But don't pack your bags for a trip to other side of the galaxy yet; although it's theoretically possible, it's not useful for humans to travel through...
What I find most disturbing about the trend is how the younger generation seems to have lost the ability to discern the abysmal video quality of streaming services from the usually way better video quality from physical media.
Ya, but they're watching things on their phones, tables, laptops, etc... and not 40" - 60" HDTVs so they probably don't even notice how crappy the experience is.
Amazon shareholders pay taxes on their investment gains when they cash out. What is the problem?
None, as far as I can see, but remember that long-term gains (usually held longer than a year) are taxed at a lower rate than short-term gains and ordinary income -- which I also don't have a problem with.
... definitely do not reach $17.55, much less have that as an "average" pay.
The answer is in the first line of your post:
But Walmart has said its average worker earns $17.55 an hour with wages and benefits.
This is misdirection by Wal-Mart (or whoever said it). Benefits are part of compensation, but are not "earnings" -- you can't pay your electric bill with your medical insurance. Many (most?) of their employees (in-store anyway) earn less *and* some get benefits. They've got apples and oranges in their grocery bag.
It said Amazon was able to pay so little tax because its finances were structured in a way that avoided liability. The institute highlighted Amazon's efforts to maximize tax credits and tax breaks for executive stock options as two examples of this.
"Amazon pays all the taxes we are required to pay in the US and every country where we operate, including paying $2.6 billion in corporate tax and reporting $3.4 billion in tax expense over the last three years," Amazon said in a statement issued Thursday.
"Corporate tax is based on profits, not revenues, and our profits remain modest given retail is a highly competitive, low-margin business and our continued heavy investment."
Wal-Mart isn't on higher ground, they're just not able to take as much advantage of the tax law (or not as good at it) as Amazon. In case you haven't heard, Trump isn't a big fan of Bezos and/or Amazon and wouldn't have gone out of his way to benefit them in the new Republican tax bill last year... so Amazon is only paying the taxes they're required to -- and they're not alone. As noted in this article:
Big businesses are faring better than ever under the Trump era tax law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).... about 60 Fortune 500 companies avoided paying all federal income tax in 2018 (with their total average effective tax rate being roughly -5%).
That’s more than three times the number of companies that avoided paying corporate taxes on average from 2008 to 2015. During that period, 18 companies managed to pay 0% or less (with their total average effective tax rate over 8 years being roughly -4%).
Even Trump boasts about paying very little federal taxes because he "takes advantage of the tax laws."
These messages were intended only for prototypes, he said -- but a mistake meant they were included in regular production devices. "Unfortunately, some 'easter egg' labels meant for prototypes accidentally made it onto the internal hardware for tens of thousands of Touch controllers," the tech executive wrote.
... Big Brother *wasn't* watching -- the production line anyway.
As Dr. Bouman herself was quick to point out, she was by no means solely responsible for the discovery, which was a result of a worldwide collaboration among scientists who worked together to create the image from a network of radio antennas.
The project, led by Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was the work of more than 200 researchers. About 40 of them were women, according to Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative.
Without knowing more about everyone on the team and who did what, etc... the rest of your speculations and commentary about "political science" in your post are pointless and/or counter-productive.
The misleading posts said Chael alone had authored "850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!"...
However, the effort quickly backfired.
Though it may have been nice to receive more recognition, Chael immediately took to Twitter to explain that the online trolls had exaggerated his contributions, and he defended Bouman's work. In addition, Chael said that as an openly gay man, he is also an underrepresented demographic in STEM.
Chael disputed the incorrect posts
I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored.
[... several tweets referenced...]
While I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life.
Chael wrote the code for one of three scripted code pipelines that scientists used to transform telescope data into a coherent image.
Bouman has emphasized collaboration
Though Bouman has received a lot of attention, she has maintained that the black hole image was the product of teamwork.
"No one of us could've done it alone," Bouman told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds."
