In our neighbourhood/school, I'm seeing kids as young as 7 and 8 playing this game, which just seems too young to me. The excuse you get is, "all their friends are playing it, so I feel like they'll miss out." I have no problem keeping it out of my house. The only gaming system we have is an old Wii, and it's rarely played. None of my kids have told me they feel like they're missing out. Not that we're perfect - they watch too much Netflix.
Even if you're in a committed long term relationship, if your only birth control is the female pill, you're putting all the responsibility on one person. In our case I would much rather have taken on the responsibility instead of her (or even better, in addition to her). Forgetting to take the pill once in a while is a common problem, and some people are more reliable than others. It's not like I could ask her every day if she took the pill - that's a surefire way to piss her off because it shows I don't trust her, even though she did occasionally forget. It makes sense for both people to have the option. If I were in those years again, and there was a reliable, safe male birth control pill with only moderate to minor side effects, I'd be on it for sure.
Maybe we don't need livestreams, or maybe livestreams should be scheduled ahead of time into a slot, and an employee should sit there with their finger on a button using a 7 second delay like network TV. It's not impossible to do this. You just have to get past the idea that we need people to be able to broadcast their stupid livestreams over Facebook without any moderation. Remember, you can still setup your own server and host your own livestream - it's not a freedom of speech issue even if it was in the US. It's saying the social media company is partly responsible for filtering the content it's serving. They're the ones making advertising money on these videos.
What's the difference between permanent DST and just permanent non-DST with everyone getting up an hour earlier? Plus, with non-DST at least noon happens when the sun is directly overhead, which has some real meaning.
Probably the biggest source of misinformation when I was younger was email forwards. There was no quick way to verify the information, it was written to sound compelling, and it was very easy to share with your friends and relatives. Snopes became huge by becoming the de facto source to check on the validity of a forwarded email.
Before that, it was actually faxes. I'm not old enough to have worked in an office before email really replaced it, but people used to forward hoaxes, chain letters, and all the same stuff to their colleagues by fax machine.
What's changing is the transaction cost, and reach. With fax machines the cost was quite high (paper/phone line tied up), and the number of people you could reach was limited. With email it got cheaper and easier to spread faster. Facebook is the next generation of that, because it even shows you stories that didn't come from your acquaintances. Facebook spreads the misinformation itself, to the people most inclined to believe it.
There has never been a time when "everyone knew that information was not reliable." Every single person had to learn that the hard way, sometimes by a parent explicitly explaining it to them, or by being embarrassed when they forwarded something that turned out to be false.
That's interesting information, but a scientific study should be a little more rigorous than "Do this one amazing thing to stop horse flies from biting your horse!"
I would assume a "manufacturer" would be required to keep a registry of "manufactured" firearms tied to the serial number. Pretty much all manufacturers of any product of a significant value or size would do this anyway, just to track warranty claims (appliances, electronics, cars, etc.). Perhaps manufacturers register these serial #'s with the government.
If I believed I could have total control of that chip, then sure, maybe. However, if some other entity can push advertising into my head, or interrupt me while I'm doing work, or (worst case) track my internal state of mind... no thanks.
If I had a fleet of commercial (and expensive) drones buzzing around making me money and the wireless charging made programming easier (don't have to dock exactly to a charging port) and caused less wear and tear on the landing struts, etc., then I would probably be interested in $120,000 wireless charging solution.
I happen to have witnessed 2 different unrelated pole transformer explosions. In one case I was less than 150 ft / 50 m away, and in the second case it may have been 4 times that. I happened to be looking right at the second one when it happened, and there was a blinding blue flash. Both booms scared the crap out of me. I have also trained throwing a grenade (detonation maybe 30 ft away, behind a concrete wall). While the nearest transformer explosion was about 5 times further away, I would guess the energy at the point of the explosion was in the same ballpark (though the transformers don't produce shrapnel, thank goodness). The available fault current in the case of an electrical arc fault can be extremely high. I wouldn't want to be standing next to one.
Historically 3.3 or 3.6% unemployment is as close to full employment as you can get. Those last 3.3 or 3.6% that are still unemployed are mostly just unemployable. In the middle of 2018 there were more jobs than people looking for jobs in the US (the first time in history). I tried to hire an electrician and a plumber this year, and I could tell it was hard to get hold of anyone. They'd just ghost your, or you had to know someone personally to get them to come. If you're in the bay area with lots of people crowded in, there'd be a huge demand for things like plumbers, electricians, or even just general laborers slugging concrete around. Not so much for paper pushers. As ever though, if you can solve someone else's problems, you'll always be employable.
