IANAL, but there is a reason why any sane company has record retention policies and other deliberate forms of 'blinders'.
Once you begin to observe and collect some stream of information, it doesn't reduce your exposure, it might actually increase it. I can already see attorney's salivating at the opportunity for discovery. Nobody does anything perfect 100% of the time, and it is not uncommon for safety rules to conflict with one another, or actually have to break a rule to rectify an emergent and immediately dangerous situation. The equity considerations are enormous also - if an employee were fired or disciplined for 'X', their attorney could simply ask to see all examples of 'X' that occurred previously, and if the dispositions of those cases were identical. Or how about the qualifications and certification of the person that wrote those business rules in the first place. 'Ding! You are standing on the edge of a ditch!" "I am INSTALLING a railing to prevent people from falling in a ditch..." 'Ding! Not certified for railing installation'. 'Ding! Load overhead! Ding welding arc exposure! Ding! Ding! Ding!....'
I seriously doubt that the image recognition would function in an actual construction site. My Saws All is currently covered in sheet rock dust and is practically invisible. The visual noise environment is incredible - piles or random sized off cut, dust, lighting conditions which change minute by minute as work lights move, view fields blocked by staged materials, wind blowing sheet plastic, cords and lines criss-crossing, paint-overspray, reflections off glass shards and sheet metal scraps, on and on. I found their 'stage' fairly amusing, even a retail location doesn't have things arranged so neatly.
You basically create an enormous red light camera situation, where people slam on their breaks, accelerate unnecessarily, pay attention to the light and walk signal counters instead of actually driving - i.e. people alter their behaviors to fit being observed and issued a violation, not optimizing safety.
The aviation industry incident reporting system has a proven loop which actually improves safety - because it is distributed, anonymous, pervasive.
It adds nothing to actual safety - it's like a home alarm going off after the crooks are long gone.
What saved other tribes was opening casinos. I see they have casinos as well, why can't they make money like the other tribes?
Because casino's need customers, and they are literally in the middle of nowhere, with Rapid City ( 76,000 ) being the only city of any size relatively nearby. The other towns aren't even one horse towns, they all share a large dog. At least a four hour drive to any other cities the size of Rapid City.
> (A) "... The Civil and Environmental industries will never ever flip to Linux or anything else.... (B) have old people in the industry that refuse to learn anything new at all"
Hmmm... 'never'? I wonder why ESRI, the dominant player with ArcGIS decided to start releasing a Linux version? http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/a...
(B) Demographics - attrition will take care of most of the problem, competition, outsourcing the rest. See http://www.economicmodeling.co... . I heard this same pissing and moaning when aerospace moved from 2D to 3D Solid Modeling, and the transition happened in a relative eye blink.
(A) Nobody actually trying to get work done wants to deal with any OS. The need for model integration, remote teams,,etc. practically dictate cloud based going forward. The size of GIS models and nano detail make for mammoth datasets. And guess what, nobody wants to deal with MS BS when building those systems or as an end user: Jon Hirschtick of OnShape ( https://www.onshape.com/ ):
"We have observed that most large-scale web successes rely on generic Linux-based computers—and lots of them.... We chose a clean-sheet, full-cloud architecture because those other technologies, running desktop CAD on remote desktop servers, don’t solve the big problems that users have. They just move the problems and inefficiencies of desktop CAD software and file-copy workflows to a different computer. They don’t deliver the true big benefits of cloud. We’re not alone with this belief, by the way. Full-cloud has won over semi-cloud in many other industries, including Salesforce versus Siebel, Workday versus Oracle, etc."
"... what language is, your brain has executed a compression algorithm on thought, on concept transfer."
No, language isn't that.
See mandatory South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?... from "Marklars are wise and true", Starvin' Marvin episode.
This is on the whole, dubious, because once we are past our first few minutes with a highly repetitive task, the needed computation progresses embeds into progressively lower levels of neural systems, until they are basically reflexes.
Musicians don't thing "I am going to play an 'A', now I am going to play a 'B'. This is true for both sensory and motor tasks. Maybe when I first learn to read, I first 'see' individual letters, but in the end my eyes detect entire word phrases, essentially by their outlines. With practice, the sensory motor loop may actually embed as networks of axons within the muscle fibers themselves - no brain intermediary required.
Seriously - real neurons in real neural nets.
Graduate school, definitely $1000+, and junior and senior year especially in comp sci and engineering, more so in niche sub-specialties in those fields. Generally, you are correct though, see http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp...
