Maybe if you bothered trying to understand what Taleb says would make it less unreasonable to you?
He didn't say "no bonuses to traders" or "no bonuses for bankers". He said "no bonuses if the company would require a bailout if it failed". All those people who want to work that job you think is so terrible can just go work in a non-massive hedge fund or a small investment house.
You also completely ignore the way things work in almost every other job - if they screw up they don't keep collecting their salary they get to file an application at the local unemployment agency. Seems to work in essentially every other field. And if it's all the fault of "a collapse in your sector" then tough, your previous good years were probably just due to the growth "in your sector" anyway and the next guy has just as much chance of being lucky or unlucky as you.
You don't eat the mold you grow it in an environment in which is will produce penicillin and you then extract that penicillin by simple filtration. You don't use modern techniques you use basic simple
Yes it won't be very "clean" - though being penicillin it self-cleans a bit:)
And you'd be a moron to use it if you had another option. But there's no reason for infections to have as a high a mortality rate as they did in the past given penicillin is so easy to make. Of course some people are allergic to it, it doesn't kill everything, some of the things it used to kill it no longer does, and you'll screw up and get a batch contaminated with something that will kill you sometimes. It is far from a cure all, but minor injuries shouldn't lead to death at anywhere near the frequency they used to.
And just what do you think these terrorists who are so incompotent they haven't managed to set of the bombs they've got onto planes and into NYC in the last few years are going to be able to do in which a few minutes of delay will matter?
I don't recall anything in my first year mathematics courses at uni that I hadn't covered in high school. Well rings and fields were new - but the actual math involved wasn't.
They lose faith in your products selling and since they don't want to get burnt twice buy less (or none) of all your other products, and advertise them less, don't put them in prominent locations in the store, etc. So sure HP doesn't have to take them back, but it might do them more financial harm not to.
Or they aren't actually buying them up front but just have them on consignment.
No it will be a word just like "flammable". Though at least flammable was a stupid word created intentionally to avoid confusing idiots rather than just idiots not knowing their own language.
One is an obviously ludicrous paper that anyone looking at objectively would dismiss.
The other is reasonable papers for which the raw data they are based on was fabricated.
The peer review process should reject the former, but not the later. The later will be found out when others take those papers and attempt to confirm them with their own work.
Sokal was showing that the journal in question was garbage in terms of what they would publish. This says almost nothing about the journals since (and I admit I haven't read them I'm going on the article) the papers were fine other than that minor point about the data they were based on being made up.
A couple of years ago I went to the local DMV at http://maps.google.com/maps?q=90th+St+%26+Bergenline+Ave,+North+Bergen,+NJ+07047 which I admit doesn't look "low rent" given the location. But it covers a "low rent" area. I arrived soon after opening (first mistake I guess) and was greeted by having to line up outside, because the people didn't fit inside, in the snow. Followed by grumpy people behind the counters.
I recently went to this one: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%5B3189-3199%5D+Us+Highway+1,+Lawrence+Township,+NJ+08648 Which again while the location might not indicate so is in a wealthier area. There I rocked up on Saturday was handed the form I needed to fill in and given a number. The number was called before I had finished filling out my name on the form.
Clustered file systems are also about redundancy. Sure it's nice that your RAID system will survive a HDD failure and allow access to your files without interruption while it spins up the spare. But what if the motherboard fried or the PSU or whatever. A clustered file system lets you handle that without interrupting access (with the same caveats - if you lose more than N you are down, etc).
But yes, redundancy isn't the be all and end all of preventing/recovering from data loss. rm -rf X/ on a RAID or a clustered file system does just as much damage as to a single disk file system.
Backups are much more important, and much more boring.
Again I can't see what that has to do with them caring/doing a non-sloppy job.
And I'm not sure why they would be focused on the low end. The AMA, for example, is a union focusing on the high end of the pay scale and going a great job at it.
