The Finnish vacation theory was an attempted joke. I wouldn't expect them to sail past Europe, round cape of good hope and stop over in Sri Lanka and then go back without stopping anywhere else.
That said, I had never heard of a Uralo-Dravidian hypothesis.
Actually, this is pretty interesting. I can tie that pretty well with Tamil (which is Dravidian language) . Maybe Finnish from the Cold Climes traveled to the hot Southern India for Vacation. Adding Tamil
Mother - Ema -Thay
Father - Isa - Thandai/Appan
Son - Poeg - Payyan
Fire - Tuli - Tee
Sun - Päike - Pakkaran
Hand - Käsi - Kai
I - Mina -Nan
You - Sina - Nee
Him/Her - Tema - Avan
That brings up the point of Dravidian languages. Tamil words for Mom and Dad are "Thay" and "Thandai". Hand is "Kai", Me is "Nan" and you is "nee". None of these match the ice-age language roots described.
Maybe "Thay" and "Thandai" are variants of "Da" and "Da-Da".
The other point this brings up is how almost all of South-Asia is on the Indo-European language roots (Ma = Mom, Papa/Pita=Father,Tum= You etc.) while a bunch of languages completely sat out the ice ages in pretty much the same neighborhood.
My guess would be that any commonality reflects stone age origins of civilization and Indo-European languages in about middle-east rather than an ice age language that existed prior to it. But then I am no linguist.
After reading Rogoff-Reinhart sorta-rebuttal and Krugman's re-rebuttal, I think you are right on the money here.
Apparently here is what happened. No one had historical debt/gdp data for so many countries. R&R collected this. At some point they wrote the paper and published it with the conclusion that 90% debt/gdp was a bad thing. The arbitrary 90% debt/gdp cut-off probably came from the excel error, but even adjusting for that it would have been some number like 95% debt to gdp ratio.
What then happened is that they came upon more data (Additional data post WW2 for non-european countries). If they had included this data in the previous data they would have to say, our paper is right some of the time but not otherwise. They did not look at this data more carefully or publish another paper adding to the previous paper. Instead they put this new dataset online and then published a book expounding their paper and got on Bloomberg TV interviews talking about their previous results.
I don't think they were cheating. Putting most of their data online for free seems to indicate they genuinely wanted to be open, their data is something mostly no one else has collected before. But after publishing their first paper they had their conclusion and then ignored later evidence that did not confirm their views.
There is the fight about averaging countries equally when each country has different number of observations (which R&R did) - this one I have no opinion on.
Flux is the thing used to clean and cover parts while soldering. Maybe 170 degree radial flux means that the solderer must spread flux at least on his side of the PCB. Maybe the other side of the PCB is too difficult to reach without turning the assembly line around:-)
Actually I think this works the other way around. If Immigrants work in US and then go back, they can't collect Medicare, Unemployment benefits, get public school education for their children and can't collect Social Security (OK, maybe they can collect Social security in some certain cases if they get a refund.). Neither will they ever be on food stamps or get tax refunds for being low-income.
Exactly. Instead of running a contest to find a solution FTC could do two things.
1) Drop requirements for phone companies to terminate all calls - allow them to drop calls which customer thinks are OK. Google voice can do this because they are not really a phone company for legal purposes.
2) Stop rural exchanges from being able freeload off of the main exchanges - allow phone companies to blacklist an exchange once it is determined that the place is abnormally expensive and that ratio of Spam/legit calls from that exchange is above,say, 3. Currently many spammers collect revenues from rural exchanges who in turn charge other exchanges/national carriers.
Take $200. Right now. Out of your own personal bank account. Put it under your mattress. Call it the budget for the year's crappy frustrations.
Or if you like revenge better than bribery, just remember that for every call you make it costs them approximately $15 in total costs (phone + personnel + training) . So schedule your call during your least busy time when your opportunity cost is zero and count -16 in their account. That way after you are done with the call and have fixed the problem (so that your net cost is zero), you can mentally tally the score as Me: 0, T-mobile -16 and feel happy about that.
That's what I thought too.
But I guess this has something to do with speed of information travel. In gases speed of sound is a barrier to information travel - if a disturbance is slower than speed of sound, it is of the form we can easily identify. Particles ahead of the object "know" that a disturbance is coming and slowly get out of the way, similar to an oar in water causing waves ahead of it.
If it is supersonic though, there is no warning ahead. You cannot hear a SuperSonic aircraft before it gets to you.
I think in the case you described , waves from the back act like super-sonic wave (or wave at speed of information travel) while the reflection wave is slower because people can see what is in front of them.
Well, that is not that wrong an assumption.
