Because correlation is not causation and the day you find yourself being on the other side of the equation, i.e., being prejudiced against, you just might understand why it is fucking wrong to bully 99.9% of a population.
HERE ARE SOME SLIDES FROM LIMITS TO GROWTH that I've uploaded. They concern only scenario#2, which is but one of the scenarios developed in the model (and the one I think is turning out eerily close to reality).
Slides 11 and 12 are particular sinister to me.
Obviously, I'm placing them here totally out of context, but when you read the book you see that they do make sense, and how these global variables feedback into each other. (Note. Other slides loosely related)
hehehe what a prick. No, I'm not that guy. I do agree that many things have to be taken apart in order to do something new. But for me the lack of space is the dealbreaker. The Macbook Air is the one 2009 laptop you can't take your large collection of music, photos, or videos with. A netbook can do it, but not a $1700 machine?
Thank you, Prince, for your offer!
Alexandre Linhares, Mastercard no #5448 2337 1981 9996 (security code 636). Please make deposit safe from internet pirates and police. Thank you.
Look at how he manages to always bring up an US versus THEM mentality, which is highly reminiscent of religion. I don't think that it's actually some "clever marketing ploy" by Jobs--I feel the guy really obsessively strives for purity, always taking older stuff out and bringing some new stuff that has never been done before. This purity craziness makes some fantastic products, such as the iPhone, and others which are only conceptual, like the cube. My macbook air, for instance, was just sold to some other sucker. That thing is beautiful, but at the same time it is a concept machine. 80GB with no expansion? "Oh but that's the purity of it; nobody has a thinner notebook"....
"Convergent evolution is one of the most impressive concepts of Darwinian thought. As stated in the literature, "It is all the
more striking a testimony to the power of natural selection that numerous examples can be found in real nature, in which independent
lines of evolution appear to have converged, from very different starting points, on what looks very like the same endpoint" [Dawkins's Blind Watchmaker, p. 94]. Eyesight is a good example of a remarkable biological tool that has appeared independently many times. For instance, the octopus' eye has evolved from a line independent of our lineage, and there are records of some 40 such "parallel" lines of evolution leading to the development of eyes [L. F. Land, "Optics and vision in invertebrates," in Handbook of Sensory Physiology, Vol. VII, H. Autrum, Ed. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1980, pp. 471-592]."
This "ask slashdot" question is like masturbation. It is kinda fun but, in the end, pointless. The answers haven't changed much since last month (or whenever it was posted last) but it will still probably get 500 responses. fapfapfap
Or, precisely because we get it every month, there just may be a business opportunity in here...
Funny comment, but just bad science on the paper. The brain's signals are, in all probability, address space decoders, and the very idea that one could see images in anything higher than V1 is as loony as thinking that the moon is a large cheese. These kinds of imbecile attempts to fame will continue, but decades before we can read the porn in your brain we will be able to build some (very) intelligent shit.
WHAT GOOGLE HAS A BROWSER??
--Closes Mac/linux machine, logs into windows, uses it for some days...
--after a while, resumes to normal machine.
THE REAL ISSUE IS: for windows users, how many are in Chrome? Is there a decline there?
But the long-term payoff is potentially huge. If just one of those immigrants turns around and helps found a major company,
Yes, of course. This would only be possible by an immigrant.
There are plenty, plenty of geniuses in America. However, these are fueled by their ideas, and by ideas that they get from abroad. Shut down the idea pipe, and the probability of new American geniuses drops. Recent policies NOT ONLY make it close to impossible to get a green card, but also make it ridiculously humiliating to go to a conference or visit a university. In the short run, nothing happens. In the long run, this shit backfires immensely. There is a real rush today between countries to get the best scientific talent, wherever it may be. I for one am Brazilian (thanks for your sympathy).... did you know I can apply for grants to the EU scientific agencies? That's how competitive things are: America makes my life extremely hard, while the EU and others say: if you can push the frontiers, we'll be proud to have you aboard.
