No, it's not my blog nor am I affiliated in any way with the site.
Thanks for the link.
I don't see why you need the disclaimer. Linking to a blog is a questionable practice if it rips off content from other legitimate news sources. But when blogs themselves are primary sources (or primary public sources as in this case), I don't see what difference is there between them and a newspaper. You wouldn't apologize linking to New York Times, so why would you add a disclaimer in this case ?
US Constitution is a pretty strange document. It appears to be simple and very clear - but it has never been.
The constitution that spells out universal suffrage and equality allowed slaves to be kept/ Blacks to be segregated and prevented women from voting. But at some point of time the interpretation of the same lines of text changed and the world changed drastically.
So while I agree with your point in general and agree that the Federal government should concern itself mainly with economy and the military, using constitution as a line in the sand does not help. You need to convince the other side about the benefits of limited interpretation of "general welfare" - and statements like Idiots like you are what ruin this nation. do not really help.
Interestingly, the Chief justice called him "Senator" before taking the oath, but called him "
President" after administering the oath.
I wonder if the Chief justice thinks that presidency starts when the oath is given?
In Google's case Stockholders don't really matter. When they IPO'd they made two kinds of stocks, Class A and Class B. Class A is what got sold, Class B is what the insiders (Larry and Sergey) hold. The most important thing is that Class B has infinitely more voting power than Class A stock. It means that Shareholders cannot vote out the board for "not being evil enough". Even better, Class B stocks cannot be sold to outsiders (if they are, the convert to Class A) Google made this pretty clear when they IPO'd -- their letter to investors said that they were not trying to be just another corporation. They specified that the stocks the customers were getting was a claim on the profits, not a claim on voting rights.
Essentially, as long as the insiders stay honest, the company will stay honest. The quarterly numbers, stock prices are all meaningless to the board in this case.
You are either exaggerating or are mistaken.
USA (Brzezinski or whoever) did not create Al Qaeda. It is true that many Al Qaeda members fought Russia in Afghanistan and that the Afghan Mujahedeens were funded by USA through Pakistan -- But Al Qaeda is a much later group formed in Saudi Arabia (according to Bin Laden against US presence in Holy Land). Very different times, different places.
Rahm Emanual Dual-Citizenship allegation is baseless according to Wikipedia.
Just for the sake of argument, what is the difference between laying asphalt on a road (while totally destroying the asphalt that was already there) and replacing the old cars that run on them ? They both encourage people to drive more. So why not ask the government to stop fixing roads ?
It is true that this will cause inflation - but my guess is that it is exactly what the government wants. Inflation and unemployment rate are closely linked, higher the inflation, lower the job losses. What the government seems to have decided is that it is OK to risk inflation to prevent sudden job losses. And currently US has negative inflation (arguably largely due to falling house prices) and Fed does not seem to care about a possible inflation.
And stop worrying about US debt or consumer debt. US debt is denominated in dollars and all US has to do when called upon is to print more of that stuff. It virtually cannot default. Sure, it will cause inflation again, but then a debtor nation with a debtor population should be happy in such a case since your debt is devalued!
More worrying is the scenario where all countries of the world try to devalue their currencies and end up in trouble. China seems to be experimenting with this, Britain has devalued Sterling to close to Euro-parity and the developing world is joining in too.
This activity is not value creating - that much is correct.
But I think what the congress is hoping that the benefits of this action has cumulative effects - ie it stops businesses from being bankrupt and closing down. Closed down businesses take a while to start back up again when economy picks up etc. So a closed business is worse than junking an old car. Or at least thats how I'd presume Keynes would argue the case -- Use a helicopter drop of money just to get people back to spending the way they used to. If they stop spending, the fear is that it would lead to a spiral of job losses, even lesser spending, closed factories etc. etc.
On the other hand, breaking all windows just to replace them is not costless, but the costs are spread out since it is funded through taxes (and in this case treasury bonds). The effect in general would be to devalue currency and hence the effect on each individual is limited.
