There may be (ok, there certainly are) instances of the stupidity of our courts, but this isn't it.
Botanically speaking ALL fruits are vegetables and a lot of things that we consider vegetables are fruits: green peppers, squash, tomatoes, anything with seeds surrounded by flesh; and a lot of things we don't consider vegetables are, such as nuts and grain. The fact that the court declared that the law meant the colloquial definition of vegetable is reasonable. What may be stupid is that the definition wasn't spelled out in the law, itself.
The fact is that the botanical definition of fruit and vegetable is irrelevant for policy purposes. -- JimFive
Check out the exercise portion of The Hacker's Diet. You might also check out something like One Hundred Pushups. Or, take a walk at lunch time and during breaks. -- JimFive
I want to add to this that the "politically correct" movement of the late 70s and 80s worked. And, in fact, that is the correct way to deal with ideas that you (want to) deem socially unacceptable. You put the idea out there and you shame the people that express those ideas. You don't, generally, pass laws about it, you use social pressure to make people rethink their words. -- JimFive
Second, you can have a lot more variety in your menu. Want a fish sandwich with horseradish, bbq sauce, sweet pickles, and hold the tomato?
Not really. If the restaurant stocks those condiments then you can do that whether it's automated or not. Automation is not going to make it more financially practical to stock little used condiments. In fact, it may make it less practical as food costs will be a larger portion of operating expenses if labor is eliminated. -- JimFive
innovation results in a reduction of labor inputs [...] market entry by new firms, partially offsetting the displaced labor
These phrases imply that labor is reduced, but not eliminated, in the production process. If fast food labor is eliminated then opening new fast food restaurants does not offset the displaced labor.
the firm's cost of production falls, which shifts the firm's supply curve outward and reduces the price of the good [...]the main benefit to the innovation is the increase in aggregate demand that results from the price decrease
This part of economic theory makes the assumption that the demand curve is not disjoint. If there is a large pool of wealthy customers and a large pool of poor customers but not many customers in between then there is no incentive to reduce the price (the benefit of reducing the price enough to pick up the poor customers does not make up for the lost revenue from the rich customers buying at a lower price). In the dystopian scenario in which all low skill jobs are automated we end up with a large unemployed class and a large wealthy class with a small or non-existant middle class. -- JimFive
Either the brain is an organic computer, or Cartesian Dualism is true
This seems to be a false dichotomy. Assuming that by computer you mean Turing equivalent, what would lead you to believe that the brain is turing equivalent? -- JimFive
Have you considered board games? There are several interesting looking cooperative games such as Pandemic, or competitive strategy games such as Settlers of Catan. Benefits of board games include the fact that the rules are usually explicit, straight-forward, and short. In addition it is easy to pause the game at any moment when one of your kids needs a parent right away. Also, board games may be less intimidating to your wife.
I went to Michigan Tech about the same time for about the same cost and it was 3x10 week quarters a year. Current annual tuition is over $13,000 now and 2x16 week semesters, room and board hasn't gone up quite as much and is ~$9,000 a year where it used to be about $3,000.
For a better comparison, minimum wage in 1990 was 4.25/hour, tuition was 2500 or about 15 weeks of full time work.
Now minimum wage is $7.25/hour, tuition is 13,000 or about 45 weeks of full time work.
So yes, in 1987 you could work minimum wage for the summer and cover tuition and work part time during the school year to cover your expenses. Now you have to work full time all year just to cover tuition. -- JimFive
One thing to note is that you can probably get all of the coffee benefit with decaf which would take away most of the detriment, (headaches and heart issues).
A three or more person solution is to have each person except the last make a single cut that adds one more piece to the cake. Then the last person picks the first piece, and the choosing continues from the start.
e.g. for three people
'A' cuts the cake into two pieces
'B' cuts the cake into three pieces
'C' chooses one of the three pieces
'A' chooses one of the remaining two pieces
'B' gets the remaining piece.
This method assumes that all parties are interested in a fair division, however. A and C can collude against B because B will always get the smallest piece. -- JimFive
Agnosticism, is a lack of faith - a state of uncertainty, where you don't believe or disbelieve in either.
No it isn't, Agnosticism is a belief about reality and the nature of knowledge that some things (usually the nature/existance of god) are unknowable.
Either side, both theism and atheism, requires some faith.
