My graduate department had more research money than students. More Americans were going into the booming job force with lower degrees. We and our employers preferred more Americans because they had better English skills. But we all adapted to changing talent pool. Once we became mostly international students, we stayed that way.
My first Nigerian letter was a real typed postal letter in the late 1980s. In those days the email community was just a few 10,000s of academics. It had the same elements as always: asking for assistence in taking a dead official's money out of the country. You'd send them some money to help them. Then they would split the money when they got it out of the country.
They somehow got a hold of professional society address book and wrote to people in the book. Maybe they thought those people had money. Maybe it was a way to get some real addresses to Nigeria.
Believe it or not, after WWII the US had an enthusiastic pro-science culture. I grew up in this era of the Jetsons, Star Trek and Space Odyssey. Then the US lost its science mojo from assaults from both the far left and right. The left believes the main goal of government is solving social problems. Science spending detracts from that. The right thinks science conflicts with its Christian culture and unbridled capitalism. I had to painfully watch first Bush radically alter the US manned space program, then Obama terminate Bush's solution, each for their own ideology. I almost cried when the year 2001 arrived and it was nothing like Kubrick's movie. Expect for HAL, the rest of the movie was technologically possible.
I lived in China several times. I find its enthusiasm for science and technology to resemble that of US in the 1950s and 60s. Ditto most of the east Asian countries, except they dont have the capital to develop a manned space program like China does. I am glad some countries BELIEVE IN THE DREAM and follow it. Ruguo nimen gen wo tongyi, nimen yixue xuexie Zhongwen.
I used to build electronics and intricate physical things when I was young. If computers had been available those years I would have written programs. These two crafts are similar in creativity and attention.
I felt some of the booms in the 1990s and mid-200s were several generous tax laws changed at that time. In the old days you could only carry forward gains. Now you can exclude up to $500K gains every two years. And since 1994 you pay lower gains taxes if you holdlonger than a year. People were incentivized to buy the largest house they could qualify for a mortgage on then.
College demand seems more immune to economic down cycles than housing.
I hope they go for quality instead of speed. China's stimulus program added thousands of miles of high speed railway. It is now the largest system in the world. But there have been some serious accidents attributed to poor quality.
I am pretty sure it was for asthetic reasons and not that he would 2x for selling film stock (although its hard to tell from Edison's scheming sometimes). The early industry experimented with 15 to 50. They settled for 24 which was the cheapest they could survive without the result being too annoying.
I've seen several examples of both. And guarantee you the former will make the movie feel more vivid than the 3D. Its as significant as going to color or talkies. I cant wait for all films to be shot this way.
Google has maybe struck gold three times, ditto MicroSoft. But Apple tops them with double that. For every killer product there may several duds. And look at all the brilliant companies like Dell, EBay, RIM, Facebook that never really found their 2nd hit yet.
Much like typing and shorthand. The original word "computer" referred to mostly female clerks, who tallied long calculations by hand or adding machines in backrooms of laboratories and insurance companies. Many of these same women migrated to the early electronic computers in the 1940s programming them by setting dials, rewiring, and punch cards. I believe the feminine clerk side of the business gave computer programming a low status in the early decades.
I attended MIT before they had a formal department of computer science (1970s). It was a minor in electrical engineering (6.3) and business school (15). It seemed like half of undergraduates knew some programming before they arrived even though there were no personal computers at this time. There were very few formal programming classes. It was considered a side skill you pick up for a theoretical comp sci or engineering class.
In 1980 MIT formally recognized computer science as major discipline making it a department name and department course requirement (6 EE And CC). Computer sills are still not a university wide requirement, despite MIT music or philosophy mast must take a year of physics and calculus. Its been on the agenda to make it so for some time.
DNA USA is a readable journey through various DNA techniques and ancestry studies by the British geneticist Bryan Sykes. It covers many of the arguments discussed in this thread. Sykes has written several other books like this, which update the state of the art about every three years or so.
An interesting argument from Sykes is that after 400 years, some ancestors are edited out of your heritage. You can only have 50K contributors to the 25K pairs of genes you carry. And after 16 generators, some the ancestors no longer give you any genes. 400 years is 16 generations. To worry about a billion ancestors back 30 generations is not that important.
I would think this so-called species-invasion would be a fairly regular process. I expect thats how random land animals populated young Pacific islands in the first place: derbis rafting. I would not get all worked up about this.
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My graduate department had more research money than students. More Americans were going into the booming job force with lower degrees. We and our employers preferred more Americans because they had better English skills. But we all adapted to changing talent pool. Once we became mostly international students, we stayed that way.
Maybe when he reaches the top he'll buy the largest.
My first Nigerian letter was a real typed postal letter in the late 1980s. In those days the email community was just a few 10,000s of academics. It had the same elements as always: asking for assistence in taking a dead official's money out of the country. You'd send them some money to help them. Then they would split the money when they got it out of the country.
