I had a tutoring student with a teacher who gave zero credit on three correctly-answered test problems, because the student did not show her work. The problem? "Give the point slope form of the linear equation shown in the following graph." I told the girl's mom there was nothing I could do. The math wasn't the problem, the teacher was.
There is much debate over I Cor 7:21. Some scholars disagree with your interpretation. If memory serves, there are two different translations of the actual text that are in direct opposition to one another. If I gave half a shit, I would look it up. But the point is that here is a religion which really didn't have much negative to say about slavery, or wartime slaughter of civilians. WTF?
While I agree that I am not bound by the OT, I think that Paul's reasoning was questionable. The law is fulfilled so we don't have to follow it anymore? What does that even mean?
BTW Paul was batshit crazy. He really thought the second coming was going to be like tomorrow. So most of his writing should be taken in that context. He advocated not getting married. He told slaves just to enjoy their lot in life. These things make a modicum of sense if the BMIC is coming back next week to destroy the non-believers and summon all us righteous folk to his fairy land.
Of course Jesus wasn't completely sane, either. He suggested self-mutilation if you were prone to check out women. Yeah, that's smart. Stick a fork in your eye instead of look at boobies. So much for being the temple of God.
The best example of a fairness algorithm is an old one used with siblings. Tell one kid to divvy up the candy/cake/toys whatever, and let the other kid choose which half they want.
Greece used something similar when trying to get people to honestly report the value of their antiquities. If they listed it for a price the government thought was too low, the agency could buy it for that price. I wish local governments would do something like that with home values. If they want to tax me for a house worth more than what I can get for it on the open market, then I should have the right to sell it to them at that price.
There's a difference between firing somebody for being gay, and not wanting to process payments for somebody doing something you think is illegal. Now if Stripe fired one of their employees for owning a firearm, then you might have a point.
Yeah, because it's so easy and cheap to get a moving van, or rent a car, put down money on a new apartment, and pay for gas to get where your going! It makes perfect sense. I wonder why more poor people haven't ever thought of moving before. This will really change the world! Thank you for your insight, AC.
There's a reason 5% unemployment or so is considered full employment. At some point you're only left with people who are unemployable. In certain parts of the country you can go thorough a 25-man crew in one shift, firing one person after another. At some point you run out of warm bodies and you have to hire two idiots to fill what should be one person's job. You just pray that they don't end up costing you more than just their wages (bad product, injuries, etc.). I'm not even talking about skilled workers. I have had people who literally couldn't figure out how to sweep the floor.
So I guess this becomes an ethics question. Is there any job that working full time is not worth the amount of money it costs to rent an apartment and feed yourself? I would think so. Then the question becomes, what do we do about it? Tell the guy he's got to share a room? Yeah maybe; that's how the working class got by in tsarist Russia.
Or maybe we can realize there's enough $$ floating at the top that a little redistribution wouldn't kill anybody. I don't know if I want to live in a completely communist society, but I don't think your kids should have to choose between new school clothes and food if you are working full time at minimum wage. Yeah, I know: cable TV and cell phones, yadda yadda. But believe it or not, some American kids with working parents do go hungry.
While 99.9% is high, you will spend much more than 40% of your time determining income if you own a business. You might not spend all that time at once, either. It will be spent throughout the year going through P&Ls, inventory, etc. I don't own rental property, so I can't speak to that one, but I'm sure it's in the same vein.
Also, I call shenanigans on the whole, "flat rate is easy" battle cry. Flat tax says T=r*I (where r is the flat rate). There are any other number of one liner equations that are not "flat" but are just as trivial to solve. T=r*I(1-e^(-I/R)), where r is a max rate and R is whatever the psychological threshold of "rich people who should be paying a lot."
Who pays full price for something like this up front?! Across an international border?! I would never sign T&C's without some recourse for a non-functioning product. Things like paying customs and shipping, installation and support costs, that's all divvied up ahead of time.
