If having a Czar will concentrate more power in their hands then a Czar is what they'll create. We already have the CDC. If this were about solving disease problems then the President would give the CDC more funding if they needed it. This is not about solving problems but about power.
Don't worry, they aren't looking for _you_. They're looking for the development team members who really do have five years experience with Swift. This requirement is a filter so you won't get caught up in the hiring.
WOW! Finally, I've 'met' one. According to the sales states there was someone who bought a Windows Phone but I didn't expect to actually make contact with you. Hey, how's it working out?
Your funny. Wish I had points to give you for humor. You claim to be a power user but everything you want to do in life is quite easy, hit the Terminal, or even the settings alone, and customize things a bit. Complaining about your wallpaper colors not matching is not very power userish.
There's plenty of sunlight. I'm a farmer so I have lots of experience growing pasture and grazing livestock. I've seen many of these solar array fields. A lot of light is getting to the ground. The grasses are growing very nicely down there. I'm your reality check. Try quitting Farmville and taking up the real thing so you learn this before posting comments about things you don't understand (solar arrays, plant growth, livestock, etc...)
This is just more government and not something we need. People who think the skies would be packed with drones have no concept of 3D space. Drones are tiny. Skies are huge. Value of drones is low. Air Traffic Control for drones is totally unnecessary. This is just a distraction from the much more important issue of privacy.
"There has long been a clear hierarchy of intelligence in the psychology lab, with monkeys are at the top, then rats, and finally mice at the bottom, "cute and fluffy but not all that bright."
So where do the scientists fit in? Somewhere in the middle? Just above rats? Hmm...
The problem with this is that Bill Gates started out very rich and became extremely rich. It is a lot easier to get richer when you start out already very rich since little of your income is consumed by necessities and your time is freed up from survival thinking to thinking about how to get further ahead. Bill Gates is a bad example of success. All he had to do was jump of the cliff of his Daddy's money.
They need to integrate the 'solar farms' with pasture based farming. You can graze sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, cattle and goats under these solar arrays. It ends up like a savannah with filtered moving patches of sunlight and shadow. Very effective for pasture. Plenty of light gets to the forages for growth and the animals trim the forages so brush doesn't grow up in the fields. This avoids the need for mowing - a user of fossil fuels or at the very least electricity and time. Unfortunately, too few of these solar farms are through through that far. I know of only one.
Eloped, no spending on wedding, no wedding guests, no church and several other 'problems' but 25+ years and going strong.
He does have some things right and it is always interesting to read things like this but important to understand the difference between correlations and causation as well as how variable reality is.
What is most important is we share values and goals. We have a shared dream and both work hard to walk that path, together.
What do you have against dolphins?!? They want jobs too so they can earn money to buy shiny trinkets, fish and sponges. By the way, dolphins have a word for PETA but I can't print it here because it's not polite.
Even without the historic spaghetti of regulations and the lobbyists for the big players there is a fundamental difference that makes Sweden much easier to layout: geography. Many of the USA homes are simply further away from nodes and the USA is a far bigger country.
There are many places in the USA, even in backwoods Vermont, where they have 100Mbps. But those places are more localized because there are large areas between them without good connectivity. The result is that because many people live further from those high speed notes we just don't have the more urbanish resources. That's life.
There are also plenty of spots in Sweden that don't have cheap, fast competitive internet service. This doesn't tend to get mentioned. It is not universal.
It is to be noted how comparisons like this are made to selectively targeted countries who have good connections. In other words, this is spin, not science.
I always misread their slogan, just for an instant.
Theil may be right that society as a whole is hostile to science but he is fundamentally missing the point: society is more interested, accepting and pro-science than it has ever been in the past. Sure, there are lots of nays but they are fewer than there were before. That's what is important. Look at the positive and move forward.
