1 is prime by that definition, but it's mostly called a unit and defined as *not* prime to make factorising integers into primes unique (up to the order of the factors): Prime number - Primality of 1
"Britain is surrounded by water, true, but it doesn't get sunshine" - From A Song of the Weather by the British comedy songwriters and performers Flanders & Swann - the weather of the title is British weather:
In July the sun is hot?
Is it shining? No it's not.
"I'm pretty sure that you need to be a citizen of the UK to receive knighthood."
No. Wikipedia: if you are a citizen of a nation which as head of state has the Queen of the United Kingdom then if you have a knighthood you can use the title of "Sir" (men) or "Dame" (women): hence Sir Sean Connery and Sir Andrew Wiles. If you are not a citizen of such a nation then you can still be given a knighthood, but it is honorary and you cannot use the title of "Sir" or "Dame", but you can use post-nominal letters: for example the musician Daniel Barenboim KBE is a Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
"Ten days? Have a world-wide "End of the World" party." - Including watching the 1999 Canadian film "Last Night"... Plot: In Toronto, a group of friends and family prepare for the end of the world, expected at midnight as the result of a calamity that is not explained, but which has been expected for several months... In 2014, Colin McNeil of Metro News wrote "Last Night is perhaps the most upbeat end-of-the-world movie you’ll ever see."...
Rogert Ebert's review... Note: On a talk show in Toronto, I [Roger Ebert] was asked to define the difference between American and Canadian films, and said I could not. Another guest was Wayne Clarkson, the former director of the Toronto Film Festival. He said he could, and cited this film. "Sandra Oh goes into a grocery story to find a bottle of wine for dinner," he said. "The store has been looted, but she finds two bottles still on the shelf. She takes them down, evaluates them, chooses one, and puts the other one politely back on the shelf. That's how you know it's a Canadian film."
Not only do you not understand that percentages is the appropriate comparison, by which about 30 US states have higher incarceration rates than California, but Texas (with a substantially smaller population than California) appears to have a somewhat higher prison population, and in any case California's prison population is nowhere near 4 times that of Texas. Your "statistic" is wrong. Wikipedia
Since some commenters appear to have misunderstood the point of the article it's worth quoting from the BMJ paper (I recommend actually reading the entire paper and/or this BMJ blog):
...
The study also has several limitations. First and most importantly, our findings might not be generalizable to the use of parachutes in aircraft traveling at a higher altitude or velocity. Consideration could be made to conduct additional randomized clinical trials in these higher risk settings. However, previous theoretical work supporting the use of parachutes could reduce the feasibility of enrolling participants in such studies.
...
Finally, although all endpoints in the study were prespecified, we were unable to register the PARACHUTE trial prospectively. We attempted to register this study with the Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry (application number APPL/2018/040), a member of the World Health Organization’s Registry Network of the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. After several rounds of discussion, the Registry declined to register the trial because they thought that “the research question lacks scientific validity” and “the trial data cannot be meaningful.” We appreciated their thorough review (and actually agree with their decision).
The PARACHUTE trial satirically highlights some of the limitations of randomized controlled trials. Nevertheless, we believe that such trials remain the gold standard for the evaluation of most new treatments. The PARACHUTE trial does suggest, however, that their accurate interpretation requires more than a cursory reading of the abstract. Rather, interpretation requires a complete and critical appraisal of the study. In addition, our study highlights that studies evaluating devices that are already entrenched in clinical practice face the particularly difficult task of ensuring that patients with the greatest expected benefit from treatment are included during enrolment.
In the words of a stand-up comedian (alas I can't remember his name) who used to be a drug dealer: I prefer the term street pharmacutical representative!
While it's true that many of the world's oldest companies are in Japan and go back hundreds of years, my guess is that if you filter the list to include only those with billions of dollars as turnover (to be comparable with Amazon) then what's left might be chemical and engineering companies dating from the latter part of the 19th century (or later) and might be in Germany as well as Japan.
"With the death of net neutrality, it would be trivial to block foreign tech services coming into the country."
It might not be trivial to block, but the People's Republic of China has a great deal of expertise in this area and in the entrepreneureal spirit of Milo Minderbinder perhaps the USA should subcontract the blocking to the PRC?
