Ding ding ding - we have a winner - anyone owning mutual funds could have ended up in effect buying FB, esp since the market cap was so high - I suspect wall street makes most of its money using what is effect inside info (such as high speed trading, and this IPO nonsense) to fleece pension and mutual funds, we all pay for it and we don't have much of a choice, on top of that since 401k contributions are tax free wall street is, in effect, just stealing government money - the beauty of it is they turn around and lobby that taxes are too high for the rich - it is a win win
20 years for stealing a loaf of bread? Is anyone safe from this kind of penalty, if there is no balance of penalty to the crime - the result is tyranny by the state or in this case the corporation operating through the state
Look at the source of this article - Forbes? Gee, what opinion would they have about Edison? Corporate America loves Edison - About all you really need to know about Edison is that he invented the electric chair to discredit Tesla - however if you want to be more scholarly you can read "The Physicists: a history of a scientific community in America" there is a chapter about Edison during world war I - he thought tinkerers and garage inventors could just submit ideas to him to win the war, sidelining the professional physics and chemistry communities - it was a compete flop the ideas submitted were idiotic, finally the government put together a real wartime R&D program - it is clear from that episode Edison had no clue how real R&D was conducted, he just hired a bunch of guys who knew what they were doing and took credit for everything - just like today.
I wish everyone who says there is no right to healthcare also embrace the repeal of legislation which requires ERs to take care of sick people who walk in - traffic accident, no insurance you are left to die on the side of the road - they should embrace the implications of their stance, just come out and say what kind of country you want to live in, likewise if you don't like taxes, fine don't pay them, but then no government services, rent your own security company, fire protection and drive on toll roads, educate your kids in a private school and eat food from unregulated providers - just do it already
Looks like a great idea to me, there are lots of applications, especially when you are dealing with large amounts of data like video, music and simulations when a little bit of error does not hurt you a bit, in fact the majority of most computers' resources are devoted to applications that can live with a little bit of error...
Let me second that the laws of thermodynamics is indeed true, our level of physical activity is so low today that most people could probably live on a 1500 calories or less a day - you can talk all you want about complex dynamic systems but the beauty of thermodynamics is it can tell you something important about a system regardless of its internal working or complexity. If you sit on your ass all day which most of us do at work there is no need for more than a base maintenance level of caloric intake- and our bodies are very good a making do with very few calories - practically,the only way to loose weight is to up your calorie burn a day, an hour of exercise is about 600 calories, which is about 60 grams of fat, so to get serious weight loss you would have to exercise a _lot_ to loose weight quickly
I would agree, if you compare the lifestyle of a typical office worker to that of one of their ancestors 200 years ago the difference in physical activity between the two is enormous, for example if I didn't work out every day my physical activity would be limited to walking to my car (50ft) and then walking from the parking lot at work to my office (200ft) twice a day - compare this to someone who lived on a farm 200 years ago, or even a city dweller without a car and the comparison is basically between zero physical activity to someone walking for 1-6 hours per day - a difference of between 300-1800 calories/day not including any physical labor - we focus too much on what food we eat but the real issue is exercise - I work out every day burning about 300 calories but compared to someone who has to walk for a significant part the day I exercise very little.
Mod me down or whatever but I think you really got it wrong - one party is for an elite or aristocracy based on financial wealth, they spend a lot of money on ads TV networks etc. to get a majority to vote in favor of the aristocracy, lower taxes on the rich less restrictions on the use of capital, less labor laws, less environmental regulation - i.e. freeehdum! the other party is a bit more disorganized and is probably more easily defined as the not-moneyed elite, but they still have to produce leaders and they tend to be more technocratic - so for example one party puts an oil executive as head of the dept of energy, the other put in a nobel prize winning physicist
I didn't think in general a tidally locked planet was habitable, in a tidally locked planet the dark side becomes a cold trap, freezing out the atmosphere - unless you get massive recirculation of heat due to oceans, even if you did have a favorable configuration of the contents plate techtonics would likely eventually push you into an unfavorable configuration, causing the atmosphere to freeze out, once that happens, its over.
