When people who aren't pedantic nerds say "anyone", they mean "almost anyone" in pedantic nerdspeak.
And almost anyone can learn math. The human brain has the ability for abstract reasoning, assuming it isn't damaged in some way. How proficient various people will be at it is a different question. Most people will never make a living at anything math-related, and that's OK. But they can still learn enough to appreciate the beauty of math.
The barrier that defeats most people is that the early stages of learning abstract logic are intensely frustrating, and painful in a way we don't have a word for - you overload the subconscious reasoning engine, and that hurts for lack of a better word. Not normal pain, but intense discomfort even so. We suck as a society at teaching math, so we're not there to explain that it's just a barrier to push past. If you've ever seen freshman logic student break down and start crying in class, you know what I mean.
I've known around 100 H1-B workers in my career. I only know 2 that have permanently left the US, and one of those moved to Australia. Most have green cards now.
It seems like you're talking about the abuse of the system Do you think that would continue when you had to pay an H1-B $130K+?
This. The problem is not the count of H1-Bs allowed in. The more of the world's top talent that comes to America, the better. The problem is the program is abused so regularly that the abuse has become the norm. The current House bill to raise the H1-B minimum wage to $130k, and to allocate all H1-B slots based on salary rather than lottery - this is a great fix. Bi-partisan support, apparently.
Wow, is this what journalism has come to these days. Line by imagining the worst possible twist to words? Carefully cherry-picking lines to back your pre-determined point? No wonder no one believes he press any more.
Yes, there are crazy whack-jobs who support both side. Always will be. That's not the president's fault, whatever his party.
So yes, the comparisons between Trump and his administration and supporters and Naziism are quite well justified.
Because some whackjobs like Trump? Who on the left doesn't have "ties" to George Soros, the actual former Nazi? Doesn't make them in any way Nazi sympathizers.
Trump is a populist. Not my favorite political philosophy, but hardly a dangerous one, and certainly a common one.
"Literal Nazis"? I wasn't aware George Soros was actually in the government? I can't even think of anyone in Trump's group old enough to have been a Hitler Youth, let alone actively involved with the party back then. Was there someone there alongside Soros inventorying the possessions of Jewish households to make sure they all got confiscated properly?
The government's taking "extreme action"? Who's been shot? "with total disregard for the law"? Really? That's difficult to do by executive order - possible, I guess, but seems unlikely.
All I hear is "ZOMG, someone who disagrees with me is in power! The world is literally ending!". The right was just as worried about Obama, but you didn't see us randomly attacking Obama supporters on the street.
What you suggest is true, but really only applies to other nations over the long term, and only to those with sane leaders at that. Trade of all sorts helps prevent war.
But that's not the problem we face today. This threat is "Islamic terrorism", and while terrorist groups are funded by certain nations, those states aren't openly invading us or anything. Islamic terrorists killed around 27,000 people just in 2016 - the sort of casualty numbers you get from a mid-sized war. The war is ongoing, too late to prevent it.
And even large wars do happen in the face of good trade and so on. Everyone in WWI had good trade relations with one another. In WWII, Hitler didn't care whether he was attacking "his own".
Banning travel from a nation you're annoyed with is a very traditional diplomatic move, a way of saying "your nation has pissed our nation off" that has no casualties. It's a much more mild step than, say, airstrikes. It may not have been the best move in this case, but it's a perfectly legitimate one.
Sure he does, in years when he manages to actually make any money. You have to have a positive income to pay income taxes. Trump business successes are, shall we say, sparse.
There have been many waves, is the point you seem to be missing. And "pot-infested blankets" are only legal in WA and CO.
Pretending that there are no distinctions between people will only divide us. Not every person wants to be a white male American.
Ah, so you're overtly racist? You believe we should make distinctions between the good races and the bad, I assume? Even so, the idea that creating arbitrary distinctions somehow doesn't divide us is folly.
Progressive orthodoxy? Wait, I think you are referring to "common sense", right?
It's the kind of ideology the rest of the free, developed world applies. But yes, it has gotten under the weather in some conservative circles of the US lately.
Christian orthodoxy? Wait, I think you are referring to "common sense", right? It's the kind of ideology the rest of the free, developed world applies (or did, if we go back a ways).
If you're steeped in the orthodoxy, then, sure, it seems like common sense. It's what was taught to you by your orthodox teachers (and the other sort don't last long). It's what's constantly reinforced by the orthodox media (and the other sort you'd never be caught consuming, of course). Why would you question it?
A transparent pretext. But really, it doesn't matter. Anyone with any sort of right wing politics should know what Reddit is by now. It's simply the wrong place to discuss any sort of beliefs that don't fit the progressive orthodoxy.
Plenty of other forums in the world. Don't support the wrong side of the culture war with a single click.
Everyone in the US (other than recent immigrants) has ancestors who migrated here at some point in history. Humans didn't evolve here. Everyone who's not a first-gen immigrant is a native American. No special distinction should exist. That's kind of the point of America - we're not our ancestors, we're Americans. Don't create distinctions that only divide us.
My point is almost every spot of land in the world was taken by conquest by some previous owners, who took it by conquest etc. Defending against that sort of thing is the first principle of being a nation.
A green card is a permanent US resident, on "tenure track" for citizenship. Green card holders are special. They are citizens-to-be. Good for them. This is very different from a temporary work or holiday visa.
This order in no way prevents families from being re-united. The border still works just fine in the other direction. No citizen of a foreign country has any basic right to cross the US border inbound. The most fundamental thing that makes a nation a nation is the ability to limit who crosses its borders.
I get it. Globalism is very popular. Lots of people love the idea of a world without borders. Sorry, but lots of other people actually like their nation, and want to restore sovereignty. This executive order was ham-fisted, poorly done. IMO Trump should have left things alone until the better vetting was sorted out.
This was virtue signalling over effective policy, but Trump was totally within his rights to do so. And after 24 years of lefty virtue signally over effective policy, I can hardly blame the right for wanting to strut a little.
If you're talking about the various tribes mistakenly labeled "Indians" by Colombus, they weren't the first peoples here. Their ancestors displaced the previous people by force. In some places in the US there have been 6 waves (including the European one) IIRC, so you have to go back through several vanished civilizations to find the one who can actually claim "first post".
Chinese factories use the thinnest cheapest fabrics they can.
Chinese factories use exactly what they're told to. Manufacturing in China, and using literally cheap ass fabric, are both ways that the cost is reduced. Unrelated ways. China would happily use better fabric, they don't care, they just charge the US company appropriately. There's no reason to think the US company would pay for better fabric just because i stuff is made here.
Have you looked at the prices of Azure instances? They would pay for the windows licenses in under a month EASILY.
For what I got a 1TB/mo 4 v.core off of xeon, 12 GB ram, 500GB HDD dedicated server for 20$/mo. it would have cost me several hundred dollars for an EC2 instance or an Azure instance... (And Azure was like ~1.7x more expensive)
No one can compete with the discounts MS can give on SQL licenses. MS seems perfectly willing to operate Azure at a loss in hopes that they'll "make it up on volume". Google could of course operate their cloud at an even bigger loss, but only by funneling money to MS, which is hardly a way to defeat them.
So if Alphabet can eat into MSFT's cloud platform.. what do they care about a few thousand windows license here or there... that is almost a rounding error in the # that they probably buy a year...
Google isn't really a MS customer. From what I hear they don't use any MS products internally, except where directly needed for compatibility. Devs aren't even allowed to have a Windows laptop without a specific business justification.
OTOH, Google went from supporting their own build of Firefox just to prevent MS from messing with them, to launching Chrome and taking over the world. Who knows - they may be working on reverse-engineering MS SQL. That would sting.
At what point do you look at emulation of the system?
We were doing hardware-assisted emulation for new systems, but old systems were in the field. Eventually they were replaced, but they were expensive enough that we didn't until we finally couldn't get drives.
The bathtub curve is certainly real, but most drives aren't kept in service long enough to see the far wall - Google's study only goes to 5 years, for example. As failure rates start climbing you tend to replace the lot of them, rather than keep them in service until you reach 50% failure/year. (Note that the PDF you linked does show high infant mortality for drives in heavy use.)
I used to work with very old HDDs, though, and even with a busy used market, the supply of old drives would fall off a cliff at a certain point. When everyone is seeing 50% failure/year, it doesn't take long until spares just can't be found.
(If you're curious why anyone would put up with that sort of thing - the software that works only works on a machine old enough that only very old drives can attach to it. And since demand at the time was maybe 1% of the peak, you'd be using old drives until about 90% ever made had failed.)
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When people who aren't pedantic nerds say "anyone", they mean "almost anyone" in pedantic nerdspeak.
And almost anyone can learn math. The human brain has the ability for abstract reasoning, assuming it isn't damaged in some way. How proficient various people will be at it is a different question. Most people will never make a living at anything math-related, and that's OK. But they can still learn enough to appreciate the beauty of math.
The barrier that defeats most people is that the early stages of learning abstract logic are intensely frustrating, and painful in a way we don't have a word for - you overload the subconscious reasoning engine, and that hurts for lack of a better word. Not normal pain, but intense discomfort even so. We suck as a society at teaching math, so we're not there to explain that it's just a barrier to push past. If you've ever seen freshman logic student break down and start crying in class, you know what I mean.
I've known around 100 H1-B workers in my career. I only know 2 that have permanently left the US, and one of those moved to Australia. Most have green cards now.
It seems like you're talking about the abuse of the system Do you think that would continue when you had to pay an H1-B $130K+?
This. The problem is not the count of H1-Bs allowed in. The more of the world's top talent that comes to America, the better. The problem is the program is abused so regularly that the abuse has become the norm. The current House bill to raise the H1-B minimum wage to $130k, and to allocate all H1-B slots based on salary rather than lottery - this is a great fix. Bi-partisan support, apparently.
Wow, is this what journalism has come to these days. Line by imagining the worst possible twist to words? Carefully cherry-picking lines to back your pre-determined point? No wonder no one believes he press any more.
So, your claim is that Bannon "has more paower than Trump" because he influences Trump? And the evidence that he's a Nazi? None of that I guess.
You don't have to be a card-carrying member of the Nazi party to espouse their ideals
According to the progressive left, anyone who diverges in any way from their orthodoxy is Literally Hitler, so spare me the hyperbolic rhetoric.
Bannon is at the top of government, probably with more real power than trump
Bannon is an advisor to Trump. Does he have any direct power at all?
and he is clearly a white supremacist
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Yes, there are crazy whack-jobs who support both side. Always will be. That's not the president's fault, whatever his party.
So yes, the comparisons between Trump and his administration and supporters and Naziism are quite well justified.
Because some whackjobs like Trump? Who on the left doesn't have "ties" to George Soros, the actual former Nazi? Doesn't make them in any way Nazi sympathizers.
Trump is a populist. Not my favorite political philosophy, but hardly a dangerous one, and certainly a common one.
"Literal Nazis"? I wasn't aware George Soros was actually in the government? I can't even think of anyone in Trump's group old enough to have been a Hitler Youth, let alone actively involved with the party back then. Was there someone there alongside Soros inventorying the possessions of Jewish households to make sure they all got confiscated properly?
The government's taking "extreme action"? Who's been shot? "with total disregard for the law"? Really? That's difficult to do by executive order - possible, I guess, but seems unlikely.
All I hear is "ZOMG, someone who disagrees with me is in power! The world is literally ending!". The right was just as worried about Obama, but you didn't see us randomly attacking Obama supporters on the street.
What you suggest is true, but really only applies to other nations over the long term, and only to those with sane leaders at that. Trade of all sorts helps prevent war.
But that's not the problem we face today. This threat is "Islamic terrorism", and while terrorist groups are funded by certain nations, those states aren't openly invading us or anything. Islamic terrorists killed around 27,000 people just in 2016 - the sort of casualty numbers you get from a mid-sized war. The war is ongoing, too late to prevent it.
And even large wars do happen in the face of good trade and so on. Everyone in WWI had good trade relations with one another. In WWII, Hitler didn't care whether he was attacking "his own".
Banning travel from a nation you're annoyed with is a very traditional diplomatic move, a way of saying "your nation has pissed our nation off" that has no casualties. It's a much more mild step than, say, airstrikes. It may not have been the best move in this case, but it's a perfectly legitimate one.
The president doesn't pay taxes.
Sure he does, in years when he manages to actually make any money. You have to have a positive income to pay income taxes. Trump business successes are, shall we say, sparse.
There have been many waves, is the point you seem to be missing. And "pot-infested blankets" are only legal in WA and CO.
Pretending that there are no distinctions between people will only divide us. Not every person wants to be a white male American.
Ah, so you're overtly racist? You believe we should make distinctions between the good races and the bad, I assume? Even so, the idea that creating arbitrary distinctions somehow doesn't divide us is folly.
Progressive orthodoxy? Wait, I think you are referring to "common sense", right?
It's the kind of ideology the rest of the free, developed world applies. But yes, it has gotten under the weather in some conservative circles of the US lately.
Christian orthodoxy? Wait, I think you are referring to "common sense", right? It's the kind of ideology the rest of the free, developed world applies (or did, if we go back a ways).
If you're steeped in the orthodoxy, then, sure, it seems like common sense. It's what was taught to you by your orthodox teachers (and the other sort don't last long). It's what's constantly reinforced by the orthodox media (and the other sort you'd never be caught consuming, of course). Why would you question it?
A transparent pretext. But really, it doesn't matter. Anyone with any sort of right wing politics should know what Reddit is by now. It's simply the wrong place to discuss any sort of beliefs that don't fit the progressive orthodoxy.
Plenty of other forums in the world. Don't support the wrong side of the culture war with a single click.
Everyone in the US (other than recent immigrants) has ancestors who migrated here at some point in history. Humans didn't evolve here. Everyone who's not a first-gen immigrant is a native American. No special distinction should exist. That's kind of the point of America - we're not our ancestors, we're Americans. Don't create distinctions that only divide us.
My point is almost every spot of land in the world was taken by conquest by some previous owners, who took it by conquest etc. Defending against that sort of thing is the first principle of being a nation.
A green card is a permanent US resident, on "tenure track" for citizenship. Green card holders are special. They are citizens-to-be. Good for them. This is very different from a temporary work or holiday visa.
This order in no way prevents families from being re-united. The border still works just fine in the other direction. No citizen of a foreign country has any basic right to cross the US border inbound. The most fundamental thing that makes a nation a nation is the ability to limit who crosses its borders.
I get it. Globalism is very popular. Lots of people love the idea of a world without borders. Sorry, but lots of other people actually like their nation, and want to restore sovereignty. This executive order was ham-fisted, poorly done. IMO Trump should have left things alone until the better vetting was sorted out.
This was virtue signalling over effective policy, but Trump was totally within his rights to do so. And after 24 years of lefty virtue signally over effective policy, I can hardly blame the right for wanting to strut a little.
I'm a native American - I was born here.
If you're talking about the various tribes mistakenly labeled "Indians" by Colombus, they weren't the first peoples here. Their ancestors displaced the previous people by force. In some places in the US there have been 6 waves (including the European one) IIRC, so you have to go back through several vanished civilizations to find the one who can actually claim "first post".
Chinese factories use the thinnest cheapest fabrics they can.
Chinese factories use exactly what they're told to. Manufacturing in China, and using literally cheap ass fabric, are both ways that the cost is reduced. Unrelated ways. China would happily use better fabric, they don't care, they just charge the US company appropriately. There's no reason to think the US company would pay for better fabric just because i stuff is made here.
Come back when you stop sucking at math.
Have you looked at the prices of Azure instances? They would pay for the windows licenses in under a month EASILY.
For what I got a 1TB/mo 4 v.core off of xeon, 12 GB ram, 500GB HDD dedicated server for 20$/mo. it would have cost me several hundred dollars for an EC2 instance or an Azure instance... (And Azure was like ~1.7x more expensive)
No one can compete with the discounts MS can give on SQL licenses. MS seems perfectly willing to operate Azure at a loss in hopes that they'll "make it up on volume". Google could of course operate their cloud at an even bigger loss, but only by funneling money to MS, which is hardly a way to defeat them.
So if Alphabet can eat into MSFT's cloud platform.. what do they care about a few thousand windows license here or there... that is almost a rounding error in the # that they probably buy a year...
Google isn't really a MS customer. From what I hear they don't use any MS products internally, except where directly needed for compatibility. Devs aren't even allowed to have a Windows laptop without a specific business justification.
OTOH, Google went from supporting their own build of Firefox just to prevent MS from messing with them, to launching Chrome and taking over the world. Who knows - they may be working on reverse-engineering MS SQL. That would sting.
At what point do you look at emulation of the system?
We were doing hardware-assisted emulation for new systems, but old systems were in the field. Eventually they were replaced, but they were expensive enough that we didn't until we finally couldn't get drives.
Yes, smoking-related illness is expensive. So is every other non-sudden way to die.
How are you seeing an unencrypted page on Amazon? Everything I see is encrypted. Is this something that happens when you're not logged in?
MTBF has little to do with MTTF, Film at 11.
The bathtub curve is certainly real, but most drives aren't kept in service long enough to see the far wall - Google's study only goes to 5 years, for example. As failure rates start climbing you tend to replace the lot of them, rather than keep them in service until you reach 50% failure/year. (Note that the PDF you linked does show high infant mortality for drives in heavy use.)
I used to work with very old HDDs, though, and even with a busy used market, the supply of old drives would fall off a cliff at a certain point. When everyone is seeing 50% failure/year, it doesn't take long until spares just can't be found.
(If you're curious why anyone would put up with that sort of thing - the software that works only works on a machine old enough that only very old drives can attach to it. And since demand at the time was maybe 1% of the peak, you'd be using old drives until about 90% ever made had failed.)