It appears the Russians promote anything and anyone who will cause increased mistrust of institutions, American government or fear of personal safety -Trump is ideal since he pretty much hits every one of their objectives - their goal is a paralyzed or completely dysfunctional US with a sympathetic oligarch in charge - barring that a civil war with a devastated US would be just fine - good news for them we are pretty much on track for one or the other
US cities were built around mass transport then General Motors came in a paid cities to rip out the infrastructure and replace it with buses - this is the way America works it is owned by big corporations and public transport is not in their interest - and most people in America don't get it - somehow America can't have trains, public transport or healthcare because it is special - and it is - it is special but not in the way they think - it is because it is wholly owned by corporate interest and its people are too stupid blaming immigrants, liberals, gay people and minorities for their problems - instead of blaming the fucking banks, big box stores, auto companies, and insurance companies who are just fine with the way things are
Pnumonia is pretty easy to see in XR or CT - this shouldnt suprise anyone - but it is an advance a tired overworked resident can miss even the blatantly obvious
I am a drirector of a US R&D group for a large foreign owned company - the majority of our research PhDs at the individual contributor level are foreign born (most Chinese) - however most of research mangers and directors (all Phd) are native born. A couple of things are pretty clear to me 1) if there was not a good supply of highly skilled immigrant researchers my company would not have put its R&D in the US and 2) if you are a native English speaker who can compete technically with foreign PhDs you will end up in management - there is only a limited fraction of the population of any country that can perform at a high level, the US for whatever reason puts its high performers in finance or maybe software and then siphons the other specialists/talent from other countries - if this dries up I know at least for my company they will just leave - I also believe this is a key reason why the US has been technically dominant over other developed countries which have, in general, healthier, better educated populations
I say get rid of patents and I have 15 of them - 99% of the time the guy who invented the patent gets almost nothing - so what incentive are we really eliminating by getting rid of them? I say make everything open - people who invent stuff make money because they understand how use it and less money goes to lawyers and the fat fucks who own everything
The classic "solution" to reduce excess capital stock and unused labor is to start a war - either internal or external - this sucks up the labor and destroys capital both physically and by arms production - when a sufficient amount of labor and capital has been destroyed the system can reset and start building capital again using up the surplus labor. Of course we could just not destroy all the capital and live with a large surplus of labor through a combination of progressive taxation and basic income to labor - the problem is we are too stupid to understand this - it's immoral not to work! Those lazy people without a job should get one and we like to worship kings or billionaires and magic job creators - fuck it, I hate people - they would rather fuck the other guy over than do something that might benefit everyone - we would rather burn the whole fucking system down than give a nickel to someone "undeserving" - shit if someone had a job pushing a button twice a day they would be resentful of the "freeloaders" who didn't push a button - fuck them
Or it could be a mix of emerging world low cost labor, automation and the people who own the capital trying to bring labor to it knees - oh yeah, and one party in particular doing everything in is power so make sure capital has the upper hand - give you a hint - is not the one with the Marxist Muslim!
As someone who worked at GRC for 13 years, I definelty had a different perception of the 10% policy - usually about 3 months before performance reviews the knives would come out, everybody would be searching for someone to throw under the bus, the only people who were safe were people who sucked up to their manager - if fact, perversely, the policy had the opposite effect as was intendend, the system preserved incompetent sociopaths who were execellent in sucking up and blaming others for thier own failures and GE often would kick out technically capable people who were not into the survivor game GE turned into every year. I sleep much better after leaving that place.I am now management at another company and from my GE expericence I make it a point to sniff out and fire - suck ups, narcissists and sociopaths who blame others for their own incompetence who ruin the organization like they did at GRC..
Christie put a nurse in quarantine who tested negative for Ebola because he thought she might be contagious - against the recommendations of the CDC - but unvaccinated kids - no problem - it's the parents choice - wonder if when the kids might be exposed he will put them in quarantine
I would just like to say that Scott Adams is an idiot - if he thinks science has lost its credibility because he is fat, he is quite simply a moron who enables other morons who can't tell the difference between marketing and science - for example he blames science for dropping the ball on cigarettes! cigarette companies fought the science tooth and nail for 50 years - and fuck him for not trusting science while typing on his fucking blog while reading about the space probe visiting Pluto and not worrying about fucking polio when he was a kid - no fucking credibility? - fucking moron
Wow - so many little boys whining that they aren't being encouraged to play with Chistmas tree lights! Whaaa Sexism! Man up - as a white male I can attest to enjoying the benefits of white privelege in america every day - cops don't pull me over and I dont worry about getting shot by them, my bank likes me and gives me loans, people alway defer to me right in front of my chinese girlfriend even when we are shopping for her! - oh and I am the boss at work - don't worry boys I don't see that changing any time soon, so some little girls get to play with christmas tree lights and you will grow up to be a senior director while she will be told to quit after getting pregnant - OMG OBAMA sexism! I guess maybe you guys are upset because you have all the advantages and you still can't get ahead!
