We Only Use 100% NATURAL Logarithms

rickman · 2013-02-16T02:19:27+00:00

Many years ago before everyone had PCs and before the Internet was a gleam in Al Gore's eye (lol) someone showed me a mock ad that touted how they used only 100% Natural logarithms along with other turns of phrases like "the UN-common log". I can't remember the entire spiel and a Google search doesn't turn up anything. This is blowing me away. I thought EVERYTHING had made its way onto the Internet by now. Is this the one item that somehow was lost to the vagaries of paper and time? -- Rick

Feb 16, 2013 23 Replies

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rickman 13 years ago

I looked up the primary report behind these stories from the Harvard Law School. Yes, in the 2001 study one of several criteria that would qualify a bankruptcy as "medically bankrupt" is having more than $1000 of uncovered medical expenses in the prior two years. I agree that this is a bit too open and the authors do too. They changed the criterion to >$5000 for 2007 other than for the time trend analysis. This only changed the 2007 numbers 7%. Just as importantly, the number rose from

46% to 69%.

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The numbers will never be exact and will always be disputed. But I think the result of this study is still valid.

Rick

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Michael A. Terrell 13 years ago

Where do police officers carry 'Glocks'?

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Fred Abse 13 years ago

Usually in holsters ;-)

Just like SIGs, S&Ws, etc.

-- "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." (Richard Feynman)

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dagmargoodboat 13 years ago

That report, by the infamous now-Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is absurd on its face. Their criterion is anyone who went bankrupt, and owed $5k in medical expense over two years.

Her solution is to burden them with four times that, /per annum/[*], every single year, for a mandatory bottom-tier Obama plan.

[*] average cost of an Obamacare bronze plan for a family of four.

Cheers, James Arthur

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