Hey, it could be worse. Instead of being up 21 you could easily be down 21,000. Many investors had 40% losses. I was pretty depressed when I invested in my first mutual fund right when the market tanked only to immediately lose a good chunk of change. You cannot let this get you down though. Short term gains and losses have practically no significance if you are investing for the long term.
As someone working in the mapping field, I can say that a map is much more than the locations and labels it contains. There is quite a bit of effort that goes into styling and rendering the maps.
Yep. This was big a few years ago when people were still flipping houses. People were forced to begrudgingly stay in their house for longer than 12 months (the horror!) to avoid paying the penalty tax.
I believe you have this mixed up. Capital gains are taxed at 15%. Earned income tax for top earners is ~36.5%. Obama WANTS to implement the Buffet rule which would raise this top bracket to 39%. Also Obama has not let the Bush tax cuts expire, as they are still in place.
I use GIMP all the time and love it, but the multi window interface still drives me insane. I have heard for ages they are working on single window tabbed version, but I will believe it when I see it.
At least 6. And that is completely disregarding the #1 leading factor in height and all other traits: environment. The classic case is seen with genetically identical trees growing on the slope of a mountain. They all have the same genes but the ones at the top have ~half the height as the ones at the bottom due to changes in air density.
Doubtful. Contrary to the popular stereotype of the puny nerd, height and intelligence actually correlate quite strongly. It does seem a bit unfair in a cosmic sense; everyone SHOULD have their own "different but equal" superpower, but that is not the way it works.
IQ? Let's get working on improving EQ through gene therapy. That is where the real ROI exists. EQ has a MUCH larger impact on a person's success by almost any measure.
This has to be the most obvious scientific claim of all time. A person's height is controlled by a multitude of genes; who would have actually claimed that intelligence would be controlled by a single gene? Intelligence is not even a single trait. This is like saying:
"Contrary to contemporary scientific belief, the earth is round, and now I have irrefutable proof! Where can I pick up my Nobel Prize?"
No idea how it works, but that was the reason I switched from Firefox to Chrome a couple years ago. I guess having it resolve to Google Search is in their best interest, so they would make it happen.
I took a computer class as my last credit in college (I was actually already working as a software engineer, but my diploma had not come through yet since my advisor forgot to get me into a Comp 101 class). The book was written 10 years prior by a faculty member from the small tech school I was attending (No way I was going to pay full uni prices for a joke like this). I swear after getting through a pretty rigorous CS program and working as a SE for a year, I actually almost failed this Comp 101 class. Of course, the reason was that most of the questions were like this (this is a real one from the final):
Which type of device can store files that would normally be stored on a PC?
A an ipod
B a palm pilot
C a cellular phone
D an mp3 player
I guarantee you, get enough of these questions and you will begin uncontrollably weeping, especially when it is the last class between you and a diploma.
So the quality of local schools has little to do with how much the local taxpayers care about the schools.
Idk. I was talking to a teacher from FL in a low income district a few days ago. His school's PTA has two people on it: him and the principle. PTAs have a huge impact on the quality of a school. Wealth in general, even if not directly through taxes, has a big impact. Another friend of mine has been teaching hearing impaired students in a low income area for the past 20 years. It is unbelievably sad. He has had several students over the years who could have been in normal classes if they had hearing aids, but their parents could not afford them (actually, with government aid they could get these virtually for free but many simply did not care and refused for whatever reason).
I don't agree with your morality here, and thus, to me, it is completely invalid.
WTF?! reductio ad absurdum: Hitler did not agree that killing Jews was evil, and thus, to him, the claim that killing Jews is evil is completely invalid
Sure, at a certain level morality has a "leap of faith" component that everyone makes based on their own subjective experience (same as science or any belief in reality), but after that, morality is actually quite objective. Everyone starts from a set of axiomatic principles and goes from there. Like science, things get fuzzy and people start to disagree when a case is sufficiently complicated, but the majority of moral decisions are agreed upon by a vast majority of people, suggesting there is an underlying objective morality. For example: stealing is bad, child abuse is bad, killing defenseless people is bad, rape is bad, etc. All of these claims are objective claims about morality. They do not have anything to do with opinions. Someone can have an opposing opinion, but they would be wrong.
In my area, Comcast uses DNS Hijacking to favor their "search engine" any time you misspell something in the url bar. Sounds like more of the same to me. 21st century highwaymen.
I was surprised they would come out and say this. Who the hell is going to donate their development time on this project if the creators are going to close down parts of the platform and charge them for it?
Live debugging seems cool, however, basically every other feature is already implemented better in Visual Studio, Eclipse, or Netbeans. Hell, I have 95% of the functionality in Vim already. Why not just make the live debugging a plugin to one of the more mature editors? It seems you would get a whole lot more bang for your development time that way.