Wanting 100% cash up front is just not how business is done. You might pay some portion of it, but you never shell out the whole price unless you have some other leverage. Especially on something that is months out. In this case Robocoin had all the leverage. Even if they did ship a functioning ATM, they could flip a kill switch any time they wanted. I would have paid at most 30% up front, written proof of functionality prior to shipment, some payment at time of shipment, some payment at time of installation, and withhold a symbolic 5-10% for at least 30 days to make sure all the bugs are worked out.
OT - I'm no deletionist, but I was a wee bit surprised to see Mr. Wilkinson's company had a Wikipedia article. Seems like this guy might just be after some limelight.
It might not be legal. But they do it all the time. Why do you think there are so many websites asking if debt collectors can do that? It's because the people they're doing it to want to know if it's legal.
But it's not just governments who tax. Once an organization becomes large enough, they can tax individuals. Look at banks foreclosing on people that didn't actually have a mortgage through them. Or recording companies in Canada getting a tax on blank CDs that you never used as a recording media. Or my personal favorite, power companies with a low monthly rate "guaranteed" for 12 months, who then get special written permission from the government to charge more during that period, but I cannot get out of my contract and find a new power provider. These companies act like governments. They are bigger than some governments. They should be beholden to the populace the same as governments. If a company can claim first amendment religious rights, why shouldn't they respect the rights of others?
While I agree with you on the whole shame thing, I think people should absolutely have control over what parts of their body they want the rest of the planet to see. This cuts both ways: if a lady wants to walk around topless, that should be OK too. *crosses fingers*
This sort of reminds me of that case a couple of years ago when that guy bought his son a used Xbox or something for Christmas and it had porno on it. The kid was probably waaaaay more mortified and traumatized by his dad's disproportional response than by the actual event. It just seems that by sensationalizing everything, we're giving more power to the rabblerousers. Somebody cuts off somebody's head? I know! Let's make machetes illegal!
There are always ways to deflect something like this, to respond to it without giving power or credence to little shits. Jennifer Lawrence could have just said "Man, nice photoshopping job. It's sad you have such little social life that you have time to photoshop all these actresses."
I've wondered about the bulbs I got for the can lights in my kitchen. They specifically say they're rated for can mount, but I'll be surprised if they last more than a year. The CFLs supposedly rated for can lights only lasted 6-8 months. I assume that was a thermal issue, since two different brands had the same lifespan. I love the color of the newer white LEDs, waaay better than CFLs.
You are wrong. You may know whether you have paid or not, but the little computer telling your car not to start doesn't. There is a used car dealership in the Houston area well known for having these installed on their cars. They apparently have a high frequency of false positives. They always attribute it to problems with their database, but I suspect they just have lazy people doing their accounting.
They were the primary choice for sharing photos amongst photographers back before Yahoo! bought them out. Yahoo! systematically destroyed everything that the photographers liked. At every turn they ignored the feedback of PAYING users. Some of the most talented artists dropped out and went to deviantart, or some others I can't remember the name of. These days they switch to Facebook, or just started hosting their own photos.
Exploring new artists became challenging and tedious. It seemed like the only way to make the front page was to have some washed out HDR crap. The community has dwindled dramatically; maybe not in numbers, but the sense of actually belonging to a community of like-minded artists has certainly faded. I hardly post, and most of my contacts hardly post anymore either. I primarily use it for a place to keep family photos instead of my art photography.
So "100% more" and "2 times more" both mean "double"? My understanding when I was learning word problems many, many moons ago was that "N times more" means (N+1)*original value. On the other hand "N times as much/many" meant N*original value. Are they teaching it differently these days? Not trying to be cheeky, just concerned that the language has changed without me knowing it.
The phrase "three times less" is frequently used to mean "one third of," but it is ambiguous. I don't think there's much consensus anymore on whether it's acceptable practice or not. I personally hate it, but I've even seen it on word problems from major test makers.
