More than half of STEM assistant professors in the US are foreign born (up from about one in ten, 40 years ago). Compare this to the general population of STEM workers, where only about 20 percent are foreign born. If we assume that professors are admitted to university faculties on the basis of sheer ability, this indicates that foreigners are actually *underrepresented* in the general H1B population.
Doesn't that depend on which revolutions he's inciting?
I believe the recent right wing view is that revolutions in countries where lots of brown people live are a bad thing, because the Mooslims will take control.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. -- Kung Fu Monkey
Your stupidity is showing. Singapore may be largely populated by ethnic Chinese, but it certainly isn't China.
I'd engage in a bit of reading comprehension before accusing others of stupidity. He was replying to aztektum's assertion that
It seems the countries they compare to Ireland such as China have a completely different lifestylet.
And one of the "countries they compare to Ireland" happens to be Singapore:
...a statement signed by senior execs at Microsoft, HP, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Intel points out that although Ireland's tax rate may be low in European terms, it is not when compared with locations such as Singapore, India and China.
We'll see. During the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, there was an inordinate amount of glee in the West over the plight of the original Tiger economies. Since then, they've bounced back even stronger than before, with GDP in South Korea and Singapore at roughly twice the level before the Asian crisis. And they've been almost unaffected by the current crisis.
All will hinge on how the Irish government handles the recovery. In the case of the Asian Tigers, referring to their economies as "right wing" is rather misleading; low corporate taxes notwithstanding, their governments actually play a pretty heavy role in managing the economy, and Keynesian programs (direct government spending) played a big part of their recovery.
A draft report by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has called for a total ban on foreign shipments of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium... “This isn’t about the China holding the world to ransom. They are saying we need these resources to develop our own economy and achieve energy efficiency, so go find your own supplies”...
The main problem with using hydrogen as a coolant is not that it is combustible (though it is). It's that it freezes. At ambient pressures, helium does not freeze, and remains a liquid down to absolute zero.
Most IT people I know are incredibly conservative/Libertarian/Ayn Rand followers. Mention a union, professional organization, or other stabilizer to these people, and most go off into a Fox News-style tirade about socialism or how unions are evil and corrupt.
I think you misunderestimate the power of cognitive dissonance. In my experience, most libertarians are all for protectionism when their own jobs are on the line.
The difference between the 2006 work and this one is that the present researchers are not growing graphene on a silicon carbide substrate, but on a silicon substrate with a silicon carbide thin film on top. This may make it a little more commercially feasible.
However, the trouble with the epitaxial technique is that no one (AFAIK) has successfully demonstrated a quantum Hall effect in these graphene sheets, unlike the sheets made using the usual "scotch tape" methods. So there's some doubt about whether what they are getting is really graphene. I don't think the present work addresses this problem either.
Now, that said, the worst aspect of the show was the main character. Tetsuwan Atomu ("Mighty Atom") or Astro Boy was pretty darn one dimensional. Maybe this is great for children, I got real tired of it.
This is intentional. Astro Boy is a proxy for the viewer (or reader); the neutrality of his personality serves as a blank slate for you to project onto. Other examples: Tintin, Fone Bone, and most of the major "superheroes" in Western comics (Superman, Peter Parker, etc.).
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Fixed that for ya.
See also Mueller's remarkable performance over at lwn.net.
> You, uh, do realise that the longer the half-life the _less_ radioactive something is?
That rule of thumb fails if said element happens to decay into yet another radioactive isotopes. Like, say, uranium...
More than half of STEM assistant professors in the US are foreign born (up from about one in ten, 40 years ago). Compare this to the general population of STEM workers, where only about 20 percent are foreign born. If we assume that professors are admitted to university faculties on the basis of sheer ability, this indicates that foreigners are actually *underrepresented* in the general H1B population.
I believe the recent right wing view is that revolutions in countries where lots of brown people live are a bad thing, because the Mooslims will take control.
That's not how hash functions work.
It has to be real. Java lacks built-in support for complex numbers.
Wow, how original.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. -- Kung Fu Monkey
> part from being spoken differently, they are written differently as well
No they aren't.
Their PM accidentally admitted, back in 2006, that they did have nuclear weapons.
This statement hasn't been true since the 1970s.
I'd engage in a bit of reading comprehension before accusing others of stupidity. He was replying to aztektum's assertion that
And one of the "countries they compare to Ireland" happens to be Singapore:
We'll see. During the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, there was an inordinate amount of glee in the West over the plight of the original Tiger economies. Since then, they've bounced back even stronger than before, with GDP in South Korea and Singapore at roughly twice the level before the Asian crisis. And they've been almost unaffected by the current crisis.
All will hinge on how the Irish government handles the recovery. In the case of the Asian Tigers, referring to their economies as "right wing" is rather misleading; low corporate taxes notwithstanding, their governments actually play a pretty heavy role in managing the economy, and Keynesian programs (direct government spending) played a big part of their recovery.
> assange did a good thing starting wikileaks,
Assange did not start Wikileaks.
By comparison, let's look at how China has manages strategic resources:
The main problem with using hydrogen as a coolant is not that it is combustible (though it is). It's that it freezes. At ambient pressures, helium does not freeze, and remains a liquid down to absolute zero.
Anyone know how they're gonna handle the suckers who shelled out for a lifetime subscription?
We're certainly on the road to the future spelled out here.
You do realize that Obama's budget increases NASA funding by a significant amount, right?
I think you misunderestimate the power of cognitive dissonance. In my experience, most libertarians are all for protectionism when their own jobs are on the line.
That's what they said about Japanese goods a few decades ago, and about American goods a few decades before that.
The difference between the 2006 work and this one is that the present researchers are not growing graphene on a silicon carbide substrate, but on a silicon substrate with a silicon carbide thin film on top. This may make it a little more commercially feasible.
However, the trouble with the epitaxial technique is that no one (AFAIK) has successfully demonstrated a quantum Hall effect in these graphene sheets, unlike the sheets made using the usual "scotch tape" methods. So there's some doubt about whether what they are getting is really graphene. I don't think the present work addresses this problem either.
> Isn't this the same type of stuff we accused Microsoft of doing years ago?
Until Google starts strong-arming OEMs into refusing to carry their competitors' products, the answer is no.
This is intentional. Astro Boy is a proxy for the viewer (or reader); the neutrality of his personality serves as a blank slate for you to project onto. Other examples: Tintin, Fone Bone, and most of the major "superheroes" in Western comics (Superman, Peter Parker, etc.).