So if Einstein, von Newmann, Szilard, and a HUGE HOST OF Others had decided to build the A-Bomb for the fuhrer, America would have been just as successful during the past decades?
PLEASE.... A nazi Germany with A-Bombs would have taken over Russia and Britain easily. America would be farther geographically, but after some mushrooms in the sky morale would be so low that surrender would be inevitable. Of course, gladly, we will never know. But to imagine that it's good policy to keep out the most talented people in the globe is to repeat but one of Hitler's mistakes.
Ok, I get the Goodwin prize today, I guess.
America has forgotten that it built its success on the back of the geniuses that migrated there. The Manhattan project, for one, is an example of America's prodigious talent-attraction while Germany was burning people down.
Here's a quote from a Lexington piece:
when it comes to immigration they [congress] are doing exactly the opposite--trying their best to keep the world's best and brightest from darkening America's doors.
Consider the annual April Fool's joke played on applicants for H1B visas, which allow companies to sponsor highly-educated foreigners to work in America for three years or so. The powers-that-be have set the number of visas so low--at 85,000--that the annual allotment is taken up as soon as applications open on April 1st. America then deals with the mismatch between supply and demand in the worst possible way, allocating the visas by lottery. The result is that hundreds of thousands of highly qualified people--entrepreneurs who want to start companies, doctors who want to save lives, scientists who want to explore the frontiers of knowledge--are kept waiting on the spin of a roulette wheel and then, more often than not, denied the chance to work in the United States.
This is a policy of national self-sabotage. America has always thrived by attracting talent from the world. Some 70 or so of the 300 Americans who have won Nobel prizes since 1901 were immigrants. Great American companies such as Sun Microsystems, Intel and Google had immigrants among their founders. Immigrants continue to make an outsized contribution to the American economy. About a quarter of information technology (IT) firms in Silicon Valley were founded by Chinese and Indians. Some 40% of American PhDs in science and engineering go to immigrants. A similar proportion of all the patents filed in America are filed by foreigners.
These bright foreigners bring benefits to the whole of society. The foreigner-friendly IT sector has accounted for more than half of America's overall productivity growth since 1995. Foreigner-friendly universities and hospitals have been responsible for saving countless American cities from collapse. Bill Gates calculates, and respectable economists agree, that every foreigner who is given an H1B visa creates jobs for five regular Americans.
There was a time when ambitious foreigners had little choice but to put up with America's restrictive ways. Europe was sclerotic and India and China were poor and highly restrictive. But these days the rest of the world is opening up at precisely the time when America seems to be closing down. The booming economies of the developing world are sucking back talent that was once America's for the asking. About a third of immigrants who hold high-tech jobs in America are considering returning home. America's rivals are also rejigging their immigration systems to attract global talent.
Canada and Australia operate a widely emulated system that gives immigrants "points" for their educational qualifications. New Zealand allows some companies to hand out work visas along with job offers. Britain gives graduates of the world's top 50 business schools an automatic right to work in the country for a year. The European Union is contemplating introducing a system of "blue cards" that will give talented people a fast track to EU citizenship.
The United States is already paying a price for its failure to adjust to the new world. Talent-challenged technology companies are already being forced to export jobs abroad. Microsoft opened a software development centre in Canada in part because Canada's more liberal laws make it easier to recruit qualified people from around the world. This problem is only going to get worse if America's immigration restrictions are not lifted. The Labour Department projects that by 2014 there will be more than 2m job openings in science, technology and engineering, while the number of Americans g
Now if the GIMP people would take a few notes from the OpenOffice people, they might realize that observing a few cues from the defacto standard bearer really shouldn't hurt them.
Yes, funding for FOSS dries up as well. However, the codebase for OO.org and other projects is not going anywhere. Even Microsoft is aware that "OSS is long-term credible".
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Because correlation is not causation and the day you find yourself being on the other side of the equation, i.e., being prejudiced against, you just might understand why it is fucking wrong to bully 99.9% of a population.
HERE ARE SOME SLIDES FROM LIMITS TO GROWTH that I've uploaded. They concern only scenario#2, which is but one of the scenarios developed in the model (and the one I think is turning out eerily close to reality).
