There is evidence to support that the mass jump onto the bandwagon is at least in part to blame for the rise of obesity and diabetes.
And, of course, studies to suggest otherwise.
And while the beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption are one of the few things which _haven't_ undergone this whipsaw, you still won't see too many US nutritionists recommending drinking to abstainers.
Or, buy gold, and hide that. Gold can easily be concealed. Coat it in lead and it's a fishing sinker, wheel weight, or plumb bob. Pull it into a wire and coat it in tin and it appears to be solder. Make pipes out of it, paint it, and attach it to your plumbing system.
It's worse than that: - Most large systems are not designed by people that know how to design large systems
Furthermore - For complexity C > Cmin, there is a size S such that for all systems larger than S with complexity C, no one knows how to design such a system. - For any given C > Cmin, S always is smaller than you think. - Cmin is smaller than you think. - For every system, C is higher than you think.
The day developers can write code that compiles the first time, then yes, otherwise, jesus, no.
I wrote code to solve a Project Euler problem which compiled, ran, and produced the right answer the first time. And another which required only one fix.
Of course, there are hundreds of problems, and none of the others worked so nicely...
Developers with access to either the test environment or the Production environment is a violation of the doctrine of "Separation of function"
Perhaps. But developers without access to the test environment is a violation of the doctrine of "Getting things done". But then, security and productivity will always be at loggerheads.
but there is a reason why PA's roads are almost universally understood to be the worst in the country, and it isn't due to lack of maintenance.
Actually, it is. Also poor construction; I've seen roads "widened" in PA by dumping a layer of asphalt over the existing narrow road and the dirt/shoulder. Naturally both sides outside the old road base quickly collapsed. Maryland is also in an area of the country with many freeze-thaw cycles, and the roads are much better.
This presumes only one kind of leap second.. the kind that skips a second, rather than introduced an extra second.
The only kind of leap second which has occurred is an extra second. It's still monotonic: 23:59:59, 23:59:60, 00:00:00 (+1 day)
IMO, anyone designing systems which depend on to-the-second time synchronization across leap seconds should probably use TAI or GPS time, and convert to UTC (if necessary) for display. The only thing you can't do right is future time intervals.
Actually, the rich just pay their bills because they can easily afford them.
If I could pay what the insurance companies pay (check your "explanation of benefits" if you get services paid for by health insurance), rather than the face value of the bill, I could afford most health care bills, and I'm not rich. But we've got this screwed up system where the doctors and hospitals mark the bills way up, the insurance companies (and Medicare) get deep discounts, and cash customers get squeezed out. Sure, the ambulance company may bill some poor sucker $2000 for a 5 mile ride and IV saline drip, but I'll bet if it's covered by insurance, they only get paid $200-$500 for it.
Philadelphia already has a 3.9% city income tax. If you earn money as a blogger, you already pay part as a city income tax. It's not about income, it's about control. Governments don't like critics, particularly anonymous critics. This way, at least in Philly, if you're an anonymous blogger, you're breaking the law.
Philadelphia also has a gross receipts tax on businesses. It doesn't matter if you're making money or losing it; they tax you on the gross. And you're not allowed to use Hollywood accounting.
However, Amazon doesn't own a license to read the book for profit. So selling text-only e-books on a device that can actually read them aloud is tantamount to offering a "free audio version" of the book with every e-book sold. That means that Amazon is, in effect, selling unauthorized audio versions of their e-books and not compensating the artist/publisher for same. Sort of.
They could provide you with Patrick Stewart to read your book to you, and they STILL wouldn't be violating copyright. No license is required to read a book for profit; the license is required for public performance, not for-profit performance. The 2nd circuit made this point in the Cablevision DVR case.
In this example, if the statistic is true, then a managed economy would look at the situation and say, "Okay, we don't actually need to pay kindergarten teachers $320K to get outstanding teachers for every student. But the benefits are so great that society as a whole would come out ahead if we were to pay, say, $100K."
Then our philosopher-kings weren't thinking too clearly. Let's suppose we've got two teachers. Each teach exactly the same way. But one is a Hannibal Lecter type and every year, figures out a way to plant seeds of doubt which will destroy the psyche of exactly one student, causing him to become a forever-jobless drifter. Suppose further that the NPV of a lifetime of earnings averages $1 million. Does this mean the teacher who doesn't destroy any of his students is now magically worth $1 million?
Of course in real life there aren't too many Hannibal Lecter types. But there are plenty of destructive teachers. And by setting a pay scale for teaching proportional to the NPV of the lifetime income of their students, you are basing their pay scale not so much on the value they add, but on the destruction they fail to do.
