Or the company provides the minimum insurance to meet the ACA mandate and forces you out into the private insurance world to get coverage wholly on your own.

I'm not complaining about it mind you, I'm just stating that 1099 isn't the only thing companies are doing to avoid this these days.

Yes, but while the techie whines and sweats it, the musicians put in all the work for the love of it :-)

Only a real orchestra offers massive parallel musicality, and they scale pretty well under a competent conductor.

it was first written about on ancient Chinese turtle shells

Probably even true :-)

How juvenile.

The Western world has still enough clout to hurt China economically. Although, it'll hurt us almost as much. So yes, a diplomatic solution is most likely if they were to overstep.

At any rate, the Chinese are not opposed to cooperation, they have a good working relationship with ESA.

Having lived in Germany, the US and now Canada I can say with conviction that the postal service here is rock bottom. May as well close it for good.

I have two close friends whose children each had symptoms similar to Asbergers/Autism whose lives have been transformed by changing their diet in ways that are generally aligned with the ideas in this study (unhealthy bacterial conditions in gut cause undigested proteins to leak through the gut into the bloodstream, where they cause problems when they bind to receptors in brain or other tissues).

There is a strict diet called the GAPS Diet that both of these families followed and they began to see substantive changes within months, and ongoing improvements over a couple of years that have really allowed these kids to blossom.

This is not hearsay. I knew these kids before and I know them after, and they have improved dramatically.

It's a law to protect minors. The idea is that having gone through school and reached maturity, hate groups will have a harder time recruiting them to their cause.

Since this is only with regards to minors, how does this differ from the US censoring (there it's all about sex).

I strongly suspect that American police would arrest people handing out pornographic material to kids at school?

This was an answer to the envelope example, and my intent was mostly to not have this stand unrefuted at a certain filter level.

I am well aware that non-local hidden variables are not ruled out, nor do I find this idea particularly unattractive. But if they were in play QM would still be plenty strange.

Please moderate this up, it's the correct answer (and yes, I hold a physics degree).

Emergent Neural network simulator. If nothing else it will give you a good baseline of how far you can push the envelope with a single workstation.

Just installed it on my machine and it looks well crafted and quite versatile.

... they could just learn Arabic and move to Saudi Arabia. I am happy to pitch in a modest amount for the ticket price, if this helps to get rid of them.

Darn British having their way with the colonies ...

D-Wave scaled up superconducting foundry output for their quantum chip, see no reason to not leverage this for conventional superconducting chips.