The NSDAP (Nazis) won the most seats in the Reichstag in the 1932 German federal election, but not a majority.
Adolph Hitler did run for Reichsprasident (President) in 1932 and lost to Paul von Hindenburg's re-election. Hitler received 36.8% of the vote in a 3-way race.
Hitler was appointed Reichskanzler (Chancellor) in 1933 by President Hindenburg. The chancellor and his cabinet were appointed and dismissed by the president during the Weimar Republic. No vote of confirmation was required in the Reichstag.
The US had 1.8 million foreign-born health care workers (16% of all health care workers).
Among foreign-born workers employed in health care occupations in 2010, Asia was the leading region of birth (41 percent); followed by Latin America (not including the Caribbean) (18 percent); the Caribbean (17 percent); northern America (Canada and Bermuda), Europe, and Oceania (14 percent); and Africa (10 percent).
She doesn't have a maths degree, so it must be really difficult for her to understand all profits now will no longer boost UK GDP, but instead boost Japan's GDP
I don't think you have an economics degree.
If a multinational produces income in the UK, it is counted in UK GDP statistics regardless of country of ownership. If profits from that production is exported back to another country, those profits are subtracted from GNP, not GDP.
I don't know where ARM licenses are billed to, but they have operations all over the world, and "Management periodically evaluates individual positions taken in tax returns with respect to situations in which applicable tax regulation is subject to interpretation and establishes provisions where appropriate on the basis of amounts expected to be paid to the tax authorities" (i.e. they shop for the jurisdiction with the lowest corporate tax rate to recognize income where they can get away with it).
Moreover, "The benefit of UK research and development is recognized under the UK's Research and Development Expenditure Credit (RDEC) scheme" and "In 2013, a decision to elect into the UK patent box regime was made. The UK patent box regime seeks to tax all profits attributable to patented technology at a reduced rate of 10%." (source).
"I've got friends in FL who heard the sonic boom of the first stage reentering."
I watched some Periscope recordings from people watching the landing, and they all seemed to be shocked by the loudness of the sonic boom. Some thought the 1st stage booster exploded after landing (because it takes a while for the sound to reach them).
SpaceX claims "this is no worse than the sonic boom from the shuttle landing", but I don't know, I've heard the sonic boom from the shuttle landing at Edwards and it was like someone hitting a drum, not like an explosion.
NASA was lucky to land one shuttle per month, whereas SpaceX has dreams of launching/landing once per week.
Also the people near the Space Coast or Vandenberg might be able to deal with the sonic booms (as space is pretty much their whole industry), but if SpaceX moves launches/landings to Brownsville, Texas, I can imagine they will upset a lot of people in Harlingen, McAllen, and Corpus Christi not used to rocket launches or supersonic aircraft (not to mention our friends across the border in Reynosa).
Unemployment statistics don't tell you everything. You can have 5% unemployment with 40% of the nation working jobs that pay so badly they can't hardly live off the salary and have to take extra jobs only to find that this still isn't enough.
So in the US, unemployment rates are low by modern OECD and even historical US standards, and earnings are at all time highs. Even some of the poorest people in the US have access to the entire knowledge of the planet on Wikipedia on phones that are more powerful than supercomputers of 20 years ago.
I'm often involved in standards development operation conference calls with 20-30 people. It would be great to have a WebEx like experience with screen sharing and video conferencing however only the current person/people speaking should have their headshot appear on the screen (at full size, anyway). What is the best solution for this?
You are far less likely to get VC funding if you are not physically in the Bay Area.
Yes, it is cheaper and easier to start a business outside of the Bay Area. But if you want the VC funding, you better be there. Then you can move your operations out...
The "American Dream" only works for a select few...oblivious to what conditions are elsewhere, like in Europe.
The upper middle class in the US has expanded from about 12% of the population in 1979 to a new record of nearly 30% as of 2014.
Also the US has an unemployment rate half that of most European countries (Germany is the only exception with equivalent unemployment rates to the US due to labor law reform there in the early 2000's).
it can be a way to make a second paycheck working entirely on your own schedule. There aren't a lot of easy ways to turn a few otherwise idle hours into an income.