You seriously do not understand the ecosystem. Many of the major projects have core teams which are FTEs of the company, and others donate funds for outside contractors that are key contributors. Far from being paid nothing, I've known several that began as unpaid contributors and eventually went direct, started their own companies to service their piece, or received federal grants ( from the US Army for instance ). Other projects start on a purely unpaid volunteer effort, become essential and evolve into well funded projects. Firefox was originally a commercial product, then donated as open source, and now has spun off some of it's projects. IBM, Google, and others have transferred many internal projects into the open domain. Far from exploitation, FOSS is almost hyper-capitalistic, in that it short circuits the rent taking inherent in closed source monopolies, it allows microscopic participants into markets alongside the giants.
It isn't like the 'meat' in every organization hasn't been attempting to implement screamingly obvious increases in efficiency, for hundreds of years. So there will have to be a Headless Headless ( H^2 ) to filter the results from the Headless Bots:
H^2 Bot: "You must be new here."
H^2 Bot: "We have always done it this way"
H^2 Bot: "It will make the 'X' feel bad"
H^2 Bot: "That isn't your department"
H^2 Bot: "Their is a team working on that already"
H^2 Bot: "We tried that before, and it didn't work"
H^2 Bot: "Did you run it by the team?"
In other words, we'll need Pointy-Haired Bots.
From Bloomberg "Just 157,000 people were unable to work in February because of inclement weather, compared with an average of 311,000 for the month, according to the Labor Department. In January, 395,000 employees couldn’t work because of the weather." The raw monthly counts are fairly meaningless unless you see the phrase 'Seasonably Adjusted'. ( https://www.dallasfed.org/-/me... ) i.e. "... outsized gains in construction...", etc. And the real economic effect is Positions X Wages, and also what regions the growth is occurring in.
"In 2015, a study showed that giving peanut products to babies could help prevent peanut allergy. This was exciting news, given that 1-2% of children suffer from peanut allergy, an allergy that can not only be life-threatening but last a lifetime, unlike other food allergies that often improve as children get older. "
There are some regulatory requirements that dictate the format and content along with explanatory notes, disclosures, notifications, etc. A lot of it is basically who said what, why, and when, so that both sides of the information transaction are totally clear on the context and responsibilities. Also, a PDF can be secured to various degrees, time stamped, certificated, etc.
The problem is that the 5 'clusters' in the Big 5 aren't all that informative, they are aggregations of more specific traits, which can be wildly different than the score for the category and the others within the category. In grad school, I did a systematic survey of personality assessment instruments ( Personalysis, Myers-Briggs, etc.). The IPIP-NEO was the only one that passed the sniff test for internal and external validity, especially over time. Just carefully read the definitions and the supporting pages that explain what is going on.
You can take the 300 question one, and look at your own results: "The IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool
Representation of the NEO PI-R) " at http://www.personal.psu.edu/~j..... it is eessentially similar to the Big-5
"This is the official website for the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). The site includes over 3,000 items and over 250 scales that have been constructed from the items. New items and scales are developed on an irregular basis. The items and scales are in the public domain, which means that one can copy, edit, translate, or use them for any purpose without asking permission and without paying a fee.... Warning about the nature of this site... For persons wandering into this site who have not completed a university course or two in psychological assessment, BEWARE: This site includes highly technical scientific information,..." http://ipip.ori.org/HistoryOfT...
Over the past 15 years or so, I have taken it at intervals, also taken the results and reviewed them with friends to get their insights. What it doesn't do, is it doesn't predict. And there are no assumptions about how it plays out between individuals with different traits.
Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Feb;113(2 Pt 2):534-6. "Pregnancy in true hermaphrodites and all male offspring to date." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... 'Sex' is a multi-dimensional concept, and always has been throughout human history. Some of the axes:
Chromosomes (XX, XY, XXY, X0, XYY, XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, XXYY, XX/XY mosaic,...)
Gonads (testes, ovaries, one of each, ovotestes,...)
Hormones ( testosterone; estrogen,... )
Genitals ( visible 'private parts')
Secondary sexual characteristics ( early or late puberty, man-boobs )
Brain structure (psychology and behavior)
Gender identity (What you think you are)
Gender role (What other people think you are)
Preference (What you like according to valence, magnitude, and number)
If you apply a statistical distribution to all of these over the human race, the binary distinction doesn't exist, except maybe on 1960's TV. Or just get out and about on a Saturday night.:-)
First, thanks for doing some math, any math. Seriously. We'd have better outcomes if people did. In full disclosure, my numbers are SWAG, it all varies hugely according to location.
