10% success rate looks terrible, but in High Risk, there is High Reward for success.
I'm not sure 10% is really called "high risk" for investing in start-up. You forgot that you also have a risk of picking wrong investments (often times due to bias) that will turn your investment into 0% return (and 100% loss)...
The TFA is trying to be smart by converting to jiao. The original post from South China Morning Post in TFA stated the difference.
In principle, the scheme works by members of the public borrowing umbrellas – from stands located mostly at subway and bus stations – for a deposit of 19 yuan and a fee of 0.50 yuan for every 30 minutes, it said."
Is it 10 jiao is equal to 1 yuan or 100 jiao is equal to 1 yuan?
That there really isn't that great an influx of useable and creative (key word creative) talent on these programs, but that it merely gets used to bring in cheap, lower quality labor to help drive down the prevailing wage.
Well, it becomes a tool for corporation to dump the wage down because how the way the program is currently working in the U.S... Corporations have already learned and exploited the loop hole of the program for a long time, but no one (from both sides) does anything to fix it but rather use it to their political advantage.
I don't know how the way the program works in Canada, so I wouldn't make an assumption like you do.
Why did we not read about each case of denied Visas under Obama? They did happen.
And what different does it make now? If anything happened in the past, then discuss it in the past. Trying to pull your political bias into other topics much? I don't care much for what political point TFA is trying to make, but I don't like a troll especially those other trolls modding the post up.
Back on the topic, TFA made an obvious discrepancy which is annoying to me. Syria does NOT participate in the competition as of today regarding the official site (look at the gray label), so how could TFA said the country managed to enter the US???
From TFA
Teams from Iran, Sudan and Syria - which are on the list - did manage to enter the country.
I'm not sure if it was the grandparents point, but even Huawei has limited market penetration outside of China.
Not really. Their products are quite well known in SE Asia countries due to its competitive/cheaper price against others (western companies). Over there, it's more like price/functionality comes first, quality comes second.
It does seem to me that we keep getting further and further away from actual harm, focusing on "potential harm".
Agreed. And actually the 'potential harm' is targeting smaller and smaller group of people, but at the same time ignore the negative impact on much bigger group of people surrounding the similar issue.
Read the article: the problem is Sony closed (or blocked) the account they were asking PayPal to send money to. Since PayPal couldn't provide them with the funds, they refunded the transactions.
You'd think by now people would know to never do business with Sony.
I read TFA, and it didn't say as what you said. You picked and chose to read only a portion of TFA.
Neither company has yet responded to requests for comment. However our intrepid insider said this although, understandably, they didn't want their name on it:
"The payments that were charged back to Paypal were coming up from a while back in June, the 11th, the 15th, stuff like that. I saw a Paypal statement from someone [which] said 'This error is on Sony's end and is to do with them closing or somehow limiting their GDP account, meaning that the funds didn't credit the accounts.'
That doesn't seem to fly because why would it take at least two weeks for those payments to clear? Oh well, it's a massive mess anyway."
Unless it's a part of the script that they are given:
1. Call people and say "Hello I'm calling from Windows and we have detected that you have a security problem with your computer" (yes they have always claimed to be from "Windows" when they have called me.
2. Make victim give remote access.
3. Run exploit.exe
4. Hang up
And then the people in the UK where doing the final steps with the credit card theft and so on.
If someone can run exploit.exe or any tools for remote access, the person should better know what Windows is and what he/she is doing...
No, this is criticism, and as such, falls so solidly into the fair use bucket that I'm embarrassed for Zillow's lawyers and seriously question how they could possibly have passed the bar exam if they think the infringement is actionable.
I have no problem with her used of photos from Zillow as part of fair use. However, I don't feel comfortable with the way she attempted to make a claim on photos on the site. She did some derivative works on photos, and then posted a copyrighted statement right below them. I am not sure that you can take a copyrighted product, do something with it (derivative work), and then claim a copyright on your derivative work (remember, it should be a fair use)...
These are radar cameras. They snap a picture of the car and the radar determined speed. No markers.
Now, the virus caused them to reboot frequently. What effect did that have on the radar calibration? I don't know either. Did it cause the system to go to an operational state at any point when the radar wasn't ready? Also don't know and neither do you.
Is it worth doing extensive testing under those conditions in order to re-instate 7000 speeding tickets? Probably not.
Now, as for your case of markers on a speed camera, Determining speed is a matter of seeing how long it took a car to get from A to B which will depend on the system clock (or frame rate) being correct. It's not that hard to imagine something being a bit off there.