No. Atheism is not belief in no god. Atheism is the lack of belief in god. I can clearly say that I do not believe in god without taking a position on the knowability of god. -- JimFive
I think it would be more useful for a presentation screen that doesn't need a projector. Pull down the screen, plug the computer into the display cable and you're there. -- JimFive
The 50% lifetime degradation for red and green is in the hundreds of thousands of hours for PHOLED. It's in the tens of thousands of hours for 95%, far longer than the usable life of actual products on the market:
There are ~9000 hours in a year, so tens of thousands of hours is a few years. That is not "far longer than the usable life..." I still use a flat CRT that I bought in 1993 so even the 50% degradation may not be within the usable life. -- JimFive
Like other user said, I guess you could also "troll" your friend by calling police lines and telling them your friend is suicidal or "troll" your neighbor by calling firetrucks to his house.
Except, of course, that those things are illegal. Reporting a post as suicidal on facebook, not so much. -- JimFive
Trolling is fishing with a dragline (never heard of that before),
I just wanted to point out that internet trolling is based on this definition. Trolling on the internet is tossing some bait out there and trying to get people to bite. A good troll will be taken seriously by enough people to make it funny to the troller (and amused bystanders). -- JimFive
P.S. If your "never heard of that before" was sarcastic just ignore this entire comment.
Seem to be plenty of people who quite happily just say they multiple 47*3 as a single mental process.
Not really. Most people doing 47*3 are just doing the long multiplication in their head which is (40*3)+(7*3). That is never explicitly taught, however, so it seems more confusing to use (50*3) - (3*3) even though it is the same thing. The question that comes up is: "Why 50?" and the answer is, of course, "Because 50 is easy to multiply." Which the non-math person doesn't like. -- JimFive
Yes, if you had 400 billion probes and started them from the center of the galaxy, the last one would reach its destination in 500-600 thousand years. Now, make some reasonable assumptions about material and energy usage--assume you want the probes to actually do something other than crash into its destination. Self replication is a gimmick to allow us to pretend that material cost and construction time are 0. -- JimFive
capable of visiting every star in the galaxy in a relatively short period
I think you severely underestimate the scale of that endeavor. The galaxy is something like 100 000 light years across by 20 000 thick for a rough volume of 150 trillion cubic light years. -- JimFive
There is one major difference, though. In the case of the library, it owns the material. Google does not own the material.
The library also needs to look into preservation options. They could do some sort of lamination to protect the newsprint. There isn't any reason the clippings need to remain exposed to the air. -- JimFive
Slashdot Mirror
There may be (ok, there certainly are) instances of the stupidity of our courts, but this isn't it.
Botanically speaking ALL fruits are vegetables and a lot of things that we consider vegetables are fruits: green peppers, squash, tomatoes, anything with seeds surrounded by flesh; and a lot of things we don't consider vegetables are, such as nuts and grain. The fact that the court declared that the law meant the colloquial definition of vegetable is reasonable. What may be stupid is that the definition wasn't spelled out in the law, itself.
The fact is that the botanical definition of fruit and vegetable is irrelevant for policy purposes.
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JimFive
Check out the exercise portion of The Hacker's Diet. You might also check out something like One Hundred Pushups. Or, take a walk at lunch time and during breaks.
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JimFive
I want to add to this that the "politically correct" movement of the late 70s and 80s worked. And, in fact, that is the correct way to deal with ideas that you (want to) deem socially unacceptable. You put the idea out there and you shame the people that express those ideas. You don't, generally, pass laws about it, you use social pressure to make people rethink their words.
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JimFive
Second, you can have a lot more variety in your menu. Want a fish sandwich with horseradish, bbq sauce, sweet pickles, and hold the tomato?
Not really. If the restaurant stocks those condiments then you can do that whether it's automated or not. Automation is not going to make it more financially practical to stock little used condiments. In fact, it may make it less practical as food costs will be a larger portion of operating expenses if labor is eliminated.
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JimFive
innovation results in a reduction of labor inputs [...] market entry by new firms, partially offsetting the displaced labor
These phrases imply that labor is reduced, but not eliminated, in the production process. If fast food labor is eliminated then opening new fast food restaurants does not offset the displaced labor.
the firm's cost of production falls, which shifts the firm's supply curve outward and reduces the price of the good [...]the main benefit to the innovation is the increase in aggregate demand that results from the price decrease
This part of economic theory makes the assumption that the demand curve is not disjoint. If there is a large pool of wealthy customers and a large pool of poor customers but not many customers in between then there is no incentive to reduce the price (the benefit of reducing the price enough to pick up the poor customers does not make up for the lost revenue from the rich customers buying at a lower price). In the dystopian scenario in which all low skill jobs are automated we end up with a large unemployed class and a large wealthy class with a small or non-existant middle class.
