The problem is not that it's a government-run organization, the problem is that teaching is inherently difficult to standardize. Each kid is different.
If I want to eat in the free market, I can go to McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Del Taco, Pizza Hut, Chinese, Japanese, French, Vegan, Raw, and thousands of other kinds of restaurants.
If I want to get educated in the government run schools, I pretty much have one standardized choice.
It is not a monopoly, that is idiotic; you don't have competing governments... except in war.
Government provides support to the poor through food stamps. Recipients then spend them at competing free-market grocery stores. Governments can provide funding for education without having to operate schools.
Especially when they manage humans; who can find ways to out smart such things with ease.
This is correct. The free market, allowing the consumer to call upon the widest array of possible measures and experience, and to change those measures when needed, and also to choose based on individual needs rather than "average needs", is the best way to achieve quality. Bureaucrats driven by politics delivering a single, slowly changing quality measure is not the best way to go.
Just because you were educated does not make you an expert on education
And just because you are a programmer does not make you an expert on the software development life cycle, unless you have actually been taught or experienced the state-of-the-art in that area. The average US teacher is unaware of the best educational research, and has little competitive motivation to learn about it. Programmers who code-and-fix can get fired.
" School administrators have a death grip on teachers' jobs. Teachers are told what, when, and how to teach the material. They're basically reading scripts."
I am shocked that a fully unionized, monopoly, government-run organization is unable to perform well.
The Huawei story was the clincher for us. If Huawei did it, Cisco could too.
Is there really any solid evidence that Huawei has ever done anything wrong in terms of placing back doors in their gear?
Everything I've heard has just been guilt by association (the head of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, was an engineer for the PLA, but it should be noted that Huawei is actually an employee-owned company, not state-owned or military-owned).
David Cohen - Comcast Corporation - EVP: "we are not sure we know what paid prioritization or what a fast lane is...I think a fast lane sounds bad. But since we don't know what it is, or what the definitions of it are, it's a little bit hard to be able to react to it...I believe that whatever it is, a fast lane, paid prioritization, whatever you want to call it, has been completely legal for 15 or 20 years....Our offer is to comply with the 2010 FCC Open Internet Order, which did not prohibit paid prioritization."
"there is nothing in Title II that provides authority for saying that all services have to be treated the same. In fact the whole history of Title II has been that telecom carriers regulated under Title II are absolutely allowed to provide different levels of service for different amounts of money. Think about Bell's providing different level of service to businesses versus residences."
"There is the last mile market where we as an ISP deliver content to our customers and charge customers for that content and they access the Internet by going through Comcast as an ISP. And there is what I'd call a first mile market, which is the way in which the Internet at large, the Internet Edge providers, content providers, get their content onto our network to be able to be consumed by our consumers."
"The open Internet debate is about that first market. It's about the last mile market and it's about treating, making sure that consumers have an open and unfettered access to all of the content on the Internet, that there is no blocking, there is no discrimination in the way in which they get access to that content. The old extreme example, when a consumer types into her browser www.barnesandnoble.com, she should not be directed to Amazon because we have a deal with Amazon that says we will direct any book-related search to your site. That was the original extreme example of how we as ISPs could disrupt the Internet and could violate a principle of net neutrality. And in this day and age it would relate to a consumer being able to get advertised speeds and excess whatever content the consumer wanted through those advertised speeds. The interconnection market is a completely different market and it functions in a different way. It is a market that it would argue is intensely competitive."
"I think the ISP market is competitive but the interconnection market is intensely competitive. There are dozens of very large players in that space who are selling transit services. The competition is so intense in that market that the pricing in the interconnection market has dropped 99% in the last 15 years."
"And so among the dozens of large players here, Comcast alone has 40 companies with which we have settlement-free peering. That is we don't pay them anything, they don't pay us anything because our traffic is roughly in balance. And there was a time when Netflix was using Akamai, Level 3 then Cogent and their traffic was in balance with our traffic."
