I fail to see how, in a thread about HoN, mentioning the fact that its #1 competitor also *exists* is offtopic.
While I'm here, I might as well mention that LoL is a fun and innovative game, with some seriously talented industry players (Tom Cadwell, for example) working on it. I wasn't in the HoN closed beta, but I popped in here to see if people liked that, too.
I live in downtown Chicago, and I feel safe anywhere at any time.
But I've also lived in the South Side. There are certainly bad neighboorhoods, but for the most part they keep to themselves. The place I lived in, Hyde Park, was not the world's safest place, but it's nothing like the stories I hear about the UK, with gangs of unruly youth roaming around causing trouble. For the most part, if you didn't trouble trouble, trouble wouldn't trouble you.
Yeah, it's not worth it to save those kids from malaria, at the expense of the Bald Eagle... in Africa... where bald eagles are...
You're obviously talking about two different instances of banning DDT... but it's worth noting that the GP is full of shit and DDT is still used actively to combat malaria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#DDT_use_against_malaria
That's not market efficiency. In your example, the moviemakers would respond by making movies 19.99 globally, with the market failure of the Chinese not being able to afford movies.
Price discrimination* is a key part of economic efficiency when a monopolistic competitor** has control over their market goods. If the competitor sets prices without discrimination, this causes inefficiency because buyers (the Chinese) and sellers (the moviemaker) never get to trade, and market efficiency is defined as maximizing trade within the market.
* The market kind, not the racist kind. ** A monopolistic competitor refers to a competitor that has control over a narrow niche in a wide market, and is not the same as a monopoly.
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Childbirth killed most women before they reach 30 [...] the issue of childbirth is the only reason for the old roles. We've solved that problem, and it's time to redefine the roles.
Who mods stuff like this up? It's obviously wrong.
Not to defend statutory rape, but it's not the same as "liking little girls". Of course, if you're one of those "think of the children" crowd, it doesn't make a difference to you...
I want to know on what planet Keynes is considered a "Lysenko". Not the same planet that noted Chicago school economist and judge, Richard Posner, lives on: http://www.tnr.com/article/how-i-became-keynesian . Nor the planet that Milton Friedman lives on, the man who said that, in a certain sense, "we are all Keynesians now." Certain elements of Keynes's theory are the standard ways of approaching economics, used by everyone. That you think otherwise suggests you are profoundly profoundly profoundly ignorant of economics.
Though, I suppose, if you want to be an anti-Keynesian, I suppose you would accept Friedman's opinion that monetary contraction was the main cause of the recession, a point upon which most economists currently agree. What's that? You think HOOVER caused the recession? Oh, that's right, you know nothing about economics, but you insist on talking about anyway. For a second I forgot about that...
Finally, you claim that Hoover, of all people, was the source of depression-causing progressivism. This claim is too ridiculous to be believed. It's like blaming Democrats for the expansionary federal budget during 2000-2006. They didn't do anything! They were never given the chance!
It sickens me the ass-talking ignorance that passes for economic knowledge on Slashdot. It's not that people like you don't bother to do the research, but rather there is this pervasive sense of anti-government pseudo-Austiran countercultural conspiratorism that makes enema-bags like you think you are too good for economic knowledge. "Keynes is just another Lysenko!" If you had taken any intro to econ course, or read any intro to econ books, ever, you would not think this. Shut up.
Marx thought that in a free economic system, capitalists and states would 'wither away', because people's human nature would change in response to the absence of power relationships.
And, you know, this would happen because people are fundamentally good and nice, except for the evil capitalists and aristocrats who must be overthrown at any cost, including with violence, theft, oppression, and murder.
Sure, Cohen is a lot more careful to stay within the law, but the intent and "morality" of it is the same. One just happens to be more extreme.
That's a huge difference. That's why we have the law. It's like saying, "There's no difference between jaywalking and blowing up train tracks. Both of them are disruptive to traffic. One just happens to be more extreme." Because some things are deemed allowable, and some things are deemed not, and so we have the law to decide what people can do and what people can't. If you REALLY fail to see the difference between phony interviews designed to get people to reveal their own prejudices, and a bunch of basement-dwellers screaming swear words and making people drink pee, then I suggest that the Pranknet pranksters are not the only sociopaths here.
