sickpig

On the other hand median just gives you the value that split the distribution in two exact parts.

Price/Income distributions are the perfect match if you want to see avg bias taken to its extreme.

e.g.

median of [2,2,2,2,2,2,2,100] = 2 average of [2,2,2,2,2,2,2,100] = 14.25

PP is used when a system, in this case the humanity, is at risk of total failure, i.e. ruin.

Quoting the first paragraph of the paper:

The precautionary principle (PP) states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing severe harm to the public domain (affecting general health or the environment globally), the action should not be taken in the absence of scientific near-certainty about its safety. Under these conditions, the burden of proof about absence of harm falls on those proposing an action, not those opposing it. PP is intended to deal with uncertainty and risk in cases where the absence of evidence and the incompleteness of scientific knowledge carries profound implications and in the presence of risks of "black swans", unforeseen and unforeseable events of extreme consequence.

Quick someone tell the federal reserve / ecb that QEs can't be used because they are an oxymoron (sorry can't resist).

That said it is possible to have an open ledger used to avoid duble spends without revealing anything about someone finance, just look for monero (xmr) or zerocash.

That said I think jurnos really like this kind of narrative and subject, since it's really appealing to theirs audience.

It's a sort feedback loop that time will help to "break".

There's still a somewhat annoying limitation that is related to the status of table partitioning in postgresql.

In fact the planner automatically choose the right child table, be it on the same db or into another server, for UPDATE and SELECT statements but not for INSERTs. This is a known limitation and there's active work to fix it but don't hold your breath though.

Joking aside, I think that using prisons just for isolation is a waste of tax payer money.

Just think about at the case at hand, we are wasting the money needed to keep this guy in jail for another 8 decades with no actual reasons.

edit: fix grammar