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Did you even read the article? This is talking about a new noise cancelation feature being introduced today.

Did you even read the article? This is talking about a new noise cancelation feature being introduced today.

Is this is 100% client-side and would work offline?

I think those comments safely apply to any government project.

As I see it, one of the major issues with banks recently is that they've all conglomerated into a few large ones, so there isn't much choice or competition anymore. (Chart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Graph_of...) Backing those industries with public funds has already led to them making riskier investments, as they know the public will cover their losses.

A public (i.e. subsidized) bank has no incentive or need to compete or appease its customers, so I fail to see how this would make things better and not worse.

Primary Source: http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/172485/DemandandEnerg... (Excel file)

You can find the data they're referencing in the "Energy by Fuel Type" tab.

Same reason why a lot of people don't use things like material design. People want their designs to look good and stand out from the crowd - not have the same cookie cutter site as everything else.

Here's the original article: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2019/07/fighting-back-aga...

And the primary source/study: http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2019/05/28/jbc.RA118.005806

Not necessarily - if enough countries have moral issues with experimentation on human embryos there could easily be substantial pushback through economic or physical means. Maybe they won't draw the line here, but there's definitely a line people have with human experimentation.

You're also making the assumption that this is moving "forward" and that there won't be ramifications outside of external influence by other countries.

We must all stop manbearpig.

Anyone know if "full URL" here would include a hash from the url?

I was in an earthquake in DC in 2011 that, while lower on the Richter scale, felt way worse than the one that happened in LA today.

I didn't even feel the one yesterday either.

Nowadays sure, but historically that's not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attack#History_and_percep...

They're only "more prey than predator" because humans have fought back against them.

A wolf wouldn't think twice about killing a human.

Direct link to the study referenced: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/06/11/1820653116

>How many died of radioactive krypton gas poisoning after 3MI? (No, not zero.)

Can you actually prove anyone died as a result? The American Nuclear Society concluded:

>"The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by U.S. residents in a year."

>"Several health studies found there were no long-term adverse effects on the health of the population living around TMI."

http://www.ans.org/pi/resources/sptopics/tmi/whathappened.ph...

More studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2389745

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1405170/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2029040

I welcome any evidence to the contrary.

>The author clearly has access to far better information than defenders posting here.

If that's the case, why doesn't he share them? Just sounds like an appeal to authority. Regardless nuclear is safer by a massive margin, and again I'd be very surprised if that still wasn't the case even factoring all of that in. Even if you did have evidence of thousands of people dying, it'd still be safer than all other forms of generating power, not to mention much cleaner.

>with no requirements or plans for improvement,

The only reasons we're not improving plants and building new ones is government regulations preventing it.

Nuclear power is by far the cleanest and safest, including wind power.

>In England, there were 163 wind turbine accidents that killed 14 people in 2011. Wind produced about 15 billion kWhrs that year, so using a capacity factor of 25%, that translates to about 1,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced (the world produces 15 trillion kWhrs per year from all sources). -- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-ea...

Nuclear power has 0.07 deaths per TWh. (https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy)

1 TWh = 1 billion kWh, so multiply by 1,000 to get trillion kWh and you have ~70 deaths for nuclear, compared to 1,000 for wind per trillion kWh.

Fairly small sample size for wind power deaths vs nuclear (someone let me know if you find a better source), but I'd be very surprised if it didn't hold up with a more complete set of data. There have only been a trivial amount of nuclear power related deaths throughout history, with less than 10 deaths in the last 33 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...

It's hard to keep your eye on the road and use a touch screen interface. There's no tactile feedback.

Nope. When it comes to tumors, doctors always play 'better safe than sorry', but the treatments available for cancer are so detrimental that it's going to do way more harm than good to receive treatment for something that was benign.

A little bit of information can be a dangerous thing.

Cancer runs pretty deeply in my family, and I had read the same about breast cancer screenings years ago, re: false positives causing more harm than good, so it'd make sense to see the same trends for other cancers as well.

This is pretty awesome. Any time I open any article, the first thing I do is try to follow the trail of links/sources back to the primary sources and read that instead. If I can't find one, I don't trust the article.

Didn't Tesla already open source all their patents?

It's a law there because upskirting is a huge problem. I think OP was referring to an LED indicator so the phone owner/user could tell if the camera is in use by an app though.

Soy is actually one of the the top 8 food allergies, which is why it's required to be listed on labels.

As a smoker, that's always the last choice for me. I'll usually hold onto the butt until I find a trash can, or use a pocket smell-proof ash tray instead.

They will eventually biodegrade, but it just looks trashy to have them on the ground.

Sure, unplug your microphone and webcam.

I'd wager that there's some small feature you don't know about which uses audio input and it's requesting permissions too early rather than it being something malicious.

I wouldn't grant it either way though.

>Many people don't like this but it all boils down to calories in calories out.

Not true. Calories are a very crude metric of metabolic energy.

Wood (and anything else that burns) has a bunch of calories, yet we cannot process it as energy.

Nah pretty sure that'd just give you massive diarrhea.