So by your own accounting, if Bayer kills all marketing then they'll be able to drop prices by 25%, i.e. from $5500 to roughly $4000. Nice, but still way too much.
But that's the way the drug industry works - drug discovery and development is HARD.
"No, that syntax, possibly some semantics regarding correctness, not semantics as in "how is this going to run"."
That's exactly what powerful analyzers do. They tell things like "this loop never terminates except by exception" or "this condition is superfluous", etc. That's not exactly Matrix-style 3D graphics, but it's quite close in spirit to 'visualizing' effects of the code.
Yeah, I think it's better to turn all white people into slaves, right? After all, as you're telling us white people can work just fine. And if they're slaves and forced to work at gunpoint they'll work even harder!
We already have something like it: IDEs for typed languages with strong inspections.
When I'm writing something my IDE helps me by highlighting possible errors or undesirable effects. That's not the 'visualization' stuff the author's talking in the article, but it's actually useful.
"You went from more than half the households being married to something like 9% now, it gave the lowest of the low an excuse to pop out kids they promptly abandoned or let run wild, and it gave rise to the "thug life!" "culture" which glorifies being the scummiest criminal you can be. Hell look at it, it glorifies the abuse of black women and violence and dope slinging."
But we're not talking about an infinitely long conductor. We're talking about lots and lots of fairly small magnets, each of which is a simple dipole magnet.
I'm in Eastern Europe, so most of out-of-country resources are still fairly close to me geographically. Not that situation is much different in the USA, a good RTT from coast to coast is about 45ms.
Hops across the Atlantic usually seem to be dominated by routing delays, not by the lightspeed. I'm used to getting additional 100ms for them, that's why it's acceptable for me.
Still, I get 200ms ping from my home to my Amazon EC2 machines in California (that's about 10000km according to Wolfram Alpha). That's just about twice more than the theoretical limit for ground-based fiber optics.
I have 5ms (five milliseconds) from my home to my office. And they're about 10 km. apart, and not on the same ISP (there are 5 hops in the route between them).
That's what I call 'good latency'. Now, a decent latency for most connections inside the country would be around 20ms. A decent latency to major out-of-country resources should not exceed 70-100ms. Hop across the Atlantic ocean should not add more than 120-150ms.
Well, maybe because YOU are an idiot? Yes, I'm speaking about you.
Most of intelligence is determined by social environment, not by genes (oh sure, there is an inheritable component in the IQ, but it's not that large). And by making sure that people STAY dumb you're lowering the chances of your children.
Would you child be interested in math if that's 'uncool'? Oh, and by the way, your child has just committed you to a nursing home for seniors because he has gambled away your home. I hope you don't mind.
Nope. The answer is simple - the US society is biased towards arseholes. They have more chances of getting to the top so their concentration is greater there.
That's also a problem with Libertarianism - it's the ultimate wet dream for a-holes, as they would be the main beneficiaries of social order with minimal obligations.
I.e. in a pure Libertarian society a-holes who do not contribute to charity, do not help their neighbors and have no compunctions of playing dirty statistically would have more income and more chances to rise to the top.
Yes, I also like Carpacchio ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpaccio ). But it's made palatable mostly by sauce and seasonings. Raw meat is just not very appetizing.
It has implemented aggressive fiscal stimulus (fueled by deficit spending) from the very start averting the severe recession. Total amount of stimulus measures was about $60 billions in 2 years which works out to about $3000 per individual, mostly in direct spending.
In comparison, US had implemented $787 billion stimulus which works out to about $2300 per individual. Unfortunately, more than a half of that amount was in tax cuts which are MUCH less effective than direct spending.
Besides, Australia has never had a deregulation boom like the US so the real estate bubble was not that severe.
All the electric propulsion methods have thrust in the order of Newtons. That's usually enough for interplanetary cruises but doesn't solve the most important problem - putting things into the orbit.
That depends. For example, people with Russian/US dual citizenship can legally enter Russia without a passport (though it would be somewhat complicated) or visa because constitution guarantees that Russian citizens can't be denied the right to enter the country.
There's more to a successful union than just sharing a currency. The US has a strong federal government that can help individual states and individuals in states in case of trouble. For example, even in poorest states Social Security and Medicare are funded by the federal government so they are guaranteed to work.
In Europe the central government simply doesn't exist.
Horses are actually used in mountainous regions. But they are gentle creatures and require a lot of care, you need to feed and water them. And unlike humans (who can live a day or two without food) a hungry horse quickly loses its stamina.
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So by your own accounting, if Bayer kills all marketing then they'll be able to drop prices by 25%, i.e. from $5500 to roughly $4000. Nice, but still way too much.
But that's the way the drug industry works - drug discovery and development is HARD.
"No, that syntax, possibly some semantics regarding correctness, not semantics as in "how is this going to run"."
That's exactly what powerful analyzers do. They tell things like "this loop never terminates except by exception" or "this condition is superfluous", etc. That's not exactly Matrix-style 3D graphics, but it's quite close in spirit to 'visualizing' effects of the code.
Yeah, I think it's better to turn all white people into slaves, right? After all, as you're telling us white people can work just fine. And if they're slaves and forced to work at gunpoint they'll work even harder!
