Always have an absurdly high number available. If the fish bite, reel them in.
You are either going to bring reasonable value to the company, or you are not.
State the salary you want. If the company is not able to generate enough value from you to pay you that salary, then the company is probably messed up. Forget them and move on.
I interviewed for a company in the mobile satellite video industry. The interviewer asked my salary expectations, and I told him. They guy got all flustered and started yelling at me: "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? THAT IS A VP-LEVEL SALARY?"
I believe he thought he was going to cajole me into a lower salary demand. Which of course was stupid, if I then took a lower salary, I'd probably be looking for another job with a higher salary I actually wanted. And if I really was asking for a "stupidly high" salary, he just should have politely said "thank you" and showed me the door because I was stupid, rather than leaving me with a bad impression of his company.
Anyway, a few months later I became a VP, I make more than that original salary request, and the mobile satellite video industry is pretty much dead.
Idle network bandwidth is lost forever and can not be used to improve the network performance at a later time.
But bandwidth you leave idle could be used by someone else. Packet switched networks have always depended on statistical multiplexing of a mix of different users and uses, and TCP allows many streams to share bandwidth. Unless, of course, you are depending on reliable isochronous reception requirements like video.
That said, I think metered landline IP connections are silly. You've got to build out to deliver a few Mbps to each user all the time because we now have a new "prime time" when everyone is watching Netflix. Maybe you don't get 10 Mbps when everyone is watching Netflix at night, but you should at least get 1-3 Mbps.
On the other hand, I have no idea about wireless. Wireless spectrum is always going to be limited, and build-outs of new cells are very expensive. There may be no real hope except metered usage for wireless.
China has brought hundreds of millions of its people out of absolute poverty (making under $1 per day) since abandoning strict communism.
The US, except during brief periods of recent mortgage-related problems, still has positive economic growth. And now we have awesome iPhones and iPads!
Too bad that one of America's top companies outsources most of its production. Their profit margins could support USA jobs.
Ipad list price $499
Parts that make up the iPad cost $280 (these costs go mainly to Singapore, Korea, and Japan, although even some parts manufactured there have IP licensing costs going to US companies Qualcomm, Broadcom, TriQuint, and UK company ARM).
Someone takes that job for $22k/year. Yes, they go to Wal-Mart and to McDonalds, and spend a lot of their money. But they still extract $22k/yr. from the economy and put back maybe $10k/year. A net drain.
Why is McDonalds paying the employee $22k/year? Because they are receiving more than $22k/year in income from hamburgers due to the employee (likely $50k/year).
Why do people purchase enough hamburgers to pay McDonalds $50k/year for that employee? Because they are hungry, and the burgers are worth $50k/year to them!
Every voluntary exchange of goods is a net benefit for both sides of the transaction (or else one or the other would not engage in it), and thus a net expansion of the economy of the country (and world).
Voluntary exchanges are never a "net drain" to the economy, they always expand the economy.
A "net drain" to the economy are barriers to voluntary exchanges, say not allowing someone to hire someone else because of where they were born. By killing transactions through regulations like that, you reduce the total economy.
Low-skilled immigrants play an important role in allowing higher-skilled workers to specialize in their high-skill roles (see Khan Academy on Comparative Advantage and Specialization), allowing high-skill workers to be more productive.
How does a high school student get access to one of those?
When I was a teenager, my dad could have gotten me some time on one where he worked - I suspect something along those lines happened here.
Of course my high school "science fair projects" were "analysis of security holes in the telephone system" and "exothermic reactions of common household chemicals" if you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge...
The real question is why does a country like Germany, which is reasonably civilized (since WWII anyway), has a long history of success in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and precision manufacturing have a lower GDP per capita than the US, which has a long history of McDonalds and Starbucks:)
the only thing we're doing by outsourcing is PUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF WORK.
Or we are putting people into the kind of work in the West that should be done by advanced economies instead of that which should be done by third-world countries, enhancing the total output of humanity through specialization.
The West should be programming, making blockbuster movies with lots of special effects, etc., not forging steel or digging coal.
With a higher per capita GDP than the USA, longer life expectancy
To be clear, Germany has a significantly LOWER GDP per capita than the USA regardless of how you look at it:
GDP Per Capita United States: IMF 48,387 WB 47,153 CIA 48,100 Germany (Nominal): IMF 43,742 WB 40,116 CIA 44,500 Germany (PPP) : IMF 37,897 WB 37,402 CIA 37,900
Given China's well known dumping tactics in this market, it made sense for the U.S. to increase tariffs to match it in order to preserve the domestic industry.
