These people are social liberals but economic conservatives in other words - Libertarians. The Bay Area is the most Libertarian area. Out here the myth of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps actually works because of the network effects . People are willing to work in IT for megacorps and live in almost poverty in the hopes that they run into a VC at a coffee shop who funds their startup. Its the same model that New York has for starving artists and LA has for starving actors. Its a winner take all scheme and most people get burnt but the hope of being the next Zuckerberg sustains the folks with PhDs leading lifestyles worse than what Janitors lead in Texas.
Because tech people spend all their working lives inside when they do go out for leisure they want the weather to be perfect. They dont have the time to wait out bad spells of weather.
He is not going to be impeached as long as the Republicans need him to sign the Tax bill. BTW I think he will keep delaying it to protect his position.
Lets move to a wealth tax system and abolish income tax. Charge a 5% wealth tax on net worth. Watch the billionaire rats run for the exit and then close the exit with a an expatriation tax of also 5%.
The solution is obvious. Elect Presidents for a single 20 year term. Make the minimum age to be President 40 and mandatory retirement age 65. Since a 65 year old President will not have a 40 year old Son/Daughter power will still have to move away from a single dynasty.
Over 300 million folks have bought iPhones when you can make calls from a 5 dollar flip phone. Sometimes a need is not known to exist till a product is created. BTC is a product and needs are constantly getting invented for it.
That only matters if you own a significant chunk of the company's stock. In this case the Bros own 1% of the BTC valuation. 1% is not even a blip given that the average trade volume is 100% of the valuation. The 1% could be broken into.001 percent 10 million trades and sold over a quarter with nooone even getting to know.
"As the country's heritage rockets and upper stages continue to age, the concern is that the failure rate will increase." is just stupid.
In rocketry an older system means a proven system and is SAFER. The failure here was because it was a NEW configuration launching from a NEW launchstation.
If everything had been AGED, it would have gone fine.
Goes to show just because you get to write an article doesnt mean you are not stupid, it just means you are good at stringing words together.
The whole reason Silicon Valley can afford to pay huge salaries and create cutting edge work is because what they create is scalable. The money is spent once but can be sold to consumers all over the world at a very low marginal cost of production. Whether that is Operating Systems or Electric Cars. People all over the wold buy from the Microsofts and the Googles because they are considered apolitical. If these companies are seen as partisan and Patriotic than consumers and govts all over the world will pull a China and prop up local alternatives. Once the cheap marginal market goes away and its only the US Market you have left to sell too many ideas become non economic to execute . Once you cannot execute new ideas in Silicon Valley due to the cost, people with ideas will go away to cheaper locales to execute and you go into a downward spiral - fewer new ideas->fewer profitable IPOs -> fewer Angel funders ->Even fewer funding for new ideas-> fewer people moving to the Valley to execute->EVEN FEWER NEW IDEAS and so on.
Noone says all foreigners are smart but any student who makes it to the US is amongst the top students in their country and on average will be smarter than the average American student. Thats just statistics. Its way easier for an American student to get admission to an American college and pay for it (Student loans guaranteed by the federal govt are not available to foreigners). If you met a few folks whose idea of research was different from yours it could be result of a different school system. Try and embrace the differnt styles of work instead of dismissing it as bad job skills.
Well what did you expect signing up for University of Phoenix. Dont believe the telemarketers - not all Indians are smart but since most Americans have only met smart Indians its easy to sell a course as being taught by "smart" Indian professors.
American high schools suck. When the kids reach college the jump in difficulty level is so high that kids are literally crying in their Tutoring periods. Female students regularly offer to sleep with TAs to get better grades. With more American TAs who unlike foreigners will accept the offers,watch the pregnancy and abortion rates skyrocket.
Trumps Granddad was an illegal immigrant, deported once for running a brothel in Oregon and sneaked back again and got into the construction business. Wonder why Trump is so much against illegal immigrants. I believe the lady doeth protest too much.
Citizens do not have the hunger of immigrants. These are a self selected group of risk takers who have given up everything they know to try something new in a new country where they have no support structure. Few American born have the drive to do the same and that includes the American born children of immigrants. Intelligence AND drive both are required to succeed and keeping an open border means a fresh supply of drive coming in with every generation.
Thats like saying 3 out of 4 dollars in your monthly budget go to mortgage, food and car. You are in debt so instead of cutting your spending on expensive guns you should stop paying the mortgage.
Entitlements are already committed fund. Just like when you took your mortgage loan from the bank you agreed to pay them back, when the govt took SS and Medicare taxes it agreed to pay them back in retirement. Its not something you can just decide to stop paying.
The more relevant part to talk about is the Discretionary budget which is 900 Billion out of which 700 Billion goes to to the military. Thats the only part you can actually change.
Austin is a very liberal city. If you are born liberal in Texas you have 2 options move to Austin or leave Texas. Austin as a result is hyper liberal and that is a perfect environment for a research university. Conservatives dont make good researchers as research is all about challenging established beliefs.
