I want to know if the candidate himself could pass a grade school science exam before he gets to make calls on science policy.
It would be nice if our leaders were superhuman and were experts on every facet of policy, but the reality is that no one can be an expert on everything
(emphasis added)
The GP is asking for grade school, not graduate school. It's not a very high standard.
a racially-targeted plague that also only kills males, so that the women can be spared and "rescued" and impregnated to raise half-white properly Christian babies
Actually, since most of the genetic variation of the human race is on the African continent, the only feasible racially-targeted plagues would be ones directed at non-Africans.
You missed the point...we married guys get a lot more action than all but a tiny fraction of single guys. Granted, the variety is vastly reduced, but it does allow us to spend more time using our brains for other things than schemes for getting laid.
(*) Does not apply for significant periods after the birth of children
I generally agree, though I tend to feel the 2nd Amendment has been among the better-defended rights in the constitution, so I'm not really too worried about that. I'm far more concerned about Obama and the democrats impinging on economic freedoms, by taking and spending my money, through taxes and lack of free trade agreements. In this case both parties seem about the same, with Reagan/Bush/Bush spending my future dollars through deficit spending, versus Democrats champing at the bit to tax the heck out of me.
Here is one big difference -- Obama will check with intelligent people before acting. That alone will be a huge improvement.
Obama is intelligent as well as charismatic (yes, I'm from Chicago and I have met him). When asked -- jokingly -- a question about sorting at some university function, he replied, "well, I wouldn't use the bubblesort" which is pretty damn good for a lawyer, especially a constitutional lawyer.
I also find it telling that his technical advisor is an MIT professor. (Contrast with McCain, who I have not met but IMO is basically a stand-up guy embedded in a free-spending, anti-freedom party. McCain has an ex entertainment industry exec as HIS technical advisor).
Well, if it was suicide, and there was anything he didn't want people seeing, then he had his chance to delete it. If it was not suicide then I think you have to tread more carefully, but in the end the dead have no right to privacy (or reason to care).
For FSM's sake, though, take a moment to "accidentally" delete his porn and such while you are going about this. That's just basic courtesy.
NASA has never focused on science, and will never do so. They are focused on making the public feel good by putting people in space, when all the good science is done by robots. In the words of an astrophysicist friend of mine at University of Chicago, "the minute the manned missions to Mars and the moon were announced, they dropped the science budget like a $2 hooker shedding her clothes". They were glad to do it.
They don't care about science and the science community is lucky for any cheap (relative to manned jaunts) scraps we get from them (Cassini, rovers and the like).
If they have a sense of humor over there, they probably have set up a few big red buttons at eye level for both children and adults. Unlabeled. And connected to loud, scary sirens.
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Heh, I never noticed the namespace collision before. Anyway you can find out more the one with actual talent at her website.
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In the US there are no criminal penalties associated with patents, and such a raid could not be conducted, especially in the absence of a court ruling of infringement.
Sometimes the Slashdot editors can be frustrating, but this is a good example where a quick sentence added on to the submitted summary was informative, and probably headed off a large number of misguided posts. Kudos.
If you want some schadenfreude check out thesearticles where that same proclivity for cheating cost the government billions due to tax deductions from faked business receipts.
The sad thing for China is that unless this culture changes, it's going to be a very long time before products of any kind coming from there will be accepted by the rest of the world with the same kind of lax inspection standards ones from the West enjoy. Thus, on a per-capita basis, China will never catch up.
The browser can present to me a list of script functions and fragments, each with a "allow", "deny", or "remap" option. What an amazing coincidence! My grandmother, my boss and my brother's girlfriend were all wishing out loud for that very feature just yesterday! We'll all be secure in no time!
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In the UK even hotels charge for WiFi Here in the USA, with our refined senses for extracting money from customers, only the good hotels charge for internet access. Go to a Quality Inn, or whatever, and it's usually free, but at the New York Palace, paying $700/night, it'll cost you an extra $20.
That's annoying when your employer is eating the $700 on a last-minute trip, and you're in a fine hotel feeling rich, and you don't feel like trying to justify the extra $20 on your expense report.