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Hey, it could be worse. Instead of being up 21 you could easily be down 21,000. Many investors had 40% losses. I was pretty depressed when I invested in my first mutual fund right when the market tanked only to immediately lose a good chunk of change. You cannot let this get you down though. Short term gains and losses have practically no significance if you are investing for the long term.
As someone working in the mapping field, I can say that a map is much more than the locations and labels it contains. There is quite a bit of effort that goes into styling and rendering the maps.
Yep. This was big a few years ago when people were still flipping houses. People were forced to begrudgingly stay in their house for longer than 12 months (the horror!) to avoid paying the penalty tax.
I believe you have this mixed up. Capital gains are taxed at 15%. Earned income tax for top earners is ~36.5%. Obama WANTS to implement the Buffet rule which would raise this top bracket to 39%. Also Obama has not let the Bush tax cuts expire, as they are still in place.
Also-- just an aside-- the code is exceptionally clean.
This is terrific. It is awesome looking through the source; kind of like a time capsule.
I use GIMP all the time and love it, but the multi window interface still drives me insane. I have heard for ages they are working on single window tabbed version, but I will believe it when I see it.
That seems like a pretty good reason to me! (of course, only one of many factors. Otherwise instead of an engineer I would be Don Draper).
At least 6. And that is completely disregarding the #1 leading factor in height and all other traits: environment. The classic case is seen with genetically identical trees growing on the slope of a mountain. They all have the same genes but the ones at the top have ~half the height as the ones at the bottom due to changes in air density.
Doubtful. Contrary to the popular stereotype of the puny nerd, height and intelligence actually correlate quite strongly. It does seem a bit unfair in a cosmic sense; everyone SHOULD have their own "different but equal" superpower, but that is not the way it works.
IQ? Let's get working on improving EQ through gene therapy. That is where the real ROI exists. EQ has a MUCH larger impact on a person's success by almost any measure.
"Contrary to contemporary scientific belief, the earth is round, and now I have irrefutable proof! Where can I pick up my Nobel Prize?"
No idea how it works, but that was the reason I switched from Firefox to Chrome a couple years ago. I guess having it resolve to Google Search is in their best interest, so they would make it happen.
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Which type of device can store files that would normally be stored on a PC?
A an ipod
B a palm pilot
C a cellular phone
D an mp3 player
I guarantee you, get enough of these questions and you will begin uncontrollably weeping, especially when it is the last class between you and a diploma.
So the quality of local schools has little to do with how much the local taxpayers care about the schools.
Idk. I was talking to a teacher from FL in a low income district a few days ago. His school's PTA has two people on it: him and the principle. PTAs have a huge impact on the quality of a school. Wealth in general, even if not directly through taxes, has a big impact. Another friend of mine has been teaching hearing impaired students in a low income area for the past 20 years. It is unbelievably sad. He has had several students over the years who could have been in normal classes if they had hearing aids, but their parents could not afford them (actually, with government aid they could get these virtually for free but many simply did not care and refused for whatever reason).
I don't agree with your morality here, and thus, to me, it is completely invalid.
WTF?! reductio ad absurdum: Hitler did not agree that killing Jews was evil, and thus, to him, the claim that killing Jews is evil is completely invalid
Sure, at a certain level morality has a "leap of faith" component that everyone makes based on their own subjective experience (same as science or any belief in reality), but after that, morality is actually quite objective. Everyone starts from a set of axiomatic principles and goes from there. Like science, things get fuzzy and people start to disagree when a case is sufficiently complicated, but the majority of moral decisions are agreed upon by a vast majority of people, suggesting there is an underlying objective morality. For example: stealing is bad, child abuse is bad, killing defenseless people is bad, rape is bad, etc. All of these claims are objective claims about morality. They do not have anything to do with opinions. Someone can have an opposing opinion, but they would be wrong.
even saying "frist" would be better in this case.
In my area, Comcast uses DNS Hijacking to favor their "search engine" any time you misspell something in the url bar. Sounds like more of the same to me. 21st century highwaymen.
No one helps to code the core of Windows or OSX without getting paid. That is a reversed scenario.
...or Vim. That would work too.
I was surprised they would come out and say this. Who the hell is going to donate their development time on this project if the creators are going to close down parts of the platform and charge them for it?
Live debugging seems cool, however, basically every other feature is already implemented better in Visual Studio, Eclipse, or Netbeans. Hell, I have 95% of the functionality in Vim already. Why not just make the live debugging a plugin to one of the more mature editors? It seems you would get a whole lot more bang for your development time that way.
We should use this teaching method in the Palmetto State. I can imagine a day where our literacy rate is nearly as high as our unemployment rate!
May the FSM send much Pesto upon you with his holy and delicious noodley appendages.