College might be considered a waste of time by the best programmers.
Another possibility is that the very clever are washing out of school before they even get to college. I once saw a study that suggested (not proved) that something like 20% of high school dropouts in the USA might be gifted.
In my experience most of the attention in public school goes to those that are ultimately ineducable. Gifted students are just expected to be fine without help. If they dropout, though, they're less likely to be programmers at a university.
You can say "we survived it" of anything that happened in the past, since those who didn't survive aren't here to complain. Everyone who became poorer because of the taxes which funded Medicare, and subsequently died
You went right off the rails after this.
You should have gone to a medical care reallocation argument.
Since the supply of medical care is finite and somewhat inelastic, a subsidy by the government raises prices and makes medical care unaffordable to some. This is what prices are supposed to do -- they make supply match demand. If supply can't keep up with demand, prices rise and those with less money (i.e. those that don't qualify for government help) get priced out of the market and go without.
Medicare through the reallocation of medical care has no doubt killed some and saved others through this reallocation of services.
We know who was helped -- primarily those 65 and over.
We also know those with high incomes were not hurt, either. They have enough money to keep up with price increases.
That leaves those that don't qualify for help and don't have a high enough income to pay for medical care. In other words, the working poor died so that grandma could live a little longer in retirement.
Medicare, which begin in 1965, is roughly the same in complexity,
I see what you did there.
The Medicare system of 1965 was not as complex as the Medicare system of today. We've had almost 50 years to get it right.
And Medicare still has many flaws. Medicare fraud and abuse is very difficult to track, for example.
This hasn't changed with the new health care law and the government has admitted that they're not even going to try to verify eligibility. They're actually going to use the "honor system" to determine who gets health care subsidies.
And peering is like agreeing to allow guests to use your toilet as long as you are allowed to use theirs.
Okay. Fine.
But what Cogent does after making this agreement with its neighbors is open up a buffet next door with a big sign directing its customers to your bathroom. Then when their customers complain about the backups and stink, Cogent demands you build more toilets.
HFT divides the financial universe into insiders and outsiders. The resources required to compete are beyond the means of any but the most sophisticated and connected organizations.
This was true long before HFT.
Large organizations have individuals that spend their entire day (sometimes their entire career) analyzing one company, its market, the resources it needs to continue operations, and all sorts of other difficult to obtain information.
Anyone that thinks they can beat these institutions and their experts by looking at pretty 3d charts is a fool.
Jim has an apple. He calls out, who will give me 50 cents for this lovely apple. Jon likes apples so he heads over. Just as he raises his hand to call out, flash the wonder trader bumps him into the gutter and buys the apple from Jim (even though he hates apples). He then offers it to Jon for $51 cents.
At which point Jon says "nah, $50 is fair, but $51 is not -- enjoy your apple."
Nope, we have lost the Roman concrete precisely thanks to the Christian led purges of the 4th century. Constantine and Theodosius did it and the dark age quickly followed. They burned libraries, melted artworks dating back to the Etruscan era, history been rewritten so they are the saints now..
Total bullcrap.
After the Christianizing of Rome, much classical knowledge still remained available. Literacy was high and papyrus from Egypt was available for writing. The library at Alexandria was restocked several times after fires with works held in private collections. And the families of Germanic invaders actually had their children educated by Romans and many old Roman cities kept their Roman character.
Then suddenly old Roman cities failed and were quickly covered by a layer of soil called the "Younger fill". Literacy declined and papyrus was no longer available because trade with Egypt was no longer possible as the Mediterranean was controlled by pirates. Many classical works were lost and the library at Alexandria could not be restocked. Christian monks were forced to write on animal skins instead of paper.
This all began long after Christianity -- around the middle of the 7th century. I'll leave it to you to figure out what other events of the 7th century might be responsible.
By your reasoning about freedom, any country that allows you to leave is free.
Don't confuse leaving a group with leaving a territory.
Besides, it still doesn't work in the case of the USA. Wherever you are on the planet, you still must pay income taxes (at a minimum). It's costs over $400 in fees to renounce your citizenship. You essentially must buy your freedom.
The biggest thing I'm confused about is why the general electorate is quiet on this. We have a President that had done some good things but has done some very bad as well... It feels like his core supporters will follow him right into Big Brother if necessary. Have we ever seen a White House so blindly supported by a segment of the population? Are people so easily won over by a scrap and handout here and there while the Constitution is ripped up?
Would you oppose a White House that you rely on to give you food, shelter, and medical care if you thought the alternative was hunger, homelessness, and death?
