"a good model for understanding the biology of monogamy and mating in humans"
Are humans that close to prairie voles? Because bonobos, our closest actual relation evolutionary speaking, are highly sexualized and totally polygamous.
Of course, if one is seeking to bolster some culturally-determined myth of monogamy (so as to uphold property rights and inheritance, perhaps) then you've got to look pretty far afield for examples of monogamous species.
"In math usually you know the model up front and are applying it, but with IT puzzles you often do not know the model (the insides are proprietary or a million lines of code) and you can only guess and test each candidate model against the clues and form new tests for each candidate model."
I'm guessing that you didn't got far enough in math that the class exercises all turned into "Prove X".
With Latin I can usually parse out the meaning of practically any European language for free (sometimes better than my French girlfriend). It's like the alphabet or multiplication table of all Western speech, so why not learn they key to it all in one swoop? One might call that an elegant abstraction.
Standard operating practice in any takeover is to say "We love what you do, won't change a thing, carry on and we won't interfere." This prevents immediate hemorrhaging of both customers and knowledge-work employees (who in reality should flee as soon as possible). But it's fundamentally a lie or, at to be as charitable as one can be, a temporary measure. I did believe it the first time I heard it, when I was young at working at my first job; but not after that.
The primary thing that worked for Bloomberg is making billions of dollars on Wall Street. (For example, he was laid off from his first job at Solomon Brothers with a $10 million severance package for starters.) With that money he's been able to bend and break a lot of the rules about becoming and staying NYC mayor -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
You should have explicated how the contradiction establishes that the original assumption must be wrong (i.e., the primes cannot be finitely listed). Not everyone understands proof by contradiction, so leaving it unstated was asking for trouble.
The Facebook phone flops like few phones have ever flopped. Zuckerberg's lobbying group is collapsing like few lobbying groups have ever collapsed (http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/12/why-zuckerbergs-lobby-fwd-is-collapsing-like-a-house-of-cards-outside-of-dc/).
Many of us are stuck with Facebook due its powerful networking effects (much like AT&T in the old days). But still the FB brand is renowned as being member-abusive, terrible about privacy, cavalier about interface changes and wiping out settings, etc. Perhaps this is a sign that few people are interested in letting FB expand its grip on their lives.
They were not planning any such thing. Their original raw plans were to set off some smoke and take down some signs, until the FBI plant got involved. This is the Associated Press (http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-5-men-arrested-wanted-blow-ohio-bridge-143112191.html):
"Baxter, Wright and Hayne considered different plots over time, including distracting law enforcement with smoke grenades while trying to bring down financial institution signs in downtown Cleveland."
Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/fbi-occupy-wall-street-occupy-cleveland_n_2435224.html):
"Shaquille Azir, ex-con, bank robber, forger, passer of bad checks, and FBI informant, first visited Occupy Cleveland the night the activists were evicted from their camp. The young men were homeless, looking for a cause and a paycheck. At best they were failed gutter punks. It took months of convincing by Azir to get the plot in motion. After the camp folded, Azir gave the penniless Occupy activists construction jobs, and plied them with beer while they worked. He sent them home, according to a Rolling Stone magazine account, with more beer, weed and prescription drugs. At first, the activists rebuffed Azir's arms-dealer friend, who was an FBI agent. Azir continued to press them."
In-depth article at Rolling Stone on this and other recent FBI procedures -- http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515
"After all, they've actually tried to blow up bridges(Ohio)..."
You mean that totally made-up thing where an FBI plant persuaded people to do this ridiculous thing, gave them fake material, directed them where to put it, and then arrested them? Like they do routinely to convince people their doing anti-terror stuff? Looks like you fell for it.
I had this issue at both of the programming jobs I held before leaving the industry. One was epically bad -- I could have written the OP in just the same words myself.
The problem is that this senior coder comes off as a hero and superman to the higher management. From where they sit, it looks like this guy just ships code and solves all their problems -- regardless of how much it holds the rest of the software staff back in the process (his bad code hygiene is effectively invisible to managers). Also, since he's been there longer he's likely also good buddies with managers on a personal basis. Also, he's just senior staff and so has that ahead of you as well.
There is no way you can change his slash-and-burn work process, and all the rest of the institution will be actively encouraging him for more of the same. You cannot win this one except by leaving some day. This could possibly be switching to a different project, or changing jobs to a different company. Get what you can out of this job and start look for a switch.
"Even though I made the exact same money 'working' exactly same hours, I can tell you that my mood and mental health during the two periods were drastically different, like night and day."
Even though I share your perspective, it's quite possible that this is entirely a socially-inculcated concept. Kind of like how you & I would likely find eating raw slugs (etc.) abhorrent, while in other places and times it's a staple of the diet.
"Filthy rich people don't continue to get filthy rich off of one another."
The 1% can prey on the 10%, and so on to smaller decimal places. Concentration of capital, power, and control is an end result of increasing technology.
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"a good model for understanding the biology of monogamy and mating in humans"
Are humans that close to prairie voles? Because bonobos, our closest actual relation evolutionary speaking, are highly sexualized and totally polygamous.
http://brembs.net/bonobos.html
Of course, if one is seeking to bolster some culturally-determined myth of monogamy (so as to uphold property rights and inheritance, perhaps) then you've got to look pretty far afield for examples of monogamous species.
I will use those words the next time I'm looking for a polite way to describe blackmail.