But really in general reporting, there are much more egregious math/science mistakes, like "exponential," where using the wrong phrase leads to a misrepresentation of the facts, not just a misunderstanding of semantics. Another common problem is when talking about probability things. I have heard respectable people say "most people..." when referring to, say, 40%. Let's focus on these blatant errors first, then we can move on to bad units like "volts of energy." These are all things I'm sure everybody on/. can agree to hate.
Incredibly rude disgusting fat slob insulted me and my family. Needed a table for five wife and kids in line midway to counter, I decide to sit down (just had hip replacement) and this idiot approaches and tells me to order or get out. This punk needs for someone to adjust his attitude.
Response from the owner:
This is the fat slob. I wanted to put some context around Mr Scaccia's review. First, no disputting it, I'm fat. I take issue with the rude and slob parts. I shower every day. I say please and thank you. But, fat, unfortunately I can't dispute that.
OK, let's talk about our interaction yesterday. I was in the dining room as I am almost every Saturday and Sunday when we start to get really busy. We had a medium sized line (probably about 15 people) and we were seating groups as they ordered so that everyone could get a table before they get their food. I call it Kindergarten rules. if someone is in front of you, they get to go first. I came around the corner and Mr S was at a table that had been put together for 8 people as was a man caring a baby carrier who was also looking for a table for a larger group. I asked Mr S if he had ordered yet and he said he hadn't and I told him that we would get him a table once his group had ordered.
I couldn't get anything more out of my mouth. Mr S said "well if we can't have a table then we will just leave." I did not approach Mr. S and tell him to order or get out, I said that we would get him a table once his group had ordered. After he proclaimed that if he didn't get a table right then that he would leave, I told him to have a nice day.
This really isn't a position I ever like to be put in. We don't have a line to the door every saturday and sunday because we are bad at what we do. The line is there because we take care of our customers and all their requests, just as we would have taken care of Mr. S. I was still going to try to save this relationship, but what Mr. S did next shocked me so much that I froze. He threw his menu on the table, moved toward me and belly bumped me out of his way and stormed off. (I'm not sure if he noticed the video camera that hopefully caught all of this directly next to the flat screen in the corner as he pushed me out of his way)
I then proceeded to help the group of 8 with the baby and the group of 7 with the elderly couple who had waited in line and ordered, get their tables after they had ordered, as I did for the next hour and a half every other large group who walked in and calmly waited in our long but quickly moving line. I wish I had a much bigger restaurant and a much smaller stomach but the facts are the facts.
Mr S would have hopefully spent this morning back in Louisiana writing a great review about this little mom and pop restaurant in Houston if he had only let us do our job, but he chose to give me an ultimatum where I can't win. Let him take a table before two groups who were in front of him, making a family with small children and a baby stand and wait or the group with the elderly couple stand and wait. I feel I did the only thing I could and wish Mr. S the opportunity to reflect on this situation and see the big picture.
Why not just do a mass cancellation of service and show these corps that we have that control over them? We all have internet on our phones
Do I really need to spell this out for you? I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with corn. It is also the most common answer to any question having to do with the internet.
My wife says, "Men are waffles. Women are spaghetti." But as for Wikipedia not lending itself to flow, you've never played the random walk game. Start on a Wikipedia page, click the nth link on that page. Say the third link that's not a pronunciation or disambiguation link. Go from there. You'll be surprised how you can go from Pokemon to Pipe Organs in the same walk. [citation needed]
I think it's a fun way to waste a lunch hour when there's not good articles on/.
Sounds like a bad Wikipedian did not follow some basic rules: Assume good faith (AGF); Please do not bite the newcomers (BITE); No personal attacks (NPA). These are very important, and your example illustrates why.
Allow me to apologize on behalf of my fellow Wikipedians. We police this sort of behavior as much as we can, but it becomes tiresome. We have lost many good editors over the years because of crap like this. It's sad.