Driving on interstate at interstate speeds (I-95, without blocking others) involves driving at higher speeds. Wind resistance increases quadratically with speeds, so you are spending a lot more on drag on interstates compared to driving in the city. On the other hand you lose some energy to breaking. Regenerative breaking efficiency is about 50%, so depending on how often you break and how fast you drive on interstate, it is possible to have better efficiency in the city than on interstate.
You also have to consider that any time you break at high speeds, your recovery efficiency goes down. Slowing down using breaking is when regenerative breaking works best.
The reporter says in a blog post that he charged the battery until the charger said "charging complete". Tesla says that it is not fully charged battery since battery can be charged further by setting a fuel economy mode on and leaving it charged for 20 more minutes. The battery was 90% charged. If this was an FAA test, this would be recorded as "Pilot unfamiliarity with craft", not "Pilot error".
There is also the detour - NY times reporter says he took a two mile ride through city traffic. Having ridden the routes the reporter is talking about, this again is probably something a normal driver would do - stop for a sandwich or just see some city on the way. The traffic is pretty bad from Long Island going into the city, so mostly anyone would stop after driving around an hour.
I think the problem with the report were not bad reporting, but procedural. The reporter tried to test a car in a "normal use" scenario, but did not familiarize himself with the car (as a normal user would). That said, this is a newspaper review, not a federal test conducted in test environment. So I would trust the reporter on this one.
NY Times reported that some students were asked to produce class notes 6 months after the incident. If they had them, they were let off, else it becomes unprovable...(or that's what I got from the newspaper)
I believe some of the students were indeed expelled.
The case is more complicated than simply copying.
1) This class used to be easy, but this year it was very hard
2) A lot of athletes etc. got in the class so that they could pass. When it was tough they panicked
3) They went to teaching assistants with questions about "interpreting" the exam. The TA's helped them freely. This was considered cheating in exams and resulted in suspensions.
4) Some cheated outright. Many resulted in expulsions with grades for the year getting set to zero and tuition for the year being refunded.
5) A few students copied class notes, but did not copy in the exam. This was looked at on a case by case basis and resulted in punishments (some expelled, some not)
And that "fraud" doesn't come close to the Coinage act of 1873 when US got back on metallic currency but refused to redeem currency for Silver.
If you are going for a crime, go for one which was contemporaneously labeled so - this one was called "crime of 73" .
In this particular case, that has not been possible for the banks
Two divisions of UBS plead guilty (Japan, which was where the largest schemes were hatched and one other) and were shut down. RBS stock is down today after news leaked that they will have to plead guilty too. A handful of people from the banks have been criminally charged and Barclays CEO has quit. US investigation is only halfway there, so expect a couple more banks to get into trouble.
What will literally kill the banks is the civil suits, though. Any state fund or pension fund that lost money on a bond sale or interest rate hedge will (and can) sue the banks for fraud, wiping out any profit banks may have had. On the other hand anyone who made money due to the libor shenanigan by accident (like average joes, who have loans/mortgage linked to Libor which was lowered artificially) will keep the profit. That has the potential to destroy the banks.
Once a bank falls, so does its lobbying power and hence it will get worse for them.
Expanding on this question
Have you considered actually trying to make money of reselling closed source apps ?
Personally, I would pay the same price I pay for Windows+Office Bundle for a linux distribution which can run a full version of excel with macros (too many apps I use have Excel Plugins). For the above user, it seems Adobe Creative suite is what is the barrier.
I always wondered why you would go with Unity and Search advertising when the easier path would have been to just resell MS Office / Adobe / Gaming software for Linux through the Ubuntu software center ?
As an ex-smoker, what works for me is walking.
I used to stand at a spot or drink tea/coffee with other smokers while smoking. I rarely walked while smoking.
So now I walk when I have to take a break (5 mins same time as a cigarette, approx. half mile or so) and eat a very sweet candy (or nicotine lozenges) whenever I feel like smoking. Also, since you said you quit recently, remember that it mostly gets easier as you go along. Except at around 3 months, when you really hit a rough spot. Only thing that got me through was the lozenges. By that point the connection of hand-to-mouth action is gone, but the nicotine craving is not.
It is funny that both of your American cars were not American at all. The Pontiac Firefly was originally a Suzuki (cultus or something). Chevy Aveo is a Daewoo Kalos. The Aveo was never meant to be a US Spec car, it worked OK in Asia where it is used over smaller distances and the weather is OK. Nevertheless, it was one of the cars that put Daewoo out of business.
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The Finnish vacation theory was an attempted joke. I wouldn't expect them to sail past Europe, round cape of good hope and stop over in Sri Lanka and then go back without stopping anywhere else.
That said, I had never heard of a Uralo-Dravidian hypothesis.
