You're right, but it's slowly getting better in the U.S. The insurance lobby, understandably enough, is hard at work in turning "Obamacare" into a monster in a dark closet. Of course the real reason is that their batshit insane profiteering would be cut a bit precisely by further limiting exclusions due to pre-existing conditions.
There's no problem in paying for individual health care insurance in the U.S., although it's not cheap since the insurers have no guarantee that you'll stay with them (or at least they pretend that's the reason for jacking up the costs). Whether you're self-employed or have a job in a larger company, the costs of health insurance still aren't trivial. $15k per year is a ballpark figure for a family.
the US makes a substantial proportion of its GDP from products made from within prison walls
Pray tell, where did you pull that one out of? Do you know how much prisoners earn per hour, and what is it that they do? Substantial proportion of GDP, my ass.
Exactly. Poland would be one example -- as long as you work, you maintain your health care insurance. As soon as you're out of work, you may be eligible for temporary unemployment benefits, and those come with health care insurance, but they eventually expire and you're on your own. I'd presume a lot of places in Europe are like that.
I haven't really seen many outlier pieces in Harry Potter themed sets. They did introduce some new parts, some of them not to be found anywhere else, but I didn't have any problem repurposing them over and over.
U.S. Lego stores sell random generic bricks by volume. They rotate the stock every once in a while. eBay is cheaper, and there's a good LEGO trade on eBay.
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I personally consider mega bloks to be a ripoff. The quality difference is astonishing. I'm not saying that Lego is always perfect -- I've had some sets in the 90s where some blocks were markedly loosely-fitting compared to same shape/size blocks from other batches. I haven't seen any of that recently, though, and my daughter has several of the most complex Hogwarts sets. I've also recently got a nice large Technics motorized excavator for myself, and it's quite a step up from the smaller pneumatics one I had as a kid. The design is pretty damn good.
What I meant is that a page seems like a low limit. Never mind that, again, having notes is not cheating. I haven't seen any non-elementary math tests yet where notes as a stand in for understanding would change the outcome. Notes as a stand in for jogging your memory is IMHO entirely fair. Memory is not math-specific, and you wouldn't be testing someone's math skills, but memorization skills. I'm all for tests that, you know, are specific and try to focus on what's important -- here, understanding of particular mathematical topics. Memorizing equations, theorems, etc. is pointless. Outside of college nobody cares if you have memorized all that stuff. You're expected not to make mistakes -- you need to look things up and check your work, etc.
Modern Z80 silicon can be made very power efficient if you want it so. TI probably makes their own version that they don't sell to anyone else. My bet is that this version consumes at least an order of magnitude less energy per clock cycle than the best off-the-shelf CMOS Z80 variant out there.
You can do good old overlays. Works just fine. Of course the last time that development environments supported overlays out of the box was probably in the early 90s, but it's still doable with a bit of manual build scripting. I'm pretty sure a lot of your code could be shrunk quite a bit, too. Look at the assembly output and figure it out.
There's nothing conceptually important about the arbitrary choice of absolute phase of cosine and sine. It doesn't affect your understanding at all to know which one goes where, as long as you remember that they are offset in phase by 90 degrees, and that they are linearly independent vectors in a certain vector space. You could always come up with an arbitrary choice, write it up on top of the exam answers, and stick with it throughout -- it'd be perfectly acceptable, to me at least.
It's a poor math test if merely having an arbitrary amount of notes will significantly affect your grade. In my college years, most professors would limit the amount of notes simply so that there'd be less distraction to other students from the inevitable hapless fool who brings in a foot of books. The amount was still more than enough to cover all the material -- you can fit a lot of stuff on a couple of letter-sized pages. I wrote my cheatsheets in LaTeX and people would ask me to share them after the exam. Once or twice the professor wanted a copy, too:)
Wait a minute, are you talking about grade level and college entry standardized testing in the U.S.? That stuff's like 8th grade mental math, why the heck would you need a calculator for it?
The problem: maniacs with unregulated access to guns. The solution: investigate video games, and bring God back into whatever.
Never mind, you religious retards, per your own recognizance God is everywhere. We're not in the fucking power to "bring" God anywhere. But yeah, reasoning is not one of your strong skills, I get that.
Why do people keep voting for those fuckers, again?
This is not very informative. Size and power consumption matter, but what really matters is reliability and survivability. And forget the whole thing if you don't intend to perform full-on hardware-in-the-loop testing. Ideally in a vacuum chamber. Yes, even if you don't do such testing, you may be lucky and it may work. Or I may win enough in a lotto drawing to order a Falcon Heavy launch from Space X. Your pick.