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I had a tutoring student with a teacher who gave zero credit on three correctly-answered test problems, because the student did not show her work. The problem? "Give the point slope form of the linear equation shown in the following graph." I told the girl's mom there was nothing I could do. The math wasn't the problem, the teacher was.
There is much debate over I Cor 7:21. Some scholars disagree with your interpretation. If memory serves, there are two different translations of the actual text that are in direct opposition to one another. If I gave half a shit, I would look it up. But the point is that here is a religion which really didn't have much negative to say about slavery, or wartime slaughter of civilians. WTF?
While I agree that I am not bound by the OT, I think that Paul's reasoning was questionable. The law is fulfilled so we don't have to follow it anymore? What does that even mean?
BTW Paul was batshit crazy. He really thought the second coming was going to be like tomorrow. So most of his writing should be taken in that context. He advocated not getting married. He told slaves just to enjoy their lot in life. These things make a modicum of sense if the BMIC is coming back next week to destroy the non-believers and summon all us righteous folk to his fairy land.
Of course Jesus wasn't completely sane, either. He suggested self-mutilation if you were prone to check out women. Yeah, that's smart. Stick a fork in your eye instead of look at boobies. So much for being the temple of God.
You would be surprised at how popular a topic this is amongst economists
Now that's a smart algorithm!
Greece used something similar when trying to get people to honestly report the value of their antiquities. If they listed it for a price the government thought was too low, the agency could buy it for that price. I wish local governments would do something like that with home values. If they want to tax me for a house worth more than what I can get for it on the open market, then I should have the right to sell it to them at that price.
There's a difference between firing somebody for being gay, and not wanting to process payments for somebody doing something you think is illegal. Now if Stripe fired one of their employees for owning a firearm, then you might have a point.
Yeah, because it's so easy and cheap to get a moving van, or rent a car, put down money on a new apartment, and pay for gas to get where your going! It makes perfect sense. I wonder why more poor people haven't ever thought of moving before. This will really change the world! Thank you for your insight, AC.
There's a reason 5% unemployment or so is considered full employment. At some point you're only left with people who are unemployable. In certain parts of the country you can go thorough a 25-man crew in one shift, firing one person after another. At some point you run out of warm bodies and you have to hire two idiots to fill what should be one person's job. You just pray that they don't end up costing you more than just their wages (bad product, injuries, etc.). I'm not even talking about skilled workers. I have had people who literally couldn't figure out how to sweep the floor.
So I guess this becomes an ethics question. Is there any job that working full time is not worth the amount of money it costs to rent an apartment and feed yourself? I would think so. Then the question becomes, what do we do about it? Tell the guy he's got to share a room? Yeah maybe; that's how the working class got by in tsarist Russia.
Or maybe we can realize there's enough $$ floating at the top that a little redistribution wouldn't kill anybody. I don't know if I want to live in a completely communist society, but I don't think your kids should have to choose between new school clothes and food if you are working full time at minimum wage. Yeah, I know: cable TV and cell phones, yadda yadda. But believe it or not, some American kids with working parents do go hungry.
I really don't have the answers.
LA, what are you waiting for ?? ;-)
American Idol to get cancelled?
While 99.9% is high, you will spend much more than 40% of your time determining income if you own a business. You might not spend all that time at once, either. It will be spent throughout the year going through P&Ls, inventory, etc. I don't own rental property, so I can't speak to that one, but I'm sure it's in the same vein.
Also, I call shenanigans on the whole, "flat rate is easy" battle cry. Flat tax says T=r*I (where r is the flat rate). There are any other number of one liner equations that are not "flat" but are just as trivial to solve. T=r*I(1-e^(-I/R)), where r is a max rate and R is whatever the psychological threshold of "rich people who should be paying a lot."
Who pays full price for something like this up front?! Across an international border?! I would never sign T&C's without some recourse for a non-functioning product. Things like paying customs and shipping, installation and support costs, that's all divvied up ahead of time.