Pressing keys in time with music does not real music constitute, but it's one of the basic skills. Before you can make your piano or guitar or flute or whatever sing with musical expression, you need to know how to press the right keys or frets in the right order at the right time. Learning how to do this is (relatively) dull but fundamentally important. Guitar Hero is basically the most boring part of being a musician, in video game form. This is why 1) most musicians find it trivial and 2) most musicians are puzzled that ordinary people think it "fun".
I'm also a musician and I've also been playing as long as I can remember. I find Guitar Hero to be both very boring and trivially easy--such that I was able to win our workplace's Guitar Hero competition after only having played about an hour of it in my life. Though I can't do many songs on expert, I can sight-read most songs on medium with high accuracy, whereas most people struggle with mastering beginner mode before moving on.
GP is quoting Irving Fisher, who declared that stocks had reached a permanently high plateau. He said this in 1929. A few days later, the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started. Bad timing.
More like the top end of all women can't reach the level of raw strength as the average man.
According to http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards.htm , the intermediate man who's been training (not necessarily in weights) for up to two years can be expected to lift at least about as much in every exercise as a competitive female strength athlete of the same weight. For some exercises it's not even close--a puny gym novice can bench with the best women weightlifters. Nevermind the massive weight differences between the two.
It's fun to pretend to be "accurate" in the name of political correctness, but your "accurate" portrayal of "many women" being stronger than "a number of men" is disingenuous, unless by "many women" you actually meant "a small percentage of women."
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And that's good enough for me.
I fail to see how, in a thread about HoN, mentioning the fact that its #1 competitor also *exists* is offtopic.
While I'm here, I might as well mention that LoL is a fun and innovative game, with some seriously talented industry players (Tom Cadwell, for example) working on it. I wasn't in the HoN closed beta, but I popped in here to see if people liked that, too.
That saying isn't "witty" at all. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/witty
I live in downtown Chicago, and I feel safe anywhere at any time.
But I've also lived in the South Side. There are certainly bad neighboorhoods, but for the most part they keep to themselves. The place I lived in, Hyde Park, was not the world's safest place, but it's nothing like the stories I hear about the UK, with gangs of unruly youth roaming around causing trouble. For the most part, if you didn't trouble trouble, trouble wouldn't trouble you.
Also, you misspelled "feral".
Yeah, it's not worth it to save those kids from malaria, at the expense of the Bald Eagle... in Africa... where bald eagles are...
You're obviously talking about two different instances of banning DDT... but it's worth noting that the GP is full of shit and DDT is still used actively to combat malaria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#DDT_use_against_malaria
That's not market efficiency. In your example, the moviemakers would respond by making movies 19.99 globally, with the market failure of the Chinese not being able to afford movies.
Price discrimination* is a key part of economic efficiency when a monopolistic competitor** has control over their market goods. If the competitor sets prices without discrimination, this causes inefficiency because buyers (the Chinese) and sellers (the moviemaker) never get to trade, and market efficiency is defined as maximizing trade within the market.
* The market kind, not the racist kind.
** A monopolistic competitor refers to a competitor that has control over a narrow niche in a wide market, and is not the same as a monopoly.
Is there a tool to write the tool that writes the code ?
If you're using Mathematica, that would be Stephen Wolfram
Perhaps you dislike XKCD because you do not understand it.
I have found the following website greatly helpful in trying to understand this comic: http://xkcdexplained.com/ .
Here, all the graphs, jokes, and obscure references are laid bare for you to understand and enjoy. I hope this helps you to see the humor in the fabulous XKCD! Have fun!
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You're comparing a fit, adult professional cyclist to a fragile uncoordinated child? And suggesting they take the same safety measures?
Childbirth killed most women before they reach 30 [...] the issue of childbirth is the only reason for the old roles. We've solved that problem, and it's time to redefine the roles.
Who mods stuff like this up? It's obviously wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_mortality "The historical level of maternal deaths is probably around 1 in 100 births.[11]"
Not to defend statutory rape, but it's not the same as "liking little girls". Of course, if you're one of those "think of the children" crowd, it doesn't make a difference to you...