In astronomy the practice was (still is?) to work in non-specific units and then convert the answer to the wanted units using a correction factor. There is a story that Herman Bondi and Fred Hoyle made such a calculation with giving to the other the answer in non-specific units, adding that the correct factor was something like Y * 10**15, to which the other jokingly asked "multiply or divide"?
(Well, actually I've never used Gopher, but apparently some people still do: Gopher protocol: ... Gopher has been described by some enthusiasts as "faster and more efficient and so much more organised" than today's Web services. The Gopher protocol is still in use by enthusiasts, and although it has been almost entirely supplanted by the Web, a small population of actively maintained servers remains....)
The pun might not be new, but it was new to me, and I enjoyed it's aptness. I also hope that the pun was partly a nod in the direction of the (un?)famous 1977 April Fools' Day extended hoax by The Guardian: San Serriffe
I guess maybe in hindsight it wasn't such a great idea to let Obama go wild with his "pen and phone" and expand the power of the Executive Branch/POTUS like we all tried to warn you about at the time, those warnings that you helped shout-down instead of heed because it suited your agenda at the moment, eh?
Arguably Obama was the USA President who in recent time made the least use of executive orders(*). It's piquant that the President making least use of executive orders since 1945 is a Obama, a Democrat; that the President making most use of them is Truman, also a Democrat; and that the President currently with the second most frequent use of executive orders is Trump: but is he a Republican?
Executive Orders 9538-10431 number 894; 2.2 per week in 7.78 years Truman Executive Orders 13765-13803 number 39; 1.56 per week in 0.48 years Trump Executive Orders 11967-12286 number 320; 1.53 per week in 4 years Carter Executive Orders 10914-11127 number 214; 1.4 per week in 2.84 years Kennedy Executive Orders 11798-11966 number 169; 1.3 per week in 2.45 years Ford Executive Orders 11128-11451 number 324; 1.20 per week in 5.17 years Johnson Executive Orders 11452-11797 number 346; 1.19 per week in 5.55 years Nixon Executive Orders 10432-10913 number 482; 1.15 per week in 8 years Eisenhower Executive Orders 12287-12667 number 381; 0.91 per week in 8 years Reagan Executive Orders 12834-13197 number 364; 0.87 per week in 8 years Clinton Executive Orders 12668-12833 number 166; 0.80 per week in 4 years GHW Bush Executive Orders 13198-3488 number 291; 0.70 per week in 8 years GW Bush Executive Orders 13489-13764 number 276; 0.66 per week in 8 years Obama
(*) I'm aware - oh, all right, I've just found out - that there are also Presidential memoranda ("closely related [to executive orders and also] have the force of law on the Executive Branch"), determinations, proclamations, notices and Sequestration Orders, and that, for example, Obama issued 644 Presidential memoranda, but I'll it to someone else to make a comparative table of those.
Are you sure about that AC? Wikipedia: The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives....
For those who think that Wikipedia is written by left-wing SJW's I will - very reluctantly - quote from Conservapedia: Congress (Congress of the United States) (a word derived from the Latin "congressum", from "congredior", meaning "to come together") is the term for the legislative body of the United States of America, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate....
Incidentally, I note with amusement that at the top of that Conservapedia page it says: "This article was last edited in 2014. Some of its information may be outdated" and that immediately following that definition of Congress is: "In the current 112th Congress, the House is controlled by the Republican Party while the Senate is controlled by the Democratic Party." Apparently the contributors to Conservapedia are less interested in updating Conservapedia than in adding news feed items like this currently on the main page: In the News. what the MSM isn't fully covering currently has as a first item "Unplug CNN - and Sesame Street, too. Those two organs are teaming up to spread Islamist propaganda directly to children. linking to ConservativeNewsAndViews
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1 is prime by that definition, but it's mostly called a unit and defined as *not* prime to make factorising integers into primes unique (up to the order of the factors): Prime number - Primality of 1
"Britain is surrounded by water, true, but it doesn't get sunshine"
- From A Song of the Weather by the British comedy songwriters and performers Flanders & Swann - the weather of the title is British weather:
In July the sun is hot?
Is it shining? No it's not.
"I'm pretty sure that you need to be a citizen of the UK to receive knighthood."
