And a much more insightful point than he probably realised when he made it. Shakespeare would never have seen himself as any kind of literary figurehead - he was a working playwright, in a competitive environment with an audience that didn't treat the theatre as somewhere to sit quietly with your date while you pretended you understood. Elizabethan audiences demanded blood, guts, and emotion from their theatre-going, and Shakespeare gave them it in spades.
u(w-1)*(1-1/2000000)+u(w+1000000-1)*1/2000000 versus u(w). Also your probability figures are off by an order of magnitude, at least for UK lotteries.
And while you are right to bring up a lottery player's utility function, it should be pretty obvious from looking at the expected utility of a lottery ticket that any lottery player's utility function is seriously messed up. Of course, we don't include the player's preference for the thrill of watching the numbers being drawn, which is an important part of the game for many players.
How many billing and complaints management systems for tens of millions of customers have you written, implemented, and managed? Sometimes the obvious is not at all obvious.
Run a small thought experiment here. Imagine for a second that Russia is not called Russia (or the USSR) and instead substitute another name, like, say, "North Korea" (I just made that up totally off the top of my head). It's still the USSR, we're just calling it North Korea. Ask your question again, substituting "North Korea" for Russia or the USSR every time it appears, and let's see if you still think the question is a good one.
I play the bagpipes. IN the UK, it's common enough that it doesn't cause issues, but when flying overseas, the looks from security when they see your bag's x-rays can be quite precious. Nothing like a series of pipes all tied together to make a security scanner a bit nervous.
I am not sure about this, but I thought the theory of MVUEs dates from the early fifties and Cramer-Rao and all that jazz. I wonder if the detail is strictly correct.
I do much the same - a pile of cards. Some are just to-do lists with context specific actions, so there are lists for home, phone, internet, etc. Then there is a list of projects, anything that can't be crossed off the list with a single action. Then there's a list for random stuff and nonsense that occurs to me throughout the day. I have a second one of these in my wallet so I always have somewhere to write down those random thoughts. Every now and then it all gets processed into the other lists. Add this to a diary and stuff very rarely gets missed.
Wrong. Your assumptions are wrong. Go and read the Wealth of Nations. This is incredibly basic economics. Trade is not a zero sum game and the rest of the world can catch up to American standards of living without any damage to the American economy.
Rare earths are pricey, but the quantities involved are miniscule. Unlike, say, oil, if the price of one of them doubled, the bottom line impact on your new iPhone (say) would be measured in cents (possibly not even that). So your old phone is not going to be a mealticket, I'm afraid.
And make the whole planet poorer. Genius. Here's a clue for you. America's manufacturing production is increasing, not decreasing, and it always has been. Yes, it has become a smaller share of the economy and employs fewer people, but this idea that it is smaller than it used to be is wrong.
Using dir/p kinda takes out of the class of ignorant user. And I would say Ubuntu is already easier to use for a computer noob (as opposed to a Linux noob who has a vague idea how to get stuff done in Windows).
And when you told him that that was unfortunate and you'd have to look into alternative, penguin-based solutions, did he suddenly find himself able to accommodate your requests?
Yes, but none of those good reasons would suggest that you used Truecrypt; not least because the presumption would be you have a hidden partition and if you claim you don't, you're rather asking for a dose of rubber hose cryptanalysis.
Two problems. One, the fact you are using Truecrypt makes it a reasonable inference that you have a second hidden partition. Why else would you use it? Second, Truecrypt is not that brilliant - there are plenty attacks against it that can show, for example, that a hidden partition exists, or whatever.
The law is not particularly clear in this case. This isn't a contempt of court issue - he was jailed under the RIP Act, for what is a criminal offence in its own right. Now you can't be tried again for the same offence, obviously. However, the question is, when he gets out and they ask him for the key again, does his subsequent refusal count as a new offence or not? The point as yet to be argued and would probably end up in front of the Supreme Court.
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I wouldn't call it fun, but at least it stops them whining for a while.
Alternatively, maybe you should wait and see if they got it right before wading in there and making a mess of it ;)
And a much more insightful point than he probably realised when he made it. Shakespeare would never have seen himself as any kind of literary figurehead - he was a working playwright, in a competitive environment with an audience that didn't treat the theatre as somewhere to sit quietly with your date while you pretended you understood. Elizabethan audiences demanded blood, guts, and emotion from their theatre-going, and Shakespeare gave them it in spades.
u(w-1)*(1-1/2000000)+u(w+1000000-1)*1/2000000 versus u(w). Also your probability figures are off by an order of magnitude, at least for UK lotteries.
