Preliminary data seemed to show that Al-Qaeda were violent terrorists. But now AQ enthusiast Mark Larson (he's also an Emeritus Professor of Spanish at Utah State University) has analyzed some additional data and found this not be the case at all. He used 1988-2001 crime data from the Uniform Crime Report and found that the murder rate in fact fell over that same period.
You are going to roll two dice and add the numbers. Some quant from Goldman Sachs says you are most likely to get a 7. You get a 5. Clearly that quant is incompetent and responsible for the financial crisis.
Why is Creative Commons not working to undermine copyright? Copyrights lasting 9-14 years are clearly justified, but the current system deserves to be undermined.
Start a new website, indiepaper.org or something, for people like you. This will take less effort than writing a paper, submitting it, rewriting it, resubmitting it, etc. Also, even if your paper is not a huge it, the website will be. Mention it on Slashdot when it is complete. It will get a huge number of submissions, 90% junk, 9.9% mediocre and 0.1% genius. It will be like the Wikipedia of academic journals.
The problem is that 1 trillion dollars is not that much. Afghanistan's population is 30 million and assuming the wealth is extracted over 100 years, we get 10^12/30/10^6/100=333 dollars per person per year. Assuming that half goes to foreigners providing capital and expertise, we get 167 dollars. Considering the probably very substantial environmental and opportunity costs, it may not be worth it at all.
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Preliminary data seemed to show that Al-Qaeda were violent terrorists. But now AQ enthusiast Mark Larson (he's also an Emeritus Professor of Spanish at Utah State University) has analyzed some additional data and found this not be the case at all. He used 1988-2001 crime data from the Uniform Crime Report and found that the murder rate in fact fell over that same period.
And 99% confidence is not that high. Not high enough to believe something so ridiculous. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
You are going to roll two dice and add the numbers. Some quant from Goldman Sachs says you are most likely to get a 7. You get a 5. Clearly that quant is incompetent and responsible for the financial crisis.
And considering that there are more boys than girls, the stupid answer (50%) may be closer to the truth than the "correct" answer.
Why is Creative Commons not working to undermine copyright? Copyrights lasting 9-14 years are clearly justified, but the current system deserves to be undermined.
Start a new website, indiepaper.org or something, for people like you. This will take less effort than writing a paper, submitting it, rewriting it, resubmitting it, etc. Also, even if your paper is not a huge it, the website will be. Mention it on Slashdot when it is complete. It will get a huge number of submissions, 90% junk, 9.9% mediocre and 0.1% genius. It will be like the Wikipedia of academic journals.
The problem is that 1 trillion dollars is not that much. Afghanistan's population is 30 million and assuming the wealth is extracted over 100 years, we get 10^12/30/10^6/100=333 dollars per person per year. Assuming that half goes to foreigners providing capital and expertise, we get 167 dollars. Considering the probably very substantial environmental and opportunity costs, it may not be worth it at all.