To me, music is not a structured, grammatical language. It seems merely to be a common misconception. It is an art that a has had a lot of language-derived analysis applied to it. Analysis here is the key word, as opposed to synthesis. In a spoken language, once you know the rules (grammar, vocabulary, etc), you can pretty much use it to express your thoughts. Perhaps poorly, but still. In music, knowing the rules doesn't make you really any closer to being able to write music. You'll realize that as soon as you try to produce any sort of machine music composition system. Most of the analysis and description of music that is actually useful in creating original music (the synthesis part) is pretty much absent from standard curriculum of music theory. You're pretty much expected that your brain will make the necessary connections itself. The knowledge that really, truly makes one able to create music is pretty much only explored by people who deal with computer-based composition. It also turns out that the language that one needs to describe music synthesis at such a level requires a lot of technical background from mathematics and computer science -- something that most even very accomplished composers have little to no clue about.
1. Learn Latin. 2. Work with software documentation. 3. Proofread non-Latin documentation and translate it to Latin as you go. 4. If it reads better (more idiomatic) in Latin than in the original language, you've just won a right to bash someone(s) on the head! WIN!
I've recently run into some self-serving pseudo-documentation in English. My grandma insists that it reads like if someone machine-translated it from Latin. She knows her Latin pretty damn well. It was funny when we were in Italy together. She'd speak to street vendors in Latin, they'd get what she was after. They'd speak back in Italian, and she'd also mostly get what they meant. One fine day an older gentleman in a bakery smiled and started speaking Latin back to her. I have never been that long in any bakery ever since;)
He said it was hard to get a decent job. Well, if that's what you enjoy or consider "decent", good for you. Yeah, I know, it's a job someone has to do. Perhaps being a top-shelf hooker is a "decent enough" of a job, probably no more demeaning than being, say, a top-shelf fashion model -- both are treated as meat as a normal business practice.
I presume your biggest problem would be simply reading a newspaper and being sure of what you're reading. That's the hole they've dug themselves into, unknowingly. The amount of work it takes to learn Chinese-anything at a grade school level is an order of magnitude larger than any of the European languages, even odd ones like Finnish, Hungarian or Turkish.
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You're right, but it's slowly getting better in the U.S. The insurance lobby, understandably enough, is hard at work in turning "Obamacare" into a monster in a dark closet. Of course the real reason is that their batshit insane profiteering would be cut a bit precisely by further limiting exclusions due to pre-existing conditions.
There's no problem in paying for individual health care insurance in the U.S., although it's not cheap since the insurers have no guarantee that you'll stay with them (or at least they pretend that's the reason for jacking up the costs). Whether you're self-employed or have a job in a larger company, the costs of health insurance still aren't trivial. $15k per year is a ballpark figure for a family.
the US makes a substantial proportion of its GDP from products made from within prison walls
Pray tell, where did you pull that one out of? Do you know how much prisoners earn per hour, and what is it that they do? Substantial proportion of GDP, my ass.
This should be +5 informative. Thanks, symbolset!
Yep!
In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize
-- you're correct that it's not the same as The Nobel Prize.
Exactly. Poland would be one example -- as long as you work, you maintain your health care insurance. As soon as you're out of work, you may be eligible for temporary unemployment benefits, and those come with health care insurance, but they eventually expire and you're on your own. I'd presume a lot of places in Europe are like that.
I haven't really seen many outlier pieces in Harry Potter themed sets. They did introduce some new parts, some of them not to be found anywhere else, but I didn't have any problem repurposing them over and over.
U.S. Lego stores sell random generic bricks by volume. They rotate the stock every once in a while. eBay is cheaper, and there's a good LEGO trade on eBay.
I personally consider mega bloks to be a ripoff. The quality difference is astonishing. I'm not saying that Lego is always perfect -- I've had some sets in the 90s where some blocks were markedly loosely-fitting compared to same shape/size blocks from other batches. I haven't seen any of that recently, though, and my daughter has several of the most complex Hogwarts sets. I've also recently got a nice large Technics motorized excavator for myself, and it's quite a step up from the smaller pneumatics one I had as a kid. The design is pretty damn good.
What I meant is that a page seems like a low limit. Never mind that, again, having notes is not cheating. I haven't seen any non-elementary math tests yet where notes as a stand in for understanding would change the outcome. Notes as a stand in for jogging your memory is IMHO entirely fair. Memory is not math-specific, and you wouldn't be testing someone's math skills, but memorization skills. I'm all for tests that, you know, are specific and try to focus on what's important -- here, understanding of particular mathematical topics. Memorizing equations, theorems, etc. is pointless. Outside of college nobody cares if you have memorized all that stuff. You're expected not to make mistakes -- you need to look things up and check your work, etc.
