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Well, we may or may not be overusing the planet's resources; people have been saying that since Malthus in 1798, when the world population was less than 1 billion. The fact remains that global food production per capita has been consistently growing since 1960, at a rate of about 0.5% per year.

However, this is entirely unrelated to climate change caused by CO2 emissions, which is what the Paris agreement covers.

Unfortunately, the article you cite attempts to conflate the two, and freely admits that most of their "ecological footprint" is down to CO2 emissions. This is quite literally comparing apples and oranges, and dressing it up in fancy language to make it pass peer review.
You couldn't stand mentioning the woman's rights and gay rights as rights stuff... How are you sure those are the right thing? I think your ideology should not be mixed into scientific topics, as climate change.

I don't brag about my religion in the topic, nor should you.
you might just not noticed but i would almost bet that it did happened to you as well. we noticed it after 1.5years of using mandrill. and only because one our user contacted us directly and was patient to cooperate with tracking the problem. after that we discovered plenty other cases. and communicating with mandrill revealed that it is how their system in fact works. anyways if you are happy with Mandrill good for you, but remember my warning: you are living in a dream that all the emails marked by mandrill as delivered are in fact delivered.
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Anyone who's bought recently with a full mortgage will experience a burst bubble not as a haircut but as a plummet into negative equity. I suppose you could argue that they took on the risk, and other such risk-takers have made big profits. Personally I think it's crazy that individuals are expected to make these huge gambles. But people don't seem to take seriously my suggestion of nationalising land ownership...
You are right, good monitors are more expensive than TVs. Especially monitors that can do 23.976Hz and 24Hz refresh without resampling.

But why do you need a 4k monitor, to use as a TV, since all current material is 1080p? Better buy 4k when there is a need for 4k, then the price will be lower.
The potential impact of a hacking crime is massive. Millions to billions of dollars and a real impact on people's lives for well over 2-3?! years. If someone suffers identity theft, invasions of privacy, etc. the direct impact could easily go beyond a few years and secondary impacts almost surely would.

The sentencing guidelines make available remedies for those cases - and I can imagine large scale attacks which should be punishable by life in prison.

Do the merits of this case warrant max staycations in prison? I dunno, but the government should have the flexibility for the lulz.
> I find it difficult to find anyone who uses more than Excel and eighth grade level mathematics (=arithmetic, and a little bit of algebra, statistics and programming)

Statistics and programming is way way higher than eighth grade from what I've seen.

But taking his premise above, then I think no one is arguing for the general public to learn more than the aforementioned eighth-grade maths. It's just that the majority of the population isn't any where near that. Specifically in statistics, programming, and a bit of logical reasoning, I might add (around modus tollens).

I might be mistaken here, but I've always thought that when someone talks about "higher maths" the public should learn, it is capped around calculus I, or some basic linear algebra. Which is like half a year more study over the list of the author.
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I think this gets it all wrong by considering mathematics to be a set of discrete tricks, like 8th grade arithmetic, algebra and statistics.

Mathematical thinking and problem solving are skills that need to be honed and kept up to date. You do that by learning new methods and tricks constantly. There are disciplines that require similar skills and have a positive cross-over to other skills. Computer science theory is very obvious application. Cryptography is another. The "tricks" in CS or crypto are not taught in school for everyone, yet having the background in math will undoubtably help getting into CS and crypto.

What I wish that mathematics education would get through to students is a better understanding on how mathematical methods are used in a lot of domains. I see too much of a divide between "math guys" and "non-math guys", with the latter group sometimes getting quite anti-intellectual when it comes to math (even if they seem smart otherwise). Even the author of this article has a very dismissive tone, if we just teach people how to apply 8th grade math and Excel, who will be the guys developing Excel and other tools?

Even if math education is learning new methods and tricks, they are not the skill that should be learned. It's the methodology of what it takes to master a new method - learning how to learn.

Just to give a counter point: I regularly use math skills, advanced calculus, arcane series formulations and spherical and hyperbolic trigonometry. A lot of these methods were not taught to me in formal education, but my education gave me the tools to tackle these advanced subjects on my own by reading text books and old research papers.
put that in your profile, not as a submission...
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I have a feeling (but no facts at hand) that Win95 wouldn't boot on an Opteron. Even though x86 was more or less constant, BIOS and associated base drivers did change over time.

For comparison, PC-DOS 2.1 wouldn't be expected to boot on a Pentium either. It's not a reasonable expectation even in compatibility-obsessed traditional Wintel land.
I think society would be a lot better if BASIC math and statistics would be better understood.

