The main problem with the basic income is that it pretends that tax payers are completely rational. Even if you lay out the argument in plain terms that explains how giving someone else $10 will in the end save them $1 from what they are spending now, they will balk at the idea.
If you institute basic income, a very good portion of the wealthy in this country, the people with true mobility, will either move their income out of the country or find more reasons to avoid contributing.
And the ever shrinking middle class cannot afford to pay for everything.
Do you want to see a PDF or Microsoft Word presentation? Because that's what will happen rather than the dynamic discussion based meetings you hope for.
I enjoyed your well reasoned and thorough argument, which I imagine was delivered in an even and temperate tone, with it's occasional turrets style invectives. I want to believe you use the same style when talking with your spouse, attending formal functions, at work, and at the PTA.
Vacations are mandatory, 30 days per year (6 weeks in US terms) +1 extra day for Christmas.
I see the argument for paid days off, but it never seems to be an apples to apples comparison. I would like to know how my shitty American job really stacks up against, say the typical German job that has these built in minimums.
How many sick days do you get? How many paid holidays (vs personal days).
Officially, I only get 20 days of leave a year (26 after I have been there another couple of years). So that's 4 weeks. But I also get 10 paid federal holidays, so technically that's 6 weeks. But I also get 13 days of paid sick leave per year that can be taken pretty liberally (like if I know I will have a hangover the Monday after the super bowl, I can schedule that sick day in advance).
So how does that stack up, does my 6 weeks equal your six weeks? Or do I actually have 8.5 weeks if you count the sick. In two years I will my 10 weeks of leave be a good number?
Isn't this something that the higher frequency standards (like 50Ghz wireless) are supposed to help with?
The signal doesn't propagate very far, probably even through cube walls. The channels are tiny, so you could fit a ton of devices next to each other. And the speed is ridiculous, so you could dedicate a huge margin to redundancy and error correction without producing much latency.
This may have more to do with the recent spectrum sale shenanigans. Small companies get a significant discount on the auction, so big companies make deals with small companies to buy the spectrum and split the savings difference.
If you disallow people that have zero intent to use the spectrum (like the small company that didn't exist a year ago and only owns stuff on paper), then you force the big company to compete directly.
This helps SpaceX because they can get the small company discount and not have to compete with large companies that use underhanded tricks to get the discount, and it also helps the taxpayer as the big boys have to pay the full rate if they win.
Your program should be discredited. The only thing an EE might have, understanding wise, over a CSCI would be basic electrical theory; which is covered in Physics and should have been part of your CSCI curriculum. As the only CSCI in an engineering firm almost entirely comprised of EE's, you might be surprised at just how little they actually understand.
My CSCI program covered everything from theory (basic logic, Karnaugh maps, finite state automata, etc.) to designing a simple computer (processor, memory, storage, etc.) using Verilog. We then modeled/emulated our computers and built compilers for them in a later course. Then, in another course, we built an OS with that compiler which ran on our emulator.
If you think knowing Kirchhoff's circuit laws somehow makes your understanding of a computer greater, then you are sadly misinformed.
Just like showing up with a fancy invention will get you serious consideration, showing up with a degree from the consistently #1 rated computer science program in the country (and possibly the world) would get you noticed, and likely hired.
It's like saying you don't need to be 7 foot tall to play basketball. But if you were 7 foot tall, and showed up to tryouts, do you think they might be more likely to give you serious consideration?
Not that I disagree with your the majority of your arguments, but people definitely buy movies that are more than 2 years old. I have a copy of Snow White on Blu-Ray staring me in the face. A movie made more than SEVENTY years ago, that I bought a couple of weeks ago so my kids could watch it, in the format that was easiest to use in our living room.
I'm not sure Disney would have bothered re-authoring it or putting the resources into up-scaling/re-mastering (or whatever they did) to make it look good at the higher resolution if someone else could just copy the disc and sell it. We would still have whatever format they originally released, based on your logic (so what, 80mm reel to reel or something)?