The suicide rate in China is 13.9 per 100,000 people, at least in 1999 - http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/chin.pdf (and that number is the government one considered a lowball by some). Foxconn had 14 suicides in 2010 but employed 920,000 people. Giving a rate of 1.5 per 100,000. Making Foxconn workers 10 times less likely to commit suicide than the general population.
Somehow you think that's a bad thing? Do you hate Chinese people or something?
France Telecom's rate was 15.3 compared to 14.7 for the general population. Sure higher, but they only have 102,000 employees so it's higher by 1 extra suicide per 16 years.
Yes I think the 99% wanted that. They mightn't have liked the details but even with tweaks to them you get the same results.
The alternative would be: let the banks fail.
In that case the bank of accounts of those 99% all have to get funded by the FDIC which takes time (due to the sheer volume) so they don't have their money straight away.
House prices plummet and nobody sane loans money to buy a house - so people can't refinance when their teaser rate expires and their mortgage probably ha a clause about the value of the house being at least X% of the loan which triggers. Since the mortgages are assets to the banks which all just failed they get sold to the highest bidder in the bankruptcy fire sale. Not caring about public image, etc the knew owners foreclose en-masse to at least try and get something for their money. So the 99% lose their homes too.
All of that causes consumer spending to plummet, as does the availability of finance for business and hence cash flow kills a bunch of businesses. So te 99% lose their jobs too.
So they end up penniless, homeless, and jobless. But at the least bankers don't get bailed out so they are stuck with just the millions they stashed away.
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Maybe if you bothered trying to understand what Taleb says would make it less unreasonable to you?
He didn't say "no bonuses to traders" or "no bonuses for bankers". He said "no bonuses if the company would require a bailout if it failed". All those people who want to work that job you think is so terrible can just go work in a non-massive hedge fund or a small investment house.
You also completely ignore the way things work in almost every other job - if they screw up they don't keep collecting their salary they get to file an application at the local unemployment agency. Seems to work in essentially every other field. And if it's all the fault of "a collapse in your sector" then tough, your previous good years were probably just due to the growth "in your sector" anyway and the next guy has just as much chance of being lucky or unlucky as you.
Why would you be trying to find the mentions of {filename} that happen to be in the contents of other files?
But they're cheaper, so you have two or three of them...
You don't eat the mold you grow it in an environment in which is will produce penicillin and you then extract that penicillin by simple filtration. You don't use modern techniques you use basic simple
Yes it won't be very "clean" - though being penicillin it self-cleans a bit :)
And you'd be a moron to use it if you had another option. But there's no reason for infections to have as a high a mortality rate as they did in the past given penicillin is so easy to make. Of course some people are allergic to it, it doesn't kill everything, some of the things it used to kill it no longer does, and you'll screw up and get a batch contaminated with something that will kill you sometimes. It is far from a cure all, but minor injuries shouldn't lead to death at anywhere near the frequency they used to.
Penicillin is simple enough to make. Tough equally simple to screw up of course.
And just what do you think these terrorists who are so incompotent they haven't managed to set of the bombs they've got onto planes and into NYC in the last few years are going to be able to do in which a few minutes of delay will matter?
Or dispose of that yeast and put in more of the original yeast into your vat.
I don't recall anything in my first year mathematics courses at uni that I hadn't covered in high school. Well rings and fields were new - but the actual math involved wasn't.
The volume of calls and number of devices is needed for those numbers to mean anything.
Sure a higher percentage of Android calls involve hardware issues. That could be the case if:
1. The hardware does fail more.
2. The hardware fails less but there are also even fewer calls about software issues.
They lose faith in your products selling and since they don't want to get burnt twice buy less (or none) of all your other products, and advertise them less, don't put them in prominent locations in the store, etc. So sure HP doesn't have to take them back, but it might do them more financial harm not to.
Or they aren't actually buying them up front but just have them on consignment.
No it will be a word just like "flammable". Though at least flammable was a stupid word created intentionally to avoid confusing idiots rather than just idiots not knowing their own language.
