Most state universities used to be funded by public dollars, so tuition costs remained low. The subsidies dried up and were replaced with private loans. A lot of those loans didn't pan out. Banks started reducing the number of student loans they were offering and increased the eligibility requirements due to the high risk. When banks reduced their loan offerings for public schools, government stepped in to back them. Don't get me wrong, I agree that guaranteed loans drove the cost of tuition sky high, but that is a symptom, not a cause.
So what? People already make that choice. Working for 3 months to earn 6 months of unemployment is certainly not unheard of in Nevada, for example, and other forms of welfare, disability, Medicaid, social security, food stamp, Section 8 housing et al abuse still exists. Note, I'm not saying that abuse exists to problematic levels, just that we already allow people who really don't want to be productive to do exactly what the commonly cited downsite to UBI allows people to do. At least this way, we can more easily see what is going on, and if it causes problems, adjust policies more sensibly to continue society functioning.
Standard deviation is not an arbitrary choice. You take the variance of each measure from the mean, square that, add those together, then take the square root. If you take a sufficiently random sample, you will find a deterministic standard deviation.
It also doesn't matter that they set the average to 100, that's just the same thing in statistics as using 1 as the standard mean. What you are measuring is how far away a typical random sample is likely to be from the mean, so you get an idea about what the distribution looks like.
Until 1983, airlines prices were regulated by government with short flights receiving subsidies from long flights and Uncle Sam picking up the tab for unsold seats. Deregulation and the search for the ever-cheaper ticket price allowed companies to compete on price, and many companies chose to become more cost competitive by lowering their overall quality of service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are only 7 states that recongize common law marriage (http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/common-law-marriage.aspx). If you don't live in: Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Montana
New Hampshire
South Carolina
Texas
Utah
then you might want to have a contract in place if you plan to take advantage of the benefits of marriage, and there are quite a few. Even if you do live in those states, many of them only recognize common law marriage if you actively advertise your relationship status as married.
"A lot of people think so but they and you are actually completely wrong. There is a tremendous amount of judgement that goes into accounting and much of it is anything but rigid. Surprisingly few people actually realize how arbitrary many of the choices that go into accounting actually are."
I do work in the finance department of my company, and what are you saying is mostly true, to an extent. Basically, when a product or service is introduced, there are some relatively arbitrary choices that are made up front. The company can decide what methods they will use to account for specific expenses (inventories counted as first in, first out; first in, last out; or cost averaging, for example). Once you have a basic framework, each individual item has to follow the rules that you set up for yourself.
This can cause a few headaches for a company, because how they decided they will account for expenses often doesn't turn out to match how the realities of the business function. So you end up creating conversion tables, ETL processes to move transactional data from an operations perspective to a financial perspective, shadow IT tools to help people navigate these arbitrary complexities, etc. It is very difficult to change the underlying assumptions, so as the business changes, the rules become increasingly more aribitrary-seeming.
It would be nice if our accountants were actually software people and could update rules and definitions or restructure a complex system as necessary, but that isn't the world we live in. So in the mean time, people like me exist to sit down and talk to the accountants and write the rules that allow us to comply with SEC requirements, etc. Could that work be automated? Maybe. With current commonly available tools? Unlikely.
If Twitter was rigorous about collecting and curating the data transferred over their platform, in the same general way that SAP HANA attempts to use sentiment analysis, combined with location data and a few other interesting metrics, they could sell the aggregated data to companies as pre-packaged market research without needing to display advertisements themselves or selling user data directly.
average
av()rij/Submit
noun
1.
a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
"the housing prices there are twice the national average"
synonyms: mean, median, mode; More
You might be thinking of the arithmetic average, which literally just translates to mean.
Simple: They just stop selling single washers until inflation makes a single washer nearly as expensive as the lowest denomination of coin. Obviously if you need a single washer, three is even better!
Having worked in a call center (for AT&T, though I don't know if that's relevent here), I noticed that some employees were more than happy to bother understanding the products, services, policies, etc and use that information to genuinely help customers. Management would then set policies requiring that only scripted information be given to customers for "Quality Assurance" purposes (consistent experience between reps, discourage customers from calling in multiple times until they got a rep that knew what they were doing).
States are given a number of electoral college seats based on the number of representatives they have in Congress (both houses). The 2 per state for the Senate gives smaller states a more significant impact per person than larger states. This is intentional, designed to help curb mob-rule from more populated cities and ensure that the voices of the middle of America (flyover states) and the North East / New England states can have a voice heard and that all elections are determined exclusively by Texas, New York, and California. This has nothing to do with gerrymandering, which is a real problem that affects local governments.
