Despite the firings not being a significant percentage, as many have said, 200 is a significant number. The US Dept of Labor considers 50 or more people fired during a 30 day period a mass firing, they even have separate policies such as the WARN act for such cases:
https://www.doleta.gov/program...
If his big hack of Hilary was a lie, why is he in jail? Shouldn't you let him go home? No crime, no felony, no jail. At least that is how it is supposed to work.
I have a few months experience with one of these phones and it's pretty good. The biggest mistake blackberry made wasn't in engineering, it's that they tried building an iPhone/Galaxy competitor at an iPhone/Galaxy price. What would've been better (and what I hear is coming down the line) would be something cheaper targeted at business customers who care about productivity and not flashiness. Blackberry cannot win the flashiness competition.
Before the phone was released to all carriers I went to a T-mobile store to ask about it and the store representative actually laughed at me for being interested in a phone made by blackberry. Also, the representative at the store I eventually bought my phone from actively tried to sell me a samsung, despite my coming in for the blackberry specifically.
Unfortunately, the name is also stupid... they should've just kept it at "venice" that whole privilege/privacy thing is a turn-off.
I see lots of posts here saying things like "I want a physical keyboard." So do I. That's why I bought this phone. In a market economy, we have to vote with our dollars. The problem is that this vote costs a lot of dollars.
One thing the article does not mention is the reason for pre-flushing is to ensure the sample is coming from water in distribution, not water that's been sitting in the lead pipes you have in your home or your connection to the city (which is very common in older cities). While Flint performed pre-flushing, they also made sure to test around the lead sites, it's not clear that is what is happening in these 33 cities.
So, if the testers flush when collecting samples, perform the same flush before drinking tap water, that way you know you are drinking water at the levels measured. The most common objection I hear to this suggestion is "What a waste!" However, when you consider that water may not be safe to drink, you're not actually wasting drinking water. If you really are concerned about that water, you can save the water for plants and/or cleaning purposes. Watering your lawn is huge waste of water, running some water to clean pipes is not.
What people should be worried about are endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), e.g. from birth control pills and hormones used in factory farming. To my knowledge, no city currently has the ability to test for or filter out EDCs. If the lead tests are coming back clean after flushing, that's great because it's easy to fix: just flush your lines before drinking. EDCs, not so much.
Source: I know many who work for the water department, including chemists at the testing labs at one of the 33 cities listed in the article.
As a service provider, Google is not equivalent to those other researchers.
The article didn't say, but it would be interesting to know if dates/times were anonymized out (they aren't in the datasets I've seen). With Google calendar and gmail, it's pretty straightforward to deanonymize a rather large set of those patients.
EMRs are becoming more prevalent and some patients start using email for communication (not always that best, but you know it happens). It sure seems like that whole "let's offer an email service" can be quite the treasure trove for this and other kinds of information.
The main problem is that first past the post voting supports this two-party situation as a stable equilibrium through tactical voting, etc...
Political parties, as others have pointed out, are private entities (and therefore can nominate candidates however they please). The problem is that the US government is virtually guaranteed to be controlled by one of those two private entities and it is in neither parties' best interest to fix that problem.
I use Thunderbird on both Linux and Windows. Having access to emails offline in a (pretty-much) unified cross-platform multi-account client is great. I can go through my email much quicker using a thick client than any web based offering.
Even if all that technology pans out, would it scale to the global population? If not, we will have the sci-fi nightmare where the rich live forever and the poor die. Not sure our society could survive the social implications of such a development...
Let's say he brought the rifle and maybe even shot the actual shuttle. The news report would be "shuttle engineer goes crazy, shoots at shuttle, launch delayed" And, for the sake of this story let's say that NASA never attempts a launch in kind of cold again. He would just always be a crazy guy that shot at a shuttle.
As a lot of us know firsthand, this is the kind of job where if everything is going well no one knows that you exist... how many times do we warn management of risks and then things turn out okay anyway? Even with a 99.9% probability of failure, that 0.1% chance of success is still a possible outcome.
Either way, he seems like a great guy who tried to do the right thing. It's a shame that he was ignored and even had to consider taking drastic actions. Despite his doing exactly the best he could, I know if I were in his shoes I would be second-guessing everything I could've done - not an easy burden to bear.
