Maybe this is a stupid question, but why not just take the stairs if you're in a hurry? Maybe it's different in Japan or there are a few locations where this doesn't hold true, but I'm assuming that there's a perfectly good set of stairs that can be used instead of escalators. If I'm in a hurry in an airport, I'll almost always take the stairs because they get a lot less traffic and they're often more than wide enough to allow plenty of space to go around people.
Sure, you have less cars in the city center, but people still need to get there somehow, so this now just means they shifted those vehicles to another parking space and perhaps created worse traffic somewhere else. Personally, I think having a street set aside for foot traffic in a downtown is a good idea, but you need to consider the side effects or have ways for people to get in and out.
I'm sure the party that got ~3% of the vote in the last election are the ones holding this back. Also, Libertarians are more likely to favor a UBI over other forms of government assistance because it can be done with less government and is more compatible with their market principles. A federal UBI also does nothing to preclude states from having their own programs alongside or on top of a national UBI.
Most people forget that UBI involves the REMOVAL of almost all other state payouts.
That is the reason UBI can function, because it removes a huge amount of corruption, bureaucracy, fraud, and inefficiency from the system and replaces it with something almost trivial to administer and deliver.
That's why I tend to like the approach. If you're on food stamps, they don't do you much good if your car breaks down and you can't get to work, if you'll even try to get a job because doing so might threaten your ability to get government aid.
There are a lot of people who also like to complain that this would be some kind of massive handout, but if you look at taking all of the federal spending that would otherwise go into a UBI, you end up with enough to give everyone in the U.S. around $7,000 per year.
I won't trust anyone's insights or advice regarding bitcoin who isn't spending significantly more money "investing" into it than they're asking me to, and even then I'm going to be quite skeptical. I'm just quite content to watch this rollercoaster from the sidelines, regardless of how it twists and turns.
This probably isn't much different than ant colony solutions, which have been studied for quite a while. The results aren't perfect, so it's not a true solution, but I think the experimental results show that the solutions tend to be close enough to ideal to be useful.
I'm guessing that there's almost no hacking going on. The easiest way accounts get stolen for a game like this is for some unscrupulous individuals to create a fan site (or even something more shady like a cheat site) that requires an account to access the site. Since most people have abysmal security practices, they reuse the same password.
You'd have to be pretty stupid to buy an account as well, especially if everyone in the game knows that there are loads of people getting their accounts stolen. Digital goods are trivial to repossess and restore to the original owner.
I think it's a bit early to say the idea is beyond any hope. I can't think of anything, even the trivial things that are easy to take for granted, that humans ever got right on the first go. Typically it takes a lot of mistakes and adjustments and even after something actually works, there's almost always loads of room for improvement.
Hopefully this does eventually work out, because the rest of the world seems to be doing fuck all about the problem.
Just settle it empirically. Feed a few Jews some lab grown bacon and see whether or not Jehovah smites them. Why risk interpreting scripture incorrectly if you can easily test it.
Probably because Google already has 7,000 employees in NYC according to the summary so this is just them centralizing. They may well end up saving money as a result of doing that alone.
Amazon was looking to move in to somewhere they weren’t. That gives them a lot more leverage over a company that’s already there. If they really didn’t like the taxes they already pay, they would have moved out. They’re obviously okay with whatever the cost is, or perhaps they even have some older deal already in place.
It’s probably easier to lure young talent to NYC than it is to say Omaha or somewhere in the Midwest where it’s less expensive. If you’re after the kind of talent that Google is, it won’t come cheap regardless. Also, when you’re fresh out of college, you just see the dollar-figure in the paycheck and don’t really sit down to factor in the cost of living differences.
Also, there are a lot of people who grew up in a big city and couldn’t see themselves living anywhere else. The long silences of an empty pasture only punctuated by owl hoots or the like are just as unnerving to someone used to the noise of a city as all of that commotion is to you. To these people you seem just as crazy as they seem to you.
