Absolutely. Neutrons can decay to a Proton and Electron and extra energy. This is fission of a nuclear particle which I think is what you mean by Subnuclear fission.

There's an eight year old neighbor happy with Linux Mint on my old laptop.

It's fast, has 32 and 64 bit processor support, 4 different versions (I installed xfce), intuitive, well supported, can set up parental controls, lots of downloadable kids' stuff... there's more but I'm already boring.

Linux Mint

The city and Amazon were at a mutually-acceptable position prior to this tax. The city unilaterally is changing the agreement. That doesn't really sound like "mutual respect" to me.

It's not "grovelling" for the city to stay with status quo. They're expecting AMAZON to grovel, by accepting the new tax without complaints or reactions.

The latest Raspberry Pi model 3's come with Wi-Fi and four USB ports. The OS is on an SD card. You can make up several SD cards for different purposes using any of the many interesting distros available. Raspian is a decent basic Linux OS. As far as using old hardware goes, just retain the mice, keyboards and montors. Give each kid their own Pi and a few distros depending on their interests.

Distrowatch will let you look at distributions based on hardware type: Distro Watch Raspberry Pi

My kid who's 5 now started using KDE/Mint over a year ago. Plays minetest, does abcmouse, watches Nick Jr on it.

So a person who is successful is published? Then why be successful knowing you'll be punished. Amazing logic there! Work hard so we can steal more from you! Very inline with the American dream /sarcasm And companies exist to make a profit. It's needed for inventory building, expansion, employee hiring, R&D, rainy day funds, etc. You take away from that profit, what do they do? Companies exist to make a profit. Look at a private person example: You make 60k, government steals 30% for "society". You now have 40k. Your cost of living is 35k, and you save 5k/mo. Seattle passes a new tax that will cost you 4k per year. What do you do? Do you charge your employer more for your labor, stop saving, or cut expenses? Anyone who has operated a small business understands this.

Ah, millennial gnat-hair attention spans. The FBI spent 45 years trying to track down D.B. Cooper. It took 18 years to find the Unibomber and 37 years to track down the last of the Baptist Street Church bombers.

Just think how much time and money they could have saved had you been there to explain to them nobody "gives a fuck" anymore (including, of course, the victims and their families), and so they just needed to "move on already."

He applied linear thinking and took it to the extreme to make a good story. But societies go through cycles. The tide turned in 2016 -- perhaps as a consequence of the 2008 crash -- where people have rejected, democratically speaking, the vision that had been offered to them, of which this is a part. Try as he might have, Schmidt couldn't help Hillary win.

Stop using GQ models as a benchmark for fitness.

So why on earth would a company send that much value into the wild, undefended? Locating them would be trivial. Harvesting them for anything of value would be equally trivial. So again, why? Did the VCs backing this even pause for a moment to consider the possibility they were being farmed?

Whenever Amazon (or any developer) builds a new building in Seattle, they must pay massive "impact fees" that cover, or are meant to cover, expanding the infrastructure to support the impact. This includes traffic, utilities, law enforcement and more, and are a significant chunk of the total development cost.

Weird enough. This is going to be all a lot of Hipster/health food nut fun until someone gets hit with botulism.

That's actually happening in a lot of sports. I coach another sport (wrestling) where the average age of an Olympic champion has gotten 2-4 years younger in the last 10 years. A big part of that is access to opportunities train and compete and information that older people like myself simply didn't have access to.

My question would be WTF this article is doing on slashdot? This is definitely not news for nerds or stuff that matters. While I'm sure there are NBA fans reading slashdot, this is pretty far away from what this site is supposed to be about.

Oh, having spare computers to fall back on isn't an issue for me, either; but it is for many, so I'm considering that when I speak. Hell, I'm in the middle of moving still and I'm finding working computers I forgot I even still had.

That doesn't negate the fact that not everyone's experience with Apple is as rosy as yours. It sounds like you live near a competently-staffed store; be thankful for that.

When my nephew was 9, I set up a computer for him. I gave him a MATE desktop, which basically works similar to Windows, and he was able to use it right away.

I didn't give him root on his own machine. However, I gave his user sudo permission to run the Software Manager. I gave him Linux Mint, which is a tweaked version of Ubuntu, so it was basically the Ubuntu Software Manager. This is pretty similar to the app store on mobile devices. So he had no ability to screw up his system, but he could browse the Software Manager, find a game or something, and install it with a click.

My goal was to set his baseline expectations to Linux. I wanted him to see Windows and say "wait, there's no app store thing with free games on Windows? How primitive, give me my Linux please." I wouldn't say my brainwashing attempt succeeded, but he just turned 12 and he still uses the Linux computer for most of what he does on a computer. He also has a Windows laptop that he uses to run some Windows-only stuff he likes. But he chooses which computer to use just based on what he wants to run; he has no particular preference for Windows or for Linux.

P.S. His Linux computer is an all-in-one made by Lenovo, with a really nice and big screen. I got it really inexpensively on eBay; I believe it was off-lease.

Except healthcare in Europe requires longer waits, government control and restrictions such that those who can often fly to the U.S. for private care. And except for that so many European grad students "finish up" in the U.S., at a far higher rate than vice-versa. But other than those two exceptions, your two examples are spot-on.

