It is definitely good. A Mom and Pop shop in the states selling homemade soap can't afford to have a DPO or respond to GDPR letters from hell. As per the GDPR law, even if a place doesn't do business in the EU, if an EU resident visits a site, the site has to comply.
Not every website is a multi-billion dollar operation that can spend the cash on this stuff.
So, they get blocked. $9 a month is cheap insurance compared to running afoul of the EU.
A mom and pop shop doesn't need to keep personal data on people. Complying with GPDR is easy. My wife's shop manages it just fine, by not hanging on to all that information.
What was great was my UK A-level mathematics teacher who was previously an electrical engineer and so understood well the conceptual underpinnings and the importance of understanding those first so the details and formulas came easy. Calculus was a fun class. I enjoyed it muchly.
I'm currently completing what I hope will turn out be a university textbook and learning to structure the information so that learning is a downhill stroll, not and uphill struggle has taken a lot of work and forethought. I may or may not succeed.
My wife has them all on the bookshelves. All the publishers, all the versions. This arises from her PhD, postgrad education research and prior job as a teacher.
The Saxon stuff is not great. It suffers from being procedural and a "remember this formula" style. For example, the trig section in the pre-algebra textbook doesn't have a picture of a triangle in a circle until the last page of the trig section. It's all just formulas to remember, without reasoning. That's ludicrous. I'm at work so I can't check the dates, but the one I'm thinking of was the oldest, so early 90s probably.
No, Common Core WAS a consensus standard on what should be taught and best practices for teaching it. Now, however, it is inextricably part of the testing regime. The testing can not be fixed without eliminating common core.
Yes it can. Just stop testing children every five minutes.
>Yes, it is awful. Parents know this, if they pay attention and care.
And yet people with vast experience in education and education research know better. Most countries have a standard base curriculum. The trend towards over testing, which was led by the US has led to teaching to the test and bad textbooks and dumbing down. Those things are not the curriculum. A curriculum is just a list of topics that should be learned.
As a parent of one of your "masses" I have to agree with the OP. Common core is just fucking awful. My kids suffered through that bullshit just because some bright boy thought it was "improving" education. Here's a hint:. It's not. Whole language was not an improvement. Singapore math was not an improvement. Just fucking teach the class without a stupid assed gimmick that changes every couple years.
Common core isn't awful.
The state and federally imposed testing regime is awful.
The common core curriculum is just a base list of stuff you should be learning. Try to separate that from all the strawman bollocks that web sites bring up, using badly written textbooks.
That doesn't mean the government isn't looking elsewhere. Musk is launching shit for the government at the moment as well, and if it continues to go well, they'll continue to use his services. ULA can either find a way to be profitable at a lower price point, or they'll shrink massively.
That being said, I don't think they'll die. Government contracts have lots of desire to keep competing companies afloat if possible. Hell, that's the only reason they even entertained the Falcon in the first place.
If it wasn't tied up with military projects, I suspect the competitive pressure on ULA would be much stronger.
I suspect that in the long term, it will pan out to be equity. But then they might just make a big profit and pay it off that way. In the context of a large auto manufacturer, $10B is not a whole lot. They just need to get big and profitable. I made hay on Ford bonds in the bad days of the recession. They borrowed a lot more than that.
Wow, that's a LOT, SpaceX has said that the total cost for Falcon Heavy development was $500M, he's spending 2x that every year with zero ROI at this point. How can ULA hope to compete with a competitor taking most of the commercial launch market on one hand, and a rocket company with a sugar daddy with that deep of pockets on the other?
ULA has a much bigger sugar daddy in the form of the federal government.
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It is definitely good. A Mom and Pop shop in the states selling homemade soap can't afford to have a DPO or respond to GDPR letters from hell. As per the GDPR law, even if a place doesn't do business in the EU, if an EU resident visits a site, the site has to comply.
Not every website is a multi-billion dollar operation that can spend the cash on this stuff.
So, they get blocked. $9 a month is cheap insurance compared to running afoul of the EU.
A mom and pop shop doesn't need to keep personal data on people.
Complying with GPDR is easy. My wife's shop manages it just fine, by not hanging on to all that information.
When it dropped 8%, I brought some. Sold it the next day. Some events are simply predictable.
