I'm not a monetary expert, but it seems that deflation is feared a lot more than it should be. In 1920, there was a massive recession with a lot of deflation. It was very bad for about a year or so and then got better quickly.
It seems the central bankers are doing a great job in preventing deflation. And we go from bubble to a different bubble to a different bubble. No thanks. I'd rather try the deflation for a while.
Right. On the other hand, is he going to write like a doofus to the owner of half his company? I'm not saying it doesn't have merit, it just isn't that reliable compared to other methods of determining authorship.
Zuckerburg's writing style of 2003 needs to be compared with emails of that era, not today. Furthermore, he could have been off on some random day in 2003 because he had a cold and wasn't thinking. This just isn't that reliable of method of determining authorship.
As someone who has a kidney disease, this is good to know. I wish more healthy people were willing to do this out of charity and compassion. But I don't begrudge someone doing it for money/iPad/whatever.
I'm not throwing stones. I have no idea if I'd be willing to donate a kidney if I had healthy ones.
I thought that may be where you were going. Just wanted to be sure. The counter-argument would be that you can throw as much money as you want at the school, you aren't going to create responsible fathers, a stable family, a low crime rate, and change all the things conspiring against a good education.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your reply. You agree that the problem isn't strictly due to money but to other factors, but you think the solution is money. I'm not quite following you.
In another post I sited Camden, NJ. One of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in America. It gets a huge amount of state aid. Their students still aren't doing well.
I would gather that while money is nice, it isn't money that creates a good education. A stable and caring family and a stable community have a lot more to do with it. It is related to money but it isn't about straight spending. They are correlated. But I don't see the straight causation.
On the state level, I would leave it up to the towns. I would give them an adequate amount of funding and then let them sort it out. If a town wants to have overpaid teachers and administrators, more power to them. And it looks like that is what a lot of states are doing.
If you think spending money is how you obtain a good education, I invite you to send your kids to Camden, NJ. One of the poorest crime-ridden cities in America. Which happens to spend upwards of $13K per student (last time I checked).
The keys to a good education are parenting and hard work. And while money helps, you don't need lots of money to get a good environment. From what I've read the best thing you could do is kick out troublesome kids.
I hate to interrupt your rant, but there have been hundreds of articles lately regarding this general topic. Some degrees are worthwhile, depending on the cost and if you actually learn. Tons are not.
The fact that the article had to be written shows that the end stages of the bubble are much closer.
Everyone knows that higher education is in a bubble. This type of article just show that everyone now recognizes it.
The causes are clear. The government subsidizes loans, making it easy for students to take on more debt and for colleges to jack up tuition. Companies just use a degree as a proxy for basic competency. The list can go on.
However, the real question is how will the bubble burst. What will happen? I have no idea. But it can't go on. You can't have 18 year olds wrecking their entire financial future for a degree.
You may not be religious but that doesn't mean your religious tendencies went away. They just get reapplied to other areas of your life.
So instead of sending money to Rome to get you out of purgatory and mitigate your guilt, let's send some secular outfit money to mitigate our environmental guilt. And as Rome had no real ability to take away your guilt, I wonder if the money will actually offset carbon emissions. Or will the money just end up in some guy's pocket?
Even if carbon offsets didn't work, I would do it as a company head just for the PR and avoiding negative press. If it actually does something as advertised, that's just gravy. Certified organic soy vegan gravy of course.
I happen to work with a gentleman from the former Soviet Union. His sister happened to be the chief engineer at Chernobyl, long since passed due to cancer from radiation.
Some son of a Communist Party bigwig created an experiment he tested at Chernobyl which eventually led to the disaster. The staff did not want to do it, but his father intervened. The father went to jail, without fanfare, after the incident.
So the government not only hid the problem, they caused it, in the Soviet Union's case. Granted it wasn't a widespread government decision.
Full disclosure: I used to work for a group within Comcast that looked at network traffic to the user. Let's just say I have a really strong dislike of all things Comcast.
With that said, not a chance that the ISPs are not estimating correctly. They aren't estimating. At least at Comcast, they have an incredibly good idea of how much network traffic is going through their system. And they build to a given percentile of busiest time in the entire month.
The only way you can say they are miscalculating what is going across the network is if Sandvine is not properly analyzing network traffic and is associating it with an incorrect network protocol.
Well, yes. But I would argue that "those who are prone to religion" in a sense is 100% of the population. Your "lord" might be yourself, money, pleasure, pride, or something completely external to yourself.
It is meant to prevent something like this: we're going to institute a tax to benefit my buddies from my home state. Or things along those lines. I'm sure, like many clauses in the Constitution, it has been bastardized over time.
If Apple had released a tablet with no default eReader, they would have been slammed. And rightfully so. This isn't the same scenario as say Apple making a version of Angry Birds. This is Apple extending the functionality of their product. If he wants to make an even better eReader than the default, he's allowed to do so.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is an iOS Kindle app.
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Yes, staunch Young Earth Creationists make that argument all the time. Or not. Or whatever. Let's just make fun of creationists.
I'm not a monetary expert, but it seems that deflation is feared a lot more than it should be. In 1920, there was a massive recession with a lot of deflation. It was very bad for about a year or so and then got better quickly.