I have dogs that speak pig words and human words. We have a large pack of livestock working dogs that do guarding and herding on our pastured pig farm. The dogs have learned some of the sounds the pigs make to drive the pigs when herding. This makes them more effective at doing their job. They also know and use some human words both with us and with each other. We also use whistles, clicks and hand signs to communicate. There is a lot more interspecies communications going on than scientists realize in their limited ivory tower view of the world. It is mildly amusing when they "discover" reality. Those of us out working in the real world have known many of these things for millennia.
There are a _lot_ of animals that are tool users. Many of the tool uses are instinctual, some are learned, some are a combination. This is not a good criteria to use to determine who to eat and who not to eat.
A much better criteria is economics. This doesn't have to do with capitalism but rather what are the costs of production. How long does it take to get the food? How fast does it grow? What resources does it take? From this perspective there are some plants that are poor candidates because they grow so slowly and there are some animals (like pigs and octopuses) who are excellent candidates for eating. Humans aren't a very good candidate because the reproduce and grow so slowly. It is actually more economically efficient to raise mice than humans. Pigs are far, far better as are chickens, cattle and sheep, all of which can be raised on pastures that won't easily grow other human foods.
Interesting demonstration of lack of scientific understanding. Evolution is NOT a law never mind a natural law. It is merely a good idea. Don't worry, evolution will not effect you. You are merely the effect.
Yuppers! Our local "coop" electric utility is just like this. They tried hard to kill of net metering in the legislature. When they lost they announced it as a victory - fantastic spin. They keep raising our electric rates although we already pay some of the highest rates in the country. They have a monopoly and they abuse it. The times are a changing though... Soon we'll all be able to generate our own power and we need far less power because machinery is becoming more efficient. On our farm I've been designing things to use less and less power. My goal is to get it down to the point where I won't need the electric utility. Then we will have to deal with the phone company, another monopoly that abuses its power.
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If having a Czar will concentrate more power in their hands then a Czar is what they'll create. We already have the CDC. If this were about solving disease problems then the President would give the CDC more funding if they needed it. This is not about solving problems but about power.
Luddite, huh? So all you can contribute is name calling rather than actual understanding of things. Interesting.
You still have a filter in your brain that lets you not buy stuff. Use it, lukite.
Love how they take something simple and make it complex, failure prone and expensive all in one fell swoop! Blah.
Don't worry, they aren't looking for _you_. They're looking for the development team members who really do have five years experience with Swift. This requirement is a filter so you won't get caught up in the hiring.
"I'm a Windows Phone user"
WOW! Finally, I've 'met' one. According to the sales states there was someone who bought a Windows Phone but I didn't expect to actually make contact with you. Hey, how's it working out?
Your funny. Wish I had points to give you for humor. You claim to be a power user but everything you want to do in life is quite easy, hit the Terminal, or even the settings alone, and customize things a bit. Complaining about your wallpaper colors not matching is not very power userish.
There's plenty of sunlight. I'm a farmer so I have lots of experience growing pasture and grazing livestock. I've seen many of these solar array fields. A lot of light is getting to the ground. The grasses are growing very nicely down there. I'm your reality check. Try quitting Farmville and taking up the real thing so you learn this before posting comments about things you don't understand (solar arrays, plant growth, livestock, etc...)
This is just more government and not something we need. People who think the skies would be packed with drones have no concept of 3D space. Drones are tiny. Skies are huge. Value of drones is low. Air Traffic Control for drones is totally unnecessary. This is just a distraction from the much more important issue of privacy.
"There has long been a clear hierarchy of intelligence in the psychology lab, with monkeys are at the top, then rats, and finally mice at the bottom, "cute and fluffy but not all that bright."
So where do the scientists fit in? Somewhere in the middle? Just above rats? Hmm...
The problem with this is that Bill Gates started out very rich and became extremely rich. It is a lot easier to get richer when you start out already very rich since little of your income is consumed by necessities and your time is freed up from survival thinking to thinking about how to get further ahead. Bill Gates is a bad example of success. All he had to do was jump of the cliff of his Daddy's money.