"So there was no way in that model for us to collect anything without completely disrupting the business model and structure of the interconnection market, which I think would be a mistake to do. So I think that the right way to do this is to use usage-based billing and do it on the last mile and to do it in a fair and non-discriminatory fashion. And I think that is the way you can deliver the equity proposition that heavier users pay more and lighter users pay less."
"Reed's argument that he should have free transit, and it is a Cogent argument as well, that there should be free transit is just a cost shifting argument. That's an argument there is cost for transit providers, content delivery, networks, other transit providers to connect to our network. There is a cost to that. And if Netflix doesn't bear its share of those costs to connect to the network then we have no choice but to raise prices for everyone else. Even though Netflix is responsible for one-third of the traffic on the Internet at peak times, tha
More data: Haplotype "KL-VS" refers to the V and S alleles of the SNPs respectively. It contains six sequence variants in complete linkage disequilibrium, two of which result in amino acid substitutions F352V (rs9536314) and C370S (rs9527025, not on 23andme btw). It is present in 15% of Caucasians.
Japan was in the process of working out how to surrender.
Next time, surrender faster.
Or even better, don't even send a two million soldiers into China to turn it into a Japanese colony, killing 4 million Chinese and leaving 60 million homeless.
"The only reason to give corporations personhood is to allow people to spend more money in politics."
Corporations were founded to allow individuals to invest in companies but not be personally liable. Corporations can buy, hold, and sell property, be sued, go bankrupt, or be sued, without risk to investors beyond their invested capital. Also corporations can outlive the life of any of their investors. Corporation comes from the latin, "corpus", meaning a body.
By the mid 500's AD, Roman Law recognized a range of corporate entities. In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.
I also know an English major who was able to "pull it out of the fire" by converting to an online education expert.
On the other hand, the statistics show that the college majors with highest recent graduate unemployment rates are the arts (11.1%), humanities and liberal arts (9.4%), social sciences (8.9%) and law and public policy (8.1%).
In particular, English has a 9.2% unemployment rate, which is better than Film & Photographic Arts at 12.9%, and architecture at 13.9%.
On the other hand, experienced graduates who were English majors average $52,000 per year income, while working architects average $64,000. Working experienced Film & Photographic artists only average $50,000.
US corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world, both in terms of top statutory rates and in terms of effective rates.
inheritable business empires
The average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is between 40 and 50 years. Koch Industries is an outlier as a large, completely privately owned company at $115 billion revenue (although Cargill, another, is the largest privately owner company at $136 billion), and is a bit older than usual at 74 years. But most large companies are publicly owned, such as Chevron ($220 billion), Philips66 ($170B), Apple ($176B), Berkshire Hathaway ($162B), General Motors ($156B), General Electric ($145B), etc.
Koch Industries was founded due to a scientific breakthrough of a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude oil into gasoline. The company then expanded by innovating new developments in petrochemicals and fibers. And it runs 1,720 km^2 of cattle ranches.
As a veteran of the early days of the Internet, I wish people would just chill out from trying to get the Federal government to put more regulations on the Internet. The lack of regulation is what enabled the Internet to be what it is today.
Someone has to pay to put bits into a network, someone has to pay to move bits in a network, and someone needs to pay to move bits out of a network.
Leave it to the content providers and ISPs to figure out how to slice up the pie.
If you want more competition in local ISP access, work on that instead. Go start one! You could even offer 1 Gbps non-oversubscribed bandwidth. I'm sure you won't run into any regulation causing a barrier to entry...
You're completely wrong - what we're going through now is the RESULT of the free market. Since there are no government regulations forcing the ISPs to treat content fairly, the ISPs are free to degrade your traffic however they want and force you to pay more for undegraded connections.
Or Netflix feels it can use 30% of the bandwidth on the entire Internet without paying for the equipment to handle this on other people's networks...
