My only caveat to this is that you're not "supposed" to wear a watch to weddings or funerals, because you're not supposed to be concerning yourself with time at these events.
But then...everyone else has their phones anyway. Manners are dead, says the old man.
School starts at 7:30 (30 minutes earlier than you represent). School ends at 2:45 (45 minutes later than you represent).
Before-school care begins at 6:30am. After-school care ends at 5:30pm. That's 11 hours/day, times 178 instructional days/year = 1958 hours.
Add in 30 instructional days for summer school, is roughly 2288 hours/year away from home.
I can't imagine what it would be for a family holding down two minimum wage jobs at irregular hours. I suspect the time away from "home" would be even higher, since I've left out 11 weeks with no school activity, 17 if you don't have summer school.
Actually, I *always* read Bennett's posts. The comment stream is, by far, the funniest postings on slashdot. I'm delighted by the myriad inventive ways slashdotters have discovered to mock this maroon.
If Bennett did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
1. The Dexcom G4 CGM (new this year) is remarkably accurate. We're rarely more than 10 points from a finger stick. Surprisingly, sometimes it asks us to calibrate with a finger stick, we enter the number, and it disagrees with what we just entered. We'll finger stick again, and find out it's right.
2. The *huge* advantage of a CGM that you're not acknowledging is that it gives you the derivative of your blood sugar, not just the value. You check your HbA1C for the integral, why wouldn't you use a CGM for the derivative?
My daughter had a near-experience with this. Typically, you enter two values into the pump: your current blood glucose level, and the number of carbs you are going to (or in the case of a child, have) eat(en). The pump uses a conversion formula to dose you for the carbs, either shorting the amount if your glucose is low, or increasing the amount if your glucose is high.
A school nurse new to the pump reversed the numbers. My daughter had eaten about 60g of carbs, and her blood glucose level was ~160, but the nurse entered blood glucose of 60, and 160g of carbs--something like 6 units of insulin. Little girl had to stuff chocolate and apple juice into her face all afternoon, which doesn't sound bad unless your blood sugar's on the floor and you're sick to your stomach. Never thought we'd have to beg a child to eat more chocolate.
One lesson (among many) I took from that is that drawing fluid into a syringe is intuitively obvious whether it's a common-sense amount or not (for one, her old syringes wouldn't even hold 6 units), whereas two numbers on a monochrome screen are not.
Okay...I'll be the idiot who stands up for the science-deniers here. I'd prefer six vaccines delivered two weeks apart. I'm fully in favor of the vaccinations, though.
Against that you have to weight the trauma of six, rather than one injection...and I'm speaking of the parents' trauma, of course. Holy flying spaghetti monster you've never seen anything like a kid that knows a shot is coming.
Four ways: 1. All children have a period during which they're not vaccinated...between birth, and the actual time of vaccination. My daughter is not quite five, and she's still getting vaccinations.
2. Just because you got a vaccination doesn't mean it took...for some people, the vaccine has no effect.
3. Some people are immuno-compromised. With or without a vaccine, they have no resistance.
4. Some people simply can't take the vaccine, whether they want to or not.
I think you're missing his point...All these guys are squatters from waaay back, except this one new allocation. The whole continent of Africa has to make do with half as many addresses as HP, or a quarter as many as the DoD NIC.
The canonical example, of course, is Nissan trying to name the Z series "Fairlady" after the play. Someone in the states had the wit to pry off the Fairlady marques and re-label it after the internal part number: 240Z.
Neither the Exxon Valdez disaster nor hospitalization for lung disease are net positives for the GDP. Certainly, money is being spent to correct both problems. This money is added to the GDP. The problem is that that money has opportunity cost: neither lung disease, nor oil spills, nor the canonical example of crime prevention provide economic return to investments to prevent or repair them.
An example: I get lung cancer. I spend $100,000 to cure it. I go back to work 1 year later. Net benefit to economy: medical costs (savings or insurance = - $100,000 doctor/hospital income = + $100,000 Loss of 1 year's work = - $100,000 Net cost to society (i.e.) GDP = - $100,000
Another example: An oil firm spills a large amount of oil: Labor/material costs to clean up: + $10,000,000 Costs of such labor/material being used more productively: - $10,000,000 Loss of oil: - $5,000,000 Net cost to society (i.e.) GDP = - $5,000,000
Insider trading is theft---theft from those who don't have the information, and sell at a disadvantage. It also happens to be immoral, but it's immoral for the same reason shoplifting is.
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My only caveat to this is that you're not "supposed" to wear a watch to weddings or funerals, because you're not supposed to be concerning yourself with time at these events.
But then...everyone else has their phones anyway. Manners are dead, says the old man.
Software-speak: scrum, sprint, swimlane.
I'm baffled that we have to borrow words from sports to describe the cool new thing.
>However, there's nothing that bold or controversial about a gay character.
Ok, then why doesn't Star Trek have any?
Oh, don't tell me you've never heard of Q.
They don't *pay* for training, but they do *require* training.
Same as not paying for availability in the middle of the night.
Also, the student can always declare bankruptcy in the worst case, so there's no fear if you have nothing.
Student loans are not forgiveable in a bankruptcy.
My kids' school is upper-middle class.
School starts at 7:30 (30 minutes earlier than you represent). School ends at 2:45 (45 minutes later than you represent).