How many times do you see a study posted here with N=23 and people say "the sample size is too small" when it's clearly not? How many people ask for a card deck change to change their luck? How many times do people read a poll like 49% +/- 3% vs. 43% +/- 3% and conclude the two candidates are statistically tied?

I could probably keep going with just examples from statistics/probability/combinatorics. But there are other examples of people misunderstanding math.

I mean I wonder how many people even understand that 0.999... = 1?
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This has so much more to do with the lack of easily monetizable applications of complex mathematics. I'm sure a significant number of engineers and STEM professionals feel (as I do) that they're deliberately eschewing those subjects not for a lack of interest, but rather as a response to market demand.

The market of people who are genuinely passionate about complex subjects in math and science is saturated relative to available opportunities. It makes more sense for an intelligent person to take the lower overhead and more achievable approach to becoming a value creator (e.g. full stack engineer with a strong focus on product development) than waste time competing against the countless PhDs vacating academia.

I use a similar argument for avoiding the ML/Deep Learning hype train. At a large corp, that job should be left to people who've spent a lot of time mastering the subject. And if you're using ML heavily in an early stage company and don't have a PhD, you may very well be out of your depth competitively or wasting your time optimizing prematurely.

But even ignoring all of that: anyone who's either spent time on or interacted with a data science team understands how difficult it is to create value with ML as well as how intangible the value that's created can often be. I worked at a fairly well known company that told clients we have a data science team and could use ML, knowing full well that the team rarely if at all manages to generate meaningful insights, because dropping buzzwords is an essential branding tool.

Here's a better approach and the crux of why higher math is often superfluous: the best way to create value is to specialize in problem-solving first principles and remain amenable to either adopting new skills ad hoc or hiring to fill any skill deficiencies.

The caveat: if you're passionate about STEM and that's a higher priority than 'creating value' in a deterministic and practical way (and maybe it is and that's perfectly fine and even reasonable), then by all means indulge in it. But it's important to align your expectations about what you want to do with yourself with the way in which you spend your time. A lot of pain arises in misconceptions around the question of what we want and the reality of what we're doing.
Yep. Anywhere. Perhaps it's paywalled outside USA?
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> Now what about fish eaters? If you can't taste the difference between red snapper and tilapia, why ever buy red snapper? Obviously there are environmental and health reasons to choose one fish species over another, but is that doesn't seem to explicitly be the problem here.

Read up on Tilapia farming a bit and you'll never touch the stuff again in your life. The majority of farms pump the frys with hormones to force them all to be males (vs random mix of male/female). This is because males are generally larger, grow faster, and leads to a more uniform product. Not every farm does this (I think there are some in the USA that don't) but the bad apples have poisoned the entire barrel for me. Since I can't tell where it's coming from I won't eat it. Tis a shame too as it's a relatively hardy fish and it can be raised on a purely vegetarian diet.

Taste wise I'm not sure if I could tell the difference between real Grouper and whatever is the knockoff. Would be a fun test to do at home as Grouper tastes awesome. If there's a cheaper substitute that's just as good, I'm all for it!
Probably not? I'd be perfectly happy to see BSD deployed more regularly in these kinds of environments.
All python ints/longs are boxed (there's a cache for like -5 to 256). The interpreter often checks if the digit count is 1, in which case it can fall into basic integer addition of C. This is an implementation detail tho; if I do type(x) I shouldn't have to check for both int & long. So they store that information as part of the object type, rather than in the type of the object

In the past some have implemented tagged integers for Python, good benchmarking results but the devs argue 'Good Python code should be more symbolic; it shouldn't be doing too much integer math' which also comes up where the interpreter doesn't implement specialized code for floats, instead they argue that if you need fast floating point you should be using numpy or a C extension

Tagged ints: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/04613...
From what I've heard in Austria this protection from getting sued only applies if you're not a trained professional like a paramedic or doctor.
And traditional EU almost came out of existence by it. I wonder whether your move was great for those who lived there (indians, right) or just destroyed their culture by new unbounded type. This talk may be not very ontopic for HN though, sorry for it.
In the US, a 'duty to act' generally only exists if someone is 'on the clock'.
To be fair, 0.9999... = 1 is not quite basic. You need to know things like infinitesimals, the distinction between value and representation of numbers etc.
Suggests the article, yeah. I honestly don't buy that - citation needed. After some time STEM-educated people might not always remember exactly how what they learned works, sure. I certainly don't, for one. But I'd be hard pressed to believe they don't remember it exists - i.e. or at least remember enough to google their way into rediscovering it and finding a shortcut to solve their problem.
FYI I have never been in USA.
I wouldn't have cussed, but I totally agree with you.