Actually, Python is a very common language selection for risk systems and trading systems in the investment banking industry, nearly always with links to C or C++ libraries for numerically intensive code. Of the platforms for which I have true knowledge of the implementation language, I can think of the following:
I have seen a lot of code in this business, but never more than about a one-page Perl script. I suspect the sysadmin side uses Perl quite a bit more, though.
My background: I am a quant in the finance industry, and have just over 20 years' professional experience.
Anyone who's experienced at driving on ice and in deep snow will tell you how much fun it is to have your ABS take over and spin you around a couple times (or crawl up the side of the plowed-snow bank along the road), when left to your own devices you'd have geared down (yes, auto trannies CAN do that), likely not used the brakes at all, and slowed *safely*.
I call bullshit. I've driven in western Michigan where there's lots of snow and ice for two decades now (hi Taco!) and this is an incredibly silly set of opinions. First, only a malfunctioning ABS is going to spin you around. Second, ABS does not "take over" since it only kicks in when a wheel slips. Third, slowing with your transmission is a rear-wheel-drive only trick that greatly increases your stopping distance as compared to proper (or even most improper) braking. Are you from Florida or something?
Don't sweat it. When I post code in a forum, I generally do so with the hope that other folks will find it useful, and the expectation that, if they do find it useful, they'll go ahead and copy it. If I want to make something available with a license and everything, I'll either put it on Sourceforge, or post a license in the comments. It's a safe bet the original author feels the same way.
Legally, it's not necessarily safe to copy long snippets from forums, but from practical and social points of view, I think this is much ado about nothing.
The backers of those options would love nothing more than to see as many as possible expire worthless
You obviously don't understand how options traders operate. Those who write the options do not sell them "naked". Instead they purchase an appropriate amount of stock at the same time they sell the option, adjusting the amount according to the "Delta" as supplied by a variant of the Black-Scholes model. See here for more information on how that works.
Because these options writers have sold the options short, and hedged the delta, they have sold volatility or are short gamma. Their best outcome is if the stock price does not move, because the risk-reward profile is positive for stable prices. They do not particularly care whether or not the options expire worthless. Big swings in the stock price like yesterday's, though, are quite painful for them.
Disclaimer: I am a finance industry professional specializing in options models.
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The GP is asking for grade school, not graduate school. It's not a very high standard.
Actually, since most of the genetic variation of the human race is on the African continent, the only feasible racially-targeted plagues would be ones directed at non-Africans.
Double digits? That's just two fingers....
^^WHOOSH^^
You missed the point...we married guys get a lot more action than all but a tiny fraction of single guys. Granted, the variety is vastly reduced, but it does allow us to spend more time using our brains for other things than schemes for getting laid.
(*) Does not apply for significant periods after the birth of children
Not to belittle your point, but my advice to you? Marry the "cute Korean lass" and take her last name.
Blackbody radiation! Everybody panic!
I generally agree, though I tend to feel the 2nd Amendment has been among the better-defended rights in the constitution, so I'm not really too worried about that. I'm far more concerned about Obama and the democrats impinging on economic freedoms, by taking and spending my money, through taxes and lack of free trade agreements. In this case both parties seem about the same, with Reagan/Bush/Bush spending my future dollars through deficit spending, versus Democrats champing at the bit to tax the heck out of me.
Here is one big difference -- Obama will check with intelligent people before acting. That alone will be a huge improvement.
Yes and no.
Obama is intelligent as well as charismatic (yes, I'm from Chicago and I have met him). When asked -- jokingly -- a question about sorting at some university function, he replied, "well, I wouldn't use the bubblesort" which is pretty damn good for a lawyer, especially a constitutional lawyer.
I also find it telling that his technical advisor is an MIT professor. (Contrast with McCain, who I have not met but IMO is basically a stand-up guy embedded in a free-spending, anti-freedom party. McCain has an ex entertainment industry exec as HIS technical advisor).