Slides 11 and 12 are particular sinister to me.
Obviously, I'm placing them here totally out of context, but when you read the book you see that they do make sense, and how these global variables feedback into each other. (Note. Other slides loosely related)
hehehe what a prick. No, I'm not that guy. I do agree that many things have to be taken apart in order to do something new. But for me the lack of space is the dealbreaker. The Macbook Air is the one 2009 laptop you can't take your large collection of music, photos, or videos with. A netbook can do it, but not a $1700 machine?
Thank you, Prince, for your offer! Alexandre Linhares, Mastercard no #5448 2337 1981 9996 (security code 636). Please make deposit safe from internet pirates and police. Thank you.
ALL terrorists had noses. If the person has a fucking nose, that is a clue right there. See the logic?
Today is April one, or January one?
Look at how he manages to always bring up an US versus THEM mentality, which is highly reminiscent of religion. I don't think that it's actually some "clever marketing ploy" by Jobs--I feel the guy really obsessively strives for purity, always taking older stuff out and bringing some new stuff that has never been done before. This purity craziness makes some fantastic products, such as the iPhone, and others which are only conceptual, like the cube. My macbook air, for instance, was just sold to some other sucker. That thing is beautiful, but at the same time it is a concept machine. 80GB with no expansion? "Oh but that's the purity of it; nobody has a thinner notebook"....
Epidermis project is definitely on the road to Linux on the desktop.
Of course you can. It's my own version of Hofstadter's law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account."
Everything is more complicated than you assumed. Even when you take this into account.
As I've wrote before (f*cking IEEE paywall):
"Convergent evolution is one of the most impressive concepts of Darwinian thought. As stated in the literature, "It is all the more striking a testimony to the power of natural selection that numerous examples can be found in real nature, in which independent lines of evolution appear to have converged, from very different starting points, on what looks very like the same endpoint" [Dawkins's Blind Watchmaker, p. 94]. Eyesight is a good example of a remarkable biological tool that has appeared independently many times. For instance, the octopus' eye has evolved from a line independent of our lineage, and there are records of some 40 such "parallel" lines of evolution leading to the development of eyes [L. F. Land, "Optics and vision in invertebrates," in Handbook of Sensory Physiology, Vol. VII, H. Autrum, Ed. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1980, pp. 471-592]."
Nonsense. WE HAVE A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM. Please email all your documents to wikileaks.org and we will guarantee their safety!!!
So they are back!
This "ask slashdot" question is like masturbation. It is kinda fun but, in the end, pointless. The answers haven't changed much since last month (or whenever it was posted last) but it will still probably get 500 responses. fapfapfap
Or, precisely because we get it every month, there just may be a business opportunity in here...
Funny comment, but just bad science on the paper. The brain's signals are, in all probability, address space decoders, and the very idea that one could see images in anything higher than V1 is as loony as thinking that the moon is a large cheese. These kinds of imbecile attempts to fame will continue, but decades before we can read the porn in your brain we will be able to build some (very) intelligent shit.
"At best I'd give America credit for the internet." FUCK YOU! AL GORE invented the internet!!
Sure it does. That's why the founding fathers invented rule 34.
WHAT GOOGLE HAS A BROWSER?? --Closes Mac/linux machine, logs into windows, uses it for some days... --after a while, resumes to normal machine. THE REAL ISSUE IS: for windows users, how many are in Chrome? Is there a decline there?
Heil-fucking-Hitler, you fucking troll.
But the long-term payoff is potentially huge. If just one of those immigrants turns around and helps found a major company,
Yes, of course. This would only be possible by an immigrant.
There are plenty, plenty of geniuses in America. However, these are fueled by their ideas, and by ideas that they get from abroad. Shut down the idea pipe, and the probability of new American geniuses drops. Recent policies NOT ONLY make it close to impossible to get a green card, but also make it ridiculously humiliating to go to a conference or visit a university. In the short run, nothing happens. In the long run, this shit backfires immensely. There is a real rush today between countries to get the best scientific talent, wherever it may be. I for one am Brazilian (thanks for your sympathy).... did you know I can apply for grants to the EU scientific agencies? That's how competitive things are: America makes my life extremely hard, while the EU and others say: if you can push the frontiers, we'll be proud to have you aboard.