The advertised ideal male body is probably more attainable (or at least you can get closer to it) than the female one. Even the models that are supposed to have the ideal female form end up airbrushed or photoshopped, because not even they are good enough.
You probably won't be able to get as ripped as male models without steroids, but you can get physically fit (and probably end up feeling more confident in yourself as a side effect) just by working out enough. If you're not attractive as a woman, there isn't much short of plastic surgery that you can do.
I think that once it starts having health impacts, it becomes a disorder. People who eat too much, too little, or limit their consumption to a single food probably have something going on. I don't know if it's fair to lump all of it into the category of eating disorder though since there could be other underlying conditions that lead to the behavior, such as some person eating more to cope with depression, which makes the unhealthy behavior a side effect, much like if the person started using drugs instead.
[This] marks the end of the "Building 8" brand, though the group's work will continue on. . . . the Building 8 brand was no more, but said it continues to work on the same projects
So they really didn't disband anything, but I'm sure this will change everything, just like when Comcast started calling themselves Xfinity.
This is just a stealth marketing piece for all of the crap Facebook is working on.
If they found traces of both cocaine and heroin, he might have been mixing them, which is particularly more dangerous than either drug when taken alone. There're a large number of well known movie stars and other celebrities that have died from the combination.
IE, if we think that poverty is bad for society, reducing income inequality might help.
The measures are likely entangled in such a way that the conclusion you draw isn't valid, or you're at the very least attempting to draw a causal relationship from a correlation. It's pretty easy to look at parts of the world where almost everyone is impoverished, yet because they're all about equally dirt poor, there's not much income inequality.
On the other end you can get something like Hong Kong which has a high (comparable to Haiti using the CIA's numbers) Gini coefficient. Everyone there is extremely well off by the standards of the rest of the planet, but there are some people there who are so incredibly wealthy that they just blow the numbers out.
If you look at World Bank numbers, Liberia and Switzerland have about the same Gini coefficient (in 2014), but are quite obviously on different ends of the poverty spectrum.
It's never going to crash enough relative to other markets for that to stop happening though. There are more people who want the kind of weather that Southern California offers as opposed to Montana.
That's the one thing I've always liked about Scrum. A nice quick meeting and then everyone goes off to do their own thing and if there are problems, the collaboration can occur on a limited basis involving only the people who need to be involved. Anything else can probably wait until the next daily standup.
On a side note, managers who try too hard (i.e., meetings, meetings, meetings, and more meetings) are worse than no managers at all. If you've never had a good manager, that's a pity because they're worth their weight in gold. The problem is that it's pretty difficult to find a person who has the necessary technical skills to be able to understand and contribute to a project along with the rest of the skill set that makes for effective management. Too often you end up with someone who's technically brilliant but deficient in everything else, or someone who might have some managerial chops, but no real knowledge about the technology or tools behind the project.
I don't think that's really an issue with Dr. Who though. It can be whatever it wants to be on a week-to-week basis. If it wants to go back in time to cover a particular period in history, it can do that. If it wants a story that requires the protagonists to be isolated to a small area, it can do that as well. If it needs to completely invent a contrived situation or set of characters for the story to work, there's no problems there either. It's even successfully shown that it can pull off episodes where it largely ditches the main characters if it needs to do that. The show can do anything it wants to and it can make perfect sense in the context the universe in which the show exists. It can even play outside of its genre from time to time and still work effectively.
The show doesn't need clever ideas (and I'd argue Moffat trying to be too clever ended up detracting from the show in the past few series) as long as it has a solid story, good characters, and talented actors.
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Maybe this is a stupid question, but why not just take the stairs if you're in a hurry? Maybe it's different in Japan or there are a few locations where this doesn't hold true, but I'm assuming that there's a perfectly good set of stairs that can be used instead of escalators. If I'm in a hurry in an airport, I'll almost always take the stairs because they get a lot less traffic and they're often more than wide enough to allow plenty of space to go around people.
