It's the basic conundrum. Should majority make decisions if the majority are morons? (I'm leaning toward yes, with the hope that the next generation will be less stupid.)
I do not have the expertise to make a reasoned judgement here, and I'm gonna assume most of you don't either. When media tries to do science, it's a dangerous thing. It could go either way, with cigarette companies paying doctors to promote their products, and rogue doctors raising doubt in things like vaccines.
There does seem to be some institutional failure in place---Why does it sound like all the studies on Atrazine are funded by Syngenta? On the one hand, companies should be the ones to pay the bill for research to prove their products are safe. But, it does seem that conflict of interest is an ingrained part of the system.
This argument actually doesn't work for temperatures. SI units have very simple and consistent relationships with each other, but temperature is kinda left hanging and has no relation to the other units, except through the completely arbitrary Boltzmann's constant. Also, you can use metric prefixes in front of kelvin, but it doesn't make much sense to put metric prefixes in front of degrees Celcius since you can't multiply degrees. My point is, we could convert everything else to metric without converting temperatures.
(Electromagnetic field units in SI also have some arbitrary conversion factors, which is part of the reason why cgs+Gaussian metric is superior, but SI has been pushed by some international organizations.)
Unfortunately, this feature does not work with temperatures, which require this Boltzmann's constant. We could technically do away with Boltzmann's constant and measure temperature in joules, but then we would have numbers like: The high today is 4.14 * 10^-21 joules (or 4.14 zeptojoules). I don't know any other applications where one would regularly use such small numbers.
The advantage is not only limited to converting between units of the same dimension (for example, length to length), but between different kinds of dimensions. With metric, I can take a physics formula like T = (1/2)m*v^2 put in m=10kg, v=2m/s And the answer is 1/2*10*2 joules = 20 joules. Try that with imperial units. m=20 lb, v=10 ft/s T = 1000 (lb ft^2/s^2). Fuck if I know how many BTUs that is, or whatever the imperial unit for energy is.
I'm confused. At first glance I thought the summary was saying that the Waltons were donating hundreds of millions to charter schools as an act of grand philanthropy. I'm sure the schools could use the money. But it looks more like the money is going toward lobbyists for charter schools and not charter schools themselves. Am I reading that right? I'm sure that's exactly what kids need.
It's not that companies that are successful are evil. The problem is that the system in place for big companies is usually some kind of limited liability corporation, in which the board of directors has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders to place money above all other considerations. It doesn't matter if the founders were well-meaning, once a company is sold to capitalists.
It's not. But USA is a lot richer than India, so you can't really expect India's research capabilities to keep up. When USA starts to decline, other countries will take up the slack in new research. Get rid of the nationalistic view and realize we are all humans.
Certain things are just painfully inefficient to code in Labview. Short, commonly used functions which can be mentally grouped into larger expressions. I think this is most clearly demonstrated with mathematical operations. It takes way longer to wire up something like x = 3*(sin(y)+4-length(q)) because you have to connect each operation, which takes a lot longer than typing.
This might be an issue with LabView, and not graphical programming in general, but searching for the appropriate operations in a palette is slower than typing the name of the operation if you have the name memorized. It's also hard to see where wires are connected to because they can be arbitrarily nudged around the terminals.
The advantage of graphical programming is that it is easier to represent procedures that have multiple inputs and outputs. The function concept really only works with one output and you have to create extra variable names to pass multiple outputs. The whole pass-by-reference thing for output in c is really hackish and could be avoided.
I could envision a hybrid solution could be more efficient, but then you end up with something like perl where there are many ways to do the same thing, and it's difficult to understand.
If you had RTFnatureA, you would have seen that the new measurement can be combined with old measurements to more tightly constrain the measurements of certain coupling constants, and it is consistent with the standard model. This is science, improving upon old measurements and verifying if the theory is still valid.
Fortunately, with lasers that aim up, you don't really have to worry about them falling back down. Maybe the Martians will have something to worry about, but that's not our problem.
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Energy is no longer becoming less expensive, since it, too, is a limited resource. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
And why not? That's pretty much how it works for al Qaeda investigations, isn't it?
Hmm, I got the impression that he did act alone. In his interviews, he stated that he knew if he didn't act, nobody else would.
I certainly hope that NSA contractors are a little better than your run-of-the-mill company in terms of security.
I don't think your parent was talking about fleeing in mass but rather a slow decline.
And, the mainstream American would probably be right, too, assuming she is white, Christian, upper class, and not an activist.
It's the basic conundrum. Should majority make decisions if the majority are morons? (I'm leaning toward yes, with the hope that the next generation will be less stupid.)