I agree with the idea that it would be better if states split up their electoral votes based on percentage of their population voting, but for that to be effective, every state would need to enact such rules. Otherwise, the states that do this give up a significant fraction of their ability to influence national politics compared to those states that do not. I don't think the number of votes per state is the issue.
It seems to me like it would be more helpful to wait for specific proposals, and direct obstructionist behavior toward specifically the actions that you find objectionable. We've seen what happens when legislative bodies assume that everything someone spouts is garbage for the past 4 years, and I, for one, wasn't particularly fond of the result. How about we engage in less poisoning of the well and more constructive, rational behaviors?
Cash flow does not indicate profit. Profit is revenue minus expenses and short term liabilities. Accepting cash for services you are promising in the future will increase your cash flow, it will increase your revenue, but it will also add a new short term liability called "unearned income" (revenue for which you have a future obligation) and your profit will not be impacted by the transaction. Once you start purchasing the materials to satisfy the unearned income, you add expenses (negative cash flow) but remove an equivalent portion of the unearned income until you eventually satisfy the liability and can then report the remainder as profit.
In the latest revision of NewSpeak, we have found that having both a word and it's antonym is redundant, as the meaning can be replicated with the prefix "un". The phase you are looking for is therefore Doubleplus Ungood.
It seems to me that the availability of oxygen, water, organic matter easily convertible by our metabolism to energy, a magnetic shield, and a host of other goodies provided at no cost for us on Earth makes the analogy a little off.
Is using the features present in Excel now considered abuse? In my position, I see and create a lot of Excel documents specifically because I can create OLEDB connections to transactional systems, aggregate information, and create visualizations all in one place without having to go through the long, painful, and often flawed process of creating a data warehouse / data marts, creating SSIS connections between all the difference sources, then use another product such as Tableau or even SSRS to run the summaries. While all of that is getting set up, the organization gets no visibility into current trends, etc. It's significantly faster to get a dedicated report using scripts created in Excel, even if it's a much worse solution in the long run. From what I've seen, LibreOffice doesn't even have the capabilities to do this kind of work.
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Aspies are not a legally protected class.
I think the Americans with Disabilities Act disagrees with you.
Most state universities used to be funded by public dollars, so tuition costs remained low. The subsidies dried up and were replaced with private loans. A lot of those loans didn't pan out. Banks started reducing the number of student loans they were offering and increased the eligibility requirements due to the high risk. When banks reduced their loan offerings for public schools, government stepped in to back them. Don't get me wrong, I agree that guaranteed loans drove the cost of tuition sky high, but that is a symptom, not a cause.
So what? People already make that choice. Working for 3 months to earn 6 months of unemployment is certainly not unheard of in Nevada, for example, and other forms of welfare, disability, Medicaid, social security, food stamp, Section 8 housing et al abuse still exists. Note, I'm not saying that abuse exists to problematic levels, just that we already allow people who really don't want to be productive to do exactly what the commonly cited downsite to UBI allows people to do. At least this way, we can more easily see what is going on, and if it causes problems, adjust policies more sensibly to continue society functioning.
Standard deviation is not an arbitrary choice. You take the variance of each measure from the mean, square that, add those together, then take the square root. If you take a sufficiently random sample, you will find a deterministic standard deviation. It also doesn't matter that they set the average to 100, that's just the same thing in statistics as using 1 as the standard mean. What you are measuring is how far away a typical random sample is likely to be from the mean, so you get an idea about what the distribution looks like.
Until 1983, airlines prices were regulated by government with short flights receiving subsidies from long flights and Uncle Sam picking up the tab for unsold seats. Deregulation and the search for the ever-cheaper ticket price allowed companies to compete on price, and many companies chose to become more cost competitive by lowering their overall quality of service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are only 7 states that recongize common law marriage (http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/common-law-marriage.aspx). If you don't live in:
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Montana
New Hampshire
South Carolina
Texas
Utah
then you might want to have a contract in place if you plan to take advantage of the benefits of marriage, and there are quite a few. Even if you do live in those states, many of them only recognize common law marriage if you actively advertise your relationship status as married.
"A lot of people think so but they and you are actually completely wrong. There is a tremendous amount of judgement that goes into accounting and much of it is anything but rigid. Surprisingly few people actually realize how arbitrary many of the choices that go into accounting actually are."
I do work in the finance department of my company, and what are you saying is mostly true, to an extent. Basically, when a product or service is introduced, there are some relatively arbitrary choices that are made up front. The company can decide what methods they will use to account for specific expenses (inventories counted as first in, first out; first in, last out; or cost averaging, for example). Once you have a basic framework, each individual item has to follow the rules that you set up for yourself.