I've made a Z80-based data logger and 4 AA batteries would power it maybe for a day. NMOS sucks :/
That's true, of course, but there's no reason to do two designs. Do it right the first time.
It's not worth the trouble. Seriously. It'd be a semester project for a compiler writing course anyway.
Modern Z80 silicon can be made very power efficient if you want it so. TI probably makes their own version that they don't sell to anyone else. My bet is that this version consumes at least an order of magnitude less energy per clock cycle than the best off-the-shelf CMOS Z80 variant out there.
You can do good old overlays. Works just fine. Of course the last time that development environments supported overlays out of the box was probably in the early 90s, but it's still doable with a bit of manual build scripting. I'm pretty sure a lot of your code could be shrunk quite a bit, too. Look at the assembly output and figure it out.
There's nothing conceptually important about the arbitrary choice of absolute phase of cosine and sine. It doesn't affect your understanding at all to know which one goes where, as long as you remember that they are offset in phase by 90 degrees, and that they are linearly independent vectors in a certain vector space. You could always come up with an arbitrary choice, write it up on top of the exam answers, and stick with it throughout -- it'd be perfectly acceptable, to me at least.
It's a poor math test if merely having an arbitrary amount of notes will significantly affect your grade. In my college years, most professors would limit the amount of notes simply so that there'd be less distraction to other students from the inevitable hapless fool who brings in a foot of books. The amount was still more than enough to cover all the material -- you can fit a lot of stuff on a couple of letter-sized pages. I wrote my cheatsheets in LaTeX and people would ask me to share them after the exam. Once or twice the professor wanted a copy, too :)
Wait a minute, are you talking about grade level and college entry standardized testing in the U.S.? That stuff's like 8th grade mental math, why the heck would you need a calculator for it?
Too true :(
The problem: maniacs with unregulated access to guns.
The solution: investigate video games, and bring God back into whatever.
Never mind, you religious retards, per your own recognizance God is everywhere. We're not in the fucking power to "bring" God anywhere. But yeah, reasoning is not one of your strong skills, I get that.
Why do people keep voting for those fuckers, again?
This is not very informative. Size and power consumption matter, but what really matters is reliability and survivability. And forget the whole thing if you don't intend to perform full-on hardware-in-the-loop testing. Ideally in a vacuum chamber. Yes, even if you don't do such testing, you may be lucky and it may work. Or I may win enough in a lotto drawing to order a Falcon Heavy launch from Space X. Your pick.
To me, music is not a structured, grammatical language. It seems merely to be a common misconception. It is an art that a has had a lot of language-derived analysis applied to it. Analysis here is the key word, as opposed to synthesis. In a spoken language, once you know the rules (grammar, vocabulary, etc), you can pretty much use it to express your thoughts. Perhaps poorly, but still. In music, knowing the rules doesn't make you really any closer to being able to write music. You'll realize that as soon as you try to produce any sort of machine music composition system. Most of the analysis and description of music that is actually useful in creating original music (the synthesis part) is pretty much absent from standard curriculum of music theory. You're pretty much expected that your brain will make the necessary connections itself. The knowledge that really, truly makes one able to create music is pretty much only explored by people who deal with computer-based composition. It also turns out that the language that one needs to describe music synthesis at such a level requires a lot of technical background from mathematics and computer science -- something that most even very accomplished composers have little to no clue about.
Good one -- never heard it (thankfully) :)
1. Learn Latin.
2. Work with software documentation.
3. Proofread non-Latin documentation and translate it to Latin as you go.
4. If it reads better (more idiomatic) in Latin than in the original language, you've just won a right to bash someone(s) on the head! WIN!
I've recently run into some self-serving pseudo-documentation in English. My grandma insists that it reads like if someone machine-translated it from Latin. She knows her Latin pretty damn well. It was funny when we were in Italy together. She'd speak to street vendors in Latin, they'd get what she was after. They'd speak back in Italian, and she'd also mostly get what they meant. One fine day an older gentleman in a bakery smiled and started speaking Latin back to her. I have never been that long in any bakery ever since ;)
He said it was hard to get a decent job. Well, if that's what you enjoy or consider "decent", good for you. Yeah, I know, it's a job someone has to do. Perhaps being a top-shelf hooker is a "decent enough" of a job, probably no more demeaning than being, say, a top-shelf fashion model -- both are treated as meat as a normal business practice.
I presume your biggest problem would be simply reading a newspaper and being sure of what you're reading. That's the hole they've dug themselves into, unknowingly. The amount of work it takes to learn Chinese-anything at a grade school level is an order of magnitude larger than any of the European languages, even odd ones like Finnish, Hungarian or Turkish.