If transport trucks had to pay for their true share of the cost of road maintenance (based on your weight^4 calculation) you would see a massive shift of freight off the roads and onto rail. Trucks have been getting a free ride for far too long.
1. the guy selling the bike got his money 59 seconds sooner, is this not a benefit? 2. Anybody who wants can buy the premium service. That means there may be multiple people competing for the $100 spread between the buyer and seller. In your scenario, they have all posted adds selling a bike for $599, but only one can buy the bike for $500, and the rest have to buy the next highest priced bike if someone accepts their ad. Some of them may not make any money or may lose money on the transaction. Therefore, in order to prevent this, the next time they will offer a bit more than $500 to the seller, to make it more likely that their buy offer is accepted.The trade still happens more quickly, the seller gets more money, and the HFT guy gets a smaller profit. Over many trades, the competition reduces the HFT traders profit, while still speeding up the rate that bikes are bought and sold.
Maybe I fail at reading, but how do you get a negative expected value. If I guess the answer to a question I have a.25 chance of scoring 1 point and a.75 chance of scoring -.25 points. Add it up and I get an expected outcome of 0.25x1 +0.75x(-.25)= 0.0625 points per question.
If memory serves, back in the day Radio Shack used to sell a $20 "Video Image Stabilizer" that was marketed as a way to clean up "home videos", but was understood by everyone to be a quick easy macrovision filter.
In high school a very smart student can get honours marks with minimal effort. In high school an average student can get honours marks by working very hard.
In engineering school a very smart student needs to also work very hard just to get by. If you are diligent about doing all the problem assignments, hand in all the labs, study efficiently (in a small group really worked for me), be very strategic about obtaining all possible marks, you can do reasonably well. In engineering school an average student can't get by on hard work, because the workload is too high, and will likely fail.
A missionary, by definition, is someone trying to sell you their religion. Not only that, but he wants you to give up your religion. This is based on his unshakeable belief that his religion is the correct one, and that all other religions are therefore wrong. Most missionary efforts also include some sort of charitable works, such as building schools or digging wells or whatever, but the proselytizing is always part of it.
No missionary ever has considered that maybe, just maybe, his religion is not the "true" one, and that by converting people of other religions to his, he is maybe, just maybe, taking them away from the "true" faith, and thereby doing harm to their immortal souls.
Heiro's Journey, (and the sequel) Unforsaken Hiero by Stirling E. Lanier. Post apocalypse North America, Hiero is a telepathic assassin priest, who is sent on a vital and dangerous quest. He rides his trusty war-moose Klootz. Evil mutant rat men, mad sorcerer scientists, and armies of bears and beavers. The stories and setting are a lot of fun and the author's enthusiasm is contagious.
Gerrymander? I think I know what that word means. Redraw electoral district boundaries to gain unfair political advantage. I'm truly having trouble understanding how that word applies in this context.
Most Gas_Station_Coffee around here still sits in little round glass jugs on hotplates for hours, and tastes like it came from Satan's bladder. The stuff in the the thermos carafes is somewhat better.
I am also German and I am joking (mostly). The comment about German's loving rules and regulations is a stereotype, but even Germans will make jokes about it, because it applies to so many of them. A phrase you have no doubt heard "Das geht einfach nicht". Which roughly translates to "That is simply not done" with respect to any sort of non-conforming behaviour. They have bureaucrats who will tell you, for example, if the name you have chosen for your child is acceptable. If it isn't you will have to pick again. No "Moon Unit" or "Lemongello" in Germany. The thing with not liking normal child behaviour - they have a word for it Kinderunfreundlich. It is actually a cause of some soul searching, my cousins who still live there talk about it.
"I believe rules are rules and you break them, you should be punished, not rewarded." - Congratulations, you have met the requirements for German citizenship.
Her being punished for an "unauthorised" science experiment will tend to discourage curiosity and scientific inquiry in other children. This is bad for America. By rewarding her we encourage curiosity and scientific inquiry, which is good for America.
We could even get away from the mindless "zero tolerance" crap and maybe send a nuanced message. Send her to Space Camp, but have her write a paper on the risks of experimenting with homemade explosives and what safety measures she should have taken, but didn't and how it could be done more safely next time.
Back when, at university we all had timeshare accounts on an Amdahl 470V/8. Now if you needed more account time (to play SPACWR probably) you could beg some from the TA's, but the best way was to get another users password, and use their account and their computer $ to play. The came the Valentines day dance. There was a guest list circulating with everyone's name plus the name of their date (so we could make fancy place cards or something). We scammed a copy of the list and headed for the terminal room. We already knew the login ID's because they were based on the person's first initial and last name. We ran the list of Id's against the list of girlfriends names from the dance. Bingo! About 40% of the guys had their girlfriends name as a password. With 100+ cracked accounts, we had unlimited gameplay for the rest of the year.