This can cause a few headaches for a company, because how they decided they will account for expenses often doesn't turn out to match how the realities of the business function. So you end up creating conversion tables, ETL processes to move transactional data from an operations perspective to a financial perspective, shadow IT tools to help people navigate these arbitrary complexities, etc. It is very difficult to change the underlying assumptions, so as the business changes, the rules become increasingly more aribitrary-seeming.
It would be nice if our accountants were actually software people and could update rules and definitions or restructure a complex system as necessary, but that isn't the world we live in. So in the mean time, people like me exist to sit down and talk to the accountants and write the rules that allow us to comply with SEC requirements, etc. Could that work be automated? Maybe. With current commonly available tools? Unlikely.
"I'm wondering why people making unauthorized withdrawls at the bank ..."
I think the preferred term is "undocumented withdrawals" these days.
"He would still have impersonated a woman, and created sevaral fake companies to gain their trust. So a bit of mail fraud as minimum."
Surely you mean male fraud.
If Twitter was rigorous about collecting and curating the data transferred over their platform, in the same general way that SAP HANA attempts to use sentiment analysis, combined with location data and a few other interesting metrics, they could sell the aggregated data to companies as pre-packaged market research without needing to display advertisements themselves or selling user data directly.
Seems like you're confusing the Slashdot management with the Reddit management... https://slashdot.org/story/16/...
average
av()rij/Submit
noun
1.
a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
"the housing prices there are twice the national average"
synonyms: mean, median, mode; More
You might be thinking of the arithmetic average, which literally just translates to mean.
Simple: They just stop selling single washers until inflation makes a single washer nearly as expensive as the lowest denomination of coin. Obviously if you need a single washer, three is even better!
"And then you need to fix it." Or, you know, continue voting in ways that you don't approve of.
Having worked in a call center (for AT&T, though I don't know if that's relevent here), I noticed that some employees were more than happy to bother understanding the products, services, policies, etc and use that information to genuinely help customers. Management would then set policies requiring that only scripted information be given to customers for "Quality Assurance" purposes (consistent experience between reps, discourage customers from calling in multiple times until they got a rep that knew what they were doing).
States are given a number of electoral college seats based on the number of representatives they have in Congress (both houses). The 2 per state for the Senate gives smaller states a more significant impact per person than larger states. This is intentional, designed to help curb mob-rule from more populated cities and ensure that the voices of the middle of America (flyover states) and the North East / New England states can have a voice heard and that all elections are determined exclusively by Texas, New York, and California. This has nothing to do with gerrymandering, which is a real problem that affects local governments. I agree with the idea that it would be better if states split up their electoral votes based on percentage of their population voting, but for that to be effective, every state would need to enact such rules. Otherwise, the states that do this give up a significant fraction of their ability to influence national politics compared to those states that do not. I don't think the number of votes per state is the issue.
It seems to me like it would be more helpful to wait for specific proposals, and direct obstructionist behavior toward specifically the actions that you find objectionable. We've seen what happens when legislative bodies assume that everything someone spouts is garbage for the past 4 years, and I, for one, wasn't particularly fond of the result. How about we engage in less poisoning of the well and more constructive, rational behaviors?
Cash flow does not indicate profit. Profit is revenue minus expenses and short term liabilities. Accepting cash for services you are promising in the future will increase your cash flow, it will increase your revenue, but it will also add a new short term liability called "unearned income" (revenue for which you have a future obligation) and your profit will not be impacted by the transaction. Once you start purchasing the materials to satisfy the unearned income, you add expenses (negative cash flow) but remove an equivalent portion of the unearned income until you eventually satisfy the liability and can then report the remainder as profit.
In the latest revision of NewSpeak, we have found that having both a word and it's antonym is redundant, as the meaning can be replicated with the prefix "un". The phase you are looking for is therefore Doubleplus Ungood.
It seems to me that the availability of oxygen, water, organic matter easily convertible by our metabolism to energy, a magnetic shield, and a host of other goodies provided at no cost for us on Earth makes the analogy a little off.
Just gonna leave this here http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id...
According to the graph you posted, 2016 levels (just under 63%, according to the graph) were last seen in 1977. That sounds like the 70s to me.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." Anatole France
Unless you use the trains to carry water and store those in some kind of reservoir at the top of the grade. Then you get a two-fer.
Is using the features present in Excel now considered abuse? In my position, I see and create a lot of Excel documents specifically because I can create OLEDB connections to transactional systems, aggregate information, and create visualizations all in one place without having to go through the long, painful, and often flawed process of creating a data warehouse / data marts, creating SSIS connections between all the difference sources, then use another product such as Tableau or even SSRS to run the summaries. While all of that is getting set up, the organization gets no visibility into current trends, etc. It's significantly faster to get a dedicated report using scripts created in Excel, even if it's a much worse solution in the long run. From what I've seen, LibreOffice doesn't even have the capabilities to do this kind of work.