So it's better to have a lower life expectancy, a higher child mortality rate and a bigger fiscal burden, and be ideologically pure than just implementing something that has been proven to actually work?
This touches on something I've been pondering this election. It seems to me somehow we have become more interested in preserving intangible aspects of government which cannot really be measured as opposed to the non-ethereal aspects like effectiveness. Take supreme court nominations for example, people seem much more concerned that "justice" is served (blindly mind you)- instead of the more tangible aspects of what sort of an interpretation of the constitution leads to the most effective and efficient government. Or take tax policy, we are much more concerned with some unmeasurable "fairness" as implemented in an inherently unfair system than we are with how effective the tax policy works to remove some of the income inequality and preserve the middle class.
The problem here is that right now we only have the one data point for the formation of life (our lonely blue marble). So we really haven't got a good idea of what is suitable for the formation of life, and so far our approach has been to assume that it must be pretty darn close to what we have here.
This planet belongs to the bacteria and it always has. We really don't stand a good chance of taking them down no matter what sorta stupid stuff we come up with.
The 'climate change' debate is just a distraction.
I'm not sure I can agree with this. The Government seems to take it pretty seriously. There have already been 2 humanitarian disasters as a result of climate change (Somalia and now Sudan). You see, when it stops raining people cant grow food, and hungry people tend to get angry after a while. So... a 10 year drought in Somalia is a real problem for the people that live there. And somehow the US seems to just "get involved" in these sorts of things from time to time. And when the analysis (done by guys a lot smarter than me) says that people are going to starve to death, well I guess I have to take the situation pretty seriously. Back to the point of the article though - CO2 is probably not the main problem in this particular case - it is pesticides. I see no slowing in the use of pesticides in the near future agriculturally and eventually we really will have to figure out a better way to keep bugs from eating our food. When vast estuaries (see the Mississippi delta for one) become totally dead, well it makes it harder and more expensive to get delicious fresh seafood. And I like sushi.
Id be hesitant to lock you into a platform before you even get started. That said, developing for the iPhone is pretty darn easy, if you are ready to get going, you can get off to a real quick start on it.
I couldn't agree more.
In a Neural Network Design course I took ~ 3 years ago (which consisted of a number of financial type folk), they were using incomplete training datasets to decide whether or not to give mortgages. They didn't have enough data on failed loans - why? because most home loans in the US up until then had not failed. People bought homes to live in, instead of as a risky investment which they intended to flip before their ARM reset. The model changed in the real world - and the computer models the analysts made didn't. But the models are not to blame here in my view. It is the fact that they depended solely on these models. If they had some consistency checks with the real world and actual people looking at the data, perhaps they wouldn't have just been stamped AAA without any real thought.
But it is a user driven game, and natural selection takes too long. Its more fun to let the user make a creature which is not even remotely adapted to its environment and just pretend that selection pressures don't exist. Otherwise the likelyhood of getting a creature to the "tribe" level, or even just past the "cell" level aren't very good.
Look, it is that very prohibition which inflates the price and causes these farmers to resort to growing poppies instead of say - wheat. All I'm trying to get at here is that this is absurd and ridiculous. This government is completely unwilling and unable to put in place reforms to reduce the poppy industry and replace it with something a little less devastating for the populace. Yet, they jump at the opportunity to put a journalist in jail for spreading some truth about human rights abuses in his own country.
When HDD's move to bigger sectors - there should be better error recovery reducing the probability of unrecoverable read errors. Right? Ok, I'm moving to ZFS.
Is very simple, and in fact I used it Today! - The Paper Ballot. I marked my choices, and turned it in. Voters in NJ should demand paper ballots, issue solved (sort of).
It would also seem to me that an arrhythmia would be much more likely to occur during such a procedure, since the heart (and generally the whole body) of the patient is under a significantly higher amount of stress during open heart surgery. But I guess the real answer would lie in the control system designed to predict the future behavior of the organ. Does it use a regular heartbeat to predict future behavior? Or, much more likely in my view, does the software use the ultrasound to predict future behavior independent of any particular "regular" heartbeat? I can say that if I were designing such a control system I would not want a set "regular" heartbeat as an expectation, I would much rather use the ultrasound to feed forward information from each chamber independently, so that even if there were an arrhythmia the compensation would not be directly effected.
Hardware manufacturers generally don't get to decide what 3rd party benchmarks get run on their drives. At least not from my experience. Unfortunately, performance on these benchmarks is what ultimately determines what we can charge vs. our competitors through OEM's (most of the distribution channel). So while the benchmarks may not be particularly indicative of real world performance, HDD's are tested against them because Dell, HP, Apple and the like use the benchmarks.
RTFA - Drives are in separate bays for easy access. HDD's would not fare very well in oil, even proprietary super secret oil. Quite the impressive piece of hardware. - Your not on trouble shooting does raise a good point though. Seriously, what do you do when you have a problem with this thing? And redundant PSU's? They must know that these will be the first to go, and a tremendous pain to replace.
Indeed he was - though I have always subscribed to the philosophy that something isn't funny if you have to point out that its a joke (I just thought the Jay-Z comment was too funny not to share).
The very uninformative block diagram indicates there are 3 "bioreactor" type things - i would wager at least one of the "intermediate carbon" things is sugar.
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So it's better to have a lower life expectancy, a higher child mortality rate and a bigger fiscal burden, and be ideologically pure than just implementing something that has been proven to actually work?
This touches on something I've been pondering this election. It seems to me somehow we have become more interested in preserving intangible aspects of government which cannot really be measured as opposed to the non-ethereal aspects like effectiveness. Take supreme court nominations for example, people seem much more concerned that "justice" is served (blindly mind you)- instead of the more tangible aspects of what sort of an interpretation of the constitution leads to the most effective and efficient government.
