I don't know why you would say this, ring species look like a perfect example of micro evolution to me. No novel features, just minor variations in kind.
Macro evolution is novel features such as a changing from a bellows lung into a flow-thru lung or developing placental birth instead of egg-laying. Lesser changes can still be novel, just citing exemplars.
Micro v Macro is a distinction usually made by creationists.
It's even more fun when the CEO stops by, in person, to see how long it is going to take to get things working again. Though not might fault either time I've been there actually fixing the problem, it certainly is attention getting. Neither CEO was being a jerk, he just really needed to know what was going on without any b/s filters by intermediate management. Try imaging that visit if you had just been running an automated script to apply the patch.
So yeah, if it is important, you need to be there, and if drive time is a potential issue, you need to physically be there, not just monitoring the change from home.
I have no doubt that there are IT positions where the people responsible for hiring are biased in terms of gender or race. You know its true because they are people and some people suck.
From my observations, It is more likely that they are biased against Chinese or Indian developers than they are against blacks or women though. However, this is not general racial bias as much as it is language / culture bias in that they find them difficult to understand or work with.
I am more than ready to just let life go on without the constant cry or "racist" or "sexist" coming from the nattering nabobs of negativism.
There are evolutionary limits on how much bacteria (or other disease agents) can change. By the time you knock out the "low-hanging fruit" for possible resistance mechanisms, it is entirely possible that humans win in the war long-term. Assuming of course we don't lose the war in the short-term.
Actually, the real problem is not treating sick livestock. It is using antibiotic simply to make them fatten more quickly and this practice is very widespread.
First signing statement was by James Monroe. However, the blame for the torrent of signing statements really should fall upon Reagan as he started the frequent usage trend. I think Clinton had the most and Bush-43 was close behind.
Congress uses the non-funding approach more than most people realize. The most famous may be the border fence, authorized, but not funded. Things are also chronically underfunded as a way to limit programs.
Use this simple test for 99% of the who/whom selection cases. Rephrase the sentence use Thee or Thou. If Thou is correct, use Who, When Thee is indicated, use whom -- The article title is the 1% case when you actually have to understand the grammar enough to distinguish subject vs. object usage.
The rules for selecting Thee vs. Thou are the same, Thou=subject, Thee=object.
For those of you not raised on Thee & Thou, can use the more modern Him and He. He=Who, Him=whom.
Seems like a bad design simply because many people won't maintain properly.
If this was part a new car design I would add an external water tank for this to allow annual maintenance and include a sensor for low water in the tank.
This is one of the differences between engineering and inventing.
Don't forget lobster eyes, very cool design - lots of square mirror boxes. They are even planning an x-ray analog of them at Nasa And the lowly scallop has a very nice set up to about 100 reflectors 1 mm in size.
1. I think you are either ignorant or deceitful. In many cases, charter systems cannot by law or/and charter reject applicants based on selection criteria - they must accept all comers. If they have more applicants than slots, they must use a random lottery to select. -- This negates 1 point 4 also 2. This is usually true -- however I do not care, if a teacher is certified if the outcomes are good. Frankly, neither should you or anyone else. Certification is useless in and of itself. If the local principal and the families are happy with teachers, why should I care about a piece of paper -- shouldn't the closest and most involved be in a better position to judge a teacher than some certification process? 3. You think having to comply with insane testing is a good thing, clearly not? If nothing else, this should speak in favor of charter schools. I agree that we waste too much of the school year with performance testing, guess what, this is the result of trying to manage schools by a huge disconnected bureaucracy -- with control at the most local level, and school selection left to parents, there would not be the incentive to waste 2 or 4 weeks of the year on testing or the cheating. 5 It is true that they may or may not be better. But it is usually easier to shut down a dysfunctional charter school than a conventional public school. Oh, but the way, conventional public schools CHEAT on the tests too.
