The real economists are the ones that are (or were before death) habitually correct in their predictions.
There have been more than a couple, like any other field. What you are actually thinking of is economics pundits. In physics there is a bunch of pundits saying cold fusion is right around the corner and so forth. Do you also criticize real physicists for the same bullshit reasons you are criticizing real economists? I thought not. The problem is that you dont know who the real economists are, not that there arent any. The problem is you.
Yes, you missed the part where Google copied their images and serves them up themselves as part of Googles shopping network, an act of questionable legality if it werent for the court order demanding they stop doing it at the request of businesses regardless of the acts legality.
In any case, why is efficacy testing a bad thing? Shouldn't a drug be proven to actually treat the condition it's supposed to be treating?
Ask anyone that cant get a drug that works because testing for their rare condition will never be done because the drug also works for some common condition.
Good intentions for the sake of good intentions costs lives. Your policy is equivalent to murder.
This may just be the VB6 and VBA die-hards that didnt want to do VB.NET finally settling on an alternative. To be fair, probably the most used language ever is still VBA -- its very hard to over-estimate the number of lines of VBA code written within the cubicles of white collar businesses, where every junior accountant will easily have written several thousand lines of it per year.
The NOAA is converting over their climate data to a new data format, and email correspondence with them (due to many issues with the conversion) has revealed that they are using Fortran for at least some of this conversion process.
Yes, I know one of the people auditing their conversion. Its horrendous display of incompetence, but thats a separate issue. Fortran is in fact still widely used by the scientific community, and while Python is getting some adoption so is Julia and Julia is hands-down better for scientists.
I always felt that one of the things C needed was an official way for the programmer to define the exact size of a structure. Even having dummy variables doesnt truly cut it because its all still implementation dependent. You can get away with making assumptions most of the time.. but then that one weirdo asic compiler is being used to handle your data and all bets are off.
Given the comments on the related articles, it seems to me that a lot of people here have never had credit except for maybe their government guaranteed student loan for their gender studies.
The FDA caused the problem to begin with by changing the standards and requiring all delivery systems to be re-certified. Most of the alternatives were phased out because re-certification is too expensive.
One can argue that Mylan caused the problem by lobbying the FDA to change the standards as it knew that its competitors couldnt afford to re-certify, but it was the FDA that held the power to do it or not do it, and they went ahead and did it.
The FDA was good up until the thalidomide incident. Thalidomide was causing birth defects all across Europe but not in America because Europe only required Efficacy standards while America only required Safety standards. The one thing Thalidomide had going for it was Efficacy (the stuff worked as advertised.) After the thalidomide fiasco, the FDA took the European scandal opportunity to increase the scope of its power and influence by petitioned congress to add Efficacy testing. It made no sense but the reasons for expanding government power rarely does.
So now getting anything passed the FDA is insanely expensive, so expensive that real life saving drugs and devices never see the light of day. So now any change to standards for particular devices or drugs regardless of for Safety or Efficacy always removes players from the market purely for financial reasons. Every time, just like this time.
40% of NASA's budget was going to global warming research, something that shouldnt have ever happened, but started under Clinton and went right through both Bush and Obama.
Why was NASA doing the NOAA's job? The answer is that it wasn't... the NOAA was spending even more than NASA on global warming research. Some might suggest that this was for NOAA satellites except the NOAA pays NASA for those so those things arent part of NASA's budget.
Just these two departments were spending significantly more than "a few billion dollars" each year on global warming. Another billion or so in direct research grants to universities and another billion or so from the NSF, and we are approaching 10 billion per year, and we still arent done totaling up the money spent on global warming.
Global warming research isnt just big business... its one of the biggest businesses. Imagine if we spent this sort of money on cancer research instead, or helping poor people, or even just taxing people less.
The current theory is prenatal hormones. The same ones that cause actual gender differentiation are also currently believed to effect sexual orientation later in life, which as well as being backed by science is also logical.
But we all know that the social constructionists abandoned this science the instant gay marriage was approved... so here way are..
If private space flight was impossible, why was it banned in both America and the European Union, both of which then pressured everyone else (such as Libya) to disallow it?