Why? Can you provide one example of a US industry that was "dumped" out of existence?
If the Chinese government wants to spend their tax dollars giving Americans cheap solar cells, why should we stop them?
If anything, we should be happy to get back some of the dollars we send them for making iPads, etc.
Does the US federal government have the power to implement "public trust doctrine"? Remember, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
It seems to me that all the important public trust doctrine decisions have been common law findings of state courts on state behavior (such as Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, National Audubon Society v. Superior Court), and that this is not something that could be extended to federal government (unless you make the Commerce Clause argument, gack).
You hear a lot of the single-issue types shouting about "get back in the immigration line and do it legally!!" not knowing how convoluted and expensive the whole process is.
There is zero, absolutely no way that a poor worker from Mexico or Central American countries can legally enter the US on the path to citizenship if they have no direct family legally living in the US. There is no "immigration line" for them.
Having the best university isn't remotely close to saying you have the best level of education for your population
Dude, average US IQ levels are only 98, compared with Germany, Italy, and Netherlands at 102, and the UK at 100. So you know, we're going to be a little slow!
Can you default out of a student loan? I thought that was one of the few debts that survives bankruptcy.
You can't "default out" of a student loan. You can "default on" a student loan by not paying the monthly bill (over a ten year period, 10% of students with loans will default at some point).
Student loans are difficult, but not impossible, to discharge in bankruptcy. To get the debt discharged, you must be able to prove show that payment "will impose an undue hardship on you and your dependents."
In 2007, out of 238,000 debtors going into bankruptcy with student loans, only about 0.1% of them sought to discharge their education debts through the bankruptcy process because of the difficulty of meeting the hardship requirement. About 50% of those who seek to discharge student loan debts in bankruptcy receive some kind of relief, with 25% getting full discharge.
So each year, only about 50 people in the US get full discharge of student loans in bankruptcy, 30 get partial discharge, and 25 get administrative relief of some kind.
The top U.S. universities attract international talent, and the faculties are packed with foreign tutors, postgrads and researchers. I'm not sure this is a ringing endorsement of the U.S. educational system.
Indeed, because the US "free" government-operated primary and secondary education systems are horrible (by OECD standards). The US has good colleges and universities, but few good pre-tertiary schools.
You can get better education, free or nearly free, in most of Europe
Then why are 14 of the top 20 universities in the world in the US? 4 of the non-US top 20 are in the UK where education prices for students are rising, and 1 is in Canada which is also not free.
Why did the price of housing go up and up? Sub prime loans. you can blame wall street for making it worse but the prices were ticking up for years before wall street got involved.
Wall Street might have been stupid about sub-prime loans, but at least they learned their lesson and now you can't get them.
Government, on the other hand, has not learned its lesson about giving out $200k loans to sociology majors...
Start with dogs, then sell them as super-pets to finance more research.
Yeah, I sure talking Beagles will be great:
Beagle: I want some food Beagle: I want some food Beagle: I want some food Beagle: I want some food Beagle: I want some food Beagle: Bunny! Beagle: I want some food Beagle: I want some food Beagle: I want some food
For instance, natural selection will favor people with fast reflexes and better depth perception because most of us drive cars. College graduates are favored because they typically get higher paying jobs and therefore better healthcare.
The only selection factors that matter are ones that lead to your genes getting to your children. College graduates tend to have fewer children, so they are selected against.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in the US among those age 5-34, which is prime breeding age. Homicide is the second leading cause of death from 16-24, with suicide being the second leading cause of death from 25-34.
Top contributing factors to fatal motor vehicle accidents include not wearing seatbelts and alcohol. Most deaths come from run-off-road deaths, followed by intersection crashes.
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Every novel should have an MD5 hash....
Always have an absurdly high number available. If the fish bite, reel them in.
You are either going to bring reasonable value to the company, or you are not.
State the salary you want. If the company is not able to generate enough value from you to pay you that salary, then the company is probably messed up. Forget them and move on.
I interviewed for a company in the mobile satellite video industry. The interviewer asked my salary expectations, and I told him. They guy got all flustered and started yelling at me: "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? THAT IS A VP-LEVEL SALARY?"
