"can't afford a baby" is a health issue for both mother and child. Ever heard of malnourishment? Might not be too common in the First World, but in Third World countries, it's prevalent. "don't want a baby" is also a health issue, albeit psychological and not necessarily physical, and will affect both mother and child.
TLDR: Eating lots of saturated fat DOESN'T INCREASE RISK of coronary heart disease, stroke or cardiovascular disease.
Read Good Calories, Bad Calories or the newer one, Why We Get Fat for a good treatment of the science behind nutrition and health. For something more directly discussing what to eat, Protein Power is pretty good. It includes sections discussing the science of the diet and why it works.
Every time a story like this about a massive particle physics project surfaces, my stomach turns. I am by no means anti-science; I did my undergrad in physics, and am a graduate student in engineering. It all just seems like a massive misappropriation of resources. One can blow the horn of scientific inquiry all day, but there are incredibly daunting and very real challenges facing the world today (e.g., energy, toxicology) that need the attention of intelligent people. We live in such a unique time in human existence, when we have this massive supply of cheap energy.
So do we have an energy problem or not?
Your inconsistency notwithstanding, you could pick something better to complain about than spending
trillions of dollars into understanding physical effects which will bear no consequence on the extreme challenges we will face in the very, very near future.
Try military spending, or even luxuries like cosmetics and perfumes. Besides, I doubt anyone can say with certainty that those poorly-understood physical effects bear no consequence. It's entirely within the realm of possibility that such understanding could provide the keystone to overcoming the challenges you point out.
"Breed" doesn't always refer to genetics. For example, "well-bred" usually refers to upbringing, so the GPP isn't necessarily assuming Lamarckian inheritance.
Sadly for ourselves and our future, cultural idiocy is being passed down and improved upon from generation to generation.
Fatalism is a survival strategy when your entire dependence is on a river that may or may not flood and which you can do nothing about. When a dry spell doesn't mean a lesser harvest but mass starvation. when all your work is wiped out in front of your eyes, it helps to think that it is all part of some divine plan. Raising your hands in anger at the gods... doesn't work for to long before you die of a heart attack. Just accept it, bury the death and move on.
That's not a survival strategy, that's a laziness strategy. There are many things in this world we cannot control, even down to our emotions. However, we can always choose how we respond to the uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Throwing your hands up and saying "I had no choice" is just as much giving up as is lying down and waiting to die.
The opposite, in fact, is true. Unconscious is actually the correct term, and would be used by educated (at least in psychology) people. Subconscious is imprecise and academically useless, and generally only used in casual conversation, or by pop-psychologists and New Agers.
Indentation is good because it makes the code easier to read for humans, which is why auto-indent tools are such a godsend. Making indentation/whitespace significant (1) reduces the reliability of the auto-indent tools; (2) introduces a new source of hard-to-find bugs. Editors can (and do) mangle whitespace (tabspaces), which means the simple act of loading code into a text editor can invisibly change semantic components. Python's semantic whitespace also makes it impossible to do sanity checks involving matching opening and closing delimiters.
Whoah, let's just stop right there. In what universe do you live in that users know what they want. Side effects and complexity aside, I have never seen a project (infrastructure OR coding) where the users didnt come in halfway through and ask for things to change because they did not understand their own damn requirements.
That was the development team's failure, not the users'. The dev team didn't understand the users' needs and set to work fulfilling the wrong "damn requirements."
I have seen business process people actually break down and start yelling on the phone because Suzie and Tom insist that they said the EXACT oppisite of what they really said during the vetting of the processes to be built into the ERP software. I have personally lost sleep because a user changed the requirements for the sizing of a data warehouse a week before go live..
Then the requirement was wrong from the onset.
Users ARE idiots. So are developers and administrators, but at least most of us realize it and admit to it.
If the dev is letting the user set the requirements and then calling the user an idiot, then the dev doesn't realize where the problem is. The dev is an idiot and neither realizes it nor admits to it.
Part of the job of the dev team is to understand the purpose and needs of the user. Only with that understanding can the devs properly determine how technology can fulfill the needs and help accomplish the purpose. Only with that understanding can the actual requirements be set. Only with that understanding can the technology be built. And only with that understanding can the product be properly vetted to validate that it fulfills the needs. Note that last one. I didn't say fulfills the requirements. The requirements are an intermediate stage and part of the technical side of the development process. In the end, the technology is supposed to fulfill the users' needs. Anything short of this is a failure of the process.
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OpenJDK (class libs, compiler, virtual machine) are were released under GPL by Sun/Oracle. It's not at risk.
Glaciation? Try Toba.
"can't afford a baby" is a health issue for both mother and child. Ever heard of malnourishment? Might not be too common in the First World, but in Third World countries, it's prevalent. "don't want a baby" is also a health issue, albeit psychological and not necessarily physical, and will affect both mother and child.
Both words refer to basically the same thing: Ruthenia, Rus (name), Russia.
And let's face it, red meat isn't really good for you either. Too much fat. At least according to studies.
Citation needed.
I'm not just being snarky. Try this: Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease.
TLDR: Eating lots of saturated fat DOESN'T INCREASE RISK of coronary heart disease, stroke or cardiovascular disease.