People are political animals. Thye like to play politics (and bitch about how the politicians are spoiling everything). If countries were not competing than bureaus within the UN would be and you would have different satellites launched by the FAO, WHO and International Met Buruea.
You go to prestigious undergrad schools for the connections you make. You simply dont make the same connections at a grad level as by then people have friends and are set in their ways. Grad school only makes sense for foreigners who have not made a US network yet.
Actually that would work. Lower federal spending to zero and also Federal Taxes to extremely low levels - only to what is needed for Foreign Policy, Defense and Intelligence services. Social spending to be the responsibility of states. Then watch as people vote with their feet and leave red states(who do not provide a security net) for the blue states(who use the money saved on federal taxes on a net) till the red states have so few population/seats left in Congress that liberal policies can be passed on a national basis.
QA is needed. However far too often QA teams are used as dumping grounds for Developers who cannot cut it
In my perspective the most complicated part in actually figuring out the tests. if you can figure out the tests it means you have nailed down the scope. if you can do that before you start coding the coding part is actually easy. However if you are only doing QA but not doing coding your coding skills will rust.
The best place I have worked had 2 scrums working on a project - Team Blue and Team Orange. For one release Team Orange was dev and Team Blue was QA. For next release Team Blue was Dev and Team Orange was QA. They kept switching around keeping both their Dev and QA skills updated but at the same time the context switch is easier to do at 6 weeks intervals than continuoisly during the day.
and by extension most ridesharing. The economics simply do not work except for in a short period of a bust following a boom where a lot of people with nice jobs and nice cars now no longer have the nice jobs but still have the nice cars and lot of free time. Once an economy comes back driving for ridesharing companies is worse than driving for taxi companies and we know how bad that job is from the fact that the only people who will do that are immigrants with no better choices. If you actually buy a car to drive for Uber you LOSE money after paying for interest, depreciation, maintenance. Uber is a tax on people with bad math skills or if you want to look at it more positively society's way of teaching math to adults. As more and more adults figure out Math (which they should have learnt in grade school but thats another story) they stop driving for Uber and the supply of people with bad Math skills is drying up.
This is probably Trump's thankyou to Musk for his service as Tesla was going to lose the subsidy next year anyway. Now its competitors lose it too. BTW Musk's SpaceX basically is a Govt contractor in the same mold as Boeing and lives off NASA largesse funded by Taxpayers. Of course he keeps the President happy.
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These people are social liberals but economic conservatives in other words - Libertarians. The Bay Area is the most Libertarian area. Out here the myth of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps actually works because of the network effects . People are willing to work in IT for megacorps and live in almost poverty in the hopes that they run into a VC at a coffee shop who funds their startup. Its the same model that New York has for starving artists and LA has for starving actors. Its a winner take all scheme and most people get burnt but the hope of being the next Zuckerberg sustains the folks with PhDs leading lifestyles worse than what Janitors lead in Texas.
Because tech people spend all their working lives inside when they do go out for leisure they want the weather to be perfect. They dont have the time to wait out bad spells of weather.
He is not going to be impeached as long as the Republicans need him to sign the Tax bill. BTW I think he will keep delaying it to protect his position.
Lets move to a wealth tax system and abolish income tax. Charge a 5% wealth tax on net worth. Watch the billionaire rats run for the exit and then close the exit with a an expatriation tax of also 5%.
The Agency could self fund through Civil Forfeiture, Gun running, drug running , balckmail/extortion and corporate espionage.
The solution is obvious. Elect Presidents for a single 20 year term. Make the minimum age to be President 40 and mandatory retirement age 65. Since a 65 year old President will not have a 40 year old Son/Daughter power will still have to move away from a single dynasty.
Over 300 million folks have bought iPhones when you can make calls from a 5 dollar flip phone. Sometimes a need is not known to exist till a product is created. BTC is a product and needs are constantly getting invented for it.
That only matters if you own a significant chunk of the company's stock. In this case the Bros own 1% of the BTC valuation. 1% is not even a blip given that the average trade volume is 100% of the valuation. The 1% could be broken into .001 percent 10 million trades and sold over a quarter with nooone even getting to know.
"As the country's heritage rockets and upper stages continue to age, the concern is that the failure rate will increase." is just stupid.
In rocketry an older system means a proven system and is SAFER. The failure here was because it was a NEW configuration launching from a NEW launchstation.
If everything had been AGED, it would have gone fine.
Goes to show just because you get to write an article doesnt mean you are not stupid, it just means you are good at stringing words together.
The whole reason Silicon Valley can afford to pay huge salaries and create cutting edge work is because what they create is scalable. The money is spent once but can be sold to consumers all over the world at a very low marginal cost of production. Whether that is Operating Systems or Electric Cars.
