It would take 7 packages each with 37 days extra (the largest extra delay observed) to explain the 3 days average extra shipping time..
You do know that outliers are samples that are far from the population, right? If there are 7 or more out of 80 or 89, then they are not far from the population. At that point they are representative of the population.
At what point do you admit that you arent actually educated enough to have been equipped with the skills necessary to make reasonable arguments?
Also, without having the raw data that they used the best we can conclude is that the 37 days may have had a significant difference on the total
No. Thats not how math works. Even using only 80 packages, the most impact on the average delay that the 37 day delay for a single package could cause is 0.46 days per package.
This is the problem with the current generation right here. You don't even have a basic math foundation in which to filter yourselves from making extremely stupid comments.
The "3 days longer" statistic seems to be massively skewed by a single non-representative parcel that took 37 days later than its counterpart.
By "massively skewed" do you mean that dropping this single sample would only result in reducing the 3.0 days extra figure to a 2.6 days extra figure?
You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
37.0 D / 89.0 P = 0.4157 D / P
Another way to look at it that avoids your silly mistake: 89 packages each with 3 days average delay time is 89.0 P * 3.0 D = 267 DP. Now compare 37 to 267. Does it still look 'massive' as you so ignorantly claim?
If the "average of 3 days longer" statistic is really caused by that single outlier
What the fuck.
37 days over 89 packages is only 0.4157 days / package.
You seem to be pretending to use your brains by talking like maybe you might be, but for fuck sakes..
..at least estimate the division in your head.. "37 D divided by 89 P... thats not anywhere near 3.0 D / P and therefore couldn't possibly explain the on average 3.0 D / P extra travel time claimed, so anyone who suggested it is fucking stupid."
Its so easy to conveniently ignore the fact that this isnt a binary decision that you just got modded +5 insightful when really you are +5 false dichotomy ignorant shit.
Go ahead... justify the actual cost instead of conveniently ignoring it.
using whatever variety of taxation methods they have decided to use in that state, in whatever proportions they've agreed upon using their representative democracy.
Except the online retailer with no state presence is not represented with that representative democracy, yet is to be expected to work (for free) for the State and collect its duties?
Its taxation without representation, pure and simple.
And some businesses like BestBuy will charge the same amount of money whether you buy in store or they ship it to you, part of that is because shelf space is quite expensive compared with warehouse space.
The fact that shelf space is expensive is irrelevant to the discussion. Nobody deserves protection from the consequences of their own inefficiency.
There is no way to claim that everyone involved is benefiting when the tax payers are forced to partake. The entire point of forcing one person to pay for another is that the benefit isnt mutual. If the benefit was mutual, there would be no reason to force it.
If they have to tell you that they are 'fair and balanced' then its likely that they aren't, but also add in everything that tells you that it 'leans forward', or other crap.
The Soviet Unions national newspaper, during the height of the governments paranoid plummet into self destruction, was called 'Pravda' which translates to 'Truth' or 'Justice' in Russian.
When was the last time a 'breaking story' was something uncovered by an investigative reporter, rather than spoon fed to it by pundits or politicians?
It's a huge problem if they selling them below their own production costs.
You are ignoring the real fundamental problem with this market in order to play the "those evil Chinese and their dumping" card. Its being intellectually dishonest.
The real fundamental problem is that few people want these PV cells even when sold well below cost. This Chinese dumping and its results is a very good indicator that we arent anywhere close to a healthy sustainable PV market that ultimately benefits everyone involved. Maybe someday we will be, but that day certainly isnt today.
We could argue about the real costs of things like oil and coal and how the market doesnt reflect them, and certainly this would have a lot to do with why the PV market isnt anywhere near healthy, but that angle certainly has nothing to do with Chinese dumping.
Its a form of A.I. for sure, but the skill shown has more to do with the volume of data it uses than it has to do with a skill at learning.
Machine Learning is a very particular subset of A.I, often characterized by one or more training phases which build of model of the training set that is smaller than the set itself.
It is mind bending concept, but in reality, you're essentially not accurate when you say "parts of the universe that are being expanded away from us faster than the speed of light".
Wrong.
In fact, some of the galaxies that we can see today are now expanding away from us faster than the speed of light. The light we see is from billions of years ago when they were not.
"US schools are awful" is being said by the international community because the U.S. ranks way down the list on nearly every measure.
