Yes. There's a mathematical relation between body size and brain size that largely accounts for the additional amount of brain necessary to operate a larger body. Naturally, I don't remember the name of the equation or the equation itself. IIRC, it has an exponent or logarithm. If you're less lazy that I am, you could let https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rela... find it for you. (There may be a better search argument.)
There are outliers. I think African Grey Parrots might be one of them on one side, and echo-locating cetaceans a bunch more on the other side.
In honor of the recent centennial of the start of the 11 time-zone-wide 7-decade-long experiment that answered the question "Does Marxism deliver what was promised?", an obsolete joke.
Behold the Soviet Union's latest triumph: The world's largest microchip!
It depends on the government. Greece? Nope. California city or town with absurd pension fund commitments? One in Illinois? Illinois? Nope, nope, and nope. California? Uh, no. U.S.A. national government bonds? Haven't checked the credit rating lately, but it's certainly still better than Greece. But nope, in the very long run. St. Louis, Missouri? Nope, not even if it gets grafted (pun intended) back onto St. Louis County. Ferguson? Double nope.
Other governments might be a better bet. Any government in Switzerland seems like a safe place.
Bitcoin is unprecedented, so it's not just risky, the risk is unknowable. As is the upside. It could be Betamax. ("What's Betamax?") It could be Intel. It could become Intel and then Betamax.
The most you could lose is $1000, same as those government bonds. The most you could make is much higher for BTC.
Not something to put your life's savings into. But a grand? Sure.
I've not been following this too closely. Apparently the problem is that voters are sheep that can reliably be lead by advertising to vote for whoever advertises at them the hardest, most often, most effectively, or most recently. Or something like that.
And instead of domestic scoundrels doing it, it was the Roooskies!
As long as they're using their fiendish mind control to support a candidate of one of the statutory duopoly party candidates, what's the problem? What makes them worse than the Democrats and the Republicans who were attempting the exact same thing?
From a thoroughly unscientific, haphazard, un-methodical study of the names of coworkers, relatives, friends, and random people I've encountered in the vicinity of such people, I've concluded that rural white people and urban black people tend to give their kids unusual names. Suburban people (except for inner-ring suburban black people) tend to give their kids ordinary generic names. Another disclaimer: because this is something I've been contemplating for some time, it is also very vulnerable to confirmation bias. (You may wish to consider this a joke, rather than a serious observation. I'm still on the fence on that.)
If there actually is some truth to this, it's reasonable to expect that those false positives will be more likely to remove a Michael Jordan and a Nancy Wilson than a Shaniqua Jackson or a Toreyan Williams. This would skew the false removals towards people who are more apt to vote, presumably for Democrats.
Anybody else remember the beer commercial where two guys see a sign for the Lee Family Reunion, and try to crash it? Two white guys? Two conspicuously white guys?
Fortunately, thanks to the Gemutlichkeit power of the advertised brand of beer, all is well.
Without the FCC involvement, ISPs will offer terrible products!
And people will have no ability to buy better products from competitors, because the FCC limits customer choice of ISPs. (Let's let the FCC off the hook a little. Local governments are part of the monopoly- and oligopoly-granting, too.)
Gotta love it. Government coming to the rescue of people in a fix that government put them in.
And people are soooo grateful to their Congresscritter when they unsnarl a federal bureaucracy that screwed up their lives. As though that federal bureaucracy wasn't created and supposedly monitored by the Congress in the first place.
"Constituent service", they call it. I call it being grateful for being rescued from a dog -- owned by the "rescuer".
The important objectives of the people who matter are met: re-election.
There is no such thing as "waste" if a pol can claim it "creates jobs".
If it weren't so conspicuously ludicrous, politicians would pay for people to dig holes and for other people to fill them in.
This aircraft problem is inconspicuously ludicrous. No problem -- for the people who matter.
And term limits for the members of the Congress would be treating a symptom.
But sometimes, that's enough, at least for the short term. Or very short term. (Internal bleeding, transfusion.)
And, as Michael Crichton reminds us in _The Andromeda Strain_, using the example of cholera, sometimes treating the symptoms long enough to for the patient to survive is about as good as a cure.
So, if a distant cluster of galaxies was composed of antimatter rather than matter, could we tell? A photon is its own anti-particle, so the light wouldn't let us know.
We'd sure know it if we visited, but it were distant enough, no physical part of it would ever get to us, right? Or get to anything that we'd notice light up very intensely.
No doubt in ages past, the invention of the opaque envelope was seen as a boon to criminals and terrorists and revolutionaries. "How can we protect our kingdom if letters and even large documents can pass from person to person, completely hidden from His Magesty's government's eyes?"
