Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 45
Not all products meet a demand. In fact the vast majority of novel products actually create the demand in the first place.
Correct.
There is zero demand for Python on a microcontroller.
Incorrect.
Not all products meet a demand. In fact the vast majority of novel products actually create the demand in the first place.
Correct.
There is zero demand for Python on a microcontroller.
Incorrect.
My mother's basement gets pr0nHub at 1080p minimum, you insensitive clod!
Oh but they can spy on you and they do. They record what is shown on the screen, often as periodic snapshots, to determine what you are watching. It does not matter that you use chromecast; as long as it displays on your screen, the TV Can record it.
And they sneak in and swap out a memory card when you're not home?
Fine to repackage their offer as traffic analytics as long as it is actually just that, meaning entirely giving up on licence plate OCR (the enabler of surveillance and law enforcement side of their product package).
Depends on the terms of their contract. If you believe the summary, then doing anything with the county's data other than serve it to them for the intended purpose is against the terms of their contract, which would make it actionable.
The US has enjoyed amazing economic success since WW II because it recognized that there's no better investment not just in terms of monetary ROI, but societal ROI.
And the ROI is really, really impressive. Each dollar in the NIH budget gets returned as about 5 (depending on the study) in increased GDP. To my knowledge, there is no other billion-dollar scale investment that has consistent, long-term returns like that.
Congress knows this fact. They commissioned many of the studies showing it. It is difficult to believe the Executive Branch is not aware of it. If we really wanted to be America First, rather than reducing the NIH budget, we'd be promoting another run of annual increases with the intent of doubling that allocation in real dollars over the coming decade. Contact your congressional representatives today to advocate for the idea.
He was over-leveraged and didn't manage risk well. In other words, he was a terrible fund manager.
lol, like phys.org (somewhere between journalism and breathless huckterism) has never got crucial facts or inferred conclusions wrong.
College press releases, science journalism, and medical journalism THRIVE on hyperbole and overexaggerated / misunderstood conclusions like this.
[T]he worst part about ads is that the targeting algorithm is still absolute horse shit.
No, the worst part about ads is that they exist at all in a form that intentionally disrupts your attention.
That fundamental issue is then exacerbated by the current societal tolerance for lies, and you get intrusive advertisements that are deeply misleading.
So, why are you tolerating current advertising at all when there are tools that effectively eliminate it?
The assumption is that using your phone / infotainment system to search for, possibly purchase, and play a new release is an attention-demanding task that takes substantial time. The consensus above is that Spotify's UI, in particular, is poor, and thus requires extra interaction, and thus attention off the road, exacerbating the problem. We know that attending to a phone, even briefly, is mutually exclusive to attending to the road. That alone is an explanatory mechanism for the increase in fatalities.
But then we augment that supposition by the additional effects that new music is also a distraction, albeit much lower grade than operating a phone. It might be a lesser effect, but listening to a song or three is also expected to span longer time than interacting with a phone, so might have substantial cumulative impact.
An additional effect that I have not seen mentioned above is the expectation that the demographic listening to top releases is likely to skew younger, and thus contains drivers with less experience than the population. Less experienced drivers are at far greater risk of accidents of any sort, and are more sensitive to distraction.
And, as a parent of teenagers, the solution is clear to me: do not frelling use your phone when driving, period.
> No.
Yup. Davis' or Betteridge's Law: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Agreed; I was going to say the same about _worth_. Markets may price their stock there. But I am not seeing a path or rev / profit model thatâ(TM)s making that make sense.
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Agreed; I was going to say the same about âworthâ(TM). Markets may price their stock there. But Iâ(TM)m not seeing a path or rev / profit model thatâ(TM)s making that make sense.
I can't figure out whether the study considered someone's *previous* occupations, or simply their most recent occupation listed at time of death.
From TFOriginalScientificArticle: "Additionally, death certificates included a field for reported usual occupation (the occupation in which the decedent spent most of their working life), generally completed by a funeral director with help from the decedent’s informant."
Looking at Figure 1 from the paper, taxi drivers and ambulance drivers are clear lower-bound outliers in terms of risk from Alzheimer's. But they also die a full decade before the eyeballed mean of the population. There are a couple of data points in the middle plot from that figure that have just slightly higher adjusted risk of Alzheimer's, but have lifespans at ca. 80 years that are well *above* the mean. Regrettably, the paper does not discuss those data points -- me, I'd want to have those occupations since they trade a very slightly increased risk of Alzheimer's for 15 more years of life.
And, then, the bit that's also not in the headline and TFS is that taxi drivers and ambulance drivers have *increased* risk of other forms of dementia, especially taxi drivers.
Also, disappointingly, the paper does not show the full ranked list of occupations (even in the supplementary data), highlighting only a small handful (taxi drivers, ambulance drivers, bus drivers, airline pilots, ship captains, and CEOs).
At least someone realized that it would be a good idea to scan outgoing traffic.
One hopes that the internal reaction amongst the leadership was more than just, "bloody hell."
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