The bad thing is that the savers are screwed (money will be devalued) while the debtors benefit (Govt is helping pay for them).
Just my 2 cents.
Thats the wrong article you are explaining. Here is what I understood The "Holographic" article is the one which says that the world is really not a 3D space, but instead is a 3D projection of a 2 dimensional world . This holographic projection contains the same amount of information that is contained within the 2 dimensional "surface world". This means that any graininess in the 2 dimensional world is amplified in the 3D world - which is causing the Plancks length sized disruptions in the surface world to become observable sized (10^-16 m) graininess in our world. This graininess is causing an experiment to detect gravitational waves to pick up random noise since length of the measuring rulers (2 laser paths ) is fluctuating .
The theory developed from the idea that Black Holes have all their information codified in quantum waves on the surface - This surface is equivalent in information to the entire volume of the star contained within. When the Black hole vanishes, the waves on the surface carry the information with them and radiate out.
Cutting "low performers" has, in my experience, always been a sign of a company in financial trouble.
Jack Welch was the one of the first guys to propose the idea of firing the weak performers and at GE popularized it company wide, firing employees and selling weak businesses. I have not worked at GE, but from reading his book it seems that it is important to measure the right outcome before firing people. When he said that he would sell off companies which were not number one in their industry, the companies started redefining the industry very narrowly so as to be number one. eg: We are the number one company that makes 40W bulbs and toothpastes. He also explains how you can end up firing wrong employees.
So Firing bad employees has been done atleast by one company in times when they were not in financial trouble.
You are right, but the grand parent does have a point though.
Most banks understand the idea that the 5% losses will be very large numbers and use some sort of non-linear models to estimate those losses - there clearly were errors, but they were not of the order of magnitude to sink the banks.
What really killed them is really the sudden outbreak of correlations. First it was the real estate slowdown, then it became the credit crunch, then later equity markets crashed and then they bought down Europe and emerging market countries. Somewhere along the line it also caused bankruptcies in companies and started killing the real economy. These things were supposed to be uncorrelated (or supposed to have low correlations) - when they became correlated it killed the whole country. If the correlations had held, then a slowdown in the real estate markets should not have caused the bond markets to tank (they are really products that compete with each other for investor money and should move in opposite directions) - the tanking of bond markets then caused Private equity companies to sit on the beach, which in turn killed the revenue to the banks--again another unexpected correlation.
On the other hand, I would think that the extreme "Black Swan" has not really materialized. S&P used to move up and down by a percentage and a half a day on the average and now it moves up by 4-5% a day. These are same order of magnitude, even if it is unusually high. Bond default rates used to be 0.5% for AAA, now it is maybe 3%. Housing prices used to move up by a couple of percentages a month, now it is falling by 5-10%. None of this is really a Black Swan - a grey swan maybe. When S&P falls by 20% a day or when default rates hit 15% for AAA or when housing prices fall by 50% a month -- That would be a Black Swan. It would indicate that the US market is a different animal from what we thought (and acts similar to Russia/China/India markets).
And I would have hoped that the Indians would have understood this, considering that they built a temple with statues of Sex on the Walls
The ancient Indians atleast seemed to believe that sex was a regular part of life, and to be seen as an art!
Victorian England and the Mugals seem to have left an indelible mark on Indian culture, unfortunately.
I believe that the way the relevant act is written, HP cannot sell to any company that it expects (or is reasonably expected) to sell to Iran (or Cuba, North Korea).
If they are discovered to be selling through an intermediary, HP can face fines, right to sell to the US govt., criminal charges etc. etc.
IANAL
If you are a high quality journal it should not really matter if you exclude all references to itself. If "High quality journal" gets 60 references to it from other journals and 10 references from itself, the difference between 60 and 70 is not large. But you take "Crackpot dynamics journal" which gets 60 links to itself and 10 links from outside, the difference between 70 and 10 is large.