For instance, the U.S. ranks 25th (out of 34) in math and science. Since you are American, let me spell that out: Over 3 out of 4 countries ranks higher.
What's more, pharmaceutical lines are risky, it's relatively common to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on a line only to find out that it can't be approved, and if it does get approved and then yanked, you can be on the hook for huge sums of money from people who suffered ill effects.
At least here in the United States, the problem is the FDA.
At one point the FDA's only job was to clear a drug on the issue of safety alone. The FDA did not care if a drug did or did not do what was claimed, as such matters were left to the market to deal with.
But now the FDA's primary job seems to be to require that a drug does what is claimed, but far less so that a drug is actually safe. In fact, lots of unsafe drugs are now sold and we get a huge list of disclaimers about all the negative consequences of taking them which often clearly outweigh the benefits of the actual problem the drug is trying to treat.
We need to restore the FDA to its original mission, rather than its current mission which is to allow only the chosen winners to win.
here in Belgium I pay 70€ (100$+/-) for 100Mbps, and bw cap is at 1Tb a month but we are kind of a socialist country and even unemployed I can pay that (my salary for being unemployed here is 1100€)
I probably wouldn't work either if I was getting $1571 a month for doing nothing.
I was going to post almost exactly what you said in response.
Mod the parent up. There is no capitalism in American broadband, and its still mostly not that far behind other western countries. There are places with really shitty service/options, there are places with outstanding service/options, and there are places where this target 20mbps for $20 is nearly a reality already (I'm in south eastern connecticut and my ~$40 mid-tier service was bumped to 20mbps several months ago, and no caps or throttling.)
There is very little manufacturing without the blue collar manufacturing jobs. All that is done somewhere else, so what is this 'manufacturing that is doing fine' exactly?
Last year was the highest level of manufacturing output ever in the Untied States, and thats adjusted for inflation. We just do it so efficiently now that it doesnt require nearly the level of manpower that it once did so it appears like our manufacturing industries are shrinking.
what does USA give China for its products? Paper. Paper and more paper.
You are so close to getting it. That paper is an exportable good just like any other. Like any other good, its value is only materialized as a spot price.
How much is $100 worth? Right now its worth about a barrel of crude oil. Right now its worth about 1/16th of an ounce of gold. All goods fluctuate in value against other goods over time, and that includes the dollar. Its just a good.
The problems with the dollar have nothing to do with imports and exports. The problems with the dollar have to do with a market distortion created by the FED.
You better take a look at the trade deficit numbers that USA has been running for over 2 decades now and true money supply.
Trade deficits are quite a bit more meaningless than GDP. As long as its voluntary trade in a free market then its win-win for those involved.
The money supply on the other hand is a different kettle of fish. There is nothing free about that particular trade whatsoever. Thats the FED stealing from our savings accounts, but at least its doing it fairly by making sure to steal equally from every dollar on the planet. We did want the rich to pay their fair share, right?
Back to the trade deficit, the important number would be the balance that is involuntary such as through government spending and mandates. If the U.S. government is taxing you in order to buy Chinese goods, or the Chinese government is taxing their people to buy U.S. goods, then thats not free trade nor a free market so there would be no reason to believe that its win-win (quite a bit of reason to believe that it isn't.)
Pretty sure you cannot project out 20 years and make a claim about middle class income levels in China without having at least two points of data rather than the one point of data (1/3rd) you seem to be using.
But hey, I am not a mathematics professor.. maybe it is possible to compute the derivative of a single value.
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It would take 7 packages each with 37 days extra (the largest extra delay observed) to explain the 3 days average extra shipping time..
You do know that outliers are samples that are far from the population, right? If there are 7 or more out of 80 or 89, then they are not far from the population. At that point they are representative of the population.
At what point do you admit that you arent actually educated enough to have been equipped with the skills necessary to make reasonable arguments?
Adam and Eve had two sons and no daughters.
I propose that their children were mother fuckers.
Also, without having the raw data that they used the best we can conclude is that the 37 days may have had a significant difference on the total
No. Thats not how math works. Even using only 80 packages, the most impact on the average delay that the 37 day delay for a single package could cause is 0.46 days per package.
This is the problem with the current generation right here. You don't even have a basic math foundation in which to filter yourselves from making extremely stupid comments.