Second, thing in 'Doing the Math" is to start with some realistic numbers. Let's start with the '50,000'. The New York State Hudson Valley ( let's stay relatively close to Pennsylvania ) has long been a high tech manufacturing center for decades, but even recently there have been fab facilities constructed and expanded - take glance through those facilities, and you can compare the employment counts of LCD plants around the world also. Maybe, on the outside, a thousand workers at this facility on a permanent basis. In the global supply chain, the facilities operate according to various compromises of scale according to the products and markets, across all the major firms, whether it's Samsung, Phillips, Sony, etc. The facilities are even purposely designed so that the production lines can be readily decommissioned and relocated - even for things as large as aircraft ( http://www.aerogo.com/industri... ), all you need is a extremely flat floor, which is why companies favorite subsidy is the roads, lot, buildings, education training etc. that they can't move. The vast number ( Zipf's law ) of the 1000 employees are Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers or equivalent ( Note that the TOTAL number of these folks in the US Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing industry is 41180 ( allied, maybe triple that), which gives another triangulation on the 50,000 figure for one plant. For now, I am just using Fermi estimation ( explained in XKCD's https://what-if.xkcd.com/84/ ), and consider orders of magnitude. Definitely not 5, not 50, very highly automated 500, 5000 is a bit large, but certainly not 50,000. The wage is easier, mean Pennsylvania( 13,000 ) is about $35,640 annual.
Say the state or local government ( not certain how Penn allocates those responsibilities) has to pick up the tab for road construction in proximity to the plant ( Construct a new 2-lane undivided road – about $2 million to $3 million per mile in rural areas, about $3 million to $5 million in urban areas, ARBTA ). Then sewer, increased water supply, etc. It gets interesting when the government issues bonds to fund these for the companies, essentially a hidden form of taxation. Since there will be a howl from existing companies who will now be competing with Foxconn for the available labor pool, the state usually sets up a training program for those unemployed (10 instructors with burden), which alone would equal $600,000 - approx equal to the $600,000 from 5000 employees ( your calc mentioned 50,000 generating $6 Million ). ( BTW, 2015-16 Pennsylvania DOT's motor license fund total was budgeted at $4.37 billion, less PASP. $170 million around here doesn't even buy a mile of freeway, Fermi test on Wikipedia).
On my look, we are going to see a shift back to the US for simple reason that the China Sea is going to heat up considerably in the near future, and you may actually have 50,000 Foxconn Executives and higher management working as assemblers in Pennsylvania while they draw on their Swiss bank accounts.:-)
HELP WANTED: Parking lot attendant, fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, MS in EE... nobody local, guess we'll need some visas...
We've been doing the math here for years, now. For a local aerospace company: $530.8 million in tax breaks, 11000 jobs eliminated, i.e. we essentially paid the company $48000 to eliminate each of those jobs - and that's ignoring the lost tax revenue from those individual's downstream economic activity. The business calculus makes these employment forces inevitable, it's just that they will happen inevitably, and we're still buying into the illusion. The Foxconn statistics are off by two orders of magnitude - just evaluate them against force levels of comparable US fabrication facilities, etc. , or alternatively dive into the occupational data from the US Dept of Labor.
You make a good point - to "Do the Math", which was why I included the Pew link, the point is that hardly anyone can actually do the math, and in the few places which have started accumulating data, none of the rosy predictions are true in the early returns, at least. It plays out different across primary, secondary, and tertiary markets, also.
The state ends up taking on the additional burden of transportation infrastructure and improvement, schools for the employees children, etc. ( http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/pr... ), environmental impacts, on and on. So when a state 'forgives' taxes, it is just pushing it onto the existing residents. In the immediate area of the plant(s) people can be priced out of housing by increased competition. Even the labor force is usually imported during the construction phase from other places. Pretty much the same deal as with sports arenas, nationwide it ends up being a race to the bottom.