Socio-economic status is clearly a major factor, if not the major factor -- but it is very hard to decouple from the family influence.and the neighorhoods they live in. Personally, I am pretty convinced the family and neighborhood is the driving factor and the economic factors trend strongly with this.
The real question is why when some poor families are so thrilled to have their kids in some charter schools, escaping the horrid conventional public schools (esp. in those poor areas) -- why why why would I would want to close their charter and through they back in the cesspool. I
I think you need to get a grip on reality.
Personally I don't really much like charter schools, I would like to shut down every last government school in the country and support the education of the child directly -- i.e., the money follows the child. Just like they use in the Netherlands, as written into their constitution in 1917 so they have some experience with how well it works for them.
Here is is straight from the evil conservatives is an article that rebuts your claim about all virtually all the studies show how worthless charter schools are. But the way, it actually references the large-scale studies so you can check the claims.
Charter schools are clearly not always a good choice, they can yield bad results. But at least some of these lose their charter and are shut down. Very rare with conventional public schools.
Really? I have never seen any data to support your claim. The Kruger Dunning is about cognitive bias, not media reporting being flat-out lies. Everything I have ever seen suggests current US inflation adjusted per student spending is about 200% of 1969 levels.
This article shows inflation both adjusted and non adjusted back to the 30s and the trend is up up up though there are some minor dips along the way. And the numbers here are consistent with government sources, etc.
Frankly, I think you are as wrong as possible in this case -- In fact, you are non-sensical. Had property taxes been that high in the 60's there would have been plenty of well-known confirming information.
And charter schools ARE public schools. Yes, some are clearly even worse than the regular gov. schools, in particular some of the money sucking for-profit version. Some charter schools are also clearly better.
Actually, I like being able to order stuff online, maybe watch a funny vid from YouTube, org check the news online, or run a search, etc.. -- I don't have an inherent problem with commercial activity on the net -- Not that there isn't a lot of total garbage from commercial sources.
I would really like to see the proposed action against spammers. Unfortunately I don't know how to achieve this reliably and quickly (so as to discourage spammers and other evils) using the current trust every packet by default design internet.
I remember explaining email to my dad many years ago. Once he understand it, his first question? Who pays for it. This is in fact part of the problem on the Internet (spammers push the cost onto everyone else) and will continue to do so as long as the current design is used. Look up the history of mail delivery in England and you will see that changing from receiver pays to sender pays fixed major problems with the mail system.
Switching costs to a better design are unfortunately very high as well. So fixing real problems is slow indeed, even when well-designed and mostly up-ward compatible
Surprisingly, Phoenix University is accredited, although it has been placed on notice -- i.e., subject to losing its accreditation as documented on their website
Of course, this indicates that accreditation is not exactly a true Gold Standard.
NDA only covers the interview questions. It is very short and plain English, no-one has ever complained, much less balked. Only purpose is to reduce chance of the test going public.
Test does not block internet access. I.e,. allow candidate looking up syntax, etc. Such things are part of normal dev. process.
Personally, I have been planning on changing our hiring process to start with this testing process for hiring before they waste our time being interviewed. BTW, if you want to hire, you have to prepare this test suite before you can start the hiring process so H/R can administer the test.
Have them sign non-disclosure related to interview testing.
Part 0 - Traditional Q&A. Multi choice and short answer. Maybe 15 minutes total.
Drop them in front of test V/M with everything ready to go with video recording active. Give them a method to ask questions during the testing.
Parts 1 & 2 are language specific.
Part 1 - 2 quickie program descriptions, 2 programs that should take a 1 should take a few minutes to write, the other slightly more complex.
Part 2 - 2 Broken programs with known bugs described, a few minutes each to fix, 1 of these is throwing an exception and all you have is the printed source code (with line numbers) and a exception detail -- you don't actually fix this one, you just state the problem and how to fix
Part 3 - 2 short problem bit based on SQL.
Part 4 -- Any thing else domain specific if needed.
You do on all 3/4 parts. If you don't come out within a reasonable time, you can just let them know they are not being hired. Put them in a waiting area while test results are reviewed. If they do well, on to the interview.
