it as a product.
The value of standing desks 'depends".
Mainly, people should just take a 5 minute hard break every hour. Standing is great as an alternative to sitting. And sitting is great as an alternative to standing. I wouldn't do more than a couple hours in either position unless one of those positions is painful.
The main issue I see with standing desks is frozen butt muscles (maximus mostly). This produces a sharp threatening pain. The quadratus lumborum causes more of a dull ache.
Standing or sitting- doesn't matter-- holding your arms out is a recipe for messed up infraspinatus muscles and messed up teres major/minor muscles.
This is the other reason I left the republican party.
That video is explicitly edited and the full video with the full context is widely available and has been posted in response to that video multiple times.
Republicans (Despite many being christians) have become massive liars. I don't know how they can do it in good concience. You know.. the whole devil is the lord of lies things and a couple hundred quotes in the bible against lying and being denied heaven for being a liar.
Seriously-- if you are sincerely religious- how do you tolerate all the fucking lying in the republican party these days?
The full context of Biden's quote was that IF the president sent a hard right wing nominee, Biden would vote no and recommend other senators vote no... and if the president a well qualified nominee who was not hard right- Biden would consider the candidates qualifications.
What republicans said was, "We don't care who you pick. We will not even consider your nominee. We will not give them a vote." which was about the same as saying, "Fuck the constitution. We don't give a shit about it. We are playing to win now and have been since the policy of NO was declared by the republican party back in 2009. "
That's because the people who wrote the constitution were brilliant and reasonable men. They never foresaw the possibility that senators would refuse to perform their assigned duties.
By the precedent being set- there is no reason the next senate should even hold confirmation hearings for any candidate nominated by the president next election either. On day one the next presidents term, either party could now refuse to hold hearings and push it off to the next election-- four years later.
The point is, for being so pro-constitution, this is hypocrisy of the highest order. They are refusing to advise, consent, hold a hearing, or have any part of the process which IS THEIR JOB to do. It makes any statement by them that they honor the constitution as written to be rank hypocrisy.
That and their excessive lying is the reason I left the party.
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I think his best move was a qualified hispanic judge. That would have cost the republicans several states. But we'll see how this plays out.
I think Obama misplayed this one. It should have been an equally qualified hispanic.
Perhaps when merrick withdraws, obama can now nominate a more liberal, highly qualified hispanic candidate.
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And republicans have shown themselves to be hypocrites who don't care one bit about following the constitution as written.
I used to vote for them (voted for Reagan and Bush Sr.) I think it's likely now that I will never vote for a republican candidate in any race, no matter how small, again in my life.
I wouldn't ban housing. I would designate areas which were not eligible for disaster assistance. Which would mean you couldn't borrow money to build there at low rates.
Which would mean either very expensive houses (from very wealthy people who can afford to cover damages) or inexpensive housing would be in those areas.
While I see a host of problems, this isn't a face. This is a video stream of your live face combined with an arbitrary suggested action.
That's kind of interesting. What if in different bases different primes had likely and unlikely pairings.
You might be able to predict some next primes easier in a particular base.
It might to authoritarian socialist countries (China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam) under the definition of the state owning the means of production. It's more about them being authoritarian than being socialist.
It does not apply to democratic countries with socialism policies. (Most of 1st world Europe, Almost all of the U.S., Japan, etc.)
Welfare, child food programs, universal health care, etc. do not relate to being imprisoned.
Our right wing in the u.s. is increasingly authoritarian so you could be right. They've done everything they can to dismantle social welfare programs and their policies have lead to the U.S. having the highest rate of imprisoned citizens in the entire world (defacto evidence of our authoritarian policies).
People give up their families, their personal lives, their ability to see and do wonderful things so they can work to earn more money so they can get more stuff which they need work more to pay for.
Work is dumb. Only do it as long as you have too.
then find something you love doing. maybe people will give you money- but if not, you love what you are doing.
But... constant propaganda.
Actually analysis shows it's going to be at least 2045 before china nears parity and 2065 before india nears parity.
And that was before the chinese economy hit the wall.
So yes-- things will work out in the long run. But 2 to 4 decades is longer than many people's working careers.
We need for the u.s. to stop artificially inflating it's economy. it's no longer sustainable. A period of deflation would ALSO be extremely harsh (Great Depression) but be over in under a decade.
This is a sad but true story...
A large food delivery company laid off most of their IT employees back in 2012. They went with Infosys as the main contractor in their conversion to SAP.
Now- the SAP had been going on with heart attack inducing, divorce causing hours for a few years at that point so my first advice is that if you are on an SAP conversion project with indian contractors there is a 95% chance you will be laid off AFTER doing a lot of crazy hard work. (Shell used the same exact plan just a year before to their IT employees). So if an SAP conversion starts and they have indian contractors, start training and getting certifications and leave as soon as you can. It will be much harder to find work when several hundred people are released on the market at the same time.
If you check the news, a large food delivery company's SAP conversion finally failed as the ground people (and even the CIO) could see it would from the beginning. This was driven by the board of directors- specifically a guy named "Manny" who had ties to SAP. So the schedule was crazy from the beginning since it wasn't really and IT project and it wasn't really with their input.
Now, the next thing to know is that Infosys overpromised and under delivered. They lacked the SAP skill they said they had. And they had challenges getting and keeping qualified people to work the older technology (what smart young indian college grad wants to be put on dead mainframe technology). Turnover was high.
The next thing to consider was there is this model where you document everything on paper and rotate the staff because they are interchangeable cogs. Well... in any complex system, this doesn't really work. it helps to have things documented but productivity comes from the programmers knowing without research which programs will need to be changed for a project and if the project has been tried before and found to be impossible and so on. Essentially, any infosys employee rolling on for a 6 month shift was completely worthless for 4 to 6 weeks- then they were as productive as any apprentice/new employee for 3 to 4 months and then they became worthless again in the 2-4 weeks before they rolled off (lots and lots of certification classes and really training for the new client).
