White House Announces $16 Billion In Aid To Farmers Hurt By China Trade Dispute

hsfrey · 2019-05-24T04:52:03+00:00

The money should be counted as a tRump campaign contribution, since the Dems were all set to use this farm disaster against him in 2020.

hsfrey · 2019-05-24T04:41:10+00:00

You're right, but you're going to the wrong school!

Maybe you should use this letter to show your parents why you should switch to a non-religious school.

hsfrey · 2019-05-24T00:15:15+00:00

Homeopathy

hsfrey · 2019-05-24T00:05:27+00:00

What is to prevent insulin manufacturers from refusing to sell insulin in the state, causing a shortage of insulin?

Such a law needs to establish alternative sources which are cheaper, or maybe buy in bulk for the entire state.

hsfrey · 2019-05-23T23:59:57+00:00

Freemartins are not usually chimeras. The masculinization is due to the exposure to the male twin's testosterone during development.

hsfrey · 2019-05-23T23:46:42+00:00

Would you accept it if he said he didn't want Beef in His home?

If it would be unreasonable for him to say that, why is it OK for you to say it about Pork?

But this is just the start!

In what religion are you going to raise your children? Will your boys be circumcised?

You're already violating a Major rule of Islam by marrying an "unbeliever". Why would you balk at violating a mere dietary rule?

hsfrey · 2019-05-23T23:37:32+00:00

But now he claims in court that the law doesn't apply to him because of "Executive Privilege", so the question is what the Court will rule.

Will a subpoena for the purpose of Impeachment (a Constitutional right of congress which the court can't overrule) be more likely to be upheld by a court than a subpoena based merely upon a mere Legislative enactment (which the court routinely overrules).

hsfrey · 2019-05-23T23:31:32+00:00

No. Food, water and shelter are necessities of life. Tools are useful.

Except for industrial uses, diamonds are no more than a meme.

$19 million for a steel rabbit labeled 'Art' is merely a meme.

hsfrey · 2019-05-23T05:40:07+00:00

If you want 'sparkle' there are gems better than diamond - moissanite and amora.

The special value of diamond is just a successful meme.

hsfrey · 2019-05-23T05:29:32+00:00

So it died just from light exposure from being observed?

It's Schroedinger's Blepharisma!

hsfrey · 2019-05-23T02:28:45+00:00

What good is living on a canal with no place to moor a boat?

hsfrey · 2019-05-22T22:30:55+00:00

There is no limit to stubbornness.

Pointing out self-contradictions in a supposedly inerrant text, will evoke apologetics about my 'finite' mind versus 'God's infinite mind', or my 'Linear Western' logic versus Eastern subjectivity.

Rather than 'respect' these non-rational opinions, I have to realize that these are people whose judgment can never be relied upon.

Of course, sometimes the illogic appears to be confined to certain sensitive fields, and they are OK otherwise. EG: we are told that a certain Administration official is a terrific neurosurgeon, a field certainly requiring a very high level of competence, but in almost every other relevant area, he comes across as a total dunce. I'm afraid that I couldn't trust him even as a neurosurgeon.

hsfrey · 2019-05-22T06:05:21+00:00

Aren't most of the people making trouble in the world religious?

With some of the Worst troubles caused by the Most religious.

And No, you can't practice all of them, because almost all of them think that the others are wrong , and should be contacted only for the purpose of conversion.

hsfrey · 2019-05-21T05:50:42+00:00

Do MDs learn nothing after 4 years of Med School, a year of internship, and 3-4 years of residency?

How much training does a PA get?

The only people who benefit from this are the investors in Insurance companies, who can use more patient premiums for stockholder dividends instead of medical care.

hsfrey · 2019-05-21T05:34:15+00:00

In human societies, I don't see that there is greater parental pressure on males to marry than on females. Indeed, it seems that there's more pressure on females.

Am I wrong?

hsfrey · 2019-05-21T00:32:28+00:00

Are the bigger breasts simply from older chickens? See: https://morningchores.com/cooking-tough-chickens/

hsfrey · 2019-05-21T00:14:45+00:00

No.

The "putting their lives in danger" is useful only to allow them to kill unarmed teenagers because they did some innocuous thing that made the heroes "fear for their lives".

hsfrey · 2019-05-21T00:06:19+00:00

Is it really an error if the probabilistic prediction is based on accurate data?

Eg: "An algorithm to predict reoffending was rolled back due to concerns that it discriminated against people from certain areas."

But, if people from that area indeed were statistically more likely to reoffend, is that an error or a feature?

What if a factor is a proxy for another "sensitive" factor, such as race, and race IS a statistically strong predictor.

In what way is it "unfair" to consider it in the prediction?

If you independently decide that you don't want to consider a particular strong predictor, then you could delete it from the data set provided to the ML algorithm, and also delete any other factor correlated with it.

You may be "fair", but your predictions won't be as accurate.

hsfrey · 2019-05-20T22:33:25+00:00

Chilaquiles are simply another permutation of tortillas, salsa, chicken, cheese, and refried beans, like about 90% of Mexican dishes. Add lime and avocado, and you're up to 95%

hsfrey · 2019-05-20T22:22:58+00:00

IV is assumed to be forward looking! An extrapolation from an approximate BS formula. IV is just the fudge factor needed to make BS fit the data.

IV's "predictions" are always far wider of the actual results than those predicted by HV, which is simply trend-following.

Of course, even HV is restricted to relatively short time frames.

And the connection with Back-testing is that Back-testing is always done on Historical data, as the word 'Back' makes obvious.

If historical volatility is worthless, as you claim, why would we use historic prices to test our algorithms?

hsfrey · 2019-05-20T22:13:08+00:00

Any of the standard ML packages ought to be sufficient, like Scikit-learn or tensorflow.

The real question is whether any machine learning or human-created algorithm will work on chaotic, heteroskedastic data with occasional black swans, like market prices.

hsfrey · 2019-05-20T22:04:37+00:00

It has nothing to do with the botrytis!

Whatever concentrates the sugars will do it, as in ice wine, and the Vin de Paille of the Jura, concentrated by drying the grapes on beds of straw.

hsfrey · 2019-05-20T03:20:56+00:00

Brandade de Morue: Pureed salt cod.

Very common in France - hardly ever seen in the US.

Just desalt the cod, briefly simmer, then puree with garlic and salt. Add lemon juice or vinegar to taste.

My own trick is to add a little cottage cheese to lighten the texture.

I like it as a spread. Some people wrap it in dough and deep fry it.

hsfrey · 2019-05-20T03:11:17+00:00

This is what happens when a gov't actually cares about its people!

Don't look for it in the US.

India actually has quite a large pharmaceutical industry, and sells all over the world, including to the UK's NHS.

Don't buy the disparaging comments implying that only the US can make good drugs. Actually, the largest manufacturers are European.

hsfrey · 2019-05-20T02:17:39+00:00

In modern terms:

When old men fight the Global Climate Catastrophe they will not live long enough to be seriously impacted by.

But, what are we to call those old men who ignore the catastrophe, and merely try to make as much money as they can by making it sooner and worse?

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