Good post, I can only add that I suspect the narcissists and sociopaths are only able to survive in large groups with access to a lot of resources, I suspect in smaller groups without as many excess resources they would be quickly weeded out due to their lack of productive capability and inability of finding new marks to work on due to the limited size of the social network.
behind every great fortune is a great crime - you think it makes sense for someone to make 10000 times more than almost everyone else - some shit runs a hedge fund an skims a few percent off of some pension funds and makes a billion and now he's a brilliant job creator and he gets to spend _his_ money his way - I miss a top tax rate of 70% then at least I will have some say in how the government misallocates resources, when you have an amount of money equivalent to 1000 lifetimes worth of skilled labor, it is not just your own fucking money anymore, your decisions effect thousands of people - and they do what with it, mine asteroids, build a fucking palace? - fuck this fucking aristocracy bullshit, go back to having a king - democracy cannot be sustained in the face of vast inequalities of wealth
As a physicist nothing makes me wish more that I could leave the earth in a nuclear rocket riding on a stream of h-bombs than to get away from people like you - unfortunately there is no place to go and the nuclear rocket will trash what is left of the earth when it leaves - unfortunately I think you are going to take the rest of us down with you.
I guess nothing as long as you believe rich people should be able to spend their billions on whatever stupid ideas they come up with, it is just the rest of us that have to suffer from the massive misallocation of resources - just like everything else we do here
Well, actually I am a physicist, I studied high energy physics and now I develop medical equipment - so excuse me when I don't give a fuck about how smart you think I am - in any event I have lots of use for good engineers - I am sure someone good a designing a space probe would be useful at doing a lot of things, we hire people with all kinds of backgrounds from nuclear physics, chemistry, biology, engineering etc... - do you have any idea how may different disciplines are needed to develop large pieces of medical infrastructure? tasks can vary from thermal calculations to antenna design, to developing structures to withstand high g forces - the point is good engineers are rare and will not end up working at costco - so wasting them on trying to reduce the price of platinum through an unworkable scheme seems stupid when compared to some of the other things they could be doing, akin to wasting math talent on derivatives trading or mortgage backed securities - this whole venture sounds like a few rich guys looking to fulfill their fantasies while trying to excuse the continued over-exploitation of the earth's resources
I don't think the world really needs 100 extra tons of platinum, gold or rhodium, what the world needs is decent health, clean air and a good water and food supply - none of those things are found in space - in fact if we found huge reserves of rare toxic metals on an asteroid and brought them to earth or even god forbid some huge supply of hydrocarbons it would mess up what clean, air water and food supplies we have left. There are six billion people on this planet and there is no way to move them off the planet and nowhere to go even if we could, we are stuck here we should be figuring out how to sustain the people we have with a decent standard of living.
Well it is a better use of the money than running a hedge fund to manipulate markets with the effect of robbing your 401k - but it is useless, akin to burning a big pile of cash - of course they could have done something _useful_ with the money, other than just employing a lot of educated engineers to work on something that will never work, they could have employed skilled people to do something _useful_, like investing in medical research, where is that cancer cure anyway? how about understanding the molecular basis of aging, or new antibiotics or antivirals? sustainable agriculture or renewable energy? Nah! they are rich so they can invest the money in their childhood dream of being an astronaut and mining asteroids.
No big deal, my company exports its R&D and manufacturing to China anyway - we in the US are only upset about Chinese students because the no CEO gets a bonus or stock options in exchange for the technology.
Looks like Occupy still hits a nerve, so many asshole and troll posts on this board, occupy must be doing something right to get such a response - I wonder what all the asshole posters on this board are paid - is it per word? or per post and how much?
What baffles me is why aren't the authors of retracted articles punished in some way? At a research lab I worked at the prominent researcher proclaimed the discovery of a new particle that made a big splash in the news - when you looked at the details, he wasn't even the first guy to claim it, it is just that the original claim had marginal statistical significance, he just claimed he got a bigger signal - he got lots of citations, but no-one could repeat the experiment and when you looked closer at what he did to get the signal he just told some poor post-doc to keep refitting the data with different cuts until he found a signal. Well in any event the guy still runs his lab, and he pretty much tries to screw anyone who disagrees with him through his position on funding committees - so nobody fucks with him. Given that I think the funding process need to be reformed, with more reviewers and anonymous grant submissions - the funding system can be gamed to lock people out you have a grudge against and that keeps people in fear of people allowing them to get away with crappy sensationalist science.