Yes I love how in the 1860s in the US an armed citizenry overthrew a corrupt goverment that allowed the enslavement of its citizens - oh wait, that didn't happen, the armed citizens were there to suppress slave revolts on the south, which was the original purpose of the second amendment - not to overthrow a tyrannical goverment, it was to preserve a tryranical government which allowed slavery - i.e. to allow (white) people to carry guns to suppress local slave revolts - duh, you can't really keep slaves without guns to keep them in line. The freedom loving patriots in the south never rose up to free the black slaves - that took a fucking government army.
This is good news people as it is a mark in favor of the only optimisic answer I can think of to the Fermi paradox - i.e. life is rare and could only have formed fairly recently- the other answers are ugly and imply our imment extinction.... cheer up people!
I doubt unions are the problem Germany makes lots of cars with very expensive labor - in my experience US management sucks (literally) - management at a lot of US companies is just focused on looting the company by transferring any value created into their bonus and not reinvesting in new products and not paying to keep skilled labor - of course the profits look great for a while until there is nothing left but a dry husk of the company left - usually just marketing, sales and service teams are all that is left in the end state....
I know this will not be well recieved - but I do not understand the enthusiasm, or what is remarkable about SpaceX - the government never has built rockets, it always subcontracts them out to (usually to Boeing or Lockeed) maybe integration is done by the government but usually that is subcontracted out too - so the "innovation" in SpaceX is basically just a change in the way goverment contracts are run, removing the rider that lets the contractor get paid more if the budget goes over (note SpaceX recieved 250M+ in "seed money" from the gov't - sounds alot like the old way of doing things to me) - I guess this is what the we call innovation these days - as for the critique by NASA and the ESA, it is more credible that both agencies say it could be an issue, they both have experts and have tried re-use before - so SpaceX should listen to what they have to say - but listening to experts is out of fashon these days too - anyway call me us when someone develops a new type of rocket motor or spacecraft system concept, not a new way to write government contracts, or just the government having another contractor to shop with.
bingo! mod parent up - damping is what is needed in a lot of socially engineered systems, just as in mechanical systems sometimes damping is required for socally engineered systems to operate effectively - without damping, we get a lot of the problems we see in our society like CEO salaries, or unlimited political donations.... the problem is the people who profit from these out of whack systems fight like hell to make the system even less damped...
Rockets were always built by private corporations - like Lockeed Martin - the "innovation" in SpaceX is simply a change in the terms of the contract by which the rockets are funded - the Saturn V was built by Boeing, McDonnel Douglas and IBM as lead contractors - I love how we equate innovation with a change in contract, or how we equate money with actual value - it is like being confused over the difference between a pointer to an object with the object itself
How is this a threat? the value of the dollar goes down and US industry magically becomes more competetive via cheaper production- China has been buying dollars for years precisely to keep the value of thier currency _down_ - the problem is Russia's and China's they have a bunch of dollars which can buy American goods and services what are they going to buy? guns from the US? - plus most dollar reserves are owned by Americans - approximately 80% - how was this labeled insightful?
I am always disappointed by the comments of otherwise intelligent people on slashdot in response to these articles, as this point was first brought up by the club of rome and more recently Jared Diamond - the response I see here makes it clear we will have a collapse - everyone is in denial, nobody wants to change a thing, everyone is going to use up non-renewable resources as fast as they can to get some perceived short term advantage over some other group - I want my car, I want my house in the middle of nowhere, I want to have as many children as I can - blah blah blah Exponential growth is impossible on a finite planet, space travel will not save us nor will any breakthrough technology - at best genetic engineering can buy us a bit of time - we need birth control, we need people to live in cities and share resources and we can't have a handful of people allocating a civilization's resources for their own self interest - and I will be cursed on/. for saying this.
What I don't get is that Whatsapp isn't even a new app, it adds no funcitonality over its competetors - the telcoms have the app (text messaging) and charge a boatload of money for it even though it costs them almost nothing to provide the service - whatsapp is just undercutting in price, the telcoms could cut their price to almost nothing esp. since they already have a revenue stream from voice and data - if the telcos did that whatsapp would be worth nothing and the telcos could try to make up the lost revenue with data plans - what am I missing? this deal seams stupid to me.
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This idea isn't new - compressed sensing was pioneered in MRI a decade ago - sounds like these guys are amateurs...