And while you are right to bring up a lottery player's utility function, it should be pretty obvious from looking at the expected utility of a lottery ticket that any lottery player's utility function is seriously messed up. Of course, we don't include the player's preference for the thrill of watching the numbers being drawn, which is an important part of the game for many players.
Dude, what exactly is it that you do or say in front of your computer that you think *anybody* would care about? No, fappage does not count.
How many billing and complaints management systems for tens of millions of customers have you written, implemented, and managed? Sometimes the obvious is not at all obvious.
Run a small thought experiment here. Imagine for a second that Russia is not called Russia (or the USSR) and instead substitute another name, like, say, "North Korea" (I just made that up totally off the top of my head). It's still the USSR, we're just calling it North Korea. Ask your question again, substituting "North Korea" for Russia or the USSR every time it appears, and let's see if you still think the question is a good one.
Pfft. Some people pay hundreds of dollars to be abused in such a fashion.
And how do you propose to stop other people forming their own exchanges with their own rules, off-shore if need be?
I play the bagpipes. IN the UK, it's common enough that it doesn't cause issues, but when flying overseas, the looks from security when they see your bag's x-rays can be quite precious. Nothing like a series of pipes all tied together to make a security scanner a bit nervous.
And how do you propose to bring down an airplane with drugs? Try and drop E in the pilot's coffee and hope that they fall in love with the ground?
I am not sure about this, but I thought the theory of MVUEs dates from the early fifties and Cramer-Rao and all that jazz. I wonder if the detail is strictly correct.
I do much the same - a pile of cards. Some are just to-do lists with context specific actions, so there are lists for home, phone, internet, etc. Then there is a list of projects, anything that can't be crossed off the list with a single action. Then there's a list for random stuff and nonsense that occurs to me throughout the day. I have a second one of these in my wallet so I always have somewhere to write down those random thoughts. Every now and then it all gets processed into the other lists. Add this to a diary and stuff very rarely gets missed.
Asymptotic arguments are all very well, but I think we're somewhat short of infinitely fast runners.
Wrong. Your assumptions are wrong. Go and read the Wealth of Nations. This is incredibly basic economics. Trade is not a zero sum game and the rest of the world can catch up to American standards of living without any damage to the American economy.
alling down. See this Economist article where we learn all sorts of interesting things that most people in this discussion clearly don't understand.
Because ripping apart dead electronics for a tenth of a gram of whichever rare earth is not economic.
Rare earths are pricey, but the quantities involved are miniscule. Unlike, say, oil, if the price of one of them doubled, the bottom line impact on your new iPhone (say) would be measured in cents (possibly not even that). So your old phone is not going to be a mealticket, I'm afraid.
And make the whole planet poorer. Genius. Here's a clue for you. America's manufacturing production is increasing, not decreasing, and it always has been. Yes, it has become a smaller share of the economy and employs fewer people, but this idea that it is smaller than it used to be is wrong.
Using dir /p kinda takes out of the class of ignorant user. And I would say Ubuntu is already easier to use for a computer noob (as opposed to a Linux noob who has a vague idea how to get stuff done in Windows).
And when you told him that that was unfortunate and you'd have to look into alternative, penguin-based solutions, did he suddenly find himself able to accommodate your requests?
Yes, but none of those good reasons would suggest that you used Truecrypt; not least because the presumption would be you have a hidden partition and if you claim you don't, you're rather asking for a dose of rubber hose cryptanalysis.
Oh dearie me. No, Canada is independent; it just shares a head of state with the UK.
Two problems. One, the fact you are using Truecrypt makes it a reasonable inference that you have a second hidden partition. Why else would you use it? Second, Truecrypt is not that brilliant - there are plenty attacks against it that can show, for example, that a hidden partition exists, or whatever.
The law is not particularly clear in this case. This isn't a contempt of court issue - he was jailed under the RIP Act, for what is a criminal offence in its own right. Now you can't be tried again for the same offence, obviously. However, the question is, when he gets out and they ask him for the key again, does his subsequent refusal count as a new offence or not? The point as yet to be argued and would probably end up in front of the Supreme Court.