Comment If we're going to get rid of DST... (Score 2) 290
Why not just get rid of time zones all together and have everyone use UTC?
Why not just get rid of time zones all together and have everyone use UTC?
Oh, so you're okay with Apple having this kind of age data about you? What other information should they be allowed and still claim to be the bastion of privacy?
The more Apple gets into the business the more it's going to look like Google. The reason Google delivers so much revenue from ads is that they can be very targeted because they know so much about you.
So Apple is going to have to either choose to continue to suck or get off their high horse and stop pretending that they don't have information on users.
So don't use Apple.
That doesn't mean we should sit on our thumbs and do nothing about small things that are easy to fix.
Make sure you're actually fixing things. A 'single use' plastic bag is 5 or 6 grams of plastic and is incredibly easy to make. Reusable bags take dozens or hundreds the amount of resources to produce, and must be periodically washed, increasing the environment footprint even further.
It ain't going to happen this time either.
At some point, you need something that a real programming language needs. By the time you add all that stuff, your traditionally programming.
Remember back in the 90's when Al Gore said we'd all be dead from global warming in 10 years? Turned out that actually happened. Scientists were able to capture our minds and put them in a complex supercomputer that's solar powered at the last minute, and reset our memories to a few years before.
That's why simulation theory is such a hot topic these days, because the simulation is imperfect and we're beginning to see through the cracks.
But never fear, we're already dead from climate change, just as was predicted decades ago. We can't possibly die a second time. The computers are safely situated.
Happy trails!
....and they want to make sure they keep on getting invited to the right cocktail parties. So their first consideration is the acceptability of their review in their social circles, and that often depends on the movie's position on the 'upper crust's' pet social causes. The quality and entertainment value of a movie are less important than 'sending the right message.'
....of Duh! Magazine!
Party like it's 2008!
The disproportionate representation of smaller states in the senate and the electoral college is the point of those systems! In a 'pure' democracy, the different needs and character of the smaller population states would be run over roughshod by a handful of cities. The republic & federal form of government ensure that states are largely governed according to the needs and desires of their residents, and that anything done on the national government level is the result of a broad consensus on those issues.
To mourn the system as 'broken' because of the design of the Senate and Electoral college is to say that you don't want those 'country people' to matter; that you just want to rule them from far-off cities.
> How do you know that anybody is even doing that?
All the studies ? Like comparative grading of anonymous student's papers compared to papers with names, comparing hiring selection based on CVs with and without names, or orchestra auditions based on only listening to a performer play from behind a screen.
Those also suggest how the discrimination can be reduced with little or no effort.
I don't believe that the studies about 'names' controlled for perceived class; I'm not sure how those 'researchers' selected names for their study and called them 'white' and 'black' (or whatever), but if you don't control for class perception then the researchers might have been revealing their own biases and limited view. Social research is fraught with these kinds of problems and worse (like outright fabrication, or more kindly 'non-reproducibility')
As for blind orchestra auditions, some orchestras are trying to do away with those so they can get the right mixture of skin tones to fit their preferences. The folks who got into the orchestras by benefit of blind auditions are out of favor among the politically active set and must be replaced.
Of the many differences between Jacobs' stunt and this planned stunt, one of the most important parts is that the planes will be going straight down towards a controlled target area, where it will be ensured that no one is in danger should a plane crash. Further, steps will be taken to protect the environment from spilled oil and avgas.
1) Levels of antibodies against COVID fade noticeably over a period of months.
T-cells are the body's mechanism for providing long lasting resistance, and they are significantly more difficulty to test for. Fading antibodies does not mean 'no protection'.
Here's the first article when I searched, but they've been discussed for months and I'm sure you can find plenty.
Great Scott!
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