Now -- should I put existing hires back through this test?
Well, if free is the problem, you can always cut a big check and send it me when you adopt such software. Of course I will channel all such funds received into furthering the benefit of mankind (or at least 1 man). I will even gladly give you a receipt for your "purchase"
While buoyancy works exactly as you state (and I am pretty sure climate scientists understand this too). I do recall from past reading is that scientists are concerned that breakup of the marine sheets leads to accelerated melting of the land sheets.
With intact marine sheets, the land sheets do not flow easily into the ocean (not enough force to displace the marine ice). But if the marine ice is gone, the land ice can flow more freely into the water. In the large, Ice is quite plastic and will flow downhill due to gravity at significant rate.
And given the history of firearms progress, I am sure the smart guys working on the constitution pretty much expected the technology to continue improving. The militia (basically all able bodied adult men) did not have a modern handgun, but they did have cannons. I think it is fair consider that founding fathers expected the militia to be well armed with powerful weapons.
Based on statistics from police shootings, an armed women is more likely to shoot than a man. Generally this is assumed to be the knowledge that she is less likely to dominate the perp physically and though perhaps emotional, social, etc. differences, may be involved -- hard to tell since these are quite subjective, i.e., why did you shoot or not the perp.
I'm sure all would be happier if this were expressed in more familiar units
555.55 miles per sec 894.08 kilometers per sec 2300 times the muzzle velocity of a S&W 40 cal bullet 2600 times the speed of sound 2.1 E4 times the speed of a fastball 8.7 e4 times the speed of Usain Bolt 2 e13 times the speed of grass growing 5.376 E9 furlongs per for fortnight
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I don't know why you would say this, ring species look like a perfect example of micro evolution to me. No novel features, just minor variations in kind.
Macro evolution is novel features such as a changing from a bellows lung into a flow-thru lung or developing placental birth instead of egg-laying. Lesser changes can still be novel, just citing exemplars.
Micro v Macro is a distinction usually made by creationists.
It's even more fun when the CEO stops by, in person, to see how long it is going to take to get things working again. Though not might fault either time I've been there actually fixing the problem, it certainly is attention getting. Neither CEO was being a jerk, he just really needed to know what was going on without any b/s filters by intermediate management. Try imaging that visit if you had just been running an automated script to apply the patch.
So yeah, if it is important, you need to be there, and if drive time is a potential issue, you need to physically be there, not just monitoring the change from home.
I have no doubt that there are IT positions where the people responsible for hiring are biased in terms of gender or race. You know its true because they are people and some people suck.
From my observations, It is more likely that they are biased against Chinese or Indian developers than they are against blacks or women though. However, this is not general racial bias as much as it is language / culture bias in that they find them difficult to understand or work with.
I am more than ready to just let life go on without the constant cry or "racist" or "sexist" coming from the nattering nabobs of negativism.
There are evolutionary limits on how much bacteria (or other disease agents) can change. By the time you knock out the "low-hanging fruit" for possible resistance mechanisms, it is entirely possible that humans win in the war long-term. Assuming of course we don't lose the war in the short-term.
Actually, the real problem is not treating sick livestock. It is using antibiotic simply to make them fatten more quickly and this practice is very widespread.
Yeah, but not since Noah. He was the last true 900 club member.
First signing statement was by James Monroe. However, the blame for the torrent of signing statements really should fall upon Reagan as he started the frequent usage trend. I think Clinton had the most and Bush-43 was close behind.
Congress uses the non-funding approach more than most people realize. The most famous may be the border fence, authorized, but not funded. Things are also chronically underfunded as a way to limit programs.
Use this simple test for 99% of the who/whom selection cases. Rephrase the sentence use Thee or Thou. If Thou is correct, use Who, When Thee is indicated, use whom -- The article title is the 1% case when you actually have to understand the grammar enough to distinguish subject vs. object usage.