Or take tax policy, we are much more concerned with some unmeasurable "fairness" as implemented in an inherently unfair system than we are with how effective the tax policy works to remove some of the income inequality and preserve the middle class.
The problem here is that right now we only have the one data point for the formation of life (our lonely blue marble). So we really haven't got a good idea of what is suitable for the formation of life, and so far our approach has been to assume that it must be pretty darn close to what we have here.
This planet belongs to the bacteria and it always has. We really don't stand a good chance of taking them down no matter what sorta stupid stuff we come up with.
This already happened - we have already done enough to justify a whole new Epoch according to some- and even better we get to name it after ourselves. There is even a good chance that this will be accepted.
The 'climate change' debate is just a distraction.
I'm not sure I can agree with this. The Government seems to take it pretty seriously. There have already been 2 humanitarian disasters as a result of climate change (Somalia and now Sudan). You see, when it stops raining people cant grow food, and hungry people tend to get angry after a while. So... a 10 year drought in Somalia is a real problem for the people that live there. And somehow the US seems to just "get involved" in these sorts of things from time to time.
And when the analysis (done by guys a lot smarter than me) says that people are going to starve to death, well I guess I have to take the situation pretty seriously.
Back to the point of the article though - CO2 is probably not the main problem in this particular case - it is pesticides. I see no slowing in the use of pesticides in the near future agriculturally and eventually we really will have to figure out a better way to keep bugs from eating our food. When vast estuaries (see the Mississippi delta for one) become totally dead, well it makes it harder and more expensive to get delicious fresh seafood. And I like sushi.
Um, no. How precisely would Obama's tax policy hand over the means of production to the government?
I don't support the philosophy of socialism, which is really wealth redistribution from the working middle class to the lazy bums.
You have been grossly misinformed as to the nature of socialism and its implication on tax policy- you might find this useful.
Id be hesitant to lock you into a platform before you even get started. That said, developing for the iPhone is pretty darn easy, if you are ready to get going, you can get off to a real quick start on it.
Good call - we just send up 29 million american gladiator types with these things - problem solved.
I couldn't agree more.
In a Neural Network Design course I took ~ 3 years ago (which consisted of a number of financial type folk), they were using incomplete training datasets to decide whether or not to give mortgages. They didn't have enough data on failed loans - why? because most home loans in the US up until then had not failed. People bought homes to live in, instead of as a risky investment which they intended to flip before their ARM reset. The model changed in the real world - and the computer models the analysts made didn't. But the models are not to blame here in my view. It is the fact that they depended solely on these models. If they had some consistency checks with the real world and actual people looking at the data, perhaps they wouldn't have just been stamped AAA without any real thought.
I like my LeCroy - in fact it is quite awesome.
But it is a user driven game, and natural selection takes too long. Its more fun to let the user make a creature which is not even remotely adapted to its environment and just pretend that selection pressures don't exist. Otherwise the likelyhood of getting a creature to the "tribe" level, or even just past the "cell" level aren't very good.
You should check around for some more recent stats. like this
Look, it is that very prohibition which inflates the price and causes these farmers to resort to growing poppies instead of say - wheat. All I'm trying to get at here is that this is absurd and ridiculous. This government is completely unwilling and unable to put in place reforms to reduce the poppy industry and replace it with something a little less devastating for the populace. Yet, they jump at the opportunity to put a journalist in jail for spreading some truth about human rights abuses in his own country.
Producing most of the worlds heroin is just fine and dandy.
When HDD's move to bigger sectors - there should be better error recovery reducing the probability of unrecoverable read errors. Right? Ok, I'm moving to ZFS.
Is very simple, and in fact I used it Today! - The Paper Ballot. I marked my choices, and turned it in. Voters in NJ should demand paper ballots, issue solved (sort of).
It would also seem to me that an arrhythmia would be much more likely to occur during such a procedure, since the heart (and generally the whole body) of the patient is under a significantly higher amount of stress during open heart surgery. But I guess the real answer would lie in the control system designed to predict the future behavior of the organ. Does it use a regular heartbeat to predict future behavior? Or, much more likely in my view, does the software use the ultrasound to predict future behavior independent of any particular "regular" heartbeat? I can say that if I were designing such a control system I would not want a set "regular" heartbeat as an expectation, I would much rather use the ultrasound to feed forward information from each chamber independently, so that even if there were an arrhythmia the compensation would not be directly effected.
Hardware manufacturers generally don't get to decide what 3rd party benchmarks get run on their drives. At least not from my experience. Unfortunately, performance on these benchmarks is what ultimately determines what we can charge vs. our competitors through OEM's (most of the distribution channel). So while the benchmarks may not be particularly indicative of real world performance, HDD's are tested against them because Dell, HP, Apple and the like use the benchmarks.
RTFA - Drives are in separate bays for easy access. HDD's would not fare very well in oil, even proprietary super secret oil. Quite the impressive piece of hardware. - Your not on trouble shooting does raise a good point though. Seriously, what do you do when you have a problem with this thing? And redundant PSU's? They must know that these will be the first to go, and a tremendous pain to replace.
Obligatory Calvin and Hobbes quote: Sometimes I think the surest sign intelligent life exists in the universe is that none of it has come here.
Because Cooladge and Hoover were oh so brilliant? - just saying there is plenty of blame to go around.
Indeed he was - though I have always subscribed to the philosophy that something isn't funny if you have to point out that its a joke (I just thought the Jay-Z comment was too funny not to share).
said one of Mr. Krugman's Princeton associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "But now he's walking around like he's Jay-Z or something."
So... when is Hova gonna get the Nobel?
The very uninformative block diagram indicates there are 3 "bioreactor" type things - i would wager at least one of the "intermediate carbon" things is sugar.