It appears the Russians promote anything and anyone who will cause increased mistrust of institutions, American government or fear of personal safety -Trump is ideal since he pretty much hits every one of their objectives - their goal is a paralyzed or completely dysfunctional US with a sympathetic oligarch in charge - barring that a civil war with a devastated US would be just fine - good news for them we are pretty much on track for one or the other
US cities were built around mass transport then General Motors came in a paid cities to rip out the infrastructure and replace it with buses - this is the way America works it is owned by big corporations and public transport is not in their interest - and most people in America don't get it - somehow America can't have trains, public transport or healthcare because it is special - and it is - it is special but not in the way they think - it is because it is wholly owned by corporate interest and its people are too stupid blaming immigrants, liberals, gay people and minorities for their problems - instead of blaming the fucking banks, big box stores, auto companies, and insurance companies who are just fine with the way things are
Pnumonia is pretty easy to see in XR or CT - this shouldnt suprise anyone - but it is an advance a tired overworked resident can miss even the blatantly obvious
I am a drirector of a US R&D group for a large foreign owned company - the majority of our research PhDs at the individual contributor level are foreign born (most Chinese) - however most of research mangers and directors (all Phd) are native born. A couple of things are pretty clear to me 1) if there was not a good supply of highly skilled immigrant researchers my company would not have put its R&D in the US and 2) if you are a native English speaker who can compete technically with foreign PhDs you will end up in management - there is only a limited fraction of the population of any country that can perform at a high level, the US for whatever reason puts its high performers in finance or maybe software and then siphons the other specialists/talent from other countries - if this dries up I know at least for my company they will just leave - I also believe this is a key reason why the US has been technically dominant over other developed countries which have, in general, healthier, better educated populations
I say get rid of patents and I have 15 of them - 99% of the time the guy who invented the patent gets almost nothing - so what incentive are we really eliminating by getting rid of them? I say make everything open - people who invent stuff make money because they understand how use it and less money goes to lawyers and the fat fucks who own everything
The classic "solution" to reduce excess capital stock and unused labor is to start a war - either internal or external - this sucks up the labor and destroys capital both physically and by arms production - when a sufficient amount of labor and capital has been destroyed the system can reset and start building capital again using up the surplus labor. Of course we could just not destroy all the capital and live with a large surplus of labor through a combination of progressive taxation and basic income to labor - the problem is we are too stupid to understand this - it's immoral not to work! Those lazy people without a job should get one and we like to worship kings or billionaires and magic job creators - fuck it, I hate people - they would rather fuck the other guy over than do something that might benefit everyone - we would rather burn the whole fucking system down than give a nickel to someone "undeserving" - shit if someone had a job pushing a button twice a day they would be resentful of the "freeloaders" who didn't push a button - fuck them
You know all those things were created by people not corporations? Corporations are simply legal entities
Or it could be a mix of emerging world low cost labor, automation and the people who own the capital trying to bring labor to it knees - oh yeah, and one party in particular doing everything in is power so make sure capital has the upper hand - give you a hint - is not the one with the Marxist Muslim!
As someone who worked at GRC for 13 years, I definelty had a different perception of the 10% policy - usually about 3 months before performance reviews the knives would come out, everybody would be searching for someone to throw under the bus, the only people who were safe were people who sucked up to their manager - if fact, perversely, the policy had the opposite effect as was intendend, the system preserved incompetent sociopaths who were execellent in sucking up and blaming others for thier own failures and GE often would kick out technically capable people who were not into the survivor game GE turned into every year. I sleep much better after leaving that place.I am now management at another company and from my GE expericence I make it a point to sniff out and fire - suck ups, narcissists and sociopaths who blame others for their own incompetence who ruin the organization like they did at GRC..
Christie put a nurse in quarantine who tested negative for Ebola because he thought she might be contagious - against the recommendations of the CDC - but unvaccinated kids - no problem - it's the parents choice - wonder if when the kids might be exposed he will put them in quarantine
I would just like to say that Scott Adams is an idiot - if he thinks science has lost its credibility because he is fat, he is quite simply a moron who enables other morons who can't tell the difference between marketing and science - for example he blames science for dropping the ball on cigarettes! cigarette companies fought the science tooth and nail for 50 years - and fuck him for not trusting science while typing on his fucking blog while reading about the space probe visiting Pluto and not worrying about fucking polio when he was a kid - no fucking credibility? - fucking moron
I looked at the article - I don't understand how this is different than a covariance matrix?
Wow - so many little boys whining that they aren't being encouraged to play with Chistmas tree lights! Whaaa Sexism! Man up - as a white male I can attest to enjoying the benefits of white privelege in america every day - cops don't pull me over and I dont worry about getting shot by them, my bank likes me and gives me loans, people alway defer to me right in front of my chinese girlfriend even when we are shopping for her! - oh and I am the boss at work - don't worry boys I don't see that changing any time soon, so some little girls get to play with christmas tree lights and you will grow up to be a senior director while she will be told to quit after getting pregnant - OMG OBAMA sexism! I guess maybe you guys are upset because you have all the advantages and you still can't get ahead!
