If I remember correctly, escaping the dictatorial rule of people with your point of view was one of the primary reasons this country was founded.
People left England because of religious oppression.... Then you know what they did? They set up their own theocratic territories which doubled down on the behaviors they had left England to escape.
To think that you know the "truth" about religion and everyone that disagrees with you is a moron pretty much makes you worse than most of those you despise.
Science isn't about Truths, it's about facts and (adequately) predictive models that explain those facts. It's not bigoted to call someone a moron because they believe something that's factually wrong.
Really, it would probably be better all round to just have regulators & ombudsmen with real teeth rather than relying on lawyer feeding frenzy class actions to provide a punishment system for corporations. The big problem with that is regulatory capture.
The problem isn't just regulatory capture. It's also that we do not sufficiently fund our regulatory agencies. They just don't have the money to pursue legal cases that generate mountains of paperwork and require a small army of lawyers. So instead, we get settlements for a fraction of the real damage and a promise not to do it again... without any admission of wrongdoing.
is a physics problem subject to rigorous empirical validation independent of human opinion.
Physics problems aside, I guess it depends on what you mean by "rigorous empirical validation". We can study empirically whether gay marriage or abortion is a net benefit/harm to society. We don't even have to study it in our society, since there are other countries who have already implemented the laws that America is debating.
If anything, Climate Change is currently the least empirically verifiable of those items you listed, as we can't hop on a plane and go look (from the outside) at various systems that've already been implemented.
EVENROLL. Imagine that we roll a fair, six-sided die 1,000 times. (That would mean that we roll one die from a pair of dice.) Out of 1,000 rolls, how many times do you think the die would come up as an even number? 58% PCTTOFREQUENCY1. In the BIG BUCKS LOTTERY, the chances of winning a $10.00 prize are 1%. What is your best guess about how many people would win a $10.00 prize if 1,000 people each buy a single ticket from BIG BUCKS? 60% FREQUENCYTOPCT1. In the ACME PUBLISHING SWEEPSTAKES, the chance of winning a car is 1 in 1,000. What percent of tickets of ACME PUBLISHING SWEEPSTAKES win a car? 28% COMPFREQUENCY. Which of the following numbers represents the biggest risk of getting a disease? 86% COMPPCT. Which of the following numbers represents the biggest risk of getting a disease? 88% DOUBLEPCT. If Person A's risk of getting a disease is 1% in ten years, and Person B's risk is double that of A's, what is B's risk? 64% DOUBLEFREQUENCY. If Person A's chance of getting a disease is 1 in 100 in ten years, and person B's risk is double that of A, what is B's risk? 21% PCTTOFREQUENCY2. If the chance of getting a disease is 10%, how many people would be expected to get the disease: A: Out of 100? 84% B: Out of 1000? 81% FREQUENCYTOPCT2. If the chance of getting a disease is 20 out of 100, this would be the same as having a __% chance of getting the disease. 72% VIRAL. The chance of getting a viral infection is.0005. Out of 10,000 people, about how many of them are expected to get infected? 48% BAYESIAN. Suppose you have a close friend who has a lump in her breast and must have a mammogram. Of 100 women like her, 10 of them actually have a malignant tumor and 90 of them do not. Of the 10 women who actually have a tumor, the mammogram indicates correctly that 9 of them have a tumor and indicates incorrectly that 1 of them does not have a tumor. Of the 90 women who do not have a tumor, the mammogram indicates correctly that 81 of them do not have a tumor and indicates incorrectly that 9 of them do have a tumor. The table below summarizes all of this information. Imagine that your friend tests positive (as if she had a tumor), what is the likelihood that she actually has a tumor? 3% SHANE1. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? 12% SHANE2. In a lake, there is a patch of lilypads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? 27%
The pdf didn't give complete information for a few of the questions.
EARTHOT The center of the Earth is very hot [true/false]. 86% HUMANRADIO All radioactivity is man-made [true/false]. 84% LASERS Lasers work by focusing sound waves [true/false]. 68% ELECATOM Electrons are smaller than atoms [true/false]. 62% COPERNICUS1 Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth? 72% COPERNICUS2 How long does it take for the Earth to go around the Sun? [one day, one month, one year] 45% DADGENDER It is the father's gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl [true/false]. 69% ANTIBIOTICS Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria [true/false]. 68%
None of these should be difficult if you've gotten through the first year of highschool
You can alleviate that to some degree with caching (which Google Maps does) but it still doesn't help if you want to search for something new or run into an area the caching did not anticipate.
