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Valuing a human life

Federal agencies are required to perform detailed economic analyses when a proposed course of action exceeds a particular dollar threshold (historically set at $100M). Part of quantifying anticipated consequences requires that they put a monetary value on everything, including human life.

One way they accomplish that is by looking at how much more employers have to pay employees in risky work environments. For instance, if workers generally demand $10,000 more to drive machinery that increases the probability of death by 1 in 500, then you have an example of a market where life is valued at $5.0M.

It's not a cheery topic, but it's important to reach an acceptable dollar value: If we just say that a human life is priceless, we'd logically have to expend all of our resources (if necessary) the first chance we get to save a life. But then we won't have anything at our disposal the next day when, perhaps, we might have been able to save multiple lives with the same a

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Command

~/e/jarvis (master|✚2…)> rbenv install 1.8.7-p375

Console output

Checking out http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8_7...
Installing ruby-1.8.7-p375...

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Keybase proof

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• I am scooter-dangle on github.
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• I have a public key whose fingerprint is D0B8 B301 5EA6 B2BA B2E8 C064 AEC3 67AF C5DA D548

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# To be run from inside the AliasTables directory
#

require './lib/alias'

normalize = -> ary do
  sum = ary.inject(0.0, :+)
  ary.map { |elmt| elmt.to_f / sum }

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require 'erb'
require 'active_support/concern'

module Expressable
  def with_tmp_buffer(&block)
    tmp_buffer, @output_buffer = @output_buffer, ""
    block.yield
    @output_buffer
  ensure
    tmp_buffer, @output_buffer = @output_buffer, tmp_buffer

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(->> (data)
     (filter even?)
     (map #(* 3 %))
     (reduce +))

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extern crate num;
use num::rational::{Ratio,Rational,BigRational};
use num::traits::ToPrimitive;

fn to_rational(number: BigRational) -> Option<Rational> {
    let denom = number.denom().to_isize();
    if denom == None {
        return None
    }

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// Winner! The others are about 45% slower on the contrived example
fn is_substring(needle: &[u8], haystack: &[u8]) -> bool {
    if needle.is_empty() { return true }

    // if haystack.len() < needle.len() { return false }
    // if haystack.is_empty() { return false }

    haystack.windows(needle.len()).any(|subvec| subvec == needle)
}

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# AWS_ENV var is meant to be combined with the following
# function in the shell prompt
function __fish_aws_creds_prompt
  if set --query AWS_ENV
    if string match --ignore-case --quiet --regex 'pro?d' "$AWS_ENV"
      set aws_name_color brred
    else
      set aws_name_color bryellow
    end

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use std::sync::Arc;

// #[derive(Debug)]
// struct Database(Vec<User>);

// #[derive(Debug, Default)]
// struct User {
//     id: usize,
//     login: UserLogin,
//     password: String,