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The standard vaccination schedule is comprised of vaccinations with benefits which outweigh the medical risk and cost. If you travel to less developed areas you may receive a wider array of vaccinations.
For an eradicated disease there is no benefit and therefore no reason to assume the risk, or cost.
Building anything in the open space in Marin is nonsense and would create an enormous commute problem as well as harm the environment -- both directly and with secondary effects of increased commute emissions.
We see the same variance regionally within the US as well. Canadians use more energy per capita than folks in the US. Cold and hot states dominate energy consumption per capita.
The US does have larger homes and more wealth and does tend to consume more energy per capita across similar environments -- but regional weather patterns create far, far larger differences in energy consumption than any other factor.
We could just as easily say that Europe shouldn't be used as a benchmark as the weather is too nice, on average.
What I did point out is that they're making a mockery out of their premium phone brand by shipping it with crippleware. Check back and see what that decision costs them in a decade.
Google is absurdly bad at product.
It doesn't seem worth it, to me. I need ad blockers anyway for other ad services and annoyances so I end up just avoiding their built-in ad-riddled apps and going through a browser for things like youtube. It's a poor experience but better than dealing with ads.
I understand the value prop for shipping crippleware apps in a low cost android phone, but they ship the same stuff on flagship $1k phones like the pixel. It's a bizarre choice.
No, it doesn't. In fact, it clearly states the opposite noting that the 3rd, 7th, 9th and 10th amendments in the Bill of Rights have not been incorporated.
On that page you can even find a table noting when each amendment in the Bill of Rights was incorporated. It quite clearly tells you that the 2nd amendment was incorporated in 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago.
Nothing you said in this comment is correct.
I think people avoid public transit because it is necessarily slow due to the multiple stops. They may also avoid it because it is too accessible. Sharing a vehicle with other commuting professionals is a vastly different experience than what you'll find on most public transit.
Your complaint is that cars lower density as speed increases, which is true, but you're still looking at this too narrowly. Consider the bus.
Objects moving 3x faster can be 1/3 as dense and have the same overall throughput.
As you describe, people may buy self driving cars and use the self-driving feature to drive them more often. Wealthy folks and people in rural areas are almost certain to take this route.
Others predict that people won't buy cars at all and will instead rent them from ride services, who in turn may promote ride sharing on an unprecedented scale. Poor folks, for whom a car is a major expense, are almost certain to take this route, as well as city dwellers.
Personally, I think we may see traffic increase in some areas and substantially decrease in others. I suspect the largest source of traffic -- the commute -- will shrink considerably as networks of reasonably dense self-driving vanpools and small busses pop up.
You can read more starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States
This is a news article about a notice they've just issued indicating as much.
The law is not a computer program. Being clever about definitions does not often have pleasant results. This approach is unlikely to work.
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The lack of a remote manipulation interface has always been a problem, however.
For example, no searching.
Investing a lump sum is a risk -- you'd cut your fortune nearly in half if you invested in 2008. This isn't an issue for most folks who save over time.
Frankly, the largest thing stopping folks from investing is financial literacy. The second largest thing is probably lack of disposable income.
If you're worried about scrapes throw on a motorcycle jacket. But if you know how to fall, 40-50km/h is manageable without gear -- aside from the mandatory helmet.
Imagine if a similar liability were created around regulating job postings or apartment rentals, where Craigslist derives its revenue.
Being able to videoconference during my commute would be an enormous boon.
This is not true, as Meltdown and Spectre have recently taught us.
A site which can degrade gracefully in the absence of js features is a higher bar than a static, js free site. At the end of the day, disabling js entirely is a custom privilege level of zero.
If the term "carbon neutral" referred to all carbon on earth, then yes, burning coal would be carbon neutral. But that isn't what the term means.
Your idea is refuted by definition, not by science.
What countries don't have nice people you run into on the street? Who would be rude or surly to foreign visitors? I can think of several large western cities with stereotypes along these lines.