Wanting 100% cash up front is just not how business is done. You might pay some portion of it, but you never shell out the whole price unless you have some other leverage. Especially on something that is months out. In this case Robocoin had all the leverage. Even if they did ship a functioning ATM, they could flip a kill switch any time they wanted. I would have paid at most 30% up front, written proof of functionality prior to shipment, some payment at time of shipment, some payment at time of installation, and withhold a symbolic 5-10% for at least 30 days to make sure all the bugs are worked out.
OT - I'm no deletionist, but I was a wee bit surprised to see Mr. Wilkinson's company had a Wikipedia article. Seems like this guy might just be after some limelight.
It might not be legal. But they do it all the time. Why do you think there are so many websites asking if debt collectors can do that? It's because the people they're doing it to want to know if it's legal.
But it's not just governments who tax. Once an organization becomes large enough, they can tax individuals. Look at banks foreclosing on people that didn't actually have a mortgage through them. Or recording companies in Canada getting a tax on blank CDs that you never used as a recording media. Or my personal favorite, power companies with a low monthly rate "guaranteed" for 12 months, who then get special written permission from the government to charge more during that period, but I cannot get out of my contract and find a new power provider. These companies act like governments. They are bigger than some governments. They should be beholden to the populace the same as governments. If a company can claim first amendment religious rights, why shouldn't they respect the rights of others?
While I agree with you on the whole shame thing, I think people should absolutely have control over what parts of their body they want the rest of the planet to see. This cuts both ways: if a lady wants to walk around topless, that should be OK too. *crosses fingers*
This sort of reminds me of that case a couple of years ago when that guy bought his son a used Xbox or something for Christmas and it had porno on it. The kid was probably waaaaay more mortified and traumatized by his dad's disproportional response than by the actual event. It just seems that by sensationalizing everything, we're giving more power to the rabblerousers. Somebody cuts off somebody's head? I know! Let's make machetes illegal!
There are always ways to deflect something like this, to respond to it without giving power or credence to little shits. Jennifer Lawrence could have just said "Man, nice photoshopping job. It's sad you have such little social life that you have time to photoshop all these actresses."
Or is telling someone know to direct and not passive aggressive enough?
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I've wondered about the bulbs I got for the can lights in my kitchen. They specifically say they're rated for can mount, but I'll be surprised if they last more than a year. The CFLs supposedly rated for can lights only lasted 6-8 months. I assume that was a thermal issue, since two different brands had the same lifespan. I love the color of the newer white LEDs, waaay better than CFLs.
You are wrong. You may know whether you have paid or not, but the little computer telling your car not to start doesn't. There is a used car dealership in the Houston area well known for having these installed on their cars. They apparently have a high frequency of false positives. They always attribute it to problems with their database, but I suspect they just have lazy people doing their accounting.
They were the primary choice for sharing photos amongst photographers back before Yahoo! bought them out. Yahoo! systematically destroyed everything that the photographers liked. At every turn they ignored the feedback of PAYING users. Some of the most talented artists dropped out and went to deviantart, or some others I can't remember the name of. These days they switch to Facebook, or just started hosting their own photos.
Exploring new artists became challenging and tedious. It seemed like the only way to make the front page was to have some washed out HDR crap. The community has dwindled dramatically; maybe not in numbers, but the sense of actually belonging to a community of like-minded artists has certainly faded. I hardly post, and most of my contacts hardly post anymore either. I primarily use it for a place to keep family photos instead of my art photography.
Why you gotta drag Texas Republicans into this? It's not like they're any worse than any other deep red state.
So "100% more" and "2 times more" both mean "double"? My understanding when I was learning word problems many, many moons ago was that "N times more" means (N+1)*original value. On the other hand "N times as much/many" meant N*original value. Are they teaching it differently these days? Not trying to be cheeky, just concerned that the language has changed without me knowing it.
