Um... no. You send money abroad when you buy ANYTHING made in China or wherever. You send money abroad when using any service which is at some point in its flow using any resources which are not internal to the country you live in. Those immigrants sending money to their own countries should be VERY low in your priority list.
Your mobile phone, clothes, car, TV, even food, all of them read "money sent abroad" when you look at them. If anything, immigrants actually REDUCE those amounts indirectly through them paying taxes, renting homes locally, eating food locally, etc., although they're subjected to the same issues that you're facing (stuff they use also originates from abroad to some extent).
Training can be easily included without having to inflate the books. You're talking about service availability here, which is one part of the picture. That major incident admin who only does actual work 3 days a year more than makes his salary worth if each of those 3 days saves the company 10M dollars in losses.
That works in theory. In practice, incompetent management accrued overstaffed teams and don't have enough work to be passed around. In order to protect themselves, managers don't implement such system and instead rely on BS to pretend they are understaffed (or at worst "at the level"). Those rough estimates get blown out of proportion, I've seen people put in dozens of hours for something really simple, which would take a non-expert 6 hours at most. their incompetent management would take those estimates and further inflate them, accounting for "documentation", "testing", "UAT" and other such activities, which were already included in the original estimate (which, as said before, were inflated anyway).
There's a joke about communist era from my country:
Romanian government imports a sow from the USSR government which was supposed to give birth to 30 piglets. They put it into a cooperative farm and after a while, due to bad food and improper care, it only gives birth to one piglet. Its caretaker reports 5 piglets to the supervisor. The supervisor reports 10 piglets to the farm director. The farm director reports 20 piglets to the county prefect. The county prefect reports 25 to the Minister. The Minister reports 30 to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister adds 1 and reports 31 to the dictator, to show him that we did better than the Soviets. The Dictator, as a country-loving tyrant, decrees that 30 of them should go to the population as food and one should be exported.
Sadly, this attitude is visible at many large corporations, which act as dictatorships in all ways but name.
If someone's "getting away" with 5 hours a week of work, that's because of incompetent management and/or poorly written/implemented procedures. It certainly has nothing to do with that specific employee.
One can cheat their way into not working only because they're allowed to. A simple work audit would point them out immediately. Also, you can do fuck-all from the office just as well, if management remains equally incompetent.
Sadly for you, I live in a different country, on a different continent. Still, politicians here are equally bad, if not worse. It's the same everywhere.
Ok, I'll bite. Most of tax money spent by your government will never benefit you directly. By "most" i really mean ALL of it, except tiny, tiny fractions of a percent. This includes roads you'll never drive on, parks you'll never visit, government building you'll never step foot into, hospitals you'll never get treated at, employees you'll never need, etc., etc.
But getting back to the issue at hand, if you care looking at the linked documents from TFS, you'll see the contributors' universities:
1 Department of Physics, CCIS 4-183, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA 3 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia 4 Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 5 Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA 6 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 7 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA 8 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
#1, #3 and #6 are not USA-based. #2, #4, #5 and #7 are universities which are most likely privately funded. That leaves #8 as the only gov't funded location.
I'd say your tax money are pretty safe from this and would very likely be spent on genuinely useless endeavors which would never be of help to anyone.
It helps knowing all those things. Now, whoever isn't lazy/incompetent/in bed with the CIA will implement required changes to eliminate vulnerabilities.
Agreed, mathematically it's "almost 2.5 times the surface" but really, at those dimensions there's not much of a difference. But take a look at transistor count and you'll know why the die difference exists. Ryzen 1800X has 4.8 billion transistors while GTX 1080 has 7.2 billion transistors. Hence the die size difference (well some of it of course).
Graphics cards are also LARGE. A PCIe board takes up more room than even the largest of processors in the x86 line in all its history.
Are you high? The GPU is smaller or at most the same size as the CPU.
1080Ti and Titan X Pascal have a die size of 471 square millimeters. That is the largest chip up to date. Ryzen 1800X has a die size of a little bit over 195 square millimeters. Yes, that's smaller than the GPU die size but really not that big of a difference. Latest Intel's CPU die size are notoriously difficult to find, I can't be arsed to dig for them but then again, we're comparing small things and small things.