The passages you quote verify the article: (C) Is located on the customer generator's premises; (D) Operates in parallel with the electric utility's transmission and distribution facilities; and (E) Is intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer generator's requirements for electricity.
i.e. 'Customer Generator's are the end points, as distinguished from "electric utility's transmission and distribution facilities" - in contrast to our state: "In November 2006, 52 percent of Washington voters approved ballot initiative 937.The initiative requires large utilities to obtain 15 percent of their electricity from new renewable resources (excluding existing hydropower) by 2020 with incremental steps of 3 percent by 2012 and 9 percent by 2016, along with undertaking cost-effective energy conservation programs."
With my threshold setting ( https://slashdot.org/faq#karma... ) on a relatively mediocre '3.5', the posting distribution on this thread is:
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Any speculation on why this is so, considering how the moderation system works? ( Ref: https://slashdot.org/moderatio... )
'... not supposed...'. In a perfect world, maybe. The reality is that in a major event, all sorts of equipment, communications and networks are pressed into service. Off-duty responders in area may not have the ability to return to base to get the official equipment, qualified civilians and volunteer groups also participate not only in actual emergencies, but also preparatory drills and exercises.
Probably the best example of this is when the DOD 'defuzzed' the GPS signal during the Gulf War (.... The number of GPS receivers that they had available that could translate the encoded military signal was not nearly as many as needed. The military bought several thousand commercial receivers, and distributed them army and other ground units. To enhance the role of these systems, the Air Force stopped degrading the GPS signal, so that these commercial receivers could provide 16 meter accuracy.... from http://www.fas.org/spp/militar... ). Also, military personnel were actually having their families send them civilian units to make up the shortage.
Active Interference with any network is usually a bad idea, the exception might perhaps be correction other secure facilities.
See "Genomic Views of Human History", by Mary-Claire King ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... ) at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Basically, from examining in excruciating detail the DNA of groups and subgroups, human beings throughout prehistory were considerable more mobile than previously assumed. Essentially, there is more genetic diversity between individuals from the same village than there is between any given 'racial' groups taken as wholes. Because of human mobility ( refugees, war brides, immigration, guest labor, etc.) the genetic distinctions of 'race' become even more indistinct.
"Another security consideration may have led to the move. During 1967, the nuclear weapons program in Qinghai became subject to Cultural Revolution strife, including attempts by rival factions to seize nuclear-related facilities in both Qinghai and Xinjiang. On March 5, 1967, Premier Zhou Enlai, at the urging of CMC Vice Chairman Gen Nie Rongzhen, declared martial law and placed Jia Qianrui in charge of enforcement. Along with Hong Youdao, Jia oversaw the relocation from Qinghai to Taibai County in 1969 and 22 Base operations until the unit’s subordination to Second Artillery in January 1979."
I don't understand why there's a want or a need for a national ID system. If you're a citizen, you already have Social Security documentation, and probably a passport/driver's license....
A national ID is a Single Point of Failure. I have had several cops / security folks tell me that a collection of documentation greatly increases the difficulty of forgery, because they have to be mutually consistent over space and time. A variety of documents provides a multitude of entry points and traversals for even a cursory on the spot casual interrogation. For example, some of the digits of the SSN associate with certain states at certain times, so even if the SSN Card isn't produced as ID, a question to tell the SSN orally, Followed by a remark like "Do you parents still live in State X" can trip someone up. Also, some states have had difficulties with corruption and counterfeiting in DL bureaus, but perhaps not all states at all times. Relative wear, like marks and de-lamination, also are giveaways, along with other seemingly innocuous contents of a wallet. Collections of anything will exhibit patterns of differences and similarities from individual to individual, and will be characteristic of a given 'locale', and these will alert an experienced observer. A national ID would tend to be adopted by any and all agencies as proof o person, if just as a cost and complexity saving measure. But it's that same complexity which trips the impostors.
Scanning through some of the releases on http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/stardust/ "NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:40 p.m. PST (11:40 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011, from a distance of approximately 946.05 trillion kilometers (587.85 trillion miles). The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005."
587.85 trillion miles? ( See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion for both defintions ) This would put it 6,314,828 A.U., or about 23 times the 4.365 Light years ( 276,041 A.U.) distance to Alpha Centauri.... or maybe it is just damn fine imaging!:-)
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IANAL, but there is a reason why any sane company has record retention policies and other deliberate forms of 'blinders'.
..." 'Ding! Not certified for railing installation'. 'Ding! Load overhead! Ding welding arc exposure! Ding! Ding! Ding! ....'