Sure, you have less cars in the city center, but people still need to get there somehow, so this now just means they shifted those vehicles to another parking space and perhaps created worse traffic somewhere else. Personally, I think having a street set aside for foot traffic in a downtown is a good idea, but you need to consider the side effects or have ways for people to get in and out.
I'm sure the party that got ~3% of the vote in the last election are the ones holding this back. Also, Libertarians are more likely to favor a UBI over other forms of government assistance because it can be done with less government and is more compatible with their market principles. A federal UBI also does nothing to preclude states from having their own programs alongside or on top of a national UBI.
Most people forget that UBI involves the REMOVAL of almost all other state payouts.
That is the reason UBI can function, because it removes a huge amount of corruption, bureaucracy, fraud, and inefficiency from the system and replaces it with something almost trivial to administer and deliver.
That's why I tend to like the approach. If you're on food stamps, they don't do you much good if your car breaks down and you can't get to work, if you'll even try to get a job because doing so might threaten your ability to get government aid.
There are a lot of people who also like to complain that this would be some kind of massive handout, but if you look at taking all of the federal spending that would otherwise go into a UBI, you end up with enough to give everyone in the U.S. around $7,000 per year.
I won't trust anyone's insights or advice regarding bitcoin who isn't spending significantly more money "investing" into it than they're asking me to, and even then I'm going to be quite skeptical. I'm just quite content to watch this rollercoaster from the sidelines, regardless of how it twists and turns.
Jobs's reality distortion field must still be working beyond the grave because it's clearly managed to get a Slashdot story about an ad.
Maybe the Slashdot editors are already on a four day work week and BeauHD was off the last time it was posted.
This probably isn't much different than ant colony solutions, which have been studied for quite a while. The results aren't perfect, so it's not a true solution, but I think the experimental results show that the solutions tend to be close enough to ideal to be useful.
I'm guessing that there's almost no hacking going on. The easiest way accounts get stolen for a game like this is for some unscrupulous individuals to create a fan site (or even something more shady like a cheat site) that requires an account to access the site. Since most people have abysmal security practices, they reuse the same password.
You'd have to be pretty stupid to buy an account as well, especially if everyone in the game knows that there are loads of people getting their accounts stolen. Digital goods are trivial to repossess and restore to the original owner.
I think it's a bit early to say the idea is beyond any hope. I can't think of anything, even the trivial things that are easy to take for granted, that humans ever got right on the first go. Typically it takes a lot of mistakes and adjustments and even after something actually works, there's almost always loads of room for improvement.
Hopefully this does eventually work out, because the rest of the world seems to be doing fuck all about the problem.
Just settle it empirically. Feed a few Jews some lab grown bacon and see whether or not Jehovah smites them. Why risk interpreting scripture incorrectly if you can easily test it.
I think we need to get the fusion reactors up and running first to power all of that other stuff. Should probably be about 10 years for that I reckon.
Probably because Google already has 7,000 employees in NYC according to the summary so this is just them centralizing. They may well end up saving money as a result of doing that alone.
Amazon was looking to move in to somewhere they weren’t. That gives them a lot more leverage over a company that’s already there. If they really didn’t like the taxes they already pay, they would have moved out. They’re obviously okay with whatever the cost is, or perhaps they even have some older deal already in place.
It’s probably easier to lure young talent to NYC than it is to say Omaha or somewhere in the Midwest where it’s less expensive. If you’re after the kind of talent that Google is, it won’t come cheap regardless. Also, when you’re fresh out of college, you just see the dollar-figure in the paycheck and don’t really sit down to factor in the cost of living differences.
Also, there are a lot of people who grew up in a big city and couldn’t see themselves living anywhere else. The long silences of an empty pasture only punctuated by owl hoots or the like are just as unnerving to someone used to the noise of a city as all of that commotion is to you. To these people you seem just as crazy as they seem to you.