I believe he thought he was going to cajole me into a lower salary demand. Which of course was stupid, if I then took a lower salary, I'd probably be looking for another job with a higher salary I actually wanted. And if I really was asking for a "stupidly high" salary, he just should have politely said "thank you" and showed me the door because I was stupid, rather than leaving me with a bad impression of his company.
Anyway, a few months later I became a VP, I make more than that original salary request, and the mobile satellite video industry is pretty much dead.
Idle network bandwidth is lost forever and can not be used to improve the network performance at a later time.
But bandwidth you leave idle could be used by someone else. Packet switched networks have always depended on statistical multiplexing of a mix of different users and uses, and TCP allows many streams to share bandwidth. Unless, of course, you are depending on reliable isochronous reception requirements like video.
That said, I think metered landline IP connections are silly. You've got to build out to deliver a few Mbps to each user all the time because we now have a new "prime time" when everyone is watching Netflix. Maybe you don't get 10 Mbps when everyone is watching Netflix at night, but you should at least get 1-3 Mbps.
On the other hand, I have no idea about wireless. Wireless spectrum is always going to be limited, and build-outs of new cells are very expensive. There may be no real hope except metered usage for wireless.
Well, that site does happen to be 25% of all internet traffic in the US as of a year and a half ago
Traffic is not the same as income.
Stop this suicidal race to the bottom.
China has brought hundreds of millions of its people out of absolute poverty (making under $1 per day) since abandoning strict communism.
The US, except during brief periods of recent mortgage-related problems, still has positive economic growth. And now we have awesome iPhones and iPads!
Where is the "race"?
Too bad that one of America's top companies outsources most of its production. Their profit margins could support USA jobs.
Ipad list price $499
Parts that make up the iPad cost $280 (these costs go mainly to Singapore, Korea, and Japan, although even some parts manufactured there have IP licensing costs going to US companies Qualcomm, Broadcom, TriQuint, and UK company ARM).
Manufacturing (in China) costs $10.
Warranty service costs: $20
Apple (USA) profit: ~$210 per iPad
Someone takes that job for $22k/year. Yes, they go to Wal-Mart and to McDonalds, and spend a lot of their money. But they still extract $22k/yr. from the economy and put back maybe $10k/year. A net drain.
Why is McDonalds paying the employee $22k/year? Because they are receiving more than $22k/year in income from hamburgers due to the employee (likely $50k/year).
Why do people purchase enough hamburgers to pay McDonalds $50k/year for that employee? Because they are hungry, and the burgers are worth $50k/year to them!
Every voluntary exchange of goods is a net benefit for both sides of the transaction (or else one or the other would not engage in it), and thus a net expansion of the economy of the country (and world).
Voluntary exchanges are never a "net drain" to the economy, they always expand the economy.
A "net drain" to the economy are barriers to voluntary exchanges, say not allowing someone to hire someone else because of where they were born. By killing transactions through regulations like that, you reduce the total economy.
Low-skilled immigrants play an important role in allowing higher-skilled workers to specialize in their high-skill roles (see Khan Academy on Comparative Advantage and Specialization), allowing high-skill workers to be more productive.
How does a high school student get access to one of those?
When I was a teenager, my dad could have gotten me some time on one where he worked - I suspect something along those lines happened here.
Of course my high school "science fair projects" were "analysis of security holes in the telephone system" and "exothermic reactions of common household chemicals" if you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge...
The real question is why does a country like Germany, which is reasonably civilized (since WWII anyway), has a long history of success in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and precision manufacturing have a lower GDP per capita than the US, which has a long history of McDonalds and Starbucks :)
the only thing we're doing by outsourcing is PUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF WORK.
Or we are putting people into the kind of work in the West that should be done by advanced economies instead of that which should be done by third-world countries, enhancing the total output of humanity through specialization.
The West should be programming, making blockbuster movies with lots of special effects, etc., not forging steel or digging coal.
With a higher per capita GDP than the USA, longer life expectancy
To be clear, Germany has a significantly LOWER GDP per capita than the USA regardless of how you look at it:
GDP Per Capita
United States: IMF 48,387 WB 47,153 CIA 48,100
Germany (Nominal): IMF 43,742 WB 40,116 CIA 44,500
Germany (PPP) : IMF 37,897 WB 37,402 CIA 37,900
Given China's well known dumping tactics in this market, it made sense for the U.S. to increase tariffs to match it in order to preserve the domestic industry.