Once you begin to observe and collect some stream of information, it doesn't reduce your exposure, it might actually increase it. I can already see attorney's salivating at the opportunity for discovery. Nobody does anything perfect 100% of the time, and it is not uncommon for safety rules to conflict with one another, or actually have to break a rule to rectify an emergent and immediately dangerous situation. The equity considerations are enormous also - if an employee were fired or disciplined for 'X', their attorney could simply ask to see all examples of 'X' that occurred previously, and if the dispositions of those cases were identical. Or how about the qualifications and certification of the person that wrote those business rules in the first place. 'Ding! You are standing on the edge of a ditch!" "I am INSTALLING a railing to prevent people from falling in a ditch
I seriously doubt that the image recognition would function in an actual construction site. My Saws All is currently covered in sheet rock dust and is practically invisible. The visual noise environment is incredible - piles or random sized off cut, dust, lighting conditions which change minute by minute as work lights move, view fields blocked by staged materials, wind blowing sheet plastic, cords and lines criss-crossing, paint-overspray, reflections off glass shards and sheet metal scraps, on and on. I found their 'stage' fairly amusing, even a retail location doesn't have things arranged so neatly.
You basically create an enormous red light camera situation, where people slam on their breaks, accelerate unnecessarily, pay attention to the light and walk signal counters instead of actually driving - i.e. people alter their behaviors to fit being observed and issued a violation, not optimizing safety.
The aviation industry incident reporting system has a proven loop which actually improves safety - because it is distributed, anonymous, pervasive.
It adds nothing to actual safety - it's like a home alarm going off after the crooks are long gone.
What saved other tribes was opening casinos. I see they have casinos as well, why can't they make money like the other tribes?
Because casino's need customers, and they are literally in the middle of nowhere, with Rapid City ( 76,000 ) being the only city of any size relatively nearby. The other towns aren't even one horse towns, they all share a large dog. At least a four hour drive to any other cities the size of Rapid City.
> (A) "... The Civil and Environmental industries will never ever flip to Linux or anything else. ... (B) have old people in the industry that refuse to learn anything new at all" ... 'never'? I wonder why ESRI, the dominant player with ArcGIS decided to start releasing a Linux version? http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/a... ,etc. practically dictate cloud based going forward. The size of GIS models and nano detail make for mammoth datasets. And guess what, nobody wants to deal with MS BS when building those systems or as an end user: Jon Hirschtick of OnShape ( https://www.onshape.com/ ): ... We chose a clean-sheet, full-cloud architecture because those other technologies, running desktop CAD on remote desktop servers, don’t solve the big problems that users have. They just move the problems and inefficiencies of desktop CAD software and file-copy workflows to a different computer. They don’t deliver the true big benefits of cloud. We’re not alone with this belief, by the way. Full-cloud has won over semi-cloud in many other industries, including Salesforce versus Siebel, Workday versus Oracle, etc."
Hmmm
(B) Demographics - attrition will take care of most of the problem, competition, outsourcing the rest. See http://www.economicmodeling.co... . I heard this same pissing and moaning when aerospace moved from 2D to 3D Solid Modeling, and the transition happened in a relative eye blink.
(A) Nobody actually trying to get work done wants to deal with any OS. The need for model integration, remote teams,
"We have observed that most large-scale web successes rely on generic Linux-based computers—and lots of them.
"... what language is, your brain has executed a compression algorithm on thought, on concept transfer." No, language isn't that. See mandatory South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?... from "Marklars are wise and true", Starvin' Marvin episode.
This is on the whole, dubious, because once we are past our first few minutes with a highly repetitive task, the needed computation progresses embeds into progressively lower levels of neural systems, until they are basically reflexes. Musicians don't thing "I am going to play an 'A', now I am going to play a 'B'. This is true for both sensory and motor tasks. Maybe when I first learn to read, I first 'see' individual letters, but in the end my eyes detect entire word phrases, essentially by their outlines. With practice, the sensory motor loop may actually embed as networks of axons within the muscle fibers themselves - no brain intermediary required. Seriously - real neurons in real neural nets.
Graduate school, definitely $1000+, and junior and senior year especially in comp sci and engineering, more so in niche sub-specialties in those fields. Generally, you are correct though, see http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp...