Having money in offshore accounts isn't illegal in Canada. You do have to declare the existence of any offshore assets greater than $100.000? (I think) and you have to declare any earnings on that money as income. Of course if you fail to do either of those 2 things you have committed a crime and Revenue Canada will slice and dice you. Not all of this money is being hidden from the taxman, I bet that a lot of it is assets being concealed from spouses in divorce cases, creditors in bankruptcy and so forth. This is going to reverberate through the rich and politically connected upper crust for years.
One of my school buddies had an excessively casual relationship with debts vis a vis debt repayments and ended up with his wages garnisheed. I am almost certain that the money was taken off before his employer wrote his paycheck.
Isn't all salt originally sea salt? Some of it is collected by evaporating sea water, some of it is mined from underground deposits left behind by ancient oceans.
What you say is true for most people. Some of us apparently didn't get the memo. At our last project meeting, (a gathering of mostly engineers) I counted six of the ten people there wearing the Timex atlantis (me included). This is about the cheapest watch Timex makes. It is not particularly blingy or status worthy. It does however tell time, has a stopwatch and an up down timer. It is also far more accurate than any mechanical timepiece, including any Rolex, no matter what the price.
Or not. Most of our Universities are publicly funded. Engineering and Sciences (and maybe other schools? not sure) have enrollment limits, in other words only the top X applicants get in.This is as opposed to when I attended (very long ago), where they had a standard and any one who made the standard was admitted. For example to get into 1st year Science I needed to get a 65% in all my 12th grade science courses and a 75% in math (not too hard). But now, since universities only take the top X% the bar for 1st year science is near a 90% average in science and math.
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If transport trucks had to pay for their true share of the cost of road maintenance (based on your weight^4 calculation) you would see a massive shift of freight off the roads and onto rail. Trucks have been getting a free ride for far too long.
"sheer force of capital" - nice, I will have to steal that and use it sometime.
1. the guy selling the bike got his money 59 seconds sooner, is this not a benefit? 2. Anybody who wants can buy the premium service. That means there may be multiple people competing for the $100 spread between the buyer and seller. In your scenario, they have all posted adds selling a bike for $599, but only one can buy the bike for $500, and the rest have to buy the next highest priced bike if someone accepts their ad. Some of them may not make any money or may lose money on the transaction. Therefore, in order to prevent this, the next time they will offer a bit more than $500 to the seller, to make it more likely that their buy offer is accepted.The trade still happens more quickly, the seller gets more money, and the HFT guy gets a smaller profit. Over many trades, the competition reduces the HFT traders profit, while still speeding up the rate that bikes are bought and sold.
Maybe I fail at reading, but how do you get a negative expected value. If I guess the answer to a question I have a .25 chance of scoring 1 point and a .75 chance of scoring -.25 points. Add it up and I get an expected outcome of 0.25x1 +0.75x(-.25)= 0.0625 points per question.
A fed bear is a dead bear!
If memory serves, back in the day Radio Shack used to sell a $20 "Video Image Stabilizer" that was marketed as a way to clean up "home videos", but was understood by everyone to be a quick easy macrovision filter.
In high school a very smart student can get honours marks with minimal effort. In high school an average student can get honours marks by working very hard.
In engineering school a very smart student needs to also work very hard just to get by. If you are diligent about doing all the problem assignments, hand in all the labs, study efficiently (in a small group really worked for me), be very strategic about obtaining all possible marks, you can do reasonably well. In engineering school an average student can't get by on hard work, because the workload is too high, and will likely fail.
A missionary, by definition, is someone trying to sell you their religion. Not only that, but he wants you to give up your religion. This is based on his unshakeable belief that his religion is the correct one, and that all other religions are therefore wrong. Most missionary efforts also include some sort of charitable works, such as building schools or digging wells or whatever, but the proselytizing is always part of it.
No missionary ever has considered that maybe, just maybe, his religion is not the "true" one, and that by converting people of other religions to his, he is maybe, just maybe, taking them away from the "true" faith, and thereby doing harm to their immortal souls.
Heiro's Journey, (and the sequel) Unforsaken Hiero by Stirling E. Lanier. Post apocalypse North America, Hiero is a telepathic assassin priest, who is sent on a vital and dangerous quest. He rides his trusty war-moose Klootz. Evil mutant rat men, mad sorcerer scientists, and armies of bears and beavers. The stories and setting are a lot of fun and the author's enthusiasm is contagious.