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"In math usually you know the model up front and are applying it, but with IT puzzles you often do not know the model (the insides are proprietary or a million lines of code) and you can only guess and test each candidate model against the clues and form new tests for each candidate model."
I'm guessing that you didn't got far enough in math that the class exercises all turned into "Prove X".
With Latin I can usually parse out the meaning of practically any European language for free (sometimes better than my French girlfriend). It's like the alphabet or multiplication table of all Western speech, so why not learn they key to it all in one swoop? One might call that an elegant abstraction.
Long, short, whatever: he's not a math guy and surely he'll never have to use it.
It's the guy who determines who counts as a general that you really want.
Standard operating practice in any takeover is to say "We love what you do, won't change a thing, carry on and we won't interfere." This prevents immediate hemorrhaging of both customers and knowledge-work employees (who in reality should flee as soon as possible). But it's fundamentally a lie or, at to be as charitable as one can be, a temporary measure. I did believe it the first time I heard it, when I was young at working at my first job; but not after that.
The primary thing that worked for Bloomberg is making billions of dollars on Wall Street. (For example, he was laid off from his first job at Solomon Brothers with a $10 million severance package for starters.) With that money he's been able to bend and break a lot of the rules about becoming and staying NYC mayor -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
Skeptical -- citation needed.
"This poll is of only 1000 people, though; your mileage may vary."
Hey look -- it's the dumbest goddamn thing you can say about statistics.
Wolfram Alpha agrees: says it's a prime number.
Good lesson: You're probably not going to solve a math problem that's been open for millennia with 3 lines of work and a snarky conclusion.
Hmmm, I guess you must mean "for n greater than 11" (not "P_n greater than 11").
You should have explicated how the contradiction establishes that the original assumption must be wrong (i.e., the primes cannot be finitely listed). Not everyone understands proof by contradiction, so leaving it unstated was asking for trouble.
"Doesn't it make a lot of sense?"
No.
The Facebook phone flops like few phones have ever flopped. Zuckerberg's lobbying group is collapsing like few lobbying groups have ever collapsed (http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/12/why-zuckerbergs-lobby-fwd-is-collapsing-like-a-house-of-cards-outside-of-dc/).
Many of us are stuck with Facebook due its powerful networking effects (much like AT&T in the old days). But still the FB brand is renowned as being member-abusive, terrible about privacy, cavalier about interface changes and wiping out settings, etc. Perhaps this is a sign that few people are interested in letting FB expand its grip on their lives.
They were not planning any such thing. Their original raw plans were to set off some smoke and take down some signs, until the FBI plant got involved. This is the Associated Press (http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-5-men-arrested-wanted-blow-ohio-bridge-143112191.html):
"Baxter, Wright and Hayne considered different plots over time, including distracting law enforcement with smoke grenades while trying to bring down financial institution signs in downtown Cleveland."
Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/fbi-occupy-wall-street-occupy-cleveland_n_2435224.html):
"Shaquille Azir, ex-con, bank robber, forger, passer of bad checks, and FBI informant, first visited Occupy Cleveland the night the activists were evicted from their camp. The young men were homeless, looking for a cause and a paycheck. At best they were failed gutter punks. It took months of convincing by Azir to get the plot in motion. After the camp folded, Azir gave the penniless Occupy activists construction jobs, and plied them with beer while they worked. He sent them home, according to a Rolling Stone magazine account, with more beer, weed and prescription drugs. At first, the activists rebuffed Azir's arms-dealer friend, who was an FBI agent. Azir continued to press them."
In-depth article at Rolling Stone on this and other recent FBI procedures -- http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515
"After all, they've actually tried to blow up bridges(Ohio)..."
You mean that totally made-up thing where an FBI plant persuaded people to do this ridiculous thing, gave them fake material, directed them where to put it, and then arrested them? Like they do routinely to convince people their doing anti-terror stuff? Looks like you fell for it.
"...perfect code is worth nothing if it never sees the day of light."
Of course, if one is habituated to writing in a sloppy fashion, then one can look foolish when things do get publicly presented.
I had this issue at both of the programming jobs I held before leaving the industry. One was epically bad -- I could have written the OP in just the same words myself.
The problem is that this senior coder comes off as a hero and superman to the higher management. From where they sit, it looks like this guy just ships code and solves all their problems -- regardless of how much it holds the rest of the software staff back in the process (his bad code hygiene is effectively invisible to managers). Also, since he's been there longer he's likely also good buddies with managers on a personal basis. Also, he's just senior staff and so has that ahead of you as well.
There is no way you can change his slash-and-burn work process, and all the rest of the institution will be actively encouraging him for more of the same. You cannot win this one except by leaving some day. This could possibly be switching to a different project, or changing jobs to a different company. Get what you can out of this job and start look for a switch.
"Even though I made the exact same money 'working' exactly same hours, I can tell you that my mood and mental health during the two periods were drastically different, like night and day."
Even though I share your perspective, it's quite possible that this is entirely a socially-inculcated concept. Kind of like how you & I would likely find eating raw slugs (etc.) abhorrent, while in other places and times it's a staple of the diet.
"Filthy rich people don't continue to get filthy rich off of one another."
The 1% can prey on the 10%, and so on to smaller decimal places. Concentration of capital, power, and control is an end result of increasing technology.
Like with a bunch of security robots and drones. Very convincing.
"Marshal Law" is a cleverly-named comic book character in the tradition of Judge Dredd:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_Law_%28comics%29
"Martial Law" is the troubling imposition of military rule by authorities on an emergency basis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law