Before-school care begins at 6:30am. After-school care ends at 5:30pm.
That's 11 hours/day, times 178 instructional days/year = 1958 hours.
Add in 30 instructional days for summer school, is roughly 2288 hours/year away from home.
I can't imagine what it would be for a family holding down two minimum wage jobs at irregular hours. I suspect the time away from "home" would be even higher, since I've left out 11 weeks with no school activity, 17 if you don't have summer school.
My problem with your thought experiment is that $1 million is not "high reward".
Certainly not commensurate with "instantly murdered". In fact, I'm pretty sure I value my life at (much?) more than three orders of magnitude greater.
The things I *would* value as roughly equal to "instantly murdered" are all personal, and none of them involve cash.
Actually, I *always* read Bennett's posts. The comment stream is, by far, the funniest postings on slashdot. I'm delighted by the myriad inventive ways slashdotters have discovered to mock this maroon.
If Bennett did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Your figures are a few orders of magnitude too low.
few=3.
So 10^3=1000, times 3 = 3000.
Sounds like Saddam killing 3000 people/year is still better than the 650,000 deaths the war caused. (src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... )
Surely Saddam won't live 216 years.
Irony incarnate.
"People are idiots and have no knowledge of things outside their little spheres of interest and no desire to learn. - AC"
1. The Dexcom G4 CGM (new this year) is remarkably accurate. We're rarely more than 10 points from a finger stick. Surprisingly, sometimes it asks us to calibrate with a finger stick, we enter the number, and it disagrees with what we just entered. We'll finger stick again, and find out it's right.
2. The *huge* advantage of a CGM that you're not acknowledging is that it gives you the derivative of your blood sugar, not just the value. You check your HbA1C for the integral, why wouldn't you use a CGM for the derivative?
3. Yes, it hurts. So does skateboarding.
My daughter had a near-experience with this. Typically, you enter two values into the pump: your current blood glucose level, and the number of carbs you are going to (or in the case of a child, have) eat(en). The pump uses a conversion formula to dose you for the carbs, either shorting the amount if your glucose is low, or increasing the amount if your glucose is high.
A school nurse new to the pump reversed the numbers. My daughter had eaten about 60g of carbs, and her blood glucose level was ~160, but the nurse entered blood glucose of 60, and 160g of carbs--something like 6 units of insulin. Little girl had to stuff chocolate and apple juice into her face all afternoon, which doesn't sound bad unless your blood sugar's on the floor and you're sick to your stomach. Never thought we'd have to beg a child to eat more chocolate.
One lesson (among many) I took from that is that drawing fluid into a syringe is intuitively obvious whether it's a common-sense amount or not (for one, her old syringes wouldn't even hold 6 units), whereas two numbers on a monochrome screen are not.
Indeed, it is available:
http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee-salaries/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/charles-g-groat/253140/
Okay...I'll be the idiot who stands up for the science-deniers here. I'd prefer six vaccines delivered two weeks apart. I'm fully in favor of the vaccinations, though.
Against that you have to weight the trauma of six, rather than one injection...and I'm speaking of the parents' trauma, of course. Holy flying spaghetti monster you've never seen anything like a kid that knows a shot is coming.
What risk is there to your kids? Just saying...
Four ways:
1. All children have a period during which they're not vaccinated...between birth, and the actual time of vaccination. My daughter is not quite five, and she's still getting vaccinations.
2. Just because you got a vaccination doesn't mean it took...for some people, the vaccine has no effect.
3. Some people are immuno-compromised. With or without a vaccine, they have no resistance.
4. Some people simply can't take the vaccine, whether they want to or not.
The other 10% is made of Whooosh.
I've always wondered what SAE stood for.
I could go to school with one single item.
If I'm going to choose one single item to go to school with, I'm choosing pants.
Choose pants. It's the right thing to do.
I think you're missing his point...All these guys are squatters from waaay back, except this one new allocation. The whole continent of Africa has to make do with half as many addresses as HP, or a quarter as many as the DoD NIC.
You insensitive clod!
I *was* watching Citizen Kane...now, what's the point?
It's the only one!
The canonical example, of course, is Nissan trying to name the Z series "Fairlady" after the play. Someone in the states had the wit to pry off the Fairlady marques and re-label it after the internal part number: 240Z.
Neither the Exxon Valdez disaster nor hospitalization for lung disease are net positives for the GDP. Certainly, money is being spent to correct both problems. This money is added to the GDP. The problem is that that money has opportunity cost: neither lung disease, nor oil spills, nor the canonical example of crime prevention provide economic return to investments to prevent or repair them.
An example: I get lung cancer. I spend $100,000 to cure it. I go back to work 1 year later. Net benefit to economy:
medical costs (savings or insurance = - $100,000
doctor/hospital income = + $100,000
Loss of 1 year's work = - $100,000
Net cost to society (i.e.) GDP = - $100,000
Another example: An oil firm spills a large amount of oil:
Labor/material costs to clean up: + $10,000,000
Costs of such labor/material being used more productively: - $10,000,000
Loss of oil: - $5,000,000
Net cost to society (i.e.) GDP = - $5,000,000
Insider trading is theft---theft from those who don't have the information, and sell at a disadvantage. It also happens to be immoral, but it's immoral for the same reason shoplifting is.
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