Klootz? (Obscure SF reference - worth tracking down the book if you've never read it.)
Gerrymander? I think I know what that word means. Redraw electoral district boundaries to gain unfair political advantage. I'm truly having trouble understanding how that word applies in this context.
Most Gas_Station_Coffee around here still sits in little round glass jugs on hotplates for hours, and tastes like it came from Satan's bladder. The stuff in the the thermos carafes is somewhat better.
Fill the water with oysters. Yes, Oysters. So the Scanners Live in Vain.
All you morons who are modding this troll, please turn in your geek cards. Then go read "The Nine Billion Names of God"
I am also German and I am joking (mostly). The comment about German's loving rules and regulations is a stereotype, but even Germans will make jokes about it, because it applies to so many of them. A phrase you have no doubt heard "Das geht einfach nicht". Which roughly translates to "That is simply not done" with respect to any sort of non-conforming behaviour. They have bureaucrats who will tell you, for example, if the name you have chosen for your child is acceptable. If it isn't you will have to pick again. No "Moon Unit" or "Lemongello" in Germany. The thing with not liking normal child behaviour - they have a word for it Kinderunfreundlich. It is actually a cause of some soul searching, my cousins who still live there talk about it.
"I believe rules are rules and you break them, you should be punished, not rewarded." - Congratulations, you have met the requirements for German citizenship.
Her being punished for an "unauthorised" science experiment will tend to discourage curiosity and scientific inquiry in other children. This is bad for America. By rewarding her we encourage curiosity and scientific inquiry, which is good for America.
We could even get away from the mindless "zero tolerance" crap and maybe send a nuanced message. Send her to Space Camp, but have her write a paper on the risks of experimenting with homemade explosives and what safety measures she should have taken, but didn't and how it could be done more safely next time.
Back when, at university we all had timeshare accounts on an Amdahl 470V/8. Now if you needed more account time (to play SPACWR probably) you could beg some from the TA's, but the best way was to get another users password, and use their account and their computer $ to play. The came the Valentines day dance. There was a guest list circulating with everyone's name plus the name of their date (so we could make fancy place cards or something). We scammed a copy of the list and headed for the terminal room. We already knew the login ID's because they were based on the person's first initial and last name. We ran the list of Id's against the list of girlfriends names from the dance. Bingo! About 40% of the guys had their girlfriends name as a password. With 100+ cracked accounts, we had unlimited gameplay for the rest of the year.
Defense contractor - "Which laser should we install?"
Navy "What do they do?"
Defense contractor - "The first one will light your enemies on fire and incinerate them. The second one one will give your enemies a nasty sunburn"
Navy - "The first one"
Actually, I'd be curious to know why they use IR.
Having money in offshore accounts isn't illegal in Canada. You do have to declare the existence of any offshore assets greater than $100.000? (I think) and you have to declare any earnings on that money as income. Of course if you fail to do either of those 2 things you have committed a crime and Revenue Canada will slice and dice you. Not all of this money is being hidden from the taxman, I bet that a lot of it is assets being concealed from spouses in divorce cases, creditors in bankruptcy and so forth. This is going to reverberate through the rich and politically connected upper crust for years.
You can pee into a glass mug and get Coors Light.
One of my school buddies had an excessively casual relationship with debts vis a vis debt repayments and ended up with his wages garnisheed. I am almost certain that the money was taken off before his employer wrote his paycheck.
Isn't all salt originally sea salt? Some of it is collected by evaporating sea water, some of it is mined from underground deposits left behind by ancient oceans.
What you say is true for most people. Some of us apparently didn't get the memo. At our last project meeting, (a gathering of mostly engineers) I counted six of the ten people there wearing the Timex atlantis (me included). This is about the cheapest watch Timex makes. It is not particularly blingy or status worthy. It does however tell time, has a stopwatch and an up down timer. It is also far more accurate than any mechanical timepiece, including any Rolex, no matter what the price.
Or not. Most of our Universities are publicly funded. Engineering and Sciences (and maybe other schools? not sure) have enrollment limits, in other words only the top X applicants get in.This is as opposed to when I attended (very long ago), where they had a standard and any one who made the standard was admitted. For example to get into 1st year Science I needed to get a 65% in all my 12th grade science courses and a 75% in math (not too hard). But now, since universities only take the top X% the bar for 1st year science is near a 90% average in science and math.