A lot of people don't want to get it right and are just fine with these problems
Yes I love how in the 1860s in the US an armed citizenry overthrew a corrupt goverment that allowed the enslavement of its citizens - oh wait, that didn't happen, the armed citizens were there to suppress slave revolts on the south, which was the original purpose of the second amendment - not to overthrow a tyrannical goverment, it was to preserve a tryranical government which allowed slavery - i.e. to allow (white) people to carry guns to suppress local slave revolts - duh, you can't really keep slaves without guns to keep them in line. The freedom loving patriots in the south never rose up to free the black slaves - that took a fucking government army.
This is good news people as it is a mark in favor of the only optimisic answer I can think of to the Fermi paradox - i.e. life is rare and could only have formed fairly recently- the other answers are ugly and imply our imment extinction.... cheer up people!
I doubt unions are the problem Germany makes lots of cars with very expensive labor - in my experience US management sucks (literally) - management at a lot of US companies is just focused on looting the company by transferring any value created into their bonus and not reinvesting in new products and not paying to keep skilled labor - of course the profits look great for a while until there is nothing left but a dry husk of the company left - usually just marketing, sales and service teams are all that is left in the end state....
I know this will not be well recieved - but I do not understand the enthusiasm, or what is remarkable about SpaceX - the government never has built rockets, it always subcontracts them out to (usually to Boeing or Lockeed) maybe integration is done by the government but usually that is subcontracted out too - so the "innovation" in SpaceX is basically just a change in the way goverment contracts are run, removing the rider that lets the contractor get paid more if the budget goes over (note SpaceX recieved 250M+ in "seed money" from the gov't - sounds alot like the old way of doing things to me) - I guess this is what the we call innovation these days - as for the critique by NASA and the ESA, it is more credible that both agencies say it could be an issue, they both have experts and have tried re-use before - so SpaceX should listen to what they have to say - but listening to experts is out of fashon these days too - anyway call me us when someone develops a new type of rocket motor or spacecraft system concept, not a new way to write government contracts, or just the government having another contractor to shop with.
bingo! mod parent up - damping is what is needed in a lot of socially engineered systems, just as in mechanical systems sometimes damping is required for socally engineered systems to operate effectively - without damping, we get a lot of the problems we see in our society like CEO salaries, or unlimited political donations.... the problem is the people who profit from these out of whack systems fight like hell to make the system even less damped...
Rockets were always built by private corporations - like Lockeed Martin - the "innovation" in SpaceX is simply a change in the terms of the contract by which the rockets are funded - the Saturn V was built by Boeing, McDonnel Douglas and IBM as lead contractors - I love how we equate innovation with a change in contract, or how we equate money with actual value - it is like being confused over the difference between a pointer to an object with the object itself
How is this a threat? the value of the dollar goes down and US industry magically becomes more competetive via cheaper production- China has been buying dollars for years precisely to keep the value of thier currency _down_ - the problem is Russia's and China's they have a bunch of dollars which can buy American goods and services what are they going to buy? guns from the US? - plus most dollar reserves are owned by Americans - approximately 80% - how was this labeled insightful?
I am always disappointed by the comments of otherwise intelligent people on slashdot in response to these articles, as this point was first brought up by the club of rome and more recently Jared Diamond - the response I see here makes it clear we will have a collapse - everyone is in denial, nobody wants to change a thing, everyone is going to use up non-renewable resources as fast as they can to get some perceived short term advantage over some other group - I want my car, I want my house in the middle of nowhere, I want to have as many children as I can - blah blah blah Exponential growth is impossible on a finite planet, space travel will not save us nor will any breakthrough technology - at best genetic engineering can buy us a bit of time - we need birth control, we need people to live in cities and share resources and we can't have a handful of people allocating a civilization's resources for their own self interest - and I will be cursed on /. for saying this.
upstate? in the atlantic? 10x10 miles really isn't that much... pretty sure we have that much space allocated to parking lots in new york state...
What I don't get is that Whatsapp isn't even a new app, it adds no funcitonality over its competetors - the telcoms have the app (text messaging) and charge a boatload of money for it even though it costs them almost nothing to provide the service - whatsapp is just undercutting in price, the telcoms could cut their price to almost nothing esp. since they already have a revenue stream from voice and data - if the telcos did that whatsapp would be worth nothing and the telcos could try to make up the lost revenue with data plans - what am I missing? this deal seams stupid to me.