You are exceptionally boring.

I agree. Sort of. Reasonable levels of physical activity tend to improve one's cardiovascular fitness and lifespan. But many of the jobs providing such activity also involve some level of danger. Linemen getting electrocuted or falling off poles. Roofers falling off roofs. Farmers getting pulled into combine harvesters. These sorts of things can mess with the statistics.

So because a person worked hard and risked a lot, the fruits of their labor are up for theft without moral consequences

It's not retroactive. They're free to leave. But, as a rule, yes, people who worked hard, risked a lot and are successful should be taxed more. Cause, you know, they have the money. Even Bezos doesn't talk about "Amazon earnings" he talks about his "Amazon winnings"

The $10M will not affect Bezos, it will affect (and be paid for) by the shoppers and the current and future employees of Amazon.

How? There's no reason to assume that there will be any consequences on prices or wages.

The vast majority of Amazon's Seattle employees are not from the Seattle or Washington educational systems. Well, the janitors and baristas perhaps.

Seattle's not "asking" Amazon to give a "tiny" bit back either; Seattle is changing the rules at the muzzle of a gun to extort millions of dollars, when Amazon has already provided a massive boost to the economy and tax base.

But as a liberal, you want more money. This is the kind of selfish short-term thinking that will destroy this country. (Gee, I've read that last sentence somewhere before!)

It seems kinda scary that a big brother org could shape the environment of information so as to influence people's behaviour.

But then I remember that humans are not so simple. To us the world is not a mere stream of information, rather, it is a world of meanings which we create and organise, where meaning is within a context which is within a context and so on. Just think of a famous piece of art, and all its parodies. Consider fashion and how it changes. The way that people's aspirations and goals, their likes and dislikes, their moods and opinions, all flow in an ever-changing, re-created anew, stream of reactions and counter-reactions. Life is change. And the "facts", the "data" which tech people are so enamoured of, is only one half of reality. The other half is inter-subjective re-creative re-authored re-organising meaning-making. Today you love X and feel it is the best person or thing in the world, tomorrow you're bored with X. Show me an AI that can cope with that, and then I'll say you've passed some kind of fancy test. An AI that understands new ironies. What a joke.

I agree. My 8-year-olds are using Mint without any problems.

XFCE and Cinnamon are perfectly customizable for their needs.

They don't need the gigantic icons the "kid-linux" flavours come with....they're young, not blind.

GSM 06.10, hopefully.

Anything can look out of context when taken out of context...

Who made the rule that questions can't be stupid?

No that's a stupid assumption, the training may not be as good as it should be.
No that's absurd, no matter how good someones training is they can still make mistakes.
Yes it's a little known fact that lizard people deliberately and premeditatedly kill off certain dangerous people.

Same answers work for both.

One of the reasons I bought OnePlus 2 was the rough texture of the back. Very easy to hold. I guess I'll skip this upgrade.

I've been thinking about that, and have a possible answer.

For context, I started thinking about this when I heard that London is now 42% foreign born. (Here's info from 2011.) England used to be predominately white and very conservative, but it's now peppered with no-go zones and full of foreign workers. Germany and Sweden are even worse, and are *still* importing refugees.

Why is this happening in Europe?

My best guess has to do with WWII, and the genocide of various peoples: Jews, but also Gypsies, Poles, Afro-Germans, homosexuals, Jehovas Witnesses, and others. Hitler made WWII essentially a war on other races.

That incident (WWII) has become so abhorrent in the collective psyche that people will do anything to escape the barest hint of being associated with it. The people of Europe are killing themselves trying to prove that they aren't racist.

We now have British police choosing not to prosecute Muslim rapists, while threatening prosecution for the fathers (of the raped girls) for Islamophobia for speaking out. We see the police suppressing reports of Muslim crime, but going after "hate speech" crimes from regular citizens.

We're seeing a little bit of that here in the US, where putting our own citizens first is called out as racist.

I hear good things about "Ubermix" http://www.ubermix.org/about.h... The project focuses on a reduced complexity environment and includes educational applications. might be worth looking at

At least they had the courage to keep the phone jack!

Oh, this is an interesting question.

If you by dimension mean size, there is a classical estimate of what radius an electron has. If one starts to put together a small sphere of "continuous" electric charge by moving infinitely small droplets of charge from infinity to the surface of the sphere, and continues to do so until the amount of energy consumed matches the relativistic energy of an electron, mc^2, one ends up with an charged sphere with radius 2.8E-15m.

However, in modern physics it is close to meaningless to talk about the size of an electron. The electron is considered very elemental, to the point is is modeled by a point charge. Please do not confuse the uncertainty, or the wave function, of an electron with its size. The wave function represents (among other things) the probability distribution of the position of the electron.

The proton, on the other hand, is not considered elemental (being made of quarks and gluons), or a point charge, and it does seems to have a size about 0.87E-15 m or so.

Interestingly enough, the classical size of size of the electron far surpasses the modern estimate of the size of the proton.

when the internal pressure in a start exceeds the pressure inside a neutron, the neutrons collapse and you get a black hole

I thought that the reasoning should be ''when the internal pressure in a star exceeds the pressure inside a neutron then another interesting object will be created which may look like a single superneutron, but before that happens the star will turn into a black hole for different reasons.