Life expectancy for a woman who was Mme Curie's age when she started working with radioactive stuff, or life expectancy at birth?
I don't have data on life expediencies corrected for childhood death in the 1930, if you have, I will be happy to add it to my reference material If you can point me toward it. That said you argument is sound and I must concede that she probably died younger than she would have had she not manipulated radium so frequently.
(heart disease and cancer - two major contemporary killers - were both considered quite rare in those days)
I do not know about heart disease, but cancer was quite frequent, way under-prognosticated but quite present. The greater work of Mrs Curie was the creation of the Radium institute next to the Pasteur institute. She was one of the first to realize the value of multidisciplinary studies and her institute devised the first*1 form of radio-therapy to fight cancer, to learn more read about the works of Dr Danlos and his first use of radium to cure skin cancer in 1901.
*1 Edison is know to have think about it first but he never research the application of that idea,
So, you're arguing in favor of compete sociopathy towards anyone not in your immediate family.
there a big difference by being unmoved by a statistically normal event by a statistically unprobable cause (in that particular case the death of a 83 years grandmother caused by the a fallen piano) not affecting your immediate family and being a sociopath. If falling pianos would became something that occurred frequently I would be in favor of a public health campaign against falling pianos. I am a kind of small l libertarian. I believe in maximized personal freedom, however I understand that you need a certain level of government for things like health, education, territorial protection (against harm, thief and invaders), roads, money and contract enforcement to raise above the middleageous swamp.
I am an amoralist. I don't believe that there are such things as a set of universal truth values for moral rules. I affirm that morality is a mix of convention and instinct, nothing more, but let's keep that affirmation for another debate. Let's also remove fallacies that arise from intention interpretation and let's assume that the piano accidentally falls and assume that she has no other relatives and that no one was watching.
A piano on my grandmother over 83 would be a bad thing for me and would have no effect on you. A piano on your grandmother over 83 would be a bad thing to you and would have no effect on me. A piano on someone else, unknown to both of us, grandmother over 83 should have no effect to both of us.
Let's sum the bad and the neutral for us in that situation.
Bad : 2 Neutral : 4
For the society it is neutral as on average people dies at some age and this falls into the categories known as rare event that don't really effect the means but happens nonetheless when you start to deal with numbers like billions.
I would therefore infer that a piano falling on someone when that person his over it's life expectancy is on average inconsequential as long as that type of event stays infrequent.
ou might as well argue that getting a piano dropped on your head is harmless as long as you are 65 or older when it happens.
Change that 65 for a 83 and I think I effectively could argue that position in a competitive debate setting and win the round if it was in my mother tongue.
You are wrong about the certitude of the shortened life expectancy. Marie-Curie who worked without any protection with Radium, Polonium and Uranium, died at 66. She was 1 years older than the US female average life expectancy at that time. You could counter argue that her husband, Pierre-Curie, died younger at 46. However his dead was the result of his skull crushed by the heavy wheel of an horse drawn cart, nothing to do with radiation at all...
And Fukushima is not in the same league as Chernobyl. Therefore on what do you based this affirmed mesurability ?
I forgot to explain why reading offline is better than reading the same material on a computer. It is a better way because it forces single-tasking and we all should know by now that the brain is pathetic at context switch. To learn more about why multitasking is bad, I recommend this blog postand the linked studies at the bottom.
Well you should not. Always read the fucking manual, even if it has 800 pages. If you are really experienced, as you says you are, you should have about one deep insight about programming per quality book that you almost know all the material. If the topics is further from your usual domains, evidently you will learn more.
To select a good tech book, use your experience to evaluate it's usefulness by looking table of content on amazon.
It will be an unprecedented economic boom for the people of Nunavut. The polar bear might goes extinct if he is to stupid to adapt and the cheap houses built on permafrost might have to be rebuild and the methane release by it's thawing captured and used for heat and electricity. There is nothing wrong about the climate change for the people of Nunavut, they got to seize the opportunity and forget about theirs archaic ways...
I was hooked into digital anarchy by that text 25yr ago and I hope that the message it convoys will never stop:
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
But assume you are specialized into a specific kind of low life predators, there are majors differences between Ted Bundy and Charles Mansion... differences that would be insignificant to a mentally healthy person nonetheless.
