To add more value, add another column that gives how much of a given food source an average-sized adult needs to eat to get the recommended daily intake.
Missing in media reports about these things is the connection between action (our foreign military mis-adventures) and reaction (terrorist attacks).
About a month ago we celebrated the mother of all bombs that flattened what amounted to a small village in Afghanistan. We were told that it killed ONLY 90 terrorists, assuming the vast area it affected was inhabited only by the killed terrorists. Not a single civilian was killed, we were told.
The pilot and his crew are our heroes.
Somewhere there's an Afghan from that flattened area. Even if he doesn't subscribe to ISIS/Taliban ideology, he can't be too happy.
Most people in his position would feel that they have a score to settle. And when he has the opportunity, we don't make the connection.
He's a terrorist, but we have our heroes.
Sometimes I feel like crying, not for the dead (that won't help them), but for the rest of us still alive.
> Missing in media reports about these things is the connection between action (our foreign military mis-adventures) and reaction (terrorist attacks).
Ha! That is probably because there's comparatively less correlation between terrorist attacks and foreign politics, than there's between terrorist attacks and attacker's religion. In case you are not aware, various islamic groups perform terrorist attacks in Philippines (look up recent news), India and Russia, the former two being 100% internal affairs.
And in virtually all those cases, there's a link to the target's actions against something the terrorists hold dear.
Terrorist activity in India? Look to Kashmir.
In Russia? The Russians fought their own war on terrorism before we went into Afghanistan. In some ways going into Afghanistan diverted fighters streaming into Chechnya to fight the Russian army to Afghanistan. We gave them a target they hated more than they hated the Russians. From reports, many of the best fighters on the side of ISIS are Chechens.
The Russians, by the way, are still fighting terrorists.
And whether these wars are "internal affairs" or not is immaterial.
> And in virtually all those cases, there's a link to the target's actions against something the terrorists hold dear.
If by 'something the terrorists hold dear' you mean power and prevalence of islam, I absolutely agree! When Chechnya de-facto separated from Russia in 1990s, they run multiple ethnic cleansings: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87... (no translation to English unfortunately).
It looks like something similar is happening right now in the Philippines.
What's missing in the reports is the connection between Martyrdom and the Ideology. Paradise is guaranteed for those who kill and are killed in the way of Allah (Surrah 9-111). That Jihad is obligatory not optional. But, yes let's continue to put forward the idea that this is a reactional factor, because you know, feelings.
This doesn't seem to be true. This site [1] lists many agencies (based in the US, UK and other countries) that will sell you a passenger ticket for a cargo ship.
Availability is probably limited though, as each ship can only take a few passangers: "Cargo ships can carry a maximum of 12 passengers although most vessels only have accommodation for 4 to 6 passengers" [2].
You're right. Things seem to have opened up a bit. For a while, security was a big concern. CMA CGM will take passengers on some freighters. Maersk, the biggest line, won't.
That is accurate; there are very very few non-crew berths available on cargo ships nowadays. I know because I've researched alternative means of travelling to see the 2017 Solar eclipse.
They're offered as 'cruises' these days; you'd be looking at rates of ~$100-150/day, and they do single-day port calls wherever the ships' routes make a call. It looks like you do have to book fairly far in advance, though.
Sorry to digress, I should have stopped at the first paragraph.
No, it's good digression, and it brings back fun and painful memories, as I made and lost money at that time.
Trading on margin is something rookies should avoid. It's the easiest way to lose money.
The thing I don't understand is this noise about shorting being unethical. You have more to lose than anybody in the game, and you're not breaking any rules.
I'm very versatile, so if you're looking for somebody to work with, we can talk. I have my hands in a number of things in the very early stages right now, but me good at multi-tasking.
The key question is whether QC algorithms are scaling as predicted by QC theory, or at least better than classical algorithms for the same task. If the error correction is causing them to scale poorly, the design is probably infeasible for large-qubit calculations.
I expect it is scaling poorly, or IBM would have reported otherwise when moving from 5- to 16-qubit machines.
More impressive are the guys walking around during all that swaying as if they were on coffee brake.