What kind of moronic manager doesn't know the difference between an employee and a contractor?
Ok, this women and children thing needs to stop. Not all women and children are innocent, and not all men are militants.
I do not have the expertise to make a reasoned judgement here, and I'm gonna assume most of you don't either. When media tries to do science, it's a dangerous thing. It could go either way, with cigarette companies paying doctors to promote their products, and rogue doctors raising doubt in things like vaccines.
There does seem to be some institutional failure in place---Why does it sound like all the studies on Atrazine are funded by Syngenta? On the one hand, companies should be the ones to pay the bill for research to prove their products are safe. But, it does seem that conflict of interest is an ingrained part of the system.
Yeah, in a proper capitalist institution, only the highest level is supposed to be on the take.
This argument actually doesn't work for temperatures. SI units have very simple and consistent relationships with each other, but temperature is kinda left hanging and has no relation to the other units, except through the completely arbitrary Boltzmann's constant. Also, you can use metric prefixes in front of kelvin, but it doesn't make much sense to put metric prefixes in front of degrees Celcius since you can't multiply degrees. My point is, we could convert everything else to metric without converting temperatures.
(Electromagnetic field units in SI also have some arbitrary conversion factors, which is part of the reason why cgs+Gaussian metric is superior, but SI has been pushed by some international organizations.)
Unfortunately, this feature does not work with temperatures, which require this Boltzmann's constant. We could technically do away with Boltzmann's constant and measure temperature in joules, but then we would have numbers like: The high today is 4.14 * 10^-21 joules (or 4.14 zeptojoules). I don't know any other applications where one would regularly use such small numbers.
The advantage is not only limited to converting between units of the same dimension (for example, length to length), but between different kinds of dimensions. With metric, I can take a physics formula like
T = (1/2)m*v^2
put in m=10kg, v=2m/s
And the answer is 1/2*10*2 joules = 20 joules. Try that with imperial units.
m=20 lb, v=10 ft/s
T = 1000 (lb ft^2/s^2). Fuck if I know how many BTUs that is, or whatever the imperial unit for energy is.
I'm confused. At first glance I thought the summary was saying that the Waltons were donating hundreds of millions to charter schools as an act of grand philanthropy. I'm sure the schools could use the money. But it looks more like the money is going toward lobbyists for charter schools and not charter schools themselves. Am I reading that right? I'm sure that's exactly what kids need.
I thought there were some Finnish speakers outside of Finland. Does England get to claim jurisdiction over ever webpage written in English?
The current system is too big, that any significant changes are impossible or will take a long time to effect.
It's not that companies that are successful are evil. The problem is that the system in place for big companies is usually some kind of limited liability corporation, in which the board of directors has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders to place money above all other considerations. It doesn't matter if the founders were well-meaning, once a company is sold to capitalists.
Maybe we should be giving antidepressants to pigs, given the lack of love and exercise they receive at the farm.
It's not. But USA is a lot richer than India, so you can't really expect India's research capabilities to keep up. When USA starts to decline, other countries will take up the slack in new research. Get rid of the nationalistic view and realize we are all humans.
Ok, the real question is, should be have laws to protect suckers? Or are they not worth protecting due to their inferior brain activity?
Certain things are just painfully inefficient to code in Labview. Short, commonly used functions which can be mentally grouped into larger expressions. I think this is most clearly demonstrated with mathematical operations. It takes way longer to wire up something like
x = 3*(sin(y)+4-length(q))
because you have to connect each operation, which takes a lot longer than typing.
This might be an issue with LabView, and not graphical programming in general, but searching for the appropriate operations in a palette is slower than typing the name of the operation if you have the name memorized. It's also hard to see where wires are connected to because they can be arbitrarily nudged around the terminals.
The advantage of graphical programming is that it is easier to represent procedures that have multiple inputs and outputs. The function concept really only works with one output and you have to create extra variable names to pass multiple outputs. The whole pass-by-reference thing for output in c is really hackish and could be avoided.
I could envision a hybrid solution could be more efficient, but then you end up with something like perl where there are many ways to do the same thing, and it's difficult to understand.
If you had RTFnatureA, you would have seen that the new measurement can be combined with old measurements to more tightly constrain the measurements of certain coupling constants, and it is consistent with the standard model. This is science, improving upon old measurements and verifying if the theory is still valid.
Fine, replace corporation with company. Personhood and limited liability aren't really relevant to my point.
Fortunately, with lasers that aim up, you don't really have to worry about them falling back down. Maybe the Martians will have something to worry about, but that's not our problem.