"The abundances of specific types of microbes were found to be more similar in identical twins, who share 100 per cent of their genes, than in non-identical twins, who share on average only half of the genes that vary between people. These findings demonstrate that genes influence the composition of gut microbes."
They make no mention at all as to if all of these twins were separated at birth, but I find that highly unlikely. If two people grow up in the same house, are raised by the same parents, and exposed to the same food, it would naturally follow that they would develop the same gut microbes, regardless of their DNA.
If they actually wanted to study if gut microbes were influenced by DNA, they should have ALSO done the same study on the same number of adopted siblings, and compared them to the twins.
All indications on this device is it is going to be tightly wound into Amazon's services. Unless it has an open API as well, it's going to be dead in the water, because me telling amazon to "Remind me to get milk tomorrow" is not very useful when it has no integration to my Google or Apple calendar.
The second barrier is, all this thing can do can already be done by Google Now. So you are competing with a device people already have in their pocket.
Anyway it will be interesting to see if it works out for Amazon.
Skydiving is not a risky thing to do. You should be comparing it to actual risky things people do for a thrill, like extreme motocross or Nascar. Hell the odds of dying just from riding a motorcycle are roughly 1 in 800. http://www.medhelp.org/general...
Your logic is flawed because the $59.99 price is what enables that AAA title with its 30 million dollar budget to be made in the first place, so that you can later on buy it for $10 when its old as dirt. The days of being able to make a AAA title on a million bucks are long gone. Sure there are some outliers but I bet the majority of those 40 games you bought cost more than 10 million to make.
I know there are some people who use Facebook pseudononymously but honestly I never saw the use case. The whole point of Facebook is to connect with friends and family to share things. If you are anonymous, you can't do that, so why are you on Facebook?
Anonymous Twitter accounts make a lot more sense than anonymous facebook accounts.
The reason systemd came to being and the only thing anyone who uses it ACTUALLY cares about is boot times. Period.
systemd allows proper dependency management, and therefore parallel booting and thus faster boot. When you are talking about consumer grade systems, this is important. When you are talking about servers, it isn't.
That's the long and the short of it as far as I am concerned. There is a lot of other "this and that" technical pros and cons around systemd, but the MAIN REASON it has ever been pushed is proper dependency management which can enable a parallel boot process. If you don't care about this due to your application is some long-running server, that's fine, but to pretend NO ONE should care about it is just stupid.
The other thing CurrentC seems to have goofed on is that there is no way in hell this system will ever see the light of day outside the USA.
The USA may still live in the backwater side of banking where people still commonly pay for groceries by cheque, but in the rest of the world the idea of giving a third party your bank account information is quite foreign nowadays. There is absolutely no way in hell I would ever use this system, and if someone at Walmart asked me for my chequeing account information I would laugh in their face.
The difference is, when Apple and Google and Mozilla do something, they are seldom working in a vaccum. They work together for the most part on emerging web technologies and push them forward. There are a few outliers like HTML5 video where there is a lot of vested interest, but if you look at it objectively, this is nowhere near the EEE mantra of Microsoft.
Faith without evidence is not always toxic. It depends on what that faith is in. Point to me a devout Buddhist who is somehow toxic. or one who has ever existed.
The problem with religion has nothing at all to do with faith - for the most part it has to do with monotheism and the dogma around it, most notably the Abrahamic religions. All of the violence and wars throughout history caused by religion have a direct connection to monotheism because these religions invariably have as part of their dogma that there is only one true religion and it is ours. This in and of itself means that if someone is practicing another religion, they are engaging in heresy. This is not true of most non-monotheistic religions like Buddhism or Jedi or any others.
The organism will ALWAYS adapt, it is simple logic. If pressure is placed on an organism, then less of the ones that carry genes susceptible to that trait will reproduce, because they will die. Ones that carry genes that help with that trait, will reproduce more. This WILL cause adaptation over time. And random mutation will be constantly introducing new genes into the mix.
There is absolutely no question on if pressure will cause a species to adapt. The only question is if the adaptation will happen at a pace fast enough to save it. If the entire world was covered in mustard gas tomorrow, humanity would be wiped out. That doesn't mean there would not be a very small percentage of people who would survive. They just would not be enough to continue the species because they would probably end up not reproducing fast enough to keep up with other pressures.
Does anyone actually care about this? So you buy an iPad from AT&T and if you want to use it with T-Mobile, you need to pop in a T-Mobile SIM. Who cares? It's not like it costs money for a SIM when you sign up with a carrier, they will just give it to you. And how is this any different than an unlocked phone?
The data in the panel IS from Wiki data. Nearly all of the information in all of Googles side panels is coming from Wikipedia. They link directly to it.
Cuban is a bit of a prick, but he is a very smart prick. I too used to think he was just a guy who got lucky, but watching him on Shark Tank has changed my mind.