I'm oblivious to EU laws and precedent regarding this, but I wonder if this case would have an (positive?) legal implications for TOR exit node operators...
If I see an ad for something, it had served its purpose. If a buy a Honda partly because of an ad I saw two weeks ago, but didn't click on, it still worked. Maybe the idea of measuring clicks is that clicks and ad effectiveness are well correlated... but I'm too lazy to find any studies.
I know many are saying we should go back to the moon first... and we probably will, if anywhere. It makes sense for all the reasons the other posters listed.
But, NASA isn't 100% responsible for calling the shots... and as James Cook said, "Never underestimate the incompetence of government."
If it is a needed tool for work, the company should provide it. I have many coworkers whose only phone number is their work phone, only laptop work laptop, etc... It may seem like a convenience, but when your employer has the ability to always contact you because you use that cell phone for personal purposes, it's not so convenient.
If in this case a population of 57.12 million has 9390 cases of cancer => 164 cancer cases per million for the at-risk population.
Now compare that to the side effect rates of 245.1 and 155.7 per million for the vaccines in question.
I didn't read the study, so I'm just using the numbers posted by AC, but it appears that these numbers are close enough that what matters how intense something must be to be recorded as a side effect. A headache? Rash? Death? This needs to be considered along with the 39% mortality rate for the cancer population (not to mention all the pain, heartbreak, and suffering that everyone, including the survivors endures).
My biggest concern with AI is the same concern with automation: our economy is built on the assumption that labor is a scarce resource. With increasing automation, that assumption is rapidly breaking down. As higher and higher level tasks require less and less people society is in trouble unless we can somehow modify our economic system to account for that breakdown.
Now this is where formal education has a place.
Anyone with the necessary abstract reasoning abilities and problem-solving intuition, etc... can become a self taught programmer. Formal education can help foster those skills in students that may have less aptitude in those areas.
The VW touareg and Porsche Cayenne share the same platform, albeit with different a few different parts and tuning (and being built in a different factory). So, why is this a surprise to anyone?
In case the casual reader is unaware, google scholar picks these up from many university personal pages and links them to its index of the paper.
It's not that you just have a bunch of personal websites with papers and no way to find them.
I think the argument here is that it's cheaper than keeping the legacy power hungry stuff. Cheaper in the long run than owning the LEDs? Definitely not, because the lessor is making a profit somewhere.
If you don't have the capital to invest in purchasing your own stuff and switching over, however, it seems like this is a reasonable option.
I think people would be surprised how many users still want a decent android phone with a keyboard. I still have my droid4. It is not uncommon for me to get comments from strangers like "wow, I wish I still had a phone like that" whenever I'm typing away. Good on BlackBerry if they can pull it off, I know I'm not alone in hoping this isn't a rumor.
But many financial institutions throw this at the end of their emails (amongst a larger disclaimer):
"If you have received this communication in error please delete or destroy it and notify the sender immediately."
Does anyone know if these statements hold any water?
Your doleta link talks about the WARN act, which requires advance notice of mass layoffs or plant closings, not severance pay. Did you link to the wrong thing?
It was originally legislated to protect workers from factory closure, but applies to many workers who get laid off without notice. Severance (though not in that name) is mandated in the Penalties section when due notice is not given: "An employer who violates the WARN provisions by ordering a plant closing or mass layoff without providing appropriate notice is liable to each aggrieved employee for an amount including back pay and benefits for the period of violation, up to 60 days."
I realize that the large severance pay typically given to IT employees is not intended to comply with this law (though it would would prove satisfactory in cases where WARN applies, should anyone investigate), but merely wanted to point out that it exists.
Actually, depending on the terms of the dismissal (particularly how much notice is given), severance pay is not a benefit in the US, but required by law - http://www.doleta.gov/programs...
In many of these cases, however, they're basically offering you that 3months+ of pay to be quiet (among other things). Even "I worked for a tech company that I'll not name, and was laid off when they hired foreign workers" may be in violation of the terms, especially when you start to ponder the strength of their legal team vs. yours.