if people are sharing the network then you could have dozens to hundreds of requests for video feed concurrently, the amount of network bandwidth always has to be matched to the expected load more bandwidth always gives you more design options - there is always a trade-off to be made, in general high bandwidth wireless allows more people access to the network more cheaply
You can store wind power or any other intermittent power source by pumping water uphill of a dam and then running the dam down when the wind is not blowing, there are losses but the energy can be stored
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Ding ding ding - we have a winner - anyone owning mutual funds could have ended up in effect buying FB, esp since the market cap was so high - I suspect wall street makes most of its money using what is effect inside info (such as high speed trading, and this IPO nonsense) to fleece pension and mutual funds, we all pay for it and we don't have much of a choice, on top of that since 401k contributions are tax free wall street is, in effect, just stealing government money - the beauty of it is they turn around and lobby that taxes are too high for the rich - it is a win win
It would have been more just to have cut off his hand - the penalty is just a ridiculous
20 years for stealing a loaf of bread? Is anyone safe from this kind of penalty, if there is no balance of penalty to the crime - the result is tyranny by the state or in this case the corporation operating through the state
Wow, great quote - I would mod you up if I could - Edison's disciples still work the same way today, and just as unproductively
Look at the source of this article - Forbes? Gee, what opinion would they have about Edison? Corporate America loves Edison - About all you really need to know about Edison is that he invented the electric chair to discredit Tesla - however if you want to be more scholarly you can read "The Physicists: a history of a scientific community in America" there is a chapter about Edison during world war I - he thought tinkerers and garage inventors could just submit ideas to him to win the war, sidelining the professional physics and chemistry communities - it was a compete flop the ideas submitted were idiotic, finally the government put together a real wartime R&D program - it is clear from that episode Edison had no clue how real R&D was conducted, he just hired a bunch of guys who knew what they were doing and took credit for everything - just like today.
I wish everyone who says there is no right to healthcare also embrace the repeal of legislation which requires ERs to take care of sick people who walk in - traffic accident, no insurance you are left to die on the side of the road - they should embrace the implications of their stance, just come out and say what kind of country you want to live in, likewise if you don't like taxes, fine don't pay them, but then no government services, rent your own security company, fire protection and drive on toll roads, educate your kids in a private school and eat food from unregulated providers - just do it already
Looks like a great idea to me, there are lots of applications, especially when you are dealing with large amounts of data like video, music and simulations when a little bit of error does not hurt you a bit, in fact the majority of most computers' resources are devoted to applications that can live with a little bit of error...
In addition to the laws of thermodynamics I also subscribe to conservation of mass and energy - apparently this is controversial
Let me second that the laws of thermodynamics is indeed true, our level of physical activity is so low today that most people could probably live on a 1500 calories or less a day - you can talk all you want about complex dynamic systems but the beauty of thermodynamics is it can tell you something important about a system regardless of its internal working or complexity. If you sit on your ass all day which most of us do at work there is no need for more than a base maintenance level of caloric intake- and our bodies are very good a making do with very few calories - practically,the only way to loose weight is to up your calorie burn a day, an hour of exercise is about 600 calories, which is about 60 grams of fat, so to get serious weight loss you would have to exercise a _lot_ to loose weight quickly
I would agree, if you compare the lifestyle of a typical office worker to that of one of their ancestors 200 years ago the difference in physical activity between the two is enormous, for example if I didn't work out every day my physical activity would be limited to walking to my car (50ft) and then walking from the parking lot at work to my office (200ft) twice a day - compare this to someone who lived on a farm 200 years ago, or even a city dweller without a car and the comparison is basically between zero physical activity to someone walking for 1-6 hours per day - a difference of between 300-1800 calories/day not including any physical labor - we focus too much on what food we eat but the real issue is exercise - I work out every day burning about 300 calories but compared to someone who has to walk for a significant part the day I exercise very little.
Mod me down or whatever but I think you really got it wrong - one party is for an elite or aristocracy based on financial wealth, they spend a lot of money on ads TV networks etc. to get a majority to vote in favor of the aristocracy, lower taxes on the rich less restrictions on the use of capital, less labor laws, less environmental regulation - i.e. freeehdum! the other party is a bit more disorganized and is probably more easily defined as the not-moneyed elite, but they still have to produce leaders and they tend to be more technocratic - so for example one party puts an oil executive as head of the dept of energy, the other put in a nobel prize winning physicist
I didn't think in general a tidally locked planet was habitable, in a tidally locked planet the dark side becomes a cold trap, freezing out the atmosphere - unless you get massive recirculation of heat due to oceans, even if you did have a favorable configuration of the contents plate techtonics would likely eventually push you into an unfavorable configuration, causing the atmosphere to freeze out, once that happens, its over.
Good post, I can only add that I suspect the narcissists and sociopaths are only able to survive in large groups with access to a lot of resources, I suspect in smaller groups without as many excess resources they would be quickly weeded out due to their lack of productive capability and inability of finding new marks to work on due to the limited size of the social network.