Especially if you now fall under the higher income limit for overtime non-exemption, where you would have to be paid time-and-a-half for an hour on your primary job, as opposed to just being paid normal pay for your secondary job.
Driving people around is a marginally skilled luxury service that in theory a teenager with 1-3 years of personal driving experience could do.
Thanks to automation (GPS/Waze/Google Maps), now you don't event need to know anything about directions to drive a cab/rideshare. 30 years ago, you needed deep geographic and traffic knowledge. Thus it has become a less-skilled job.
Wikipedia says "There are 319 firm orders by 19 customers for the passenger version of the Airbus A380-800 [the world's largest passenger airliner], of which 190 have been delivered to 13 of those customers as of May 2016"
"We introduce BAYESTAR, a rapid, Bayesian, non-Markov chain Monte Carlo sky localization algorithm that takes just seconds to produce probability sky maps that are comparable in accuracy to the full analysis. Prompt localizations from BAYESTAR will make it possible to search electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary mergers."
I'm sure it still sucks to be poor in Botswana, but it is better than in other sub-Saharan African countries with lower levels of economic freedom. Botswana is slowly growing out of poverty.
"Living conditions of Botswana have improved over the past decade and poverty has reduced significantly. This decrease was accompanied by a considerable decline in both depth and severity of poverty, indicating that consumption has improved among the poor. While rural areas led the poverty reduction, the share of the poor living in urban areas has increased. Botswana's progress toward reduction of extreme poverty and inequality was among the world's strongest in the second half of 2000s. During this period, the economic growth has been strongly pro-poor. Botswana is one of the top performers in Africa when measured by annual consumption distribution growth for the bottom 40 percentile...Botswana has a historical opportunity to build on recent achievements and move towards eradicating extreme poverty within one generation."
The DNS root zone is the top-level DNS zone in the hierarchical namespace of the Domain Name System of the Internet. For example, it contains the name servers of top level domains (TLDs).
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce exercises ultimate authority over the DNS root zone of the Internet.
Through the NTIA, the root zone is managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), acting as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), while the root zone maintainer is Verisign.
In March 2014, the NTIA announced that it will cede this authority to an organization whose nature has yet to be specified.
Also regarding who would take over from NTIA, they state:
"The U.S. Government has made it clear that we will not accept a proposal that replaces its role with a government or intergovernmental organization.
The criteria specified by the Administration firmly establish Internet governance as the province of multistakeholder institutions, rather than governments or intergovernmental institutions, and reaffirm our commitment to preserving the Internet as an engine for economic growth, innovation, and free expression.
The U.S. government will only transition its role if and when it receives it receives a satisfactory proposal to replace its role from the global Internet community - the same industry, technical, and civil society entities that have successfully managed the technical functions of Internet governance for nearly twenty years."
Note that there is a history of alternative DNS roots (OpenNIC for example). Generally few people bother to use them.
The governance of these countries has far more to do with economic growth than AIDS. For example, here is a kleptocratic dictatorship with a closed-access economy and low economic growth, and another with a level of democracy, open-access economy, and a high level of economic growth:
Swaziland 1.5% 5-year compound annual GDP growth, GDP $7,797 per capita. Economic Freedom Status: Mostly Unfree. "Swaziland's economy is mired in stagnation, destabilized by poor governance, ongoing social unrest, and a lack of progress in structural reforms. Undermining macroeconomic stability and much-needed economic development, the mismanagement of public finance has aggravated the country's fiscal crisis over the past five years. The inefficient regulatory framework continues to curb the emergence of a dynamic private sector....King Mswati III rules Africa's last absolute monarchy. Political parties are banned, and rights groups accuse the government of imprisoning journalists and pro-democracy activists. Parliamentary candidates are handpicked by chiefs who are loyal to the king, and international observers declared the most recent elections, held in September 2013, not credible."
Botswana 6.0% 5-year compound annual GDP growth. GDP $16,036 per capita. Economic Freedom Status: Mostly Free. "Botswana's economy has been diversifying, largely because of foreign investment attracted by low taxes, political stability, and an educated workforce. The country continues to set an example in the management of large endowments of natural resources. The level of corruption is the lowest in Africa. An independent judiciary enforces contracts effectively and protects property rights....The Botswana Democratic Party has governed this multi-party democracy since independence from Britain in 1966. President Ian Khama won a second term in October 2014, though the BDP for the first time garnered less than 50 percent of the vote as opposition groups gained significant support from young and urban middle-class voters. The 2014 elections were the most competitive in Botswana's history."