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Despite the firings not being a significant percentage, as many have said, 200 is a significant number. The US Dept of Labor considers 50 or more people fired during a 30 day period a mass firing, they even have separate policies such as the WARN act for such cases:
https://www.doleta.gov/program...
If his big hack of Hilary was a lie, why is he in jail? Shouldn't you let him go home? No crime, no felony, no jail. At least that is how it is supposed to work.
Because He pleaded guilty to a whole bunch of other stuff
I have a few months experience with one of these phones and it's pretty good. The biggest mistake blackberry made wasn't in engineering, it's that they tried building an iPhone/Galaxy competitor at an iPhone/Galaxy price. What would've been better (and what I hear is coming down the line) would be something cheaper targeted at business customers who care about productivity and not flashiness. Blackberry cannot win the flashiness competition.
Before the phone was released to all carriers I went to a T-mobile store to ask about it and the store representative actually laughed at me for being interested in a phone made by blackberry. Also, the representative at the store I eventually bought my phone from actively tried to sell me a samsung, despite my coming in for the blackberry specifically.
Unfortunately, the name is also stupid... they should've just kept it at "venice" that whole privilege/privacy thing is a turn-off.
I see lots of posts here saying things like "I want a physical keyboard." So do I. That's why I bought this phone. In a market economy, we have to vote with our dollars. The problem is that this vote costs a lot of dollars.
One thing the article does not mention is the reason for pre-flushing is to ensure the sample is coming from water in distribution, not water that's been sitting in the lead pipes you have in your home or your connection to the city (which is very common in older cities). While Flint performed pre-flushing, they also made sure to test around the lead sites, it's not clear that is what is happening in these 33 cities.
So, if the testers flush when collecting samples, perform the same flush before drinking tap water, that way you know you are drinking water at the levels measured. The most common objection I hear to this suggestion is "What a waste!" However, when you consider that water may not be safe to drink, you're not actually wasting drinking water. If you really are concerned about that water, you can save the water for plants and/or cleaning purposes. Watering your lawn is huge waste of water, running some water to clean pipes is not.
What people should be worried about are endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), e.g. from birth control pills and hormones used in factory farming. To my knowledge, no city currently has the ability to test for or filter out EDCs. If the lead tests are coming back clean after flushing, that's great because it's easy to fix: just flush your lines before drinking. EDCs, not so much.
Source: I know many who work for the water department, including chemists at the testing labs at one of the 33 cities listed in the article.
Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Free Speech Across the EU
FTFY
Babies and bathwater, slippery slopes, boiling frogs, etc...
As a service provider, Google is not equivalent to those other researchers.
The article didn't say, but it would be interesting to know if dates/times were anonymized out (they aren't in the datasets I've seen). With Google calendar and gmail, it's pretty straightforward to deanonymize a rather large set of those patients.
EMRs are becoming more prevalent and some patients start using email for communication (not always that best, but you know it happens). It sure seems like that whole "let's offer an email service" can be quite the treasure trove for this and other kinds of information.
The main problem is that first past the post voting supports this two-party situation as a stable equilibrium through tactical voting, etc...
Political parties, as others have pointed out, are private entities (and therefore can nominate candidates however they please). The problem is that the US government is virtually guaranteed to be controlled by one of those two private entities and it is in neither parties' best interest to fix that problem.
I use Thunderbird on both Linux and Windows. Having access to emails offline in a (pretty-much) unified cross-platform multi-account client is great. I can go through my email much quicker using a thick client than any web based offering.
Even if all that technology pans out, would it scale to the global population? If not, we will have the sci-fi nightmare where the rich live forever and the poor die. Not sure our society could survive the social implications of such a development...
Let's say he brought the rifle and maybe even shot the actual shuttle. The news report would be "shuttle engineer goes crazy, shoots at shuttle, launch delayed" And, for the sake of this story let's say that NASA never attempts a launch in kind of cold again. He would just always be a crazy guy that shot at a shuttle.
As a lot of us know firsthand, this is the kind of job where if everything is going well no one knows that you exist... how many times do we warn management of risks and then things turn out okay anyway? Even with a 99.9% probability of failure, that 0.1% chance of success is still a possible outcome.
