I'm not wasting my time with you. Either you're too dumb to see your basic fallacies, or you're just trolling to be annoying. Either way, I'm done here.
I'm tired of this bullshit. Want pure politics news? Take this crap elsewhere; there's more than enough places on the internet for it. 'Some nerds like/are affected by non-nerdy topic X' is NOT a reason to put X on a site like this. X = Politics, poptarts, bronies, celebrities, whatever. They belong on other sites; where it's appropriate. That some nerds like it doesn't matter. Otherwise this might as well be yahoo news for all the hell it's worth. Now, if the point is to explain new science or technology, that's a different story. But I read the articles. And they're about politics and spending, not proper nerd-material. I hate to be the asshole purist, but sometimes you got to put a foot down.
Uh, there *are* legit reasons for teaching the different classifications of fractions. For example, mixed fractions are the most intuitive representation of rational numbers. Improper fractions are the simplest way to write the number down, but not the most intuitive (for the given audience). Proper fractions are the remainder part of the mixed fraction, whereas the integers are taught in different lessons.
Math is hard, and teaching math is hard. The 'intuitive' or 'obvious' way to teach math isn't necessarily a good way.
Okay. So I demand you give me $60, and you say no. So I demand you give me $30, and you still say no. I was willing to bend, you weren't. Why won't you compromise with $30? I'll even be nice and drop it to $15. It's cut and dry that it's your fault we can't compromise and move on.
The energy markets not a mean type of market; there are huge and wildly varying external costs associated with them. Which means either heavy regulations (which characterize the nuke industry), subsidized costs, and/or those burdening the populous/environment directly. It's the name of the game. And big blunders hurt us all in the long run. There's a lot, a lot, a fuggion lot of sunk costs in nuclear plants. And if those costs don't pay themselves back, future financial backers will be more hesitant to lend at similar or lower interest rates. Which means higher energy prices for future plants.
The issue may be that while they are broken down, they aren't broken down to their constituent elements. Or even to naturally occurring compounds, it's more that the products of degradation are supposed to be [relatively] inert.
The languages primarily used by people is not independent of various traits of said people. Different folks go into development for different reasons, and there will be a tendency across demographics to focus on different platforms. eg Game developers will statistically migrate to specific technologies, and the distribution of what they use won't be the same as those interested in analytics. So yes, you may see correlations between computer language used and the skills [or lack there of] of the developers. Not everybody who codes is a software developer. For example, I personally am in the life sciences (biology/math double major), and only have studied programming/databases as a past-time interest. I, like many other of my science-oriented peers, are going to lag in computer skill development behind those who study and work full time as a programmer. In fact, many of the Daily WTFs I love to read pale in comparison to what I've seen from science coders (I'm a horrible, horrible culprit:) ). Not that there's anything wrong with that, we focus most our energy on our bread and butter, and coding is only a partially used tool that just helps in accomplishing our goals.
So all the other police aren't doing their jobs? I can understand whacking those who're texting/calling while driving; in fact I'm all for it. Red lights are iffy, ex: sometimes folks need a simple answer to pick something up along the way. But ticketing for using a phone's GPS/navigation? Dick move. Serious, serious dick move, and one that does not improve safety. In fact, it's probably safer and less distracting for my phone to vocalize directions than for me to have to look at paper maps. Even a phone's GPS map auto-tracks the vehicle and outlines the desired route, so there's less concentration needed to track where you are than on a legit paper map.
Yes. More work to do / less efficient task making = more manpower needed to get jobs done = more demand for software development labor = better job prospects for me.:)
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I'm not wasting my time with you. Either you're too dumb to see your basic fallacies, or you're just trolling to be annoying. Either way, I'm done here.
Somebody who throws around non-sequiturs so freely shouldn't question others' logic.
Wrong.
