I lived and worked in the First Ward for several years.
That's a very liberal rendition of "several" given that your wife lasted at Rice for barely a year.
You can start telling the truth any time you're ready. Based on experience to date I suspect that'll be a while.
I had a Texas Edition Ford 250 pickup with truck nuts and season tickets to the Astros in MinuteMaid. I danced to Joe Ely at a free concert in Hermann Park.
Nice buzzword bingo, Jim, but you know and I know you weren't in Houston that long and in any event claimed to despise that sort of stuff in all your angsty posts while you were. Put up or shut up, as they say.
You may have missed the second half which says: for the populations of 9 out of 13 study species, the actual lag does exceed the critical lag.
You crop-quoted again -- "the actual lag exceeds the critical lag when large values of w2 are considered " -- i.e., when arbitrarily focusing on one particular corner of the graphs they made based on a value "for which we did not have study-specific estimates" and thus made up.
The first time I gave you the benefit of the doubt. The second time you're just showing yourself to be disingenuous.
To be clear, the plan within Neom is to allow alcohol . . . and Sharia law was explicitly mentioned as being in force.
Does. Not. Compute.
As a former Texan
Oh, Jim -- you just had an address here in the Museum district while your wife was in between job hops. Don't pretend you were ever a Texan.
That was my first thought, until I put myself into politic mode: A publicity stunt that may lead to national coverage on the evening news & interwebs
As opposed to the non-tautological sort of publicity stunt?
Sorry to ruin your fantasies, snowflakes. Truth hurts sometimes, I know.
That's one way, albeit a long shot one, to raise campaign funds.
It's actually counterproductive. If she's at all serious about this suit she'll have to pay significant legal fees to pursue it, and the odds of a case like this being decided (in her favor) before the primaries are virtually nil.
I'd be surprised if she realistically sees this as anything beyond a publicity stunt.
a longer vehicle that can't make a right turn from as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway as required by law
If the longer vehicle can't make a right turn at a given distance from the curb, it's by definition not practicable for it to do so.
Personally I think that species extinction is alarming. Your mileage may vary.
You're missing the point. The paper is about a speculative mathematical model, not any actual extinction or measured trends. Your own quote includes the tipoff words "if," "when [looking at a particular part of the curve using baseless worst-case assumptions]," and "probability." You also cropped out this gem:
The estimation of both the actual and critical lags requires several parameter estimates, which we could not retrieve from the publications behind our data . . . [so we made some up].
Pretty hard to go bankrupt when you have +$610M FCF/quarter and $5b cash on hand
Classic Elon -- manipulate the hell out of the numbers for one quarter and then declare it to be an endless trend.
Q1 free cash flow was nearly a billion in the red. Q2 net profit was $400M in the red. $610M FCF is not real or sustainable.
The display buffers a frame ahead, and delays audio to match. So it has a start point and an end point
That's fully consistent with what OP said. The issue is the boundary condition where the pendulum/waving hand/etc. changes direction, where start and end points have little meaning in a vacuum.
For example, if frame 1 shows the pendulum at X:47, frame 2 shows it at x:50 and frame 3 shows it at x:48, you'd need a lot more information and horsepower than these motion smoothing algorithms currently have in order to make anything but a guess as to where the pendulum should appear in the interpolated frames (50, 51, 50, 49, 48? 50, 50, 49, 49, 48? 50, 50, 49, 49, 48? 49, 49, 49, 48, 48?) Wrong guesses register as unnatural in our brains, which are keeping track of the broader context of the motions based on expectations of the underlying mechanics/physics.
This was all true a few years ago, but technology has caught up. The vast majority of late-model TVs tested here, both LED and OLED, display judder-free 24p from a native 24p source, and most even from 24p media that was converted and transported in 60p/60i.
As I understand it the former was largely driven by 120Hz refresh rates, since then all frames of a 24p source are simply displayed 5:1. And the latter is just a signal processing exercise of detecting the pulldown pattern in the source and throwing out the padding frames.
If the topic of the investigation is putting retail stores out of business
It almost certainly isn't that broad of a question, because then there would be no basis for finding that Amazon has sufficient market power to be deemed a monopolist (which isn't measured strictly by market share, but looking at historic antitrust decisions it probably takes at least 40-50% of the market plus some other factors). U.S. retail sales last year were a bit over $5 trillion, so Amazon's share of that would be about 5%. The DOJ wouldn't even bother opening up an inquiry on that basis, and in fact this is the sort of broader market definition Amazon itself would push for to argue it doesn't have market power.
Just defining the relevant market as e-commerce, on the other hand, would give Amazon around 50% of market share, which is getting there. Whether the market definition could be sculpted any tighter than that is something we'll find out in the coming days.
There's a fairly readable overview here.
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