The Event Horizon Telescope project was composed of an international team of more than 200 researchers.
She clearly didn't write the majority of the code.
However it's entirely possible she's responsible for the math and/or the actual algorithm the code implements.
The criticism claiming Bouman is just one name of a few on the research paper shows a misunderstanding of how academic papers work. Bouman is the first author of her paper “Computational Imaging for VLBI Image Reconstruction.” The first author on a research paper is typically the person who made the most important contributions. Alongside Bouman, Michael D. Johnson, Daniel Zoran, Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman, and William T. Freeman worked to produce their findings.
“Of course Bouman will not have written all of the code, just like Englert and Higgs are not solely responsible for the discovery of the Higgs boson...." Wade said.
In the discussion on Hacker News, and even in our own Facebook comment section, multiple users claim Bouman’s colleague Andrew Chael wrote over 850,000 lines of the 900,000 lines of code used to discover the black hole. Chael tweeted to her defense, saying that without Bouman and her contribution to the software, the project would never have been a success.
So, with respect to a successful outcome, does it really matter how *many* lines of code she (or someone) wrote, especially if her/their code and/or other contributions made everything work?
I imagine we've all heard the joke about getting an itemized bill like: $0.50: Pushing a button; $99.50: Knowing what button to push.
Don't use Alexa.... I flatly refuse to have a device in my home that is connected to the internet and that, by design, monitors the sound around it.
Especially if one has a daughter named Alexa -- which someone I know does *and* has an Alexa enabled device.
The device apparently responds when she calls (yells) for her daughter.
Weird, I thought Oracle would tick all of government's boxes. I mean, I thought potential for unthinkably ballooning costs is what usually gets you government contracts?
They were okay with Oracle charging them per CPU but balked when Oracle changed it to per CPU Register.
... usually getting the drug delivered to the cancer w/o killing or severely injuring the patient. Many, many drugs work great in the lab, in a petri dish, etc.. but can't be delivered through the body to the target cancer/tumor cells w/o being broken down by the body or doing damage to the body, etc... It's usually a race between killing the cancer before killing the patient.
In addition, my understanding is that, radiation therapy works by damaging the DNA of cells as the reproduce -- the ones actually dividing *during* the radiation treatment -- so they will (eventually) no longer be able to reproduce. This is generally effective as cancer cells reproduce faster than regular cells, but regular cells get damaged too -- which is why there are treatment and lifetime limits on radiation therapy.
All of this is especially difficult with growing children as their cells tend to reproduce faster than in adults, so more damage is done during treatment -- or so I understand.
can cause constipation, diarrhea, liver and kidney problems, can cause other cancers....
Price? $10000 a month,...
You jest, but... my wife died of a brain tumor (GBM) in 2006, just seven weeks after diagnosis. Her chemotherapy medicine was Temodar and the list price was $11,000 for a one-month supply of pills (several months would normally be needed). She had both my BC/BS and her Optima insurance -- on BC/BS the co-pay was 10% ($1,100) on her Optima it was $40 (yes, forty).
The instructions cautioned against prolonged handling of the pills and breathing dust from them as that could cause -- wait for it -- cancer.
Slashdot Mirror
But don't pack your bags for a trip to other side of the galaxy yet; although it's theoretically possible, it's not useful for humans to travel through ...
I had my bags packed.
Not sure what 5G has got to do with this. Not a lot of detail, but I can't think of anything that wouldn't work on 4G, 3G or 2G for that matter.
Well... respectively, it has 1, 2, and 3 more G's. So ...
Listen, my point is, if you really need a cop on every corner or a gun to feel safe do your family a favour and move to a safe country.
Moving to another country is usually easier said than done.
[ Just ask the people traveling North at the U.S. Southern Border -- who are trying to do exactly what you just recommended. ]
Who knew Communists were such Capitalists. :-)
Like when TV stations advertise that they have the News in "high-def" -- it's the freaking news people.