He went on to explain (at great length) that the Japanese were still clinging to the original model of capitalism, and the only way forward was high tech communism.
Japan chooses to coddle and protect many industries that would be more productive if exposed to global competition. (Thus TPP is seen as a back-door way to achieve reform).
"A web of close relationships among companies, politicians, government agencies, and other groups fosters an inwardly cooperative business climate conducive to corruption, most often seen in the rigging of bids on government public works projects."
"A propensity for lifetime-employment guarantees and seniority-based wages hurts productivity and impedes development of a more flexible labor market. A government effort to scale back institutionalized farm subsidies has encountered stiff political resistance."
"Imports of many agricultural products are restricted. The government screens investments in several sectors of the economy, including agriculture and telecommunications. The banking sector is competitive but lacks dynamic growth. Japan Post (the holding company for the post office, postal bank, and postal-insurance company) has distorted the financial sector."
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The NSDAP (Nazis) won the most seats in the Reichstag in the 1932 German federal election, but not a majority.
Adolph Hitler did run for Reichsprasident (President) in 1932 and lost to Paul von Hindenburg's re-election. Hitler received 36.8% of the vote in a 3-way race.
Hitler was appointed Reichskanzler (Chancellor) in 1933 by President Hindenburg. The chancellor and his cabinet were appointed and dismissed by the president during the Weimar Republic. No vote of confirmation was required in the Reichstag.
The US had 1.8 million foreign-born health care workers (16% of all health care workers).
Among foreign-born workers employed in health care occupations in 2010, Asia was the leading region of birth (41 percent); followed by Latin America (not including the Caribbean) (18 percent); the Caribbean (17 percent); northern America (Canada and Bermuda), Europe, and Oceania (14 percent); and Africa (10 percent).
Finally, a use for the abandoned Metricom Ricochet equipment on the top of street lights!
ARM is probably the last major tech company we have... I can't really think of any British ones left.
BAE Systems has 107,000 employees, and Rolls-Royce Holdings has 55,500 employees. Not fully tech but highly tech oriented.
Sky employs 22,800 folks, and keep in mind it is not just a satellite TV platform but also an ISP and OTT provider.
She doesn't have a maths degree, so it must be really difficult for her to understand all profits now will no longer boost UK GDP, but instead boost Japan's GDP
I don't think you have an economics degree.
If a multinational produces income in the UK, it is counted in UK GDP statistics regardless of country of ownership. If profits from that production is exported back to another country, those profits are subtracted from GNP, not GDP.
I don't know where ARM licenses are billed to, but they have operations all over the world, and "Management periodically evaluates individual positions taken in tax returns with respect to situations in which applicable tax regulation is subject to interpretation and establishes provisions where appropriate on the basis of amounts expected to be paid to the tax authorities" (i.e. they shop for the jurisdiction with the lowest corporate tax rate to recognize income where they can get away with it).
Moreover, "The benefit of UK research and development is recognized under the UK's Research and Development Expenditure Credit (RDEC) scheme" and "In 2013, a decision to elect into the UK patent box regime was made. The UK patent box regime seeks to tax all profits attributable to patented technology at a reduced rate of 10%." (source).
"I've got friends in FL who heard the sonic boom of the first stage reentering."
I watched some Periscope recordings from people watching the landing, and they all seemed to be shocked by the loudness of the sonic boom. Some thought the 1st stage booster exploded after landing (because it takes a while for the sound to reach them).
SpaceX claims "this is no worse than the sonic boom from the shuttle landing", but I don't know, I've heard the sonic boom from the shuttle landing at Edwards and it was like someone hitting a drum, not like an explosion.
NASA was lucky to land one shuttle per month, whereas SpaceX has dreams of launching/landing once per week.