Depending on where you work, you hear all kinds of stories. Had someone go out for break on their 2nd or 3rd day, get in their car and leave, and we never heard from them again. Apparently right before they left they told their co-worker, "Yeah, I'm just not feeling it here." Lots of people accept the offer and don't show up on their first day. The good ones call and explain they got a better off somewhere else, which is completely reasonable to me. There are lots of reasons out of our control why another job might be a better fit for someone, especially location. Not showing up is just completely unprofessional.
Not only that, but Bill Gates came from a wealthy family, had a lot of connections, and was going to a prestigious school (where he also met some other well-connected individuals). So Bill Gates is a bad example.
What is the poverty level and is it a real thing? It's only related to the other people around you. Someone making $15,000 a year is probably below the poverty level but they live better than kings of old.
Once technology advances and we have 18-wheelers with out-of-lane warnings and other driver assistance technologies mostly standard everywhere, they will be blaming drivers who refuse to use the new technology.
You may come out of journalism school all bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to take on the world, but I bet it doesn't last long. The fact is, the "information age" changed the profession of journalism by requiring fewer journalists. Also, while large newspapers were expected to keep "real" journalists on staff, readership of newspapers has fallen, and they've had to move to content online, and readers won't pay for online content (in general). That means media companies are less dependent on subscriptions and more dependent on ad revenue (and thus clicks). So if you're a new journalism graduate, the metric your employers are looking at isn't Pulitzer prize winning prose, it's how many clicks you bring to the table. Doesn't matter if you're a great journalist, you'll lose that position to a person willing to put anything sleazy in a headline.
As someone who just recently read the Three Body Problem trilogy, please, Please, PLEASE don't announce our presence to the galaxy at large! That's a horrible idea.
Useful but not really efficient. In most temperate climates (let's say Britain), if you're heating with electricity, you could heat with 1/4 the electricity if you used even an air source heat pump. In colder climates a ground source heat pump may be required, but still it's much better than just turning a very high grade energy source (electricity) into heat. Plus, south of the arctic circle, where you do actually need all that heat year round?
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Yeah, I would have though H2 would be the first molecule.
In our neighbourhood/school, I'm seeing kids as young as 7 and 8 playing this game, which just seems too young to me. The excuse you get is, "all their friends are playing it, so I feel like they'll miss out." I have no problem keeping it out of my house. The only gaming system we have is an old Wii, and it's rarely played. None of my kids have told me they feel like they're missing out. Not that we're perfect - they watch too much Netflix.
Even if you're in a committed long term relationship, if your only birth control is the female pill, you're putting all the responsibility on one person. In our case I would much rather have taken on the responsibility instead of her (or even better, in addition to her). Forgetting to take the pill once in a while is a common problem, and some people are more reliable than others. It's not like I could ask her every day if she took the pill - that's a surefire way to piss her off because it shows I don't trust her, even though she did occasionally forget. It makes sense for both people to have the option. If I were in those years again, and there was a reliable, safe male birth control pill with only moderate to minor side effects, I'd be on it for sure.
Maybe we don't need livestreams, or maybe livestreams should be scheduled ahead of time into a slot, and an employee should sit there with their finger on a button using a 7 second delay like network TV. It's not impossible to do this. You just have to get past the idea that we need people to be able to broadcast their stupid livestreams over Facebook without any moderation. Remember, you can still setup your own server and host your own livestream - it's not a freedom of speech issue even if it was in the US. It's saying the social media company is partly responsible for filtering the content it's serving. They're the ones making advertising money on these videos.
Obviously, but doesn't that make more sense than high noon being sometime between 12:30 and 1:30 pm?
What's the difference between permanent DST and just permanent non-DST with everyone getting up an hour earlier? Plus, with non-DST at least noon happens when the sun is directly overhead, which has some real meaning.
Well, faxes were certainly in use, but email had taken over as far as forwarding stuff to other people. :)
Probably the biggest source of misinformation when I was younger was email forwards. There was no quick way to verify the information, it was written to sound compelling, and it was very easy to share with your friends and relatives. Snopes became huge by becoming the de facto source to check on the validity of a forwarded email.
Before that, it was actually faxes. I'm not old enough to have worked in an office before email really replaced it, but people used to forward hoaxes, chain letters, and all the same stuff to their colleagues by fax machine.
What's changing is the transaction cost, and reach. With fax machines the cost was quite high (paper/phone line tied up), and the number of people you could reach was limited. With email it got cheaper and easier to spread faster. Facebook is the next generation of that, because it even shows you stories that didn't come from your acquaintances. Facebook spreads the misinformation itself, to the people most inclined to believe it.