Actually, this is pretty interesting. I can tie that pretty well with Tamil (which is Dravidian language) . Maybe Finnish from the Cold Climes traveled to the hot Southern India for Vacation. Adding Tamil
Mother - Ema -Thay Father - Isa - Thandai/Appan Son - Poeg - Payyan Fire - Tuli - Tee Sun - Päike - Pakkaran Hand - Käsi - Kai I - Mina -Nan You - Sina - Nee Him/Her - Tema - Avan
That brings up the point of Dravidian languages. Tamil words for Mom and Dad are "Thay" and "Thandai". Hand is "Kai", Me is "Nan" and you is "nee". None of these match the ice-age language roots described.
Maybe "Thay" and "Thandai" are variants of "Da" and "Da-Da".
The other point this brings up is how almost all of South-Asia is on the Indo-European language roots (Ma = Mom, Papa/Pita=Father,Tum= You etc.) while a bunch of languages completely sat out the ice ages in pretty much the same neighborhood.
My guess would be that any commonality reflects stone age origins of civilization and Indo-European languages in about middle-east rather than an ice age language that existed prior to it. But then I am no linguist.
Meanwhile the Russians used instant coffee .
(Saying this as an owner of a fisher space pen).
Just a different sort of power source http://www.peroxidepropulsion.com/article/35
Not really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name " Mary daughter of Jane is the uncommon version".
After reading Rogoff-Reinhart sorta-rebuttal and Krugman's re-rebuttal, I think you are right on the money here .
Apparently here is what happened. No one had historical debt/gdp data for so many countries. R&R collected this. At some point they wrote the paper and published it with the conclusion that 90% debt/gdp was a bad thing. The arbitrary 90% debt/gdp cut-off probably came from the excel error, but even adjusting for that it would have been some number like 95% debt to gdp ratio.
What then happened is that they came upon more data (Additional data post WW2 for non-european countries). If they had included this data in the previous data they would have to say, our paper is right some of the time but not otherwise. They did not look at this data more carefully or publish another paper adding to the previous paper. Instead they put this new dataset online and then published a book expounding their paper and got on Bloomberg TV interviews talking about their previous results.
I don't think they were cheating. Putting most of their data online for free seems to indicate they genuinely wanted to be open, their data is something mostly no one else has collected before. But after publishing their first paper they had their conclusion and then ignored later evidence that did not confirm their views.
There is the fight about averaging countries equally when each country has different number of observations (which R&R did) - this one I have no opinion on.
Flux is the thing used to clean and cover parts while soldering. Maybe 170 degree radial flux means that the solderer must spread flux at least on his side of the PCB. Maybe the other side of the PCB is too difficult to reach without turning the assembly line around :-)
Actually I think this works the other way around.
If Immigrants work in US and then go back, they can't collect Medicare, Unemployment benefits, get public school education for their children and can't collect Social Security (OK, maybe they can collect Social security in some certain cases if they get a refund.). Neither will they ever be on food stamps or get tax refunds for being low-income.
Exactly. Instead of running a contest to find a solution FTC could do two things.
1) Drop requirements for phone companies to terminate all calls - allow them to drop calls which customer thinks are OK. Google voice can do this because they are not really a phone company for legal purposes. 2) Stop rural exchanges from being able freeload off of the main exchanges - allow phone companies to blacklist an exchange once it is determined that the place is abnormally expensive and that ratio of Spam/legit calls from that exchange is above,say, 3. Currently many spammers collect revenues from rural exchanges who in turn charge other exchanges/national carriers.
Take $200. Right now. Out of your own personal bank account. Put it under your mattress. Call it the budget for the year's crappy frustrations.
Or if you like revenge better than bribery, just remember that for every call you make it costs them approximately $15 in total costs (phone + personnel + training) . So schedule your call during your least busy time when your opportunity cost is zero and count -16 in their account. That way after you are done with the call and have fixed the problem (so that your net cost is zero), you can mentally tally the score as Me: 0, T-mobile -16 and feel happy about that.
replying to fix an incorrect mod
I've heard people say 4th of July more than July 4th.
That's what I thought too.
But I guess this has something to do with speed of information travel. In gases speed of sound is a barrier to information travel - if a disturbance is slower than speed of sound, it is of the form we can easily identify. Particles ahead of the object "know" that a disturbance is coming and slowly get out of the way, similar to an oar in water causing waves ahead of it.
If it is supersonic though, there is no warning ahead. You cannot hear a SuperSonic aircraft before it gets to you.
I think in the case you described , waves from the back act like super-sonic wave (or wave at speed of information travel) while the reflection wave is slower because people can see what is in front of them.