I love it when the skinny guy that eats Mc'Ds "a couple of times a week" tells the overweight guy that has severely restricted his caloric intake but doesn't shed much if any weight that "its a simple idea".
I wouldn't presume to know more than a mechanical engineer at an elevator company. But I might still be able to figure out why someone who has spent their entire career building one style of system, with the only variance being the size of the motor and the length of the cable, with investments into the supply chain for those specific components and technicians familiar with working and installing those components, might tell you that the old way is the best way without seriously considering an alternative.
Hey, I mean If I was staring at the choice of selling 10 of my most expensive systems to a client, or telling him to hire an engineering firm and materials scientist to reinvent the wheel (or elevator), I know which one is better for my bottom line.
"Google has been considering satellite-based Internet service for more than a year. In late 2013, it hired satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler, who at one point last year had more than 10 African-Americans working for him."
This statement seems completely out of place in the context of the article, was it posted on a site promoting African American's involvement with STEM career fields or similar?
At my work we have an equal number of men's and women's restrooms, and those restrooms are sized to allow the same number of people (so if the men's room has 2 stalls and 2 urinals, the women's room has 4 stalls). This is despite the fact that we have 4x as many men as women working in our facility (it's not a hiring issue, we just don't get the applicants).
The end result is that on average men can expect to wait 15-20 minutes before getting an open stall to use, while the women generally will not even see another person in the restroom unless they came in together.
Job: Network Engineer Experience: 10+ years Education: BS Comp. Sci Age: Early 30s Salary: 115k (but also excellent benefits including six weeks vacation and 14 sick days per year) Location: The sticks, MD
I once setup a hotspot using my phone for a co-worker to browse on his computer while we waited at the Airport for a flight (I had a no shit real unlimited plan at the time). When he turned his computer on in the hotel room that night he synced right up, assumed I must be in a room close to him, and went ahead and used that connection.
The next day at the job site I told him that not only was I not in an adjacent room, but that I was in a different hotel a block or two away (I am never quite sure what counts as a block, it was several hundred feet). Turns out we had a direct line of sight through the window above all of the other buildings as he was on the 10th floor and I was on the 12th.
No, it won't. That was a result of decoupling the service provider from the physical medium. That isn't included in this discussion and won't be a part of the upcoming proposed changes.
When my office was "re-aligned" under another division we were also moved to another building and went from 10x12 cubes with windows to a basement bullpen. The first thing I did was get a screen filter for my computer monitor, the second thing I did was start taking all of my phone calls on speaker. I also encouraged others in my area to do similar.
2 Months later we had brand new office furniture including cubicles. Only 8x8 this time, but still much better than the open room format.
I imagine if I were a "popular" author I would put my older, lesser producing works into a service like this. Let someone who recognizes your name but has never read your books read something that represents your style, but isn't your current top moneymaker. Then if they decide "hey, this Stephen King fella is actually pretty good" they can buy your other works individually.
Was it mentioned if an author has to put ALL of their books into this service? I can't tell you how many times a friend loaned me the first book in a series and I bought the rest. If you put 1/3rd of your catalog into a service like this and people are exposed to your work, then they may buy the stuff that isn't in this service. It's just another form of advertising, only this one pays you instead of the other way around.
I think you are glossing over a not insignificant group that reads books, but doesn't pay. Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Spotify have proven that if it is cheap enough and convenient enough, many people who previously chose illicit methods can be converted to paying customers.
Wasn't there some kind of study that when people were presented with a positive choice that favors someone else, and a negative choice that is "fair" they choose the negative (e.g. I will give you a dollar, but I give all of your friends two dollars, or I give no-one any money).?
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The main problem with the basic income is that it pretends that tax payers are completely rational. Even if you lay out the argument in plain terms that explains how giving someone else $10 will in the end save them $1 from what they are spending now, they will balk at the idea.
If you institute basic income, a very good portion of the wealthy in this country, the people with true mobility, will either move their income out of the country or find more reasons to avoid contributing.