No. Wikipedia: if you are a citizen of a nation which as head of state has the Queen of the United Kingdom then if you have a knighthood you can use the title of "Sir" (men) or "Dame" (women): hence Sir Sean Connery and Sir Andrew Wiles. If you are not a citizen of such a nation then you can still be given a knighthood, but it is honorary and you cannot use the title of "Sir" or "Dame", but you can use post-nominal letters: for example the musician Daniel Barenboim KBE is a Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
"Ten days? Have a world-wide "End of the World" party." - Including watching the 1999 Canadian film "Last Night"... Plot: In Toronto, a group of friends and family prepare for the end of the world, expected at midnight as the result of a calamity that is not explained, but which has been expected for several months ... In 2014, Colin McNeil of Metro News wrote "Last Night is perhaps the most upbeat end-of-the-world movie you’ll ever see." ...
Rogert Ebert's review ... Note: On a talk show in Toronto, I [Roger Ebert] was asked to define the difference between American and Canadian films, and said I could not. Another guest was Wayne Clarkson, the former director of the Toronto Film Festival. He said he could, and cited this film. "Sandra Oh goes into a grocery story to find a bottle of wine for dinner," he said. "The store has been looted, but she finds two bottles still on the shelf. She takes them down, evaluates them, chooses one, and puts the other one politely back on the shelf. That's how you know it's a Canadian film."
Not only do you not understand that percentages is the appropriate comparison, by which about 30 US states have higher incarceration rates than California, but Texas (with a substantially smaller population than California) appears to have a somewhat higher prison population, and in any case California's prison population is nowhere near 4 times that of Texas. Your "statistic" is wrong. Wikipedia
I wonder if we did similar studies with human ethnic populations what we might find.
Quite possibly something rather different to what we might find if we did similar studies with fairly small human families.
Since some commenters appear to have misunderstood the point of the article it's worth quoting from the BMJ paper (I recommend actually reading the entire paper and/or this BMJ blog):
...
The study also has several limitations. First and most importantly, our findings might not be generalizable to the use of parachutes in aircraft traveling at a higher altitude or velocity. Consideration could be made to conduct additional randomized clinical trials in these higher risk settings. However, previous theoretical work supporting the use of parachutes could reduce the feasibility of enrolling participants in such studies.
...
Finally, although all endpoints in the study were prespecified, we were unable to register the PARACHUTE trial prospectively. We attempted to register this study with the Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry (application number APPL/2018/040), a member of the World Health Organization’s Registry Network of the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. After several rounds of discussion, the Registry declined to register the trial because they thought that “the research question lacks scientific validity” and “the trial data cannot be meaningful.” We appreciated their thorough review (and actually agree with their decision).
The PARACHUTE trial satirically highlights some of the limitations of randomized controlled trials. Nevertheless, we believe that such trials remain the gold standard for the evaluation of most new treatments. The PARACHUTE trial does suggest, however, that their accurate interpretation requires more than a cursory reading of the abstract. Rather, interpretation requires a complete and critical appraisal of the study. In addition, our study highlights that studies evaluating devices that are already entrenched in clinical practice face the particularly difficult task of ensuring that patients with the greatest expected benefit from treatment are included during enrolment.
...
In the words of a stand-up comedian (alas I can't remember his name) who used to be a drug dealer: I prefer the term street pharmacutical representative!
While it's true that many of the world's oldest companies are in Japan and go back hundreds of years, my guess is that if you filter the list to include only those with billions of dollars as turnover (to be comparable with Amazon) then what's left might be chemical and engineering companies dating from the latter part of the 19th century (or later) and might be in Germany as well as Japan.
Another interested party might be the New York Times if they get a discount for mentioning that Google Cloud is being used.
"So, it's only of use if you want to go to SpaceX." - Or if you want to leave SpaceX for *anywhere* else!
It might not be trivial to block, but the People's Republic of China has a great deal of expertise in this area and in the entrepreneureal spirit of Milo Minderbinder perhaps the USA should subcontract the blocking to the PRC?
"You know as well as I do, almost all scientists are deeply left-wing." - Citation needed.
When did Bill Cosby become an "older white man"?
In astronomy the practice was (still is?) to work in non-specific units and then convert the answer to the wanted units using a correction factor. There is a story that Herman Bondi and Fred Hoyle made such a calculation with giving to the other the answer in non-specific units, adding that the correct factor was something like Y * 10**15, to which the other jokingly asked "multiply or divide"?
Obigatory XKCD "Purity"!
I still use Gopher, you insensitive clod!
