The same as the correlation between the defunding of mental health institutions and psychiatric patients discharging themselves after O'Connor v. Donaldson.
Mental health institutions lost about 80% of their patients to voluntary discharge. It's hard to justify spending money to keep open and maintain mostly empty buildings.
The problem with O'Connor v. Donaldson is that it requires the patient actually exhibit violent behavior before being involuntarily confined to an institution. Often by the time the patient actually exhibits violent behavior, it's too late.
The number of non-taxpayers is tiny. You are at most, once removed from the costs of education.
It only appears that way.
There is very little practical difference between paying zero taxes and paying taxes that are then returned to you in the form of a subsidy or as part of your paycheck.
My father-in-law tried to play that game with me. "But I pay taxes, too", he would say. Since he was employed by the state, my response was, "you're paying yourself!"
Then they should have voted for politicians better at negotiating contracts, and got what they deserved. The taxpayers are only paying for what was promised by their elected representatives. If there's a problem, the taxpayers need to reexamine their choices for representation.
You'd have a point if only taxpayers were allowed to vote.
In practice, those that collect tax money from tax payers vote for their own representatives that promise to make taxpayers give them more money.
Taxpayers can vote for better politicians and lose. And they can "reexamine their choices" every two years and still lose. The other side isn't interested in giving taxpayers a better deal. They're interested in maximizing how much money they can take from taxpayers.
I can't help but think of all the business owners that were firing people or cutting their hours down to less than 30 over Obamacare.
Yes, they're full of shit,
Believe it or not, math informs many of the decisions business owners make -- just like it informs the decisions engineers make.
The math of Obamacare for most businesses means less money will be lost if employees don't work more than 28 hours. What decision should a business make?
The world doesn't work according to what we feel is right or fair, and ageism in tech appears to be a very serious problem. So what do you do about this?
Like good scientists, we know the way the world works by observation and not by what we feel is right. If companies fail because they discriminate against older workers, then that means discrimination is a problem. If, on the other hand, age really is a factor, then companies with younger workers can be expected to out-compete those with older workers.
Uses only 8 bit sampling which will severely limit the dynamic range.
In my experience, anything more than 8 bits per sample is a waste. It takes a very quiet em environment and input amp to reliably resolve more than 8 bits. Besides, most of the dynamic range is already handled by an amplifier with programmable gain.
MUCH more important, IMO, is input bandwidth, especially in an environment where a signal can suffer from a lot of reflections. Your 16 or 24 bits per sample is useless if the narrow band you're focusing on just happens to be at a frequency where reflections are completely destroying the signal through destructive interference.
A great way to avoid these dead ranges without constantly varying a carrier is to simply provide a very wide bandwidth signal. And to some extent, a greater number of samples can make up for a lack bits per sample.
If the choice is between 8 bits per sample at 20 Msps, and say 16 bits per sample at some lower rate, I'm taking 8 @ 20M.
It may not affect the prices directly. However it might affect the prices indirectly, by influencing the decision making of others (especially other algorithms).
Yeah, but those others are free-riders and the cause of booms and busts.
Use your best judgement when pricing a stock. If you're following the crowd then you're part of the problem.
The fact is there are still only 15 buyers and sellers. There are 10,000 HFTs but they don't 'provide liquidity' unless they're screwing someone out of their money.
Yeah, but those finding liquidity are willing to pay a small amount for the privilege of using it.
Liquidity has a cost. It always has. HFT have actually reduced the price of this liquidity.
Floats are an example of what I have started to refer to as "lying abstractions." When programmers deal with floats, they are being told by their programming language that they are dealing with a representation of real numbers,
Except that the type is usually called "float" and not "REAL" (unless you're dealing with FORTRAN).
Think about that. C and C++ and Java, etc, all use "float". The language is shouting at the programmer that the type is something very special and still some programmers casually think they can use the type as a substitute for the reals.
It is beyond me how americans can complain about gas prices. In Sweden people pay more than twice as much, and everyone seems to be fine with it. On top of that, americans have even more money to spend than do swedes. So, are americans cheap, or just spoiled?
Neither. We're just a terribly spread-out and need lots of fuel.