If you still want to keep self-references, we could calculate modified impact factor as
modified impact factor = number of links from outside X number of links from the same journal That would neatly exclude the problem being described above.
I would have hoped that they would atleast have learned something from the last time and restored the services within a few minutes. Cutting and tapping is par for James Bond Operations, but not being able to put it back together is pure Austin Powers.
That said, I am posting this from Barcelona, Spain and I believe internet here is not affected.
The only way out then is to get used to the idea of Comparative advantage . She may be better than you at everything in absolute terms, but since both of you have only 24 hours in a day, it still is better for you to stick together and interact (play games). You just have to find the game you are the absolute best and she is the absolute worst and play for limited time (so that she does'nt change her comparative advantage).
This is how my economist professor explained the reasoning for marrying an absolutely hot and smart woman.
It is unrestrictive not in the simple keywords and functions sense, but in the sense of object oriented design.
In Java it is next to impossible to write a "Hello World" program without tripping over object oriented design. In python don't really need to create a ObjectFactory to create little widget objects if you don't feel like it etc.
This leaves the user unrestricted when it comes to program design (though python slightly does nudge you in the rightish direction with the way the language is developing).
What you quoted above may be the case, but this is not what THIS case is about. The motion says that Microsoft knew that when the Xbox 360 was reoriented with a disc playing inside, the disc could be damaged.
The Xbox IS designed to be used in a vertical position. The problem is that when it has a disc inside it and you move the Xbox around, the disc gets scratched.
From the article The motion says that Microsoft knew that when the Xbox 360 was reoriented with a disc playing inside, the disc could be damaged
This is the same as the Toyota analogy, but except saying that Toyota knew that if the car was driven at 140 mph, it might lose control.
It will all depend on whether moving an XBox while in use is expected behaviour
Wait, what has voltage got to do with that ? If the only problem was voltage, would it not be simpler for them to add a small transformer into the design to get the voltage up to the required 440 V from the 110/200/220 V ? Or even simpler a separate wiring that puts batteries in parallel for charging and in series for running the car.
Even simpler, toss a metal rod in there first. Wait, short out the circuit and THEN drive out with the car. And BTW, BBC top gear had a show where they put a guy in a car that was then hit by a simulated lightning. The person was alive, the car was not damaged and the car started on the first turn of the key. So even if you never short out the circuit, as long as you can get inside the car somehow (by providing a high conductivity metallic wire far away from you), you are safe.
Indian Army/Airforce routinely lands helicopters loaded with supplies on Siachen, which is well over 6000 meters. I believe they have managed to land higher in rescue operations. So if they can do it with their about-to-be-phased out helicopters, I would think someone at some point of time would succeed in landing on top of Everest.
Starks could have not been an asshole with his original reply.
I still fail to see how he was being an asshole with his reply. He thought he was doing a reasonable job or even a charitable job with his Helios project. He then gets an email calling his work illegal and asking him to go beg his competition for free OSes. I can understand how that would throw almost anyone off. His reply was to the point (even if based on assumptions and guesswork that turned out to be faulty) and without inflammatory language.
He did not use any four letter words, did not publish the teachers real name or ask for a real life DDoS on the competitor and did not make comments on offtopic points.
It really depends on how the bundling is done.
After bundling is done if the state retains more power in economic affairs it is socialist . If after bundling the state works for industry it is monopolist with traces of fascism.
Italy during the second world war is the best example of fascism without being Nazist (Oops,Godwin) . They had strong nationalist tendency and trains did run on time, but they did not believe in Aryan supremacy too much (most Italians are black haired,so they don't buy the Blond-Blue eyed story)
Also note that demanding papers, human rights abuses go with any sort of bundling of powers ( large scale communism, socialism, fascism etc.). Communists generally think of themselves as the extreme opposite of fascists (Spanish Civil war etc) but in USA they seem to think both Communism and Fascism are bad words implying a large bad government.
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No, it's not my blog nor am I affiliated in any way with the site.