Windows 8.1 was free. And it is widely believed that Windows 10 will also be free. So your argument falls apart. If I can get a refund for one I should be able to get a refund for another. If I want to buy a Powerbook and install Linux or Windows on it, why should I not be able to get a refund for OSX.
This is actually a real scenario, I actually plan to do this. I love Mac hardware, I hate OSX.
Evolution is easy to falsify. Apply pressure and see if the species DOES NOT adapt to the pressure.
If you believe that genes exist, then you believe in evolution, it's that simple. And if you don't believe that genes exist, then you might as well not believe in medicine either, or believe that cell phones exist, because it's all the same science.
A car does not need to tell the difference between those things. It only needs to know something is on the road that should not be there. What that thing is, is irrelevant.
Do you think Google cars can differentiate between trees and police officers? Think again. You are over-complicating the vision problem.
Hook up to what system? You are not making any sense at all.
Like I said already, currently you only scan your boarding pass pre-security. to do your plan, you have to add a second scan, after security. This second scan will be another bottleneck just like the line entering security.
You aren't making any sense. I fly a lot, and the last thing I want to deal with is more BS in the security line to collect simple stats that can be collected in other ways.
Not really because you don't have to scan your boarding pass AFTER going through security, you do it only ENTERING security. If they added this extra step it would just slow everything down even more.
This is where you're wrong and people need to stop thinking this way. Nowadays, any even moderately heavy compute job is shipped off to the cloud where it is done in massively parallel systems. Hell even Google Now and Siri need the cloud for simple voice commands. Picasa uses it for face recognition. All of these things are done in near real time due to our much faster and robust worldwide Internet. There is no reason to think that any of these jobs need to be done directly on the phone or laptop.
Maybe my comment was misunderstood. I am referring to Parliment Hill itself and the grounds of parliment, which are pretty much a public commons. Anyone can just waltz onto parliment hill and have lunch.
Not quite the same ramifications as waltzing onto the south lawn.
The reason I pointed this out is because the summary above talks about the shooter "jumping the stone fence", I would hardly call it a fence.
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"The abundances of specific types of microbes were found to be more similar in identical twins, who share 100 per cent of their genes, than in non-identical twins, who share on average only half of the genes that vary between people. These findings demonstrate that genes influence the composition of gut microbes."
They make no mention at all as to if all of these twins were separated at birth, but I find that highly unlikely. If two people grow up in the same house, are raised by the same parents, and exposed to the same food, it would naturally follow that they would develop the same gut microbes, regardless of their DNA.
If they actually wanted to study if gut microbes were influenced by DNA, they should have ALSO done the same study on the same number of adopted siblings, and compared them to the twins.
All indications on this device is it is going to be tightly wound into Amazon's services. Unless it has an open API as well, it's going to be dead in the water, because me telling amazon to "Remind me to get milk tomorrow" is not very useful when it has no integration to my Google or Apple calendar.
The second barrier is, all this thing can do can already be done by Google Now. So you are competing with a device people already have in their pocket.
Anyway it will be interesting to see if it works out for Amazon.
The fact that a POTUS would even understand what a software vulnerability is speaks volumes.
I can't even imagine what this conversation would have sounded like with the two previous presidents.
Skydiving is not a risky thing to do. You should be comparing it to actual risky things people do for a thrill, like extreme motocross or Nascar. Hell the odds of dying just from riding a motorcycle are roughly 1 in 800. http://www.medhelp.org/general...
Your logic is flawed because the $59.99 price is what enables that AAA title with its 30 million dollar budget to be made in the first place, so that you can later on buy it for $10 when its old as dirt. The days of being able to make a AAA title on a million bucks are long gone. Sure there are some outliers but I bet the majority of those 40 games you bought cost more than 10 million to make.
I know there are some people who use Facebook pseudononymously but honestly I never saw the use case. The whole point of Facebook is to connect with friends and family to share things. If you are anonymous, you can't do that, so why are you on Facebook?
Anonymous Twitter accounts make a lot more sense than anonymous facebook accounts.
The reason systemd came to being and the only thing anyone who uses it ACTUALLY cares about is boot times. Period.
systemd allows proper dependency management, and therefore parallel booting and thus faster boot. When you are talking about consumer grade systems, this is important. When you are talking about servers, it isn't.
That's the long and the short of it as far as I am concerned. There is a lot of other "this and that" technical pros and cons around systemd, but the MAIN REASON it has ever been pushed is proper dependency management which can enable a parallel boot process. If you don't care about this due to your application is some long-running server, that's fine, but to pretend NO ONE should care about it is just stupid.
The other thing CurrentC seems to have goofed on is that there is no way in hell this system will ever see the light of day outside the USA.