I want to know on what planet Keynes is considered a "Lysenko". Not the same planet that noted Chicago school economist and judge, Richard Posner, lives on: http://www.tnr.com/article/how-i-became-keynesian . Nor the planet that Milton Friedman lives on, the man who said that, in a certain sense, "we are all Keynesians now." Certain elements of Keynes's theory are the standard ways of approaching economics, used by everyone. That you think otherwise suggests you are profoundly profoundly profoundly ignorant of economics.
Though, I suppose, if you want to be an anti-Keynesian, I suppose you would accept Friedman's opinion that monetary contraction was the main cause of the recession, a point upon which most economists currently agree. What's that? You think HOOVER caused the recession? Oh, that's right, you know nothing about economics, but you insist on talking about anyway. For a second I forgot about that...
Finally, you claim that Hoover, of all people, was the source of depression-causing progressivism. This claim is too ridiculous to be believed. It's like blaming Democrats for the expansionary federal budget during 2000-2006. They didn't do anything! They were never given the chance!
It sickens me the ass-talking ignorance that passes for economic knowledge on Slashdot. It's not that people like you don't bother to do the research, but rather there is this pervasive sense of anti-government pseudo-Austiran countercultural conspiratorism that makes enema-bags like you think you are too good for economic knowledge. "Keynes is just another Lysenko!" If you had taken any intro to econ course, or read any intro to econ books, ever, you would not think this. Shut up.
Marxism is more realistic.
Marx thought that in a free economic system, capitalists and states would 'wither away', because people's human nature would change in response to the absence of power relationships.
And, you know, this would happen because people are fundamentally good and nice, except for the evil capitalists and aristocrats who must be overthrown at any cost, including with violence, theft, oppression, and murder.
I'll take the free-market system, thanks.
I'll name two. Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil.
I call bullshit. People in Zimbabwe pay for their daily bread with gold? How do they do that?
How much does a loaf of bread cost in Zimbabwe, US Dollar wise? Like, 20 cents? Do they pay for it with 1/5000 of an ounce of gold?
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So if some random guy happens to take a bribe while off duty then that shouldn't be up to consideration because you drew that particular line?
Fixed that for you. A police officer off duty has the same rights as the rest of us.
Sure, Cohen is a lot more careful to stay within the law, but the intent and "morality" of it is the same. One just happens to be more extreme.
That's a huge difference. That's why we have the law.
It's like saying, "There's no difference between jaywalking and blowing up train tracks. Both of them are disruptive to traffic. One just happens to be more extreme." Because some things are deemed allowable, and some things are deemed not, and so we have the law to decide what people can do and what people can't.
If you REALLY fail to see the difference between phony interviews designed to get people to reveal their own prejudices, and a bunch of basement-dwellers screaming swear words and making people drink pee, then I suggest that the Pranknet pranksters are not the only sociopaths here.
Pressing keys in time with music does not real music constitute, but it's one of the basic skills. Before you can make your piano or guitar or flute or whatever sing with musical expression, you need to know how to press the right keys or frets in the right order at the right time. Learning how to do this is (relatively) dull but fundamentally important. Guitar Hero is basically the most boring part of being a musician, in video game form. This is why 1) most musicians find it trivial and 2) most musicians are puzzled that ordinary people think it "fun".
I'm also a musician and I've also been playing as long as I can remember. I find Guitar Hero to be both very boring and trivially easy--such that I was able to win our workplace's Guitar Hero competition after only having played about an hour of it in my life. Though I can't do many songs on expert, I can sight-read most songs on medium with high accuracy, whereas most people struggle with mastering beginner mode before moving on.
GP is quoting Irving Fisher, who declared that stocks had reached a permanently high plateau. He said this in 1929. A few days later, the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started. Bad timing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher
More like the top end of all women can't reach the level of raw strength as the average man.
According to http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards.htm , the intermediate man who's been training (not necessarily in weights) for up to two years can be expected to lift at least about as much in every exercise as a competitive female strength athlete of the same weight. For some exercises it's not even close--a puny gym novice can bench with the best women weightlifters. Nevermind the massive weight differences between the two.
It's fun to pretend to be "accurate" in the name of political correctness, but your "accurate" portrayal of "many women" being stronger than "a number of men" is disingenuous, unless by "many women" you actually meant "a small percentage of women."
Oops. That should read:
Sure, accounting cost < accounting income, but real cost > real income.
Those are called economic costs (in this case, opportunity cost). Sure, accounting cost real income. If not, they would have kept the show.