Thanks for the link. I don't see why you need the disclaimer. Linking to a blog is a questionable practice if it rips off content from other legitimate news sources. But when blogs themselves are primary sources (or primary public sources as in this case), I don't see what difference is there between them and a newspaper. You wouldn't apologize linking to New York Times, so why would you add a disclaimer in this case ?
US Constitution is a pretty strange document. It appears to be simple and very clear - but it has never been.
The constitution that spells out universal suffrage and equality allowed slaves to be kept/ Blacks to be segregated and prevented women from voting. But at some point of time the interpretation of the same lines of text changed and the world changed drastically.
So while I agree with your point in general and agree that the Federal government should concern itself mainly with economy and the military, using constitution as a line in the sand does not help. You need to convince the other side about the benefits of limited interpretation of "general welfare" - and statements like Idiots like you are what ruin this nation. do not really help.
Interestingly, the Chief justice called him "Senator" before taking the oath, but called him " President" after administering the oath.
I wonder if the Chief justice thinks that presidency starts when the oath is given?
In Google's case Stockholders don't really matter. When they IPO'd they made two kinds of stocks, Class A and Class B. Class A is what got sold, Class B is what the insiders (Larry and Sergey) hold. The most important thing is that Class B has infinitely more voting power than Class A stock. It means that Shareholders cannot vote out the board for "not being evil enough". Even better, Class B stocks cannot be sold to outsiders (if they are, the convert to Class A)
Google made this pretty clear when they IPO'd -- their letter to investors said that they were not trying to be just another corporation. They specified that the stocks the customers were getting was a claim on the profits, not a claim on voting rights.
Essentially, as long as the insiders stay honest, the company will stay honest. The quarterly numbers, stock prices are all meaningless to the board in this case.
You are either exaggerating or are mistaken.
USA (Brzezinski or whoever) did not create Al Qaeda. It is true that many Al Qaeda members fought Russia in Afghanistan and that the Afghan Mujahedeens were funded by USA through Pakistan -- But Al Qaeda is a much later group formed in Saudi Arabia (according to Bin Laden against US presence in Holy Land). Very different times, different places.
Rahm Emanual Dual-Citizenship allegation is baseless according to Wikipedia.
Just for the sake of argument, what is the difference between laying asphalt on a road (while totally destroying the asphalt that was already there) and replacing the old cars that run on them ? They both encourage people to drive more. So why not ask the government to stop fixing roads ?
It is true that this will cause inflation - but my guess is that it is exactly what the government wants. Inflation and unemployment rate are closely linked, higher the inflation, lower the job losses. What the government seems to have decided is that it is OK to risk inflation to prevent sudden job losses. And currently US has negative inflation (arguably largely due to falling house prices) and Fed does not seem to care about a possible inflation.
And stop worrying about US debt or consumer debt. US debt is denominated in dollars and all US has to do when called upon is to print more of that stuff. It virtually cannot default. Sure, it will cause inflation again, but then a debtor nation with a debtor population should be happy in such a case since your debt is devalued!
More worrying is the scenario where all countries of the world try to devalue their currencies and end up in trouble. China seems to be experimenting with this, Britain has devalued Sterling to close to Euro-parity and the developing world is joining in too.
This activity is not value creating - that much is correct.
But I think what the congress is hoping that the benefits of this action has cumulative effects - ie it stops businesses from being bankrupt and closing down. Closed down businesses take a while to start back up again when economy picks up etc. So a closed business is worse than junking an old car. Or at least thats how I'd presume Keynes would argue the case -- Use a helicopter drop of money just to get people back to spending the way they used to. If they stop spending, the fear is that it would lead to a spiral of job losses, even lesser spending, closed factories etc. etc.
On the other hand, breaking all windows just to replace them is not costless, but the costs are spread out since it is funded through taxes (and in this case treasury bonds). The effect in general would be to devalue currency and hence the effect on each individual is limited.
