That can't be right. When I lived in Reno, I would always order using the 5-7 day delivery and the only time it didn't arrive overnight was when the order was shipped from a different warehouse.
"Valuations are often EXTREMELY sensitive to the measure of expected growth"
Which makes it extra crazy that Facebook is valued that high. They already have 500 million users, how much more can they possibly grow? The only way they can grow is by "monetizing" their current users and when that happens, the users are going to bail out in flocks.
The Earth has a lot of special features besides a Goldilocks orbit. A couple obvious ones are that the Earth has a tilt that gives us seasons and it has a large moon that gives us regular tides and influences plate tectonics. Are these necessary for life or just necessary for life as we know it? There's no way to tell from a sample set of one.
Actually the value of gold as a currency increases over time, which causes deflation. Deflation is bad for the economy since it provides a disincentive to work, invest and spend since your money can become more valuable by just leaving it under the mattress.
What they did was a simulation of a neural network with same number of neurons as a cat cortex. The cortex is only part of the brain and just simulating a bunch of neuron isn't the same as simulating the functionality. That's still a long, long way from being on par with an actual cat brain.
The logic is flawed. We know that there is one real number equal to the square root of two. Since the real numbers are infinite and the probably of a real number being equal to the square root of two is non-zero, there must be infinite numbers equal to the square root of two! Of course that's not the way it works. It could very well be that the conditions for life are so specific that even with an infinite set of possibilities, there is still only one planet that exactly meets those conditions. Just like there is only one number out of the infinite that meets the condition of being equal to the square root of two.
Also the assumption that the universe is infinite,at least in terms of mass, is wrong.
When Ross Perot used charts to support his speeches, he was mocked for it. US voters don't want a CEO President, they want a surrogate father President or a drinking buddy President.
You come up with a list of high school dropouts who became multimillionaires, but you could come up with an even longer list of lottery winners who became millionaires. That doesn't mean that playing the lottery is an adequate career plan.
You don't need Windows to stream Netflix. Every major game console does it just fine. The fraction of households that don't use Windows and don't have any game consoles is so small that I'm sure they won't notice the loss.
Those numbers must be old or biochemists are strangely underpaid. In chemistry (my field), grad school stipends are about $25k-$27K/year. Post-doc are around $55k/year-$85k/year. Assistant Professor pays varies considerable, but $80K-$100K seems pretty normal. Industry jobs are about 50% higher for the equivalent level.
In terms of physical effort, my job is way easier than fishing for a living or picking fruit. And it has a higher payoff. Those are hard jobs to do if its your only source of food.
He's talking about from the perspective of the 1920s and 1930s, either before most of the Soviet atrocities were committed or before they were widely known.
In the immortal words of Bill Hicks
"...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence."
There's a good reason for that. Doctoral programs aren't just about taking more classes, you're supposed to expand the current limit of knowledge in your field. You can't do that unless you have a pretty solid grasp on the current knowledge in your field.
Most reports I've seen show that about 30% of PhDs eventually end up with a tenured position. Which I consider good odds.
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/issuebrf/sib97321.htm
Of course, there's more career paths than just being a tenured Professor. Overall, PhDs have a fraction of the unemployment rate of the general public and higher pay.
http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
So its unlikely that you'll actually be worse off by making the attempt.
"Even the man's name is Nue in Hawaii and Nuah in China."
Do you have sources for that? I just asked two Chinese coworkers and they have no idea what you're talking about and google doesn't turn up anything about a "Nue" in Hawaiian culture.
Why are you even at a computer posting this stuff? You're wasting valuable time when you could be worshipping the flag and thanking God for honest politicians to do all your thinking for you. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
But you don't need to explore Earth thoroughly to find life. That's remarkable thing: life is everyone on Earth. The O2 rich atmosphere is a tell-tale sign of life that could be detected spectroscopicly from light-years away. Any random scoop of soil or water is teeming with life. You don't need to drill for it.
We've got good spectroscopy data from nearly every planet and moon in our solar system and soil analysis from a few others. Now we're starting to get spectrum of exoplanets. Certainly that's not conclusive, but the silence is getting thundering.
Did you reply to the wrong post or something? I'm not implying those are currently viable alternatives for everyone. I'm saying that resorting to alternatives does nothing to ultimately protect your freedom.
"You're welcome to take a bus, train, car or boat to your destination instead."
And if buses, trains and boats become popular modes of transportation, what's to stop the government from stepping in and requiring scanners for those?