1. I want to be rich. 2. If I was rich, I wouldn't want to pay a lot of taxes. 3. Therefore, I don't want rich people to pay a lot of taxes.
4. Make sure the government taxes income instead of wealth. 5. Profit!
#4 is nice because if you're rich, you can look like a saint by calling for higher taxes on the wealthy knowing that most people are ignorant of the difference between wealth and income. You can smile knowing hard working highly paid (but not necessarily rich) professionals, like engineers, nurses, or doctors, are paying your share.
People just didn't realize how much they were under the control of the state.
This is why many immigrants are successful business people -- they haven't been here long enough to know the extent to which the state can step in and take control.
The rest of us have the sense not to make a move for fear of doing something wrong. There are so many laws that it would take a life time to comprehend them and whether or not a decision meets the state's approval.
I know they are stupid and shouldn't be called a news show, but what did they do that requires wiretapping?
Rosen reported that,
"U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this week... with another nuclear test,"
And now the "Justice" Department is telling us that they consider him an accomplice to espionage.
And although Fox is playing the indignant victim all over the news right now, they've know about this for a long time. [cnn.com]
Did you even bother to read the story at the link you provided?
The story there tells us that FoxNews knew of a telephone records search, but not of an email search.
"CNN and other media outlets have previously reported a separate Justice Department query into Rosen's e-mails. With the approval of Attorney General Eric Holder, Justice officials obtained a warrant from a federal judge to access Rosen's e-mails.
While Fox News is now acknowledging that the Justice Department notified its parent company about the phone records search, that notice apparently did not include anything about the separate search of Rosen's e-mail."
People aren't stupid (although many of them act that way sometimes). If you can take a part that sells for $1,000, disable some of the functionality, and sell it for $650... then you can sell the whole unit for $650. It's a ripoff and people know it.
And so much of what people "know" is wrong.
It's entirely possible that at $650/chip Intel loses money and at $1000/chip Intel loses money -- but at the two price points combined, Intel makes a profit.
Suppose Intel can sell 1 million chips at $650 but only 500 thousand chips at $1000. At $650/chip they make $650,000,000. At $1000/chip they make $500,000,000. If development costs are $800 billion, they lose money in both cases.
But at two price points Intel makes a profit.
They can sell 500 thousand at $650/chip and another 500 thousand at $1000/chip making $325,000,000 + $500,000,000 = $825,000,000 and the cost of development is covered.
The point of disabling cores isn't to rip people off -- it's to force those that can pay $1000 to pay $1000 instead of $650.
Filthy rich people don't continue to get filthy rich off of one another.
Why not?
It's possible at least at the national level (so long as you treat filthy rich in a way that's relative to most of the poor on the planet). I can't see why the same thing can't scale down at least somewhat towards individuals.
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College might be considered a waste of time by the best programmers.
Another possibility is that the very clever are washing out of school before they even get to college. I once saw a study that suggested (not proved) that something like 20% of high school dropouts in the USA might be gifted.
In my experience most of the attention in public school goes to those that are ultimately ineducable. Gifted students are just expected to be fine without help. If they dropout, though, they're less likely to be programmers at a university.
There probably is a correlation between obesity and a slothful mind, present company excluded, of course.
You went right off the rails after this.
You should have gone to a medical care reallocation argument.
Since the supply of medical care is finite and somewhat inelastic, a subsidy by the government raises prices and makes medical care unaffordable to some. This is what prices are supposed to do -- they make supply match demand. If supply can't keep up with demand, prices rise and those with less money (i.e. those that don't qualify for government help) get priced out of the market and go without.
Medicare through the reallocation of medical care has no doubt killed some and saved others through this reallocation of services.
We know who was helped -- primarily those 65 and over.
We also know those with high incomes were not hurt, either. They have enough money to keep up with price increases.
That leaves those that don't qualify for help and don't have a high enough income to pay for medical care. In other words, the working poor died so that grandma could live a little longer in retirement.
I see what you did there.
The Medicare system of 1965 was not as complex as the Medicare system of today. We've had almost 50 years to get it right.
And Medicare still has many flaws. Medicare fraud and abuse is very difficult to track, for example.
This hasn't changed with the new health care law and the government has admitted that they're not even going to try to verify eligibility. They're actually going to use the "honor system" to determine who gets health care subsidies.
Is to terrorize innocent people with threats of imprisonment?
And peering is like agreeing to allow guests to use your toilet as long as you are allowed to use theirs.
Okay. Fine.
But what Cogent does after making this agreement with its neighbors is open up a buffet next door with a big sign directing its customers to your bathroom. Then when their customers complain about the backups and stink, Cogent demands you build more toilets.