He gives a pretty good talk too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The book is purely on the subject of random numbers and random number generation.
Such a book has not been published yet. At least a readable one hasn't, as far as I can tell.
https://www.degruyter.com/view...
The book is probably most usable by engineers working on crypto problems, or university teaching. I work with university profs quite a lot.
I don't need teaching mathematics. I'm a 49 year old principle engineer. I'm referring back to when I was at school.
My UK textbooks were OK. But not great.
What was great was my UK A-level mathematics teacher who was previously an electrical engineer and so understood well the conceptual underpinnings and the importance of understanding those first so the details and formulas came easy. Calculus was a fun class. I enjoyed it muchly.
I'm currently completing what I hope will turn out be a university textbook and learning to structure the information so that learning is a downhill stroll, not and uphill struggle has taken a lot of work and forethought. I may or may not succeed.
It's already available. https://download.fedoraproject...
It was a short wait.
I'll wait for the XFCE version.
My wife has them all on the bookshelves. All the publishers, all the versions. This arises from her PhD, postgrad education research and prior job as a teacher.
The Saxon stuff is not great. It suffers from being procedural and a "remember this formula" style. For example, the trig section in the pre-algebra textbook doesn't have a picture of a triangle in a circle until the last page of the trig section. It's all just formulas to remember, without reasoning. That's ludicrous. I'm at work so I can't check the dates, but the one I'm thinking of was the oldest, so early 90s probably.
>I didn't finish my minor in math, but 957 Million and 27K students
Where did you get those numbers?
No, Common Core WAS a consensus standard on what should be taught and best practices for teaching it. Now, however, it is inextricably part of the testing regime. The testing can not be fixed without eliminating common core.
Yes it can. Just stop testing children every five minutes.
>Yes, it is awful. Parents know this, if they pay attention and care.
And yet people with vast experience in education and education research know better. Most countries have a standard base curriculum. The trend towards over testing, which was led by the US has led to teaching to the test and bad textbooks and dumbing down. Those things are not the curriculum. A curriculum is just a list of topics that should be learned.
>?When my son came home one night with a sheet of math problems and the only instructions were he was supposed to GUESS what the answer was,
That's the crappy textbook, not the curriculum.
I met my wife on ICQ. That was 17 years ago.
As a parent of one of your "masses" I have to agree with the OP. Common core is just fucking awful. My kids suffered through that bullshit just because some bright boy thought it was "improving" education. Here's a hint:. It's not. Whole language was not an improvement. Singapore math was not an improvement. Just fucking teach the class without a stupid assed gimmick that changes every couple years.
Common core isn't awful.
The state and federally imposed testing regime is awful.
The common core curriculum is just a base list of stuff you should be learning. Try to separate that from all the strawman bollocks that web sites bring up, using badly written textbooks.
And they haven't figured out Private Registration?
And found how much extra that costs
This.
Be sure to register your domains with European registrars.
He designed the box.
..the market is filled with morans and their brokers who only care about commissions.
The Morans are a fine people.
That doesn't mean the government isn't looking elsewhere. Musk is launching shit for the government at the moment as well, and if it continues to go well, they'll continue to use his services. ULA can either find a way to be profitable at a lower price point, or they'll shrink massively.
That being said, I don't think they'll die. Government contracts have lots of desire to keep competing companies afloat if possible. Hell, that's the only reason they even entertained the Falcon in the first place.
If it wasn't tied up with military projects, I suspect the competitive pressure on ULA would be much stronger.
I suspect that in the long term, it will pan out to be equity. But then they might just make a big profit and pay it off that way. In the context of a large auto manufacturer, $10B is not a whole lot. They just need to get big and profitable. I made hay on Ford bonds in the bad days of the recession. They borrowed a lot more than that.
My crystal ball isn't working though.
Wow, that's a LOT, SpaceX has said that the total cost for Falcon Heavy development was $500M, he's spending 2x that every year with zero ROI at this point. How can ULA hope to compete with a competitor taking most of the commercial launch market on one hand, and a rocket company with a sugar daddy with that deep of pockets on the other?
ULA has a much bigger sugar daddy in the form of the federal government.
Liquidates = Sells
>So they paying for all this with loans
So they are paying for all this with equity.
There, fixed it for you.