You seriously do not understand the ecosystem. Many of the major projects have core teams which are FTEs of the company, and others donate funds for outside contractors that are key contributors. Far from being paid nothing, I've known several that began as unpaid contributors and eventually went direct, started their own companies to service their piece, or received federal grants ( from the US Army for instance ). Other projects start on a purely unpaid volunteer effort, become essential and evolve into well funded projects. Firefox was originally a commercial product, then donated as open source, and now has spun off some of it's projects. IBM, Google, and others have transferred many internal projects into the open domain. Far from exploitation, FOSS is almost hyper-capitalistic, in that it short circuits the rent taking inherent in closed source monopolies, it allows microscopic participants into markets alongside the giants.
It isn't like the 'meat' in every organization hasn't been attempting to implement screamingly obvious increases in efficiency, for hundreds of years. So there will have to be a Headless Headless ( H^2 ) to filter the results from the Headless Bots:
H^2 Bot: "You must be new here."
H^2 Bot: "We have always done it this way"
H^2 Bot: "It will make the 'X' feel bad"
H^2 Bot: "That isn't your department"
H^2 Bot: "Their is a team working on that already"
H^2 Bot: "We tried that before, and it didn't work"
H^2 Bot: "Did you run it by the team?"
In other words, we'll need Pointy-Haired Bots.
... as an Uber Driver.
From Bloomberg "Just 157,000 people were unable to work in February because of inclement weather, compared with an average of 311,000 for the month, according to the Labor Department. In January, 395,000 employees couldn’t work because of the weather." The raw monthly counts are fairly meaningless unless you see the phrase 'Seasonably Adjusted'. ( https://www.dallasfed.org/-/me... ) i.e. "... outsized gains in construction ...", etc. And the real economic effect is Positions X Wages, and also what regions the growth is occurring in.
Done! http://www.health.harvard.edu/...
"In 2015, a study showed that giving peanut products to babies could help prevent peanut allergy. This was exciting news, given that 1-2% of children suffer from peanut allergy, an allergy that can not only be life-threatening but last a lifetime, unlike other food allergies that often improve as children get older. "
There are some regulatory requirements that dictate the format and content along with explanatory notes, disclosures, notifications, etc. A lot of it is basically who said what, why, and when, so that both sides of the information transaction are totally clear on the context and responsibilities. Also, a PDF can be secured to various degrees, time stamped, certificated, etc.
The problem is that the 5 'clusters' in the Big 5 aren't all that informative, they are aggregations of more specific traits, which can be wildly different than the score for the category and the others within the category. In grad school, I did a systematic survey of personality assessment instruments ( Personalysis, Myers-Briggs, etc.). The IPIP-NEO was the only one that passed the sniff test for internal and external validity, especially over time. Just carefully read the definitions and the supporting pages that explain what is going on.
.. it is eessentially similar to the Big-5 ... Warning about the nature of this site ... For persons wandering into this site who have not completed a university course or two in psychological assessment, BEWARE: This site includes highly technical scientific information, ..." http://ipip.ori.org/HistoryOfT...
You can take the 300 question one, and look at your own results: "The IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO PI-R) " at http://www.personal.psu.edu/~j...
"This is the official website for the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). The site includes over 3,000 items and over 250 scales that have been constructed from the items. New items and scales are developed on an irregular basis. The items and scales are in the public domain, which means that one can copy, edit, translate, or use them for any purpose without asking permission and without paying a fee.
Over the past 15 years or so, I have taken it at intervals, also taken the results and reviewed them with friends to get their insights. What it doesn't do, is it doesn't predict. And there are no assumptions about how it plays out between individuals with different traits.
Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Feb;113(2 Pt 2):534-6. "Pregnancy in true hermaphrodites and all male offspring to date." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... ...)
...)
... )
:-)
'Sex' is a multi-dimensional concept, and always has been throughout human history. Some of the axes:
Chromosomes (XX, XY, XXY, X0, XYY, XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, XXYY, XX/XY mosaic,
Gonads (testes, ovaries, one of each, ovotestes,
Hormones ( testosterone; estrogen,
Genitals ( visible 'private parts')
Secondary sexual characteristics ( early or late puberty, man-boobs )
Brain structure (psychology and behavior)
Gender identity (What you think you are)
Gender role (What other people think you are)
Preference (What you like according to valence, magnitude, and number)
If you apply a statistical distribution to all of these over the human race, the binary distinction doesn't exist, except maybe on 1960's TV. Or just get out and about on a Saturday night.
First, thanks for doing some math, any math. Seriously. We'd have better outcomes if people did. In full disclosure, my numbers are SWAG, it all varies hugely according to location.