AOL keywords is spot on here, the whole concept is rubbish.
> Linux always has GUI bugs that never gets fixed. The Ubuntu dashboard randomly stops finding applications. The cursor disappears after suspend/resume. Both of those have had open bug reports for years. This is considered part of the Linux experience.

Maybe some would consider stuff like this a part of the Ubuntu experience, but I have encountered neither bug on Debian using XFCE, GNOME or i3. You should know that Ubuntu has a different desktop from most other Linux distributions and that Ubuntu is not representative of the whole – in a similar way that any GUI bug in Android is irrelevant for most other Linux distributions.
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Sorry - the molesters? Not a word one customarily sees associated with air travel. Will you elaborate?

Edit: And this is what I get for checking HN before I've had my first cup of coffee. Of course you refer to TSA.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, it's straight to the point. Not a fan of Dilbert myself, but still...
I guess that in hierarchical structures of companies there is a varying degree of using(ACC/lateral PFC). Probably people higher up in the structure should have mastered having a strong PFC than ACC, people in the lower structure are like the ox-butchers, who ideally should have mastered one or few tasks which might not be so easy for people handling many tasks together.
>Consider that cybercrime could potentially turn off power for half of United States, launch a nuclear missile or deorbit a satellite over a populated area.

Any such acts would be criminal on their own, not sure what point you're trying to make besides emotional appeal.

> Ability to say break into a say a Ubuntu or Red Hat binary server could server malware to hundreds of organizations including Governments.

If you actually did something with such access it shouldn't be very hard to find suitable crimes to charge you with other than breaking to the servers.
I think the author is both right and wrong. Maths skills is a litmus test that reflects the scientific education in general among the population.

Given the anti-intellectual and antiscience trends in US and Europe - where US seems to lead the way, it's at least one way of monitoring the situation.

As a practical skill, anything beyond 5th grade is rarely used, except if in rather specialized professions, but learning math most probably gives you tools for abstract reasoning, and probably changes how you look at the world.
What is the generalised rule/case where small sample sizes are sufficient?
Do you also think that Ford and GM should get more money when someone sells a used car, or that builders should get more money every time a house gets sold?
How would this same conjecture apply to History, Literature, Biology, Physics, etc etc?

How much of any advanced learning do most people use in their day to day lives? All of it in the periphery would be my counter-conjecture.

I was always taught trade schools were for learning a particular skill. College was to equip you with the knowledge and ability to think logically required to have a better life.
You'd think so but in plenty of those households when you cross the threshold you might as well be in the middle east. I've had plenty of contact with Muslim families living in the West and the range is very wide, given that these girls were not allowed to swim with the boys it isn't a wild guess at all that their family is on the traditional side of the spectrum.
> after spending a day outside and coming home, you'd find your nose to have black debris.

Travelling in to London zone 1 still does this for me, and yes it was unsettling when I first moved to London...
At my workplace, we have about 60 scientists and engineers. The author's observation is accurate, that most people never use math beyond Excel and 8th grade math. They also never use most of the theory that they learned in their science (including CS) and engineering educations.

The typical career arc is to get through college, then sit down at a CAD workstation, or programming terminal, and forget all of your math and theory within a few years or even months. Time that isn't spent doing CAD, is spent on testing, troubleshooting, dealing with vendors, and so forth. A few of them start prepping for management. It's becoming increasingly common for engineers to start their MBA training as soon as the company agrees to pay for it.

Truth be told, outside of a few life-support-critical applications, most design is done by trial and error. Very little real engineering gets done.

And the products we make, are designed to provide similar benefits in another profession. We are told by management: "Our customers don't want products that require them to think. They want something where a person with an 8th grade education can push a button and get an answer."

When a math or theory problem arises, they take it to the resident "math person." That's me. I'm glad that I spent the better part of my youth learning math and theory, because I'd be as suited to the CAD workstation as I'd have been to working at a loom, or a lathe, 100 years ago. For the most part, the people who emerge as "math people" are the ones who were interested in it as an end unto itself, in the first place. I didn't study math because I expected it to be necessary for a job. I studied math (and physics, programming, electronics, etc.) because I was interested in those things. They were for me an escape from preparing for my career.
Lobot would have been the better Star Wars reference.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lobot
I love red snapper, I'd like to think I can tell the difference between that and Tilapia (or any other fish). I guess it depends on how you eat your fish. In general I usually buy whole red snapper and can obviously see what it is, it is also quite bonny than most fish.