Well, that is not that wrong an assumption.
Driving on interstate at interstate speeds (I-95, without blocking others) involves driving at higher speeds. Wind resistance increases quadratically with speeds, so you are spending a lot more on drag on interstates compared to driving in the city. On the other hand you lose some energy to breaking. Regenerative breaking efficiency is about 50%, so depending on how often you break and how fast you drive on interstate, it is possible to have better efficiency in the city than on interstate.
You also have to consider that any time you break at high speeds, your recovery efficiency goes down. Slowing down using breaking is when regenerative breaking works best.
The reporter says in a blog post that he charged the battery until the charger said "charging complete". Tesla says that it is not fully charged battery since battery can be charged further by setting a fuel economy mode on and leaving it charged for 20 more minutes. The battery was 90% charged. If this was an FAA test, this would be recorded as "Pilot unfamiliarity with craft", not "Pilot error".
There is also the detour - NY times reporter says he took a two mile ride through city traffic. Having ridden the routes the reporter is talking about, this again is probably something a normal driver would do - stop for a sandwich or just see some city on the way. The traffic is pretty bad from Long Island going into the city, so mostly anyone would stop after driving around an hour.
I think the problem with the report were not bad reporting, but procedural. The reporter tried to test a car in a "normal use" scenario, but did not familiarize himself with the car (as a normal user would). That said, this is a newspaper review, not a federal test conducted in test environment. So I would trust the reporter on this one.
Yeah, I did not think of that possibility. And unfortunately, you may be right.
NY Times reported that some students were asked to produce class notes 6 months after the incident. If they had them, they were let off, else it becomes unprovable...(or that's what I got from the newspaper)
I believe some of the students were indeed expelled.
The case is more complicated than simply copying.
1) This class used to be easy, but this year it was very hard
2) A lot of athletes etc. got in the class so that they could pass. When it was tough they panicked
3) They went to teaching assistants with questions about "interpreting" the exam. The TA's helped them freely. This was considered cheating in exams and resulted in suspensions.
4) Some cheated outright. Many resulted in expulsions with grades for the year getting set to zero and tuition for the year being refunded.
5) A few students copied class notes, but did not copy in the exam. This was looked at on a case by case basis and resulted in punishments (some expelled, some not)
And that "fraud" doesn't come close to the Coinage act of 1873 when US got back on metallic currency but refused to redeem currency for Silver.
If you are going for a crime, go for one which was contemporaneously labeled so - this one was called "crime of 73" .
In this particular case, that has not been possible for the banks
Two divisions of UBS plead guilty (Japan, which was where the largest schemes were hatched and one other) and were shut down. RBS stock is down today after news leaked that they will have to plead guilty too. A handful of people from the banks have been criminally charged and Barclays CEO has quit. US investigation is only halfway there, so expect a couple more banks to get into trouble.
What will literally kill the banks is the civil suits, though. Any state fund or pension fund that lost money on a bond sale or interest rate hedge will (and can) sue the banks for fraud, wiping out any profit banks may have had. On the other hand anyone who made money due to the libor shenanigan by accident (like average joes, who have loans/mortgage linked to Libor which was lowered artificially) will keep the profit. That has the potential to destroy the banks.
Once a bank falls, so does its lobbying power and hence it will get worse for them.
There is an IQ and I have a full 180 of them. So I know better than the researchers and that's that.
Expanding on this question
Have you considered actually trying to make money of reselling closed source apps ?
Personally, I would pay the same price I pay for Windows+Office Bundle for a linux distribution which can run a full version of excel with macros (too many apps I use have Excel Plugins). For the above user, it seems Adobe Creative suite is what is the barrier.
I always wondered why you would go with Unity and Search advertising when the easier path would have been to just resell MS Office / Adobe / Gaming software for Linux through the Ubuntu software center ?
As an ex-smoker, what works for me is walking.
I used to stand at a spot or drink tea/coffee with other smokers while smoking. I rarely walked while smoking.
So now I walk when I have to take a break (5 mins same time as a cigarette, approx. half mile or so) and eat a very sweet candy (or nicotine lozenges) whenever I feel like smoking. Also, since you said you quit recently, remember that it mostly gets easier as you go along. Except at around 3 months, when you really hit a rough spot. Only thing that got me through was the lozenges. By that point the connection of hand-to-mouth action is gone, but the nicotine craving is not.
It is funny that both of your American cars were not American at all. The Pontiac Firefly was originally a Suzuki (cultus or something). Chevy Aveo is a Daewoo Kalos.
The Aveo was never meant to be a US Spec car, it worked OK in Asia where it is used over smaller distances and the weather is OK. Nevertheless, it was one of the cars that put Daewoo out of business.