My Czech friend's parents marveled constantly while here about how distant everything was from everything else. "You need to drive just to get a loaf of bread?" Yep.
I don't think Europeans understand just how large the USA relative to Europe and how less populated it is (perhaps a result of seeing Mercator projection maps that exaggerate Europe's size).
Consider this: the distance from San Diego, California, USA to Bangor, Maine, USA is greater than the distance from Stockholm, Sweden to Delhi, India.
Actually, known useless DNA already adds up to the majority (>66%) of the genome. It includes: LTRs (8%), LINEs (17%), SINEs (11%) - that's 45% of known 100% junk. Then we have around 8% of pure viral DNA in our genome (i.e. with remnants of genes encoding viral proteins) - that's already over 50%. And then there are portions of genome with known indirect functions but that don't code anything (padding between proteins, introns, telomeres, etc). In short, over 66% of DNA is known to have no direct functionality.
To suggest that these sequences have no direct functionality is to suggest that somehow they're completely isolated from the chemistry of the cell. That's difficult to prove. And some of what I've read suggests that the physical closeness of some bits of DNA to other bits might be important. Repeats are going to physically shift some parts of DNA relative to others.
How can you be certain these sequences which control the physical relationship of one part of the sequence to another part are completely inconsequential?
When the USSR threw a silvery ball into orbit the US woke up, and answered a challenge issued by JFK. Now that China is making noise about landing on the Moon, people are 'Meh, who cares?' Times and attitudes have certainly changed. Not much national pride in scientific accomplishment.
Remember that the Soviets at the beginning of WWII actually were aggressors that invaded Poland (and five other nations). It was obvious, then, that the Soviets weren't screwing around and were willing to use military power to get what they wanted (which happened to be a good deal of Eastern Europe).
When they put a silvery ball into orbit, it was frightening -- and for good reason given the Soviet's history.
We don't yet see China as that sort of aggressor(though their actions in the South China Sea might eventually be seen as evidence of a new desire for outward expansion).
A gas can maker was recently forced out of business when a jury found the maker 70% liable in the death of a 4-year-old that perished in a camper when her father poured gasoline into a wood burning stove.
Someone can pour gasoline from a can onto a fire and a jury will still blame the maker of the can.
Do you really think the maker of this device is going to take a chance of losing everything through potential misuse of this wireless capability?
Anyone in business needs to understand that they're seen at best by jurors as a necessary evil and as a source of money to help someone they sympathize with. Additional unnecessary features are just additional opportunities for big judgments against you and your firm.
Austerity is a death spiral that creates needless suffering at a time when govt should be fulfilling the Constitutional mandate to "provide for the general welfare."
Providing for the general welfare isn't the same thing as providing individual welfare.
Actually, they sold at just about the right time, Half a bil is not an untidy sum for the product they had at the time. They just got swindled by GS.
I'm not sure GS swindled them, but I'm sure GS didn't give a damn. Same thing happened in the mortgage industry: GS didn't fill-in mortgage applications with false information, but they sure didn't mind legally profiting from the sh!tstorm that followed -- not their problem.
At least someone at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products went to prison.
Every 1st world nation on the planet has healthcare, I don't get why this is such a debate in the US. I live in Germany...
I'm sure that if there were a Europe-wide system you'd be complaining, too.
Do you really think Germans should be subsidizing the health care system of the Hellenic Republic, or of the Poland, or of Turkey? Would you trust some central European authority to manage the health care system of Germans? I doubt it.
Now that Americans have a national health care system maybe they can start asking Europeans why they can't give healthcare to all Europeans, equally.
Of course the Amiga really had Atari blood running through it, having been designed by Jay Miner -- the same man that help design previous Atari machines.
I can't believe Atari let the Amiga design get away from them.
Instead they came out with a machine that had a dumb frame buffer and simple syth chip attached to a CPU. The ST was more Radio Shack Color Computer than a next generation Atari machine.
I guess I can blame Commodore for that since they gave Atari Jack Tramiel. That guy seemed obsessed with undermining his old company. He basically helped Atari and Commodore destroy each other while IBM PC compatibles slowly took over.
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The same as the correlation between the defunding of mental health institutions and psychiatric patients discharging themselves after O'Connor v. Donaldson.