I don't see that calibration would be an issue. As you said, a speed calculation is from going from point A to point B with a certain time length. If a distortion of calibration occurs from rebooting, then it is a uniform error for both measurement of point A and B; thus, the result of calculation is still valid. However, I don't know how they handle the reboot issue during the first and second images are taken. How does their camera work? Would it take the next image after reboot and then compare with the previous taken image, and that would be inaccurate (compared images of 2 cars instead)?
Aside from that, the English language in TFA is bothering me (from the person who either said or wrote it)...
“That does not mean they [the infringement notices] won’t not be re-issued,” Assistant Commissioner Doug Fryer told reporters, explaining that he wants to be sure the red light and speed cameras were working correctly.
If the person getting a visa is getting $250k in VC, the startup will probably be structured as a corporation so that the investors can record their ownership.
You seem to be forgetting the premises and purposes of this visa program. In context, $250k does not seem like a sufficiently high threshold for how much the founder and his/her idea is perceived to be worth.
No, the visa is for the foreign founder, not for other employees in the company (if it is hiring). The founder can't apply for a green card as well. It is a non-immigration visa; thus, no immigrant.
Also, this is not something for those who think and want to start a big business. It is more like for those who want to try out their businesses. If the business seems to work, then the founder may try to raise more fund later on. If one thinks big at the beginning and tries to accomplish the idea right away (can be seen from some TV shows for investors), then $250k is not enough to run a company, and the result may likely be a failure.
Agreed on most of your reply except that the market could reach natural equilibrium that way... The thing is that other things else that directly involve/entangle with the market would be affected and may create a bigger mess around them. Thus in practical, I doubt that the equilibrium would occur in this generation or ever because it is a very long process.
Taking your McDonald example, your tentative conclusion -- " then producers will either have pay more for the same amount of work or figure out a way to automate, economize, etc." -- springs a new problem that does not solve the market wage price. If the producers choose to automate, then the wage could remain the same but a lot less labor jobs would be offered. From what I've seen so far, unemployed people from day labor do not attempt to improve the situation but rather call out for help from government. That meant the solution of producers causes a problem on other areas.
Also, you have created a false dichotomy the choice is not let in millions of immigrants willing to do undesirable jobs so we can have products or don't let them in and go without. We could let the marketplace figure out how to fill the gaps.
I'm just curious on this statement. Letting marketplace figure out by itself? So who do you think will be affected the most? I understand that the solution to this type of workers isn't available at the moment, but I am curious how severe the impact would be to the people you think. Entitlement is not something people would let go easily (and most never let it go no matter what). You may not feel or see the severity of your suggestion because either you are well off for yourself or the impact isn't here yet. Though, I am not certain it is a really good idea letting marketplace figure itself out because then people have to put their trust on, you know who...
Exactly how many full-time salaries do you think $250k will cover?
Real tech start-ups need millions in funding. This looks more like a way for people to buy immigrant entry to the US.
Are you expecting a "startup" company to be a corporation??? What is the minimum number of employees in order to be a U.S. company? If you can answer that, you will understand that $250k is more than enough to establish and run a company in the U.S. for at least a year.
Why not just buy a 4 wheeled case and tilt it like a 2 wheeled one? Or are you saying that all 4 wheeled cases have small, weak wheels? That doesn't seem to be the case (no pun intended) when I buy luggage, and I don't get particularly expensive stuff.
Or are you thinking 10cm+ diameter wheels?
I believe the OP of the whole thread is already off topic because it has nothing to do with TFA. TFA is talking about a study of how a luggage can be flipped over while being dragged (with 2-wheel). The reason is that the handle is in placed in the middle of the luggage. So using a 4-wheel as 2-wheel doesn't make any difference from what TFA stated if the handle is placed in the middle of the luggage (which is true to all luggages I've seen). In other words, TFA implies the design of handle placement is a flaw.
Yes, this exactly. If I make a plan to go to the moon and buy what I "think" I need at Home Depot do I get to sue them when I don't get there? There is no excuse for not knowing something these days about what you're trying to do with virtually everything at your fingertips.
TFA doesn't really target those who know about building things. It was about novice. Do retailers need to educate novices when they sell those lumbers? Some novice people do make a plan first (not research), and then go to store to buy...
The scary thing is the these companies are learning nothing. We just got through a big marketing push for some new autopilot in Canada. The entirety of the marketing was pushing that no matter what you do (talk on the phone, do your makeup, eat) the car will keep you safe. You do not need your eyes on the the road, or even your feet on the pedals, the car will save you.
No, they learned, but they don't care. Besides, what can they do if consumers AKA humans will eventually ignore the safety anyway as time goes by (without any incident)? This is not a one-way responsibility. It should be from both sides.
