Disclosure; my wife is from one such non-progressive cultures. She is a terrible cook, a terrible wife and a terrible mother. She is also terrible at math. And ugly.
Parenting skills probably don't hinge on whether a child is a math genius or not, but rather on the children being provided the opportunity to be functioning adults and to have the opportunity to excel at whatever they are interested in.
That's really true. Even beyond excelling at whatever they're interested in, I'm gratified that my kid grew up to be a kind, decent and generous person.
Disclaimer: When my daughter was in elementary school, she placed 2nd in the district in the Math Olympiad, but now that she is a teenager, she thinks I am a terrible parent.
Welcome to being a parent of a teenager.
My daughter went through a similar period. She listened to terrible music, ran with kids I didn't like, and basically accused me of being Hitler x (Stalin + Pol Pot). She's now about to finish up her PhD in Math and is a great person (due mostly to my wife, I think).
As the father of a teenage girl, your role is basically limited to glowering at prospective boyfriends and handing out currency. Take heart. It gets better.
The average duration of marriage in a country and the number of children born to single mothers is quite well documented in most countries.
If you look at those studies, what they actually say is more along the lines of, "In progressive societies, women are not considered chattel slaves and can actually divorce abusive husbands without being set on fire or having their heads chopped off."
There are societies in the world that are not becoming more progressive. You could probably find your way to one, but they'd almost certainly drag you through the street by your heels before making you the star of a beheading video.
Perhaps women from such progressive cultures make terrible mothers and wives, perhaps men from such progressive cultures make terrible husbands and fathers...
And perhaps you're just making those things up because talk radio has conditioned you to clench your butt cheeks whenever the word "progressive" is used.
Should do a comparative study of marriage stability as well!
Think actuarial tables. Every self-driving car is loaded with sensors and data recorders. All of this data will eventually get into the hands of the insurance companies.
With self-driving cars that data will instead go directly to Google, marketers and the US government.
While true, the cost of having a mathematician set up the process and evaluate the output is trivial compared to the cost of having someone work through those equations by hand, and someone else error check everything, and then redo the calculations several times because of trivial errors.
First, it's a misconception that all mathematicians only work by hand. Second, when you say, "set up the process", you are being very vague and almost dismissive. That "process" you refer to is the work of the mathematician.
Do you think computers come from the factory being able to correct for errors in a wave function? No, it's because mathematicians came up with KdV and BBM and all sorts of other elegant methods of doing it and then let the computers do the busy work that a computer is able to do these things.
Without mathematicians, engineers would just be piling rocks on one another, hoping it turns into a bridge.
These are people (the jury) who failed geometry in high school.
Let's all remember that this case never had to come before a jury. The sides could have chosen for it to be a bench trial, but I'm guessing both sides liked their chances better if they could find a group of people who really didn't understand what was going on.
Hell, they could have probably gone to arbitration and avoided a trial altogether.
I set up an NFS share and use Moode (Rune Audio is another fork) on a Raspberry Pi. This has solved my home audio streaming issues. It will take awhile to load a library that big, but it's a one-time thing.
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That's good. Please keep her busy until after the NBA finals.
If you have "popular YouTube prankster" at the top of your CV, the world is probably better off with you in jail.
One of the "B"s in BBM never touched a computer for anything but email. I know because I'm pretty good friends with him.
In their dreams.
You should hear what she says about you.
That's really true. Even beyond excelling at whatever they're interested in, I'm gratified that my kid grew up to be a kind, decent and generous person.
Welcome to being a parent of a teenager.
My daughter went through a similar period. She listened to terrible music, ran with kids I didn't like, and basically accused me of being Hitler x (Stalin + Pol Pot). She's now about to finish up her PhD in Math and is a great person (due mostly to my wife, I think).
As the father of a teenage girl, your role is basically limited to glowering at prospective boyfriends and handing out currency. Take heart. It gets better.
If you look at those studies, what they actually say is more along the lines of, "In progressive societies, women are not considered chattel slaves and can actually divorce abusive husbands without being set on fire or having their heads chopped off."
There are societies in the world that are not becoming more progressive. You could probably find your way to one, but they'd almost certainly drag you through the street by your heels before making you the star of a beheading video.
And perhaps you're just making those things up because talk radio has conditioned you to clench your butt cheeks whenever the word "progressive" is used.
What's stopping you?
You must be new here.
It most certainly IS important if you're responding to someone who claims the US has THE highest labor costs in the world.
If you want to have the discussion that US labor costs are too high, that's fine, but let's not start the discussion with a falsehood, OK?
The fact that this post was downmodded is proof that the Italians did 9/11.
The US has nowhere near the highest labor costs in the world. We're not even in the top 10.
Don't opine from ignorance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's what you've learned from this?
How about, "This year, the best sci-fi was written by women"? Is that outside your realm of possibilities, you rancid little gerbilfucker?
Decent, yes. Best, no.
I beat nightmare mode on my abacus.
With self-driving cars that data will instead go directly to Google, marketers and the US government.
Just wait until they invent the self-driving mobility scooter. You're gonna want to stay out of the Wal-mart.
First, it's a misconception that all mathematicians only work by hand. Second, when you say, "set up the process", you are being very vague and almost dismissive. That "process" you refer to is the work of the mathematician.
Do you think computers come from the factory being able to correct for errors in a wave function? No, it's because mathematicians came up with KdV and BBM and all sorts of other elegant methods of doing it and then let the computers do the busy work that a computer is able to do these things.
Without mathematicians, engineers would just be piling rocks on one another, hoping it turns into a bridge.
You're saying size doesn't matter?
Let's all remember that this case never had to come before a jury. The sides could have chosen for it to be a bench trial, but I'm guessing both sides liked their chances better if they could find a group of people who really didn't understand what was going on.
Hell, they could have probably gone to arbitration and avoided a trial altogether.
A pox on both their houses.
I'm not Trump because my wife is not a prostitute.
No. Social Security has been in effect since 1935. No additional power needed, thank you.
that little phrase there is a lie.
That's a lie.
You only have to look at the complete disaster that the IRA and 401k systems are bringing to know that historically, that is simply not true.
You just gave me an idea.