And the ever shrinking middle class cannot afford to pay for everything.
Certainly is a protected term. Just ask my custodial engineer. He had to get his NPSE cert before we would let him move out of his apprenticeship.
Do you want to see a PDF or Microsoft Word presentation? Because that's what will happen rather than the dynamic discussion based meetings you hope for.
I enjoyed your well reasoned and thorough argument, which I imagine was delivered in an even and temperate tone, with it's occasional turrets style invectives. I want to believe you use the same style when talking with your spouse, attending formal functions, at work, and at the PTA.
Vacations are mandatory, 30 days per year (6 weeks in US terms) +1 extra day for Christmas.
I see the argument for paid days off, but it never seems to be an apples to apples comparison. I would like to know how my shitty American job really stacks up against, say the typical German job that has these built in minimums.
How many sick days do you get? How many paid holidays (vs personal days).
Officially, I only get 20 days of leave a year (26 after I have been there another couple of years). So that's 4 weeks. But I also get 10 paid federal holidays, so technically that's 6 weeks. But I also get 13 days of paid sick leave per year that can be taken pretty liberally (like if I know I will have a hangover the Monday after the super bowl, I can schedule that sick day in advance).
So how does that stack up, does my 6 weeks equal your six weeks? Or do I actually have 8.5 weeks if you count the sick. In two years I will my 10 weeks of leave be a good number?
Isn't this something that the higher frequency standards (like 50Ghz wireless) are supposed to help with?
The signal doesn't propagate very far, probably even through cube walls. The channels are tiny, so you could fit a ton of devices next to each other. And the speed is ridiculous, so you could dedicate a huge margin to redundancy and error correction without producing much latency.
I think leaving out the polar regions would account for more than 1/6th of the surface area if using equatorial orbit.
Of course, they may be using polar orbits and choose to leave out orbits over the ocean or land that doesn't have much population.
Or, they could use Tundra orbits and just drop the satellites on top of the areas they wish to provide coverage to.
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This may have more to do with the recent spectrum sale shenanigans. Small companies get a significant discount on the auction, so big companies make deals with small companies to buy the spectrum and split the savings difference.
If you disallow people that have zero intent to use the spectrum (like the small company that didn't exist a year ago and only owns stuff on paper), then you force the big company to compete directly.
This helps SpaceX because they can get the small company discount and not have to compete with large companies that use underhanded tricks to get the discount, and it also helps the taxpayer as the big boys have to pay the full rate if they win.
Your program should be discredited. The only thing an EE might have, understanding wise, over a CSCI would be basic electrical theory; which is covered in Physics and should have been part of your CSCI curriculum. As the only CSCI in an engineering firm almost entirely comprised of EE's, you might be surprised at just how little they actually understand.
My CSCI program covered everything from theory (basic logic, Karnaugh maps, finite state automata, etc.) to designing a simple computer (processor, memory, storage, etc.) using Verilog. We then modeled/emulated our computers and built compilers for them in a later course. Then, in another course, we built an OS with that compiler which ran on our emulator.
If you think knowing Kirchhoff's circuit laws somehow makes your understanding of a computer greater, then you are sadly misinformed.
Just like showing up with a fancy invention will get you serious consideration, showing up with a degree from the consistently #1 rated computer science program in the country (and possibly the world) would get you noticed, and likely hired.
It's like saying you don't need to be 7 foot tall to play basketball. But if you were 7 foot tall, and showed up to tryouts, do you think they might be more likely to give you serious consideration?
Not that I disagree with your the majority of your arguments, but people definitely buy movies that are more than 2 years old. I have a copy of Snow White on Blu-Ray staring me in the face. A movie made more than SEVENTY years ago, that I bought a couple of weeks ago so my kids could watch it, in the format that was easiest to use in our living room.
