stone-monkey

There's really no way to know for sure what would have happened in this situation if other citizens had guns, but it's possible they could have limited some casualties. However, looser gun laws aren't such a simple issue. If you're considering the societal impact of gun proliferation, you have to weigh the pros and the cons.

While there may be more people available to stop gunmen because of the access to guns, increased access to firearms increases the number of firearm related accidents. This is really something that comes with the territory. No matter how much gun safety is taught, there's always going to be a distribution of people who fall outside of safe usage of guns. At that point, you have to consider whether, as a nation, does the number of casualties based on this incident outweigh the potential number of casualties based on firearm related incidents caused by increased proliferation of guns?

Can that really substitute as a placebo, though? I'd imagine you'd have to first verify that those teachings are no more effective than a placebo, which runs into the same problem as the original purpose of finding a proper placebo comparison.

Edit: Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. However, if they're testing the effectiveness of the meditation technique, then the teacher's belief in the method shouldn't affect the outcome of the result, assuming the technique is the same in both cases.

I find your viewpoint a bit strange. You acknowledge the problems your coworker faces, but instead of thinking of how to fix what is obviously a systemic problem, your solution is basically, "suck it up."

If you doubt the legitimacy of the post, I can confirm there was an event[0]. I was also there, and the blog post syncs up to what I remember from the event. I am surprised there isn't some official post event write up from the event organizers, though.

http://perl6releasetalk.ticketleap.com/perl-tech-talk/detail...

This was something that was tangentially addressed yesterday - the idea was that Perl 6 isn't meant to be a flavor of the week language, but something that could conceivably last for decades.

One interesting thing Larry mentioned related to that long term view was that due to Perl 6 being a multi paradigm language, it could potentially become the defacto teaching language in academia, because it fulfills the roles of OO, functional, procedural, and logic programming in a single package. Eventually, that new generation of Perl 6 learners would go on to form startups and create bigger and better things. I'm not sure if this will come to fruition, but I think it's certainly worth keeping an eye on.

I also attended the unveiling yesterday; If I remember correctly, I'm about 95% sure your assumption is correct.

I watched a documentary that talked about the Minnesota experiment and plateaus were also common despite the fact that participants were being fed insufficient calories. They had weird issues with their bodies like edema in their feet. Eventually, they found out that having a large meal occasionally would cause them to break through the plateau for reasons I forget.

I interpreted it from the perspective of the girlfriend. That is, her feelings on the the significant other being gone essentially the entire day.