Why the F!!! was this broadly released instead of tested and stepped?
Because the government is not going to go out of business if they screw up. Zero incentive.
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith
Here is your cause of income inequality right here:
Indeed, a closer look at the results reveals that more than nine-tenths of the overall variation in literacy skills observed through the survey lies within, rather than between, countries. In fact, in all but one participating country, at least one in ten adults is proficient only at or below Level 1 in literacy or numeracy. In other words, significant numbers of adults do not possess the most basic information-processing skills considered necessary to succeed in today's world.
What can a mean Japanese do mathematically that a mean American can't?
Probably all kinds of things. Japanese high school students must learn quadratic functions, trigonometric ratios, sequences, permutations and combinations, and probability. If they are going on to college, they must know exponential functions, trigonometric functions, analytic geometry, limits, derivatives, the denite integral, plane geometry, sequences, mathematical induction, binomial theorem, vectors in the plane and 3-space, complex numbers and the complex number plane, probability distributions, matrix arithmetic (up to 3x3 matrices), systems of linear equations and their representation and solution using matrices, conic sections, parametric representation and polar coordinates, numerical computation, including the approximate solution of equations and numerical integration, and some calculus-based statistics. These are the national standards.
But it doesn't matter because there is no way you are going to create a world-changing start-up in Japan due to the government and cultural situation there, you will have to move to the US to do that, where your Japanese kids will likely bring up our test scores...
Actually Oakland Police Officer Entry Level current annual salary is $69,912 to $98,088 (source).
However the total cost of an average Oakland Police Officer is around $160,000 per year (source) when you add up $97k pay, $30k health care and $30k pension costs.
Not to mention that Oakland spent over $57 million on police abuse cases from 2001 through 2011.
The estimate of 100 years worth of gas is overstated. It seems 25 years worth of gas is more likely, less if gas exports are allowed.
Fracking has only really been done well in the US to date. There are a lot of good places in the world (for example, Europe and China) that have shale that might work for gas and oil as well. So yes, I would be unsurprised if the US easily-frackable stuff runs low in 25-50 years, but the rest of the world is just starting to look into this.
20 Mbps 4K with H.264 encoding may have a resolution of 3840x2160 pixels, but it will not have 3840x2160 pixels worth of detail, unless nothing is moving on the screen.
I can honestly tell you that the best live H.264 encoders in the world right now need 100 Mbps to deliver 3840x2160 60p content that looks good.
24p movies get equivalent quality at 10-20% cut in bandwidth, but it is going to take HEVC to achieve good 4K in 40-50 Mbps.
Of course that won't stop anyone from watching really crappy quality 4K movies streaming online, but when people start watching 4K sports they will want more bits.
The Federal government for decades has told industry the Federal government is pulling out of the helium business. The private sector has sat on its hands and done nothing.
How often does the Federal government actually shut off a program that it runs (regardless of what is says)???
How about the USDA raisin board that has regulated that strategic resource, the raisin, since the New Deal...
Interesting article from 2011 that claims: 21 men linked to Islamic extremist groups including al-Qaeda, have been using Brazil for various purposes including controlling inflows of money and planning attacks..
Actually it is local loop length that matters for speed.
Statistics show that the US has far longer local loops than most other countries (see figure 2 in this document).
I believe this is not only due to the rural population, but it was due to a reduction in the number of central offices to have a more efficient telephony network in the analog to digital telephony conversion from 1970's-1990's before DSL technology was a reality.
How can you say there is no known famous Russian scientist?
Trofim Lysenko ("Lysenkoism") Aleksandr Oparin ("Oparin hypothesis") Ivan Pavlov ("Pavlovian conditioning") Pafnuti Chebyshev ("Chebyshev polynomials") Leonhard Euler (OK, Swiss by birth, but did lots of good math in St. Petersburg) Andrey Kolmogorov ("Kolmogorov complexity") Aleksandr Lyapunov ("Lyapunov stability") Andrey Markov Sr. ("Markov chains") Andrei Sakharov (thermonuclear weapons) Heinrich Lenz ("Lenz's law") Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov ("Mikheyevâ"Smirnovâ"Wolfenstein neutrino oscillations") Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov ("Cherenkov radiation")
DC is actually a bit less "gun free" now. There is no longer a complete ban on legally owned handguns.