What was the point of my post again, Oh yeah I remember, I hate the cold virus!
So the WHO could coordinate nationals health agencies to alternate between different antibiotic classes every half-decades, pretty much like the farmers used to do before the invention of the chemical fertilizers.
Example in a magical give it to the programmers and have it implemented pseudo code:
if n!=0:
put the n first antibioticClasses sorted by strength.
fullUsageAllowedSet={}; humanUsageOnlySet={}; bannedSet={}; i=0; concurrently do while i+3=size:
bannedSet.add(classes[i]);
sleep 5 years
humanUsageOnlySet[i+1];
sleep 5 years
fullUsageAllowedSet[i+2];
sleep 5 years
I tough so, but since my confusing quantum physic class (thought by a confused individual nonetheless) 10years ago, I almost don't have any certainties left about high energy physics....
Ask yourself what is more productive for the economy: Case1: The inventor is sued out of existence and the invention never see the light of the day since it is disruptive to the current economic actors revenue steams. Case2: The invention gets copied, however, if the inventor and his investors use reasonable marketing, they still have the first mover advantage.
You are right. They broke everything that was rigth with the world: %regexpr[Major\.Minor\.Patch(\-\{classifier})+] with the following rules was perfect : 1-increment patch if you change nothing public to fix a bug, minor if you add something, avoid breaking compatibility at all cost. 2-increment minor, reset patch if you add a new backward compatible feature to a public API. 3-increment major, reset minor and set patch to 2 on the addition of some major backward incompatible features;)
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No, it would only be inherently wrong to me and my near circle. But for the humanity the effect of my death would be almost indistinguishable from 0.
Life expectancy for a woman who was Mme Curie's age when she started working with radioactive stuff, or life expectancy at birth?
I don't have data on life expediencies corrected for childhood death in the 1930, if you have, I will be happy to add it to my reference material If you can point me toward it. That said you argument is sound and I must concede that she probably died younger than she would have had she not manipulated radium so frequently.
(heart disease and cancer - two major contemporary killers - were both considered quite rare in those days)
I do not know about heart disease, but cancer was quite frequent, way under-prognosticated but quite present. The greater work of Mrs Curie was the creation of the Radium institute next to the Pasteur institute. She was one of the first to realize the value of multidisciplinary studies and her institute devised the first*1 form of radio-therapy to fight cancer, to learn more read about the works of Dr Danlos and his first use of radium to cure skin cancer in 1901.
*1 Edison is know to have think about it first but he never research the application of that idea,
So, you're arguing in favor of compete sociopathy towards anyone not in your immediate family.
there a big difference by being unmoved by a statistically normal event by a statistically unprobable cause (in that particular case the death of a 83 years grandmother caused by the a fallen piano) not affecting your immediate family and being a sociopath. If falling pianos would became something that occurred frequently I would be in favor of a public health campaign against falling pianos. I am a kind of small l libertarian. I believe in maximized personal freedom, however I understand that you need a certain level of government for things like health, education, territorial protection (against harm, thief and invaders), roads, money and contract enforcement to raise above the middleageous swamp.
I am an amoralist. I don't believe that there are such things as a set of universal truth values for moral rules. I affirm that morality is a mix of convention and instinct, nothing more, but let's keep that affirmation for another debate. Let's also remove fallacies that arise from intention interpretation and let's assume that the piano accidentally falls and assume that she has no other relatives and that no one was watching.
A piano on my grandmother over 83 would be a bad thing for me and would have no effect on you.
A piano on your grandmother over 83 would be a bad thing to you and would have no effect on me.
A piano on someone else, unknown to both of us, grandmother over 83 should have no effect to both of us.
Let's sum the bad and the neutral for us in that situation.
Bad : 2
Neutral : 4
For the society it is neutral as on average people dies at some age and this falls into the categories known as rare event that don't really effect the means but happens nonetheless when you start to deal with numbers like billions.
I would therefore infer that a piano falling on someone when that person his over it's life expectancy is on average inconsequential as long as that type of event stays infrequent.
ou might as well argue that getting a piano dropped on your head is harmless as long as you are 65 or older when it happens.