Why? Can you provide one example of a US industry that was "dumped" out of existence?
If the Chinese government wants to spend their tax dollars giving Americans cheap solar cells, why should we stop them?
If anything, we should be happy to get back some of the dollars we send them for making iPads, etc.
Laser physicist. Not a lot of use in making nuclear weapons.
You should read up on the Laser uranium enrichment program announced by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Does the US federal government have the power to implement "public trust doctrine"? Remember, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
It seems to me that all the important public trust doctrine decisions have been common law findings of state courts on state behavior (such as Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, National Audubon Society v. Superior Court), and that this is not something that could be extended to federal government (unless you make the Commerce Clause argument, gack).
You hear a lot of the single-issue types shouting about "get back in the immigration line and do it legally!!" not knowing how convoluted and expensive the whole process is.
There is zero, absolutely no way that a poor worker from Mexico or Central American countries can legally enter the US on the path to citizenship if they have no direct family legally living in the US. There is no "immigration line" for them.
Ticketmaster is still VAX VMS.
Here is a VAX still on the HP web site, and of course OpenVMS.
Having the best university isn't remotely close to saying you have the best level of education for your population
Dude, average US IQ levels are only 98, compared with Germany, Italy, and Netherlands at 102, and the UK at 100. So you know, we're going to be a little slow!
But seriously, the percentage of 25- to 64-year-Olds with an Associate Degree or Higher in 2007 was 40.3% in the US, higher than any other EU country. The closest is Finland with 36.4%.
Can you default out of a student loan? I thought that was one of the few debts that survives bankruptcy.
You can't "default out" of a student loan. You can "default on" a student loan by not paying the monthly bill (over a ten year period, 10% of students with loans will default at some point).
Student loans are difficult, but not impossible, to discharge in bankruptcy. To get the debt discharged, you must be able to prove show that payment "will impose an undue hardship on you and your dependents."
In 2007, out of 238,000 debtors going into bankruptcy with student loans, only about 0.1% of them sought to discharge their education debts through the bankruptcy process because of the difficulty of meeting the hardship requirement. About 50% of those who seek to discharge student loan debts in bankruptcy receive some kind of relief, with 25% getting full discharge.
So each year, only about 50 people in the US get full discharge of student loans in bankruptcy, 30 get partial discharge, and 25 get administrative relief of some kind.
The top U.S. universities attract international talent, and the faculties are packed with foreign tutors, postgrads and researchers. I'm not sure this is a ringing endorsement of the U.S. educational system.
Indeed, because the US "free" government-operated primary and secondary education systems are horrible (by OECD standards). The US has good colleges and universities, but few good pre-tertiary schools.
You can get better education, free or nearly free, in most of Europe
Then why are 14 of the top 20 universities in the world in the US? 4 of the non-US top 20 are in the UK where education prices for students are rising, and 1 is in Canada which is also not free.
Why did the price of housing go up and up? Sub prime loans. you can blame wall street for making it worse but the prices were ticking up for years before wall street got involved.
Wall Street might have been stupid about sub-prime loans, but at least they learned their lesson and now you can't get them.
Government, on the other hand, has not learned its lesson about giving out $200k loans to sociology majors...
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Start with dogs, then sell them as super-pets to finance more research.
Yeah, I sure talking Beagles will be great:
Beagle: I want some food
Beagle: I want some food
Beagle: I want some food
Beagle: I want some food
Beagle: I want some food
Beagle: Bunny!
Beagle: I want some food
Beagle: I want some food
Beagle: I want some food
For instance, natural selection will favor people with fast reflexes and better depth perception because most of us drive cars. College graduates are favored because they typically get higher paying jobs and therefore better healthcare.
The only selection factors that matter are ones that lead to your genes getting to your children. College graduates tend to have fewer children, so they are selected against.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in the US among those age 5-34, which is prime breeding age. Homicide is the second leading cause of death from 16-24, with suicide being the second leading cause of death from 25-34.
Top contributing factors to fatal motor vehicle accidents include not wearing seatbelts and alcohol. Most deaths come from run-off-road deaths, followed by intersection crashes.
"Our studies indicate the weapon is totally useless in warfare."
"It's not intended for use in your kind of warfare, Roy. It's the perfect peacetime weapon. That's why it's secret."