(Well, actually I've never used Gopher, but apparently some people still do: Gopher protocol:
... Gopher has been described by some enthusiasts as "faster and more efficient and so much more organised" than today's Web services. The Gopher protocol is still in use by enthusiasts, and although it has been almost entirely supplanted by the Web, a small population of actively maintained servers remains. ...)
What about the linguists who are also nerds?
"Oh, my, some student has handed in his "study" and it made the papers."
On reading the Wired article, and searching for the person quoted in the article, it turns out that "some student" is Berthold Horn - Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT and Liang Wang, a post-doc associate in the CSAI Lab at MIT, supervised by Horn.
The pun might not be new, but it was new to me, and I enjoyed it's aptness. I also hope that the pun was partly a nod in the direction of the (un?)famous 1977 April Fools' Day extended hoax by The Guardian: San Serriffe
Non-obligatory Punch (defunct UK humourous again) cartoon - caption: "That's an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it."
more drama from #crazytown. - Wake me up when The Donald sets the Whitehouse on fire in a raving dementia paranoia attack.
Not going to happen: for starters, The Donald doesn't play the lyre! http://www.phrases.org.uk/mean...
I guess maybe in hindsight it wasn't such a great idea to let Obama go wild with his "pen and phone" and expand the power of the Executive Branch/POTUS like we all tried to warn you about at the time, those warnings that you helped shout-down instead of heed because it suited your agenda at the moment, eh?
Arguably Obama was the USA President who in recent time made the least use of executive orders(*). It's piquant that the President making least use of executive orders since 1945 is a Obama, a Democrat; that the President making most use of them is Truman, also a Democrat; and that the President currently with the second most frequent use of executive orders is Trump: but is he a Republican?
Executive Orders 9538-10431 number 894; 2.2 per week in 7.78 years Truman
Executive Orders 13765-13803 number 39; 1.56 per week in 0.48 years Trump
Executive Orders 11967-12286 number 320; 1.53 per week in 4 years Carter
Executive Orders 10914-11127 number 214; 1.4 per week in 2.84 years Kennedy
Executive Orders 11798-11966 number 169; 1.3 per week in 2.45 years Ford
Executive Orders 11128-11451 number 324; 1.20 per week in 5.17 years Johnson
Executive Orders 11452-11797 number 346; 1.19 per week in 5.55 years Nixon
Executive Orders 10432-10913 number 482; 1.15 per week in 8 years Eisenhower
Executive Orders 12287-12667 number 381; 0.91 per week in 8 years Reagan
Executive Orders 12834-13197 number 364; 0.87 per week in 8 years Clinton
Executive Orders 12668-12833 number 166; 0.80 per week in 4 years GHW Bush
Executive Orders 13198-3488 number 291; 0.70 per week in 8 years GW Bush
Executive Orders 13489-13764 number 276; 0.66 per week in 8 years Obama
(*) I'm aware - oh, all right, I've just found out - that there are also Presidential memoranda ("closely related [to executive orders and also] have the force of law on the Executive Branch"), determinations, proclamations, notices and Sequestration Orders, and that, for example, Obama issued 644 Presidential memoranda, but I'll it to someone else to make a comparative table of those.
Where I live for example, there's also carrier pigeon and smoke signals...
Luxury - where we live we have to use runners with cleft sticks, who only work every other Tuesday. And that's if we're lucky!
Err... there are no senators in congress.
Are you sure about that AC? Wikipedia: The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. ...
For those who think that Wikipedia is written by left-wing SJW's I will - very reluctantly - quote from Conservapedia: Congress (Congress of the United States) (a word derived from the Latin "congressum", from "congredior", meaning "to come together") is the term for the legislative body of the United States of America, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate. ...
Incidentally, I note with amusement that at the top of that Conservapedia page it says: "This article was last edited in 2014. Some of its information may be outdated" and that immediately following that definition of Congress is: "In the current 112th Congress, the House is controlled by the Republican Party while the Senate is controlled by the Democratic Party." Apparently the contributors to Conservapedia are less interested in updating Conservapedia than in adding news feed items like this currently on the main page: In the News. what the MSM isn't fully covering currently has as a first item "Unplug CNN - and Sesame Street, too. Those two organs are teaming up to spread Islamist propaganda directly to children. linking to ConservativeNewsAndViews