The "3 days longer" statistic seems to be massively skewed by a single non-representative parcel that took 37 days later than its counterpart.
By "massively skewed" do you mean that dropping this single sample would only result in reducing the 3.0 days extra figure to a 2.6 days extra figure?
You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
37.0 D / 89.0 P = 0.4157 D / P
Another way to look at it that avoids your silly mistake: 89 packages each with 3 days average delay time is 89.0 P * 3.0 D = 267 DP. Now compare 37 to 267. Does it still look 'massive' as you so ignorantly claim?
If the "average of 3 days longer" statistic is really caused by that single outlier
What the fuck.
..at least estimate the division in your head.. "37 D divided by 89 P ... thats not anywhere near 3.0 D / P and therefore couldn't possibly explain the on average 3.0 D / P extra travel time claimed, so anyone who suggested it is fucking stupid."
37 days over 89 packages is only 0.4157 days / package.
You seem to be pretending to use your brains by talking like maybe you might be, but for fuck sakes..
When we are spending billions per satellite, yes.
Its so easy to conveniently ignore the fact that this isnt a binary decision that you just got modded +5 insightful when really you are +5 false dichotomy ignorant shit.
Go ahead... justify the actual cost instead of conveniently ignoring it.
"We have 3000 computers, working for 3 years. There are 365.25 days in a year, 24 hours in a day ... soooo 78.9M ... eh, just round up.
Thats exactly what they did. From the article, they have 3000 Blades, and it took 3 years.
...which works out to 3169 pixels rendered per "compute hour." Horribly inefficient.
The article also mentions 250 billion pixels in the movie....
The severity of punishment does nothing for deterrence
Well that sure as hell isn't true.
Why should the USA's taxpayers be funding the weather data collection for the entire globe (which is basically what happens right now)?
Because the USA's taxpayers are too stupid to actually demand drastic cuts in spending.
using whatever variety of taxation methods they have decided to use in that state, in whatever proportions they've agreed upon using their representative democracy.
Except the online retailer with no state presence is not represented with that representative democracy, yet is to be expected to work (for free) for the State and collect its duties?
Its taxation without representation, pure and simple.
And some businesses like BestBuy will charge the same amount of money whether you buy in store or they ship it to you, part of that is because shelf space is quite expensive compared with warehouse space.
The fact that shelf space is expensive is irrelevant to the discussion. Nobody deserves protection from the consequences of their own inefficiency.
No, people want subsidized solar.
Lets spell it out: When the UK cut solar subsidies by 50% in 2012 demand fell by 90%.
There is no way to claim that everyone involved is benefiting when the tax payers are forced to partake. The entire point of forcing one person to pay for another is that the benefit isnt mutual. If the benefit was mutual, there would be no reason to force it.
That seems pretty useless if it doesn't also measure how often the purported news is incorrect or biased.
Opinion is always biased.
The current generation doesnt seem to know what journalism used to be, and apparently cannot seem to tell the difference between facts and opinions.
If they have to tell you that they are 'fair and balanced' then its likely that they aren't, but also add in everything that tells you that it 'leans forward', or other crap.
The Soviet Unions national newspaper, during the height of the governments paranoid plummet into self destruction, was called 'Pravda' which translates to 'Truth' or 'Justice' in Russian.
When was the last time a 'breaking story' was something uncovered by an investigative reporter, rather than spoon fed to it by pundits or politicians?
It's a huge problem if they selling them below their own production costs.
You are ignoring the real fundamental problem with this market in order to play the "those evil Chinese and their dumping" card. Its being intellectually dishonest.
The real fundamental problem is that few people want these PV cells even when sold well below cost. This Chinese dumping and its results is a very good indicator that we arent anywhere close to a healthy sustainable PV market that ultimately benefits everyone involved. Maybe someday we will be, but that day certainly isnt today.
We could argue about the real costs of things like oil and coal and how the market doesnt reflect them, and certainly this would have a lot to do with why the PV market isnt anywhere near healthy, but that angle certainly has nothing to do with Chinese dumping.
Its a form of A.I. for sure, but the skill shown has more to do with the volume of data it uses than it has to do with a skill at learning.
Machine Learning is a very particular subset of A.I, often characterized by one or more training phases which build of model of the training set that is smaller than the set itself.