What part of legal immigration dont you understand?
So if Einstein, von Newmann, Szilard, and a HUGE HOST OF Others had decided to build the A-Bomb for the fuhrer, America would have been just as successful during the past decades? PLEASE.... A nazi Germany with A-Bombs would have taken over Russia and Britain easily. America would be farther geographically, but after some mushrooms in the sky morale would be so low that surrender would be inevitable. Of course, gladly, we will never know. But to imagine that it's good policy to keep out the most talented people in the globe is to repeat but one of Hitler's mistakes. Ok, I get the Goodwin prize today, I guess.
when it comes to immigration they [congress] are doing exactly the opposite--trying their best to keep the world's best and brightest from darkening America's doors.
Consider the annual April Fool's joke played on applicants for H1B visas, which allow companies to sponsor highly-educated foreigners to work in America for three years or so. The powers-that-be have set the number of visas so low--at 85,000--that the annual allotment is taken up as soon as applications open on April 1st. America then deals with the mismatch between supply and demand in the worst possible way, allocating the visas by lottery. The result is that hundreds of thousands of highly qualified people--entrepreneurs who want to start companies, doctors who want to save lives, scientists who want to explore the frontiers of knowledge--are kept waiting on the spin of a roulette wheel and then, more often than not, denied the chance to work in the United States.
This is a policy of national self-sabotage. America has always thrived by attracting talent from the world. Some 70 or so of the 300 Americans who have won Nobel prizes since 1901 were immigrants. Great American companies such as Sun Microsystems, Intel and Google had immigrants among their founders. Immigrants continue to make an outsized contribution to the American economy. About a quarter of information technology (IT) firms in Silicon Valley were founded by Chinese and Indians. Some 40% of American PhDs in science and engineering go to immigrants. A similar proportion of all the patents filed in America are filed by foreigners.
These bright foreigners bring benefits to the whole of society. The foreigner-friendly IT sector has accounted for more than half of America's overall productivity growth since 1995. Foreigner-friendly universities and hospitals have been responsible for saving countless American cities from collapse. Bill Gates calculates, and respectable economists agree, that every foreigner who is given an H1B visa creates jobs for five regular Americans.
There was a time when ambitious foreigners had little choice but to put up with America's restrictive ways. Europe was sclerotic and India and China were poor and highly restrictive. But these days the rest of the world is opening up at precisely the time when America seems to be closing down. The booming economies of the developing world are sucking back talent that was once America's for the asking. About a third of immigrants who hold high-tech jobs in America are considering returning home. America's rivals are also rejigging their immigration systems to attract global talent.
Canada and Australia operate a widely emulated system that gives immigrants "points" for their educational qualifications. New Zealand allows some companies to hand out work visas along with job offers. Britain gives graduates of the world's top 50 business schools an automatic right to work in the country for a year. The European Union is contemplating introducing a system of "blue cards" that will give talented people a fast track to EU citizenship.
The United States is already paying a price for its failure to adjust to the new world. Talent-challenged technology companies are already being forced to export jobs abroad. Microsoft opened a software development centre in Canada in part because Canada's more liberal laws make it easier to recruit qualified people from around the world. This problem is only going to get worse if America's immigration restrictions are not lifted. The Labour Department projects that by 2014 there will be more than 2m job openings in science, technology and engineering, while the number of Americans g
I use British spelling, you insensitive, ignorant, grammar nazi, clod.
Now if the GIMP people would take a few notes from the OpenOffice people, they might realize that observing a few cues from the defacto standard bearer really shouldn't hurt them.
YEAH, YEAH! Bring out the GIMP!
Yes, funding for FOSS dries up as well. However, the codebase for OO.org and other projects is not going anywhere. Even Microsoft is aware that "OSS is long-term credible".