Maybe you included the whole PCB? In that case, it's incorrect. The CPU itself is supported by the motherboard's PCB, too. Comparing a GPU chip including its PCB against a CPU without its supporting PCB is apples and oranges. Hell, it's cats and potatoes.
I had subscribed to Netflix, then canceled my subscription because most stuff that I wanted to watch (e.g. my favorite movies) weren't available in my country. Lack of localized subtitles was a major no-no for my wife. Incomplete cartoon series was a let-down for my kids.
Pirated movies are of excellent quality, have localized subtitles, some are dubbed in my language (important for cartoons). Shortly put, better service. I couldn't care less about "exclusive contracts" preventing me from enjoying content legally. Those are between entities which are thriving at my expense and don't "improve my experience" a bit.
Maybe, if all you do is consume the information. If you participate, then there's no way around it.
There's some light at the end of the tunnel, though. More and more websites now allow you to log in using your Google account or Facebook. SSO solutions greatly reduce the amount of username/password combinations you have to remember. On the other hand, it makes it mandatory for you to have a Google or Facebook account, but since they are free to create, you can use them only as a gateway and have no important information residing there.
With every fucking site on the Internet now requiring you to have an account to even take a look at stuff (MassDrop, looking at ya), #1 is a no-go. #2 is actually a valid option if you split your accounts into 3 main types:
- accounts essential to my well-being (mail, bank, etc) which mandate complex, unique, memorized passwords + 2-step authentication; - accounts which are important but not essential (e.g. Steam), which mandate unique passwords with 2-factor auth but can be kept in a password manager; - finally, crap that nobody gives a fuck if hacked (e.g. Slashdot, niah niah). but seriously, "that odd forum which I had to make an account to ask an once-in-a-decade question and never visited again" fits the bill. Those can have relatively simple, non-unique passwords kept in Chrome's password list. So what if they get hacked?
OK, here's an example. About a month and a half ago we had 4 to 6 inches of snow overnight in my region. My mother-in-law who lives about 250 miles away calls me the next day, all panicked because the TV stations, radio stations and newspapers all were reporting the snow in panic mode: "the white hell", "people are snowed in", "all roads are blocked" and so on. Schools were closed as well. I had no problem going anywhere within the city limits, by mid-day there was no snow on any of the main streets and most secondary streets. Sure, many of the really small and narrow streets still had snow on them and one would have to be careful while driving there (lower clearance cars would get stuck for a while) but there was no service interruption (talking about electricity, water, Internet, etc).
How was she to inform herself when every media outlet would decry the horrible weather conditions (which were simply not there)?
Truth is really easy to hide behind a wall of exaggerations. It's valid for pretty much every aspect of one's life, from health-related things ("milk is poisonous") to IT-related stuff ("the whole world is full of hackers all ready to destroy your life and steal all your money"). People have a natural tendency to "play it safe" and all these (greatly exaggerated) "dangers" and "threats" and "catastrophes", repeated for years and years, some for decades influence one's life in the long term. People spend more time looking out for possible dangers and forget to just enjoy life, sex included.
My wife is worrying about a helluva lot of things, most of them which could be safely ignored, and yes that affects our life, including sexually. A couple years ago, during prelude, she suddenly blurts "we should stop buying milk, I've read it's bad for our health".
Also fear. Vague, insidious fear which turns people off. For decades the media has been dripping vague fears into our collective souls. fear of disease, of being mugged, attacked, bombed, fear of weather, fear of you-name-it. People have become risk-adverse for reasons they most times can't even name. "Let's not engage in X activity!" "Why?" "Because it's dangerous!"
I've seen kids on trikes wearing more protection than a SWAT team member. I've seen people afraid to go for a swim because "this lake might be polluted". Eating fish at a restaurant? "It might have too much mercury". Inviting a co-worker out? "they might report me to HR for sexual harassment".
People are more fearful of this and that than ever. It's collective madness.
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Um... no.
You send money abroad when you buy ANYTHING made in China or wherever.
You send money abroad when using any service which is at some point in its flow using any resources which are not internal to the country you live in.
Those immigrants sending money to their own countries should be VERY low in your priority list.
Your mobile phone, clothes, car, TV, even food, all of them read "money sent abroad" when you look at them. If anything, immigrants actually REDUCE those amounts indirectly through them paying taxes, renting homes locally, eating food locally, etc., although they're subjected to the same issues that you're facing (stuff they use also originates from abroad to some extent).