Anyway- Infosys failed miserably and will be replaced by IBM. No one has a clue where THEY are going to find a bunch of experts in the old technology either.
But now -- let's consider the other side. The outsourcing house makes a lot of sense on paper. You can quickly turn on and off employees for a project without heartbreak and legal hassles. And employees of a big outsourcing house get a lot of training, a lot of cross exposure to different clients, and they work for a company that views them as assets.
There is a big "movement" among companies with IT to say, "We are not an IT company. We are a XXXXX company." And it is very challenging to hold 12 to 20 interviews to hire one "meh" candidate. You get good ones in the interviews but they are not interested in you unless you are a top of the line company with a good reputation.
So let me give you a clue. If you have over 5 people in IT, you are an IT company and it gave you a competitive advantage. Back to the dark side here to explain.
Outsourcing companies regularly screw over all but their biggest, highest paying clients. What you actually get from outshored staff is less loyalty and distracted service as they try to balance the needs of multiple clients. And when multiple clients have an emergency- you better be damn sure you have a extremely punitive service level agreement (SLA) because many times, you may find you need service and they just give you $50,000 and say it's going to be 5 to 10 days so good luck running your business that's down in the mean time. Sure this only happens once a year. All business can afford to be down without warning a few days a year, right?
So a large food delivery company has cancelled their SAP projec
And about about a few hours a day of actual privacy. I've had friends get upset (and then as a result get upset with me) because I didn't answer the phone on their schedule.
Work hours didn't extend to 24/7.
When you went to the beach, you were not at work. When you went on a trip, you were not at work- you actually got complete R&R.
Yes, about to make the exact same post as well.
I mean come on, we've only had cell phones for a tiny sliver of existence (really less than 20 years) .
Life was better in many ways before cell phones. There have been costs and tradeoffs for the benefits gained.
I don't think it's stable enough yet.
Thanks.
Some of those seem like "funny" numbers to me. Placing a value on things which were not previously valued such as mild air pollution.
I read the report tho and it didn't include subsidies to alternative energy which was one of my concerns.
Thanks for the link.
People don't count 2 to 3 trillion and 4000 lives lost fighting over oil as a "subsidy" but it is.
People don't count toxic site clean up of fossil fuel sites as a subsidy but it is.
People don't count free right of way land as a subsidy but it is.
I'd still like to see the source for your $5 trillion figure. That's pretty high.
Solar power is reaching a point where a subsidy isn't needed.
However- the network effect of power companies is being lost and they will be forced to charge higher rates as their fixed costs will be spread over fewer customers. One way they are adapting is recognizing the fixed costs and charging them as a base to all customers including solar customers who don't use much electricity.
Likewise, explicit subsidies for solar and net metering are both being aggressively lobbied out of existence.
http://www.popsci.com/science/...
2013 Solar Panels Now Make More Electricity Than They Use
And by 2020, the solar industry will have completely "paid back" the energy it took to produce the world's panels.
Also--- "rare" earth metals are "rare" at the current low prices. but there are vast quantities available at only slightly higher cost levels. One mine in california has more rare earth than all of china but it's shut down right now because the cost to extract means it isn't profitable right now (partially because of higher labor costs in the U.S. than china which will correct itself by 2045).
Some are stripmined- valid point. Some are conflict materials- a valid point you didn't make.
But that's a case of business externalizing their costs on society.
The future really is solar. Enough solar power to satisfy the globes needs would like like a a half dozen to a dozen little dots scattered around the globe. But even more exciting is decentralized solar power which is
a) Less likely to be stolen/destroyed by bandits.
b) Extends lighted hours (for education and business) far into the night.
c) Can drive laptops, wi-fi, fans, and small food cooler/heaters (for insulin and similar items more than for sodas).
And solar just keeps getting cheaper. Like the space program, solar power investment has a huge payoff for the startup cost the government funded.
And it has an interesting feedback loop with fossil fuels. It reduces their use by just a tiny amount- but that's enough to significantly drop the prices of fossil fuels because the price of all fossil fuel is set by the cost of the most expensive fossil fuel.
If it costs $90 to get out the last barrel, the $10 a barrel is sold for $90. If you destroy demand for oil over $60 a barrel, then all oil will be sold at $60.
Under reasonable circumstances it's reasonable that many people have the ability to judge whether or not those things are true.
You must be considering an edge case.
For anyone who lived thru live coverage of the events of 9/11, you have > zero.
Oblate spheroid is even easier (and can be done with sticks on earth).
Likewise, for anyone that lived thru live coverage of apollo landings, verifying them first hand is easy (unless you mean literally being on the moon with the astronauts). But the landing sites have been spotted and photographed with telescopes since.
If you are in severely unreasonable, anything's possible- you could be a brain in a jar or even a simulation on a computer.
Oh, once computers can fear being replaced by humans, it's definately not A.I. any more.
Your advice is so reassuring to the 1% of programmers out there doing something new all the time.
Amazing. I was quoting from responses to a survey of 4,000 female engineers.
The response- all from males- allege there is no problem for female engineers.
Those silly female engineers just don't understand apparently.
Keep kidding yourself.
When there's 1 of you and 17 others hitting or eeriely friendly towards you- it's creepy.
When you travel with your advisor and they want to go out and get drunk with you, it's creepy.
But I think you pretty much set the standard so I'll just use your words.
ALL UNWANTED behavior or UNWANTED attention is creepy.
I duped the unwanted to make it clearer.
Cheers.