En_gr_Student
The suicide rate should bump itself up substantially above 50 per 100k, especially for younger demographics. It should then plateau for the foreseeable future.
I really really really really hope that I am wrong. We have folks with no vision in charge, and they drove a big ship into the rocks: my hypothesis is that this is onset/ramp-up of body count.
The median age is much more interesting than the mean, and more relevant for today.
These folks may have covered up something that resulted in the miscarriage, or birth defects of the child of any pregnant woman who stood near that closet for just a few minutes.
I think the folks who covered it up for 8 months, or the morons who (threw the rocks in a hole and brought the nuclear-contaminated buckets back) should lose all their power and position. That is an amazingly bad decision.
Lucky thing some kid walked around with a geiger counter. He recorded the levels, so the numbers that officials are hiding, he knows them. His counter can be tested and certified by a decent national lab, and the exact and calibrated level of the radiation determined. And those contaminated buckets tell something about the material that was in them.
Ore shmore. It is a radioactive substance that gives off dangerous levels of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation, as well as nuclear byproducts like radon and other gaseous nuclear isotopes.
Get more than the "top paragraph summary" that NPR did on the original AZ Central article by reading it in its entirety.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/02/2...
If you have "fusion in a bottle" and don't want to share, this is a decent way to make it harder to steal/damage/use-for-terrorism.
Also, giant beam transmission facilities and giant beam weapons aren't so different from each other. There are going to be detectable critical differences, but with some modifications one can be made into the other.
Radiation damage is going to be a challenge but satellites do with solar for a long time. Onboard robots?
A CNN should be able to back that out too, and do other things like regenerate a 3d space. In the right, high-fidelity, acoustic tracks could be the spatial information to reconstruct a stage and a performance. It would be neat/beautiful/(possibly very powerful) to back video out of audio in that way.
I love how commercials "follow you around". If I search for diamond rings in a browser on one computer, they suddenly materialize everywhere.
I tried it with Duck-Duck-go, searching for something I nearly never search for, something such that the ads follow you around. I just searched in DDG, but did not go to the end website. I then resumed non-DDG browsing, and those came up as ads. I don't know if they are looking at image caches, or loading javascript libraries.
They have a way around it already, and it runs.
It would be like a wire-tap without a warrant. Do they need a warrant for someone already in prison?
It is going to be funny/ironic when the "Social Credit" system in China has voice-fingerprints of nearly every person under surveillance, so that words heard by any listening device would be admissible to analysis. They could then detect someone saying things of folks in power, both in adherence to political norms, and also in detection of fraud.
Thought-crimes, coming soon.
A truly crushing next step would be to make "World in Flames" into a computer game, and have Alpha-Star-Zero, which is coming, to become the best it can on that.
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/296/details/World.In.Fla...
If they do that, every single military on the planet should crap themselves, including the US, Nato, Russia, China, and EU. It means that 20 years or less to robots able to operate at every level in an army from soldier to general, and able to comprehensively defeat the best humans at it, at every level. The first nation to the battlefield with this wins the world. One ironic part is that an excellent application is non-battlefield warfare. You don't have to drive a tank to conquer the world; perhaps you can buy a factory or make a deal. The corporate interface here should also be compelling.
Perhaps Alphabet will finally be able to use this to make non-advertising profits.
A "competitive" work schedule in China is 9-9-6, or 9am to 9pm for 6 days a week. That means "normal" is a 72 hour work-week plus commute. A 40-hour work week, is comparatively cake. The 72 hour work-week is 80% increase over a 40 hour work-week. The HR ghouls say imagine salaried employees being glad to work 80% more hours, including nights or weekend hours, for the same pay: amazing; sold!
The book-cooking for h1b is intense, but after talking personally with a dozen or so folks, they really do only take home about 1/3 to 1/2 what their peers do. There is bs about job duties, titles, responsibilities, but that is just folks trying to pay the lowest price for a commodity worker. I've seen several fortune 100 companies say they prefer "low cost geo's" as much as h1b so that gives a second population with similar pricing. It is open knowledge that engineers in Malaysia, India, or Costa Rica are paid 1/3 of US wages for what is, as far as HR can tell, the same job. They do the same job, and get a lot lower wages for it.
When someone was bullied as a child, they are easier to bully as an adult. Stupid/evil/inept bosses love employees who they can abuse without pushback. Folks from cultures of oppression aren't going to report safety issues to safety folks. They aren't going to report managerial violations to those who police managers. They are non-reporting victims. The HR ghouls see them as "don't make waves" or "get along" and the hiring managers see them as "easy prey". In grad school there were prof's who wouldn't let overseas grad students get even a short break to attend their own mothers funeral, and those guys got away with it. That is "liberal academia" and not the underbelly of corporate/industrial America. Think about what that means for bully-bosses in the workplace.
It isn't going to change unless the value of the commodity can be forced into a competitive market, where the price will go toward actual parity, and the rate of preference will go to parity with citizens. Until that, h1b is the lottery where the only way to lose is not to play.
There is one and only one solution, and it is a lottery. If it becomes an auction, then the h1b prices will double or triple - that is to day they will go up to parity for US wages for the same job.
Is there nothing in the world that will make the FDA stop killing people? Opoids kill more than all auto accidents combined including drunk drivers. (36k auto deaths in 2016 vs. 70k opioid deaths in 2017) If Ford made a car that doubled death rates from accidents, it would be burned to the ground in lawsuits.
The FDA is doing that, and all they get are illicit payoffs from drug companies and a body count that they ignore.
I think that leadership should be much more assertive in communicating to the FDA that what they are doing was not in the interests of the American people. I think that people at the FDA should lose their careers over the hundreds of thousands of dead bodies they are creating.
I have heard that recycling of glasses is illegal. Isn't that like right-to-repair broken for 18th century technology? It is because someone in politics makes a lot of money from it. If someone were to dig out decent documentation there, and make it public, then the problem could be and not just patched with a band-aid.
The only winning strategy is if the FBI does investigate, and if there is an actual penalty. Nothing less will impact the long term behavior of AT&T or any other cell company.
Seriously, it is game theory. They are saying "we will stop" because of the presence of the threat. If the threat goes away, then they are going to keep making money/selling you until the threat comes back. Like the boy crying wolf, the villagers (fbi) takes longer to build momentum for the second event than for the first.
The organization is the least common denominator, so its moral capacity is the worst of a 5 year old child. Like raising/disciplining a child, the only way to change their negative behavior is to add an expected penalty to the behavior that is larger than the expected gain, so the risk-reward evaluation they make says "don't do it".
Are we now, this moment, coming to 5:15-5:34? I suspect, and hope, that the eulogist was pointing this toward ARPA and SRI and not me.
This feels like a minimum description length problem. I think that if the agents had to use hierarchical descriptors, thinking of cat as some assembly of tail, legs, body, head, eyes, ears, mouth, and all, that an internal hierarchy would show up in the communication, and a divergence between the training and communicated hierarchies would have a better defining contrast at showing an inferred structure.
There is an intermediate "rich" communication light-set that speaks more than intentions, and more directions than backward.
If you go "no driver" then your market dies. It is going to be an ironic pain for Detroit, one that ranks up there with having your company realtime video your face for thought-crimes, when individual consumers don't buy cars that don't come with a steering wheel.
Yay netflix!
Obamacare killed the US as a medical mega-power. Economics 101: if you force the same prices for a much larger demand, then either the product sells out, or the service is watered down.