This is one reason why psychologists have started prescribing multiple medications to treat depression
Psychiatrists, actually, but that's a quibble. So when they start prescribing serotonin, dopamine, and norepinepherine re-uptake inhibitors all together, are they going to figure out that chewing coca leaves was the best answer all along?
His war on interpreted code/runtimes and (WORA) Write-Once-Run-Anywhere is a big headache for content creators everywhere.
Since when have content creators had anything to do with WORA? For a long time, it was more like WORIE -- Write Once Run on Internet Explorer. Jobs is probably delighted now that HIS is the platform they have to right for.
There needs to be a distinction between unions in the private sector for workers without very specialized skills - necessary to prevent imbalance of power in negotiations - and the public sector unions. The latter ones are a problem since the employers (governments, school districts, etc.) do not have much incentive to extract the best possible deal from the union.
Exactly. Teachers go on strike, school board holds out for some token period, then the demands are met and taxes go up. It's not like the school board is paying, after all. Lather, rinse, repeat.
If there were a market in teacher pay, for example, I'm reasonably certain that a high school physics teacher would make a lot more than a kindergarten teacher.
I think you are badly and dangerously wrong. Correct facts are a prerequisite for a robust debate, and your facts are wrong.
According to a recent study, the true economic value of an outstanding kindergarten teacher is somewhere around $320,000 per year. As in, three hundred and twenty thousand US dollars.
That so-called "true economic value" has the units right, but not much else. The market value for a kindergarten teacher is not in any way related to the present value of the additional income earned by the students of a good kindergarten teacher compared to a bad one. Market value is generally about supply and demand, and if the OP is correct, supply of high school physics teachers is far less than kindergarten teachers.
James Popham, a prof. ameritus at UCLA, wrote that if we want to know something about someone, we measure that something in that someone.
He was wrong. For instance, if we want to know how well a football coach is doing, we often measure something about the team he's coaching. It's the same when measuring many managerial and executive positions. Teaching seems to me to be another area where that makes perfect sense.
My mother is a public high school Spanish teacher. She has an undergraduate degree in Romance Languages from an Ivy League, a Masters in Spanish from a well-known state school, and is currently working towards her PhD. She's been teaching at the school she's at for almost 15 years, I believe. She used to work for an import/export company, then an investment banker. She speaks 7 languages with a high degree of proficiency, 5 of which she's fluent in.
Have any of her students who didn't already know Spanish learned to speak Spanish in her classes?
I know a lot of people who have taken high school language classes (including myself). I know exactly 0 who learned a language that way. They're a checkbox in the "well-rounded education" checklist, nothing more.
If teachers were paid by the hour, most would likely make less than a fast food worker when averaged out.
If a minimum wage fast-food worker were to work for 12 hours a day every day for 10 months a year, he or she would make about $26,500/yr. You going to tell me that most teachers work more and make less? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
There's a difference between negotiating your price as an individual, and negotiating price as a group. At that point, you're now "negotiating" at gunpoint which is a whole different animal.
It's only "gunpoint" when people are prevented from negotiating other than as a group. Which is in fact the case with teacher's unions (and most surviving unions), but the problem isn't with group negotiation; the problem is with the force required to sustain it.
You think Virgin Killers is bad? Try that Blind Faith album they don't stock in stores anymore even though it has Eric Clapton on it:
Needs to be a gun rather than a model plane to really offend the maximum number of people. Also, I don't think that's Eric Clapton.
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They have very large banks as customers too. But, I know it is more fun to joke about their AV performance, which is in fact on par with most AV products.
Yeah. Like Symantec, which exists only to bring all work to a screaming halt, and to give BOFHs reason to beat up on developers for bypassing it. "On par with most AV products" == "A steaming pile of crap".
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If you buy into the conspiracy theory, they're not -- they're just a convenient instrument.
And, of course, studies to suggest otherwise.
And while the beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption are one of the few things which _haven't_ undergone this whipsaw, you still won't see too many US nutritionists recommending drinking to abstainers.
"Business is done differently here" is a code phrase. Usually a code phrase for graft, though.
Or, buy gold, and hide that. Gold can easily be concealed. Coat it in lead and it's a fishing sinker, wheel weight, or plumb bob. Pull it into a wire and coat it in tin and it appears to be solder. Make pipes out of it, paint it, and attach it to your plumbing system.
Furthermore
- For complexity C > Cmin, there is a size S such that for all systems larger than S with complexity C, no one knows how to design such a system.
- For any given C > Cmin, S always is smaller than you think.
- Cmin is smaller than you think.
- For every system, C is higher than you think.
I wrote code to solve a Project Euler problem which compiled, ran, and produced the right answer the first time. And another which required only one fix. Of course, there are hundreds of problems, and none of the others worked so nicely...