I have a cache of Paper Maps. The Paper Map App is large, hard to search, and rarely up to date. But it's always there
This is just a stunt, and proves nothing except that someone at Volvo had guts, and that someone in authority exercised bad judgement and allowed it.
TFA Said: The 125-mile test run was conducted at an average speed of just over 50mph and kept the three cars behind the truck at an average separation of 6m.
You might as well blindfold the drivers in the convoy, because at 50mph their reaction time works out to at least twice the 6 meter interval between cars. Long story short, there is fuckall they could have done if something went wrong.
The security problems are from everything else you want to run on Linux. Linux as, a complete platform, ends up just as exploitable as any Windows installation. Or do you not recall the hacking of Kernel.org and Linux.com?
Linux servers/users are just as likely as Windows users to be running their OS & software without being fully patched.
That's not entirely true. Look at High Fructose Corn Syrup. It has been labelled as such (vs. real sugar) for a while, and there are technically alternatives, but all of the big name sodas (and a whole slew of other products) still use it.
The USA structures its agricultural subsidies in favor of corn and its import tariffs against cane sugar. That's why everything in the USA has HFCS and it's not pervasive anywhere else in the world (AFAIK).
If we 'normalized' our corn subsidies and removed our cane sugar tariffs, HFCS would dissappear from the American market.
The pleasure of doing something yourself? Hobbyists are more or less the same no matter their particular hobby. In the remote control world, I've come across guys who could pay for whatever they wanted, instead they spend their nights and weekends engineering designs and hand fabricating parts.
Haven't you ever heard the expression that the journey is as important as the destination?
the body can usually safely broken down in the digestive track those organic nano-particles or they can be contained and expelled by the body before entering the blood stream--a by-product of billions of years of digestive and defensive evolution to extant, potentially lethal organic or inorganic nanoparticles.
I mean, I don't think it likely that all the major conceived designs for man-made nanoparticles (ie, the expected foundation and components) have an inherently Achilles heel of being unsafe,
You more or less explained the achilles heel of nano-particles. It doesn't matter if they're inherently toxic or poisonous, because they're all irritants.
Even gold, which is about as biologically inert as things get, causes the exact same symptoms as every other nano-particle.
Still, the damage would be done.:/ But, that's just a sad truth of life, with hindsight and everything. I mean, to know if progress is harmful or not, you have to progress first.:)
That's what animal studies are for. So that we don't look back and think "oops, we shouldn't have done that"
*Somebody* was a naughty little corporation, and didn't pay enough in "campaign contributions", lobbying , and political favors, hmm?
Let their example send a warning to you others out there that think you can just go around doing business without us getting our "vig", like it was a free country and open & fair marketplace or something!
What the hell are you talking about? Facebook's IPO was a clusterfuck from one end to the other.
The insiders got greedy and bumped the # of shares offered by 50%. The main underwriter, Morgan Stanley, quietly issued negative recommendations for Facebook and allegedly told their biggest clients first. NASDAQ (allegedly) knew their system was broken before Friday, but went ahead with the IPO. NASDAQ caused prices to plummet again on Monday, with their "oops we fucked up" paperwork having a noon deadline. The unsophisticated stock buyers (mom & pop) saw the colossal mess and stayed the hell away.
So many things went wrong that it was inevitable the SEC would get involved.
Time to get rid of the DEA. They just keep thinking up new ways to pry into our lives with the intent of ensuring the purity of our bodily fluids.
Keep the DEA, decriminalize the drugs. We'll still need the DEA to control perscription drugs, but that isn't what the traffickers are mostly interested in moving across borders.
My best friend spent 90 days in jail for DUI, but his drinking and driving never caused anyone's death. Seems like 30 days in jail for causing someone to commit suicide is pretty light in comparison.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving have a really good lobbying organization. /And I say that without a drop of sarcasm.
It just reinforces the idea that we should treat certain groups of people differently.
I'm having serious issues wrapping my head around this backwards logic. You haven't even really made an argument at all and blindly asserting a claim is not the same as supporting it.
Why don't you tell us why assault based on gender/sexual orientation/race is not worse than regular old violence Perhaps you just don't understand the history of civil right and hate crime laws?
The law has always been neutral toward crime, but enforcement of the law was not. Minorities were being murdered, justice was not being done, and tension would build. Communities became embroiled in violence, leading to retaliation, leading to more violence.
There are strong reasons behind enhancing the punishment for certain crimes over others. Maybe some day we won't need those laws, but America is still struggling with basic things like equality for all.
Is that really the best way to address prejudice in society?