I understand that the marketing/advertising always exaggerate reality and there is no secret about it. That's what they always do. The problem is that (stupid) consumers just literally take whatever marketing people throw at them without thinking. Some people can't be changed, so there will always be bad incidents occurring here and there.
TFA is a junk. It didn't even cite the source article. TFA cited the original image with some infos but never gave the link to the article. What does this say to you? What is the intention of the author?
Article doesn't explain how the scientists know this is an end to the destruction versus a temporary reprieve? Seems like a stupid title altogether.
Because TFA cited for/. is junk! I hate journalist this day... They don't deliver the information, but rather spin it to something that gives a different message!
TFA is just a rephrase from the article written on NOAA site. The site talked about the end of "the third global event" of coral bleach event. That meant there could be another bleach event occurred in the future, so we can't be celebrating yet. However, TFA rephrase it as if the whole bleach event is now over (and no more)! Such a BS!
But if the backdoor is for Windows on specific targets, via Windows Update, then it is highly improbably that they will ever be uncovered. Unless a very highly skilled technical expert was monitoring the target and also had the ability to decrypt the encrypted Windows Update data.
Then you have proven that Windows, in general public, do NOT have backdoor. Specific targets are special cases (needed more due diligences in the process) and shouldn't be generalized because of "there exists" condition.
So...will a rapper try to trademark the word n-igg-er (seems you can't actually type the word on slashdot anymore..?)....to keep others from using it?
Would there be a revolt is a white person trademarked the word?
Then blacks couldn't claim " that is our word, you can't use it"....
Just musing over what this might imply...
Not exactly. The trademark has to associate with something. If the rapper has a trademark of the N word associated with a certain type of songs, then you can still use the N word here as a regular post. Unless you try to associate it with another type of song which is not the rapper's, then you could be in trouble.
So you are saying that the race to the bottom is a win for everyone? The race to the bottom is the reason why we have Walmart and worthless crap from China.
You misunderstood the GP. You need to reread the post again. What GP said is that if there is no regulation, the cheaper products could ruin the market of more efficient (and expensive) one because they are cheaper. Majority of consumers don't think about a long term and that's the problem...
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10% success rate looks terrible, but in High Risk, there is High Reward for success.
I'm not sure 10% is really called "high risk" for investing in start-up. You forgot that you also have a risk of picking wrong investments (often times due to bias) that will turn your investment into 0% return (and 100% loss)...
The TFA is trying to be smart by converting to jiao. The original post from South China Morning Post in TFA stated the difference.
In principle, the scheme works by members of the public borrowing umbrellas – from stands located mostly at subway and bus stations – for a deposit of 19 yuan and a fee of 0.50 yuan for every 30 minutes, it said."
Is it 10 jiao is equal to 1 yuan or 100 jiao is equal to 1 yuan?
Hey...let Canada learn from our lessons...
That there really isn't that great an influx of useable and creative (key word creative) talent on these programs, but that it merely gets used to bring in cheap, lower quality labor to help drive down the prevailing wage.
Well, it becomes a tool for corporation to dump the wage down because how the way the program is currently working in the U.S... Corporations have already learned and exploited the loop hole of the program for a long time, but no one (from both sides) does anything to fix it but rather use it to their political advantage.
I don't know how the way the program works in Canada, so I wouldn't make an assumption like you do.
Why did we not read about each case of denied Visas under Obama? They did happen.
And what different does it make now? If anything happened in the past, then discuss it in the past. Trying to pull your political bias into other topics much? I don't care much for what political point TFA is trying to make, but I don't like a troll especially those other trolls modding the post up.
Back on the topic, TFA made an obvious discrepancy which is annoying to me. Syria does NOT participate in the competition as of today regarding the official site (look at the gray label), so how could TFA said the country managed to enter the US???
From TFA
Teams from Iran, Sudan and Syria - which are on the list - did manage to enter the country.
I'm not sure if it was the grandparents point, but even Huawei has limited market penetration outside of China.
Not really. Their products are quite well known in SE Asia countries due to its competitive/cheaper price against others (western companies). Over there, it's more like price/functionality comes first, quality comes second.
It does seem to me that we keep getting further and further away from actual harm, focusing on "potential harm".
Agreed. And actually the 'potential harm' is targeting smaller and smaller group of people, but at the same time ignore the negative impact on much bigger group of people surrounding the similar issue.
Read the article: the problem is Sony closed (or blocked) the account they were asking PayPal to send money to. Since PayPal couldn't provide them with the funds, they refunded the transactions.
You'd think by now people would know to never do business with Sony.
I read TFA, and it didn't say as what you said. You picked and chose to read only a portion of TFA.