Benefits that people working 2 or 3 part-time jobs don't get.
Even for employees without much in the way of the way of health insurance, life insurance, or disability insurance pre-tax compensation, employers still need to pay their part of Social Security & Medicare, Federal unemployment insurance, state unemployment insurance, and workers' compensation insurance as part of total hourly compensation.
Across all workers, the cost of legally required benefits is actually as much as the total cost of employer-provided health insurance. See this breakdown for more info.
In California, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act was passed "To end the inappropriate, indefinite, and involuntary commitment of mentally disordered persons, people with developmental disabilities, and persons impaired by chronic alcoholism."
The goal of Deinstitutionalization was that instead of being warehoused in huge, remote institutions, mental patients should be returned to communities where, with help, they might achieve some function in society. Unfortunately there was not much funding for the second part, plus some patients chose the streets if they were not involuntarily committed. Thus many deinstitutionalized patients became homeless.
Go to Hong Kong - a city with a geography much like SF. It has a density about 5 times as much as SF in its built areas (often with apartment buildings 3-4 times as high, and a great subway system as well). Hong Kong is planning on adding 20% more density now as well.
The US bandwidth situation is largely due to longer local loops on average. I personally believe this is a historical issue due to CO centralization in the 1970's-1980's. But it may be other issues.
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The problem is not that it's a government-run organization, the problem is that teaching is inherently difficult to standardize. Each kid is different.
If I want to eat in the free market, I can go to McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Del Taco, Pizza Hut, Chinese, Japanese, French, Vegan, Raw, and thousands of other kinds of restaurants.
If I want to get educated in the government run schools, I pretty much have one standardized choice.
It is not a monopoly, that is idiotic; you don't have competing governments... except in war.
Government provides support to the poor through food stamps. Recipients then spend them at competing free-market grocery stores. Governments can provide funding for education without having to operate schools.
Especially when they manage humans; who can find ways to out smart such things with ease.
This is correct. The free market, allowing the consumer to call upon the widest array of possible measures and experience, and to change those measures when needed, and also to choose based on individual needs rather than "average needs", is the best way to achieve quality. Bureaucrats driven by politics delivering a single, slowly changing quality measure is not the best way to go.
Just because you were educated does not make you an expert on education
And just because you are a programmer does not make you an expert on the software development life cycle, unless you have actually been taught or experienced the state-of-the-art in that area. The average US teacher is unaware of the best educational research, and has little competitive motivation to learn about it. Programmers who code-and-fix can get fired.
I don't get it, why don't they just use asphyxiation in an atmosphere of Helium? Cheap, painless, easy.
" School administrators have a death grip on teachers' jobs. Teachers are told what, when, and how to teach the material. They're basically reading scripts."
I am shocked that a fully unionized, monopoly, government-run organization is unable to perform well.
The Huawei story was the clincher for us. If Huawei did it, Cisco could too.
Is there really any solid evidence that Huawei has ever done anything wrong in terms of placing back doors in their gear?
Everything I've heard has just been guilt by association (the head of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, was an engineer for the PLA, but it should be noted that Huawei is actually an employee-owned company, not state-owned or military-owned).
From the call:
David Cohen - Comcast Corporation - EVP:
"we are not sure we know what paid prioritization or what a fast lane is...I think a fast lane sounds bad. But since we don't know what it is, or what the definitions of it are, it's a little bit hard to be able to react to it...I believe that whatever it is, a fast lane, paid prioritization, whatever you want to call it, has been completely legal for 15 or 20 years....Our offer is to comply with the 2010 FCC Open Internet Order, which did not prohibit paid prioritization."
"there is nothing in Title II that provides authority for saying that all services have to be treated the same. In fact the whole history of Title II has been that telecom carriers regulated under Title II are absolutely allowed to provide different levels of service for different amounts of money. Think about Bell's providing different level of service to businesses versus residences."
"There is the last mile market where we as an ISP deliver content to our customers and charge customers for that content and they access the Internet by going through Comcast as an ISP. And there is what I'd call a first mile market, which is the way in which the Internet at large, the Internet Edge providers, content providers, get their content onto our network to be able to be consumed by our consumers."
"The open Internet debate is about that first market. It's about the last mile market and it's about treating, making sure that consumers have an open and unfettered access to all of the content on the Internet, that there is no blocking, there is no discrimination in the way in which they get access to that content. The old extreme example, when a consumer types into her browser www.barnesandnoble.com, she should not be directed to Amazon because we have a deal with Amazon that says we will direct any book-related search to your site. That was the original extreme example of how we as ISPs could disrupt the Internet and could violate a principle of net neutrality.
And in this day and age it would relate to a consumer being able to get advertised speeds and excess whatever content the consumer wanted through those advertised speeds. The interconnection market is a completely different market and it functions in a different way. It is a market that it would argue is intensely competitive."
"I think the ISP market is competitive but the interconnection market is intensely competitive. There are dozens of very large players in that space who are selling transit services. The competition is so intense in that market that the pricing in the interconnection market has dropped 99% in the last 15 years."
"And so among the dozens of large players here, Comcast alone has 40 companies with which we have settlement-free peering. That is we don't pay them anything, they don't pay us anything because our traffic is roughly in balance. And there was a time when Netflix was using Akamai, Level 3 then Cogent and their traffic was in balance with our traffic."
"So there was no way in that model for us to collect anything without completely disrupting the business model and structure of the interconnection market, which I think would be a mistake to do. So I think that the right way to do this is to use usage-based billing and do it on the last mile and to do it in a fair and non-discriminatory fashion. And I think that is the way you can deliver the equity proposition that heavier users pay more and lighter users pay less."
"Reed's argument that he should have free transit, and it is a Cogent argument as well, that there should be free transit is just a cost shifting argument. That's an argument there is cost for transit providers, content delivery, networks, other transit providers to connect to our network. There is a cost to that.
And if Netflix doesn't bear its share of those costs to connect to the network then we have no choice but to raise prices for everyone else. Even though Netflix is responsible for one-third of the traffic on the Internet at peak times, tha
More data: Haplotype "KL-VS" refers to the V and S alleles of the SNPs respectively. It contains six sequence variants in complete linkage disequilibrium, two of which result in amino acid substitutions F352V (rs9536314) and C370S (rs9527025, not on 23andme btw). It is present in 15% of Caucasians.
Am I understanding properly that the "KL-VS" variant of KLOTHO is Rs9536314 with genotype "T;T"?
"How can you observe a molecule?"
You observe chemical reactions? That makes the concept of a molecule pretty concrete. Or you could learn about crystals.
We were taught (in a public school) about the structure of DNA around age 12, along with transcription, RNA protein synthesis, etc.
I remember around age 8 knowing about the life cycle or stars, supernova, black holes, etc.
Japan was in the process of working out how to surrender.
Next time, surrender faster.
Or even better, don't even send a two million soldiers into China to turn it into a Japanese colony, killing 4 million Chinese and leaving 60 million homeless.
"The only reason to give corporations personhood is to allow people to spend more money in politics."
Corporations were founded to allow individuals to invest in companies but not be personally liable. Corporations can buy, hold, and sell property, be sued, go bankrupt, or be sued, without risk to investors beyond their invested capital. Also corporations can outlive the life of any of their investors. Corporation comes from the latin, "corpus", meaning a body.
By the mid 500's AD, Roman Law recognized a range of corporate entities. In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.
I also know an English major who was able to "pull it out of the fire" by converting to an online education expert.
On the other hand, the statistics show that the college majors with highest recent graduate unemployment rates are the arts (11.1%), humanities and liberal arts (9.4%), social sciences (8.9%) and law and public policy (8.1%).
