malbertife

Italy is a net contributor to the EU.

The Lotka-Volterra equations are a simple and popular mathematical model of this kind of dynamics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...

I'm sure a spinning disk would make it worse, but I do have an SSD (admittedly, a 2013 model and not the fastest). To answer the grandparent, build 15063 and I'm using the laptop keyboard.

I tried a few times and I can consistently make Windows miss at least the first keypress if I haven't opened the Start menu in a few minutes.

What I hate even more is when I press the Windows key and start typing an application's name into the Start menu textbox, and it misses the first two or three keypresses.

Actually that is Java, not Clojure.

The pension rights you earn will follow you (at least in EU):

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/retire/state-pensi...

"small things like the difference between the staff in Worten and Mediamarkt"

I'm curious, what do you mean? Having bought from both stores (in Lisbon) I have noticed no difference.

Edit: never mind, I just saw your answer to this comment's sibling.

"Also, look at men vs women. How many wars have women started compared to men? Nearly every war, genocide, and conflict has been caused entirely by men. Why is it that we never see the female versions of Hitler, Gangis Kahn, Napoleon, Stalin, etc... Because evolution has created extremely violent men (not all of us of course)."

One thing is to say that a war is unlikely to be started by a woman (your historical observation); another thing is to say that a woman is unlikely to start a war (your claim). That's because, historically, the people in a position to start a war have mostly been men.

If W means that a given leader (i.e., someone who could have started a war if he or she wanted to) was a woman and S means that the leader started a war, by Bayes' theorem the probability of the leader having started a war, given that she was a woman, is

P(S|W) = P(W|S) P(S) / P(W)

Likewise for men (if ~ means negation):

P(S|~W) = P(~W|S) P(S) / P(~W)

You observed that P(W|S) is much smaller than P(~W|S); but to compare P(S|W) and P(S|~W) you also need to take into account how much smaller P(W) is than P(~W).

The Wire is excellent fiction, not a simulation.

Something similar ("Needle Park") was attempted in Zurich in the eighties: a place where drug sale and use was officially tolerated. It was closed after a few years. Opinions are mixed.

Isn't

* lottery A = 0.9 chance of $1000 + feeling somewhat smart and 0.1 chance of 0 + feeling very stupid

more accurate?

"For example, he opposed the RU486 "morning after pill" on a conscience vote"

In fact, the RU486 is a abortion-inducing pill effective in the first 2 months of pregnancy [1], while "morning after pill" is a common name for emergency contraception pills effective for the first few days after intercourse [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifepristone [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception

Italy is one (limit is 5000 Euros):

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/italy-banning-cash-transact...

You need to compute the ratio between the number of successful experiments and the number of total experiments.

If what you want to know is the probability of having the 5 guys paired with 3 men and 2 women (which is what I think the grandfather meant), the answer is

C(4,3) x C(10,2) / C(14,5) = about 9%

(number of ways to pick 3 men out of 4 x number of ways to pick 2 women out of 10 / number of ways to pick 5 people out of 14, /regardless of the order/)

If you want to know the probability of having the pairs made exactly in the order the grandfather mentioned, it's

P(4,3) x P(10,2) / P(14,5) = about 0.9%

(as above, but considering the order)

where C(M,N) and P(M,N) are the number of combinations and permutations of N items out of M, respectively.

(edit to change multiplication symbol, asterisk doesn't show)

It contains my home address, mobile number and so on, so I'd rather not post it.

But it looks like a plain article class LaTeX document, except that I changed the margins and the font (Palatino instead of Times). If you want a more sophisticated layout you can customize the LaTeX-specific options; they'll be ignored when you export to other formats.

I use org-mode in Emacs: it's the fastest and most convenient way of editing a document's structure I've found so far, and I find myself doing that a lot with my resume. Then I export to LaTeX, HTML, or plain text.