People all over the wold buy from the Microsofts and the Googles because they are considered apolitical. If these companies are seen as partisan and Patriotic than consumers and govts all over the world will pull a China and prop up local alternatives. Once the cheap marginal market goes away and its only the US Market you have left to sell too many ideas become non economic to execute . Once you cannot execute new ideas in Silicon Valley due to the cost, people with ideas will go away to cheaper locales to execute and you go into a downward spiral - fewer new ideas->fewer profitable IPOs -> fewer Angel funders ->Even fewer funding for new ideas-> fewer people moving to the Valley to execute->EVEN FEWER NEW IDEAS and so on.
Noone says all foreigners are smart but any student who makes it to the US is amongst the top students in their country and on average will be smarter than the average American student. Thats just statistics. Its way easier for an American student to get admission to an American college and pay for it (Student loans guaranteed by the federal govt are not available to foreigners).
If you met a few folks whose idea of research was different from yours it could be result of a different school system. Try and embrace the differnt styles of work instead of dismissing it as bad job skills.
Well what did you expect signing up for University of Phoenix. Dont believe the telemarketers - not all Indians are smart but since most Americans have only met smart Indians its easy to sell a course as being taught by "smart" Indian professors.
American high schools suck. When the kids reach college the jump in difficulty level is so high that kids are literally crying in their Tutoring periods. Female students regularly offer to sleep with TAs to get better grades. With more American TAs who unlike foreigners will accept the offers ,watch the pregnancy and abortion rates skyrocket.
Trumps Granddad was an illegal immigrant, deported once for running a brothel in Oregon and sneaked back again and got into the construction business. Wonder why Trump is so much against illegal immigrants. I believe the lady doeth protest too much.
Citizens do not have the hunger of immigrants. These are a self selected group of risk takers who have given up everything they know to try something new in a new country where they have no support structure. Few American born have the drive to do the same and that includes the American born children of immigrants. Intelligence AND drive both are required to succeed and keeping an open border means a fresh supply of drive coming in with every generation.
Thats like saying 3 out of 4 dollars in your monthly budget go to mortgage, food and car. You are in debt so instead of cutting your spending on expensive guns you should stop paying the mortgage.
Entitlements are already committed fund. Just like when you took your mortgage loan from the bank you agreed to pay them back, when the govt took SS and Medicare taxes it agreed to pay them back in retirement. Its not something you can just decide to stop paying.
The more relevant part to talk about is the Discretionary budget which is 900 Billion out of which 700 Billion goes to to the military. Thats the only part you can actually change.
The real question to ask is do you trust every 19 year old intern working at Facebook to not be tempted with this treasure trove?
Austin is a very liberal city. If you are born liberal in Texas you have 2 options move to Austin or leave Texas. Austin as a result is hyper liberal and that is a perfect environment for a research university. Conservatives dont make good researchers as research is all about challenging established beliefs.
People are political animals. Thye like to play politics (and bitch about how the politicians are spoiling everything). If countries were not competing than bureaus within the UN would be and you would have different satellites launched by the FAO, WHO and International Met Buruea.
You go to prestigious undergrad schools for the connections you make. You simply dont make the same connections at a grad level as by then people have friends and are set in their ways. Grad school only makes sense for foreigners who have not made a US network yet.
Since when does Twitter have shareholders?
Actually that would work. Lower federal spending to zero and also Federal Taxes to extremely low levels - only to what is needed for Foreign Policy, Defense and Intelligence services. Social spending to be the responsibility of states. Then watch as people vote with their feet and leave red states(who do not provide a security net) for the blue states(who use the money saved on federal taxes on a net) till the red states have so few population/seats left in Congress that liberal policies can be passed on a national basis.
QA is needed. However far too often QA teams are used as dumping grounds for Developers who cannot cut it
In my perspective the most complicated part in actually figuring out the tests. if you can figure out the tests it means you have nailed down the scope. if you can do that before you start coding the coding part is actually easy. However if you are only doing QA but not doing coding your coding skills will rust.
The best place I have worked had 2 scrums working on a project - Team Blue and Team Orange. For one release Team Orange was dev and Team Blue was QA. For next release Team Blue was Dev and Team Orange was QA. They kept switching around keeping both their Dev and QA skills updated but at the same time the context switch is easier to do at 6 weeks intervals than continuoisly during the day.
and by extension most ridesharing. The economics simply do not work except for in a short period of a bust following a boom where a lot of people with nice jobs and nice cars now no longer have the nice jobs but still have the nice cars and lot of free time. Once an economy comes back driving for ridesharing companies is worse than driving for taxi companies and we know how bad that job is from the fact that the only people who will do that are immigrants with no better choices. If you actually buy a car to drive for Uber you LOSE money after paying for interest, depreciation, maintenance. Uber is a tax on people with bad math skills or if you want to look at it more positively society's way of teaching math to adults. As more and more adults figure out Math (which they should have learnt in grade school but thats another story) they stop driving for Uber and the supply of people with bad Math skills is drying up.
This is probably Trump's thankyou to Musk for his service as Tesla was going to lose the subsidy next year anyway. Now its competitors lose it too. BTW Musk's SpaceX basically is a Govt contractor in the same mold as Boeing and lives off NASA largesse funded by Taxpayers. Of course he keeps the President happy.