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Comment Re:Minimum wage itself is flawed. (Score 4, Interesting) 528

by Roshan Halappanavar (#54733861) Attached to: Seattle Minimum Wage Study Has Serious Flaws

You misunderstand what a free market is.

Free market means that governments or regulatory bodies cannot set the PRICE of goods and services. There's nothing wrong in setting minimum acceptable standards.

Ex: Sure.. mandate $150/Hr. then businesses can choose to either sell at existing price+$150, get rid or replace some employees and sell at same price.

Get it? the final PRICE is what's free to be decided by businesses.

Minimum wage and free markets can co-exist. Imagine if businesses said "Hurr-durr how dare government say I have to keep my premises clean huh? this is a free market dammit!"

Comment Re:This isn't surprising (Score 1) 155

The #1 cost of most things are the raw materials needed to product followed by the labor (and their benefits). Tech needs almost nothing to produce since it includes software and even then needs a fraction of the employees of most sectors. Tech has amazing ROI because you just plain don't need to invest very much.

The trouble is that a lot of tech is either useless (Twitter) or evil (Uber).

whoa whoa... twitter is both useless AND evil (on an average)
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Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) 273

Posted by BeauHD from the solid-and-room-temperature dept.
schwit1 quotes a report from Irish Independent: The authors, led by Dr Aseem Malhotra, from Lister Hospital, Stevenage, wrote: "Despite popular belief among doctors and the public, the conceptual model of dietary saturated fat clogging a pipe is just plain wrong." Dr Malhotra and colleagues Professor Rita Redberg, from the University of California at San Francisco, and Pascal Meier from University Hospital Geneva in Switzerland and University College London, cited a "landmark" review of evidence that appeared to exonerate saturated fat. They said relative levels of "good" cholesterol, or high density lipoprotein (HDL), were a better predictor of heart disease risk than levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL), also known as "bad" cholesterol. High consumption of foods rich in saturated fat such as butter, cakes and fatty meat has been shown to increase blood levels of LDL. The experts wrote: "It is time to shift the public health message in the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease away from measuring serum lipids (blood fats) and reducing dietary saturated fat. "Coronary artery disease is a chronic inflammatory disease and it can be reduced effectively by walking 22 minutes a day and eating real food." They pointed out that in clinical trials widening narrow arteries with stents -- stainless steel mesh devices -- failed to reduce the risk of heart attacks.

Comment Re:I would like to apply for the job (Score 1) 47

Dear Sir,

My name is Mahindresh Jalabahamatra* from India. I would like to apply for the Universal Translator job that you are offering. I am very skilled in Universal Translation and have many years of experience. I have done Universal Translation for many clients in the past, and I consider your offered job as Universal Translator to fit my skills perfectly.

Hoping to hear from you soon.

I'm Indian and I find this absolutely hilarious.. Should I be offended? Naa.. I've seen too many applicants use similar language... I will however laugh uncontrollably for the next 5 minutes at that name... Mahindresh Jalabahamatra

Comment their marketing strategy blows... (Score 1) 188

by Roshan Halappanavar (#49099863) Attached to: Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation
With the latest z3 series I truly feel sorry for sony. I have a z3 compact and I cant for the love of god understand why this phone isnt selling like the first gew iphones during their prime. from what I can see, it seems like their advertising and marketing strategy sucks donkey balls (yes that's what I said). The new phones have features..useful ones at that..that no other phone has (by default.. obviously all features can be ported across in android).. like the glove mode in snowy weather.. the timeshift burst camera... the answering machine in the default phone app... NOBODY seems to know about this stuff.... Instead, all their ads talk like hopped up fashion models... come on sony. learn from samsung ..only their ad strategy,.. not their phone making skills..

Comment Re:360 3D (Score 1) 26

by Roshan Halappanavar (#48400831) Attached to: Preview Jaunt's Made-for-VR 360 Degree, 3D Short Films
True.. I suppose we'd have to add restrictions for movies where you want the action is happening at a set minimum distance from the observer (camera) and anything that gets closer will have to .... well.. disappear... yeah i see what you mean by hacky.. I do think it might be sufficient for movies/stories ....

Comment Re:360 3D (Score 1) 26

by Roshan Halappanavar (#48400645) Attached to: Preview Jaunt's Made-for-VR 360 Degree, 3D Short Films
partly yes.. though it may not be necessary for the system to "switch" between cameras since this isnt live (direct from the camera in real-time) 360degree 3d we're talking about... you'd need one video stream for the sphere of view of the left eye.. and another stream for the sphere of view of the right eye they'd have to be constructed and stiched together like panorama or photosphere pictures beforehand (unless you have some really powerful computers doing the conversion in real time.. though not necessary for a movie) So it would boil down to the system (occulus..gearVR etc) doing the calculation of which part of the sphere to be shown based on the orientation of the head of the viewer.. and do this fast enough that he/she cannot notice any lag between head motion and video motion...

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