The bad thing is that the savers are screwed (money will be devalued) while the debtors benefit (Govt is helping pay for them).
Just my 2 cents.
Thats the wrong article you are explaining. Here is what I understood
The "Holographic" article is the one which says that the world is really not a 3D space, but instead is a 3D projection of a 2 dimensional world . This holographic projection contains the same amount of information that is contained within the 2 dimensional "surface world". This means that any graininess in the 2 dimensional world is amplified in the 3D world - which is causing the Plancks length sized disruptions in the surface world to become observable sized (10^-16 m) graininess in our world. This graininess is causing an experiment to detect gravitational waves to pick up random noise since length of the measuring rulers (2 laser paths ) is fluctuating .
The theory developed from the idea that Black Holes have all their information codified in quantum waves on the surface - This surface is equivalent in information to the entire volume of the star contained within. When the Black hole vanishes, the waves on the surface carry the information with them and radiate out.
Cutting "low performers" has, in my experience, always been a sign of a company in financial trouble.
Jack Welch was the one of the first guys to propose the idea of firing the weak performers and at GE popularized it company wide, firing employees and selling weak businesses. I have not worked at GE, but from reading his book it seems that it is important to measure the right outcome before firing people. When he said that he would sell off companies which were not number one in their industry, the companies started redefining the industry very narrowly so as to be number one. eg: We are the number one company that makes 40W bulbs and toothpastes. He also explains how you can end up firing wrong employees.
So Firing bad employees has been done atleast by one company in times when they were not in financial trouble.
You are right, but the grand parent does have a point though.
Most banks understand the idea that the 5% losses will be very large numbers and use some sort of non-linear models to estimate those losses - there clearly were errors, but they were not of the order of magnitude to sink the banks.
What really killed them is really the sudden outbreak of correlations. First it was the real estate slowdown, then it became the credit crunch, then later equity markets crashed and then they bought down Europe and emerging market countries. Somewhere along the line it also caused bankruptcies in companies and started killing the real economy. These things were supposed to be uncorrelated (or supposed to have low correlations) - when they became correlated it killed the whole country. If the correlations had held, then a slowdown in the real estate markets should not have caused the bond markets to tank (they are really products that compete with each other for investor money and should move in opposite directions) - the tanking of bond markets then caused Private equity companies to sit on the beach, which in turn killed the revenue to the banks--again another unexpected correlation.
On the other hand, I would think that the extreme "Black Swan" has not really materialized. S&P used to move up and down by a percentage and a half a day on the average and now it moves up by 4-5% a day. These are same order of magnitude, even if it is unusually high. Bond default rates used to be 0.5% for AAA, now it is maybe 3%. Housing prices used to move up by a couple of percentages a month, now it is falling by 5-10%. None of this is really a Black Swan - a grey swan maybe. When S&P falls by 20% a day or when default rates hit 15% for AAA or when housing prices fall by 50% a month -- That would be a Black Swan. It would indicate that the US market is a different animal from what we thought (and acts similar to Russia/China/India markets).
And I would have hoped that the Indians would have understood this, considering that they built a temple with statues of Sex on the Walls
The ancient Indians atleast seemed to believe that sex was a regular part of life, and to be seen as an art!
Victorian England and the Mugals seem to have left an indelible mark on Indian culture, unfortunately.
I believe that the way the relevant act is written, HP cannot sell to any company that it expects (or is reasonably expected) to sell to Iran (or Cuba, North Korea).
If they are discovered to be selling through an intermediary, HP can face fines, right to sell to the US govt., criminal charges etc. etc.
IANAL
If you are a high quality journal it should not really matter if you exclude all references to itself. If "High quality journal" gets 60 references to it from other journals and 10 references from itself, the difference between 60 and 70 is not large. But you take "Crackpot dynamics journal" which gets 60 links to itself and 10 links from outside, the difference between 70 and 10 is large.
If you still want to keep self-references, we could calculate modified impact factor as
modified impact factor = number of links from outside X number of links from the same journal
That would neatly exclude the problem being described above.
I would have hoped that they would atleast have learned something from the last time and restored the services within a few minutes. Cutting and tapping is par for James Bond Operations, but not being able to put it back together is pure Austin Powers.
That said, I am posting this from Barcelona, Spain and I believe internet here is not affected.
I should have been clearer - he is married to another very smart woman and he said this had to be the reason she picked HIM.
The only way out then is to get used to the idea of Comparative advantage . She may be better than you at everything in absolute terms, but since both of you have only 24 hours in a day, it still is better for you to stick together and interact (play games). You just have to find the game you are the absolute best and she is the absolute worst and play for limited time (so that she does'nt change her comparative advantage).
This is how my economist professor explained the reasoning for marrying an absolutely hot and smart woman.
It is unrestrictive not in the simple keywords and functions sense, but in the sense of object oriented design.
In Java it is next to impossible to write a "Hello World" program without tripping over object oriented design. In python don't really need to create a ObjectFactory to create little widget objects if you don't feel like it etc.
This leaves the user unrestricted when it comes to program design (though python slightly does nudge you in the rightish direction with the way the language is developing).
What you quoted above may be the case, but this is not what THIS case is about. The motion says that Microsoft knew that when the Xbox 360 was reoriented with a disc playing inside, the disc could be damaged.
The Xbox IS designed to be used in a vertical position. The problem is that when it has a disc inside it and you move the Xbox around, the disc gets scratched.
From the article The motion says that Microsoft knew that when the Xbox 360 was reoriented with a disc playing inside, the disc could be damaged
This is the same as the Toyota analogy, but except saying that Toyota knew that if the car was driven at 140 mph, it might lose control.
It will all depend on whether moving an XBox while in use is expected behaviour
Wait, what has voltage got to do with that ? If the only problem was voltage, would it not be simpler for them to add a small transformer into the design to get the voltage up to the required 440 V from the 110/200/220 V ?
Or even simpler a separate wiring that puts batteries in parallel for charging and in series for running the car.
Even simpler, toss a metal rod in there first. Wait, short out the circuit and THEN drive out with the car.
And BTW, BBC top gear had a show where they put a guy in a car that was then hit by a simulated lightning. The person was alive, the car was not damaged and the car started on the first turn of the key. So even if you never short out the circuit, as long as you can get inside the car somehow (by providing a high conductivity metallic wire far away from you), you are safe.
Indian Army/Airforce routinely lands helicopters loaded with supplies on Siachen, which is well over 6000 meters. I believe they have managed to land higher in rescue operations. So if they can do it with their about-to-be-phased out helicopters, I would think someone at some point of time would succeed in landing on top of Everest.
Starks could have not been an asshole with his original reply.
I still fail to see how he was being an asshole with his reply. He thought he was doing a reasonable job or even a charitable job with his Helios project. He then gets an email calling his work illegal and asking him to go beg his competition for free OSes. I can understand how that would throw almost anyone off. His reply was to the point (even if based on assumptions and guesswork that turned out to be faulty) and without inflammatory language.
He did not use any four letter words, did not publish the teachers real name or ask for a real life DDoS on the competitor and did not make comments on offtopic points.
It really depends on how the bundling is done.
After bundling is done if the state retains more power in economic affairs it is socialist . If after bundling the state works for industry it is monopolist with traces of fascism.
Italy during the second world war is the best example of fascism without being Nazist (Oops,Godwin) . They had strong nationalist tendency and trains did run on time, but they did not believe in Aryan supremacy too much (most Italians are black haired,so they don't buy the Blond-Blue eyed story)
Also note that demanding papers, human rights abuses go with any sort of bundling of powers ( large scale communism, socialism, fascism etc.). Communists generally think of themselves as the extreme opposite of fascists (Spanish Civil war etc) but in USA they seem to think both Communism and Fascism are bad words implying a large bad government.