Are you saying that Obama, as commander and chief, did *not* set the war plans and timelines that ends these wars?
Since we pulled out of Iraq the day that Bush's plan had us leave Iraq.... no, Obama did not set to war plans and timelines to end this war.
Was there another war that you were thinking of that ended? You seem to think that we've left two (or more) wars... but we have only left one war...
I've got to agree with the other people that responded to you. You're an ignorant tribal idiot sucking on (apparently) Democrat cock.
It is mind bending concept, but in reality, you're essentially not accurate when you say "parts of the universe that are being expanded away from us faster than the speed of light".
Wrong.
In fact, some of the galaxies that we can see today are now expanding away from us faster than the speed of light. The light we see is from billions of years ago when they were not.
What?
"US schools are awful" is being said by the international community because the U.S. ranks way down the list on nearly every measure.
For instance, the U.S. ranks 25th (out of 34) in math and science. Since you are American, let me spell that out: Over 3 out of 4 countries ranks higher.
What's more, pharmaceutical lines are risky, it's relatively common to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on a line only to find out that it can't be approved, and if it does get approved and then yanked, you can be on the hook for huge sums of money from people who suffered ill effects.
At least here in the United States, the problem is the FDA.
At one point the FDA's only job was to clear a drug on the issue of safety alone. The FDA did not care if a drug did or did not do what was claimed, as such matters were left to the market to deal with.
But now the FDA's primary job seems to be to require that a drug does what is claimed, but far less so that a drug is actually safe. In fact, lots of unsafe drugs are now sold and we get a huge list of disclaimers about all the negative consequences of taking them which often clearly outweigh the benefits of the actual problem the drug is trying to treat.
We need to restore the FDA to its original mission, rather than its current mission which is to allow only the chosen winners to win.
here in Belgium I pay 70€ (100$+/-) for 100Mbps, and bw cap is at 1Tb a month but we are kind of a socialist country and even unemployed I can pay that (my salary for being unemployed here is 1100€)
I probably wouldn't work either if I was getting $1571 a month for doing nothing.
I was going to post almost exactly what you said in response.
Mod the parent up. There is no capitalism in American broadband, and its still mostly not that far behind other western countries. There are places with really shitty service/options, there are places with outstanding service/options, and there are places where this target 20mbps for $20 is nearly a reality already (I'm in south eastern connecticut and my ~$40 mid-tier service was bumped to 20mbps several months ago, and no caps or throttling.)
There is very little manufacturing without the blue collar manufacturing jobs. All that is done somewhere else, so what is this 'manufacturing that is doing fine' exactly?
Last year was the highest level of manufacturing output ever in the Untied States, and thats adjusted for inflation. We just do it so efficiently now that it doesnt require nearly the level of manpower that it once did so it appears like our manufacturing industries are shrinking.
what does USA give China for its products? Paper. Paper and more paper.
You are so close to getting it. That paper is an exportable good just like any other. Like any other good, its value is only materialized as a spot price.
How much is $100 worth? Right now its worth about a barrel of crude oil. Right now its worth about 1/16th of an ounce of gold. All goods fluctuate in value against other goods over time, and that includes the dollar. Its just a good.
The problems with the dollar have nothing to do with imports and exports. The problems with the dollar have to do with a market distortion created by the FED.
You better take a look at the trade deficit numbers that USA has been running for over 2 decades now and true money supply.
Trade deficits are quite a bit more meaningless than GDP. As long as its voluntary trade in a free market then its win-win for those involved.
The money supply on the other hand is a different kettle of fish. There is nothing free about that particular trade whatsoever. Thats the FED stealing from our savings accounts, but at least its doing it fairly by making sure to steal equally from every dollar on the planet. We did want the rich to pay their fair share, right?
Back to the trade deficit, the important number would be the balance that is involuntary such as through government spending and mandates. If the U.S. government is taxing you in order to buy Chinese goods, or the Chinese government is taxing their people to buy U.S. goods, then thats not free trade nor a free market so there would be no reason to believe that its win-win (quite a bit of reason to believe that it isn't.)
Pretty sure you cannot project out 20 years and make a claim about middle class income levels in China without having at least two points of data rather than the one point of data (1/3rd) you seem to be using.
But hey, I am not a mathematics professor.. maybe it is possible to compute the derivative of a single value.