Hard to know without more info. It likely depends on the rate with which they release it and the currents, i.e. how the radioactive water dilutes with the ocean. What should matter for the fish consumption there should be the local concentration.
I really don't know why this term is thrown around in the news so much without explanation. What I thought at first (and I think is the obvious interpretation) is that with an effectiveness of 90%, 10% of vaccinated people have no protection at all.
This is a good question that was picked up by a blog I read. IIRC it refers to the ratio of infections in the control group vs. the vaccinated group. Hence an effectiveness of 90% means 90% of cases occurred in the non-vaccinated group.
It does not mean 10% of people end up with no protection at all, as was my first thought.
But isn't there some redundancy of the parts at least? Of course you can't recover from a failed flip, but having more engines than necessary means some failed ignitions can be tolerated.
1. This isn't just driver monitoring if there can be a "live feed" (and besides I'm not inclined to believe Amazon only uses it for that), driver monitoring would not need an internet connection if there was any value placed on workplace privacy.
2. Windows and cameras are very different things, one can record, the other can't. One is two-way, the other is not.
Yes. Notice that if the goal was really "safety" (as stated), the company does not need a "live feed" ever, a warning to the driver is enough. After all his safety is in his own best interest.
That's definitely a tendency that you'd expect when sites are engineered for engagement and everybody starts out at google. I guess it also means google completely controls the experience of most people on the internet.
Capital is free to move around while people are often held in place by borders. If people were free to cross borders capital would have to compete for people instead of people and countries competing for capital.
The money Microsoft gets from spying on paying users is sometimes called "surveillance dividend". Even if you pay for something, the company can make more money if they also spy on you.
Yes, this. Not to say that fitness for test and fitness for reality aren't correlated. They just aren't the same. All in all I just wonder if we don't overvalue competition (the reason I we probably have grades) and undervalue passion.
I'm not even sure what non-distorted ratings are supposed to be. What you mention obviously makes them more inaccurate, but they aren't accurate to begin with. Ratings are a messy human affair, I don't know why we bother quantifying it...
As always we don't measure what matters, but what is measurable. There are actually very good arguments against giving grades at all, but it's sadly way out of the mainstream ...
I agree. But if we steel-man this,it could make sense for services that can be replaced by libraries. So simple services that could be replaced by a slim library on the user's machine.
I mean come on, deaths by pollution and accidents is all you look at to declare it as safe? What about the almost existential risk and the unsolved final repository problem? (the US at least still doesn't have one). Maybe the risk is low and until now nothing serious has happened in the US, but the potential for damage is so devastating that you should factor it in somehow. It's just not as simple as one number is probably what I'm trying to say ...
This is kind of unrelated, but I wonder if a small amount (say 100 signs or so) of sign language (ASL or local equivalent) wouldn't be useful for hearing people in their day-to-day lives. I'm very interested in sign-language, but language being what it is you can't do it alone ...
Juan Bennet mentioned in one of his talks how crazy it is that there still isn't a simple way to send files from one pc to another. This is a nice tool.