The USA may still live in the backwater side of banking where people still commonly pay for groceries by cheque, but in the rest of the world the idea of giving a third party your bank account information is quite foreign nowadays. There is absolutely no way in hell I would ever use this system, and if someone at Walmart asked me for my chequeing account information I would laugh in their face.
The difference is, when Apple and Google and Mozilla do something, they are seldom working in a vaccum. They work together for the most part on emerging web technologies and push them forward. There are a few outliers like HTML5 video where there is a lot of vested interest, but if you look at it objectively, this is nowhere near the EEE mantra of Microsoft.
Faith without evidence is not always toxic. It depends on what that faith is in. Point to me a devout Buddhist who is somehow toxic. or one who has ever existed.
The problem with religion has nothing at all to do with faith - for the most part it has to do with monotheism and the dogma around it, most notably the Abrahamic religions. All of the violence and wars throughout history caused by religion have a direct connection to monotheism because these religions invariably have as part of their dogma that there is only one true religion and it is ours. This in and of itself means that if someone is practicing another religion, they are engaging in heresy. This is not true of most non-monotheistic religions like Buddhism or Jedi or any others.
The proper name is "Jedi". It is both the name of one who practices the religion as well as the religion itself.
"I studied Jedi at a Jedi Institute, to work towards becoming a Jedi"
And OSX is not free either. Go try to download a free copy.
The organism will ALWAYS adapt, it is simple logic. If pressure is placed on an organism, then less of the ones that carry genes susceptible to that trait will reproduce, because they will die. Ones that carry genes that help with that trait, will reproduce more. This WILL cause adaptation over time. And random mutation will be constantly introducing new genes into the mix.
There is absolutely no question on if pressure will cause a species to adapt. The only question is if the adaptation will happen at a pace fast enough to save it. If the entire world was covered in mustard gas tomorrow, humanity would be wiped out. That doesn't mean there would not be a very small percentage of people who would survive. They just would not be enough to continue the species because they would probably end up not reproducing fast enough to keep up with other pressures.
Does anyone actually care about this? So you buy an iPad from AT&T and if you want to use it with T-Mobile, you need to pop in a T-Mobile SIM. Who cares? It's not like it costs money for a SIM when you sign up with a carrier, they will just give it to you. And how is this any different than an unlocked phone?
The data in the panel IS from Wiki data. Nearly all of the information in all of Googles side panels is coming from Wikipedia. They link directly to it.
Cuban is a bit of a prick, but he is a very smart prick. I too used to think he was just a guy who got lucky, but watching him on Shark Tank has changed my mind.
Windows 8.1 was free. And it is widely believed that Windows 10 will also be free. So your argument falls apart. If I can get a refund for one I should be able to get a refund for another. If I want to buy a Powerbook and install Linux or Windows on it, why should I not be able to get a refund for OSX.
This is actually a real scenario, I actually plan to do this. I love Mac hardware, I hate OSX.
Discussion?
Evolution is easy to falsify. Apply pressure and see if the species DOES NOT adapt to the pressure.
If you believe that genes exist, then you believe in evolution, it's that simple. And if you don't believe that genes exist, then you might as well not believe in medicine either, or believe that cell phones exist, because it's all the same science.
A car does not need to tell the difference between those things. It only needs to know something is on the road that should not be there. What that thing is, is irrelevant.
Do you think Google cars can differentiate between trees and police officers? Think again. You are over-complicating the vision problem.
Hook up to what system? You are not making any sense at all.
Like I said already, currently you only scan your boarding pass pre-security. to do your plan, you have to add a second scan, after security. This second scan will be another bottleneck just like the line entering security.
You aren't making any sense. I fly a lot, and the last thing I want to deal with is more BS in the security line to collect simple stats that can be collected in other ways.
If everyone getting out of security has to scan their boarding pass AGAIN, it will just make another line. It is a horrible idea.
The monitor only shows an outline, but the scan itself gets a lot more detail, and that is all stored in the system.
Not really because you don't have to scan your boarding pass AFTER going through security, you do it only ENTERING security. If they added this extra step it would just slow everything down even more.
This is where you're wrong and people need to stop thinking this way. Nowadays, any even moderately heavy compute job is shipped off to the cloud where it is done in massively parallel systems. Hell even Google Now and Siri need the cloud for simple voice commands. Picasa uses it for face recognition. All of these things are done in near real time due to our much faster and robust worldwide Internet. There is no reason to think that any of these jobs need to be done directly on the phone or laptop.
Maybe my comment was misunderstood. I am referring to Parliment Hill itself and the grounds of parliment, which are pretty much a public commons. Anyone can just waltz onto parliment hill and have lunch.
Not quite the same ramifications as waltzing onto the south lawn.
The reason I pointed this out is because the summary above talks about the shooter "jumping the stone fence", I would hardly call it a fence.