I can't say for sure that we've come up with the best way to address prejudice in society, but nothing else we've tried has worked and I don't see you putting forward any alternatives.
Does anyone really think some dumb asshole bigot is going to think "there are hate crime laws I better not commit this crime"?
Not really but it sends a message that, as a society, we will not tolerate such odious behavior in our midst.
If Facebook doesn't plummet or shoot crazy up, then it was priced fairly and both sides got a good deal.
You think Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were in this for a good deal? They wanted the share price to at least double the first day so that they'd make a killing. Those guys are probably shitting themselves at how weak the demand is for facebook stock. This IPO was supposed to make their year.
The solution is therefore to have separate forums for those discussing the books, and those discussing the show. Having separate forums for Australian audiences would logically follow.
Segregate the internet because it's convenient for media companies? Dumb ideas like that are why piracy is flourishing and Big Media is fighting a losing battle.
There's a reason so many shitty things in this world are opt-out. If you make them opt-in, almost no one consents. If you make it opt-out, even a small amount of effort is too much for most people.
You'd think the field of Medicine, with its strong emphasis on ethics, would understand the rational behind an opt-in system of DNA collection for research purposes.
And yet parcel (package) mail volume is increasing. The funny thing is that UPS makes more money than everyone else in the package business combined, but for rural deliveries, they (and FedEx) farm out the packages to USPS because it would cost to much to deliver it themselves.
The tl;dr is that of $16 billion, nearly $12 billion had to be bought by the usual suspect banks: Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
Sounds like Facebook made a mistake changing their expected IPO price from $28~$35 to $34~$38 The big banks stepped in to save face, which makes a mockery of all the talk about "intense demand from retail investors"
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If I remember correctly, escaping the dictatorial rule of people with your point of view was one of the primary reasons this country was founded.
People left England because of religious oppression.... Then you know what they did?
They set up their own theocratic territories which doubled down on the behaviors they had left England to escape.
To think that you know the "truth" about religion and everyone that disagrees with you is a moron pretty much makes you worse than most of those you despise.
Science isn't about Truths, it's about facts and (adequately) predictive models that explain those facts.
It's not bigoted to call someone a moron because they believe something that's factually wrong.
Really, it would probably be better all round to just have regulators & ombudsmen with real teeth rather than relying on lawyer feeding frenzy class actions to provide a punishment system for corporations. The big problem with that is regulatory capture.
The problem isn't just regulatory capture.
It's also that we do not sufficiently fund our regulatory agencies.
They just don't have the money to pursue legal cases that generate mountains of paperwork and require a small army of lawyers.
So instead, we get settlements for a fraction of the real damage and a promise not to do it again... without any admission of wrongdoing.
You sure as shit wouldn't raise a child that way.
is a physics problem subject to rigorous empirical validation independent of human opinion.
Physics problems aside, I guess it depends on what you mean by "rigorous empirical validation".
We can study empirically whether gay marriage or abortion is a net benefit/harm to society.
We don't even have to study it in our society, since there are other countries who have already implemented the laws that America is debating.
If anything, Climate Change is currently the least empirically verifiable of those items you listed,
as we can't hop on a plane and go look (from the outside) at various systems that've already been implemented.
The math questions
EVENROLL. .0005. Out of 10,000 people, about how many of them are expected to get infected? 48%
Imagine that we roll a fair, six-sided die 1,000 times. (That would mean that we roll one die from a pair of dice.) Out of 1,000 rolls, how many times do you think the die would come up as an even number? 58%
PCTTOFREQUENCY1.
In the BIG BUCKS LOTTERY, the chances of winning a $10.00 prize are 1%. What is your best guess about how many people would win a $10.00 prize if 1,000 people each buy a single ticket from BIG BUCKS? 60%
FREQUENCYTOPCT1.
In the ACME PUBLISHING SWEEPSTAKES, the chance of winning a car is 1 in 1,000. What percent of tickets of ACME PUBLISHING SWEEPSTAKES win a car? 28%
COMPFREQUENCY.
Which of the following numbers represents the biggest risk of getting a disease? 86%
COMPPCT.
Which of the following numbers represents the biggest risk of getting a disease? 88%
DOUBLEPCT.
If Person A's risk of getting a disease is 1% in ten years, and Person B's risk is double that of A's, what is B's risk? 64%
DOUBLEFREQUENCY.
If Person A's chance of getting a disease is 1 in 100 in ten years, and person B's risk is double that of A, what is B's risk? 21%
PCTTOFREQUENCY2.
If the chance of getting a disease is 10%, how many people would be expected to get the disease:
A: Out of 100? 84%
B: Out of 1000? 81%
FREQUENCYTOPCT2.
