Interesting. I wasn't aware that this was the case. Can you point me to any good discussions on studies on these black holes or even if they have truly been detected. Wikipedia seems to indicate that they are only theoretical...
How do we know with certainty how a black hole behaves? It would seem to me that studying something from millions of light years away where we only get indirect evidence is not the same of plunking one down in the middle of the earth and experiencing it firsthand.
Actually, I wonder the same thing with actual gold sales where you don't physically receive the product. How do you know it isn't some dude with a phone center and a good printer?
Okay, I know there are tens of millions of tons of gold on Pluto. Please send me a check and it is yours. Heck, I'll give you a fifty percent discount.
I reread the gp post, and noticed I left off the (100 choose c). I've never seen this nomenclature before, and assume it equates to what I've always seen" (n!)/(r! * (n-r)!). If so, I retract my above post:)
I used your method of calculating odds and found this lady had a 4.8 * 10^-13 change of getting zero or more right. It is amazing she didn't get a negative score...
Actually, I just figured out he is disputing the title, not the actual first line of the article. That, at least, makes more sense. But, honestly, titles usually are a bit misleading due to their necessary brevity. If that is the biggest issue with this summary then Slashdot is improving.
We may need more teachers. But we more desperately need more students. Not kids who are forced to sit through a class, but kids who want to learn. My wife is a substitute teacher and sees a lot of what goes on in different schools. Some schools have kids who want to learn, some actively fight it. You cannot educate the second group.
Granted, a lot of this comes down to parenting. Perhaps if you are referring to parents as the initial teacher, then I might agree with your statement.
I've given impromptu math lessons to my kids while hiking. Writing implement: stick. Medium: the ground. Very effective. Learning is not about technology. It is first about interest. A distant second is the teacher. When the student is ready to learn something, the teacher will become available.
Except that this is not justification for slavery. It is simply teaching folks to do the best that they can in the circumstances that they find themselves. The writer understood that this is not a perfect world, but that as followers of Christ we are to be the best example we can be.
In all seriousness, give me a few days to think on this. I think it is an important question, yet I am not sure how to distill it to words. I promise you a response by weeks' end.
What does a work ethic have to do with making wealth for other folks? A work ethic is simply your willingness to apply yourself to a worthwhile task. It could be volunteering for open source. It could be developing yourself. It could be starting your own business. You have a narrow view of work ethic.
Agree 100%. My kids are very smart too, especially my oldest. I am actively pushing the school to get him into harder classes so he actually has to work instead of getting a 96% average (97.5% if you throw out handwriting) without trying.
I give them supplemental work at home that they really have to try for. And while I do make it fun, the main point is to teach them a solid work ethic and how to deal with failure.
Sounds more like poor organization skills and probably a bad work ethic. This is not evidence of stupidity. My IQ is in the top 0.1%. Yet until mid-20's, I was lazy as hell. Once I turned that around, life has become very easy. If I had to choose between IQ and work ethic, the work ethic would win out every time.
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Interesting. I wasn't aware that this was the case. Can you point me to any good discussions on studies on these black holes or even if they have truly been detected. Wikipedia seems to indicate that they are only theoretical...
How do we know with certainty how a black hole behaves? It would seem to me that studying something from millions of light years away where we only get indirect evidence is not the same of plunking one down in the middle of the earth and experiencing it firsthand.
Actually, I wonder the same thing with actual gold sales where you don't physically receive the product. How do you know it isn't some dude with a phone center and a good printer?
I keep sticking a knife into my eye every three months. Can anyone provide detail instructions on how I can do this without causing so much pain?
Sometimes giving an answer to the asked question isn't appropriate. Sometimes you have to tell the asker that they are looking at it all wrong.
His math is correct. Your grammar is wrong, just so you know.
Okay, I know there are tens of millions of tons of gold on Pluto. Please send me a check and it is yours. Heck, I'll give you a fifty percent discount.
I reread the gp post, and noticed I left off the (100 choose c). I've never seen this nomenclature before, and assume it equates to what I've always seen" (n!)/(r! * (n-r)!). If so, I retract my above post :)
I used your method of calculating odds and found this lady had a 4.8 * 10^-13 change of getting zero or more right. It is amazing she didn't get a negative score...
Thank you for the car analogy. Without it, I would have been totally incapable of understanding the situation.
Googling shows 22% of our U.S. electric consumption is from nukes (quite surprising to me). 45% of this is roughly 10% of our total consumption.
Actually, I just figured out he is disputing the title, not the actual first line of the article. That, at least, makes more sense. But, honestly, titles usually are a bit misleading due to their necessary brevity. If that is the biggest issue with this summary then Slashdot is improving.
Try rereading it.. a bit slower this time.
We may need more teachers. But we more desperately need more students. Not kids who are forced to sit through a class, but kids who want to learn. My wife is a substitute teacher and sees a lot of what goes on in different schools. Some schools have kids who want to learn, some actively fight it. You cannot educate the second group.
Granted, a lot of this comes down to parenting. Perhaps if you are referring to parents as the initial teacher, then I might agree with your statement.
I've given impromptu math lessons to my kids while hiking. Writing implement: stick. Medium: the ground. Very effective. Learning is not about technology. It is first about interest. A distant second is the teacher. When the student is ready to learn something, the teacher will become available.
http://slashdot.org/journal/240144/In-response-to-how-to-fix-work-ethic
http://slashdot.org/journal/240144/In-response-to-how-to-fix-work-ethic
Except that this is not justification for slavery. It is simply teaching folks to do the best that they can in the circumstances that they find themselves. The writer understood that this is not a perfect world, but that as followers of Christ we are to be the best example we can be.
Perhaps tens of miles of wiring would be kinda heavy?
In all seriousness, give me a few days to think on this. I think it is an important question, yet I am not sure how to distill it to words. I promise you a response by weeks' end.
What does a work ethic have to do with making wealth for other folks? A work ethic is simply your willingness to apply yourself to a worthwhile task. It could be volunteering for open source. It could be developing yourself. It could be starting your own business. You have a narrow view of work ethic.
Agree 100%. My kids are very smart too, especially my oldest. I am actively pushing the school to get him into harder classes so he actually has to work instead of getting a 96% average (97.5% if you throw out handwriting) without trying.
I give them supplemental work at home that they really have to try for. And while I do make it fun, the main point is to teach them a solid work ethic and how to deal with failure.
Sorry. We never covered proper emoticon punctuation in high school.
doubtful....I've read you other posts. :)
At least make sure you spell correctly when putting down my intelligence
if you think quantum uncertainty = free will, then you need to study up on it a bit more.
Sounds more like poor organization skills and probably a bad work ethic. This is not evidence of stupidity. My IQ is in the top 0.1%. Yet until mid-20's, I was lazy as hell. Once I turned that around, life has become very easy. If I had to choose between IQ and work ethic, the work ethic would win out every time.