They need to integrate the 'solar farms' with pasture based farming. You can graze sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, cattle and goats under these solar arrays. It ends up like a savannah with filtered moving patches of sunlight and shadow. Very effective for pasture. Plenty of light gets to the forages for growth and the animals trim the forages so brush doesn't grow up in the fields. This avoids the need for mowing - a user of fossil fuels or at the very least electricity and time. Unfortunately, too few of these solar farms are through through that far. I know of only one.
Eloped, no spending on wedding, no wedding guests, no church and several other 'problems' but 25+ years and going strong.
He does have some things right and it is always interesting to read things like this but important to understand the difference between correlations and causation as well as how variable reality is.
What is most important is we share values and goals. We have a shared dream and both work hard to walk that path, together.
What do you have against dolphins?!? They want jobs too so they can earn money to buy shiny trinkets, fish and sponges. By the way, dolphins have a word for PETA but I can't print it here because it's not polite.
I'm so sorry to hear you're humor impaired. Don't worry, Bill Gates is working on a cure.
In the end we'll all get Back-to-Basics with BASIC so it may be the last programming language standing, much to the chagrin of so many snobs. :)
What is interesting is that you think "us" has to mean an individual - a very limited view of language.
Even without the historic spaghetti of regulations and the lobbyists for the big players there is a fundamental difference that makes Sweden much easier to layout: geography. Many of the USA homes are simply further away from nodes and the USA is a far bigger country.
There are many places in the USA, even in backwoods Vermont, where they have 100Mbps. But those places are more localized because there are large areas between them without good connectivity. The result is that because many people live further from those high speed notes we just don't have the more urbanish resources. That's life.
There are also plenty of spots in Sweden that don't have cheap, fast competitive internet service. This doesn't tend to get mentioned. It is not universal.
It is to be noted how comparisons like this are made to selectively targeted countries who have good connections. In other words, this is spin, not science.
I always misread their slogan, just for an instant.
Theil may be right that society as a whole is hostile to science but he is fundamentally missing the point: society is more interested, accepting and pro-science than it has ever been in the past. Sure, there are lots of nays but they are fewer than there were before. That's what is important. Look at the positive and move forward.
I have dogs that speak pig words and human words. We have a large pack of livestock working dogs that do guarding and herding on our pastured pig farm. The dogs have learned some of the sounds the pigs make to drive the pigs when herding. This makes them more effective at doing their job. They also know and use some human words both with us and with each other. We also use whistles, clicks and hand signs to communicate. There is a lot more interspecies communications going on than scientists realize in their limited ivory tower view of the world. It is mildly amusing when they "discover" reality. Those of us out working in the real world have known many of these things for millennia.
There are a _lot_ of animals that are tool users. Many of the tool uses are instinctual, some are learned, some are a combination. This is not a good criteria to use to determine who to eat and who not to eat.
A much better criteria is economics. This doesn't have to do with capitalism but rather what are the costs of production. How long does it take to get the food? How fast does it grow? What resources does it take? From this perspective there are some plants that are poor candidates because they grow so slowly and there are some animals (like pigs and octopuses) who are excellent candidates for eating. Humans aren't a very good candidate because the reproduce and grow so slowly. It is actually more economically efficient to raise mice than humans. Pigs are far, far better as are chickens, cattle and sheep, all of which can be raised on pastures that won't easily grow other human foods.
Interesting demonstration of lack of scientific understanding. Evolution is NOT a law never mind a natural law. It is merely a good idea. Don't worry, evolution will not effect you. You are merely the effect.
Checking it out as we 'speak'...
Yuppers! Our local "coop" electric utility is just like this. They tried hard to kill of net metering in the legislature. When they lost they announced it as a victory - fantastic spin. They keep raising our electric rates although we already pay some of the highest rates in the country. They have a monopoly and they abuse it. The times are a changing though... Soon we'll all be able to generate our own power and we need far less power because machinery is becoming more efficient. On our farm I've been designing things to use less and less power. My goal is to get it down to the point where I won't need the electric utility. Then we will have to deal with the phone company, another monopoly that abuses its power.
Interesting... I'm in the market for a new web host... Got my attention.