Read Good Calories, Bad Calories or the newer one, Why We Get Fat for a good treatment of the science behind nutrition and health. For something more directly discussing what to eat, Protein Power is pretty good. It includes sections discussing the science of the diet and why it works.
Ok, that's just lame.
Every time a story like this about a massive particle physics project surfaces, my stomach turns. I am by no means anti-science; I did my undergrad in physics, and am a graduate student in engineering. It all just seems like a massive misappropriation of resources. One can blow the horn of scientific inquiry all day, but there are incredibly daunting and very real challenges facing the world today (e.g., energy, toxicology) that need the attention of intelligent people. We live in such a unique time in human existence, when we have this massive supply of cheap energy.
So do we have an energy problem or not?
Your inconsistency notwithstanding, you could pick something better to complain about than spending
trillions of dollars into understanding physical effects which will bear no consequence on the extreme challenges we will face in the very, very near future.
Try military spending, or even luxuries like cosmetics and perfumes. Besides, I doubt anyone can say with certainty that those poorly-understood physical effects bear no consequence. It's entirely within the realm of possibility that such understanding could provide the keystone to overcoming the challenges you point out.
James Earl Jones! Other good choices: Sean Connery, John Malkovich, Al Pacino, and that annoying talk/game-show host from The 5th Element.
The Bomb all your base are belong to us
FTFY :)
"Breed" doesn't always refer to genetics. For example, "well-bred" usually refers to upbringing, so the GPP isn't necessarily assuming Lamarckian inheritance.
Sadly for ourselves and our future, cultural idiocy is being passed down and improved upon from generation to generation.
Save that one for the laser.
Deep fried. With ketchup.
-1 Stupid. We really need a new mod. :p
No, the Moon doesn't always pass through the Earth's shadow on every orbit. It's (the Moon's) orbital plane is tilted with respect to the Earth's.
Wile E Coyote could defy gravity by denying its existence at will. Why he chose to sometimes believe in it, to his peril
Residual self-image? :)
Fatalism is a survival strategy when your entire dependence is on a river that may or may not flood and which you can do nothing about. When a dry spell doesn't mean a lesser harvest but mass starvation. when all your work is wiped out in front of your eyes, it helps to think that it is all part of some divine plan. Raising your hands in anger at the gods... doesn't work for to long before you die of a heart attack. Just accept it, bury the death and move on.
That's not a survival strategy, that's a laziness strategy. There are many things in this world we cannot control, even down to our emotions. However, we can always choose how we respond to the uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Throwing your hands up and saying "I had no choice" is just as much giving up as is lying down and waiting to die.
Looking at his other posts, I'm not so sure he can...
The opposite, in fact, is true. Unconscious is actually the correct term, and would be used by educated (at least in psychology) people. Subconscious is imprecise and academically useless, and generally only used in casual conversation, or by pop-psychologists and New Agers.
Apparently, you ended up in the liquor store on your way to school. Read your own link, slowly. It's a data structure.
Indentation is good because it makes the code easier to read for humans, which is why auto-indent tools are such a godsend. Making indentation/whitespace significant (1) reduces the reliability of the auto-indent tools; (2) introduces a new source of hard-to-find bugs. Editors can (and do) mangle whitespace (tabspaces), which means the simple act of loading code into a text editor can invisibly change semantic components. Python's semantic whitespace also makes it impossible to do sanity checks involving matching opening and closing delimiters.
+1. Not quite embrace/extend/extinguish, we need a new phrase for this tactic though.
Causality in science is an assumption. You can also refer to the Axiom of Causality. So yes, causality is a creation of the human mind.
Whoah, let's just stop right there. In what universe do you live in that users know what they want. Side effects and complexity aside, I have never seen a project (infrastructure OR coding) where the users didnt come in halfway through and ask for things to change because they did not understand their own damn requirements.
That was the development team's failure, not the users'. The dev team didn't understand the users' needs and set to work fulfilling the wrong "damn requirements."
I have seen business process people actually break down and start yelling on the phone because Suzie and Tom insist that they said the EXACT oppisite of what they really said during the vetting of the processes to be built into the ERP software. I have personally lost sleep because a user changed the requirements for the sizing of a data warehouse a week before go live..
Then the requirement was wrong from the onset.
Users ARE idiots. So are developers and administrators, but at least most of us realize it and admit to it.
If the dev is letting the user set the requirements and then calling the user an idiot, then the dev doesn't realize where the problem is. The dev is an idiot and neither realizes it nor admits to it.
Part of the job of the dev team is to understand the purpose and needs of the user. Only with that understanding can the devs properly determine how technology can fulfill the needs and help accomplish the purpose. Only with that understanding can the actual requirements be set. Only with that understanding can the technology be built. And only with that understanding can the product be properly vetted to validate that it fulfills the needs. Note that last one. I didn't say fulfills the requirements. The requirements are an intermediate stage and part of the technical side of the development process. In the end, the technology is supposed to fulfill the users' needs. Anything short of this is a failure of the process.
Cancer research.
+1 :D
and this site really needs a -1 Whoosh mod...