Following the District of Columbia v. Heller decision, the Washington D.C. City Council enacted a set of rules regulating the possession of handguns in citizens' homes. Firearms must be registered with the police, owners undergo a NCIC background check and submit to fingerprinting. The firearms registry photographs the applicant. Residents must take an online gun safety course, and pass a written test on the District's gun laws. Residents must also declare at what address it will be kept. There is a 10 day waiting period from purchase of firearm to possession, and a 30 day waiting period between purchases of firearms.
Sandy was pretty weak compared to The New England Hurricane of 1938 (also Called "The Long Island Express") that made landfall on Long Island as a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. Wind gusts of 125 mph (200 km/h) and storm surge of 18 feet (5 m) washed across part of the island. In New York 60 deaths and hundreds of injuries were attributed to the storm. In addition, 2,600 boats and 8,900 houses are destroyed.
Everything is named after who discovered it, not what it does. Pythagoras's theorem, Newton's method, L'hopital's theorem, Cartesian co-ordinates, Euler's number...
This is the worst part of mathematics for me. I think we need to have a revolution and start calling things like a "Banach Space" a "complete normed vector space".
Euler's number is, of course, the base of the "natural logarithm".
My high school calculus teacher and physics teacher got together and taught calculus in synchrony with physics, so that as we learned the calculus, we then learned the real applications of it in physics. That was pretty awesome!
All of these "STEM shortage/STEM non-shortage" concepts are inherently ignorant of economics.
No central planner is going to have enough information to effectively determine whether people should have STEM degrees or not.
Individuals are the best people to determine for themselves that given their inherent capabilities and the market situation whether they should invest in acquiring educational capital. They might not always get it right, but they are more likely to get it right than a central planner.
Government subsidies to favor STEM education over other types of education are likely to lead to misallocation of educational capital.
Companies will seek STEM employees on the open market, where a market-clearing rate will be found.
Furthermore, there is no set number of jobs in any sector. A single entrepreneur can create hundreds or thousands of jobs. To succeed, entrepreneurs may have to hire key employees without which the company will never grow - these employees need key skill sets. But the entrepreneur will find a market clearing price to hire them. And so on...
Starting from this month, all telecommunications and Internet communications in India will be analysed by the government and its agencies. This means that everything we say or text over the phone, write, post or browse over the Internet will be centrally monitored by Indian authorities. This totalitarian type of surveillance will be incorporated in none other than the Central Monitoring System (CMS)...
...the CMS was prepared by the Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TREM) and the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) and is being manned by the Intelligence Bureau.......The Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 enables e-surveillance. The government plans to create a platform that will include all the service providers in Delhi, Haryana and Karnataka creating central and regional databases to help central and state level law enforcement agencies in interception and monitoring. Without any manual intervention from telecom service providers, CMS will equip government agencies with Direct Electronic Provisioning, filter and provide Call Data Records (CDR) analysis and data mining to identify the personal information and provide alerts of the target numbers.
The estimated cost of CMS is Rs. 4 billion. It will be connected with the Telephone Call Interception System (TCIS) which will help monitor voice calls, SMS and MMS, fax communications on landlines, CDMA, video calls, GSM and 3G networks. Agencies which will have access to the CMS include the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the Narcotics Control Bureau, and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Last October, the NIA approached the Department of Telecom requesting for connection with the CMS to help it intercept phone calls and monitor social networking sites without the cooperation of telcos. NIA is currently monitoring eight out of 10,000 telephone lines and if connected with the CMS, NIA will also get access to e-mails and other social media platforms. Essentially, CMS will be converging all the interception lines at one location for Indian law enforcement agencies to access them.
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Why the F!!! was this broadly released instead of tested and stepped?
