They don't submit bills with billable and non-billable hours of course. They just submit bills with the actual hours they are on the property, and then kindly tell me when I ask how many other hours they aren't able to submit a bill for AT ALL when they aren't on ANYONE'S property doing work.
That would clearly be superior to being out of work... for the student. Not necessarily for the company. I'd consider a person straight out of school likely to be a net negative as an unpaid intern for the first year.
Better jobs vs any jobs. 15% of americans are unemployed right now because they can't (legally!) compete for jobs with people who make 30c/hr, or even $3/hr. The people who come this way want to make more than they can in their country.
He certainly got a head start in life that few of his generation never had. I'll bet that parental support was worth quite a few years of college.
That parental support was quite a bit more than the average lifetime earnings difference of college/noncollege, and it was an upfront investment, which meant he should expect to do no worse than the average investment income off of it.
First, I want to see *some* sort of check and balance on college expenses. Every examination of college prices over the past 30 years has shown horribly high growth relative to earning.
But they had a lot of ground to recover. Technically, for optimal pricing, they would charge you just enough so that the long term profitability of going to college was, on average, a dollar. Maybe a little more, because they have to entice you to take the risk. But not a LOT more, because then they're just wasting the opportunity to make more money.
Just add exploiting (people) to your list of lying, cheating, stealing. (Which unfortunately eliminates all the people I've seen held up as positive examples in this thread so far).
The jobs are not leaving forever. The average pay in every nation that doesn't have war risks is climbing pretty fast, so given another 10-15 years it just won't be as much of a disadvantage to be an american worker.
Of course, it won't come with the perks it used to either, like owning a home that would make the rest of the world think you were a millionaire.
The advantage of not having a degree comes in opportunity cost. It takes (at least) a decade on average to get ahead from going to college. That's a long time to wait on that payoff, and assumes that you don't find even a single successful investment opportunity in that whole decade.
Generally I think if you are not widely considered very intelligent by everyone you regularly interact with, including those people that don't necessarily care for you, then you are probably better off getting a degree.
And even if you ARE considered very intelligent by everyone you meet, you are probably better off getting a degree. You might be an outlier for luck, you might not.
$24K gain, on $20K avg cost (public school), plus loss of 27*4 years of income = 128K to make up. So about 9 years average before break-even, assuming you trust the economic situation in this country not to continue getting worse for college grads.
Plumbers and electricians struggle to find 40 hours of work per week where I live. I was curious about how their incomes compared to mine, and the last couple guys I worked with said they typically had about 25 billable hours of work in 50 hours on the job. The rest was driving from place to place and other forms of non-billable time. So $100/hr for actual work doesn't translate into the same salary as someone who is paid that rate for a 40/hr job.
I used to get paid 65/hr as a software contractor. But I billed 60 hours a week. Care to guess who made more that year, me or the $100/hr plumber?
It means the court system is working to correct the problems in the patent system. You can't build a system the size of the US government without some pathological failures, so arguing that the 'whole' system isn't working is like suggesting that water is wet. Yep.
That's an ok way to look at it, though I use adblock not because I find the adverts objectionable, but rather because they tend to eat time (slow down the web experience substantially). And that's with the simplest static banner ads. Don't get me started on the impact of flash ads.
Also, adverts and personal data harvesting to me represent a gross overpayment for content. I'd much rather make micro payments for adless content, except of course for the problem that I don't have that option.
Only because they buried their tube underground. Or if you mean their wireless, then you're looking at an insignificant fraction of the internet, and really only the clients, not the content.
Not sure if that's ironic or not, as it would seem to be a perfect example of his point, the middlemen (cafepress) are no doubt the ones screwing your experience, rather than anything he did directly (other than choose to work with cafepress).
I doubt if google is smart enough to avoid it, because their goal is to make all the sites that steal their content have lots of links back to them. Unless the stealing sites are quite careful (and lets face it, is a stealing site going to be hardworking, or lazy?) the content will have links both to ars and to sites legitimately related to the content.
Not for the individual using them. It's like ad-block: bad for everyone except the user. As long as users have the control, there will be problems like this. The obvious solution is time-locking seatbelts at internet connected computers and eyeball tracking video to make sure you're seeing what you're supposed to see.
If he thought it was actually a physical series of tubes, he was largely correct, as that's in fact what it is. Lots of plastic tubes filled with glass or copper.
If you want to hire ten or a hundred times as many police, and jump your property taxes by an order of magnitude, start a political campaign to do it. In the mean time, the police will (properly) prioritize violent crimes before non-violent crimes, and large financial crimes before small ones.
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They don't submit bills with billable and non-billable hours of course. They just submit bills with the actual hours they are on the property, and then kindly tell me when I ask how many other hours they aren't able to submit a bill for AT ALL when they aren't on ANYONE'S property doing work.
