I don't think we could know up front what good life indicators are. Basically we see if anything looks odd or promising, form theories, and investigate more to strengthen or falsify such theories with new data and tests.
Mars' goofy and teasing soil and rock chemistry* should have taught us that searching for life is likely a long and winding road (barring a direct landing party with a big lab).
* This includes seasonal changes that looked like vegetation seasons to early telescopes (turned out to be seasonal dust patterns), Viking's "positive" results, the "magnetic worm" meteorite, methane detection, etc. Bill Clinton even jumped the gun with a "life!" press release.
I disagree that brevity and readable are the same thing. Further, "structurally simple" is in the eye of the beholder. And, if one cannot find staff that can grok lots of heavy abstraction, then the organization gets stuck. Lower abstraction may cost more (less efficient), but is less likely to create outright "stuckage".
I've heard this "expressiveness" claim multiple times, but have yet to see a realistic and practical code example. There have been examples where the code was more compact, but the readability of such code was either questionable or highly subjective.
I remember the "OOP everywhere" fad. Turned out OOP works well in some parts of applications but not others. Functional Programming probably has a similar profile in that it's a nice tool to have for certain applications or parts of applications, but that doesn't mean it should be everywhere. The skill is in knowing when to use it and when not to.
Perhaps, but they are not going to start backing Republicans. Democrats are still more union-friendly than Republicans. The down-side of a two-party system is that you often have to vote for the perceived least evil rather than vote for what you really want.
And just wait until things like the "Cadillac plan tax" kick in - when the US government starts taxing health benefits. That'll really piss people off.
Those with fancy stuff who hate taxes probably already hate Democrats anyhow.
Personally, I find it morally reprehensible that the richest nation on the planet chose to deny basic medical care to its citizens. Sorry, but your brand of libertarianism is too close to sociopathy in my book.
But 255% for the same coverage sounds smelly. I bet there's fine-print in the prior plan that excluded a lot of stuff. Before ACA, plans didn't have to meet a minimum set of requirements and often skimped on a lot of things.
Let's see the birth certificate! I mean that pre-255% plan. Show it!
The budget was close to normal at the end of last century. Remember in an interview roughly around 2001 when a certain you-know-who stated, "Reagan showed that deficits don't matter"? Well, their behavior showed they meant it.
did you think that the national debt magically came 'poof' into being sometime in 2001?
The seeds for it were planted then: increased spending for prescriptions and silly wars and decreased tax revenues per legislation starting around 2001. (Not to mention financial deregulation which magnified the crash.) Thus, we had no budget-related safety margin when a 1929-sized crash hit such that we had to burn the furniture to keep the economic furnace lit.
They could be UFO's popping in from another dimension. All joking aside, I wonder if the data actually points to meteors or just a general disturbance because otherwise the disturbances could be some unknown phenomena.
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I don't think we could know up front what good life indicators are. Basically we see if anything looks odd or promising, form theories, and investigate more to strengthen or falsify such theories with new data and tests.
Mars' goofy and teasing soil and rock chemistry* should have taught us that searching for life is likely a long and winding road (barring a direct landing party with a big lab).
* This includes seasonal changes that looked like vegetation seasons to early telescopes (turned out to be seasonal dust patterns), Viking's "positive" results, the "magnetic worm" meteorite, methane detection, etc. Bill Clinton even jumped the gun with a "life!" press release.
Simple, the Slashdot Empire is falling
I disagree that brevity and readable are the same thing. Further, "structurally simple" is in the eye of the beholder. And, if one cannot find staff that can grok lots of heavy abstraction, then the organization gets stuck. Lower abstraction may cost more (less efficient), but is less likely to create outright "stuckage".
More on this kind of debate:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreatLi...
In other words, we didn't get a concrete answer.
I've heard this "expressiveness" claim multiple times, but have yet to see a realistic and practical code example. There have been examples where the code was more compact, but the readability of such code was either questionable or highly subjective.
I remember the "OOP everywhere" fad. Turned out OOP works well in some parts of applications but not others. Functional Programming probably has a similar profile in that it's a nice tool to have for certain applications or parts of applications, but that doesn't mean it should be everywhere. The skill is in knowing when to use it and when not to.
No, that's methane. Wrong gas.
Right next to your two-year supply of matches and lighters.
It was mostly meant as a joke; a poke at Warhol's style.
Perhaps, but they are not going to start backing Republicans. Democrats are still more union-friendly than Republicans. The down-side of a two-party system is that you often have to vote for the perceived least evil rather than vote for what you really want.
"O-care costs me a lot" versus "taxes and/or handouts are evil" are 2 different issues. I thought the topic was the first.
"Large amounts"
I meant show the contract for the prior plan.
And $159 is not a lot of money, relatively speaking. If you were dirt poor, you'd likely qualify for big subsidies.
Those with fancy stuff who hate taxes probably already hate Democrats anyhow.
Personally, I find it morally reprehensible that the richest nation on the planet chose to deny basic medical care to its citizens. Sorry, but your brand of libertarianism is too close to sociopathy in my book.
But 255% for the same coverage sounds smelly. I bet there's fine-print in the prior plan that excluded a lot of stuff. Before ACA, plans didn't have to meet a minimum set of requirements and often skimped on a lot of things.
Let's see the birth certificate! I mean that pre-255% plan. Show it!
That's DC, not ET
On those other planets, Noah took a shortcut and only put one of each kind on the boat.
It's called Planet Imagine in the John Lennon star system. I think it's near the star Beatles Juice.
Print me a beer and pizza; THEN we are talkin'
When you only have 16 colors, everything looks like a Warhol work.
The budget was close to normal at the end of last century. Remember in an interview roughly around 2001 when a certain you-know-who stated, "Reagan showed that deficits don't matter"? Well, their behavior showed they meant it.
The seeds for it were planted then: increased spending for prescriptions and silly wars and decreased tax revenues per legislation starting around 2001. (Not to mention financial deregulation which magnified the crash.) Thus, we had no budget-related safety margin when a 1929-sized crash hit such that we had to burn the furniture to keep the economic furnace lit.
you see, our posterior end got welded to Iraq.
They could be UFO's popping in from another dimension. All joking aside, I wonder if the data actually points to meteors or just a general disturbance because otherwise the disturbances could be some unknown phenomena.