As for boxes and homes with locks? "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Ban them!
It's been 6 months since Ferguson voters overwhelmingly approved bodycams for Ferguson cops. It's only been in the last week or so that the city website has even acknowledged the vote happened and the requirement exists. And less progress has been made on acquiring them, as best we can tell.
We'll see how long it takes for the next step to occur.
Dems, at the federal level at least, generally don't support gays blacks or whatever just because they want their vote, but because they think humans should be treated humanely
And you know this, how?
Where does one sign up for mind-reading lessons, anyway?
Is this the first year they've had mass firings after reviews?
If so, this might provide an opportunity for a clever and/or optimistic lawyer to file a class-action suit that contended this was just a layoff in disguise.
The suit might have a better chance if the annual reviews happened at various times throughout the year, sometimes more than once in a year.
Did I mention that the lawyer would have to be optimistic?
In the past, I never asked a prospective employer if they did stack ranking (aka forced distribution aka totem pole). Maybe I will, next time around.
This is probably a good thing for workplace rating sites to routinely report, but so fare I haven't seen it
There was a "Dilbert" cartoon about interviewing someone to discover if they would be a bad employee, but a good candidate for the bottom of the heap ranking.
Sometimes TBBT is too unsubtle. If "Product placement on Big Bang Theory" were a drinking game, I'd be drunk on my ass well before the end of the show, some episodes. But I'm kinda a lightweight.
Sometimes a product mention almost seems like something the brand would pay to not see broadcast. "I want to be disappointed in the order George Lucas intended." "Not some fancy place like Olive Garden."
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Yes. There's a mathematical relation between body size and brain size that largely accounts for the additional amount of brain necessary to operate a larger body. Naturally, I don't remember the name of the equation or the equation itself. IIRC, it has an exponent or logarithm. If you're less lazy that I am, you could let https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rela... find it for you. (There may be a better search argument.)
There are outliers. I think African Grey Parrots might be one of them on one side, and echo-locating cetaceans a bunch more on the other side.
In honor of the recent centennial of the start of the 11 time-zone-wide 7-decade-long experiment that answered the question "Does Marxism deliver what was promised?", an obsolete joke.
Behold the Soviet Union's latest triumph: The world's largest microchip!
It depends on the government. Greece? Nope. California city or town with absurd pension fund commitments? One in Illinois? Illinois? Nope, nope, and nope. California? Uh, no. U.S.A. national government bonds? Haven't checked the credit rating lately, but it's certainly still better than Greece. But nope, in the very long run. St. Louis, Missouri? Nope, not even if it gets grafted (pun intended) back onto St. Louis County. Ferguson? Double nope.
Other governments might be a better bet. Any government in Switzerland seems like a safe place.
Bitcoin is unprecedented, so it's not just risky, the risk is unknowable. As is the upside. It could be Betamax. ("What's Betamax?") It could be Intel. It could become Intel and then Betamax.
The most you could lose is $1000, same as those government bonds. The most you could make is much higher for BTC.
Not something to put your life's savings into. But a grand? Sure.
If it's "settled" but there's still a major unanswered question, how settled is it, really?
It may have been Fred Pohl who said "The problem with being your own editor is you have no editor."
At which point, their barbers and second cousins and such will become very good at stock market timing -- for a very very narrow set of stocks.
And will somehow feel an urge to give tens of thousands of dollars to their C-suite acquaintance/relative/whatever.
That might be a bit obvious. Maybe something a bit more subtle, like returning the favor, or another one of similar value, at some future date.
Yawn.
I've not been following this too closely. Apparently the problem is that voters are sheep that can reliably be lead by advertising to vote for whoever advertises at them the hardest, most often, most effectively, or most recently. Or something like that.
And instead of domestic scoundrels doing it, it was the Roooskies!
As long as they're using their fiendish mind control to support a candidate of one of the statutory duopoly party candidates, what's the problem? What makes them worse than the Democrats and the Republicans who were attempting the exact same thing?
Did I miss something?
From a thoroughly unscientific, haphazard, un-methodical study of the names of coworkers, relatives, friends, and random people I've encountered in the vicinity of such people, I've concluded that rural white people and urban black people tend to give their kids unusual names. Suburban people (except for inner-ring suburban black people) tend to give their kids ordinary generic names. Another disclaimer: because this is something I've been contemplating for some time, it is also very vulnerable to confirmation bias. (You may wish to consider this a joke, rather than a serious observation. I'm still on the fence on that.)
If there actually is some truth to this, it's reasonable to expect that those false positives will be more likely to remove a Michael Jordan and a Nancy Wilson than a Shaniqua Jackson or a Toreyan Williams. This would skew the false removals towards people who are more apt to vote, presumably for Democrats.
