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I find what might help those that quote statistics is to self-reflect and ask the question, how would you react if your father/mother/sister/son/daughter/etc was the victim?

Would you care that statistically self-driving cars have killed less people than human drivers?

Hard problem of conciousness

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousnes...

For those interested in thoughts about consciousness, I highly recommend Bernardo Kastrup.

He comes from a comp sci background but has several books and very well structured arguments for Idealism. His manner of delivering his insights I think particularly appeal to those with analytical and critical thinking backgrounds.

He has several very good videos on YouTube as well.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4552692.Bernardo_Kastr...

https://www.youtube.com/user/bernardokastrup/

When you buy an apple in the store, unless it is labeled as "new crop" it has already been in storage for up-to a year.

http://www.foodrenegade.com/your-apples-year-old/

And they used that same water canal to stack those huge blocks too?

Seems like only half the “secret” revealed.

Bernardo Kastrup - Why Materialism Is Baloney

Has a lot of impact on current AI theory.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20543665-why-materialism...

Fourth paragraph.

SCOPE is for Cosmos what USQL is for Azure Data Lake Analytics

There are a lot of similarities between Scope and USQL, but USQL is also a cleaner (and in some ways more rigid) implementation.

Depends on the recession type.

Or one with better ingredients.

Maybe I didn't do a good job scanning the comments, but I'm surprised nobody (not even the article) mentions the NSF certification body.

Taste is important but very subjective. I don't buy a water filter unless it shows up as certified by NSF[1].

A few years ago I almost fell for a "water purification system" on Amazon, with stellar reviews that was supposed to filter out everything. With a baby on the way I figured it was worth the price tag. Good thing I did my research. The water filtration system was not certified or verified by anybody.

edit:

Same thing applies to humidifiers, air cleaners, air conditioners, etc. Don't buy unless it has been certified[2].

[1] http://info.nsf.org/Certified/DWTU/

[2] http://ahamverifide.org/

You can upgrade up from 10S to 10Pro. Panos mentioned that at the end.

It's a full fledged laptop.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Because unlike the US government, WikiLeaks has a more accurate/transparent track record?

After reading this article I was reminded of Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question".

http://multivax.com/last_question.html

Luckily for you, Windows 10 will support Ubuntu Bash natively (as part of the anniversary update).

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

Through a combination of cognitive API sentiment analysis and entity recognition is also supported.

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/text-anal...

Similar offering suite from Microsoft,

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/

Anybody know of any good self-help/research communities or forums?

Search engines are filled with clickbait these days.

Maybe I'm missing something,

But I honestly don't understand the point of spending billions of dollars building light rail, when the solution seems much simpler.

Roads? Check

Busses? Check

Busses are way more flexible than rail. They can utilize existing road infrastructure. With some investment into dedicated bus lanes in high traffic areas, and more busses/bus routes, people can be moved around with significantly less capital investment.

Can you be more specific about what you hate?

I've been a .NET dev for over 10 years as well, and for all it's faults, VS is one of the best dev environments I've ever worked in.

Anybody know of any good sources of MLS data for programmatic consumption (even if not free)?

That would lead to analysis-paralysis pretty quickly. Just saying.

Excuse my ignorance, but aren't antibiotics meant for humans, tested on us as well?

I think the issue here is that antibiotics being given to animals were not studied for these scenarios. For instance, how they may impact milk and meat quality. Not to mention that they are given to animals in much less "regulated" way, compared to people.

You mean Apple and Google.

I'm interested to hear other people's experiences. I have a 100k trading portfolio and I have sold/bought nothing in the last week.

Thoughts on who's doing all this downward trading?

Apparently there is a subscription version of Hulu on the way, which will be ad-free.

I get this whole skepticism thing, but Microsoft has been backing up BitLocker keys in OneDrive since at least Windows 8.

I have personally used the feature several times to recover my drive keys.

There's no evidence here that Microsoft has installed a "back door" for the FBI.

I highly recommend the Xbox One streaming feature that's coming with Windows 10.

It allows you to play your Xbox games on your PC.

Shipped with VS 2015,

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative