Michelson-Morley, a negative (i.e. non) result, did nothing whatsoever.
Right, which is why we are talking about it 130 years after it happened: because it "did nothing whatsoever". From Wikipedia:
The result was negative, in that the expected difference between the speed of light in the direction of movement through the presumed aether, and the speed at right angles, was found not to exist; this result is generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the then-prevalent aether theory, and initiated a line of research that eventually led to special relativity, which rules out a stationary aether. The experiment has been referred to as "the moving-off point for the theoretical aspects of the Second Scientific Revolution". (emphasis added)
Even worse, in my books, is that SR discarding the ether was the single most damaging thing to happen in physics in the last 110 years.
As best as I understand, Michelson-Morley was responsible for this, with the ether being discarded right away.
Einstein didn't copy: Science is almost always a collaborative process with people building on top of each other. This is why we often have independent co-discovery. Had Einstein not been there someone else would have obtained SR/GR within 5-10 years, just like Mt. Everest summit would have been reached within a few years of Hillary-Norgay, had they not made it to the top.
Einstein did little after SR/GR? Yes
False, he had four major papers after SR/GR:
- In 1917, Einstein-Brillouin-Keller method for finding the quantum mechanical version of a classical system. - In 1918, Einstein developed a general theory of the process by which atoms emit and absorb electromagnetic radiation (his A and B coefficients), which is the basis of lasers (stimulated emission) - In 1924, the theory of Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensates, which form the basis for superfluidity, superconductivity, and other phenomena. - In 1935, Einstein put forward what is now known as the EPR paradox
Lucky people reach the pinnacle once, because they happen to be around at the time of the final assault. Truly bright people summit many times... Einstein had between 3 and 6 discoveries each alone worthy of a Nobel prize.
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Diplomatic actions have consequences. You write we are powerful we can force Mexico to build a wall. That is simplistic thinking.. what happens if Mexico legalizes drugs? or signs an alliance with China or Putin? or devolves into Syria and now you have 120 million people trying to cross the border instead of a few hundred thousand? No army division can hold back that many people.
Those are the many reasons why a play yard bully taunt wouldn't work. Anybody with an inch of political experience could see this. But that is not who Trump is talking to, he's aiming for the politically naifs who go "hell yeah", because the taunts make them feel good.
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While all candidates spout platitudes, the big difference with most others is that they have a record to stand on. In fact, if they were to say something radically different than what they've done we would doubt them, such as Rubio's newly found anti-immigration position.
With Trump is different. We have no clue what he stands on, and "I'm going to bully the world to do what I want" is a play yard tantrum, not realistic policy, in spite of what you write above.
Lastly, the problem with immigration can be solved in an instant if you really want to: put strong penalties on employers for hiring illegal immigrants. It was tried for a year during the Reagan administration and it was highly effective. This is how all other countries on earth do it. The reason it is not done in the USA is because it businesses need illegal workers to cover the bottom end of the spectrum. So you can do this bluster about a wall, which impresses simpletons, or you can propose an actual solution and then you have the entire business lobby against you.
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Did you even read the items in the page you sent? Number one is:
The most important component of our China policy is leadership and strength at the negotiating table.
This is not a policy proposal. It's empty bluster.
It also repeats the claim that Mexico will pay for the wall, with no indication of how this is to come about. Just like I indicated. Seriously, read the page you sent again.
It's not that Trump is wrong, it's that he hasn't even made an actual proposal we can evaluate.
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If the contest ends up being Trump vs. Clinton, my vote is automatic Trump, without a second thought.
But how do you know Trump is a good candidate if so far he hasn't proposed a single policy, good or bad. And no, saying, I would go and talk to Putin and get along is not a policy proposal, neither is claiming that Mexico would pay for the wall without explaining how would this come about... I might as well claim you are going to pay my mortgage and solve my debt problems.
This adds only one degree of separation. The village shopkeeper has interactions with one or two highly connected merchants in the outside world. So by degree three your neighbourhood is already in the tens of thousands, even for "highly isolated" communities. By degree six or seven you are likely in the billions.
I have no doubt than in ten years he can build a rocket powerful enough to reach Mars. Then if he wishes to do it safely, he would have to send several unmanned missions (I'm thinking three) before he can get a safe certification for the one year (wo)manned journey.
A hell of a lot of things can go wrong in a year, as the ISS proves, and that is within the protective realm of the earth's magnetic field.
Gosh, you really underestimate some of the people who hang around here. On top of that, it doesn't particularly require super secret clearance to look at the hiring data within Google.
You are confusing the fact that *you* haven't seen the data with it not existing or not being available to some of us for examination.
Does google collect data? yes. Do they search for correlations? yes. Have they claimed to find ones that lead to better employees? yes.
This is just like a reporter filing an item from abroad. You cannot be positive about what happened unless you see it with your own eyes, but at some point you have to make a judgment call and choose to trust the statements or not. Is there a reason why they would be making these things up?
The people that didn't make it through the process didn't get to work there and have their performance evaluated.
They have hired people using various different parameters which have evolved over time. Their current hiring profile is quite a bit different than ten years ago.
The idea that grilling, testing, or creating "challenging" interview questions for candidates, and thinking that it will give you ANY introspective on how they will perform on the job, is complete and total poppycock.
Except that Google keeps track of this and has the data to back it up. So on the one have you have your single anecdotal experience and on the other hand we have 10 years of Google hiring experiences.
Of course it is not perfect and they end up hiring some duds and letting some jewels go, but that is not the threshold sought, they simply aim to hire better than the average company.
Well you are wrong about that too. I developed software which ran in a variety of platforms (solaris, nt, linux, vms, ultrix/tru64) using the posix compliant set of calls.
...and all of those are ideal for a GPU not extra cores, which brings us back to the Intel problem. Either is embarrassingly parallelizable (hence GPU) or you have a hard time using more than a handful of cores via multi-threading (hence 6-8 cores in most upper-end, non-virtualization CPUs).
10 years ago, Intel was hinting at a massively parallel future (80 core processor rumored in development at the time),
An Intel higher up told me a while back that they could ship them today if they wanted. The problem is that users in the field report having a hard time using more than 6 cores outside host virtualization. Since then Intel has been dedicating the extra real estate to more cache, which programs can easily take advantage of, and less to cores, which no one knows quite how to use beyond 6 to 8 cores.
Yes, we could 'afford' 90% income taxes on some of the most productive people during that period,
Most productive? At least half of them where heirs sitting on their inheritance. The productive people were American workers making quality products... until managers and union bosses decided to start trading quality for profits and higher benefits, thus opening the door to heavy foreign competition.
Syria sans ISIS had a pretty moderate record and was>< this close to signing off peace a while back. Iran has recently backpedaled in its anti-America stand, maybe Israel is next.
You maybe right. You can equally claim that the only thing stopping Mexico from invading the USA is America's overwhelming military advantage. Regardless if that is true or not, the end conclusion is the same, peace with other countries such as Jordan and Egypt is a reality.
Your version of peace by means of not talking remains a fiction. Wars between Jordan and Israel since signing the peace treaty: 0. Wars with Lebanon since not signing the peace treaty:5 and counting.
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Michelson-Morley, a negative (i.e. non) result, did nothing whatsoever.
Right, which is why we are talking about it 130 years after it happened: because it "did nothing whatsoever". From Wikipedia:
The result was negative, in that the expected difference between the speed of light in the direction of movement through the presumed aether, and the speed at right angles, was found not to exist; this result is generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the then-prevalent aether theory, and initiated a line of research that eventually led to special relativity, which rules out a stationary aether. The experiment has been referred to as "the moving-off point for the theoretical aspects of the Second Scientific Revolution". (emphasis added)
That's some nothingness right there.
Even worse, in my books, is that SR discarding the ether was the single most damaging thing to happen in physics in the last 110 years.
As best as I understand, Michelson-Morley was responsible for this, with the ether being discarded right away.
Einstein didn't copy: Science is almost always a collaborative process with people building on top of each other. This is why we often have independent co-discovery. Had Einstein not been there someone else would have obtained SR/GR within 5-10 years, just like Mt. Everest summit would have been reached within a few years of Hillary-Norgay, had they not made it to the top.
Einstein did little after SR/GR? Yes
False, he had four major papers after SR/GR:
- In 1917, Einstein-Brillouin-Keller method for finding the quantum mechanical version of a classical system.
- In 1918, Einstein developed a general theory of the process by which atoms emit and absorb electromagnetic radiation (his A and B coefficients), which is the basis of lasers (stimulated emission)
- In 1924, the theory of Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensates, which form the basis for superfluidity, superconductivity, and other phenomena.
- In 1935, Einstein put forward what is now known as the EPR paradox
Lucky people reach the pinnacle once, because they happen to be around at the time of the final assault. Truly bright people summit many times... Einstein had between 3 and 6 discoveries each alone worthy of a Nobel prize.
Diplomatic actions have consequences. You write we are powerful we can force Mexico to build a wall. That is simplistic thinking.. what happens if Mexico legalizes drugs? or signs an alliance with China or Putin? or devolves into Syria and now you have 120 million people trying to cross the border instead of a few hundred thousand? No army division can hold back that many people.
Those are the many reasons why a play yard bully taunt wouldn't work. Anybody with an inch of political experience could see this. But that is not who Trump is talking to, he's aiming for the politically naifs who go "hell yeah", because the taunts make them feel good.
While all candidates spout platitudes, the big difference with most others is that they have a record to stand on. In fact, if they were to say something radically different than what they've done we would doubt them, such as Rubio's newly found anti-immigration position.
With Trump is different. We have no clue what he stands on, and "I'm going to bully the world to do what I want" is a play yard tantrum, not realistic policy, in spite of what you write above.
Lastly, the problem with immigration can be solved in an instant if you really want to: put strong penalties on employers for hiring illegal immigrants. It was tried for a year during the Reagan administration and it was highly effective. This is how all other countries on earth do it. The reason it is not done in the USA is because it businesses need illegal workers to cover the bottom end of the spectrum. So you can do this bluster about a wall, which impresses simpletons, or you can propose an actual solution and then you have the entire business lobby against you.
Did you even read the items in the page you sent? Number one is:
The most important component of our China policy is leadership and strength at the negotiating table.
This is not a policy proposal. It's empty bluster.
It also repeats the claim that Mexico will pay for the wall, with no indication of how this is to come about. Just like I indicated. Seriously, read the page you sent again.
It's not that Trump is wrong, it's that he hasn't even made an actual proposal we can evaluate.
If the contest ends up being Trump vs. Clinton, my vote is automatic Trump, without a second thought.
But how do you know Trump is a good candidate if so far he hasn't proposed a single policy, good or bad. And no, saying, I would go and talk to Putin and get along is not a policy proposal, neither is claiming that Mexico would pay for the wall without explaining how would this come about... I might as well claim you are going to pay my mortgage and solve my debt problems.
Why would you add $600,000,000? I know you love to troll a lot, but come on...
He's reading it from Canada.
You really don't pull out of a campaign before the first few primaries.
Tell that to Perry and Graham, who pulled out before any primaries.
Fourth option: have lightweight unobtrusive ads.
I only started using ad-blocker when ads became a draw on performance.
This adds only one degree of separation. The village shopkeeper has interactions with one or two highly connected merchants in the outside world. So by degree three your neighbourhood is already in the tens of thousands, even for "highly isolated" communities. By degree six or seven you are likely in the billions.
The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
I'm assuming that the first trip is a return trip, with only a fortnight on the surface. I might be wrong though.
I have no doubt than in ten years he can build a rocket powerful enough to reach Mars. Then if he wishes to do it safely, he would have to send several unmanned missions (I'm thinking three) before he can get a safe certification for the one year (wo)manned journey.
A hell of a lot of things can go wrong in a year, as the ISS proves, and that is within the protective realm of the earth's magnetic field.
Gosh, you really underestimate some of the people who hang around here. On top of that, it doesn't particularly require super secret clearance to look at the hiring data within Google.
Make of that what you wish.
You are confusing the fact that *you* haven't seen the data with it not existing or not being available to some of us for examination.
Does google collect data? yes. Do they search for correlations? yes. Have they claimed to find ones that lead to better employees? yes.
This is just like a reporter filing an item from abroad. You cannot be positive about what happened unless you see it with your own eyes, but at some point you have to make a judgment call and choose to trust the statements or not. Is there a reason why they would be making these things up?
The people that didn't make it through the process didn't get to work there and have their performance evaluated.
They have hired people using various different parameters which have evolved over time. Their current hiring profile is quite a bit different than ten years ago.
The countries on the list include Argentina, China, Egypt, Israel, Mexico and North Korea.
Israel is behind the mother of all firewalls. Israel has units in the army in charge of cybersecurity. This article seems badly researched...
The idea that grilling, testing, or creating "challenging" interview questions for candidates, and thinking that it will give you ANY introspective on how they will perform on the job, is complete and total poppycock.
Except that Google keeps track of this and has the data to back it up. So on the one have you have your single anecdotal experience and on the other hand we have 10 years of Google hiring experiences.
Of course it is not perfect and they end up hiring some duds and letting some jewels go, but that is not the threshold sought, they simply aim to hire better than the average company.
Well you are wrong about that too. I developed software which ran in a variety of platforms (solaris, nt, linux, vms, ultrix/tru64) using the posix compliant set of calls.
Windows has been Posix 1.0 compliant since the Win NT days.
...and all of those are ideal for a GPU not extra cores, which brings us back to the Intel problem. Either is embarrassingly parallelizable (hence GPU) or you have a hard time using more than a handful of cores via multi-threading (hence 6-8 cores in most upper-end, non-virtualization CPUs).
10 years ago, Intel was hinting at a massively parallel future (80 core processor rumored in development at the time),
An Intel higher up told me a while back that they could ship them today if they wanted. The problem is that users in the field report having a hard time using more than 6 cores outside host virtualization. Since then Intel has been dedicating the extra real estate to more cache, which programs can easily take advantage of, and less to cores, which no one knows quite how to use beyond 6 to 8 cores.
Yes, we could 'afford' 90% income taxes on some of the most productive people during that period,
Most productive? At least half of them where heirs sitting on their inheritance. The productive people were American workers making quality products... until managers and union bosses decided to start trading quality for profits and higher benefits, thus opening the door to heavy foreign competition.
Syria sans ISIS had a pretty moderate record and was>< this close to signing off peace a while back. Iran has recently backpedaled in its anti-America stand, maybe Israel is next.
You maybe right. You can equally claim that the only thing stopping Mexico from invading the USA is America's overwhelming military advantage. Regardless if that is true or not, the end conclusion is the same, peace with other countries such as Jordan and Egypt is a reality.
Your version of peace by means of not talking remains a fiction. Wars between Jordan and Israel since signing the peace treaty: 0. Wars with Lebanon since not signing the peace treaty:5 and counting.