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JimFive
discounting the price to encourage customers to come to your vendomat
It's called an automat
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JimFive
Either the brain is an organic computer, or Cartesian Dualism is true
This seems to be a false dichotomy. Assuming that by computer you mean Turing equivalent, what would lead you to believe that the brain is turing equivalent?
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JimFive
Have you considered board games? There are several interesting looking cooperative games such as Pandemic, or competitive strategy games such as Settlers of Catan. Benefits of board games include the fact that the rules are usually explicit, straight-forward, and short. In addition it is easy to pause the game at any moment when one of your kids needs a parent right away. Also, board games may be less intimidating to your wife.
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JimFive
I went to Michigan Tech about the same time for about the same cost and it was 3x10 week quarters a year. Current annual tuition is over $13,000 now and 2x16 week semesters, room and board hasn't gone up quite as much and is ~$9,000 a year where it used to be about $3,000.
For a better comparison, minimum wage in 1990 was 4.25/hour, tuition was 2500 or about 15 weeks of full time work. Now minimum wage is $7.25/hour, tuition is 13,000 or about 45 weeks of full time work.
So yes, in 1987 you could work minimum wage for the summer and cover tuition and work part time during the school year to cover your expenses. Now you have to work full time all year just to cover tuition.
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JimFive
There's nothing here that says it has to be caffeinated coffee.
One thing to note is that you can probably get all of the coffee benefit with decaf which would take away most of the detriment, (headaches and heart issues).
Not true. In T-SQL I can clearly do SELECT field1, field2 FROM myTable GROUP BY field1, field2 And not receive an error.
I'm not actually sure why that would even be considered bad.
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JimFive
There is a difference between oil and oil products.
The U.S, imports oil and exports oil products such as gasoline. This is not new. -- JimFive
A three or more person solution is to have each person except the last make a single cut that adds one more piece to the cake. Then the last person picks the first piece, and the choosing continues from the start.
e.g. for three people
'A' cuts the cake into two pieces
'B' cuts the cake into three pieces
'C' chooses one of the three pieces
'A' chooses one of the remaining two pieces
'B' gets the remaining piece.
This method assumes that all parties are interested in a fair division, however. A and C can collude against B because B will always get the smallest piece.
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JimFive
Which means each book is used by 4 students, not one: 2800/4 = $700 per student.
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JimFive
I wanted to mention that if you are a salary-exempt employee in the US then any amount of work in a day requires that you get paid for the full day.
From: FLSA Overtime Security Advisor
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JimFive
No it isn't, Agnosticism is a belief about reality and the nature of knowledge that some things (usually the nature/existance of god) are unknowable.
No. Atheism is not belief in no god. Atheism is the lack of belief in god. I can clearly say that I do not believe in god without taking a position on the knowability of god.
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JimFive
I think it would be more useful for a presentation screen that doesn't need a projector. Pull down the screen, plug the computer into the display cable and you're there.
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JimFive
There are ~9000 hours in a year, so tens of thousands of hours is a few years. That is not "far longer than the usable life..." I still use a flat CRT that I bought in 1993 so even the 50% degradation may not be within the usable life.
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JimFive
Except, of course, that those things are illegal. Reporting a post as suicidal on facebook, not so much.
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JimFive
I just wanted to point out that internet trolling is based on this definition. Trolling on the internet is tossing some bait out there and trying to get people to bite. A good troll will be taken seriously by enough people to make it funny to the troller (and amused bystanders).
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JimFive
P.S. If your "never heard of that before" was sarcastic just ignore this entire comment.
Not really. Most people doing 47*3 are just doing the long multiplication in their head which is (40*3)+(7*3). That is never explicitly taught, however, so it seems more confusing to use (50*3) - (3*3) even though it is the same thing. The question that comes up is: "Why 50?" and the answer is, of course, "Because 50 is easy to multiply." Which the non-math person doesn't like.
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JimFive
Yes, if you had 400 billion probes and started them from the center of the galaxy, the last one would reach its destination in 500-600 thousand years. Now, make some reasonable assumptions about material and energy usage--assume you want the probes to actually do something other than crash into its destination. Self replication is a gimmick to allow us to pretend that material cost and construction time are 0.
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JimFive
I think you severely underestimate the scale of that endeavor. The galaxy is something like 100 000 light years across by 20 000 thick for a rough volume of 150 trillion cubic light years.
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JimFive
There is one major difference, though. In the case of the library, it owns the material. Google does not own the material.
The library also needs to look into preservation options. They could do some sort of lamination to protect the newsprint. There isn't any reason the clippings need to remain exposed to the air.
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JimFive