Change that 65 for a 83 and I think I effectively could argue that position in a competitive debate setting and win the round if it was in my mother tongue.
measurably shortened life span
You are wrong about the certitude of the shortened life expectancy. Marie-Curie who worked without any protection with Radium, Polonium and Uranium, died at 66. She was 1 years older than the US female average life expectancy at that time. You could counter argue that her husband, Pierre-Curie, died younger at 46. However his dead was the result of his skull crushed by the heavy wheel of an horse drawn cart, nothing to do with radiation at all...
And Fukushima is not in the same league as Chernobyl. Therefore on what do you based this affirmed mesurability ?
I forgot to explain why reading offline is better than reading the same material on a computer. It is a better way because it forces single-tasking and we all should know by now that the brain is pathetic at context switch. To learn more about why multitasking is bad, I recommend this blog postand the linked studies at the bottom.
Well you should not. Always read the fucking manual, even if it has 800 pages. If you are really experienced, as you says you are, you should have about one deep insight about programming per quality book that you almost know all the material. If the topics is further from your usual domains, evidently you will learn more.
To select a good tech book, use your experience to evaluate it's usefulness by looking table of content on amazon.
Try cocaine instead of crystal meth next time. Your ramblings will appear far more coherent, trust me ;)
It will be an unprecedented economic boom for the people of Nunavut. The polar bear might goes extinct if he is to stupid to adapt and the cheap houses built on permafrost might have to be rebuild and the methane release by it's thawing captured and used for heat and electricity. There is nothing wrong about the climate change for the people of Nunavut, they got to seize the opportunity and forget about theirs archaic ways...
I must agree that 3 girls sounds cool but then I will be the one left out !
I was hooked into digital anarchy by that text 25yr ago and I hope that the message it convoys will never stop:
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
I finally caught, the infamous pretzel shill.
No difference, they are both low life predators
But assume you are specialized into a specific kind of low life predators, there are majors differences between Ted Bundy and Charles Mansion... differences that would be insignificant to a mentally healthy person nonetheless.
What was the point of my post again, Oh yeah I remember, I hate the cold virus!
So the WHO could coordinate nationals health agencies to alternate between different antibiotic classes every half-decades, pretty much like the farmers used to do before the invention of the chemical fertilizers.
Example in a magical give it to the programmers and have it implemented pseudo code:
antibioticClasses= extractAntibioticClasses("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Nucleic_acid_inhibitors");
size=antibioticClasses.count();
n=size % 3 ;
if n!=0:
put the n first antibioticClasses sorted by strength.
fullUsageAllowedSet={};
humanUsageOnlySet={};
bannedSet={};
i=0;
concurrently do while i+3=size:
bannedSet.add(classes[i]);
sleep 5 years
humanUsageOnlySet[i+1];
sleep 5 years
fullUsageAllowedSet[i+2];
sleep 5 years
I tough so, but since my confusing quantum physic class (thought by a confused individual nonetheless) 10years ago, I almost don't have any certainties left about high energy physics....
do you get E=(anti+real)MC^2 or E=(anti*real)MC^2 when that happen ?
thank you apple !
Case 3 is no longer possible....
We can tear anything apart to the atomic level if needed nowadays...
see Flylogic blog for a good example.
You should write a sociology paper and refer the entity you describe as the Berlusconi/Murdoch complex, it would be more universal that way.
Ask yourself what is more productive for the economy:
Case1: The inventor is sued out of existence and the invention never see the light of the day since it is disruptive to the current economic actors revenue steams.
Case2: The invention gets copied, however, if the inventor and his investors use reasonable marketing, they still have the first mover advantage.
don't use them anymore, go read that post: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.2/0171.html
They were parent, when their bushiness was at the VC stage....
not but correlation imply causation at some level in the unobservable events network that led to the observed event
You are right. They broke everything that was rigth with the world: %regexpr[Major\.Minor\.Patch(\-\{classifier})+] with the following rules was perfect : ;)
1-increment patch if you change nothing public to fix a bug, minor if you add something, avoid breaking compatibility at all cost.
2-increment minor, reset patch if you add a new backward compatible feature to a public API.
3-increment major, reset minor and set patch to 2 on the addition of some major backward incompatible features