It seems the central bankers are doing a great job in preventing deflation. And we go from bubble to a different bubble to a different bubble. No thanks. I'd rather try the deflation for a while.
That is a more reliable method.
Right. On the other hand, is he going to write like a doofus to the owner of half his company? I'm not saying it doesn't have merit, it just isn't that reliable compared to other methods of determining authorship.
Zuckerburg's writing style of 2003 needs to be compared with emails of that era, not today. Furthermore, he could have been off on some random day in 2003 because he had a cold and wasn't thinking. This just isn't that reliable of method of determining authorship.
As someone who has a kidney disease, this is good to know. I wish more healthy people were willing to do this out of charity and compassion. But I don't begrudge someone doing it for money/iPad/whatever.
I'm not throwing stones. I have no idea if I'd be willing to donate a kidney if I had healthy ones.
I thought that may be where you were going. Just wanted to be sure. The counter-argument would be that you can throw as much money as you want at the school, you aren't going to create responsible fathers, a stable family, a low crime rate, and change all the things conspiring against a good education.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your reply. You agree that the problem isn't strictly due to money but to other factors, but you think the solution is money. I'm not quite following you.
In another post I sited Camden, NJ. One of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in America. It gets a huge amount of state aid. Their students still aren't doing well.
I would gather that while money is nice, it isn't money that creates a good education. A stable and caring family and a stable community have a lot more to do with it. It is related to money but it isn't about straight spending. They are correlated. But I don't see the straight causation.
On the state level, I would leave it up to the towns. I would give them an adequate amount of funding and then let them sort it out. If a town wants to have overpaid teachers and administrators, more power to them. And it looks like that is what a lot of states are doing.
If you think spending money is how you obtain a good education, I invite you to send your kids to Camden, NJ. One of the poorest crime-ridden cities in America. Which happens to spend upwards of $13K per student (last time I checked).
The keys to a good education are parenting and hard work. And while money helps, you don't need lots of money to get a good environment. From what I've read the best thing you could do is kick out troublesome kids.
Yeah, but one has the ability to increase stockholder value. Hiyoooo! Thank you I'll be here all week!
I hate to interrupt your rant, but there have been hundreds of articles lately regarding this general topic. Some degrees are worthwhile, depending on the cost and if you actually learn. Tons are not.
The fact that the article had to be written shows that the end stages of the bubble are much closer.
Everyone knows that higher education is in a bubble. This type of article just show that everyone now recognizes it.
The causes are clear. The government subsidizes loans, making it easy for students to take on more debt and for colleges to jack up tuition. Companies just use a degree as a proxy for basic competency. The list can go on.
However, the real question is how will the bubble burst. What will happen? I have no idea. But it can't go on. You can't have 18 year olds wrecking their entire financial future for a degree.
You may not be religious but that doesn't mean your religious tendencies went away. They just get reapplied to other areas of your life.
So instead of sending money to Rome to get you out of purgatory and mitigate your guilt, let's send some secular outfit money to mitigate our environmental guilt. And as Rome had no real ability to take away your guilt, I wonder if the money will actually offset carbon emissions. Or will the money just end up in some guy's pocket?
Even if carbon offsets didn't work, I would do it as a company head just for the PR and avoiding negative press. If it actually does something as advertised, that's just gravy. Certified organic soy vegan gravy of course.
I happen to work with a gentleman from the former Soviet Union. His sister happened to be the chief engineer at Chernobyl, long since passed due to cancer from radiation.
Some son of a Communist Party bigwig created an experiment he tested at Chernobyl which eventually led to the disaster. The staff did not want to do it, but his father intervened. The father went to jail, without fanfare, after the incident.
So the government not only hid the problem, they caused it, in the Soviet Union's case. Granted it wasn't a widespread government decision.
I think it would be, but this disclosure came from Sandvine, correct? I've been gone for over a year, but the numbers seem reasonable.
Full disclosure: I used to work for a group within Comcast that looked at network traffic to the user. Let's just say I have a really strong dislike of all things Comcast.
With that said, not a chance that the ISPs are not estimating correctly. They aren't estimating. At least at Comcast, they have an incredibly good idea of how much network traffic is going through their system. And they build to a given percentile of busiest time in the entire month.
The only way you can say they are miscalculating what is going across the network is if Sandvine is not properly analyzing network traffic and is associating it with an incorrect network protocol.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
That statement is an absolute. Just saying.
Well, yes. But I would argue that "those who are prone to religion" in a sense is 100% of the population. Your "lord" might be yourself, money, pleasure, pride, or something completely external to yourself.
Make the first $30K income-tax free. Everything over that is one rate.
Besides raising revenue, a complicated tax code helps the government regulate our behavior. It's about control.
It is meant to prevent something like this: we're going to institute a tax to benefit my buddies from my home state. Or things along those lines. I'm sure, like many clauses in the Constitution, it has been bastardized over time.
If Apple had released a tablet with no default eReader, they would have been slammed. And rightfully so. This isn't the same scenario as say Apple making a version of Angry Birds. This is Apple extending the functionality of their product. If he wants to make an even better eReader than the default, he's allowed to do so.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is an iOS Kindle app.
A wise elder at a defense contractor once told me that process was like cholesterol. You can't have none. But too much will kill you.