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I'm tired of this bullshit. Want pure politics news? Take this crap elsewhere; there's more than enough places on the internet for it. 'Some nerds like/are affected by non-nerdy topic X' is NOT a reason to put X on a site like this. X = Politics, poptarts, bronies, celebrities, whatever. They belong on other sites; where it's appropriate. That some nerds like it doesn't matter. Otherwise this might as well be yahoo news for all the hell it's worth. Now, if the point is to explain new science or technology, that's a different story. But I read the articles. And they're about politics and spending, not proper nerd-material. I hate to be the asshole purist, but sometimes you got to put a foot down.
You're confusing "teaching math to be intuitive" with "the method that would be most obvious to teach".
Uh, there *are* legit reasons for teaching the different classifications of fractions. For example, mixed fractions are the most intuitive representation of rational numbers. Improper fractions are the simplest way to write the number down, but not the most intuitive (for the given audience). Proper fractions are the remainder part of the mixed fraction, whereas the integers are taught in different lessons.
Math is hard, and teaching math is hard. The 'intuitive' or 'obvious' way to teach math isn't necessarily a good way.
And . . . what does politics have to do with comparing different methods of teaching math?
What's the problem? :P
Okay. So I demand you give me $60, and you say no. So I demand you give me $30, and you still say no. I was willing to bend, you weren't. Why won't you compromise with $30? I'll even be nice and drop it to $15. It's cut and dry that it's your fault we can't compromise and move on.
implement RAM in a synthetic genome?
The energy markets not a mean type of market; there are huge and wildly varying external costs associated with them. Which means either heavy regulations (which characterize the nuke industry), subsidized costs, and/or those burdening the populous/environment directly. It's the name of the game. And big blunders hurt us all in the long run. There's a lot, a lot, a fuggion lot of sunk costs in nuclear plants. And if those costs don't pay themselves back, future financial backers will be more hesitant to lend at similar or lower interest rates. Which means higher energy prices for future plants.
I think he done lost his noodle.
The issue may be that while they are broken down, they aren't broken down to their constituent elements. Or even to naturally occurring compounds, it's more that the products of degradation are supposed to be [relatively] inert.
So what about your tin foil hat supplier. Are they in on it too?
The languages primarily used by people is not independent of various traits of said people. Different folks go into development for different reasons, and there will be a tendency across demographics to focus on different platforms. eg Game developers will statistically migrate to specific technologies, and the distribution of what they use won't be the same as those interested in analytics. So yes, you may see correlations between computer language used and the skills [or lack there of] of the developers. Not everybody who codes is a software developer. For example, I personally am in the life sciences (biology/math double major), and only have studied programming/databases as a past-time interest. I, like many other of my science-oriented peers, are going to lag in computer skill development behind those who study and work full time as a programmer. In fact, many of the Daily WTFs I love to read pale in comparison to what I've seen from science coders (I'm a horrible, horrible culprit :) ). Not that there's anything wrong with that, we focus most our energy on our bread and butter, and coding is only a partially used tool that just helps in accomplishing our goals.
That last line cracked me up.
It lives on in minecraft . . . :D
So all the other police aren't doing their jobs? I can understand whacking those who're texting/calling while driving; in fact I'm all for it. Red lights are iffy, ex: sometimes folks need a simple answer to pick something up along the way. But ticketing for using a phone's GPS/navigation? Dick move. Serious, serious dick move, and one that does not improve safety. In fact, it's probably safer and less distracting for my phone to vocalize directions than for me to have to look at paper maps. Even a phone's GPS map auto-tracks the vehicle and outlines the desired route, so there's less concentration needed to track where you are than on a legit paper map.
Yes. More work to do / less efficient task making = more manpower needed to get jobs done = more demand for software development labor = better job prospects for me. :)
You misspeled a word. Therefore your wrong.
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Go take an actual class in economics.
Dammit, figures that my mod points would have already expired. XD
AFAIK a lot of simulation problems are centered around 'update node based on neighbors', like particulate dispersal or flux.
In old codes, you're already familiar with the existing quirks and bugs, and the base is heavily patched up from years of debugging.