Well, if it was suicide, and there was anything he didn't want people seeing, then he had his chance to delete it. If it was not suicide then I think you have to tread more carefully, but in the end the dead have no right to privacy (or reason to care).
For FSM's sake, though, take a moment to "accidentally" delete his porn and such while you are going about this. That's just basic courtesy.
Those Cylons didn't finish us off 70000 years ago, and they will fail again.
So say we all.
NASA has never focused on science, and will never do so. They are focused on making the public feel good by putting people in space, when all the good science is done by robots. In the words of an astrophysicist friend of mine at University of Chicago, "the minute the manned missions to Mars and the moon were announced, they dropped the science budget like a $2 hooker shedding her clothes". They were glad to do it.
They don't care about science and the science community is lucky for any cheap (relative to manned jaunts) scraps we get from them (Cassini, rovers and the like).
If they have a sense of humor over there, they probably have set up a few big red buttons at eye level for both children and adults. Unlabeled. And connected to loud, scary sirens.
Heh, I never noticed the namespace collision before. Anyway you can find out more the one with actual talent at her website.
La Perdida by Jessica Abel
I've sometimes wondered how much (if any) spam is actually just a numbers station.
Sometimes the Slashdot editors can be frustrating, but this is a good example where a quick sentence added on to the submitted summary was informative, and probably headed off a large number of misguided posts. Kudos.
If you want some schadenfreude check out these articles where that same proclivity for cheating cost the government billions due to tax deductions from faked business receipts.
The sad thing for China is that unless this culture changes, it's going to be a very long time before products of any kind coming from there will be accepted by the rest of the world with the same kind of lax inspection standards ones from the West enjoy. Thus, on a per-capita basis, China will never catch up.
You reap the whirlwind....
That's annoying when your employer is eating the $700 on a last-minute trip, and you're in a fine hotel feeling rich, and you don't feel like trying to justify the extra $20 on your expense report.
Actually, Python is a very common language selection for risk systems and trading systems in the investment banking industry, nearly always with links to C or C++ libraries for numerically intensive code. Of the platforms for which I have true knowledge of the implementation language, I can think of the following:
Commercial systems:
C 2
C++ 2
C++/Python 1
Internal systems:
C 2
Java/C++ 2
Java/C 1
Java 1
Python/C 3
Python/C++ 3
VB 1
I have seen a lot of code in this business, but never more than about a one-page Perl script. I suspect the sysadmin side uses Perl quite a bit more, though.
My background: I am a quant in the finance industry, and have just over 20 years' professional experience.
I call bullshit. I've driven in western Michigan where there's lots of snow and ice for two decades now (hi Taco!) and this is an incredibly silly set of opinions. First, only a malfunctioning ABS is going to spin you around. Second, ABS does not "take over" since it only kicks in when a wheel slips. Third, slowing with your transmission is a rear-wheel-drive only trick that greatly increases your stopping distance as compared to proper (or even most improper) braking. Are you from Florida or something?
Don't sweat it. When I post code in a forum, I generally do so with the hope that other folks will find it useful, and the expectation that, if they do find it useful, they'll go ahead and copy it. If I want to make something available with a license and everything, I'll either put it on Sourceforge, or post a license in the comments. It's a safe bet the original author feels the same way.
Legally, it's not necessarily safe to copy long snippets from forums, but from practical and social points of view, I think this is much ado about nothing.
Finally somebody who can post some actual information. Thanks!
I believe semilog is more informative (as we discussed). One can see it in this sheet
You obviously don't understand how options traders operate. Those who write the options do not sell them "naked". Instead they purchase an appropriate amount of stock at the same time they sell the option, adjusting the amount according to the "Delta" as supplied by a variant of the Black-Scholes model. See here for more information on how that works.
Because these options writers have sold the options short, and hedged the delta, they have sold volatility or are short gamma. Their best outcome is if the stock price does not move, because the risk-reward profile is positive for stable prices. They do not particularly care whether or not the options expire worthless. Big swings in the stock price like yesterday's, though, are quite painful for them.
Disclaimer: I am a finance industry professional specializing in options models.