Training can be easily included without having to inflate the books.
You're talking about service availability here, which is one part of the picture.
That major incident admin who only does actual work 3 days a year more than makes his salary worth if each of those 3 days saves the company 10M dollars in losses.
That works in theory.
In practice, incompetent management accrued overstaffed teams and don't have enough work to be passed around. In order to protect themselves, managers don't implement such system and instead rely on BS to pretend they are understaffed (or at worst "at the level").
Those rough estimates get blown out of proportion, I've seen people put in dozens of hours for something really simple, which would take a non-expert 6 hours at most. their incompetent management would take those estimates and further inflate them, accounting for "documentation", "testing", "UAT" and other such activities, which were already included in the original estimate (which, as said before, were inflated anyway).
There's a joke about communist era from my country:
Romanian government imports a sow from the USSR government which was supposed to give birth to 30 piglets. They put it into a cooperative farm and after a while, due to bad food and improper care, it only gives birth to one piglet.
Its caretaker reports 5 piglets to the supervisor.
The supervisor reports 10 piglets to the farm director.
The farm director reports 20 piglets to the county prefect.
The county prefect reports 25 to the Minister.
The Minister reports 30 to the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister adds 1 and reports 31 to the dictator, to show him that we did better than the Soviets.
The Dictator, as a country-loving tyrant, decrees that 30 of them should go to the population as food and one should be exported.
Sadly, this attitude is visible at many large corporations, which act as dictatorships in all ways but name.
Allowing a repeatedly out-loud-spoken password to be typed kind of defies the point of the whole system, doesn't it?
If someone's "getting away" with 5 hours a week of work, that's because of incompetent management and/or poorly written/implemented procedures. It certainly has nothing to do with that specific employee.
One can cheat their way into not working only because they're allowed to. A simple work audit would point them out immediately. Also, you can do fuck-all from the office just as well, if management remains equally incompetent.
Q: what's the resemblance between an engineer and a dog?
A: both have intelligent eyes, but none can express themselves.
(My father told me this, he's an engineer)
Not if it's done smartly.
Only include details which can be caught by an algorithm but not a human brain.
Police Station background would be ironic.
I'd use "similarly" instead of "alternatively", because both variations prove the same point.
#2 had sizeable Endownment during the last couple decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also #5 had endownment passing a billion dollars in 2014.
So maybe, just maybe the research mentioned in TFS was funded through these endowments :)
Sadly for you, I live in a different country, on a different continent.
Still, politicians here are equally bad, if not worse.
It's the same everywhere.
Ok, I'll bite.
Most of tax money spent by your government will never benefit you directly. By "most" i really mean ALL of it, except tiny, tiny fractions of a percent.
This includes roads you'll never drive on, parks you'll never visit, government building you'll never step foot into, hospitals you'll never get treated at, employees you'll never need, etc., etc.
But getting back to the issue at hand, if you care looking at the linked documents from TFS, you'll see the contributors' universities:
1 Department of Physics, CCIS 4-183, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
3 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
4 Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
5 Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
6 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
7 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
8 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
#1, #3 and #6 are not USA-based.
#2, #4, #5 and #7 are universities which are most likely privately funded.
That leaves #8 as the only gov't funded location.
I'd say your tax money are pretty safe from this and would very likely be spent on genuinely useless endeavors which would never be of help to anyone.
There's a bad vibe about all this...
It helps knowing all those things. Now, whoever isn't lazy/incompetent/in bed with the CIA will implement required changes to eliminate vulnerabilities.
Agreed, mathematically it's "almost 2.5 times the surface" but really, at those dimensions there's not much of a difference.
But take a look at transistor count and you'll know why the die difference exists.
Ryzen 1800X has 4.8 billion transistors while GTX 1080 has 7.2 billion transistors. Hence the die size difference (well some of it of course).
Graphics cards are also LARGE. A PCIe board takes up more room than even the largest of processors in the x86 line in all its history.
Are you high?
The GPU is smaller or at most the same size as the CPU.
1080Ti and Titan X Pascal have a die size of 471 square millimeters. That is the largest chip up to date.
