A population crash is a totally unwarranted prediction. It's far more likely that economic growth in the third world will cause population growth to level off long before the planet's agricultural capacity comes close to being exhausted. We already know we can feed the planet several times over on today's technology if we could just sort out the politics.
Total bullshit. The world is capable of feeding itself with current technology several times over if only we killed off restrictive first world trade practices. There is huge amounts of arable land across the world which is not getting used properly. Furthermore, having large families is a rational reaction to the issues faced in Third World societies, not an act of self-destruction. When their societies become richer, they will do the exact same thing we did - drop their birth rate down to one or two. If you're feeling bored some day, graph GDP against birth rate for some different economies, and tell me what you see.
Not even that. You take a bunch of dentists, and give them a list of toothpastes, and ask them to tick the ones they think are acceptable. Since toothpaste is toothpaste, for the most part, 90% for your own brand would be pretty pathetic.
Because Sweden has the most advanced attitude (in terms of police, etc) towards rape in the Western world. Between that and excellent levels of sex education, the difference between actual and reported levels of rape in Sweden is much smaller than in the rest of the world.
It's "Student's t-test", not "a student's t-test". Student was a pseudonym of William Sealy Gosset, a statistician whose employer banned him from writing scientific papers.
Because when/. was on form, it was way, way ahead of the curve. It annoys those of us who remember what that was like since we would like it back. Please.
Perhaps you should try looking up information before sounding off with a thinly veiled rant. The Red Cross is the same thing as the Red Crescent. Each country has its own organisation and structure, and there are two separate umbrella organisations that co-ordinate international effort as required. There are three main symbols for the Red Cross - the cross itself, the crescent moon of Islam, and a red lozenge symbol used by the Israelis. There are also a couple of defunct ones as well. As for where your money goes, that's a lazy argument to justify inaction. It is not that hard to find a responsible charity that will use money effectively.
Of course, a really well informed person would know enough economics to campaign for the abolition of Western farm subsidies and the freeing of international trade so that these countries could actually become rich enough to cope with natural disaster without having to put out the begging bowl.
A bigger problem is that the nature of modern journalism is such that nowadays getting a juicy scoop doesn't do much for your sales. The blogosphere explodes whenever something interesting happens and the original report ends up being drowned, whereas twenty years ago if a newspaper broke a story, it led the agenda for 24 hours.
Yep. If you ask my granny about the 70s or 80s, she gets a pained expression before she realises which century you're talking about.
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You might think of the difference between, say, Python and C. Both are Turing complete languages, but they are ideal for different problem domains. Or as a professor of mine put it, "SPSS and SAS are, mostly, for solved problems. R is for unsolved problems."
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R doesn't permit assigning an assignment, so x-y-2 will bork. x-y -2 will assign a boolean.
He's not stupid at all. He's figured out that 60,000 subscribers paying a pound a day is worth infinitely more than five million subscribers paying nothing. He's figured out that web advertising is and will always pay pennies regardless of your audience, and that sooner or later if you want the kind of organisation that his is to survive someone has to put their balls on the table and try something new.
Well, not exactly. The thing is that a prediction about its future behaviour is information, and (in theory) anyone can reproduce that information, so when you try to make use of that information, by buying or short-selling that stock, you're not doing anything that everyone else isn't too.
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A population crash is a totally unwarranted prediction. It's far more likely that economic growth in the third world will cause population growth to level off long before the planet's agricultural capacity comes close to being exhausted. We already know we can feed the planet several times over on today's technology if we could just sort out the politics.
Total bullshit. The world is capable of feeding itself with current technology several times over if only we killed off restrictive first world trade practices. There is huge amounts of arable land across the world which is not getting used properly. Furthermore, having large families is a rational reaction to the issues faced in Third World societies, not an act of self-destruction. When their societies become richer, they will do the exact same thing we did - drop their birth rate down to one or two. If you're feeling bored some day, graph GDP against birth rate for some different economies, and tell me what you see.
I guess he did his bit for over-population.
Where?
Not even that. You take a bunch of dentists, and give them a list of toothpastes, and ask them to tick the ones they think are acceptable. Since toothpaste is toothpaste, for the most part, 90% for your own brand would be pretty pathetic.
Dude, I suggest you start with Descartes, and work your way forward from there.
Because Sweden has the most advanced attitude (in terms of police, etc) towards rape in the Western world. Between that and excellent levels of sex education, the difference between actual and reported levels of rape in Sweden is much smaller than in the rest of the world.
It's "Student's t-test", not "a student's t-test". Student was a pseudonym of William Sealy Gosset, a statistician whose employer banned him from writing scientific papers.
This is my favourite example of this sort of fuck-up.
Because when /. was on form, it was way, way ahead of the curve. It annoys those of us who remember what that was like since we would like it back. Please.
Of course, a really well informed person would know enough economics to campaign for the abolition of Western farm subsidies and the freeing of international trade so that these countries could actually become rich enough to cope with natural disaster without having to put out the begging bowl.
And if it's just two people working in concert, which seems a lot more likely?
She only posts AC on hidden uid threads.
No, just /. munching angle brackets. Bah.
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A bigger problem is that the nature of modern journalism is such that nowadays getting a juicy scoop doesn't do much for your sales. The blogosphere explodes whenever something interesting happens and the original report ends up being drowned, whereas twenty years ago if a newspaper broke a story, it led the agenda for 24 hours.
Seventeenth the comment on the Economist, even if they haven't fired Natasha Loder yet. And an electronic only sub is $95.
Yep. If you ask my granny about the 70s or 80s, she gets a pained expression before she realises which century you're talking about.
You might think of the difference between, say, Python and C. Both are Turing complete languages, but they are ideal for different problem domains. Or as a professor of mine put it, "SPSS and SAS are, mostly, for solved problems. R is for unsolved problems."
R doesn't permit assigning an assignment, so x-y-2 will bork. x-y -2 will assign a boolean.
He's not stupid at all. He's figured out that 60,000 subscribers paying a pound a day is worth infinitely more than five million subscribers paying nothing. He's figured out that web advertising is and will always pay pennies regardless of your audience, and that sooner or later if you want the kind of organisation that his is to survive someone has to put their balls on the table and try something new.
Pepsi would cure him?
If you're implying that viruses can get through condoms, cite, please. Because you appear to be trolling.
She's called Natasha Loder, and frankly she is a bit of a fool. Hard to tell for sure but I am pretty sure this has her fingerprints all over it.
Well, not exactly. The thing is that a prediction about its future behaviour is information, and (in theory) anyone can reproduce that information, so when you try to make use of that information, by buying or short-selling that stock, you're not doing anything that everyone else isn't too.