:-)
... nobody local, guess we'll need some visas ...
Second, thing in 'Doing the Math" is to start with some realistic numbers. Let's start with the '50,000'. The New York State Hudson Valley ( let's stay relatively close to Pennsylvania ) has long been a high tech manufacturing center for decades, but even recently there have been fab facilities constructed and expanded - take glance through those facilities, and you can compare the employment counts of LCD plants around the world also. Maybe, on the outside, a thousand workers at this facility on a permanent basis. In the global supply chain, the facilities operate according to various compromises of scale according to the products and markets, across all the major firms, whether it's Samsung, Phillips, Sony, etc. The facilities are even purposely designed so that the production lines can be readily decommissioned and relocated - even for things as large as aircraft ( http://www.aerogo.com/industri... ), all you need is a extremely flat floor, which is why companies favorite subsidy is the roads, lot, buildings, education training etc. that they can't move. The vast number ( Zipf's law ) of the 1000 employees are Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers or equivalent ( Note that the TOTAL number of these folks in the US Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing industry is 41180 ( allied, maybe triple that), which gives another triangulation on the 50,000 figure for one plant. For now, I am just using Fermi estimation ( explained in XKCD's https://what-if.xkcd.com/84/ ), and consider orders of magnitude. Definitely not 5, not 50, very highly automated 500, 5000 is a bit large, but certainly not 50,000. The wage is easier, mean Pennsylvania( 13,000 ) is about $35,640 annual.
Say the state or local government ( not certain how Penn allocates those responsibilities) has to pick up the tab for road construction in proximity to the plant ( Construct a new 2-lane undivided road – about $2 million to $3 million per mile in rural areas, about $3 million to $5 million in urban areas, ARBTA ). Then sewer, increased water supply, etc. It gets interesting when the government issues bonds to fund these for the companies, essentially a hidden form of taxation. Since there will be a howl from existing companies who will now be competing with Foxconn for the available labor pool, the state usually sets up a training program for those unemployed (10 instructors with burden), which alone would equal $600,000 - approx equal to the $600,000 from 5000 employees ( your calc mentioned 50,000 generating $6 Million ). ( BTW, 2015-16 Pennsylvania DOT's motor license fund total was budgeted at $4.37 billion, less PASP. $170 million around here doesn't even buy a mile of freeway, Fermi test on Wikipedia).
On my look, we are going to see a shift back to the US for simple reason that the China Sea is going to heat up considerably in the near future, and you may actually have 50,000 Foxconn Executives and higher management working as assemblers in Pennsylvania while they draw on their Swiss bank accounts.
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We've been doing the math here for years, now. For a local aerospace company: $530.8 million in tax breaks, 11000 jobs eliminated, i.e. we essentially paid the company $48000 to eliminate each of those jobs - and that's ignoring the lost tax revenue from those individual's downstream economic activity. The business calculus makes these employment forces inevitable, it's just that they will happen inevitably, and we're still buying into the illusion. The Foxconn statistics are off by two orders of magnitude - just evaluate them against force levels of comparable US fabrication facilities, etc. , or alternatively dive into the occupational data from the US Dept of Labor. You make a good point - to "Do the Math", which was why I included the Pew link, the point is that hardly anyone can actually do the math, and in the few places which have started accumulating data, none of the rosy predictions are true in the early returns, at least. It plays out different across primary, secondary, and tertiary markets, also.
The state ends up taking on the additional burden of transportation infrastructure and improvement, schools for the employees children, etc. ( http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/pr... ), environmental impacts, on and on. So when a state 'forgives' taxes, it is just pushing it onto the existing residents. In the immediate area of the plant(s) people can be priced out of housing by increased competition. Even the labor force is usually imported during the construction phase from other places. Pretty much the same deal as with sports arenas, nationwide it ends up being a race to the bottom.
The passages you quote verify the article: (C) Is located on the customer generator's premises; (D) Operates in parallel with the electric utility's transmission and distribution facilities; and (E) Is intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer generator's requirements for electricity. i.e. 'Customer Generator's are the end points, as distinguished from "electric utility's transmission and distribution facilities" - in contrast to our state: "In November 2006, 52 percent of Washington voters approved ballot initiative 937.The initiative requires large utilities to obtain 15 percent of their electricity from new renewable resources (excluding existing hydropower) by 2020 with incremental steps of 3 percent by 2012 and 9 percent by 2016, along with undertaking cost-effective energy conservation programs."
