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...YouTube video was dim, and, the company said, there wasn't enough contrast to pick up the facial shadows the computer needed for seeing. (An overlit person with a fair complexion might have had the same problem.) A better camera wouldn't necessarily have guaranteed a better result, because there's another bottleneck: computing power. The constant flow of images is usually too much for the software to handle, so it downsamples them, or reduces the level of detail, before analyzing them. That's one reason why a person watching the YouTube video can easily make out the black employee...
...they generate as much trading volume (and commission costs) as actively managed mutual funds; when they do have portfolio turnover, it is often by swapping stocks instead of buying and selling them, which means they don't run up capital-gains taxes the way mutual funds often can. The result: lower overall costs for investors. The average annual fee for an ETF is 55 basis points (i.e., 0.55% of assets), significantly below the average 1.5%-of-assets charge from mutual funds, says Scott Burns, director of ETF research at Morningstar...
...relation to the rest of the tropical oceans. If it warms more than average, he says, you have an increase in storms. If it warms less, you have a decrease. The rise in Atlantic hurricanes that we have seen since 1980 or so, he says, is probably the result of exactly that kind of differential warming, not so much global warming overall. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...result of these meals, Sifuentes says that people who normally do not interact with each other—be it because they live in different entryways or travel in separate social circles—have come together and “rearranged themselves...
...November, the 15 GSE volunteers involved in the project at the time organized a Thanksgiving dinner called “Give Thanks, Give Books.” Each guest donated $5 or brought a book in exchange for a plate of dinner. The result of the dinner bash was over $400 in donations, with which the project organizers bought books written in Spanish from Scholastic off of El Salvador’s Ministry of Education book list...