If the chance of getting a disease is 20 out of 100, this would be the same as having a __% chance of getting the disease. 72%
VIRAL.
The chance of getting a viral infection is
BAYESIAN.
Suppose you have a close friend who has a lump in her breast and must have a mammogram. Of 100 women like her, 10 of them actually have a malignant tumor and 90 of them do not. Of the 10 women who actually have a tumor, the mammogram indicates correctly that 9 of them have a tumor and indicates incorrectly that 1 of them does not have a tumor. Of the 90 women who do not have a tumor, the mammogram indicates correctly that 81 of them do not have a tumor and indicates incorrectly that 9 of them do have a tumor. The table below summarizes all of this information. Imagine that your friend tests positive (as if she had a tumor), what is the likelihood that she actually has a tumor? 3%
SHANE1.
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? 12%
SHANE2.
In a lake, there is a patch of lilypads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? 27%
The pdf didn't give complete information for a few of the questions.
I wouldn't read too much into this study.
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/extref/nclimate1547-s1.pdf
EARTHOT
The center of the Earth is very hot [true/false]. 86%
HUMANRADIO
All radioactivity is man-made [true/false]. 84%
LASERS
Lasers work by focusing sound waves [true/false]. 68%
ELECATOM
Electrons are smaller than atoms [true/false]. 62%
COPERNICUS1
Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth? 72%
COPERNICUS2
How long does it take for the Earth to go around the Sun? [one day, one month, one year] 45%
DADGENDER
It is the father's gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl [true/false]. 69%
ANTIBIOTICS
Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria [true/false]. 68%
None of these should be difficult if you've gotten through the first year of highschool
You can alleviate that to some degree with caching (which Google Maps does) but it still doesn't help if you want to search for something new or run into an area the caching did not anticipate.
I have a cache of Paper Maps.
The Paper Map App is large, hard to search, and rarely up to date.
But it's always there
This is just a stunt, and proves nothing except that someone at Volvo had guts, and that someone in authority exercised bad judgement and allowed it.
TFA Said: The 125-mile test run was conducted at an average speed of just over 50mph and kept the three cars behind the truck at an average separation of 6m.
You might as well blindfold the drivers in the convoy, because at 50mph their reaction time works out to at least twice the 6 meter interval between cars.
Long story short, there is fuckall they could have done if something went wrong.
Since we are generalizing whole societies from a posting on a technology site, I can infer that asians are very judgmental?
In Korea, only old people are very judgemental
Google did some work on link farms... they need to do some work deduping / despamming press releases.
Google News has a decent deduping system going on.
Google Search... not at all.
Also, the kid's name is Shouryya Ray
Not Shouryya Ra[missing letter here]
The security problems are from everything else you want to run on Linux.
Linux as, a complete platform, ends up just as exploitable as any Windows installation.
Or do you not recall the hacking of Kernel.org and Linux.com?
Linux servers/users are just as likely as Windows users to be running their OS & software without being fully patched.
Do you know what you get when you add a gene to corn? Corn.
You get corn + a foreign gene.
Trying to conflate GMO corn and heirloom/hybrid varieties is either dishonest or ignorant.
That's not entirely true. Look at High Fructose Corn Syrup. It has been labelled as such (vs. real sugar) for a while, and there are technically alternatives, but all of the big name sodas (and a whole slew of other products) still use it.
The USA structures its agricultural subsidies in favor of corn and its import tariffs against cane sugar.
That's why everything in the USA has HFCS and it's not pervasive anywhere else in the world (AFAIK).
If we 'normalized' our corn subsidies and removed our cane sugar tariffs, HFCS would dissappear from the American market.
Soo.... GoDaddy is the real problem?
/that and crazy lady running for office
...what else do you want on a hobby board?
The pleasure of doing something yourself?
Hobbyists are more or less the same no matter their particular hobby.
In the remote control world, I've come across guys who could pay for whatever they wanted,
instead they spend their nights and weekends engineering designs and hand fabricating parts.
Haven't you ever heard the expression that the journey is as important as the destination?
the body can usually safely broken down in the digestive track those organic nano-particles or they can be contained and expelled by the body before entering the blood stream--a by-product of billions of years of digestive and defensive evolution to extant, potentially lethal organic or inorganic nanoparticles.
I mean, I don't think it likely that all the major conceived designs for man-made nanoparticles (ie, the expected foundation and components) have an inherently Achilles heel of being unsafe,
You more or less explained the achilles heel of nano-particles.