With my threshold setting ( https://slashdot.org/faq#karma... ) on a relatively mediocre '3.5', the posting distribution on this thread is: 8 Full 113 Abbreviated 87 Hidden Any speculation on why this is so, considering how the moderation system works? ( Ref: https://slashdot.org/moderatio... )
'... not supposed ...'. In a perfect world, maybe. The reality is that in a major event, all sorts of equipment, communications and networks are pressed into service. Off-duty responders in area may not have the ability to return to base to get the official equipment, qualified civilians and volunteer groups also participate not only in actual emergencies, but also preparatory drills and exercises.
Probably the best example of this is when the DOD 'defuzzed' the GPS signal during the Gulf War ( .... The number of GPS receivers that they had available that could translate the encoded military signal was not nearly as many as needed. The military bought several thousand commercial receivers, and distributed them army and other ground units. To enhance the role of these systems, the Air Force stopped degrading the GPS signal, so that these commercial receivers could provide 16 meter accuracy. ... from http://www.fas.org/spp/militar... ). Also, military personnel were actually having their families send them civilian units to make up the shortage.
Active Interference with any network is usually a bad idea, the exception might perhaps be correction other secure facilities.
See "Genomic Views of Human History", by Mary-Claire King ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... ) at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... Basically, from examining in excruciating detail the DNA of groups and subgroups, human beings throughout prehistory were considerable more mobile than previously assumed. Essentially, there is more genetic diversity between individuals from the same village than there is between any given 'racial' groups taken as wholes. Because of human mobility ( refugees, war brides, immigration, guest labor, etc.) the genetic distinctions of 'race' become even more indistinct.
China may have had their own Stangelovian incident.
From Page 5, "The Move from Qinghai to Taibai", http://www.project2049.net/documents/chinas_nuclear_warhead_storage_and_handling_system.pdf
"Another security consideration may have led to the move. During 1967, the nuclear weapons program in Qinghai became subject to Cultural Revolution strife, including attempts by rival factions to seize nuclear-related facilities in both Qinghai and Xinjiang. On March 5, 1967, Premier Zhou Enlai, at the urging of CMC Vice Chairman Gen Nie Rongzhen, declared martial law and placed Jia Qianrui in charge of enforcement. Along with Hong Youdao, Jia oversaw the relocation from Qinghai to Taibai County in 1969 and 22 Base operations until the unit’s subordination to Second Artillery in January 1979."
I don't understand why there's a want or a need for a national ID system. If you're a citizen, you already have Social Security documentation, and probably a passport/driver's license. ...
A national ID is a Single Point of Failure. I have had several cops / security folks tell me that a collection of documentation greatly increases the difficulty of forgery, because they have to be mutually consistent over space and time. A variety of documents provides a multitude of entry points and traversals for even a cursory on the spot casual interrogation. For example, some of the digits of the SSN associate with certain states at certain times, so even if the SSN Card isn't produced as ID, a question to tell the SSN orally, Followed by a remark like "Do you parents still live in State X" can trip someone up. Also, some states have had difficulties with corruption and counterfeiting in DL bureaus, but perhaps not all states at all times. Relative wear, like marks and de-lamination, also are giveaways, along with other seemingly innocuous contents of a wallet. Collections of anything will exhibit patterns of differences and similarities from individual to individual, and will be characteristic of a given 'locale', and these will alert an experienced observer. A national ID would tend to be adopted by any and all agencies as proof o person, if just as a cost and complexity saving measure. But it's that same complexity which trips the impostors.
Not NASA trolling, They learned their lesson about conversions after the Metric Mix-up with the Mars Climate Orbiter ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Encounter_with_Mars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter ). I suspect the residents HD 38801b, HD 5319 b, WASP-18b, or even HD 45364 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_45364 in Canis Major. Probably running some sort of Devil's Tower subliminal suggestion trick like they used in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and much less expensive than Monoliths. I, for one, welcome our new Canine Overlords!
Scanning through some of the releases on http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/stardust/ "NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:40 p.m. PST (11:40 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011, from a distance of approximately 946.05 trillion kilometers (587.85 trillion miles). The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005." 587.85 trillion miles? ( See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion for both defintions ) This would put it 6,314,828 A.U., or about 23 times the 4.365 Light years ( 276,041 A.U.) distance to Alpha Centauri. ... or maybe it is just damn fine imaging! :-)