Sentences with phrase «arbitrary thresholds for»

But at some point, the government started to mistake arbitrary thresholds for actual goals.

Rather than define a somewhat arbitrary threshold for a La Niña / El Niño year (i.e. based on the size of the index and number of months exceeding a certain threshold) or limiting the analysis to one ENSO index, I first took the average of the three indices mentioned above (ONI, MEI, and SOI, accounting for the fact that positive SOI indicates La Niña conditions while the opposite is true for ONI and MEI).

Not exact matches

Versus Q1, that's two more startups crossing the (somewhat arbitrary) valuation threshold and joining the club of so - called «unicorns,» a term Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined in 2013 for startups worth at least $ 1 billion.

Finally, Glass Lewis identified shortcomings with the «straw man» proposal including arbitrary thresholds that could result in perverse incentives for intermediaries as well as risks relating to disputes over subjective eligibility requirements, among other concerns.

When the Utah Compromise was passed two years ago, Moore and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission colleague Andrew Walker called the effort to ensure fair treatment of LGBT individuals «well - intentioned,» but took issue with the «arbitrary threshold» for which entities gained religious exemption under the policy.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

Since the price list and services are supposed to be equal for everyone, then no matter how your accounts originated, if 10 % of archives are an expensive enough problem to integrate, then it makes financial sense to restrict access to 100 % of archives older than some arbitrary threshold.

But collectively we do seem to have an apparent fondness for arbitrary thresholds (like New Years Eve, 10 year anniversaries, commemorative holidays etc.) before we take stock of something.

A fourth simplification is the use of arbitrary thresholds to define commitment for cities.

If 3.5 is your threshold for significance, so be it, but it seems kind of arbitrary.

I thought the fact that there is kind of a pending issue in our state about what it means to be a lawyer, to practice law, whether full time practice is what's required for you to consider yourself practicing law, and it's pretty clear to me, and I think to most of the people engaged in the bar association in Minnesota that where our society is headed probably means that arbitrary numerical thresholds of how many hours you bill or work is probably the wrong way to think about whether people are professionally lawyers or not.