Because the government is not going to go out of business if they screw up. Zero incentive.
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith
Here is your cause of income inequality right here:
Indeed, a closer look at the results reveals that more than nine-tenths of the overall variation in literacy skills observed through the survey lies within, rather than between, countries. In fact, in all but one participating country, at least one in ten adults is proficient only at or below Level 1 in literacy or numeracy. In other words, significant numbers of adults do not possess the most basic information-processing skills considered necessary to succeed in today's world.
What can a mean Japanese do mathematically that a mean American can't?
Probably all kinds of things. Japanese high school students must learn quadratic functions, trigonometric ratios, sequences, permutations and combinations, and probability. If they are going on to college, they must know exponential functions, trigonometric functions, analytic geometry, limits, derivatives, the denite integral, plane geometry, sequences, mathematical induction, binomial theorem, vectors in the plane and 3-space, complex numbers and the complex number plane, probability distributions, matrix arithmetic (up to 3x3 matrices), systems of linear equations and their representation and solution using matrices, conic sections, parametric representation and polar coordinates, numerical computation, including the approximate solution of equations and numerical integration, and some calculus-based statistics. These are the national standards.
But it doesn't matter because there is no way you are going to create a world-changing start-up in Japan due to the government and cultural situation there, you will have to move to the US to do that, where your Japanese kids will likely bring up our test scores...
Finland has 5 million people.
The US has 313 million people.
There are more people in the US with Stanford-Binet IQ's over 133 than there are total people in Finland.
More people live in the Miami MSA than in Finland.
Actually Oakland Police Officer Entry Level current annual salary is $69,912 to $98,088 (source).
However the total cost of an average Oakland Police Officer is around $160,000 per year (source) when you add up $97k pay, $30k health care and $30k pension costs.
Not to mention that Oakland spent over $57 million on police abuse cases from 2001 through 2011.
Taxes pay police whose unions negotiate with professional politicians regarding what they do and for what price.
Crowdfunding goes directly to the patrols, and if you don't like what the patrols are doing, you can legally stop giving them donations, unlike taxes.
In 1952, we had a fusion reactor generate 40 petajoules of energy on input of well under 400 gigajoules.
The estimate of 100 years worth of gas is overstated. It seems 25 years worth of gas is more likely, less if gas exports are allowed.
Fracking has only really been done well in the US to date. There are a lot of good places in the world (for example, Europe and China) that have shale that might work for gas and oil as well. So yes, I would be unsurprised if the US easily-frackable stuff runs low in 25-50 years, but the rest of the world is just starting to look into this.
when they pump it out of the ground in the United States they pay zero taxes
Then how did North Dakota get $1.7 billion in oil tax revenue in 2011?
Each well in the Bakken shale averages payments of $4.4 million in taxes, $7.6 million in royalties, $1.6 million in salaries and wages.
Don't just look at Federal taxes...
Any saving is not being passed on to the consumer...
Really? Then why are US natural gas prices much lower than prices elsewhere in the world, and have fallen by about 50% since the early 2000's?
20 Mbps 4K with H.264 encoding may have a resolution of 3840x2160 pixels, but it will not have 3840x2160 pixels worth of detail, unless nothing is moving on the screen.
I can honestly tell you that the best live H.264 encoders in the world right now need 100 Mbps to deliver 3840x2160 60p content that looks good.
24p movies get equivalent quality at 10-20% cut in bandwidth, but it is going to take HEVC to achieve good 4K in 40-50 Mbps.
Of course that won't stop anyone from watching really crappy quality 4K movies streaming online, but when people start watching 4K sports they will want more bits.
The Federal government for decades has told industry the Federal government is pulling out of the helium business. The private sector has sat on its hands and done nothing.
How often does the Federal government actually shut off a program that it runs (regardless of what is says)???
How about the USDA raisin board that has regulated that strategic resource, the raisin, since the New Deal...
Interesting article from 2011 that claims: 21 men linked to Islamic extremist groups including al-Qaeda, have been using Brazil for various purposes including controlling inflows of money and planning attacks..
