If you want the talented students to have the connections to funding that they need, you have to let in the children of wealthy people so they can meet each other.
Of course, the issue in this case is that these parents were wealthy, but not wealthy enough, and they did not go through the proper channels.
These were third tier rich. That type cheats because it's all they know.
The really big money funds the elite schools directly, and the bargain is that their children get to mix with elite students, and the elite students get to mix with the sort of people who will fund their great ideas.
For the VERY wealthy you are looking at this in the wrong way. The elite schools are a way to connect very talented people with money. The children of very wealthy people tend to be above average intelligence anyway, though due to reversion to the mean they are usually not the elite of the elite - but the reason that the children of wealthy parents should be at elite schools is to give the elite students the opportunity to network with wealthy families. This is how good ideas get funded!
The bigger reason for elite schools is networking - allowing extremely talented students from relatively poor families (probably still upper middle class) to meet the people who can fund their ideas.
Elite universities offer prestige to the wealthy, and connections to wealth for the talented.
For a talented student from a non-wealthy family, the whole reason for attending an elite university is to meet the people who might fund your great ideas.
Well said. It's also worth noting that the talented students ought to WANT the children of wealthy donors at their school, because that is a large part of the reason for going to an elite school in the first place: to rub shoulders with the sort of people who can help them out with funding for their awesome ideas at a later date. That's well worth the admittance of students who might not have quite made the cut otherwise. It also serves the interests of investors who want to form connections with the people who can best implement new ideas.
But these parents are mostly not that wealthy, or not quite famous enough that their fame can have a similar effect - and they didn't make arrangements with the colleges themselves, they made arrangements with individuals at the colleges who were not authorized to make those decisions. The victims of these crimes were the colleges.
In the U.S., the medical cartel deliberately restricts the number of people who can become doctors in order to justify high salaries. They do this by restricting the number of students who can attend medical schools in the U.S., and by introducing a sort of hazing to reduce the number of people who want to become doctors. Some Americans avoid this by going to medical schools established by American doctors overseas precisely to deal with this problem, but the medical cartel takes other measures to make life difficult for these doctors. For instance, doctors educated in the United States are paid a modest salary during their residency, while American doctors educated to the same standards overseas are required to PAY a similar amount annually during their residency.
Of course the population has grown even as the supply of doctors has remained about the same, so we see two competing interests: one side wants to provide more doctors and reduce costs, so we import doctors from countries that already have too few (and these doctors are far more likely to cheat our healthcare system than locally born doctors), and introduce programs to let nurses do more work traditionally done by doctors, while at the same time we restrict the number of doctors educated in the United States and make it difficult for foreigners or even American doctors educated elsewhere to practice in the United States. We insist that only doctors can prescribe medication, although there are many, many countries that don't require doctor approval and do very well with that. One side wants to restrict the number of doctors to increase salaries, but as a side effect overworks doctors, while the other side insists on cutting costs and in doing so often increases them. The system is a complete mess, but it is very profitable - at the expense of the public. This monopoly can only exist because of government enforcement.
IIRC, negative returns start at about 55 hours - so no company in their right mind would regularly schedule workers for more than 55 hours per week if they want to maximize profit.
Of course short term emergencies are an exception, and there are a few workaholics who are exceptions, especially in fields which require a rare level of proficiency. But employers ignore the basic facts at their own peril.
One problem with straws is that they are so small that they are easier to miss when picking up trash, and small enough that even conscientious people seldom think twice about them - yet they make up a surprising amount of plastic pollution as a whole. Three or four percent, by some surveys.
More notably, they are an easy place to start. I'm particularly interested in straws creating a market for biodegradable plastic. Unlike some other products, straws will not have a serious problem from possibly degrading too soon. They would seldom need to last more than a few hours, and the biodegradable plastics that have been developed last at least a month. But biodegradable plastics need a market before they can be scaled up and perfected. Plastic straws could be that market.
Naturally, plastic lids for cups are another appealing target. They, too, seldom need to last for more than a few hours from deployment. They only need to last longer than the paper cups.
Of course those who litter are individually responsible for their actions.
However, it is virtually impossible to effectively enforce a law targeting those who carelessly discard straws.
On the other hand, this could be an ideal market for scaling up production of biodegradable plastics. Any problems with biodegradable plastics breaking down too soon isn't relevant, as straws wouldn't need to last more than a few hours. But to come into common use, biodegradable plastics need a reliable market. It could be straws.
Agreed. For such an easy-to-replace item, plastic straws make up a surprising amount of the plastic that becomes pollution. There are already plenty of solutions possible: waxed paper, biodegradable plastics, etc. One problem with a biodegradable plastic bottle is that it might biodegrade before you really want it to - but a biodegradable straw does not have this problem. It won't be needed for more than a few hours from the time it is deployed. Straws are a really easy place to start with an impact that is disproportionately large for the effort that is put into making the change.
Even if the CIA did frame him, legally it makes no difference. The charge is for possession. How one came into possession, or whether one is even aware of that possession, is irrelevant to the court.
The gift that keeps on giving... power to government.
Nothing at all suspicious about charges that never need to be proven because the public is forbidden from seeing the evidence. Nothing at all suspicious about a crime where, if evidence were needed, it could easily be faked.
Move along, nothing to see here. Unless you want to go to jail, that is?
The author may or may not be right, but he gives no examples and names no names. His "article" is just an assertion that is repeated several times. It appears that standards have fallen at Slashdot.
The technical issues may be too complicated to work out, but a political fix would be to designate the facility its own 911 area, have all calls from the facility directed to an in-house "dispatcher" who will simply answer every call and, in the odd event that it is a real call for assistance, forward it to the city's 911 service.
Indeed - and the book makes clear that the franchise had been limited precisely because democracy in the hands of an electorate that had no skin in the game, that was willing for others to sacrifice but unwilling to make any sacrifices themselves, had ended in disaster. It was the veterans of the war voted on by people who paid no price themselves for their errors who established the rules after that war. All citizens in that world had the same rights except one: only those who had proven their willingness to serve were allowed to vote.
Quartz Media is shilling for the opthamologists. There's no other explanation for it. No wonder their website provides no contact data for themselves, no place to leave feedback, no way to comment.
Was the actual purpose to replace every transaction in the world, or to provide the foundation for a new system to replace the existing banks, and especially the SWIFT system for interbank transfers?
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If you want the talented students to have the connections to funding that they need, you have to let in the children of wealthy people so they can meet each other. Of course, the issue in this case is that these parents were wealthy, but not wealthy enough, and they did not go through the proper channels.
These were third tier rich. That type cheats because it's all they know.
The really big money funds the elite schools directly, and the bargain is that their children get to mix with elite students, and the elite students get to mix with the sort of people who will fund their great ideas.
For the VERY wealthy you are looking at this in the wrong way. The elite schools are a way to connect very talented people with money. The children of very wealthy people tend to be above average intelligence anyway, though due to reversion to the mean they are usually not the elite of the elite - but the reason that the children of wealthy parents should be at elite schools is to give the elite students the opportunity to network with wealthy families. This is how good ideas get funded!
Well said.
The bigger reason for elite schools is networking - allowing extremely talented students from relatively poor families (probably still upper middle class) to meet the people who can fund their ideas.
Elite universities offer prestige to the wealthy, and connections to wealth for the talented.
For a talented student from a non-wealthy family, the whole reason for attending an elite university is to meet the people who might fund your great ideas.
The talented students WANT the wealthy people there. That is the whole point of an elite school: to connect talent with funding.
Well said. It's also worth noting that the talented students ought to WANT the children of wealthy donors at their school, because that is a large part of the reason for going to an elite school in the first place: to rub shoulders with the sort of people who can help them out with funding for their awesome ideas at a later date. That's well worth the admittance of students who might not have quite made the cut otherwise. It also serves the interests of investors who want to form connections with the people who can best implement new ideas.
But these parents are mostly not that wealthy, or not quite famous enough that their fame can have a similar effect - and they didn't make arrangements with the colleges themselves, they made arrangements with individuals at the colleges who were not authorized to make those decisions. The victims of these crimes were the colleges.
Seriously, you know this is Slashdot, right?
Excellent choice with The Three Body Problem. The Dark Forest trilogy might just be the best science fiction of the 21st century.
Also recommend Antifragile, also by Taleb - but I read that one last year.
Also read most "Memoirs of Service Afloat" by Admiral Raphael Semmes, but haven't finished it yet. Good stuff though.
... there have been many recent developments finding replacements for rare earth metals in solar panels and other technologies.
Besides that, there's this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/12/japan-rare-earths-huge-deposit-of-metals-found-in-pacific.html
In the U.S., the medical cartel deliberately restricts the number of people who can become doctors in order to justify high salaries. They do this by restricting the number of students who can attend medical schools in the U.S., and by introducing a sort of hazing to reduce the number of people who want to become doctors. Some Americans avoid this by going to medical schools established by American doctors overseas precisely to deal with this problem, but the medical cartel takes other measures to make life difficult for these doctors. For instance, doctors educated in the United States are paid a modest salary during their residency, while American doctors educated to the same standards overseas are required to PAY a similar amount annually during their residency.
Of course the population has grown even as the supply of doctors has remained about the same, so we see two competing interests: one side wants to provide more doctors and reduce costs, so we import doctors from countries that already have too few (and these doctors are far more likely to cheat our healthcare system than locally born doctors), and introduce programs to let nurses do more work traditionally done by doctors, while at the same time we restrict the number of doctors educated in the United States and make it difficult for foreigners or even American doctors educated elsewhere to practice in the United States. We insist that only doctors can prescribe medication, although there are many, many countries that don't require doctor approval and do very well with that. One side wants to restrict the number of doctors to increase salaries, but as a side effect overworks doctors, while the other side insists on cutting costs and in doing so often increases them. The system is a complete mess, but it is very profitable - at the expense of the public. This monopoly can only exist because of government enforcement.
IIRC, negative returns start at about 55 hours - so no company in their right mind would regularly schedule workers for more than 55 hours per week if they want to maximize profit. Of course short term emergencies are an exception, and there are a few workaholics who are exceptions, especially in fields which require a rare level of proficiency. But employers ignore the basic facts at their own peril.
Episode VII: The Whills To Power
Episode VIII: Triumph of the Whills
Episode IX: The Last Whills and Testaments
One problem with straws is that they are so small that they are easier to miss when picking up trash, and small enough that even conscientious people seldom think twice about them - yet they make up a surprising amount of plastic pollution as a whole. Three or four percent, by some surveys.
More notably, they are an easy place to start. I'm particularly interested in straws creating a market for biodegradable plastic. Unlike some other products, straws will not have a serious problem from possibly degrading too soon. They would seldom need to last more than a few hours, and the biodegradable plastics that have been developed last at least a month. But biodegradable plastics need a market before they can be scaled up and perfected. Plastic straws could be that market.
Naturally, plastic lids for cups are another appealing target. They, too, seldom need to last for more than a few hours from deployment. They only need to last longer than the paper cups.
Of course those who litter are individually responsible for their actions.
However, it is virtually impossible to effectively enforce a law targeting those who carelessly discard straws.
On the other hand, this could be an ideal market for scaling up production of biodegradable plastics. Any problems with biodegradable plastics breaking down too soon isn't relevant, as straws wouldn't need to last more than a few hours. But to come into common use, biodegradable plastics need a reliable market. It could be straws.
Agreed. For such an easy-to-replace item, plastic straws make up a surprising amount of the plastic that becomes pollution. There are already plenty of solutions possible: waxed paper, biodegradable plastics, etc. One problem with a biodegradable plastic bottle is that it might biodegrade before you really want it to - but a biodegradable straw does not have this problem. It won't be needed for more than a few hours from the time it is deployed. Straws are a really easy place to start with an impact that is disproportionately large for the effort that is put into making the change.
Even if the CIA did frame him, legally it makes no difference. The charge is for possession. How one came into possession, or whether one is even aware of that possession, is irrelevant to the court.
The gift that keeps on giving ... power to government.
Nothing at all suspicious about charges that never need to be proven because the public is forbidden from seeing the evidence. Nothing at all suspicious about a crime where, if evidence were needed, it could easily be faked.
Move along, nothing to see here. Unless you want to go to jail, that is?
The author may or may not be right, but he gives no examples and names no names. His "article" is just an assertion that is repeated several times. It appears that standards have fallen at Slashdot.
The technical issues may be too complicated to work out, but a political fix would be to designate the facility its own 911 area, have all calls from the facility directed to an in-house "dispatcher" who will simply answer every call and, in the odd event that it is a real call for assistance, forward it to the city's 911 service.
Indeed - and the book makes clear that the franchise had been limited precisely because democracy in the hands of an electorate that had no skin in the game, that was willing for others to sacrifice but unwilling to make any sacrifices themselves, had ended in disaster. It was the veterans of the war voted on by people who paid no price themselves for their errors who established the rules after that war. All citizens in that world had the same rights except one: only those who had proven their willingness to serve were allowed to vote.
Quartz Media is shilling for the opthamologists. There's no other explanation for it. No wonder their website provides no contact data for themselves, no place to leave feedback, no way to comment.
Was the actual purpose to replace every transaction in the world, or to provide the foundation for a new system to replace the existing banks, and especially the SWIFT system for interbank transfers?