That's funny, because I was thinking about the opposite conclusion. The fact that life is astoundingly ubiquitous on Earth makes a stark contrast with its complete absence from any other other worlds we've studied. It says something about the profound uniqueness of Earth that we haven't found any traces of life elsewhere.
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That can't be right. When I lived in Reno, I would always order using the 5-7 day delivery and the only time it didn't arrive overnight was when the order was shipped from a different warehouse.
"Valuations are often EXTREMELY sensitive to the measure of expected growth" Which makes it extra crazy that Facebook is valued that high. They already have 500 million users, how much more can they possibly grow? The only way they can grow is by "monetizing" their current users and when that happens, the users are going to bail out in flocks.
How is Facebook an advertiser's dream? Anyone can download Adblock Plus and not see any ads at all.
The Earth has a lot of special features besides a Goldilocks orbit. A couple obvious ones are that the Earth has a tilt that gives us seasons and it has a large moon that gives us regular tides and influences plate tectonics. Are these necessary for life or just necessary for life as we know it? There's no way to tell from a sample set of one.
Actually the value of gold as a currency increases over time, which causes deflation. Deflation is bad for the economy since it provides a disincentive to work, invest and spend since your money can become more valuable by just leaving it under the mattress.
The word you're looking for is 'secede'. All states want to succeed.
What they did was a simulation of a neural network with same number of neurons as a cat cortex. The cortex is only part of the brain and just simulating a bunch of neuron isn't the same as simulating the functionality. That's still a long, long way from being on par with an actual cat brain.
Also the assumption that the universe is infinite,at least in terms of mass, is wrong.
When Ross Perot used charts to support his speeches, he was mocked for it. US voters don't want a CEO President, they want a surrogate father President or a drinking buddy President.
You come up with a list of high school dropouts who became multimillionaires, but you could come up with an even longer list of lottery winners who became millionaires. That doesn't mean that playing the lottery is an adequate career plan.
You don't need Windows to stream Netflix. Every major game console does it just fine. The fraction of households that don't use Windows and don't have any game consoles is so small that I'm sure they won't notice the loss.
Those numbers must be old or biochemists are strangely underpaid. In chemistry (my field), grad school stipends are about $25k-$27K/year. Post-doc are around $55k/year-$85k/year. Assistant Professor pays varies considerable, but $80K-$100K seems pretty normal. Industry jobs are about 50% higher for the equivalent level.
In terms of physical effort, my job is way easier than fishing for a living or picking fruit. And it has a higher payoff. Those are hard jobs to do if its your only source of food.
He's talking about from the perspective of the 1920s and 1930s, either before most of the Soviet atrocities were committed or before they were widely known.
In the immortal words of Bill Hicks "...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence."
There's a good reason for that. Doctoral programs aren't just about taking more classes, you're supposed to expand the current limit of knowledge in your field. You can't do that unless you have a pretty solid grasp on the current knowledge in your field.
Most reports I've seen show that about 30% of PhDs eventually end up with a tenured position. Which I consider good odds. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/issuebrf/sib97321.htm Of course, there's more career paths than just being a tenured Professor. Overall, PhDs have a fraction of the unemployment rate of the general public and higher pay. http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm So its unlikely that you'll actually be worse off by making the attempt.
The wealth scale is logarithmic. Even "poor" Americans ($20,000) would be very near the top.
Do you have sources for that? I just asked two Chinese coworkers and they have no idea what you're talking about and google doesn't turn up anything about a "Nue" in Hawaiian culture.
Why are you even at a computer posting this stuff? You're wasting valuable time when you could be worshipping the flag and thanking God for honest politicians to do all your thinking for you. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
And I had my hopes up :(
We've got good spectroscopy data from nearly every planet and moon in our solar system and soil analysis from a few others. Now we're starting to get spectrum of exoplanets. Certainly that's not conclusive, but the silence is getting thundering.
Did you reply to the wrong post or something? I'm not implying those are currently viable alternatives for everyone. I'm saying that resorting to alternatives does nothing to ultimately protect your freedom.
"You're welcome to take a bus, train, car or boat to your destination instead." And if buses, trains and boats become popular modes of transportation, what's to stop the government from stepping in and requiring scanners for those?
That's funny, because I was thinking about the opposite conclusion. The fact that life is astoundingly ubiquitous on Earth makes a stark contrast with its complete absence from any other other worlds we've studied. It says something about the profound uniqueness of Earth that we haven't found any traces of life elsewhere.