Also the people near the Space Coast or Vandenberg might be able to deal with the sonic booms (as space is pretty much their whole industry), but if SpaceX moves launches/landings to Brownsville, Texas, I can imagine they will upset a lot of people in Harlingen, McAllen, and Corpus Christi not used to rocket launches or supersonic aircraft (not to mention our friends across the border in Reynosa).
"Should the government increase or decrease the amount of temporary work visas given to high-skilled immigrant workers?
Jill Stein's answer: Increase" (source)
Unemployment statistics don't tell you everything. You can have 5% unemployment with 40% of the nation working jobs that pay so badly they can't hardly live off the salary and have to take extra jobs only to find that this still isn't enough.
US "Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over" are at an all-time high.
Also US "Nonfarm Business Sector: Real Compensation Per Hour" is also at an all time high.
So in the US, unemployment rates are low by modern OECD and even historical US standards, and earnings are at all time highs. Even some of the poorest people in the US have access to the entire knowledge of the planet on Wikipedia on phones that are more powerful than supercomputers of 20 years ago.
Google, Inc. doesn't have any employees in India. Google India Private Limited , a subsidiary of Google, Inc., does.
Hillary is "stay the course", and Trump is "make changes".
Donald Trump is going to build a wall between the US and Asia and make Asia pay for it to keep out H1Bs!
I'm often involved in standards development operation conference calls with 20-30 people. It would be great to have a WebEx like experience with screen sharing and video conferencing however only the current person/people speaking should have their headshot appear on the screen (at full size, anyway). What is the best solution for this?
You are far less likely to get VC funding if you are not physically in the Bay Area.
Yes, it is cheaper and easier to start a business outside of the Bay Area. But if you want the VC funding, you better be there. Then you can move your operations out...
The "American Dream" only works for a select few...oblivious to what conditions are elsewhere, like in Europe.
The upper middle class in the US has expanded from about 12% of the population in 1979 to a new record of nearly 30% as of 2014.
Also the US has an unemployment rate half that of most European countries (Germany is the only exception with equivalent unemployment rates to the US due to labor law reform there in the early 2000's).
it can be a way to make a second paycheck working entirely on your own schedule. There aren't a lot of easy ways to turn a few otherwise idle hours into an income.
Especially if you now fall under the higher income limit for overtime non-exemption, where you would have to be paid time-and-a-half for an hour on your primary job, as opposed to just being paid normal pay for your secondary job.
Driving people around is a marginally skilled luxury service that in theory a teenager with 1-3 years of personal driving experience could do.
Thanks to automation (GPS/Waze/Google Maps), now you don't event need to know anything about directions to drive a cab/rideshare. 30 years ago, you needed deep geographic and traffic knowledge. Thus it has become a less-skilled job.
Airplanes peaked with the 747
Wikipedia says "There are 319 firm orders by 19 customers for the passenger version of the Airbus A380-800 [the world's largest passenger airliner], of which 190 have been delivered to 13 of those customers as of May 2016"
I'm not certain how they manage to set the azimuthal angle
See: Rapid Bayesian position reconstruction for gravitational-wave transients
"We introduce BAYESTAR, a rapid, Bayesian, non-Markov chain Monte Carlo sky localization algorithm that takes just seconds to produce probability sky maps that are comparable in accuracy to the full analysis. Prompt localizations from BAYESTAR will make it possible to search electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary mergers."
Both supposed gravitational wave detections were >400 megaparsecs (1.3 billion light years) distant. That is really, really far.
For example, the CfA2 Great Wall of galaxies is only 300 million light years from Earth.
Are there really no black hole collisions happening closer to us? Are these really so rare?
Gas isn't a baseload power source.
Indeed Gas wasn't a base load power source, now it is becoming that in many places.
I'm sure it still sucks to be poor in Botswana, but it is better than in other sub-Saharan African countries with lower levels of economic freedom. Botswana is slowly growing out of poverty.
From World Bank Botswana Poverty Assessment 2015
"Living conditions of Botswana have improved over the past decade and poverty has reduced significantly. This decrease was accompanied by a considerable decline in both depth and severity of poverty, indicating that consumption has improved among the poor. While rural areas led the poverty reduction, the share of the poor living in urban areas has increased. Botswana's progress toward reduction of extreme poverty and inequality was among the world's strongest in the second half of 2000s. During this period, the economic growth has been strongly pro-poor. Botswana is one of the top performers in Africa when measured by annual consumption distribution growth for the bottom 40 percentile...Botswana has a historical opportunity to build on recent achievements and move towards eradicating extreme poverty within one generation."