But tricking the, ahem, "stable genius" in the white house, why not?
We're all going to feel very foolish when we learn that Trump hobby is designing really elegant houses for horses.
What I find most disturbing about the trend is how the younger generation seems to have lost the ability to discern the abysmal video quality of streaming services from the usually way better video quality from physical media.
Ya, but they're watching things on their phones, tables, laptops, etc... and not 40" - 60" HDTVs so they probably don't even notice how crappy the experience is.
Pretty sure sales of Betamax, VHS, and Laserdisc movies are down too... what's your point?
I know, right? And don't get me started on how hard it is to find good phonograph cylinders anymore.
Amazon shareholders pay taxes on their investment gains when they cash out. What is the problem?
None, as far as I can see, but remember that long-term gains (usually held longer than a year) are taxed at a lower rate than short-term gains and ordinary income -- which I also don't have a problem with.
The answer is in the first line of your post:
But Walmart has said its average worker earns $17.55 an hour with wages and benefits.
This is misdirection by Wal-Mart (or whoever said it). Benefits are part of compensation, but are not "earnings" -- you can't pay your electric bill with your medical insurance. Many (most?) of their employees (in-store anyway) earn less *and* some get benefits. They've got apples and oranges in their grocery bag.
From this article:
It said Amazon was able to pay so little tax because its finances were structured in a way that avoided liability. The institute highlighted Amazon's efforts to maximize tax credits and tax breaks for executive stock options as two examples of this.
"Amazon pays all the taxes we are required to pay in the US and every country where we operate, including paying $2.6 billion in corporate tax and reporting $3.4 billion in tax expense over the last three years," Amazon said in a statement issued Thursday.
"Corporate tax is based on profits, not revenues, and our profits remain modest given retail is a highly competitive, low-margin business and our continued heavy investment."
Wal-Mart isn't on higher ground, they're just not able to take as much advantage of the tax law (or not as good at it) as Amazon. In case you haven't heard, Trump isn't a big fan of Bezos and/or Amazon and wouldn't have gone out of his way to benefit them in the new Republican tax bill last year... so Amazon is only paying the taxes they're required to -- and they're not alone. As noted in this article:
Big businesses are faring better than ever under the Trump era tax law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). ... about 60 Fortune 500 companies avoided paying all federal income tax in 2018 (with their total average effective tax rate being roughly -5%).
That’s more than three times the number of companies that avoided paying corporate taxes on average from 2008 to 2015. During that period, 18 companies managed to pay 0% or less (with their total average effective tax rate over 8 years being roughly -4%).
Even Trump boasts about paying very little federal taxes because he "takes advantage of the tax laws."
So they basically re-invented the Windows Phone? How well did that go before?
These messages were intended only for prototypes, he said -- but a mistake meant they were included in regular production devices. "Unfortunately, some 'easter egg' labels meant for prototypes accidentally made it onto the internal hardware for tens of thousands of Touch controllers," the tech executive wrote.
Well it was a team. I am sure it had women and men.
From How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project
As Dr. Bouman herself was quick to point out, she was by no means solely responsible for the discovery, which was a result of a worldwide collaboration among scientists who worked together to create the image from a network of radio antennas.
The project, led by Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was the work of more than 200 researchers. About 40 of them were women, according to Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative.
Without knowing more about everyone on the team and who did what, etc... the rest of your speculations and commentary about "political science" in your post are pointless and/or counter-productive.
Following up whit this information from To undermine Katherine Bouman's role in the Black Hole photo, trolls held up a white man as the real hero -- until he fought back
The misleading posts said Chael alone had authored "850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!" ...
However, the effort quickly backfired.
Though it may have been nice to receive more recognition, Chael immediately took to Twitter to explain that the online trolls had exaggerated his contributions, and he defended Bouman's work. In addition, Chael said that as an openly gay man, he is also an underrepresented demographic in STEM.