He is supposed to patent it and charge up to £1999 for each model.
I trust you lead the way by not having any vaccinations and refusing any medical treatment invented in the last 3000 years.
Not in the context of what you expect a journal to do in order to be called "peer reviewed".
But it's completely different.
One is an obviously ludicrous paper that anyone looking at objectively would dismiss.
The other is reasonable papers for which the raw data they are based on was fabricated.
The peer review process should reject the former, but not the later. The later will be found out when others take those papers and attempt to confirm them with their own work.
Sokal was showing that the journal in question was garbage in terms of what they would publish. This says almost nothing about the journals since (and I admit I haven't read them I'm going on the article) the papers were fine other than that minor point about the data they were based on being made up.
They aren't scientific papers to start with, so what difference does it make...
Which has absolutely nothing in common with the this so why is it obligatory?
Ditto this.
A couple of years ago I went to the local DMV at http://maps.google.com/maps?q=90th+St+%26+Bergenline+Ave,+North+Bergen,+NJ+07047 which I admit doesn't look "low rent" given the location. But it covers a "low rent" area. I arrived soon after opening (first mistake I guess) and was greeted by having to line up outside, because the people didn't fit inside, in the snow. Followed by grumpy people behind the counters.
I recently went to this one: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%5B3189-3199%5D+Us+Highway+1,+Lawrence+Township,+NJ+08648 Which again while the location might not indicate so is in a wealthier area. There I rocked up on Saturday was handed the form I needed to fill in and given a number. The number was called before I had finished filling out my name on the form.
Clustered file systems are also about redundancy. Sure it's nice that your RAID system will survive a HDD failure and allow access to your files without interruption while it spins up the spare. But what if the motherboard fried or the PSU or whatever. A clustered file system lets you handle that without interrupting access (with the same caveats - if you lose more than N you are down, etc).
But yes, redundancy isn't the be all and end all of preventing/recovering from data loss. rm -rf X/ on a RAID or a clustered file system does just as much damage as to a single disk file system.
Backups are much more important, and much more boring.
Again I can't see what that has to do with them caring/doing a non-sloppy job.
And I'm not sure why they would be focused on the low end. The AMA, for example, is a union focusing on the high end of the pay scale and going a great job at it.
It seems irrelevant to the question of why unions would care.
The suicide rate in China is 13.9 per 100,000 people, at least in 1999 - http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/chin.pdf (and that number is the government one considered a lowball by some). Foxconn had 14 suicides in 2010 but employed 920,000 people. Giving a rate of 1.5 per 100,000. Making Foxconn workers 10 times less likely to commit suicide than the general population.
Somehow you think that's a bad thing? Do you hate Chinese people or something?
France Telecom's rate was 15.3 compared to 14.7 for the general population. Sure higher, but they only have 102,000 employees so it's higher by 1 extra suicide per 16 years.
You think that's the end of the world too?
Why would unions give a shit about income inequality?
When does the NATO air support for the people arrive? The US has oil too.
Yes I think the 99% wanted that. They mightn't have liked the details but even with tweaks to them you get the same results.
The alternative would be: let the banks fail.
In that case the bank of accounts of those 99% all have to get funded by the FDIC which takes time (due to the sheer volume) so they don't have their money straight away.
House prices plummet and nobody sane loans money to buy a house - so people can't refinance when their teaser rate expires and their mortgage probably ha a clause about the value of the house being at least X% of the loan which triggers. Since the mortgages are assets to the banks which all just failed they get sold to the highest bidder in the bankruptcy fire sale. Not caring about public image, etc the knew owners foreclose en-masse to at least try and get something for their money. So the 99% lose their homes too.
All of that causes consumer spending to plummet, as does the availability of finance for business and hence cash flow kills a bunch of businesses. So te 99% lose their jobs too.
So they end up penniless, homeless, and jobless. But at the least bankers don't get bailed out so they are stuck with just the millions they stashed away.