Ryzen 1800X has a die size of a little bit over 195 square millimeters. Yes, that's smaller than the GPU die size but really not that big of a difference.
Latest Intel's CPU die size are notoriously difficult to find, I can't be arsed to dig for them but then again, we're comparing small things and small things.
Maybe you included the whole PCB? In that case, it's incorrect. The CPU itself is supported by the motherboard's PCB, too.
Comparing a GPU chip including its PCB against a CPU without its supporting PCB is apples and oranges. Hell, it's cats and potatoes.
I had subscribed to Netflix, then canceled my subscription because most stuff that I wanted to watch (e.g. my favorite movies) weren't available in my country. Lack of localized subtitles was a major no-no for my wife. Incomplete cartoon series was a let-down for my kids.
Pirated movies are of excellent quality, have localized subtitles, some are dubbed in my language (important for cartoons). Shortly put, better service.
I couldn't care less about "exclusive contracts" preventing me from enjoying content legally. Those are between entities which are thriving at my expense and don't "improve my experience" a bit.
Maybe, if all you do is consume the information.
If you participate, then there's no way around it.
There's some light at the end of the tunnel, though. More and more websites now allow you to log in using your Google account or Facebook. SSO solutions greatly reduce the amount of username/password combinations you have to remember. On the other hand, it makes it mandatory for you to have a Google or Facebook account, but since they are free to create, you can use them only as a gateway and have no important information residing there.
People suck my dick voluntarily.
With every fucking site on the Internet now requiring you to have an account to even take a look at stuff (MassDrop, looking at ya), #1 is a no-go.
#2 is actually a valid option if you split your accounts into 3 main types:
- accounts essential to my well-being (mail, bank, etc) which mandate complex, unique, memorized passwords + 2-step authentication;
- accounts which are important but not essential (e.g. Steam), which mandate unique passwords with 2-factor auth but can be kept in a password manager;
- finally, crap that nobody gives a fuck if hacked (e.g. Slashdot, niah niah). but seriously, "that odd forum which I had to make an account to ask an once-in-a-decade question and never visited again" fits the bill. Those can have relatively simple, non-unique passwords kept in Chrome's password list. So what if they get hacked?
KeepAss keeps your ass secure.
OK, here's an example.
About a month and a half ago we had 4 to 6 inches of snow overnight in my region. My mother-in-law who lives about 250 miles away calls me the next day, all panicked because the TV stations, radio stations and newspapers all were reporting the snow in panic mode: "the white hell", "people are snowed in", "all roads are blocked" and so on. Schools were closed as well.
I had no problem going anywhere within the city limits, by mid-day there was no snow on any of the main streets and most secondary streets. Sure, many of the really small and narrow streets still had snow on them and one would have to be careful while driving there (lower clearance cars would get stuck for a while) but there was no service interruption (talking about electricity, water, Internet, etc).
How was she to inform herself when every media outlet would decry the horrible weather conditions (which were simply not there)?
Truth is really easy to hide behind a wall of exaggerations. It's valid for pretty much every aspect of one's life, from health-related things ("milk is poisonous") to IT-related stuff ("the whole world is full of hackers all ready to destroy your life and steal all your money").
People have a natural tendency to "play it safe" and all these (greatly exaggerated) "dangers" and "threats" and "catastrophes", repeated for years and years, some for decades influence one's life in the long term. People spend more time looking out for possible dangers and forget to just enjoy life, sex included.
My wife is worrying about a helluva lot of things, most of them which could be safely ignored, and yes that affects our life, including sexually. A couple years ago, during prelude, she suddenly blurts "we should stop buying milk, I've read it's bad for our health".
Also fear. Vague, insidious fear which turns people off.
For decades the media has been dripping vague fears into our collective souls. fear of disease, of being mugged, attacked, bombed, fear of weather, fear of you-name-it. People have become risk-adverse for reasons they most times can't even name.
"Let's not engage in X activity!" "Why?" "Because it's dangerous!"
I've seen kids on trikes wearing more protection than a SWAT team member. I've seen people afraid to go for a swim because "this lake might be polluted". Eating fish at a restaurant? "It might have too much mercury". Inviting a co-worker out? "they might report me to HR for sexual harassment".
People are more fearful of this and that than ever. It's collective madness.
And that helps how, exactly, post-factum?
Exactly how loose was the package?