By the way, here is a link to the Root Zone file if you want to see what it is.
There is also is a human readable version here.
The DNS root zone is the top-level DNS zone in the hierarchical namespace of the Domain Name System of the Internet. For example, it contains the name servers of top level domains (TLDs).
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce exercises ultimate authority over the DNS root zone of the Internet.
Through the NTIA, the root zone is managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), acting as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), while the root zone maintainer is Verisign.
In March 2014, the NTIA announced that it will cede this authority to an organization whose nature has yet to be specified.
Also regarding who would take over from NTIA, they state:
"The U.S. Government has made it clear that we will not accept a proposal that replaces its role with a government or intergovernmental organization.
The criteria specified by the Administration firmly establish Internet governance as the province of multistakeholder institutions, rather than governments or intergovernmental institutions, and reaffirm our commitment to preserving the Internet as an engine for economic growth, innovation, and free expression.
The U.S. government will only transition its role if and when it receives it receives a satisfactory proposal to replace its role from the global Internet community - the same industry, technical, and civil society entities that have successfully managed the technical functions of Internet governance for nearly twenty years."
Note that there is a history of alternative DNS roots (OpenNIC for example). Generally few people bother to use them.
The governance of these countries has far more to do with economic growth than AIDS. For example, here is a kleptocratic dictatorship with a closed-access economy and low economic growth, and another with a level of democracy, open-access economy, and a high level of economic growth:
Swaziland 1.5% 5-year compound annual GDP growth, GDP $7,797 per capita. Economic Freedom Status: Mostly Unfree. "Swaziland's economy is mired in stagnation, destabilized by poor governance, ongoing social unrest, and a lack of progress in structural reforms. Undermining macroeconomic stability and much-needed economic development, the mismanagement of public finance has aggravated the country's fiscal crisis over the past five years. The inefficient regulatory framework continues to curb the emergence of a dynamic private sector....King Mswati III rules Africa's last absolute monarchy. Political parties are banned, and rights groups accuse the government of imprisoning journalists and pro-democracy activists. Parliamentary candidates are handpicked by chiefs who are loyal to the king, and international observers declared the most recent elections, held in September 2013, not credible."
Botswana 6.0% 5-year compound annual GDP growth. GDP $16,036 per capita. Economic Freedom Status: Mostly Free. "Botswana's economy has been diversifying, largely because of foreign investment attracted by low taxes, political stability, and an educated workforce. The country continues to set an example in the management of large endowments of natural resources. The level of corruption is the lowest in Africa. An independent judiciary enforces contracts effectively and protects property rights....The Botswana Democratic Party has governed this multi-party democracy since independence from Britain in 1966. President Ian Khama won a second term in October 2014, though the BDP for the first time garnered less than 50 percent of the vote as opposition groups gained significant support from young and urban middle-class voters. The 2014 elections were the most competitive in Botswana's history."
He went on to explain (at great length) that the Japanese were still clinging to the original model of capitalism, and the only way forward was high tech communism.
Japan chooses to coddle and protect many industries that would be more productive if exposed to global competition. (Thus TPP is seen as a back-door way to achieve reform).
The Economic Freedom Index lists Japan as only "Mostly Free", notes:
"A web of close relationships among companies, politicians, government agencies, and other groups fosters an inwardly cooperative business climate conducive to corruption, most often seen in the rigging of bids on government public works projects."
"A propensity for lifetime-employment guarantees and seniority-based wages hurts productivity and impedes development of a more flexible labor market. A government effort to scale back institutionalized farm subsidies has encountered stiff political resistance."
"Imports of many agricultural products are restricted. The government screens investments in several sectors of the economy, including agriculture and telecommunications. The banking sector is competitive but lacks dynamic growth. Japan Post (the holding company for the post office, postal bank, and postal-insurance company) has distorted the financial sector."
"Toshiba" brand TVs in the US are manufactured by Taiwan-based Compal Electronics.