Yeah, to be clear, I rail against the rich because they are much, much further from paying their fair share than are the poor. And I believe as a matter of principle that we should fix that before addressing the fair share of the poor, because the impact on their lives if we get any part of it wrong is much less dire.
Absolutely. They should bear somewhere around 1-2% of the cost. I'd say it would be completely fair to tax everyone above the poverty line in proportion to their share of the wealth. (Below the poverty line, it becomes a bit of a stretch to suggest that they are accruing the benefit... they may be using the roads, but it isn't really working out for them, is it).
It's pretty easy to see the connection between the education of the populace and the wealth it produces, and who accrues that wealth. Who accrues the benefit should pay the cost.
Depends on who you think 'you' is. The you that discharges student loans in bankruptcy is probably not the same you paying tax on interest on the debt.
The point of a trustworthy camera is that the original image be available from a source with no stake in the outcome of a trial. For example, if a bank's camera captures a picture of a crime, and that photo is made available to the defense and the prosecution, neither side can manipulate the picture. Most pictures of crimes are going to continue to fall into this category.
No, there aren't any truly free markets, by definition it's fundamentally impossible for one to exist in a governed location, and there are no ungoverned locations in the world.
But there are markets operating closer and further from free principles. The solar market is in a particularly egregiously un-free spot right now. It might well be the least-free market in existence at the moment, such is the size of the Chinese government investment.
Free markets aren't considered free where governments intervene. In this case, the intervening government is China, which is exercising their tax power to take from most industries, and give to solar. If the Chinese solar industry didn't have subsidies, the US solar industry would have no free market cause for complaint.
It'll be a bigger field by the time he graduates. People are talking about that being a multi billion dollar industry within a few years as the federal government continue to withdraw satellite launching options from the market.
Job skills are secondary to 'soft skills' (networking, interpersonal, manipulation) in terms of getting you where you want to go. The people at the 'top' of their fields are almost always talkers rather than doers. If you want to be the guy who actually invents something, you probably want the absolute best training you can get, push hard for MIT. If you're not going to be able to get that, you won't be able to compete with the guy who does, so you may as well go down the other path, and get credit and patent for his inventions by being a direction setter.
If you could build a machine that would recognize when a graphics artifact occurs, sure. I think this is absolutely something that will be done by computer in 50 or 100 years.
Programming is just what 9/10 computer science degreed grads do for a living. Anyone considering a career in computer science wants to know what they'll actually do.
Unfortunately, he's not even right about testing trying to break the game. Mostly testing is following script after script to try to exercise every path through the game. It is truly mind numbing tedious work with an enormous turn over. Burnout average is less than a year (at the 3 large, well-known companies I know for sure).
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Exactly, evolution in action.
Everyone can't be rich, but with a little work, everyone could not be poor.
Yeah, to be clear, I rail against the rich because they are much, much further from paying their fair share than are the poor. And I believe as a matter of principle that we should fix that before addressing the fair share of the poor, because the impact on their lives if we get any part of it wrong is much less dire.
Absolutely. They should bear somewhere around 1-2% of the cost. I'd say it would be completely fair to tax everyone above the poverty line in proportion to their share of the wealth. (Below the poverty line, it becomes a bit of a stretch to suggest that they are accruing the benefit ... they may be using the roads, but it isn't really working out for them, is it).
You can't get one with even 10% of a modern intel/amd's performance, and they cost more.
It's pretty easy to see the connection between the education of the populace and the wealth it produces, and who accrues that wealth. Who accrues the benefit should pay the cost.
Well, the top 5% are getting 90% of the value of our education, how about if they just foot the bill for the first 90%?
Troll? Think mods, please.
Sadly, I have no cash or valuables.
Depends on who you think 'you' is. The you that discharges student loans in bankruptcy is probably not the same you paying tax on interest on the debt.
Pre-tax? Awesome. Let me go party on the government dime for years, and then skip paying any taxes for years as well!
All it takes is an act of congress to allow that debt to be wiped by bankruptcy.
Vote for Occupy party congresscritters and you'll get it.
The point of a trustworthy camera is that the original image be available from a source with no stake in the outcome of a trial. For example, if a bank's camera captures a picture of a crime, and that photo is made available to the defense and the prosecution, neither side can manipulate the picture. Most pictures of crimes are going to continue to fall into this category.
No, there aren't any truly free markets, by definition it's fundamentally impossible for one to exist in a governed location, and there are no ungoverned locations in the world.
But there are markets operating closer and further from free principles. The solar market is in a particularly egregiously un-free spot right now. It might well be the least-free market in existence at the moment, such is the size of the Chinese government investment.
Free markets aren't considered free where governments intervene. In this case, the intervening government is China, which is exercising their tax power to take from most industries, and give to solar. If the Chinese solar industry didn't have subsidies, the US solar industry would have no free market cause for complaint.
Because there is no DNA evidence, eye witnesses don't exist, and no one has trustworthy cameras?
It'll be a bigger field by the time he graduates. People are talking about that being a multi billion dollar industry within a few years as the federal government continue to withdraw satellite launching options from the market.
Job skills are secondary to 'soft skills' (networking, interpersonal, manipulation) in terms of getting you where you want to go. The people at the 'top' of their fields are almost always talkers rather than doers. If you want to be the guy who actually invents something, you probably want the absolute best training you can get, push hard for MIT. If you're not going to be able to get that, you won't be able to compete with the guy who does, so you may as well go down the other path, and get credit and patent for his inventions by being a direction setter.
I thought the problem on wall street was too many suckers, not enough suckees.
Ewww gross, the terminally ill.
If you could build a machine that would recognize when a graphics artifact occurs, sure. I think this is absolutely something that will be done by computer in 50 or 100 years.
I don't think they have Watson running on a cell phone, yet. Siri is just Watson on smaller hardware.
Programming is just what 9/10 computer science degreed grads do for a living. Anyone considering a career in computer science wants to know what they'll actually do.
They'll arrive in high finance just in time to be up against the wall, good career choice!
Unfortunately, he's not even right about testing trying to break the game. Mostly testing is following script after script to try to exercise every path through the game. It is truly mind numbing tedious work with an enormous turn over. Burnout average is less than a year (at the 3 large, well-known companies I know for sure).