Comment Re: Laws (Score 1) 822
Do I need to explain sarcasm to you?
Comment Re:Laws (Score 1) 822
Yeah right... as if this is a result of gun laws. Clearly those toddlers are mentally unsound. They need better mental health care!
Researchers Say Fukushima Child Cancer Rates 20-50x Higher Than Expected (ap.org) 143
New submitter JackSpratts writes: According to the Associated Press, "A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the government's position that more cases have been discovered in the area only because of stringent monitoring.
Most of the 370,000 children in Fukushima prefecture (state) have been given ultrasound checkups since the March 2011 meltdowns at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The most recent statistics, released in August, show that thyroid cancer is suspected or confirmed in 137 of those children, a number that rose by 25 from a year earlier. Elsewhere, the disease occurs in only about one or two of every million children per year by some estimates."
Most of the 370,000 children in Fukushima prefecture (state) have been given ultrasound checkups since the March 2011 meltdowns at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The most recent statistics, released in August, show that thyroid cancer is suspected or confirmed in 137 of those children, a number that rose by 25 from a year earlier. Elsewhere, the disease occurs in only about one or two of every million children per year by some estimates."
Comment Re:bullshit, guys don't get dates (Score 1) 181
AC gotta build up that Karma, yo.
Comment I went into programming with this mindset... (Score 0) 616
I hated math in high school. I took a couple of coding classes when I got to college, and soon thereafter got a few jobs programming. I didn't really enjoy what I was doing, so I went back to school.
Programming taught me how to think rigorously. With a mind geared towards precise thinking, I found math to be a breeze. Now... I'm a mathematician who spends all her time programming -- I can tackle problems that old pencil & paper mathematicians balk at.
You don't have to be good at programming to do math. You'll just suck.
Also, math is not just arithmetic and calculus, you incompetent fools.
Comment Re:dump trump (Score 1) 686
You can say that they don't agree on a good way forward 'til you're blue in the face, but that doesn't address the fact at hand: 10 of 10 climate scientists agree that defunding climate science to silence the alarm bells is not the most pragmatic solution. And that's what we've been getting from the Republicans.
Comment Re:dump trump (Score 1) 686
You seem to have mistaken my disdain for the right, for support for the left. I agree with your first two sentences completely.
Comment Re:dump trump (Score 1, Insightful) 686
Republicans have railed against the "liberal bias" of science. Because, for example, they view climate change as a political issue, and climate scientists overwhelming agree that anthropogenic climate change is real. This is not smart. And it appears that facts, themselves, have liberal bias: an informed voter is a Democratic voter. Smart!
Comment Re:keep honest people safe (Score 2) 177
I, for one, will be generating trillions of copies of the Virgin Killer cover art, to cover as much of the hash space as possible.
Comment Re:How? (Score 2) 253
Easy. You don't need to worry about upstream updates 'cause the system is unhackable.
Duh. Idiot.
Duh. Idiot.
Comment ssh -X (Score 1) 267
I puncture my company's firewall all the time, without any risk to my work computer, without any logging on my work computer, etc.
Comment Re:Will these phones run FirefoxOS? (Score 1) 93
Who cares? If their product existed, they'd have pictures and not 3d renderings. Idioth.
Comment Re:And it performs poorly..... (Score 1) 172
My vibrator is a sexual object. Treating it as a sexual object is not demeaning. It's a damned vibrator. Idiot.
Comment Re: And it performs poorly..... (Score 2) 172
Do you mean that images of naked porn stars are "safe for work" because the models are "at work"? Sounds legit.
Comment Re:Infinity (Score 1) 1067
Mathematicians don't know which rule has precedence for 0/0,
Ouch. +5, Informative indeed. <sigh>
Mathematicians can argue for any value at all, not just zero or one. This means that neither of your "rules" could take precedence.
Annnnd, on to your rules. Any number multiplied by zero is zero. Any nonzero number divided by itself is one. Of course, mathematicians are wont to generalize "number" to "field element". Go crack out on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)