I'm not sure Disney would have bothered re-authoring it or putting the resources into up-scaling/re-mastering (or whatever they did) to make it look good at the higher resolution if someone else could just copy the disc and sell it. We would still have whatever format they originally released, based on your logic (so what, 80mm reel to reel or something)?
If that were true more than 3 people on this earth would give a shit about Bill Maher.
I love it when the skinny guy that eats Mc'Ds "a couple of times a week" tells the overweight guy that has severely restricted his caloric intake but doesn't shed much if any weight that "its a simple idea".
Sure thing buddy.
I wouldn't presume to know more than a mechanical engineer at an elevator company. But I might still be able to figure out why someone who has spent their entire career building one style of system, with the only variance being the size of the motor and the length of the cable, with investments into the supply chain for those specific components and technicians familiar with working and installing those components, might tell you that the old way is the best way without seriously considering an alternative.
Hey, I mean If I was staring at the choice of selling 10 of my most expensive systems to a client, or telling him to hire an engineering firm and materials scientist to reinvent the wheel (or elevator), I know which one is better for my bottom line.
"Google has been considering satellite-based Internet service for more than a year. In late 2013, it hired satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler, who at one point last year had more than 10 African-Americans working for him."
This statement seems completely out of place in the context of the article, was it posted on a site promoting African American's involvement with STEM career fields or similar?
You know that as a profession, HR is overwhelmingly dominated by women.
At my work we have an equal number of men's and women's restrooms, and those restrooms are sized to allow the same number of people (so if the men's room has 2 stalls and 2 urinals, the women's room has 4 stalls). This is despite the fact that we have 4x as many men as women working in our facility (it's not a hiring issue, we just don't get the applicants).
The end result is that on average men can expect to wait 15-20 minutes before getting an open stall to use, while the women generally will not even see another person in the restroom unless they came in together.
Job: Network Engineer
Experience: 10+ years
Education: BS Comp. Sci
Age: Early 30s
Salary: 115k (but also excellent benefits including six weeks vacation and 14 sick days per year)
Location: The sticks, MD
I once setup a hotspot using my phone for a co-worker to browse on his computer while we waited at the Airport for a flight (I had a no shit real unlimited plan at the time). When he turned his computer on in the hotel room that night he synced right up, assumed I must be in a room close to him, and went ahead and used that connection.
The next day at the job site I told him that not only was I not in an adjacent room, but that I was in a different hotel a block or two away (I am never quite sure what counts as a block, it was several hundred feet). Turns out we had a direct line of sight through the window above all of the other buildings as he was on the 10th floor and I was on the 12th.
No, it won't. That was a result of decoupling the service provider from the physical medium. That isn't included in this discussion and won't be a part of the upcoming proposed changes.
When my office was "re-aligned" under another division we were also moved to another building and went from 10x12 cubes with windows to a basement bullpen. The first thing I did was get a screen filter for my computer monitor, the second thing I did was start taking all of my phone calls on speaker. I also encouraged others in my area to do similar.
2 Months later we had brand new office furniture including cubicles. Only 8x8 this time, but still much better than the open room format.
I imagine if I were a "popular" author I would put my older, lesser producing works into a service like this. Let someone who recognizes your name but has never read your books read something that represents your style, but isn't your current top moneymaker. Then if they decide "hey, this Stephen King fella is actually pretty good" they can buy your other works individually.
Was it mentioned if an author has to put ALL of their books into this service? I can't tell you how many times a friend loaned me the first book in a series and I bought the rest. If you put 1/3rd of your catalog into a service like this and people are exposed to your work, then they may buy the stuff that isn't in this service. It's just another form of advertising, only this one pays you instead of the other way around.
I think you are glossing over a not insignificant group that reads books, but doesn't pay. Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Spotify have proven that if it is cheap enough and convenient enough, many people who previously chose illicit methods can be converted to paying customers.
Wasn't there some kind of study that when people were presented with a positive choice that favors someone else, and a negative choice that is "fair" they choose the negative (e.g. I will give you a dollar, but I give all of your friends two dollars, or I give no-one any money).?