In particular, English has a 9.2% unemployment rate, which is better than Film & Photographic Arts at 12.9%, and architecture at 13.9%.
On the other hand, experienced graduates who were English majors average $52,000 per year income, while working architects average $64,000. Working experienced Film & Photographic artists only average $50,000.
"My car doesn't have citizenship and neither should my corporation."
If you drive your car as a taxi and make money, even as CEO of your car, you should be able to spend that money on political speech.
the first problem is that low taxation
US corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world, both in terms of top statutory rates and in terms of effective rates.
inheritable business empires
The average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is between 40 and 50 years. Koch Industries is an outlier as a large, completely privately owned company at $115 billion revenue (although Cargill, another, is the largest privately owner company at $136 billion), and is a bit older than usual at 74 years. But most large companies are publicly owned, such as Chevron ($220 billion), Philips66 ($170B), Apple ($176B), Berkshire Hathaway ($162B), General Motors ($156B), General Electric ($145B), etc.
Koch Industries was founded due to a scientific breakthrough of a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude oil into gasoline. The company then expanded by innovating new developments in petrochemicals and fibers. And it runs 1,720 km^2 of cattle ranches.
Of course I was doing streaming Internet video and building CDN's when you were in diapers, so WTF do I know?
As a veteran of the early days of the Internet, I wish people would just chill out from trying to get the Federal government to put more regulations on the Internet. The lack of regulation is what enabled the Internet to be what it is today.
Someone has to pay to put bits into a network, someone has to pay to move bits in a network, and someone needs to pay to move bits out of a network.
Leave it to the content providers and ISPs to figure out how to slice up the pie.
If you want more competition in local ISP access, work on that instead. Go start one! You could even offer 1 Gbps non-oversubscribed bandwidth. I'm sure you won't run into any regulation causing a barrier to entry...
You're completely wrong - what we're going through now is the RESULT of the free market. Since there are no government regulations forcing the ISPs to treat content fairly, the ISPs are free to degrade your traffic however they want and force you to pay more for undegraded connections.
Or Netflix feels it can use 30% of the bandwidth on the entire Internet without paying for the equipment to handle this on other people's networks...
"hat goes some length towards protecting net neutrality"
Where exactly is this stated in the actual document?
Benefits that people working 2 or 3 part-time jobs don't get.
Even for employees without much in the way of the way of health insurance, life insurance, or disability insurance pre-tax compensation, employers still need to pay their part of Social Security & Medicare, Federal unemployment insurance, state unemployment insurance, and workers' compensation insurance as part of total hourly compensation.
Across all workers, the cost of legally required benefits is actually as much as the total cost of employer-provided health insurance. See this breakdown for more info.
"Why the asylums were closed is anyone's guess."
In California, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act was passed "To end the inappropriate, indefinite, and involuntary commitment of mentally disordered persons, people with developmental disabilities, and persons impaired by chronic alcoholism."
The goal of Deinstitutionalization was that instead of being warehoused in huge, remote institutions, mental patients should be returned to communities where, with help, they might achieve some function in society. Unfortunately there was not much funding for the second part, plus some patients chose the streets if they were not involuntarily committed. Thus many deinstitutionalized patients became homeless.
On the other hand we have had 30 years of increasing real compensation per hour. More compensation is going into pre-tax benefits rather than wages.
Go to Hong Kong - a city with a geography much like SF. It has a density about 5 times as much as SF in its built areas (often with apartment buildings 3-4 times as high, and a great subway system as well). Hong Kong is planning on adding 20% more density now as well.
Most of the developed world gets more for less.
The US bandwidth situation is largely due to longer local loops on average. I personally believe this is a historical issue due to CO centralization in the 1970's-1980's. But it may be other issues.
I'm going to make our programmers code everything in machine language so they can learn to be gods.
Actually, forget machine language, they have to assemble the computer from discrete logic gates!
I'd say it is more like: Coase theorem.