I'd say it's a win-win solution!
We already have something like it: IDEs for typed languages with strong inspections.
When I'm writing something my IDE helps me by highlighting possible errors or undesirable effects. That's not the 'visualization' stuff the author's talking in the article, but it's actually useful.
"You went from more than half the households being married to something like 9% now, it gave the lowest of the low an excuse to pop out kids they promptly abandoned or let run wild, and it gave rise to the "thug life!" "culture" which glorifies being the scummiest criminal you can be. Hell look at it, it glorifies the abuse of black women and violence and dope slinging."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_1_59/ai_110361377/ - the article says 48% (down from 70%). So you're simply lying.
And about 'welfare class' - that's another simply quantifiable lie.
Which require you to put strictly more energy to prepare reagents for the reaction than would be consumed by the reaction.
But we're not talking about an infinitely long conductor. We're talking about lots and lots of fairly small magnets, each of which is a simple dipole magnet.
Absolutely nothing at all. Magnetic field drops off according to inverse _cube_ law. So the field will be barely detectable at that distance.
I'm in Eastern Europe, so most of out-of-country resources are still fairly close to me geographically. Not that situation is much different in the USA, a good RTT from coast to coast is about 45ms.
Hops across the Atlantic usually seem to be dominated by routing delays, not by the lightspeed. I'm used to getting additional 100ms for them, that's why it's acceptable for me.
Still, I get 200ms ping from my home to my Amazon EC2 machines in California (that's about 10000km according to Wolfram Alpha). That's just about twice more than the theoretical limit for ground-based fiber optics.
300ms for RTT to local resources? That's insane.
Wow.
I have 5ms (five milliseconds) from my home to my office. And they're about 10 km. apart, and not on the same ISP (there are 5 hops in the route between them).
That's what I call 'good latency'. Now, a decent latency for most connections inside the country would be around 20ms. A decent latency to major out-of-country resources should not exceed 70-100ms. Hop across the Atlantic ocean should not add more than 120-150ms.
"Of course, none of that exists anymore - but that's a whole another story."
But they do. My university still uses the same old math books.
The problem is, macroeconomics is not amenable to ab-inito analysis. And real-world data show that Laffer curve in reality doesn't happen at all.
Well, maybe because YOU are an idiot? Yes, I'm speaking about you.
Most of intelligence is determined by social environment, not by genes (oh sure, there is an inheritable component in the IQ, but it's not that large). And by making sure that people STAY dumb you're lowering the chances of your children.
Would you child be interested in math if that's 'uncool'? Oh, and by the way, your child has just committed you to a nursing home for seniors because he has gambled away your home. I hope you don't mind.
Nope.
Ron Paul is A-OK with burning people at the stake, if that's done according to state laws (not federal ones).
Nope. The answer is simple - the US society is biased towards arseholes. They have more chances of getting to the top so their concentration is greater there.
That's also a problem with Libertarianism - it's the ultimate wet dream for a-holes, as they would be the main beneficiaries of social order with minimal obligations.
I.e. in a pure Libertarian society a-holes who do not contribute to charity, do not help their neighbors and have no compunctions of playing dirty statistically would have more income and more chances to rise to the top.
Yes, I also like Carpacchio ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpaccio ). But it's made palatable mostly by sauce and seasonings. Raw meat is just not very appetizing.
Well, fresh meat is actually not very tasty. It's sort of plain-tasting and too greasy (yes, I've tried it).
It's said that fresh bone marrow tastes good, but I've never had enough courage to actually try it. Cooked bone marrow is delicios, though.
Well, Australia actually is a great example.
It has implemented aggressive fiscal stimulus (fueled by deficit spending) from the very start averting the severe recession. Total amount of stimulus measures was about $60 billions in 2 years which works out to about $3000 per individual, mostly in direct spending.
In comparison, US had implemented $787 billion stimulus which works out to about $2300 per individual. Unfortunately, more than a half of that amount was in tax cuts which are MUCH less effective than direct spending.
Besides, Australia has never had a deregulation boom like the US so the real estate bubble was not that severe.
Nope. Maglev catapults need to be of stupendous size to be useful and balloons are not useful at all.
All the electric propulsion methods have thrust in the order of Newtons. That's usually enough for interplanetary cruises but doesn't solve the most important problem - putting things into the orbit.
That depends. For example, people with Russian/US dual citizenship can legally enter Russia without a passport (though it would be somewhat complicated) or visa because constitution guarantees that Russian citizens can't be denied the right to enter the country.
"Even the inventors of nuclear bombs didn't want the damned things to exist."
Nope. Read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", it's a wonderful book. It describes the history and development of the bomb.
Some of the scientists were quite eager to create it.
Have you seen the exchange rates?
They are not affected by QEs and that's an objective fact.
There's more to a successful union than just sharing a currency. The US has a strong federal government that can help individual states and individuals in states in case of trouble. For example, even in poorest states Social Security and Medicare are funded by the federal government so they are guaranteed to work.
In Europe the central government simply doesn't exist.
Horses are actually used in mountainous regions. But they are gentle creatures and require a lot of care, you need to feed and water them. And unlike humans (who can live a day or two without food) a hungry horse quickly loses its stamina.