Riemann sums, how do they work?
This was true long before HFT.
Large organizations have individuals that spend their entire day (sometimes their entire career) analyzing one company, its market, the resources it needs to continue operations, and all sorts of other difficult to obtain information.
Anyone that thinks they can beat these institutions and their experts by looking at pretty 3d charts is a fool.
At which point Jon says "nah, $50 is fair, but $51 is not -- enjoy your apple."
And the rest can eat cake, right?
Total bullcrap.
After the Christianizing of Rome, much classical knowledge still remained available. Literacy was high and papyrus from Egypt was available for writing. The library at Alexandria was restocked several times after fires with works held in private collections. And the families of Germanic invaders actually had their children educated by Romans and many old Roman cities kept their Roman character.
Then suddenly old Roman cities failed and were quickly covered by a layer of soil called the "Younger fill". Literacy declined and papyrus was no longer available because trade with Egypt was no longer possible as the Mediterranean was controlled by pirates. Many classical works were lost and the library at Alexandria could not be restocked. Christian monks were forced to write on animal skins instead of paper.
This all began long after Christianity -- around the middle of the 7th century. I'll leave it to you to figure out what other events of the 7th century might be responsible.
Says the man that never in his life labored to create a new idea.
Don't confuse leaving a group with leaving a territory.
Besides, it still doesn't work in the case of the USA. Wherever you are on the planet, you still must pay income taxes (at a minimum). It's costs over $400 in fees to renounce your citizenship. You essentially must buy your freedom.
or you'll get audited by the IRS
or you'll have OSHA drop by
or you'll have the NLRB prevent you from opening an office in another state...
The regulatory power of the executive is enough of a threat.
Would you oppose a White House that you rely on to give you food, shelter, and medical care if you thought the alternative was hunger, homelessness, and death?
4. Make sure the government taxes income instead of wealth.
5. Profit!
#4 is nice because if you're rich, you can look like a saint by calling for higher taxes on the wealthy knowing that most people are ignorant of the difference between wealth and income. You can smile knowing hard working highly paid (but not necessarily rich) professionals, like engineers, nurses, or doctors, are paying your share.
The state doesn't have to step in after the fact. The mere threat is enough to freeze action. Excessive laws create a chilling effect.
They never were free.
People just didn't realize how much they were under the control of the state.
This is why many immigrants are successful business people -- they haven't been here long enough to know the extent to which the state can step in and take control.
The rest of us have the sense not to make a move for fear of doing something wrong. There are so many laws that it would take a life time to comprehend them and whether or not a decision meets the state's approval.
That or one hires many lawyers.
I know they are stupid and shouldn't be called a news show, but what did they do that requires wiretapping?
Rosen reported that,
"U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this week... with another nuclear test,"
And now the "Justice" Department is telling us that they consider him an accomplice to espionage.
Did you even bother to read the story at the link you provided?
The story there tells us that FoxNews knew of a telephone records search, but not of an email search.
"CNN and other media outlets have previously reported a separate Justice Department query into Rosen's e-mails. With the approval of Attorney General Eric Holder, Justice officials obtained a warrant from a federal judge to access Rosen's e-mails.
While Fox News is now acknowledging that the Justice Department notified its parent company about the phone records search, that notice apparently did not include anything about the separate search of Rosen's e-mail."
And so much of what people "know" is wrong.
It's entirely possible that at $650/chip Intel loses money and at $1000/chip Intel loses money -- but at the two price points combined, Intel makes a profit.
Suppose Intel can sell 1 million chips at $650 but only 500 thousand chips at $1000. At $650/chip they make $650,000,000. At $1000/chip they make $500,000,000. If development costs are $800 billion, they lose money in both cases.
But at two price points Intel makes a profit.
They can sell 500 thousand at $650/chip and another 500 thousand at $1000/chip making $325,000,000 + $500,000,000 = $825,000,000 and the cost of development is covered.
The point of disabling cores isn't to rip people off -- it's to force those that can pay $1000 to pay $1000 instead of $650.
It's one thing to say IQ tests pattern matching and noise filtering. It's quite another to say IQ tests ONLY pattern matching and noise filtering.
Yeah, but intelligence can also determine the external context.
Intelligent -> working in a patent office.
Unintelligent -> falling into red-hot magma.
Nah. You just have to kill their philosophy by shaking their faith.
Sometimes that does mean killing the true-believers, but there are other ways.
Why not?
It's possible at least at the national level (so long as you treat filthy rich in a way that's relative to most of the poor on the planet). I can't see why the same thing can't scale down at least somewhat towards individuals.