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Yeah I think as long as gdp/capita is rising at a steady rate concerns over non-normalized gdp growth are alarmism and bad numbers.

What is the gdp growth rate normalized against population? Or better yet normalized against working age population? I can't help but feel like much of what we are seeing is just demographics.

Even for credit cards the processing cost is only ~0.25%, the rest ~1.75% is going to the bank which issues the credit card. For debit cards the issuing bank makes it's money other ways, generally by: 1) Not Offering rewards 2) Earning afloat on the money in your account 3) Charging...

I think the differential is a bit lower actually... According to this the average (for Visa/MasterCard) is 2% with 1.75% going to the issuer, which tends to be returned to the customer in rewards. So we're looking at a real price increase of ~0.25% for the liquidity benefits of using a credit...

It's a good story, probably a poor life lesson. On Topic: How much do references matter? I've been kicking around job hopping in the future and I feel like I'm in a spot where it would be very hard to provide a good sheet of references. The way my job works I'm relatively solitary and...

Technical Services for a large Healthcare IT shop. My degree was in math and I had zero experience.

To weigh in on the salary figure question... Isn't it, psychologically speaking, advantageous to put the first number out? And shouldn't you have a solid idea of what salary you want? So giving desired salary+5-10% seems reasonable to me... Anecdote time: After I graduated a year and a half ago...

I have been trying to view this election season as a spectator sport rather than jumping in and publicly supporting a candidate. I have to say it makes politics a lot more fun, at least for me... While watching this have formulated a slightly different version of the political compass chart...

I think it's fairly obvious that the North was the aggressor in the American civil war, not to say the North weren't the "good guys", but they were definitely the aggressor. Also I would be careful about using "lost territory" as too important of a metric. Iran suffered horribly in the...

I think strict liability is insane and a terrible idea, it's one of the things that I think Democrats would back away from very quickly if we sat down and thought about our larger values. I want you to instead consider a different crime, pirating movies/music. It made possible by a number of...

I've taken a very strong liking to Chai tea with espresso shots lately. Also cider and hard liquor with ginger (Moscow Mule/Dark and Stormy) are good bets.

Somewhat related question on dress. I work at a relatively large software company in a very technical customer support role. This company has no dress code, many people come to work wearing sweatpants, flip-flops, etc. Managers tend to dress neatly, but still often casually. I've seen my boss...

Exact twenty times gives... ...I'm not sure how that makes me feel.

I think it would be very easy to create hugely long problems, perhaps trivial depending on how strict we are about "using the same procedure". As far as a problem that can only be solved in infinite steps, that seems somewhat improbable to me. After all how would we differentiate such a problem...

I don't care to argue the point, though it certainly seems some are willing to take that flag, but I do think reactions Snowden and similar actions do show a very interesting generational divide. I'm not entirely sure why, but my generation seems to be much more supportive of SNowden/WikiLeaks...

Indeed, but just because you don't like epsilon arguments doesn't mean you get to change the definition of an open set. Of course there is a strictly topological definition of openness that doesn't require epsilon arguments, since it doesn't require the set to be a measure space. Of course it...

So apparently she just released a "reenactment" video of the alleged incident...:wtf: Link NSFW [/SPOILER]

There's a word for these..."Algebraic Numbers", it means something very different that "Rational Numbers" Everything you said is true, up to that sentence at the end. It is certainly true that the suprema of a set exists, but it absolutely doesn't have to be inside the set. And in the case...

0.99... is not a member of the set of expansions 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ... That is a fundamental misunderstanding which you apparently cannot move past.

Except that you haven't since the bolded portion of your proof is false. Consider the open set (0,1), since we are in a metric space this means that for every point x in (0,1) there exists an open ball centered at x wholly contained by (0,1). Now suppose x=0.99... and x is in (0,1), then for...