Unfortunately most American fish preparation methods (deep fry, heavy saucing) basically destroys the fish flavor so people may not develop the ability to differentiate.
No, it assumes that less are created than are taken, not that none are created at all.
I gladly pay for free software, and donate to several groups of developers developing free software. Maybe I'm in the minority, but at least I stick to my principles -- free software for me is about freedom (I contribute to many projects that I use every day, which I wouldn't be able to do without free software). Price is irrelevant.

In addition, I work for a free software company -- everything I work on is done in the open and all of our customers have freedom when they use our software. So I really do practice what I preach, and encourage others to follow suit.
I recall a recent UK Prime Minister (Tony Blair) saying exactly the same thing.

Classic free-rider problem.
Even if math education is learning new methods and tricks, they are not the skill that should be learned. It's the methodology of what it takes to master a new method - learning how to learn.

Learning to learn what? Nobody taught me how to learn how to learn.

I taught myself how to program. I read books, watch tutorials, and so on.

There's no systematic methodology to the whole thing.

Maybe until recently I found a guy who have a 'systematic methodology' for learning. I have yet to use it myself.
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Being able to pay tax lawyers that are so great that you basically don't have to pay taxes kind of breaks the concept of taxation though.
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This is basically what happens on Shark Tank a lot. "X% royalty until I am paid back"

Or a book deal.
> If something like that is technically possible, and there's a demand, someone will write that code.

That isn't necessarily true, though it's an easy fig leaf to hide behind when you're doing something that is unique and that helps the dark side.

I've heard it said by people that were actively developing malware and spam software.
It's also not strictly, theoretically true. More an 'for all intents and purposes' kind of thing.
Most people are happy to accept 0.33333... is the same as one third and from there it's a quick hop to 3*0.3333...
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That probably hurts a lot less than having someone else do it.

I used to take allergy shots as a child, and was greatly surprised to discover how much less it hurt to stick myself than to have a nurse do it - obviously not because of any better technique (I was eight), but rather because, controlling for noxious stimulus, you experience less pain when you're the one applying it to yourself.

I have no real idea why this is, but would guess it might be related on the one hand to having less bandwidth free to experience pain because you need to concentrate on what you're doing, and on the other hand being in control of what's going on to a greater extent than in the case where someone else is doing it to you. I also have no real idea of how to find studies corroborating the anecdote in a more systematic way, but I strongly suspect they exist and hope someone here will do a better job digging them out of PubMed than I have.

In any case, if it's a choice between having an intraosseous needle or dying, well, bring on the drill! I still have a few things left to do in this life. But I've had broken bones, too, and the pain from such an injury is unique and astonishing in a way that leaves me in no doubt of how unpleasant an intraosseous needle would be.
"I can't find a good source of DRM free books"

Do a Google search for:

"Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" site:amazon.com

(of course, add any additional keywords you want).
I suppose you are too young to have used Altavista? Or Yahoo "curated" link lists?
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At the level of individuals, this article is complete bullshit. There is a WORLD of difference between an average mathematician/physicist/engineer and an average English literature graduate solving the same problem with the same tools. Those disciplines teach and/or reinforce A) critical thinking (question assumptions, look for counter-examples), B) decomposing problems to smaller problems, C) pattern recognition. The average software engineer would be somewhere in the middle, he's probably as good as a mathematician at A) and B), but probably not C). Even amongst reasonably mathematically educated people (say physicists), you see a difference in C) depending on the depth of their math education. There is a difference between people who know eg fractions, and people who know eg fractions AND integrals, and people who know eg fractions AND integrals AND group theory, in how often these individuals look at a situation and go "I've seen something like this before". Acquiring some areas of more advanced maths isn't a quantitative increase like doing bigger sums. In terms of the patterns that you see around you, it's a qualitative jump. It's like being able to use your eyes AND having IR goggles: you will see some aspects of the world very differently.

At the level of societies, maybe. Can a poor society with lots of mathematicians "beat" a society with lots of wealth and infrastructure and comfortable niceties but whose individuals can only use Excel? Probably not, certainly not in < 1 generation. It certainly didn't turn out great for the soviets.
Guess he forgot about the point of the EU’s single market.
Many whole aircraft have been lost to human error, most often outside the cockpit. I don't think it's too hard to believe as a reason for the medical kits not being restocked.
No, it is true in the strictest sense of the word.