The growing number of Boys raised without a Father is made worse by the assault on masculinity within schools. They dope up any kids that act like normal boys (even some of the more masculine girls) calling it "Attention Deficit Disorder"
Disney will have to go with a yearly subscription model if it wants serious revenue from the people those movies attract.
Disney's animated stuff for kids can go with a monthly model and expect revenue to keep pouring in because kids watch things over and over and over again.
Its not male vs female that is at issue. Its conservative vs liberal.
You hire liberals to innovate, and conservatives to maintain the day to day, If you make the conservatives feel unwelcome, ostracize them, fire them if they speak out, and so on... well... even what little conservatives you have wont be performing at top efficiency even if they wanted to, and they might not want to (they might want to watch it all burn.)
With any other ISP you could say that the system wasn't "designed", that instead it was "evolved" and that the edge cases need to be worked out from time to time. But Google Fiber isnt an old business with a long evolved billing system.. its a new business that should have had it right to begin with.
Also, any large business that wont take a small check is nonsense. They have a very significant business relationship with a bank that handles both their extremely large payroll as well as check deposits from customers. Depositing this small check should cost them literally nothing. Its just one in a large stack of checks that is handled under a contract dominated by their payroll department, not their accounts receivable department.
My ISP (CCI) I know for a fact provides 100/100. I just didn't purchase that plan.
This is a solid point often ignored, is that most people dont get the most expensive plan. A have the first plan above "basic" and get 60mbit down, which has been perpetually upgraded over the past ~16 years from its original 3mbit down when it was an "@home" branded service (the local franchise has changed hands 3 times since then, because we east coast'rs dont let these cable companies fuck us like the left coast'rs do)
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The real economists are the ones that are (or were before death) habitually correct in their predictions.
There have been more than a couple, like any other field. What you are actually thinking of is economics pundits. In physics there is a bunch of pundits saying cold fusion is right around the corner and so forth. Do you also criticize real physicists for the same bullshit reasons you are criticizing real economists? I thought not. The problem is that you dont know who the real economists are, not that there arent any. The problem is you.
Yes, you missed the part where Google copied their images and serves them up themselves as part of Googles shopping network, an act of questionable legality if it werent for the court order demanding they stop doing it at the request of businesses regardless of the acts legality.
It's a big place. How do you know it's the same engineers?
Because art Google, everyone is the same.
In any case, why is efficacy testing a bad thing? Shouldn't a drug be proven to actually treat the condition it's supposed to be treating?
Ask anyone that cant get a drug that works because testing for their rare condition will never be done because the drug also works for some common condition.
Good intentions for the sake of good intentions costs lives. Your policy is equivalent to murder.
You just segfaulted every major x86 OS written in the past three decades.
The script kiddies have always been here.
This may just be the VB6 and VBA die-hards that didnt want to do VB.NET finally settling on an alternative. To be fair, probably the most used language ever is still VBA -- its very hard to over-estimate the number of lines of VBA code written within the cubicles of white collar businesses, where every junior accountant will easily have written several thousand lines of it per year.
A point of fact here:
The NOAA is converting over their climate data to a new data format, and email correspondence with them (due to many issues with the conversion) has revealed that they are using Fortran for at least some of this conversion process.
Yes, I know one of the people auditing their conversion. Its horrendous display of incompetence, but thats a separate issue. Fortran is in fact still widely used by the scientific community, and while Python is getting some adoption so is Julia and Julia is hands-down better for scientists.
I always felt that one of the things C needed was an official way for the programmer to define the exact size of a structure. Even having dummy variables doesnt truly cut it because its all still implementation dependent. You can get away with making assumptions most of the time.. but then that one weirdo asic compiler is being used to handle your data and all bets are off.
I wouldn't be surprised if Equifax just manufactured this breach to push their TrustID product.
If a company were to "manufacture" such a breach, then they would also sell the information on the black market which adds another win.
Essentially, if they say that they were breached, then your data is out there even if they werent breached.
A lot of people arent.
Given the comments on the related articles, it seems to me that a lot of people here have never had credit except for maybe their government guaranteed student loan for their gender studies.
Knowing where the numbers start is good enough for fun and profit.
This.
The FDA caused the problem to begin with by changing the standards and requiring all delivery systems to be re-certified. Most of the alternatives were phased out because re-certification is too expensive.
