Interesting project, but why are there Pepsi and PlayStation logo images in the Readme?
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Yes, the Earth has changed significantly over millions of years or even millennia. The point that our climate is changing is not new, it's how fast it's changing that's the problem.
Animals and ecosystems are great at adapting on those long time scales, but not so much within only a few generations or a hundred years.
So yes, if you point out that there have been floods, droughts and fires in Australia forever, we agree. If you think Australia's climate is going to change over the next 200 years as slowly as it did the previous 200 years if we continue to emit current levels of greenhouses gasses we disagree there.
Maybe the more appropriate term is "accelerated climate change" since as you point out the Earth does transform naturally over extremely long periods of time.
We also have more people on this Earth and better measurements now so it's not surprising that more people are recorded as being affected.
So, climate change didn't start the brush fires but it probably did make them X% more intense, but we don't know what X is.
For example, 1% higher temperatures or 1% less moisture or 1% higher wind might produce more than 1% additional fire damage when one occurs.
There might be a reinforcement effect where a slight change in fire conditions produces much more damage when compounded over the range of the fire.
I'm not sure we know the variables well enough to know the exact amount though.
True, but I doubt you could find hiring data that supports a 4x higher employment rate among ISA cohorts.
If bootcamps wanted to publish they're employment rate and average salary for both cohorts so students could do the math that would be better.
My guess is employment and salary are much more tied to ability and location than thyey are to wether you opt in to an ISA.
If the ISA is capped at the tuition or sightly higher it's a wonderful program. Very few are.
Student loans are often predatory but I'm not sure if any topically collect 4x the total tuition over the life of the loan.
It's easy to look at this as giving education to those who wouldn't get it otherwise.
But there is a dark side: https://medium.com/@kevgardner83/the-true-cost-of-income-sha...
> The average up-front tuition amount for coding bootcamps is $10,000 to $15,000, according to Course Report, which collects data and reviews on coding bootcamps. The idea to not pay thousands of dollars at the start of the program may be attractive. But, let’s say you agree to an ISA. And after completing the a coding bootcamp, you’re hired with a salary of $60,000 a year. If you pay 20 percent of your salary for four years, you’ll end up paying $48,000. That’s more than four times the average cost for an up-front payment to a coding bootcamp.
It's basically charging those with the least money more tuition. It would be fine if they capped it at the tuition price or even a nominal interest rate, but some programs make 400% more from students that can't afford upfront tuition.
It's fine if you want to charge everyone in your bootcamp under the ISA model, but if you offer a $10k tuition and a $40k ISA you're basically offering the same product at vastly different prices to two different economic groups.
This "don't pay unless you get a job education model" costs you far more than those who have the means to pay for a bootcamp outright.
BTW, as someone who hires developers at all talent levels I'd never put any value in a diploma, from an Ivy League or a boot camp. The only thing I want to see is the most interesting thing you've built recently. From there we can talk technical details and cultural fit.
For wind, it sounds modest. They project the strongest hurricanes to be 5% stronger (windier) by 2100 than the strongest hurricanes today.
Of course there are other factors too like sea level rise which isn't factored in I don't think. If your city is already flooded and a hurricane hits, I'd imagine the damage would be worse or last for longer.
Correct, not a significant increase in the number of hurricanes, but they are projecting an increase in destructive power.
> The IPCC AR5 presents a strong body of scientific evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past half century is very likely due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
> it is likely that greenhouse warming will cause hurricanes in the coming century to be more intense globally and have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes.
> the lifetime maximum intensity of Atlantic hurricanes will increase by about 5% during the 21st century
> We also conclude that it is likely that climate warming will cause Atlantic hurricanes in the coming century have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes, and medium confidence that they will be more intense (higher peak winds and lower central pressures) on average.
I don't.
I think so. If I sell motorcycles and I only have enough budget to show ads to one cohort and have two options:
A) a person who likes motorcycles but has no / very few friends who like motorcycles (presumably a diverse group)
B) a person who likes motorcycles and all their friends like motorcycles (a firm group identity)
I'm picking group B. If I'm successful in selling them a motorcycle, it's free advertising to many more eligible buyers. Plus, even if I'm not there's a chance they might talk about my ad if it's memorable enough and spread via word of mouth.
It was against the Facebook ToS, but the data was still provided easily via the API. That's what allowed them to quickly build a database of most eligible voters with very little direct outreach.
For new marketplaces the risk and reward are pretty low. For mature marketplaces the reward is much higher and the risks probably vary based on your home country.
The ideal for a scammer is probably a site with good enough security to remove most scammers but not good enough to remove you.
I assume data is property.
In this case the mother already had joint possession (through marriage) of her and her husband's property. While we refer to it as "his USBs" because he probably bought them and used them exclusively, when you're married they are legally owned jointly by you and your spouse.
One exception would be if he did the work on behalf of a company and the company paid for the USBs. Then the company could probably sue to have their property returned. Or if he had a contract saying that he had to delete the data after the contract ended, that could probably be enforced as well.
One great thing about science is that it encourages reproducing results. Many clickbait articles review un-reproduced or preliminary results. Those feel free to disregard.
Science isn't perfect but peer-reviewed, reproducible experiments are still the best data source we have.
In one election someone even proposed a litmus test "who would you rather have a beer with?". In other it's been "who would you invite into your home". Neither are ever going to happen, but it's easier to tug at people's emotions than get them to listen to information.
I can imagine this being true.
If a meteor is going to destroy Earth you probably aren't spending your last few days doing the dishes and sweeping the floors. You're only doing that if there's a > 50% chance that we'll be able to divert it.
And better than "being optimistic" is rapidly developing the technology and passing the law to make it realistic.
Not everyone sizes up the issues.
It would be easier for them to provide an RSS feed or a free API if they wanted to share their data.
But, my understanding is that you are allowed to scrape sites as long as you don't impact their ability to deliver the site to other users. In other words, don't DDoS them. Sites tried to ban scraping but last I remember seeing it was not enforceable unless it was done at high rates or maliciously.
As for content, certain things like recipes aren't protected content because they are "listings of ingredients". I can imagine a job opening / title might follow that same logic, maybe the job requirements and benefits as well.
What is protected is the way it's presented and organized. So if you have the same jobs with the same filters and same layout you might be exposing yourself to trouble. You have to make changes in the way it's presented, which for copyright law is changing 50% or more.
So if you're scraping a job site and only showing remote jobs or jobs in a certain skill set, or you're showing the job along with some stats about the company you're probably in a safe spot. But again, if you want to make a business out of it it's probably good to talk to a lawyer first.
Isn't that inequality? It sounds like if it's equal (both get grapes or both get cucumbers) everything is fine.
A mechanical tool usually implies some sort of motion to produce a desired effect.
I'd love to see language design and language development treated as different disciplines.
Just like developers were the first web designers, developers have been the first language designers.
Ideally a language designer would only be tasked with how to express complex ideas in a simple, composable syntax.
Language developers would be tasked with everything else: basically making those ideas work as efficiently and consistently as possible.
Not to say a language designer and developer can't be the same person, but I think there might be some benefit to having a linguist (with some understanding of development) and a developer (with some understanding of linguistics) team up on a new language.
Any language that compiles to JavaScript.
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/technical-debt-and-tacking-...
> lessons learned:
> Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Any day now, I suspect some fools are going to want to write web apps, but they won’t want to use raw javascript and they’ll create some ridiculous custom language to javascript compiler. I can only hope they have the good sense not to tell anybody about it.
Curious if the "wisdom of crowds" works with these future predictions or if only a few were on target.