I'll believe this when someone takes some spider silk, charges it up, and it can lift an inanimate object of weight of a spider in still air.
Actually it is local loop length that matters for speed.
Statistics show that the US has far longer local loops than most other countries (see figure 2 in this document).
I believe this is not only due to the rural population, but it was due to a reduction in the number of central offices to have a more efficient telephony network in the analog to digital telephony conversion from 1970's-1990's before DSL technology was a reality.
How can you say there is no known famous Russian scientist?
Trofim Lysenko ("Lysenkoism")
Aleksandr Oparin ("Oparin hypothesis")
Ivan Pavlov ("Pavlovian conditioning")
Pafnuti Chebyshev ("Chebyshev polynomials")
Leonhard Euler (OK, Swiss by birth, but did lots of good math in St. Petersburg)
Andrey Kolmogorov ("Kolmogorov complexity")
Aleksandr Lyapunov ("Lyapunov stability")
Andrey Markov Sr. ("Markov chains")
Andrei Sakharov (thermonuclear weapons)
Heinrich Lenz ("Lenz's law")
Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov ("Mikheyevâ"Smirnovâ"Wolfenstein neutrino oscillations")
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov ("Cherenkov radiation")
inside a gun free city
DC is actually a bit less "gun free" now. There is no longer a complete ban on legally owned handguns.
Following the District of Columbia v. Heller decision, the Washington D.C. City Council enacted a set of rules regulating the possession of handguns in citizens' homes. Firearms must be registered with the police, owners undergo a NCIC background check and submit to fingerprinting. The firearms registry photographs the applicant. Residents must take an online gun safety course, and pass a written test on the District's gun laws. Residents must also declare at what address it will be kept. There is a 10 day waiting period from purchase of firearm to possession, and a 30 day waiting period between purchases of firearms.
In May 2005, pilot Didier Delsalle of France landed a Eurocopter AS350 B3 helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest.
Sandy was pretty weak compared to The New England Hurricane of 1938 (also Called "The Long Island Express") that made landfall on Long Island as a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. Wind gusts of 125 mph (200 km/h) and storm surge of 18 feet (5 m) washed across part of the island. In New York 60 deaths and hundreds of injuries were attributed to the storm. In addition, 2,600 boats and 8,900 houses are destroyed.
If you want to try out quantum computing simulation, consider checking out QCF in the Matlab-like Octave.
Everything is named after who discovered it, not what it does. Pythagoras's theorem, Newton's method, L'hopital's theorem, Cartesian co-ordinates, Euler's number...
This is the worst part of mathematics for me. I think we need to have a revolution and start calling things like a "Banach Space" a "complete normed vector space".
Euler's number is, of course, the base of the "natural logarithm".
My high school calculus teacher and physics teacher got together and taught calculus in synchrony with physics, so that as we learned the calculus, we then learned the real applications of it in physics. That was pretty awesome!
All of these "STEM shortage/STEM non-shortage" concepts are inherently ignorant of economics.
No central planner is going to have enough information to effectively determine whether people should have STEM degrees or not.
Individuals are the best people to determine for themselves that given their inherent capabilities and the market situation whether they should invest in acquiring educational capital. They might not always get it right, but they are more likely to get it right than a central planner.
Government subsidies to favor STEM education over other types of education are likely to lead to misallocation of educational capital.
Companies will seek STEM employees on the open market, where a market-clearing rate will be found.
Furthermore, there is no set number of jobs in any sector. A single entrepreneur can create hundreds or thousands of jobs. To succeed, entrepreneurs may have to hire key employees without which the company will never grow - these employees need key skill sets. But the entrepreneur will find a market clearing price to hire them. And so on...
I respect NDT, but AFAIK the man has never accepted a paycheck in his life that wasn't from academia or a government entity.
Not true, soon you will be able to watch NDT on COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY on FOX!
Of course India is setting up the Central Monitoring System (CMS) essentially India's version of PRISM: