I'd still rather pay less for my medical insurance - Especially since the patents I'm paying for are being ignored on both my Canadian and Mexican borders. But socialism and capitalism are both nice ideas in theory. I just think that the US & Cuba are bad examples on either side. I'd love to find a country that's figured out how they should be balanced and needs a MSEE grad with PM experience that can look past a late-night semi-inebriated/. post...
I recommend moving to Italy. It's living the good life. The food is fantastic; healthcare is good in my experience, even though somewhat chaotic at times (as is the rest of public life). But it's largely paid for by public funds. The government is as moronic as that of the US, but at least they are so inept at getting things done that you get a lot less BS to put up with as a citizen. I love the overall experience - and I moved here from one of those well-organized northern-European countries.;-)
I don't know about the MSEE part, but if you're good at what you do, you'll find a spot. And the philosophy here is to think less about work and more about living!
We American are not all hate-filled, poor-loathing Libertarians, and it's bigoted to imply that we are.
And yet calling all Libertarians 'hate-filled, poor-loathing' is fair-minded and liberal? I've always been amused by people who manage to reveal their hypocrisy in the space of one single sentence.
That's only if you assume that "hate-filled, poor-loathing Libertarians" is a tautology.
Reminds me of the experiment done in a Dutch military lab a couple of years ago. They trained a neural network to recognize whether a photograph taken out on a country road had a military vehicle in it or not.
The system recognized the photos from the training set perfectly, but did no better than random on images fed to it that were taken at different times.
Turns out all the training shots with a military vehicle in it had been taken on a sunny day, and the control shots without one had been taken when it was overcast. The system had been trained to recognize a different thing from what they intended!
You're right, it was a superficial answer. (I had to go look up what 'glib' means; not a native speaker.)
But I was impressed by the magnitude of the orbital periods: up to almost two orders of magnitude faster than ours. This means the planets are up to a factor 20 closer to their sun than we are to ours. (Kepler's third law, with solar mass almost equal to ours.)
This is what I meant: If you're so close to your star, you just *know* that you're going fast.
Also, I wonder if one were on one of these planetary speedsters, would you be able to tell you were whizzing around your star so fast. You would, from the observation of being really close to your star. Newton mechanics holds everywhere in the universe, or so we presume.
It is illegal to carry large amounts of cash across international lines, but I've never heard of any law prohibiting it within the country. Even that is not illegal. The customs form that I get to fill in every time I enter the US says something like: "Bringing monetary instruments into the US, regardless the amount, is legal. However, failure to report carrying more than $10,000 may lead to seizure of the monetary instruments and a penalty."
In Dutch we call that "comma-n**ken"... You can drop the asterix and call it "komma-neuken", because few here speak Dutch anyway, and those who do aren't going to be offended.
Or call it "comma-f**cking" to convey the richness and flexibility of the Dutch language.
> you are assuming a competitor can produce them for the same cost. This is unlikely to be true due to economies of scale, patent licensing issues and trade secrets.
Right. All producers can only produce at the same cost in the free market ideal where barriers of entry are zero, the market is fully transparent, and the mobility of capital and labour are infinite. Economies of scale and trade secrets are examples of barriers of entry, creating limited monopolies, while patent issues create artificial monopolies. No real market is truly perfectly competitive.
That underscores the point of the GP: Whenever you see someone making more than a razor-thin profit, there is a monopoly somewhere.
When they get it down to $100 and stop charging wildly different prices based on order quantity (a scam since all the tooling is done, and they won't be placing individual orders with their manufacturers), you can call it the $100 laptop.
The tooling may be done, but it still has to be paid for. Charging different prices for different order quantities just makes those who place larger orders contribute less per unit to the cost of tooling. A common practice in any field of manufacturing.
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I'd still rather pay less for my medical insurance - Especially since the patents I'm paying for are being ignored on both my Canadian and Mexican borders. But socialism and capitalism are both nice ideas in theory. I just think that the US & Cuba are bad examples on either side. I'd love to find a country that's figured out how they should be balanced and needs a MSEE grad with PM experience that can look past a late-night semi-inebriated /. post...
I recommend moving to Italy. It's living the good life. The food is fantastic; healthcare is good in my experience, even though somewhat chaotic at times (as is the rest of public life). But it's largely paid for by public funds. The government is as moronic as that of the US, but at least they are so inept at getting things done that you get a lot less BS to put up with as a citizen. I love the overall experience - and I moved here from one of those well-organized northern-European countries. ;-)
I don't know about the MSEE part, but if you're good at what you do, you'll find a spot. And the philosophy here is to think less about work and more about living!
We American are not all hate-filled, poor-loathing Libertarians, and it's bigoted to imply that we are.
And yet calling all Libertarians 'hate-filled, poor-loathing' is fair-minded and liberal? I've always been amused by people who manage to reveal their hypocrisy in the space of one single sentence.
That's only if you assume that "hate-filled, poor-loathing Libertarians" is a tautology.
Reminds me of the experiment done in a Dutch military lab a couple of years ago. They trained a neural network to recognize whether a photograph taken out on a country road had a military vehicle in it or not.
The system recognized the photos from the training set perfectly, but did no better than random on images fed to it that were taken at different times.
Turns out all the training shots with a military vehicle in it had been taken on a sunny day, and the control shots without one had been taken when it was overcast. The system had been trained to recognize a different thing from what they intended!
Well, for one, it would be really hot. Think Mercury.
Yes, IAAP. Just neglecting quantum mechanical and relativistic effects, as we physicists do when we talk about planetary orbits.
You're right, it was a superficial answer. (I had to go look up what 'glib' means; not a native speaker.)
But I was impressed by the magnitude of the orbital periods: up to almost two orders of magnitude faster than ours. This means the planets are up to a factor 20 closer to their sun than we are to ours. (Kepler's third law, with solar mass almost equal to ours.)
This is what I meant: If you're so close to your star, you just *know* that you're going fast.
Right. All producers can only produce at the same cost in the free market ideal where barriers of entry are zero, the market is fully transparent, and the mobility of capital and labour are infinite. Economies of scale and trade secrets are examples of barriers of entry, creating limited monopolies, while patent issues create artificial monopolies. No real market is truly perfectly competitive. That underscores the point of the GP: Whenever you see someone making more than a razor-thin profit, there is a monopoly somewhere.
When they get it down to $100 and stop charging wildly different prices based on order quantity (a scam since all the tooling is done, and they won't be placing individual orders with their manufacturers), you can call it the $100 laptop.
The tooling may be done, but it still has to be paid for. Charging different prices for different order quantities just makes those who place larger orders contribute less per unit to the cost of tooling. A common practice in any field of manufacturing.