That would clearly be superior to being out of work ... for the student. Not necessarily for the company. I'd consider a person straight out of school likely to be a net negative as an unpaid intern for the first year.
Better jobs vs any jobs. 15% of americans are unemployed right now because they can't (legally!) compete for jobs with people who make 30c/hr, or even $3/hr. The people who come this way want to make more than they can in their country.
If you take the teacher's time/attention from the students who are paying for it without their permission ...
He certainly got a head start in life that few of his generation never had. I'll bet that parental support was worth quite a few years of college.
That parental support was quite a bit more than the average lifetime earnings difference of college/noncollege, and it was an upfront investment, which meant he should expect to do no worse than the average investment income off of it.
First, I want to see *some* sort of check and balance on college expenses. Every examination of college prices over the past 30 years has shown horribly high growth relative to earning.
But they had a lot of ground to recover. Technically, for optimal pricing, they would charge you just enough so that the long term profitability of going to college was, on average, a dollar. Maybe a little more, because they have to entice you to take the risk. But not a LOT more, because then they're just wasting the opportunity to make more money.
Just add exploiting (people) to your list of lying, cheating, stealing.
(Which unfortunately eliminates all the people I've seen held up as positive examples in this thread so far).
The jobs are not leaving forever. The average pay in every nation that doesn't have war risks is climbing pretty fast, so given another 10-15 years it just won't be as much of a disadvantage to be an american worker.
Of course, it won't come with the perks it used to either, like owning a home that would make the rest of the world think you were a millionaire.
The advantage of not having a degree comes in opportunity cost. It takes (at least) a decade on average to get ahead from going to college. That's a long time to wait on that payoff, and assumes that you don't find even a single successful investment opportunity in that whole decade.
Generally I think if you are not widely considered very intelligent by everyone you regularly interact with, including those people that don't necessarily care for you, then you are probably better off getting a degree.
And even if you ARE considered very intelligent by everyone you meet, you are probably better off getting a degree. You might be an outlier for luck, you might not.
$24K gain, on $20K avg cost (public school), plus loss of 27*4 years of income = 128K to make up. So about 9 years average before break-even, assuming you trust the economic situation in this country not to continue getting worse for college grads.
Plumbers and electricians struggle to find 40 hours of work per week where I live. I was curious about how their incomes compared to mine, and the last couple guys I worked with said they typically had about 25 billable hours of work in 50 hours on the job. The rest was driving from place to place and other forms of non-billable time. So $100/hr for actual work doesn't translate into the same salary as someone who is paid that rate for a 40/hr job.
I used to get paid 65/hr as a software contractor. But I billed 60 hours a week. Care to guess who made more that year, me or the $100/hr plumber?
It means the court system is working to correct the problems in the patent system. You can't build a system the size of the US government without some pathological failures, so arguing that the 'whole' system isn't working is like suggesting that water is wet. Yep.
Well ... what happens if your bra doesn't make a tight fit over your mouth because it is too big?
That's an ok way to look at it, though I use adblock not because I find the adverts objectionable, but rather because they tend to eat time (slow down the web experience substantially). And that's with the simplest static banner ads. Don't get me started on the impact of flash ads.
Also, adverts and personal data harvesting to me represent a gross overpayment for content. I'd much rather make micro payments for adless content, except of course for the problem that I don't have that option.
I wouldn't have considered either spin or energy level of the electron subatomic.
I was wondering where you were going to store information on a quark, for example.
For which we'll need new physics rather than new technology, unfortunately.
Only because they buried their tube underground. Or if you mean their wireless, then you're looking at an insignificant fraction of the internet, and really only the clients, not the content.
Ouch. Why does firefox (3.6.10) not figure that out?
Not sure if that's ironic or not, as it would seem to be a perfect example of his point, the middlemen (cafepress) are no doubt the ones screwing your experience, rather than anything he did directly (other than choose to work with cafepress).
Firefox even has a plugin that does it (as mentioned in various other posts).
I doubt if google is smart enough to avoid it, because their goal is to make all the sites that steal their content have lots of links back to them. Unless the stealing sites are quite careful (and lets face it, is a stealing site going to be hardworking, or lazy?) the content will have links both to ars and to sites legitimately related to the content.
Not for the individual using them. It's like ad-block: bad for everyone except the user. As long as users have the control, there will be problems like this. The obvious solution is time-locking seatbelts at internet connected computers and eyeball tracking video to make sure you're seeing what you're supposed to see.
If he thought it was actually a physical series of tubes, he was largely correct, as that's in fact what it is. Lots of plastic tubes filled with glass or copper.
If you want to hire ten or a hundred times as many police, and jump your property taxes by an order of magnitude, start a political campaign to do it. In the mean time, the police will (properly) prioritize violent crimes before non-violent crimes, and large financial crimes before small ones.