Could just be them testing the waters. If there isn't a decline in sales, expect this change to come to other models in the future.
The advertised ideal male body is probably more attainable (or at least you can get closer to it) than the female one. Even the models that are supposed to have the ideal female form end up airbrushed or photoshopped, because not even they are good enough.
You probably won't be able to get as ripped as male models without steroids, but you can get physically fit (and probably end up feeling more confident in yourself as a side effect) just by working out enough. If you're not attractive as a woman, there isn't much short of plastic surgery that you can do.
What if you're really into chowing down on box. That could be classified as a type of eating disorder.
I think that once it starts having health impacts, it becomes a disorder. People who eat too much, too little, or limit their consumption to a single food probably have something going on. I don't know if it's fair to lump all of it into the category of eating disorder though since there could be other underlying conditions that lead to the behavior, such as some person eating more to cope with depression, which makes the unhealthy behavior a side effect, much like if the person started using drugs instead.
Facebook has disbanded its secretive research lab
Okay.
[This] marks the end of the "Building 8" brand, though the group's work will continue on. . . . the Building 8 brand was no more, but said it continues to work on the same projects
So they really didn't disband anything, but I'm sure this will change everything, just like when Comcast started calling themselves Xfinity.
This is just a stealth marketing piece for all of the crap Facebook is working on.
If they found traces of both cocaine and heroin, he might have been mixing them, which is particularly more dangerous than either drug when taken alone. There're a large number of well known movie stars and other celebrities that have died from the combination.
IE, if we think that poverty is bad for society, reducing income inequality might help.
The measures are likely entangled in such a way that the conclusion you draw isn't valid, or you're at the very least attempting to draw a causal relationship from a correlation. It's pretty easy to look at parts of the world where almost everyone is impoverished, yet because they're all about equally dirt poor, there's not much income inequality.
On the other end you can get something like Hong Kong which has a high (comparable to Haiti using the CIA's numbers) Gini coefficient. Everyone there is extremely well off by the standards of the rest of the planet, but there are some people there who are so incredibly wealthy that they just blow the numbers out.
If you look at World Bank numbers, Liberia and Switzerland have about the same Gini coefficient (in 2014), but are quite obviously on different ends of the poverty spectrum.
It's never going to crash enough relative to other markets for that to stop happening though. There are more people who want the kind of weather that Southern California offers as opposed to Montana.
That's the one thing I've always liked about Scrum. A nice quick meeting and then everyone goes off to do their own thing and if there are problems, the collaboration can occur on a limited basis involving only the people who need to be involved. Anything else can probably wait until the next daily standup.
On a side note, managers who try too hard (i.e., meetings, meetings, meetings, and more meetings) are worse than no managers at all. If you've never had a good manager, that's a pity because they're worth their weight in gold. The problem is that it's pretty difficult to find a person who has the necessary technical skills to be able to understand and contribute to a project along with the rest of the skill set that makes for effective management. Too often you end up with someone who's technically brilliant but deficient in everything else, or someone who might have some managerial chops, but no real knowledge about the technology or tools behind the project.
I don't think that's really an issue with Dr. Who though. It can be whatever it wants to be on a week-to-week basis. If it wants to go back in time to cover a particular period in history, it can do that. If it wants a story that requires the protagonists to be isolated to a small area, it can do that as well. If it needs to completely invent a contrived situation or set of characters for the story to work, there's no problems there either. It's even successfully shown that it can pull off episodes where it largely ditches the main characters if it needs to do that. The show can do anything it wants to and it can make perfect sense in the context the universe in which the show exists. It can even play outside of its genre from time to time and still work effectively.
The show doesn't need clever ideas (and I'd argue Moffat trying to be too clever ended up detracting from the show in the past few series) as long as it has a solid story, good characters, and talented actors.
Don't you mean the same doubleplusungood mistakes?