Comment Chinese medicine (Score 1) 1271
It has been said, that once upon a time in China, you paid the doctor when he kept you healthy, not when you fell ill.
It might make sense to expel people from your practice in that setting.
It has been said, that once upon a time in China, you paid the doctor when he kept you healthy, not when you fell ill.
It might make sense to expel people from your practice in that setting.
-pkd
I'm particularly upset about the rise of "X, but with computers/internet/iWindows" patents.
Clearly, if something is done on paper, it is possible to do the same digitally, where is the innovation in implementing it?
Basically, Germany considered only two options:
- close all nuclear plants down as fast as possible
or
- keep all old nuclear plants running for as long as possible
Trying out completely new designs was not considered, especially since new experimental designs showed problems.
Also consider that Germany is densely populated compared to the USA, and not very large either. A nuclear accident would be a severe blow to Germany, as well as a failure to properly store nuclear waste.
Considering that IBM has initiated a global outsourcing program, starting in Germany, it is easy to see how automated judging of code quality can go wrong:
Outsourced coders tend to code much more to spec, not using their brain and being sensible, and if automated judging of code quality results in an increase of payments, they will add 10 lines of comments to a x+=1 if the automated judgement likes that.
In addition, when I'm finished finding some bug, very often the resulting code will be shorter than the offending code. This is consistent with the true and tried concept that lines of code are proportional to the number of bugs. I wonder whether automated analysis is smart enough to detect such activity.
I think the difference the pdf sees between German and English is that when someone asks you what you will do today, in German it is fine to say "Ich gehe ins Theater", leaving the listener to decide whether the future is meant, while in English you are supposed to say "I will go to the theatre".
I'm not used to regression tests enough to comment on any particular regression coefficient in the tables.
However, the data seems to be awfully clustered, see page 12. Of 76 countries considered there, fully 59 are rated low FTR(no future required). Most datasets like that would exhibit artifacts in the form of notable regression coefficients.
In addition, I believe an expert in statistics would probably find that if you study such a dataset long enough, you will find some such correlations even if the dataset was generated randomly.
The graph on page 19 looks convincing at first, but take away the outliers Luxemburg and Greece, Luxemburg because it is bascially a huge city where you can earn lots of money by being the head of a shady company that is used by rich Greeks to evade taxes, and Greece, where the state's financial situation is very bad.
The next 8 countries basically take turns between low FTR and high FTR, it isn't much different for the next ten, and then it ends bascially in a block of low FTR
Also, as mentioned in the paper, if data suggests that natives using compass directions know better where north is, why would languages discerning less between future and now work the other way around?
I believe him, but a sample size of three languages is not convincing at all.
What is being said in there might be correct as far as things have been considered.
There are some problems though:
First, don't name something in a way that conflicts with the usage of the word by physicists. Example: If perceived matter is really something else that moves through something else, don't name the "something else" "matter".
Pro physicists go to great length for that reason, consider the weird names for the quarks.
Suggestion: One might be better of with prefixing everything with "dark": dark matter, dark ether, dark third field.
Regarding the calculations being made, it is really hard to tell for me whether there are new results matching existing measurements, or whether any matches are the results of tuning the free parameters that are available such that the calculations seem to match reality.
Finally, to have the new theory to be considered, it has to be able to predict something new, or at least it will be necessary to reproduce existing laws to some extent, the same way that Einsteins theories includes and matches Newtons theories for low speeds.
So the new theory will have to match Einsteins theories at least under some conditions, approximately, or as a corner case.
Good luck in your affairs!
Space can both be finite and infinite with regards to some other metric. There is no contradiction. For example consider the inside of a sphere without the shell, commonly referred to as an "open ball":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_(mathematics)
Clearly the open ball is limited, yet regardless of how close you come to the shell (but stay inside the ball), you can always come closer.
Also, there does not need to be a containment, but the nonexistance of something.
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.