Jesus Christ you're a moron. The US used non-violent means to encourage Russia to leave the Ukraine, and we are using violent means to prevent a group of people from decapitating more people, Americans and otherwise.
... increasing confusion, especially operator overloading, but it's so pervasive within the standard libraries that extracting it would likely drive away most of the developer base.
I used to think operator overloading was unimportant, but I recently have been working with a C++ geometry library (CGAL). Having asterisk mean scalar product, plus mean vector addition (depending on arguments, etc)., as is customary in the field, has been surprisingly helpful and made the code much more readable and writable in my opinion.
Throw money at the public schools and the problems will be fixed
Money is a necessary but insufficient condition for high quality public schools. In my area (Memphis, Tennessee, US), some of the worst school districts in the state (and the country, actually) have significantly more funding per student than the the surrounding areas where school districts win awards year after year. The parents and board members of the lousy districts constantly play the victim card, despite having considerably more money and equivalent or better facilities. Corruption among people signing the checks may explain some of the issues.
Parental involvement
This is spot on, IMHO. I would include accountability at home for performance at school in that as well.
Every number 1 country/empire, or however one chooses to phrase it, will eventually no longer be number 1. So, saying so isn't exactly a bold prediction. And even if or when the US is no longer the most influential country in the world, it will definitely not be irrelevant. Many countries used to be more influential than they are now but are far from irrelevant. See Russia, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Iran, Italy, Greece, Spain, Japan, China (ascending now, of course), etc.
If you have a personal web site or something similar, it may be a good idea on your part to make that clear and link to the refuting paper. It would take some guts on your part, of course, because it could negatively affect your career, but it would probably be the right thing to do.
Thanks. Those are good points. I believe that integration location is a problem with a lot of viral vectors, but lentiviral vectors tend to cluster less frequently within and around growth-promoting genes. This could be due to differences in the integration mechanism or because the cell does not have to be actively dividing and therefore the growth-promoting genes may not be active. I am not sure.
The viral vectors are based on replication-deficient HIV. They are missing some of the genes necessary for their replication. They cannot (or at least should not) be able to reproduce in the cells, so they are not giving people AIDS. One of the reasons HIV is used because it is a lentivirus, which means it can integrate into the genomes of cells that are not actively dividing.
This is wrong on several levels. Cancer is a collection of hundreds of diseases with hundreds of different causes. No one will *cure cancer.* Each disease will need to be studied and treated differently (hence the dozens of different chemotherapies targeting different molecular markers).
Curing cancer will not significantly increase the average human lifespan, as the vast majority of cancer sufferers are older, many of them in their seventies. If they were to survive cancer, they would likely die of other causes such as heart disease only a few years later. We should still try to find cures, but the average life expectancy will not change much.
Reproduction may need to be reduced at some point, but adding a few years to the average life expectancy is not a major factor in the decision because most cancer patients have passed reproductive age.
We don't know very well what causes aging, but it can be said with great confidence that it is not a single gene. Many gene products, such as p53, p16, and hTERT, are associated with aging in one respect or another, but much more research is needed.
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You might have had a good point in there somewhere, but I had a hard time following along because of the snark and dangling modifiers.
Jesus Christ you're a moron. The US used non-violent means to encourage Russia to leave the Ukraine, and we are using violent means to prevent a group of people from decapitating more people, Americans and otherwise.
:-) No points, but +1 if I had them.
No mod points but would +1.
... increasing confusion, especially operator overloading, but it's so pervasive within the standard libraries that extracting it would likely drive away most of the developer base.
I used to think operator overloading was unimportant, but I recently have been working with a C++ geometry library (CGAL). Having asterisk mean scalar product, plus mean vector addition (depending on arguments, etc)., as is customary in the field, has been surprisingly helpful and made the code much more readable and writable in my opinion.
No mod points, but would +1. Very good question.
Throw money at the public schools and the problems will be fixed
Money is a necessary but insufficient condition for high quality public schools. In my area (Memphis, Tennessee, US), some of the worst school districts in the state (and the country, actually) have significantly more funding per student than the the surrounding areas where school districts win awards year after year. The parents and board members of the lousy districts constantly play the victim card, despite having considerably more money and equivalent or better facilities. Corruption among people signing the checks may explain some of the issues.
Parental involvement
This is spot on, IMHO. I would include accountability at home for performance at school in that as well.
Boo this man!!! :-) I was happy to see something that only nerds would care about on Slashdot, rather than politics and BS about Bitcoin.
That was informative, but I would expect that to be caught at compile time. The OP mentioned that he was having runtime errors, I believe.
Every number 1 country/empire, or however one chooses to phrase it, will eventually no longer be number 1. So, saying so isn't exactly a bold prediction. And even if or when the US is no longer the most influential country in the world, it will definitely not be irrelevant. Many countries used to be more influential than they are now but are far from irrelevant. See Russia, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Iran, Italy, Greece, Spain, Japan, China (ascending now, of course), etc.
First time I've laughed out loud at a comment in a long time.
+1 Funny if I had a mod point.
If you have a personal web site or something similar, it may be a good idea on your part to make that clear and link to the refuting paper. It would take some guts on your part, of course, because it could negatively affect your career, but it would probably be the right thing to do.
Thanks. Those are good points. I believe that integration location is a problem with a lot of viral vectors, but lentiviral vectors tend to cluster less frequently within and around growth-promoting genes. This could be due to differences in the integration mechanism or because the cell does not have to be actively dividing and therefore the growth-promoting genes may not be active. I am not sure.
The viral vectors are based on replication-deficient HIV. They are missing some of the genes necessary for their replication. They cannot (or at least should not) be able to reproduce in the cells, so they are not giving people AIDS. One of the reasons HIV is used because it is a lentivirus, which means it can integrate into the genomes of cells that are not actively dividing.
This is wrong on several levels. Cancer is a collection of hundreds of diseases with hundreds of different causes. No one will *cure cancer.* Each disease will need to be studied and treated differently (hence the dozens of different chemotherapies targeting different molecular markers).
Curing cancer will not significantly increase the average human lifespan, as the vast majority of cancer sufferers are older, many of them in their seventies. If they were to survive cancer, they would likely die of other causes such as heart disease only a few years later. We should still try to find cures, but the average life expectancy will not change much.
Reproduction may need to be reduced at some point, but adding a few years to the average life expectancy is not a major factor in the decision because most cancer patients have passed reproductive age.
We don't know very well what causes aging, but it can be said with great confidence that it is not a single gene. Many gene products, such as p53, p16, and hTERT, are associated with aging in one respect or another, but much more research is needed.