Chael disputed the incorrect posts
I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored.
[... several tweets referenced ...]
While I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life.
Chael wrote the code for one of three scripted code pipelines that scientists used to transform telescope data into a coherent image.
Bouman has emphasized collaboration
Though Bouman has received a lot of attention, she has maintained that the black hole image was the product of teamwork.
"No one of us could've done it alone," Bouman told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds." The Event Horizon Telescope project was composed of an international team of more than 200 researchers.
She clearly didn't write the majority of the code.
However it's entirely possible she's responsible for the math and/or the actual algorithm the code implements.
From The internet’s idiots are already trying to discredit Katie Bouman’s historic accomplishments:
The criticism claiming Bouman is just one name of a few on the research paper shows a misunderstanding of how academic papers work. Bouman is the first author of her paper “Computational Imaging for VLBI Image Reconstruction.” The first author on a research paper is typically the person who made the most important contributions. Alongside Bouman, Michael D. Johnson, Daniel Zoran, Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman, and William T. Freeman worked to produce their findings.
“Of course Bouman will not have written all of the code, just like Englert and Higgs are not solely responsible for the discovery of the Higgs boson. ..." Wade said.
In the discussion on Hacker News, and even in our own Facebook comment section, multiple users claim Bouman’s colleague Andrew Chael wrote over 850,000 lines of the 900,000 lines of code used to discover the black hole. Chael tweeted to her defense, saying that without Bouman and her contribution to the software, the project would never have been a success.
So, with respect to a successful outcome, does it really matter how *many* lines of code she (or someone) wrote, especially if her/their code and/or other contributions made everything work?
I imagine we've all heard the joke about getting an itemized bill like: $0.50: Pushing a button; $99.50: Knowing what button to push.
Let's start measuring storage space by the ton!
First we have to know how much the Library of Congress weighs ...
Don't use Alexa. ... I flatly refuse to have a device in my home that is connected to the internet and that, by design, monitors the sound around it.
Especially if one has a daughter named Alexa -- which someone I know does *and* has an Alexa enabled device.
The device apparently responds when she calls (yells) for her daughter.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said, "If at first you don't succeed, you try again."
Wasn't that his campaign slogan? :-)
Spending 6 years cooped up in a single building in down town London is not exactly living the good life ...
Could have been worse... They could have actually sent him to Ecuador. :-)
Won't it *always* be exactly something -- or do vendors sell PCs in fractions now?
Weird, I thought Oracle would tick all of government's boxes. I mean, I thought potential for unthinkably ballooning costs is what usually gets you government contracts?
They were okay with Oracle charging them per CPU but balked when Oracle changed it to per CPU Register.
In addition, my understanding is that, radiation therapy works by damaging the DNA of cells as the reproduce -- the ones actually dividing *during* the radiation treatment -- so they will (eventually) no longer be able to reproduce. This is generally effective as cancer cells reproduce faster than regular cells, but regular cells get damaged too -- which is why there are treatment and lifetime limits on radiation therapy.
All of this is especially difficult with growing children as their cells tend to reproduce faster than in adults, so more damage is done during treatment -- or so I understand.
Remember Sue...
can cause constipation, diarrhea, liver and kidney problems, can cause other cancers. ... ...
Price? $10000 a month,
You jest, but... my wife died of a brain tumor (GBM) in 2006, just seven weeks after diagnosis. Her chemotherapy medicine was Temodar and the list price was $11,000 for a one-month supply of pills (several months would normally be needed). She had both my BC/BS and her Optima insurance -- on BC/BS the co-pay was 10% ($1,100) on her Optima it was $40 (yes, forty).
The instructions cautioned against prolonged handling of the pills and breathing dust from them as that could cause -- wait for it -- cancer.
Unfortunately, that would be the only bipartisan bill to be shot down by all of them.
Kinda like how Congress was all over term limits for the President, but not so much for themselves...