(1) I bet it took longer than 15 seconds (or your brakes weren't maintained) and (2) what does that prove? A runaway engine can still be stopped easily by standing on the brake, end of story.
The approach was a pretty sound one; take census counts before and afterwards, calculate the expected joiners (through aging and immigration) and leavers (through death, aging, and emigration), and then compare with the second count. We have enough knowledge to do this pretty accurately for a large population, so the death estimates should be pretty tight.
I think it would be fairer to say systematically misunderstood. As soon as any project becomes even moderately complex, understanding causes of loss can become difficult.
I suppose the problem is, who the hell wants to take on responsibility for implementing that? Plus if you did, it presents a massive attack surface for anyone that comes up with an exploit...
Please do not joke about this. The first time I sat and watched one of the presentations my co-workers were like little children; not one word of what was actually said was taken in.
I would suggest that your problem is not the videos, or the dupes, or anything else. It is the drive from on high to achieve page views and ad impressions, and the crap that gets posted because of that. The only thing that keeps this site going is its history; if you started it today it would die silently.
Why don't you and your team walk away from this piece of wreckage and start over with a new site. Ask Taco to come back as consulting editor. Post the stuff that isn't rehashed crap that you can find anywhere.
No data to hand, but I suspect not that much. Generally speaking, it was normal for horses to go unshod or to be shod by farm workers (the farm steading I grew up on, a typical Scottih 'ferm toun', had its own forge). Professional farriers would only shoe problem cases and quality horses. It's still the norm in many parts of the world to do your own shoing.
It's one of the classic lessons of business: to recognise when your market is about to disappear and to get on the ground floor of the next big thing. Vanishingly few companies do it succesfully, apart from Apple.
It's always amazed me that people are not more blatant about hiring sexpots. Impossible to actually prove discrimination, they are generally very effective (people don't say no to them), and as a bonus you get an office full of sexy people.
"Hi, is that the DMV? My name's Dahamma, and my car's just been stolen. Could you disable it for me? Thanks."
A couple of days prior, I slip a leaflet for my local repair service - first repair free - under your door. You call me up, give me the keys, and I load your car on a flatbed and away I go.
"Hi, is that the DMV? Dahamma here, I've just recovered my car...yeah, if you could re-enable it that would be great."
Your individual experience doesn't mean very much. It's like the ninety-year-old grandfather who smoked a pipe every day of his life and died falling off a horse. Only one in three smokers die of smoking-related diseases, so you'd expect there to be lots of healthy nonagenarian smokers running around. It doesn't mean it's good for you.
The real problem is that music is no longer a precious resource; it's sonic wallpaper. We can all have as much as we want all the time, in any place. Students sit through lectures with a headphone stuck in one ear. And when the supply of something becomes limitless, its value becomes zero. So why would you give a shit about the delivery mechanism?
Do you actually know that or are you just spouting off the top of your head? I would suspect the opposite. It doesn't seem unreasonable that once you have a conviction, you are a high risk for getting more. And this is crime we're talking about, not jaywalking.
Did you really manage to sleep through the previous forty years of development in intellectual property law? To answer your questions, the Berne Convention, and trademarks.
China has been the richest nation in the world for most of recorded history. Form of government does not guarantee certain economic conditions, although certain forms make it much more likely.
The story stinks. Vast quantites of child porn don't just "appear" on your computer. The guy was probably hoarding it, got busted, and decided to try and report it to wriggle out of it.
It just depends on what you interpret probability as meaning. Yes, you're right, the problem is deterministic, just unquantifed.
Another way of interpreting it: what would you pay as a fair bet to receive $100 if it hits?
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(1) I bet it took longer than 15 seconds (or your brakes weren't maintained) and (2) what does that prove? A runaway engine can still be stopped easily by standing on the brake, end of story.
I have to admit I've never seen it used.
From the days this was possible...
My favourite trivia question: when did the last Civil War pensioner die? (trick question. There's two still alive).
The approach was a pretty sound one; take census counts before and afterwards, calculate the expected joiners (through aging and immigration) and leavers (through death, aging, and emigration), and then compare with the second count. We have enough knowledge to do this pretty accurately for a large population, so the death estimates should be pretty tight.
I think it would be fairer to say systematically misunderstood. As soon as any project becomes even moderately complex, understanding causes of loss can become difficult.
Given that US presidents do not have the power to strike out laws, how exactly will Ron Paul achieve everything he promises?
I suppose the problem is, who the hell wants to take on responsibility for implementing that? Plus if you did, it presents a massive attack surface for anyone that comes up with an exploit...
Please do not joke about this. The first time I sat and watched one of the presentations my co-workers were like little children; not one word of what was actually said was taken in.
For IID failures, the binomial makes more sense, for which the 99th percentile is 18. 99.99 is 24.
Why don't you and your team walk away from this piece of wreckage and start over with a new site. Ask Taco to come back as consulting editor. Post the stuff that isn't rehashed crap that you can find anywhere.
And leave the videos to professionals, *please*.
No data to hand, but I suspect not that much. Generally speaking, it was normal for horses to go unshod or to be shod by farm workers (the farm steading I grew up on, a typical Scottih 'ferm toun', had its own forge). Professional farriers would only shoe problem cases and quality horses. It's still the norm in many parts of the world to do your own shoing.
It's one of the classic lessons of business: to recognise when your market is about to disappear and to get on the ground floor of the next big thing. Vanishingly few companies do it succesfully, apart from Apple.
It's always amazed me that people are not more blatant about hiring sexpots. Impossible to actually prove discrimination, they are generally very effective (people don't say no to them), and as a bonus you get an office full of sexy people.
A couple of days prior, I slip a leaflet for my local repair service - first repair free - under your door. You call me up, give me the keys, and I load your car on a flatbed and away I go.
"Hi, is that the DMV? Dahamma here, I've just recovered my car...yeah, if you could re-enable it that would be great."
Your individual experience doesn't mean very much. It's like the ninety-year-old grandfather who smoked a pipe every day of his life and died falling off a horse. Only one in three smokers die of smoking-related diseases, so you'd expect there to be lots of healthy nonagenarian smokers running around. It doesn't mean it's good for you.
Rubbish. Every speculator has to close out their position eventually. Ultimately, they net out.
The real problem is that music is no longer a precious resource; it's sonic wallpaper. We can all have as much as we want all the time, in any place. Students sit through lectures with a headphone stuck in one ear. And when the supply of something becomes limitless, its value becomes zero. So why would you give a shit about the delivery mechanism?
Do you actually know that or are you just spouting off the top of your head? I would suspect the opposite. It doesn't seem unreasonable that once you have a conviction, you are a high risk for getting more. And this is crime we're talking about, not jaywalking.
Did you really manage to sleep through the previous forty years of development in intellectual property law? To answer your questions, the Berne Convention, and trademarks.
China has been the richest nation in the world for most of recorded history. Form of government does not guarantee certain economic conditions, although certain forms make it much more likely.
Yes, but the point is, do you think the infrastructure could and would continue to deliver food, water, and shelter to the survivors?
The story stinks. Vast quantites of child porn don't just "appear" on your computer. The guy was probably hoarding it, got busted, and decided to try and report it to wriggle out of it.
Well, it took China fifty years to recover from Mao's economic depradations, so possibly not the best authority to be quoting.
It just depends on what you interpret probability as meaning. Yes, you're right, the problem is deterministic, just unquantifed. Another way of interpreting it: what would you pay as a fair bet to receive $100 if it hits?