Anybody else remember the beer commercial where two guys see a sign for the Lee Family Reunion, and try to crash it? Two white guys? Two conspicuously white guys?
Fortunately, thanks to the Gemutlichkeit power of the advertised brand of beer, all is well.
Without the FCC involvement, ISPs will offer terrible products!
And people will have no ability to buy better products from competitors, because the FCC limits customer choice of ISPs. (Let's let the FCC off the hook a little. Local governments are part of the monopoly- and oligopoly-granting, too.)
Gotta love it. Government coming to the rescue of people in a fix that government put them in.
And people are soooo grateful to their Congresscritter when they unsnarl a federal bureaucracy that screwed up their lives. As though that federal bureaucracy wasn't created and supposedly monitored by the Congress in the first place.
"Constituent service", they call it. I call it being grateful for being rescued from a dog -- owned by the "rescuer".
Different people have different objectives.
The important objectives of the people who matter are met: re-election.
There is no such thing as "waste" if a pol can claim it "creates jobs".
If it weren't so conspicuously ludicrous, politicians would pay for people to dig holes and for other people to fill them in.
This aircraft problem is inconspicuously ludicrous. No problem -- for the people who matter.
And term limits for the members of the Congress would be treating a symptom.
But sometimes, that's enough, at least for the short term. Or very short term. (Internal bleeding, transfusion.)
And, as Michael Crichton reminds us in _The Andromeda Strain_, using the example of cholera, sometimes treating the symptoms long enough to for the patient to survive is about as good as a cure.
So, if a distant cluster of galaxies was composed of antimatter rather than matter, could we tell? A photon is its own anti-particle, so the light wouldn't let us know.
We'd sure know it if we visited, but it were distant enough, no physical part of it would ever get to us, right? Or get to anything that we'd notice light up very intensely.
Um, "traditional tobacco cigarettes" is a long-winded way of saying "cigarettes".
Golly, I wonder why that term was chosen?
No doubt in ages past, the invention of the opaque envelope was seen as a boon to criminals and terrorists and revolutionaries. "How can we protect our kingdom if letters and even large documents can pass from person to person, completely hidden from His Magesty's government's eyes?"
As for boxes and homes with locks? "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Ban them!
Newsweek is just jealous. They're supposed to be dividing us and making us raging mad, and Silicon Valley is beating them at their own game.
"I was supposed to fire James Comey!"
It's been 6 months since Ferguson voters overwhelmingly approved bodycams for Ferguson cops. It's only been in the last week or so that the city website has even acknowledged the vote happened and the requirement exists. And less progress has been made on acquiring them, as best we can tell.
We'll see how long it takes for the next step to occur.
And this is a problem because ...?
Dems, at the federal level at least, generally don't support gays blacks or whatever just because they want their vote, but because they think humans should be treated humanely
And you know this, how?
Where does one sign up for mind-reading lessons, anyway?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=defi...
"Squirrel!" works for dogs.
For Americans, it's: "Russians!".
Welcome back to the 1950s, folks.
Too bad that won't work for pigeons. I used to take light rail from a station near downtown -- and a grain elevator.
There were pigeons all over, and a lot of pigeon crap -- despite those spiky anti-roosting strips all over the bridge and platform.
Even if only a tiny fraction of 1% of the grain hauled to the grain elevator falls off, that's still enough to keep hundreds of pigeons fed.
I'm surprised some hawks don't take advantage of the easy pickings.
Is this the first year they've had mass firings after reviews?
If so, this might provide an opportunity for a clever and/or optimistic lawyer to file a class-action suit that contended this was just a layoff in disguise.
The suit might have a better chance if the annual reviews happened at various times throughout the year, sometimes more than once in a year.
Did I mention that the lawyer would have to be optimistic?
In the past, I never asked a prospective employer if they did stack ranking (aka forced distribution aka totem pole). Maybe I will, next time around.
This is probably a good thing for workplace rating sites to routinely report, but so fare I haven't seen it
There was a "Dilbert" cartoon about interviewing someone to discover if they would be a bad employee, but a good candidate for the bottom of the heap ranking.
At that price, you want quality, too?
Fake Russian ads, rather than fake Democrat and fake Republican ads?
I'm not sure there's anything to get excited about.
Did I miss something?
Sometimes TBBT is too unsubtle. If "Product placement on Big Bang Theory" were a drinking game, I'd be drunk on my ass well before the end of the show, some episodes. But I'm kinda a lightweight.
Sometimes a product mention almost seems like something the brand would pay to not see broadcast. "I want to be disappointed in the order George Lucas intended." "Not some fancy place like Olive Garden."
Or maybe I don't fully understand marketing.