It doesn't matter if they're inherently toxic or poisonous, because they're all irritants.
Even gold, which is about as biologically inert as things get, causes the exact same symptoms as every other nano-particle.
Still, the damage would be done. :/ But, that's just a sad truth of life, with hindsight and everything. I mean, to know if progress is harmful or not, you have to progress first. :)
That's what animal studies are for. So that we don't look back and think "oops, we shouldn't have done that"
*Somebody* was a naughty little corporation, and didn't pay enough in "campaign contributions", lobbying , and political favors, hmm?
Let their example send a warning to you others out there that think you can just go around doing business without us getting our "vig", like it was a free country and open & fair marketplace or something!
What the hell are you talking about?
Facebook's IPO was a clusterfuck from one end to the other.
The insiders got greedy and bumped the # of shares offered by 50%.
The main underwriter, Morgan Stanley, quietly issued negative recommendations for Facebook and allegedly told their biggest clients first.
NASDAQ (allegedly) knew their system was broken before Friday, but went ahead with the IPO.
NASDAQ caused prices to plummet again on Monday, with their "oops we fucked up" paperwork having a noon deadline.
The unsophisticated stock buyers (mom & pop) saw the colossal mess and stayed the hell away.
So many things went wrong that it was inevitable the SEC would get involved.
Time to get rid of the DEA. They just keep thinking up new ways to pry into our lives with the intent of ensuring the purity of our bodily fluids.
Keep the DEA, decriminalize the drugs.
We'll still need the DEA to control perscription drugs, but that isn't what the traffickers are mostly interested in moving across borders.
My best friend spent 90 days in jail for DUI, but his drinking and driving never caused anyone's death.
Seems like 30 days in jail for causing someone to commit suicide is pretty light in comparison.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving have a really good lobbying organization.
/And I say that without a drop of sarcasm.
It just reinforces the idea that we should treat certain groups of people differently.
I'm having serious issues wrapping my head around this backwards logic.
You haven't even really made an argument at all and blindly asserting a claim is not the same as supporting it.
Why don't you tell us why assault based on gender/sexual orientation/race is not worse than regular old violence
Perhaps you just don't understand the history of civil right and hate crime laws?
The law has always been neutral toward crime, but enforcement of the law was not.
Minorities were being murdered, justice was not being done, and tension would build.
Communities became embroiled in violence, leading to retaliation, leading to more violence.
There are strong reasons behind enhancing the punishment for certain crimes over others.
Maybe some day we won't need those laws, but America is still struggling with basic things like equality for all.
Is that really the best way to address prejudice in society?
I can't say for sure that we've come up with the best way to address prejudice in society,
but nothing else we've tried has worked and I don't see you putting forward any alternatives.
Does anyone really think some dumb asshole bigot is going to think "there are hate crime laws I better not commit this crime"?
Not really but it sends a message that, as a society, we will not tolerate such odious behavior in our midst.
If Facebook doesn't plummet or shoot crazy up, then it was priced fairly and both sides got a good deal.
You think Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were in this for a good deal?
They wanted the share price to at least double the first day so that they'd make a killing.
Those guys are probably shitting themselves at how weak the demand is for facebook stock.
This IPO was supposed to make their year.
The solution is therefore to have separate forums for those discussing the books, and those discussing the show. Having separate forums for Australian audiences would logically follow.
Segregate the internet because it's convenient for media companies?
Dumb ideas like that are why piracy is flourishing and Big Media is fighting a losing battle.
It's just a consent form.
There's a reason so many shitty things in this world are opt-out.
If you make them opt-in, almost no one consents.
If you make it opt-out, even a small amount of effort is too much for most people.
You'd think the field of Medicine, with its strong emphasis on ethics, would understand the rational behind an opt-in system of DNA collection for research purposes.
Paper mail, as a business, is tanking.
And yet parcel (package) mail volume is increasing.
The funny thing is that UPS makes more money than everyone else in the package business combined,
but for rural deliveries, they (and FedEx) farm out the packages to USPS because it would cost to much to deliver it themselves.
That said, the United States Postal Service isn't really in financial trouble.
Their problem mostly has to do with a bad law that forces them to devote enormous amounts of cash to prefund pension plans
I'm guessing that if the guy can't manage to carry a USB keyboard around,
There are plenty of USB keypads on the market.
The tl;dr is that of $16 billion, nearly $12 billion had to be bought by the usual suspect banks: Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
Sounds like Facebook made a mistake changing their expected IPO price from $28~$35 to $34~$38
The big banks stepped in to save face, which makes a mockery of all the talk about "intense demand from retail investors"