Mental health institutions lost about 80% of their patients to voluntary discharge. It's hard to justify spending money to keep open and maintain mostly empty buildings.
The problem with O'Connor v. Donaldson is that it requires the patient actually exhibit violent behavior before being involuntarily confined to an institution. Often by the time the patient actually exhibits violent behavior, it's too late.
It only appears that way.
There is very little practical difference between paying zero taxes and paying taxes that are then returned to you in the form of a subsidy or as part of your paycheck.
My father-in-law tried to play that game with me. "But I pay taxes, too", he would say. Since he was employed by the state, my response was, "you're paying yourself!"
You'd have a point if only taxpayers were allowed to vote.
In practice, those that collect tax money from tax payers vote for their own representatives that promise to make taxpayers give them more money.
Taxpayers can vote for better politicians and lose. And they can "reexamine their choices" every two years and still lose. The other side isn't interested in giving taxpayers a better deal. They're interested in maximizing how much money they can take from taxpayers.
Believe it or not, math informs many of the decisions business owners make -- just like it informs the decisions engineers make.
The math of Obamacare for most businesses means less money will be lost if employees don't work more than 28 hours. What decision should a business make?
Like good scientists, we know the way the world works by observation and not by what we feel is right. If companies fail because they discriminate against older workers, then that means discrimination is a problem. If, on the other hand, age really is a factor, then companies with younger workers can be expected to out-compete those with older workers.
Having the CTRL on the bottom row is next to useless. And how many people use the capslocks key?
Putting CTRL back to where it was would make keyboard shortcuts easier to use.
Uses only 8 bit sampling which will severely limit the dynamic range.
In my experience, anything more than 8 bits per sample is a waste. It takes a very quiet em environment and input amp to reliably resolve more than 8 bits. Besides, most of the dynamic range is already handled by an amplifier with programmable gain.
MUCH more important, IMO, is input bandwidth, especially in an environment where a signal can suffer from a lot of reflections. Your 16 or 24 bits per sample is useless if the narrow band you're focusing on just happens to be at a frequency where reflections are completely destroying the signal through destructive interference.
A great way to avoid these dead ranges without constantly varying a carrier is to simply provide a very wide bandwidth signal. And to some extent, a greater number of samples can make up for a lack bits per sample.
If the choice is between 8 bits per sample at 20 Msps, and say 16 bits per sample at some lower rate, I'm taking 8 @ 20M.
It may not affect the prices directly. However it might affect the prices indirectly, by influencing the decision making of others (especially other algorithms).
Yeah, but those others are free-riders and the cause of booms and busts.
Use your best judgement when pricing a stock. If you're following the crowd then you're part of the problem.
The fact is there are still only 15 buyers and sellers. There are 10,000 HFTs but they don't 'provide liquidity' unless they're screwing someone out of their money.
Yeah, but those finding liquidity are willing to pay a small amount for the privilege of using it.
Liquidity has a cost. It always has. HFT have actually reduced the price of this liquidity.
Or possibly it is taking more and more energy simply to maintain the current level of GDP.
That means big trouble ahead.
Floats are an example of what I have started to refer to as "lying abstractions." When programmers deal with floats, they are being told by their programming language that they are dealing with a representation of real numbers,
Except that the type is usually called "float" and not "REAL" (unless you're dealing with FORTRAN).
Think about that. C and C++ and Java, etc, all use "float". The language is shouting at the programmer that the type is something very special and still some programmers casually think they can use the type as a substitute for the reals.
It is beyond me how americans can complain about gas prices. In Sweden people pay more than twice as much, and everyone seems to be fine with it. On top of that, americans have even more money to spend than do swedes. So, are americans cheap, or just spoiled?
Neither. We're just a terribly spread-out and need lots of fuel.
My Czech friend's parents marveled constantly while here about how distant everything was from everything else. "You need to drive just to get a loaf of bread?" Yep.
I don't think Europeans understand just how large the USA relative to Europe and how less populated it is (perhaps a result of seeing Mercator projection maps that exaggerate Europe's size).