There has never been a time when "everyone knew that information was not reliable." Every single person had to learn that the hard way, sometimes by a parent explicitly explaining it to them, or by being embarrassed when they forwarded something that turned out to be false.
That's interesting information, but a scientific study should be a little more rigorous than "Do this one amazing thing to stop horse flies from biting your horse!"
I would assume a "manufacturer" would be required to keep a registry of "manufactured" firearms tied to the serial number. Pretty much all manufacturers of any product of a significant value or size would do this anyway, just to track warranty claims (appliances, electronics, cars, etc.). Perhaps manufacturers register these serial #'s with the government.
If I believed I could have total control of that chip, then sure, maybe. However, if some other entity can push advertising into my head, or interrupt me while I'm doing work, or (worst case) track my internal state of mind... no thanks.
What are you talking about? The unemployment rate is at an all time low. We can't hire unskilled laborers fast enough.
If I had a fleet of commercial (and expensive) drones buzzing around making me money and the wireless charging made programming easier (don't have to dock exactly to a charging port) and caused less wear and tear on the landing struts, etc., then I would probably be interested in $120,000 wireless charging solution.
I happen to have witnessed 2 different unrelated pole transformer explosions. In one case I was less than 150 ft / 50 m away, and in the second case it may have been 4 times that. I happened to be looking right at the second one when it happened, and there was a blinding blue flash. Both booms scared the crap out of me. I have also trained throwing a grenade (detonation maybe 30 ft away, behind a concrete wall). While the nearest transformer explosion was about 5 times further away, I would guess the energy at the point of the explosion was in the same ballpark (though the transformers don't produce shrapnel, thank goodness). The available fault current in the case of an electrical arc fault can be extremely high. I wouldn't want to be standing next to one.
Historically 3.3 or 3.6% unemployment is as close to full employment as you can get. Those last 3.3 or 3.6% that are still unemployed are mostly just unemployable. In the middle of 2018 there were more jobs than people looking for jobs in the US (the first time in history). I tried to hire an electrician and a plumber this year, and I could tell it was hard to get hold of anyone. They'd just ghost your, or you had to know someone personally to get them to come. If you're in the bay area with lots of people crowded in, there'd be a huge demand for things like plumbers, electricians, or even just general laborers slugging concrete around. Not so much for paper pushers. As ever though, if you can solve someone else's problems, you'll always be employable.
I agree, but explain to me how the microphone on your smartphone is any different. It's always listening, just say, "Hey Siri..." or "OK Google..."
Depending on where you work, you hear all kinds of stories. Had someone go out for break on their 2nd or 3rd day, get in their car and leave, and we never heard from them again. Apparently right before they left they told their co-worker, "Yeah, I'm just not feeling it here." Lots of people accept the offer and don't show up on their first day. The good ones call and explain they got a better off somewhere else, which is completely reasonable to me. There are lots of reasons out of our control why another job might be a better fit for someone, especially location. Not showing up is just completely unprofessional.
Not only that, but Bill Gates came from a wealthy family, had a lot of connections, and was going to a prestigious school (where he also met some other well-connected individuals). So Bill Gates is a bad example.
What is the poverty level and is it a real thing? It's only related to the other people around you. Someone making $15,000 a year is probably below the poverty level but they live better than kings of old.
Yes, I believe at one point Antarctica and Australia were joined together as one continent, but my memory on the subject is foggy.
Give us a hundred years and maybe we could grow crops in Antarctica. Dinosaurs once roamed Antarctica.
Once technology advances and we have 18-wheelers with out-of-lane warnings and other driver assistance technologies mostly standard everywhere, they will be blaming drivers who refuse to use the new technology.
You may come out of journalism school all bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to take on the world, but I bet it doesn't last long. The fact is, the "information age" changed the profession of journalism by requiring fewer journalists. Also, while large newspapers were expected to keep "real" journalists on staff, readership of newspapers has fallen, and they've had to move to content online, and readers won't pay for online content (in general). That means media companies are less dependent on subscriptions and more dependent on ad revenue (and thus clicks). So if you're a new journalism graduate, the metric your employers are looking at isn't Pulitzer prize winning prose, it's how many clicks you bring to the table. Doesn't matter if you're a great journalist, you'll lose that position to a person willing to put anything sleazy in a headline.
As someone who just recently read the Three Body Problem trilogy, please, Please, PLEASE don't announce our presence to the galaxy at large! That's a horrible idea.
Useful but not really efficient. In most temperate climates (let's say Britain), if you're heating with electricity, you could heat with 1/4 the electricity if you used even an air source heat pump. In colder climates a ground source heat pump may be required, but still it's much better than just turning a very high grade energy source (electricity) into heat. Plus, south of the arctic circle, where you do actually need all that heat year round?