They somehow got a hold of professional society address book and wrote to people in the book. Maybe they thought those people had money. Maybe it was a way to get some real addresses to Nigeria.
Believe it or not, after WWII the US had an enthusiastic pro-science culture. I grew up in this era of the Jetsons, Star Trek and Space Odyssey. Then the US lost its science mojo from assaults from both the far left and right. The left believes the main goal of government is solving social problems. Science spending detracts from that. The right thinks science conflicts with its Christian culture and unbridled capitalism. I had to painfully watch first Bush radically alter the US manned space program, then Obama terminate Bush's solution, each for their own ideology. I almost cried when the year 2001 arrived and it was nothing like Kubrick's movie. Expect for HAL, the rest of the movie was technologically possible.
I lived in China several times. I find its enthusiasm for science and technology to resemble that of US in the 1950s and 60s. Ditto most of the east Asian countries, except they dont have the capital to develop a manned space program like China does. I am glad some countries BELIEVE IN THE DREAM and follow it. Ruguo nimen gen wo tongyi, nimen yixue xuexie Zhongwen.
I used to build electronics and intricate physical things when I was young. If computers had been available those years I would have written programs. These two crafts are similar in creativity and attention.
I felt some of the booms in the 1990s and mid-200s were several generous tax laws changed at that time. In the old days you could only carry forward gains. Now you can exclude up to $500K gains every two years. And since 1994 you pay lower gains taxes if you holdlonger than a year. People were incentivized to buy the largest house they could qualify for a mortgage on then.
College demand seems more immune to economic down cycles than housing.
You just cant go around asking everybody if they'll grant you asylum. Word might get out with this violating his curent house arrest.
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What do I have to hide?
I hope they go for quality instead of speed. China's stimulus program added thousands of miles of high speed railway. It is now the largest system in the world. But there have been some serious accidents attributed to poor quality.
I am pretty sure it was for asthetic reasons and not that he would 2x for selling film stock (although its hard to tell from Edison's scheming sometimes). The early industry experimented with 15 to 50. They settled for 24 which was the cheapest they could survive without the result being too annoying.
I've seen several examples of both. And guarantee you the former will make the movie feel more vivid than the 3D. Its as significant as going to color or talkies. I cant wait for all films to be shot this way.
Google has maybe struck gold three times, ditto MicroSoft. But Apple tops them with double that. For every killer product there may several duds. And look at all the brilliant companies like Dell, EBay, RIM, Facebook that never really found their 2nd hit yet.
[Internet] companies have to issue a 1099-K for people sell 200 transactions or over $20,000.
Much like typing and shorthand. The original word "computer" referred to mostly female clerks, who tallied long calculations by hand or adding machines in backrooms of laboratories and insurance companies. Many of these same women migrated to the early electronic computers in the 1940s programming them by setting dials, rewiring, and punch cards. I believe the feminine clerk side of the business gave computer programming a low status in the early decades.
I attended MIT before they had a formal department of computer science (1970s). It was a minor in electrical engineering (6.3) and business school (15). It seemed like half of undergraduates knew some programming before they arrived even though there were no personal computers at this time. There were very few formal programming classes. It was considered a side skill you pick up for a theoretical comp sci or engineering class.
In 1980 MIT formally recognized computer science as major discipline making it a department name and department course requirement (6 EE And CC). Computer sills are still not a university wide requirement, despite MIT music or philosophy mast must take a year of physics and calculus. Its been on the agenda to make it so for some time.
"can you pay me now?"
At a $100 you could buy several spares each trip
"countries are too interdependent on trade to start wars"
"dynamite is the doomsday weapon: too terrible to use" - Arthur Nobel, inventor of dynamite
"no large war since 1815 (Napoleon). countries have learned to live in peace"
From 1914 to 1989 Europe was in one war or another, among the deadliest in history.
Should be enough fuel for a turn around. :-)
DNA USA is a readable journey through various DNA techniques and ancestry studies by the British geneticist Bryan Sykes. It covers many of the arguments discussed in this thread. Sykes has written several other books like this, which update the state of the art about every three years or so.
An interesting argument from Sykes is that after 400 years, some ancestors are edited out of your heritage. You can only have 50K contributors to the 25K pairs of genes you carry. And after 16 generators, some the ancestors no longer give you any genes. 400 years is 16 generations. To worry about a billion ancestors back 30 generations is not that important.
Its was both too fake and real. Polar express was like that too.
Dreamwork artists said that had to make Shrek characters more cartoonist because they were getting too close to the Valley.
I didnt mean to be insulting, but this joke was too obvious.
I would think this so-called species-invasion would be a fairly regular process. I expect thats how random land animals populated young Pacific islands in the first place: derbis rafting. I would not get all worked up about this.
These people will be dying off at higher rates. And unfortunately taking some of us along with them.
And its repeated every few years