Perhaps. But developers without access to the test environment is a violation of the doctrine of "Getting things done". But then, security and productivity will always be at loggerheads.
Actually, it is. Also poor construction; I've seen roads "widened" in PA by dumping a layer of asphalt over the existing narrow road and the dirt/shoulder. Naturally both sides outside the old road base quickly collapsed. Maryland is also in an area of the country with many freeze-thaw cycles, and the roads are much better.
The only kind of leap second which has occurred is an extra second. It's still monotonic: 23:59:59, 23:59:60, 00:00:00 (+1 day)
IMO, anyone designing systems which depend on to-the-second time synchronization across leap seconds should probably use TAI or GPS time, and convert to UTC (if necessary) for display. The only thing you can't do right is future time intervals.
I want to be the rat with his own personal laser-armed shark as a mount.
If I could pay what the insurance companies pay (check your "explanation of benefits" if you get services paid for by health insurance), rather than the face value of the bill, I could afford most health care bills, and I'm not rich. But we've got this screwed up system where the doctors and hospitals mark the bills way up, the insurance companies (and Medicare) get deep discounts, and cash customers get squeezed out. Sure, the ambulance company may bill some poor sucker $2000 for a 5 mile ride and IV saline drip, but I'll bet if it's covered by insurance, they only get paid $200-$500 for it.
Philadelphia also has a gross receipts tax on businesses. It doesn't matter if you're making money or losing it; they tax you on the gross. And you're not allowed to use Hollywood accounting.
On the other hand, the solar wind is constantly bombarding the planet with alpha particles, a.k.a helium nuclei. Harvest the aurora!
You'd think so, but then you read stuff like this
Amish/Pagan drug ring (the Pagans are a motorcycle gang)
They could provide you with Patrick Stewart to read your book to you, and they STILL wouldn't be violating copyright. No license is required to read a book for profit; the license is required for public performance, not for-profit performance. The 2nd circuit made this point in the Cablevision DVR case.
Then our philosopher-kings weren't thinking too clearly. Let's suppose we've got two teachers. Each teach exactly the same way. But one is a Hannibal Lecter type and every year, figures out a way to plant seeds of doubt which will destroy the psyche of exactly one student, causing him to become a forever-jobless drifter. Suppose further that the NPV of a lifetime of earnings averages $1 million. Does this mean the teacher who doesn't destroy any of his students is now magically worth $1 million?
Of course in real life there aren't too many Hannibal Lecter types. But there are plenty of destructive teachers. And by setting a pay scale for teaching proportional to the NPV of the lifetime income of their students, you are basing their pay scale not so much on the value they add, but on the destruction they fail to do.
Psychiatrists, actually, but that's a quibble. So when they start prescribing serotonin, dopamine, and norepinepherine re-uptake inhibitors all together, are they going to figure out that chewing coca leaves was the best answer all along?
Since when have content creators had anything to do with WORA? For a long time, it was more like WORIE -- Write Once Run on Internet Explorer. Jobs is probably delighted now that HIS is the platform they have to right for.
Exactly. Teachers go on strike, school board holds out for some token period, then the demands are met and taxes go up. It's not like the school board is paying, after all. Lather, rinse, repeat.
That so-called "true economic value" has the units right, but not much else. The market value for a kindergarten teacher is not in any way related to the present value of the additional income earned by the students of a good kindergarten teacher compared to a bad one. Market value is generally about supply and demand, and if the OP is correct, supply of high school physics teachers is far less than kindergarten teachers.
He was wrong. For instance, if we want to know how well a football coach is doing, we often measure something about the team he's coaching. It's the same when measuring many managerial and executive positions. Teaching seems to me to be another area where that makes perfect sense.
Have any of her students who didn't already know Spanish learned to speak Spanish in her classes?
I know a lot of people who have taken high school language classes (including myself). I know exactly 0 who learned a language that way. They're a checkbox in the "well-rounded education" checklist, nothing more.
If a minimum wage fast-food worker were to work for 12 hours a day every day for 10 months a year, he or she would make about $26,500/yr. You going to tell me that most teachers work more and make less? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
It's only "gunpoint" when people are prevented from negotiating other than as a group. Which is in fact the case with teacher's unions (and most surviving unions), but the problem isn't with group negotiation; the problem is with the force required to sustain it.
Needs to be a gun rather than a model plane to really offend the maximum number of people. Also, I don't think that's Eric Clapton.
Yeah. Like Symantec, which exists only to bring all work to a screaming halt, and to give BOFHs reason to beat up on developers for bypassing it. "On par with most AV products" == "A steaming pile of crap".