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You can always choose an MVNO if you want to. They run on same network as the big 4, although they might lack some roaming options. (and access to LTE, if that is important to you)

Things are getting better slowly. The next line of Vaio Flip will have a 2880x1620 display. Full HD is also quite common in 13" range now.

Yep, they can probably not teach you much about any non-trivial problem in calculus, nor would probably engage you much in current advances being made in field. They would make fantastic teachers for teaching Algebra-I and II.

Some of my worst courses have been Field theorist teaching electromagnetism.

OT: I have a HP laptop with fingerprint reader, and it works perfectly with Lastpass and Windows login. I almost never type my passwords now. HP had shipped some software, but I honestly never used it. It works just fine with in-built Windows 7 support.

No it does not, and the right against self-incrimination also holds when you are called for testimony under grand jury. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Hubbell.

Perhaps you are confusing the first and the second clause of fifth amendment?

> He does not know, nor do I.

Yes, but there are level of beliefs that can be assigned to arbitrary hypothesis. Consider the fact(s) that

1) the scientific consensus agrees that most human being are almost equivalent in skills and intelligence to form decent social structures

2) Africa has a billion plus human being, the scale at which laws of large number dictates that their overall behavior should be close to human mean.

3) there have been advanced cultures in Africa in past, as recent as just before European colonization.

Keeping that in mind, reasonable people would agree that Africans are not inferior merely due to continent they are born upon. Is this the scientific level of proof that matches the 5 sigma precision coming out of LHC? No. But it is reasonable to expect so, and no proper scientific resources are being devoted to this micro-study, after most of Science has already has rejected idea that one large group of humans could be statistically inferior to other large group.

As a side note, you might not have realized it, but similar arguments have been used (and are still being used) by people who want to raise a rhetorical question, like how do you know that evolution explains x,y,z fact? More often than not, these people do not have intention of genuine questioning but rather want to show that ignorance of one detailed thought experiment is enough to discredit entire field of scientific evidence. It is thus not surprising that people would think that you belong to one of that group.

There are various other Android app store apart from the official play Store (Amazon, F-droid, etc). Any app can request permission to install other apps silently, or may be even a newer version of itself. Play Store uses no private API which is not available to other Android developer. Ask your users to download the apk from your website, if Google Play store won't carry your app, and then built-in a mechanism to auto-update at will.

This is incredibly revisionist. There was no strong support for CRA in US at the time. Entire south switched its party affiliation after the vote, and many northern congressmen only voted after incredible arm-twisting by LBJ and executive branch. The senate faced 83 days of filibuster from opposing senators, and few of them stood and talked for 10+ hours to stop its passage. Only by forgetting the entire history of how the act came to be can one claim that their was strong support in entire country.

> Without his job at Walmart, he'd be eligible for even more benefits

This is false. The biggest government benefit that someone employed at Walmart gets is the EITC, the _Earned_ income tax credit. For a person earning 20k with family of 4, the EITC would be near 5k, or a quarter of the salary. If the person was not working, the government (usually) does not pays anyone 25k for non working. Moreover, without the $5k EITC, it would not be economically feasible for this person to work at Walmart, and Walmart would have to simply pay its worker more to at least find people who can eat enough. The government is absolutely subsidizing Walmart in tune of $3-4k per worker.

Mass use of shipping container in 1970s alone has changed more lives than all those inventions from 1930 to 1970 combined.

In theory. In practice, no airline would let you board without a passport when going on an international flight.

I installed Zagat app once after they were acquired by Google, and they kept on sending me spam after spam, with opt-out. I won't even try the new app anymore.

I hope it leads to more use of VPN and like. The added advantage would be that your ISP and GCHQ can not easily tap into your online activities, and you'll always have plausible cover of using VPN to hide your pornographic habit.

Does measles vaccine covers everyone who takes it, or do some people have to rely on herd immunity?

FDA did not clear the vaccine for children, so from this one probably isn't on the list of covered vaccine. The entire vaccine court system was established so that drug companies can make vaccines with minimum headaches. Why would any company produce vaccine when there are other profitable things to make?

Just to correct your first statement, in their recent article, they have ruled out idea that D-wave solves problems by cooling (otherwise known as simulated or classical annealing). Quantum annealing, a special case of Adiabatic Quantum Computing, is a completely different approach for solving Ising problems.

Unconstrained optimization is NP-hard problem, and quantum approaches won't change that. However, D-wave hopes they are faster in solving optimizations than classical solvers, something they haven't demonstrated yet. The fact whether D-wave is actually a Quantum machine is interesting to Computer Scientists and Physicist who care about accuracy of commercial hype, and also to D-wave's future customers.

The machine solves QUBO problem. You program in the Q_ij and a set of X's is returned as answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_unconstrained_binary_...