The rules for selecting Thee vs. Thou are the same, Thou=subject, Thee=object.
For those of you not raised on Thee & Thou, can use the more modern Him and He. He=Who, Him=whom.
Seems like a bad design simply because many people won't maintain properly.
If this was part a new car design I would add an external water tank for this to allow annual maintenance and include a sensor for low water in the tank.
This is one of the differences between engineering and inventing.
Don't forget lobster eyes, very cool design - lots of square mirror boxes. They are even planning an x-ray analog of them at Nasa
And the lowly scallop has a very nice set up to about 100 reflectors 1 mm in size.
Over the past few years their official quarterly profit margin in in the range of 6.33% to 12.77%.
Companies do not have have incentive to misrepresent the profit margin on the low side because their stock prices would tank.
Granted, this is overall profitability, not just internet services -- but this is not "insanely high" in my mind.
1. I think you are either ignorant or deceitful. In many cases, charter systems cannot by law or/and charter reject applicants based on selection criteria - they must accept all comers. If they have more applicants than slots, they must use a random lottery to select. -- This negates 1 point 4 also
2. This is usually true -- however I do not care, if a teacher is certified if the outcomes are good. Frankly, neither should you or anyone else. Certification is useless in and of itself. If the local principal and the families are happy with teachers, why should I care about a piece of paper -- shouldn't the closest and most involved be in a better position to judge a teacher than some certification process?
3. You think having to comply with insane testing is a good thing, clearly not? If nothing else, this should speak in favor of charter schools. I agree that we waste too much of the school year with performance testing, guess what, this is the result of trying to manage schools by a huge disconnected bureaucracy -- with control at the most local level, and school selection left to parents, there would not be the incentive to waste 2 or 4 weeks of the year on testing or the cheating.
5 It is true that they may or may not be better. But it is usually easier to shut down a dysfunctional charter school than a conventional public school. Oh, but the way, conventional public schools CHEAT on the tests too.
Socio-economic status is clearly a major factor, if not the major factor -- but it is very hard to decouple from the family influence.and the neighorhoods they live in. Personally, I am pretty convinced the family and neighborhood is the driving factor and the economic factors trend strongly with this.
The real question is why when some poor families are so thrilled to have their kids in some charter schools, escaping the horrid conventional public schools (esp. in those poor areas) -- why why why would I would want to close their charter and through they back in the cesspool. I
I think you need to get a grip on reality.
Personally I don't really much like charter schools, I would like to shut down every last government school in the country and support the education of the child directly -- i.e., the money follows the child. Just like they use in the Netherlands, as written into their constitution in 1917 so they have some experience with how well it works for them.
Here is is straight from the evil conservatives is an article that rebuts your claim about all virtually all the studies show how worthless charter schools are. But the way, it actually references the large-scale studies so you can check the claims.
Charter schools are clearly not always a good choice, they can yield bad results. But at least some of these lose their charter and are shut down. Very rare with conventional public schools.
Really? I have never seen any data to support your claim. The Kruger Dunning is about cognitive bias, not media reporting being flat-out lies.
Everything I have ever seen suggests current US inflation adjusted per student spending is about 200% of 1969 levels.
This article shows inflation both adjusted and non adjusted back to the 30s and the trend is up up up though there are some minor dips along the way. And the numbers here are consistent with government sources, etc.
Frankly, I think you are as wrong as possible in this case -- In fact, you are non-sensical. Had property taxes been that high in the 60's there would have been plenty of well-known confirming information.
And charter schools ARE public schools. Yes, some are clearly even worse than the regular gov. schools, in particular some of the money sucking for-profit version. Some charter schools are also clearly better.
Thanks for playing anyway.
Actually, I like being able to order stuff online, maybe watch a funny vid from YouTube, org check the news online, or run a search, etc.. -- I don't have an inherent problem with commercial activity on the net -- Not that there isn't a lot of total garbage from commercial sources.