One can argue that Mylan caused the problem by lobbying the FDA to change the standards as it knew that its competitors couldnt afford to re-certify, but it was the FDA that held the power to do it or not do it, and they went ahead and did it.
The FDA was good up until the thalidomide incident. Thalidomide was causing birth defects all across Europe but not in America because Europe only required Efficacy standards while America only required Safety standards. The one thing Thalidomide had going for it was Efficacy (the stuff worked as advertised.) After the thalidomide fiasco, the FDA took the European scandal opportunity to increase the scope of its power and influence by petitioned congress to add Efficacy testing. It made no sense but the reasons for expanding government power rarely does.
So now getting anything passed the FDA is insanely expensive, so expensive that real life saving drugs and devices never see the light of day. So now any change to standards for particular devices or drugs regardless of for Safety or Efficacy always removes players from the market purely for financial reasons. Every time, just like this time.
Fuck the FDA.
40% of NASA's budget was going to global warming research, something that shouldnt have ever happened, but started under Clinton and went right through both Bush and Obama.
Why was NASA doing the NOAA's job? The answer is that it wasn't... the NOAA was spending even more than NASA on global warming research. Some might suggest that this was for NOAA satellites except the NOAA pays NASA for those so those things arent part of NASA's budget.
Just these two departments were spending significantly more than "a few billion dollars" each year on global warming. Another billion or so in direct research grants to universities and another billion or so from the NSF, and we are approaching 10 billion per year, and we still arent done totaling up the money spent on global warming.
Global warming research isnt just big business... its one of the biggest businesses. Imagine if we spent this sort of money on cancer research instead, or helping poor people, or even just taxing people less.
The current theory is prenatal hormones. The same ones that cause actual gender differentiation are also currently believed to effect sexual orientation later in life, which as well as being backed by science is also logical.
But we all know that the social constructionists abandoned this science the instant gay marriage was approved... so here way are..
Simple logic argument you could have used:
If private space flight was impossible, why was it banned in both America and the European Union, both of which then pressured everyone else (such as Libya) to disallow it?
The term is Beta Males.
The growing number of Boys raised without a Father is made worse by the assault on masculinity within schools. They dope up any kids that act like normal boys (even some of the more masculine girls) calling it "Attention Deficit Disorder"
Disney will have to go with a yearly subscription model if it wants serious revenue from the people those movies attract.
Disney's animated stuff for kids can go with a monthly model and expect revenue to keep pouring in because kids watch things over and over and over again.
Every single "point" is a strawman.
Its not male vs female that is at issue. Its conservative vs liberal.
You hire liberals to innovate, and conservatives to maintain the day to day, If you make the conservatives feel unwelcome, ostracize them, fire them if they speak out, and so on... well... even what little conservatives you have wont be performing at top efficiency even if they wanted to, and they might not want to (they might want to watch it all burn.)
I do it all the time. Anything that isnt a monthly bill.
With any other ISP you could say that the system wasn't "designed", that instead it was "evolved" and that the edge cases need to be worked out from time to time. But Google Fiber isnt an old business with a long evolved billing system.. its a new business that should have had it right to begin with.
Also, any large business that wont take a small check is nonsense. They have a very significant business relationship with a bank that handles both their extremely large payroll as well as check deposits from customers. Depositing this small check should cost them literally nothing. Its just one in a large stack of checks that is handled under a contract dominated by their payroll department, not their accounts receivable department.
My ISP (CCI) I know for a fact provides 100/100. I just didn't purchase that plan.
This is a solid point often ignored, is that most people dont get the most expensive plan. A have the first plan above "basic" and get 60mbit down, which has been perpetually upgraded over the past ~16 years from its original 3mbit down when it was an "@home" branded service (the local franchise has changed hands 3 times since then, because we east coast'rs dont let these cable companies fuck us like the left coast'rs do)
The effect on AMD was much larger than a $billion. AMD even had to spin off its fabs to stay afloat.
The fine should have been enough to almost destroy Intel, just as Intels actions were almost enough to destroy AMD.
Maybe its the accepted corruption in Boston politics.
The two most corrupt States are right next to each other, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Its not the creators and discoverers that are suing. Its the rent-seeking journal.