The phrase "three times less" is frequently used to mean "one third of," but it is ambiguous. I don't think there's much consensus anymore on whether it's acceptable practice or not. I personally hate it, but I've even seen it on word problems from major test makers.
But really in general reporting, there are much more egregious math/science mistakes, like "exponential," where using the wrong phrase leads to a misrepresentation of the facts, not just a misunderstanding of semantics. Another common problem is when talking about probability things. I have heard respectable people say "most people ..." when referring to, say, 40%. Let's focus on these blatant errors first, then we can move on to bad units like "volts of energy." These are all things I'm sure everybody on /. can agree to hate.
My favorite bad review response ever:
Review:
Incredibly rude disgusting fat slob insulted me and my family. Needed a table for five wife and kids in line midway to counter, I decide to sit down (just had hip replacement) and this idiot approaches and tells me to order or get out. This punk needs for someone to adjust his attitude.
Response from the owner:
This is the fat slob. I wanted to put some context around Mr Scaccia's review. First, no disputting it, I'm fat. I take issue with the rude and slob parts. I shower every day. I say please and thank you. But, fat, unfortunately I can't dispute that.
OK, let's talk about our interaction yesterday. I was in the dining room as I am almost every Saturday and Sunday when we start to get really busy. We had a medium sized line (probably about 15 people) and we were seating groups as they ordered so that everyone could get a table before they get their food. I call it Kindergarten rules. if someone is in front of you, they get to go first. I came around the corner and Mr S was at a table that had been put together for 8 people as was a man caring a baby carrier who was also looking for a table for a larger group. I asked Mr S if he had ordered yet and he said he hadn't and I told him that we would get him a table once his group had ordered.
I couldn't get anything more out of my mouth. Mr S said "well if we can't have a table then we will just leave." I did not approach Mr. S and tell him to order or get out, I said that we would get him a table once his group had ordered. After he proclaimed that if he didn't get a table right then that he would leave, I told him to have a nice day.
This really isn't a position I ever like to be put in. We don't have a line to the door every saturday and sunday because we are bad at what we do. The line is there because we take care of our customers and all their requests, just as we would have taken care of Mr. S. I was still going to try to save this relationship, but what Mr. S did next shocked me so much that I froze. He threw his menu on the table, moved toward me and belly bumped me out of his way and stormed off. (I'm not sure if he noticed the video camera that hopefully caught all of this directly next to the flat screen in the corner as he pushed me out of his way)
I then proceeded to help the group of 8 with the baby and the group of 7 with the elderly couple who had waited in line and ordered, get their tables after they had ordered, as I did for the next hour and a half every other large group who walked in and calmly waited in our long but quickly moving line. I wish I had a much bigger restaurant and a much smaller stomach but the facts are the facts.
Mr S would have hopefully spent this morning back in Louisiana writing a great review about this little mom and pop restaurant in Houston if he had only let us do our job, but he chose to give me an ultimatum where I can't win. Let him take a table before two groups who were in front of him, making a family with small children and a baby stand and wait or the group with the elderly couple stand and wait. I feel I did the only thing I could and wish Mr. S the opportunity to reflect on this situation and see the big picture.
Brock Silverstein Pecan Creek Grille
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Why not just do a mass cancellation of service and show these corps that we have that control over them? We all have internet on our phones
Do I really need to spell this out for you? I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with corn. It is also the most common answer to any question having to do with the internet.
I think it's a fun way to waste a lunch hour when there's not good articles on /.
Sounds like a bad Wikipedian did not follow some basic rules: Assume good faith (AGF); Please do not bite the newcomers (BITE); No personal attacks (NPA). These are very important, and your example illustrates why.
Allow me to apologize on behalf of my fellow Wikipedians. We police this sort of behavior as much as we can, but it becomes tiresome. We have lost many good editors over the years because of crap like this. It's sad.