I would really like to see the proposed action against spammers. Unfortunately I don't know how to achieve this reliably and quickly (so as to discourage spammers and other evils) using the current trust every packet by default design internet.
I remember explaining email to my dad many years ago. Once he understand it, his first question? Who pays for it. This is in fact part of the problem on the Internet (spammers push the cost onto everyone else) and will continue to do so as long as the current design is used. Look up the history of mail delivery in England and you will see that changing from receiver pays to sender pays fixed major problems with the mail system.
Switching costs to a better design are unfortunately very high as well. So fixing real problems is slow indeed, even when well-designed and mostly up-ward compatible
Surprisingly, Phoenix University is accredited, although it has been placed on notice -- i.e., subject to losing its accreditation as documented on their website
Of course, this indicates that accreditation is not exactly a true Gold Standard.
NDA only covers the interview questions. It is very short and plain English, no-one has ever complained, much less balked. Only purpose is to reduce chance of the test going public.
Test does not block internet access. I.e,. allow candidate looking up syntax, etc. Such things are part of normal dev. process.
Personally, I have been planning on changing our hiring process to start with this testing process for hiring before they waste our time being interviewed. BTW, if you want to hire, you have to prepare this test suite before you can start the hiring process so H/R can administer the test.
Have them sign non-disclosure related to interview testing.
Part 0 - Traditional Q&A. Multi choice and short answer. Maybe 15 minutes total.
Drop them in front of test V/M with everything ready to go with video recording active.
Give them a method to ask questions during the testing.
Parts 1 & 2 are language specific.
Part 1 - 2 quickie program descriptions, 2 programs that should take a 1 should take a few minutes to write, the other slightly more complex.
Part 2 - 2 Broken programs with known bugs described, a few minutes each to fix, 1 of these is throwing an exception and all you have is the printed source code (with line numbers) and a exception detail -- you don't actually fix this one, you just state the problem and how to fix
Part 3 - 2 short problem bit based on SQL.
Part 4 -- Any thing else domain specific if needed.
You do on all 3/4 parts. If you don't come out within a reasonable time, you can just let them know they are not being hired. Put them in a waiting area while test results are reviewed. If they do well, on to the interview.
Now -- should I put existing hires back through this test?
Well, if free is the problem, you can always cut a big check and send it me when you adopt such software. Of course I will channel all such funds received into furthering the benefit of mankind (or at least 1 man). I will even gladly give you a receipt for your "purchase"
While buoyancy works exactly as you state (and I am pretty sure climate scientists understand this too). I do recall from past reading is that scientists are concerned that breakup of the marine sheets leads to accelerated melting of the land sheets.
With intact marine sheets, the land sheets do not flow easily into the ocean (not enough force to displace the marine ice). But if the marine ice is gone, the land ice can flow more freely into the water. In the large, Ice is quite plastic and will flow downhill due to gravity at significant rate.
And given the history of firearms progress, I am sure the smart guys working on the constitution pretty much expected the technology to continue improving. The militia (basically all able bodied adult men) did not have a modern handgun, but they did have cannons. I think it is fair consider that founding fathers expected the militia to be well armed with powerful weapons.
Based on statistics from police shootings, an armed women is more likely to shoot than a man. Generally this is assumed to be the knowledge that she is less likely to dominate the perp physically and though perhaps emotional, social, etc. differences, may be involved -- hard to tell since these are quite subjective, i.e., why did you shoot or not the perp.
Maybe Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, and Xenon
OK, suck in to much of these and you can deprive yourself of oxygen.
Cool them to liquid temperature and drink them, not a good idea either.
But chemically speaking, I think these are pretty harmless.
I'm sure all would be happier if this were expressed in more familiar units
555.55 miles per sec
894.08 kilometers per sec
2300 times the muzzle velocity of a S&W 40 cal bullet
2600 times the speed of sound
2.1 E4 times the speed of a fastball
8.7 e4 times the speed of Usain Bolt
2 e13 times the speed of grass growing
5.376 E9 furlongs per for fortnight