Neither company has yet responded to requests for comment. However our intrepid insider said this although, understandably, they didn't want their name on it:
"The payments that were charged back to Paypal were coming up from a while back in June, the 11th, the 15th, stuff like that. I saw a Paypal statement from someone [which] said 'This error is on Sony's end and is to do with them closing or somehow limiting their GDP account, meaning that the funds didn't credit the accounts.'
That doesn't seem to fly because why would it take at least two weeks for those payments to clear? Oh well, it's a massive mess anyway."
Unless it's a part of the script that they are given:
1. Call people and say "Hello I'm calling from Windows and we have detected that you have a security problem with your computer" (yes they have always claimed to be from "Windows" when they have called me.
2. Make victim give remote access.
3. Run exploit.exe
4. Hang up
And then the people in the UK where doing the final steps with the credit card theft and so on.
If someone can run exploit.exe or any tools for remote access, the person should better know what Windows is and what he/she is doing...
Eliminate all secrets. Transparency and sunlight for all. If our society can't function without deep dark secrets something is wrong.
Please show me where you can find such a society you are talking about? It is an ideal but will never happen in real life because humans are humans.
No, this is criticism, and as such, falls so solidly into the fair use bucket that I'm embarrassed for Zillow's lawyers and seriously question how they could possibly have passed the bar exam if they think the infringement is actionable.
I have no problem with her used of photos from Zillow as part of fair use. However, I don't feel comfortable with the way she attempted to make a claim on photos on the site. She did some derivative works on photos, and then posted a copyrighted statement right below them. I am not sure that you can take a copyrighted product, do something with it (derivative work), and then claim a copyright on your derivative work (remember, it should be a fair use)...
These are radar cameras. They snap a picture of the car and the radar determined speed. No markers.
Now, the virus caused them to reboot frequently. What effect did that have on the radar calibration? I don't know either. Did it cause the system to go to an operational state at any point when the radar wasn't ready? Also don't know and neither do you.
Is it worth doing extensive testing under those conditions in order to re-instate 7000 speeding tickets? Probably not.
Now, as for your case of markers on a speed camera, Determining speed is a matter of seeing how long it took a car to get from A to B which will depend on the system clock (or frame rate) being correct. It's not that hard to imagine something being a bit off there.
I don't see that calibration would be an issue. As you said, a speed calculation is from going from point A to point B with a certain time length. If a distortion of calibration occurs from rebooting, then it is a uniform error for both measurement of point A and B; thus, the result of calculation is still valid. However, I don't know how they handle the reboot issue during the first and second images are taken. How does their camera work? Would it take the next image after reboot and then compare with the previous taken image, and that would be inaccurate (compared images of 2 cars instead)?
Aside from that, the English language in TFA is bothering me (from the person who either said or wrote it)...
“That does not mean they [the infringement notices] won’t not be re-issued,” Assistant Commissioner Doug Fryer told reporters, explaining that he wants to be sure the red light and speed cameras were working correctly.
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If the person getting a visa is getting $250k in VC, the startup will probably be structured as a corporation so that the investors can record their ownership.
You seem to be forgetting the premises and purposes of this visa program. In context, $250k does not seem like a sufficiently high threshold for how much the founder and his/her idea is perceived to be worth.
No, the visa is for the foreign founder, not for other employees in the company (if it is hiring). The founder can't apply for a green card as well. It is a non-immigration visa; thus, no immigrant.
Also, this is not something for those who think and want to start a big business. It is more like for those who want to try out their businesses. If the business seems to work, then the founder may try to raise more fund later on. If one thinks big at the beginning and tries to accomplish the idea right away (can be seen from some TV shows for investors), then $250k is not enough to run a company, and the result may likely be a failure.
Agreed on most of your reply except that the market could reach natural equilibrium that way... The thing is that other things else that directly involve/entangle with the market would be affected and may create a bigger mess around them. Thus in practical, I doubt that the equilibrium would occur in this generation or ever because it is a very long process.
Taking your McDonald example, your tentative conclusion -- " then producers will either have pay more for the same amount of work or figure out a way to automate, economize, etc." -- springs a new problem that does not solve the market wage price. If the producers choose to automate, then the wage could remain the same but a lot less labor jobs would be offered. From what I've seen so far, unemployed people from day labor do not attempt to improve the situation but rather call out for help from government. That meant the solution of producers causes a problem on other areas.
Just my two cents...
Also, you have created a false dichotomy the choice is not let in millions of immigrants willing to do undesirable jobs so we can have products or don't let them in and go without. We could let the marketplace figure out how to fill the gaps.