Either way, he seems like a great guy who tried to do the right thing. It's a shame that he was ignored and even had to consider taking drastic actions. Despite his doing exactly the best he could, I know if I were in his shoes I would be second-guessing everything I could've done - not an easy burden to bear.
I'm oblivious to EU laws and precedent regarding this, but I wonder if this case would have an (positive?) legal implications for TOR exit node operators...
If I see an ad for something, it had served its purpose. If a buy a Honda partly because of an ad I saw two weeks ago, but didn't click on, it still worked. Maybe the idea of measuring clicks is that clicks and ad effectiveness are well correlated... but I'm too lazy to find any studies.
I know many are saying we should go back to the moon first... and we probably will, if anywhere. It makes sense for all the reasons the other posters listed. But, NASA isn't 100% responsible for calling the shots... and as James Cook said, "Never underestimate the incompetence of government."
If it is a needed tool for work, the company should provide it. I have many coworkers whose only phone number is their work phone, only laptop work laptop, etc... It may seem like a convenience, but when your employer has the ability to always contact you because you use that cell phone for personal purposes, it's not so convenient.
If in this case a population of 57.12 million has 9390 cases of cancer => 164 cancer cases per million for the at-risk population. Now compare that to the side effect rates of 245.1 and 155.7 per million for the vaccines in question.
I didn't read the study, so I'm just using the numbers posted by AC, but it appears that these numbers are close enough that what matters how intense something must be to be recorded as a side effect. A headache? Rash? Death? This needs to be considered along with the 39% mortality rate for the cancer population (not to mention all the pain, heartbreak, and suffering that everyone, including the survivors endures).
My biggest concern with AI is the same concern with automation: our economy is built on the assumption that labor is a scarce resource. With increasing automation, that assumption is rapidly breaking down. As higher and higher level tasks require less and less people society is in trouble unless we can somehow modify our economic system to account for that breakdown.
Now this is where formal education has a place. Anyone with the necessary abstract reasoning abilities and problem-solving intuition, etc... can become a self taught programmer. Formal education can help foster those skills in students that may have less aptitude in those areas.
The VW touareg and Porsche Cayenne share the same platform, albeit with different a few different parts and tuning (and being built in a different factory). So, why is this a surprise to anyone?
In case the casual reader is unaware, google scholar picks these up from many university personal pages and links them to its index of the paper. It's not that you just have a bunch of personal websites with papers and no way to find them.
I think the argument here is that it's cheaper than keeping the legacy power hungry stuff. Cheaper in the long run than owning the LEDs? Definitely not, because the lessor is making a profit somewhere.
If you don't have the capital to invest in purchasing your own stuff and switching over, however, it seems like this is a reasonable option.
I think people would be surprised how many users still want a decent android phone with a keyboard. I still have my droid4. It is not uncommon for me to get comments from strangers like "wow, I wish I still had a phone like that" whenever I'm typing away. Good on BlackBerry if they can pull it off, I know I'm not alone in hoping this isn't a rumor.
The main reason I still use firefox.
But many financial institutions throw this at the end of their emails (amongst a larger disclaimer):
"If you have received this communication in error please delete or destroy it and notify the sender immediately."
Does anyone know if these statements hold any water?
Your doleta link talks about the WARN act, which requires advance notice of mass layoffs or plant closings, not severance pay. Did you link to the wrong thing?
It was originally legislated to protect workers from factory closure, but applies to many workers who get laid off without notice. Severance (though not in that name) is mandated in the Penalties section when due notice is not given: "An employer who violates the WARN provisions by ordering a plant closing or mass layoff without providing appropriate notice is liable to each aggrieved employee for an amount including back pay and benefits for the period of violation, up to 60 days."
I realize that the large severance pay typically given to IT employees is not intended to comply with this law (though it would would prove satisfactory in cases where WARN applies, should anyone investigate), but merely wanted to point out that it exists.
Actually, depending on the terms of the dismissal (particularly how much notice is given), severance pay is not a benefit in the US, but required by law - http://www.doleta.gov/programs... In many of these cases, however, they're basically offering you that 3months+ of pay to be quiet (among other things). Even "I worked for a tech company that I'll not name, and was laid off when they hired foreign workers" may be in violation of the terms, especially when you start to ponder the strength of their legal team vs. yours.