Consider this: the distance from San Diego, California, USA to Bangor, Maine, USA is greater than the distance from Stockholm, Sweden to Delhi, India.
We've been closing down refineries for many, many years in the US due to low profit margins.
Hardly.
Much industry in the USA is seen as dirty, dangerous, and bad for the environment.
Refineries aren't built usually because the people through the democratic process refuse to allow them to be built.
To be fair, the nature of a union is to gain power. The same as a corporations nature is to gain money.
A union IS a corporation.
... what about laws about rape? Don't those pretty explicitly deal with what the "other" party was thinking?
I don't think so, otherwise rapists might try to claim that while the victim said "no", the victim instead was thinking "yes".
And suppose someone says "yes" but regrets the encounter? Should someone go to jail because another didn't make their thoughts known?
One's guilt depends not on whether a rule was followed or broken, but on what another person was thinking?
Kerr is asking too much.
To suggest that these sequences have no direct functionality is to suggest that somehow they're completely isolated from the chemistry of the cell. That's difficult to prove. And some of what I've read suggests that the physical closeness of some bits of DNA to other bits might be important. Repeats are going to physically shift some parts of DNA relative to others.
How can you be certain these sequences which control the physical relationship of one part of the sequence to another part are completely inconsequential?
Remember that the Soviets at the beginning of WWII actually were aggressors that invaded Poland (and five other nations). It was obvious, then, that the Soviets weren't screwing around and were willing to use military power to get what they wanted (which happened to be a good deal of Eastern Europe).
When they put a silvery ball into orbit, it was frightening -- and for good reason given the Soviet's history.
We don't yet see China as that sort of aggressor(though their actions in the South China Sea might eventually be seen as evidence of a new desire for outward expansion).
A gas can maker was recently forced out of business when a jury found the maker 70% liable in the death of a 4-year-old that perished in a camper when her father poured gasoline into a wood burning stove.
Someone can pour gasoline from a can onto a fire and a jury will still blame the maker of the can.
Do you really think the maker of this device is going to take a chance of losing everything through potential misuse of this wireless capability?
Anyone in business needs to understand that they're seen at best by jurors as a necessary evil and as a source of money to help someone they sympathize with. Additional unnecessary features are just additional opportunities for big judgments against you and your firm.
Austerity is a death spiral that creates needless suffering at a time when govt should be fulfilling the Constitutional mandate to "provide for the general welfare."
Providing for the general welfare isn't the same thing as providing individual welfare.
Tell that to China. China literally owns America.
Nah. They just own those young Americans that will be paying off the debt.
Actually, they sold at just about the right time, Half a bil is not an untidy sum for the product they had at the time. They just got swindled by GS.
I'm not sure GS swindled them, but I'm sure GS didn't give a damn. Same thing happened in the mortgage industry: GS didn't fill-in mortgage applications with false information, but they sure didn't mind legally profiting from the sh!tstorm that followed -- not their problem.
At least someone at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products went to prison.
And sometimes it's a disaster. BeOS was an unfortunate victim.
Every 1st world nation on the planet has healthcare, I don't get why this is such a debate in the US.
I live in Germany...
I'm sure that if there were a Europe-wide system you'd be complaining, too.
Do you really think Germans should be subsidizing the health care system of the Hellenic Republic, or of the Poland, or of Turkey? Would you trust some central European authority to manage the health care system of Germans? I doubt it.
Now that Americans have a national health care system maybe they can start asking Europeans why they can't give healthcare to all Europeans, equally.
Until Commodore produced the Amiga.
Of course the Amiga really had Atari blood running through it, having been designed by Jay Miner -- the same man that help design previous Atari machines.
I can't believe Atari let the Amiga design get away from them.
Instead they came out with a machine that had a dumb frame buffer and simple syth chip attached to a CPU. The ST was more Radio Shack Color Computer than a next generation Atari machine.
I guess I can blame Commodore for that since they gave Atari Jack Tramiel. That guy seemed obsessed with undermining his old company. He basically helped Atari and Commodore destroy each other while IBM PC compatibles slowly took over.
Tifton 85 is actually a hybrid of African Bermuda grass and Tifton 68, a different hybrid produced in Tifton, Texas.
It's not a GM grass.