To paraphrase Mark Twain - never argue with an idiot, first they take you down to their level and then they beat you with experience
behind every great fortune is a great crime - you think it makes sense for someone to make 10000 times more than almost everyone else - some shit runs a hedge fund an skims a few percent off of some pension funds and makes a billion and now he's a brilliant job creator and he gets to spend _his_ money his way - I miss a top tax rate of 70% then at least I will have some say in how the government misallocates resources, when you have an amount of money equivalent to 1000 lifetimes worth of skilled labor, it is not just your own fucking money anymore, your decisions effect thousands of people - and they do what with it, mine asteroids, build a fucking palace? - fuck this fucking aristocracy bullshit, go back to having a king - democracy cannot be sustained in the face of vast inequalities of wealth
As a physicist nothing makes me wish more that I could leave the earth in a nuclear rocket riding on a stream of h-bombs than to get away from people like you - unfortunately there is no place to go and the nuclear rocket will trash what is left of the earth when it leaves - unfortunately I think you are going to take the rest of us down with you.
I guess nothing as long as you believe rich people should be able to spend their billions on whatever stupid ideas they come up with, it is just the rest of us that have to suffer from the massive misallocation of resources - just like everything else we do here
Well, actually I am a physicist, I studied high energy physics and now I develop medical equipment - so excuse me when I don't give a fuck about how smart you think I am - in any event I have lots of use for good engineers - I am sure someone good a designing a space probe would be useful at doing a lot of things, we hire people with all kinds of backgrounds from nuclear physics, chemistry, biology, engineering etc... - do you have any idea how may different disciplines are needed to develop large pieces of medical infrastructure? tasks can vary from thermal calculations to antenna design, to developing structures to withstand high g forces - the point is good engineers are rare and will not end up working at costco - so wasting them on trying to reduce the price of platinum through an unworkable scheme seems stupid when compared to some of the other things they could be doing, akin to wasting math talent on derivatives trading or mortgage backed securities - this whole venture sounds like a few rich guys looking to fulfill their fantasies while trying to excuse the continued over-exploitation of the earth's resources
I don't think the world really needs 100 extra tons of platinum, gold or rhodium, what the world needs is decent health, clean air and a good water and food supply - none of those things are found in space - in fact if we found huge reserves of rare toxic metals on an asteroid and brought them to earth or even god forbid some huge supply of hydrocarbons it would mess up what clean, air water and food supplies we have left. There are six billion people on this planet and there is no way to move them off the planet and nowhere to go even if we could, we are stuck here we should be figuring out how to sustain the people we have with a decent standard of living.
Well it is a better use of the money than running a hedge fund to manipulate markets with the effect of robbing your 401k - but it is useless, akin to burning a big pile of cash - of course they could have done something _useful_ with the money, other than just employing a lot of educated engineers to work on something that will never work, they could have employed skilled people to do something _useful_, like investing in medical research, where is that cancer cure anyway? how about understanding the molecular basis of aging, or new antibiotics or antivirals? sustainable agriculture or renewable energy? Nah! they are rich so they can invest the money in their childhood dream of being an astronaut and mining asteroids.
No big deal, my company exports its R&D and manufacturing to China anyway - we in the US are only upset about Chinese students because the no CEO gets a bonus or stock options in exchange for the technology.
Looks like Occupy still hits a nerve, so many asshole and troll posts on this board, occupy must be doing something right to get such a response - I wonder what all the asshole posters on this board are paid - is it per word? or per post and how much?
What baffles me is why aren't the authors of retracted articles punished in some way? At a research lab I worked at the prominent researcher proclaimed the discovery of a new particle that made a big splash in the news - when you looked at the details, he wasn't even the first guy to claim it, it is just that the original claim had marginal statistical significance, he just claimed he got a bigger signal - he got lots of citations, but no-one could repeat the experiment and when you looked closer at what he did to get the signal he just told some poor post-doc to keep refitting the data with different cuts until he found a signal. Well in any event the guy still runs his lab, and he pretty much tries to screw anyone who disagrees with him through his position on funding committees - so nobody fucks with him. Given that I think the funding process need to be reformed, with more reviewers and anonymous grant submissions - the funding system can be gamed to lock people out you have a grudge against and that keeps people in fear of people allowing them to get away with crappy sensationalist science.
if people are sharing the network then you could have dozens to hundreds of requests for video feed concurrently, the amount of network bandwidth always has to be matched to the expected load more bandwidth always gives you more design options - there is always a trade-off to be made, in general high bandwidth wireless allows more people access to the network more cheaply
You can store wind power or any other intermittent power source by pumping water uphill of a dam and then running the dam down when the wind is not blowing, there are losses but the energy can be stored