I'm just curious on this statement. Letting marketplace figure out by itself? So who do you think will be affected the most? I understand that the solution to this type of workers isn't available at the moment, but I am curious how severe the impact would be to the people you think. Entitlement is not something people would let go easily (and most never let it go no matter what). You may not feel or see the severity of your suggestion because either you are well off for yourself or the impact isn't here yet. Though, I am not certain it is a really good idea letting marketplace figure itself out because then people have to put their trust on, you know who...
Exactly how many full-time salaries do you think $250k will cover?
Real tech start-ups need millions in funding. This looks more like a way for people to buy immigrant entry to the US.
Are you expecting a "startup" company to be a corporation??? What is the minimum number of employees in order to be a U.S. company? If you can answer that, you will understand that $250k is more than enough to establish and run a company in the U.S. for at least a year.
Why not just buy a 4 wheeled case and tilt it like a 2 wheeled one? Or are you saying that all 4 wheeled cases have small, weak wheels? That doesn't seem to be the case (no pun intended) when I buy luggage, and I don't get particularly expensive stuff.
Or are you thinking 10cm+ diameter wheels?
I believe the OP of the whole thread is already off topic because it has nothing to do with TFA. TFA is talking about a study of how a luggage can be flipped over while being dragged (with 2-wheel). The reason is that the handle is in placed in the middle of the luggage. So using a 4-wheel as 2-wheel doesn't make any difference from what TFA stated if the handle is placed in the middle of the luggage (which is true to all luggages I've seen). In other words, TFA implies the design of handle placement is a flaw.
Yes, this exactly. If I make a plan to go to the moon and buy what I "think" I need at Home Depot do I get to sue them when I don't get there? There is no excuse for not knowing something these days about what you're trying to do with virtually everything at your fingertips.
TFA doesn't really target those who know about building things. It was about novice. Do retailers need to educate novices when they sell those lumbers? Some novice people do make a plan first (not research), and then go to store to buy...
The scary thing is the these companies are learning nothing. We just got through a big marketing push for some new autopilot in Canada. The entirety of the marketing was pushing that no matter what you do (talk on the phone, do your makeup, eat) the car will keep you safe. You do not need your eyes on the the road, or even your feet on the pedals, the car will save you.
No, they learned, but they don't care. Besides, what can they do if consumers AKA humans will eventually ignore the safety anyway as time goes by (without any incident)? This is not a one-way responsibility. It should be from both sides.
I understand that the marketing/advertising always exaggerate reality and there is no secret about it. That's what they always do. The problem is that (stupid) consumers just literally take whatever marketing people throw at them without thinking. Some people can't be changed, so there will always be bad incidents occurring here and there.
TFA is a junk. It didn't even cite the source article. TFA cited the original image with some infos but never gave the link to the article. What does this say to you? What is the intention of the author?
You should read the source article instead, and you will see that it is not the message TFA is delivering. TFA is a junk!
Article doesn't explain how the scientists know this is an end to the destruction versus a temporary reprieve? Seems like a stupid title altogether.
Because TFA cited for /. is junk! I hate journalist this day... They don't deliver the information, but rather spin it to something that gives a different message!
TFA is just a rephrase from the article written on NOAA site. The site talked about the end of "the third global event" of coral bleach event. That meant there could be another bleach event occurred in the future, so we can't be celebrating yet. However, TFA rephrase it as if the whole bleach event is now over (and no more)! Such a BS!
Here is a few more things about iPhone home button...
But if the backdoor is for Windows on specific targets, via Windows Update, then it is highly improbably that they will ever be uncovered. Unless a very highly skilled technical expert was monitoring the target and also had the ability to decrypt the encrypted Windows Update data.
Then you have proven that Windows, in general public, do NOT have backdoor. Specific targets are special cases (needed more due diligences in the process) and shouldn't be generalized because of "there exists" condition.
So...will a rapper try to trademark the word n-igg-er (seems you can't actually type the word on slashdot anymore..?)....to keep others from using it?
Would there be a revolt is a white person trademarked the word?
Then blacks couldn't claim " that is our word, you can't use it"....
Just musing over what this might imply...
Not exactly. The trademark has to associate with something. If the rapper has a trademark of the N word associated with a certain type of songs, then you can still use the N word here as a regular post. Unless you try to associate it with another type of song which is not the rapper's, then you could be in trouble.
So you are saying that the race to the bottom is a win for everyone? The race to the bottom is the reason why we have Walmart and worthless crap from China.
You misunderstood the GP. You need to reread the post again. What GP said is that if there is no regulation, the cheaper products could ruin the market of more efficient (and expensive) one because they are cheaper. Majority of consumers don't think about a long term and that's the problem...