Aging can cause a decrease in retain sensitivity: "Cells in the retina that are responsible for normal color vision decline in sensitivity as we age, causing colors to become less bright and the contrast between different colors to be less noticeable. ... In particular, blue colors may appear faded or "washed out." While there is no treatment for this normal, age-related loss of color perception, you should be aware of this loss if your profession (e.g. artist, seamstress or electrician) requires fine color discrimination."
<< Says a habitual coffee drinker who came to the habit late in life, and who is very happy he's moderately dependent on a substance which is highly unlikely to kill him >>
Coffee will do more than not kill you; it was recently found to confer a "reduced risk of dying from heart disease and certain other causes"!
<< Compared with abstainers, nonsmokers who drank a cup of coffee a day had a 6 percent reduced risk of death, one to three cups an 8 percent reduced risk, three to five cups a 15 percent reduced risk, and more than five cups a 12 percent reduced risk. There was little difference whether they drank caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee. The association persisted after controlling for age, alcohol consumption, B.M.I. and other health and diet factors. >>
Thought this was the most interesting part of the review:
<< When Mr. Jobs harangues his staff, when he puts the company ahead of his supposed friends, when he shows little regard for his family in the service of building what’s next, he implicitly holds an ace card with the audience who knows how things eventually turned out. Sure, he may have been terrible to be around, but in the end, wasn’t he right about the importance of that dent in the universe? And if he hadn’t been as obnoxious about his aims, would the dent have been as large? >>
The trick with using technology to assess "driving while texting" is that texters are often the passengers in the car. Waze tries to deal with moving typers by having an alert that pops up thatsays (roughly), "You can't enter text while moving" - but has a button that says, "It's ok, I'm a passenger."
The trick with a $75 fine for texting while moving is passengers. If you're willing to ban texting entirely while moving though, using technology to assess small fines could work!
As I understand it, there's no requirement to review content before submission. My understanding is that once someone has flagged or reported it to you, you're mandated to report it.
NCMEC has protocols around how to report the images/video, and how to delete it on your end.
I would highly recommend against calling the FBI. You should work with NCMEC, as they have experience working with this stuff and their CyberTipline is one of the major ways that Congress has mandated that online service providers should report this stuff. Plus talking to law enforcement employed by the federal government has a host of risks associated with it:
<< Its my beliefe that if debt should be assumed commonly, it will break up the EU because no voters in any country would agree to this. >>
But that's exactly what happened in the early days of the founding of the US, when Alexander Hamilton negotiated the Funding Act of 1790: "The Funding Act authorized the federal government to receive certificates of state war-incurred debts and to issue federal securities in exchange."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_Act_of_1790
Without the Funding Act, the state governments would've defaulted on their Revolutionary War debt. By assuming the debt of the states, the US greatly strengthened their collective borrowing ability and also brought the states closer together into the union.
Other posters are correct; you are obligated under US law to report child porn to the NCMEC CyberTipline.
The fine for not complying started off fairly low, but has been increased in subsequent legislation. In my experience though, NCMEC is mostly just interested in getting regular reports uploaded to their system. I met with them once, and they have a rough sense for how many reports should be sent over for a site of a certain activity/traffic level, and if the number of repots is zero... then they know you're not in compliance.
Their reporting interface is beyond awful though. Maybe they've improved it in recent years; when I last saw it, everything had to be uploaded and reported manually.
<< Yet if someone like that came to a top venture capitalist’s office, he or she could very well be turned away. Start-up investors often accept pitches only from people they know, and rely heavily on gut feelings, intuition and what’s worked before. “I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg,” Paul Graham, co-founder of the seed investor Y Combinator, once said. >>
Paul was right - this meme just won't die.
<< People will probably still repeat that quote, but now if someone does it will be proof that either (a) they didn't do their research or (b) they have an ideological axe to grind. >>
<< After careful consideration, we've decided to transition Shyp couriers, the individuals who complete pickups at our customers' homes and offices, to W2 employees. This move is an investment in a longer-term relationship with our couriers, which we believe will ultimately create the best experience for our customers.
Here at Shyp, we have three different roles that make up the workforce that creates the awesome Shyp experience that we’ve become known for. We have couriers (handle pickups), satellite van drivers (take items to warehouse) and those in the warehouse (handle packing and shipping, etc.). This move does not impact our satellite drivers or warehouse employees, who have been classified as W2 since Shyp launched in March of 2014, due to the specific responsibilities of their role. >>
Makes a lot more sense now why they bought Waze. It wasn't just to snatch it out of the hands of Apple and Facebook to protect the Google Maps franchise. It was to play keepaway from Uber, and prepare for the enteral launch of Google (Autonomous) Car.
I was surprised to read that Yahoo had made so much progress:
<< Yahoo’s growth has been flat during her tenure. But recently, almost unknown to investors mostly interested in Yahoo for its $40 billion stake in the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, Yahoo is showing progress. Revenue from the businesses Ms. Mayer created or acquired are growing at an annual rate of 80 percent, she announced in Yahoo’s last earnings update. She also said she expected overall growth to begin this year, which is pretty much in line with her original, optimistic timeline. >>
With a bit more momentum, she could be on track with her original turnaround plan:
<< The turnaround plan created by Ms. Mayer, a celebrated, though recently sidelined, executive at Google, was simple: Stop the downward spiral and increase Yahoo’s revenue within two or three years. After that, Ms. Mayer said she believed she could achieve double-digit annual growth by five years. >>
It sounds to me like this isn't a vacation at all: it's just a business trip, paid for by the employee's company.
<< Matej Hrescak, a product designer at Facebook, spent several weeks at the Surf Office on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, near one of the island’s noted surfing beaches.
“I really appreciate long uninterrupted periods of work time in order to dive deep into a particular problem, and having a destination where you’re far away from usual distractions made this possible,” he said. The high-speed Internet, fully stocked office, access to a kitchen and camaraderie of other guests at barbecues, biking trips and other planned group activities, he added, all contributed to his productivity. >>
I wouldn't be very happy if I were expected to contribute to travel or lodging while "co-working on vacation" - or if the trip used up any vacation time.
Not sure you guys disagree! The parent said, "Maybe you don't display it as an "account", but I can't think of a single commercial website where you shouldn't at least be taking an email address as part of the transaction."
Then #3 on the bulleted list of six points says, "Username = Email. Don't make people remember a username for your site. You may allow them to pick a username later on that can be used in lieu of their email address, e.g. as the URL for a profile page, but don't force them to use a username to log in."
These guys are using the same "pay what you can" model that Dr. V is using to treat eyes at Aravind. Amazing that two separate hospital systems in India are able to offer free or cheap surgeries to poor people, while very few hospital systems in the US can say the same:
<< "We do about 30 to 35 major heart surgeries a day. And we have never refused a single patient because they have no money."
The fees from the rich offset the costs for the poor. Patients with money pay several thousand dollars for open heart surgery. But patients with little money — and little hope of raising any — pay very little. They are 60 percent of the cases. >>