Things that are "bargains" will increase in price or decrease in quality or quantity until they are merely "ok" deals. Yet another reason economics truly is the dismal science.
Right, men should be attracted to women only because of their purely physical charms, not because of anything they actually do. And by "men" I mean "not neckbearded nerds", who should just stay in their fucking parents basements and forget about any sort of relationship.
In fact, 20% survive in Arnold Schwarzenegger alone. Add the National Football League, WWE Wrestling, and the Texas State Board of Education, and you've probably got well above 90%.
Before re-introducing the elephant and the lion, let's get the wolf fully established in its old territory. Should take care of the surplus population of troublesome creatures, such as deer, geese, and tourists.
Plenty of hippies still around in SF. Also in NYC, though between the hipsters and the yuppies they've kind of been kicked to the curb and are hard to distinguish from regular homeless people.
When you train and educate for current technology and current needs of business, they will be unqualified when things change.
Google isn't looking for people who know "current technology" or the current needs of business. Google is looking for (at least in the software engineering role) intelligent people who know the fundamentals of computer science and software and system design. Nobody's going to ask questions in a Google interview about esoterica of Mapreduce or Bigtable or even Go.
The problem with education isn't money; we throw tons of money at schools in the US, and the outcomes don't correlate well with money thrown; Newark, NJ schools receive more funding than Millburn, NJ schools, and the former are horrendous while the latter are among the best in the state.
As far as CS goes, it's not about replacing lessons about the American Revolution with lessons on Mexican culture neither one, whatever its merit, has any relevance to science and math. Nor does it matter for CS if students know more about Booker T. than George.
Nor is it any lack of CS or other computer education in primary and secondary schools. Nearly every CS job nowadays requires a bachelor's degree at minimum, and those 4 years are plenty to learn the fundamentals of computer science, assuming the underlying foundation is strong. So what's necessary IMO, from a CS education point of view, is for the foundation to be strengthened. The major thing missing from the traditional algebra-geometry-trignometry-calculus sequence is formal propositional logic; it's kind of taught alongside geometry proofs, but it might make sense to teach it separately and before (or even instead of) that sort of geometry. That doesn't necessarily require any more money.
But the real problem is the foundations just aren't strong. A lot of students can't do algebra entering 9th grade, and they can't do arithmetic entering 6th. Until you solve this, you can't solve anything at a higher level. Fix elementary education, fix secondary education, and only then worry about adding CS programs.
Hint: property taxes start going up and the established population can't afford to buy/rent a new place in their current neighborhood and possibly can't afford their current residence anymore
This is a problem in other places. Not in California; you can't be priced out of your current residence by property tax increases, thanks to Proposition 13 (which leftists hate BTW)
Yes, that's standard police procedure as far as I know all over the world. Try interviews (this was not an interrogation) before conducting an expensive investigation.
From the article: "They wanted to know who I am, where I live, where I work, how much Iâ(TM)m making, how many computers I have at home, why am I recording the movie, who am I going to give the recording to, why donâ(TM)t I just give up the guy up the chain, â(TM)cause they are not interested in me. Over and over and over again."
No, the ultimate words of power are "You choose everything which happens to you." But you have to say it while you're fucking someone over big time. You hear similar formulas from judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement all the time. The lowliest bully understands this -- "Why are you hitting yourself?" they cry, as they drive their victim's hand into his face.
What happened to simply using relevant attributes? That's how to attain equal opportunity.
Equal Opportunity is so last century. Now we're looking for equality of result (except when the inequality is in favor of the traditionally disadvantaged group)
So it seems like we can rule out those changes being due solely (or even primarily) to innate physiological/neurological changes -- there must be something different about those environments. And sure enough, there were, and it points to sociological pressures working against some girl's natural predilection.
You've failed to rule out the alternative hypothesis of sociological pressures working against some girl's natural predilection against STEM. This is particular relevant because the only sociological pressure you mentioned is a positive one, pushing girls towards STEM.
The problem is that researchers have demonstrated that there are external forces that drive the gender disparity in STEM fields. It begins around middle school -- before that, there's about equal interested in math and sciences between boys and girls.
You know what else begins around middle school? Puberty.
You have become so mired in your "things are ok they way they are" mindset that you can't see that it could be different. There are women in the sciences who are pressured to leave or encouraged to look at other majors or careers. I've seen in happen.
The physical sciences are much less imbalanced than computer science. The social sciences are more imbalanced than the physical sciences, but the other way (nobody complains about this). Biological sciences are slightly imbalanced, again towards women.
But slashdotters just take it as fact that few women have an interest in computers. The fact that so many slashdotters become actively hostile to the notion that women are being discouraged from the field is very telling. Why the hostility?
Because it's an attack on geek culture. It comes down to "All you smelly nerds are discouraging women from entering the field through your geeky ways. Therefore you must abandon those ways and conform to the culture we decide for you."
Yeah, fuck that shit. We've already been rejected by the mainstream, and gone and rejected it right back. Nobody's going to show up and tell us we have to give up what got us rejected in the first place; we've already made that choice.
Tough luck. CS is a nerd field. If you want to start you your own CS program which is full of people who care more about Katy Perry and "The Bachelor" than D&D and Ender's Game, go right ahead. Don't expect nerds to help you out, though; if you want to engage in cultural warfare, you can't expect assistance from the enemy.
So which is it? Is our police state so incomptent that it can't stop disturbed teens from shooting up schools, or are the terrorists so incompetent that they can't manage similar (or worse) carnage?
Look at Richard Reid (the shoe bomber). Or Feisel, the NYC Times Square bomber. Or the Glasgow airport attack. Yes, our police state is incompetent (which is mostly a good thing). And yes, the terrorists are even more incompetent. They've had one really spectacular idea (which they had to steal from Tom Clancy), another pretty deadly one (the Madrid subway bombing) and a whole string of fizzles and failures. If they were competent, there'd be buildings coming down and SUVs blowing up in crowded areas on a regular basis.
He'll be lucky if Yale's disciplinary board is the only kangaroo court he faces. If Yale is sufficiently annoyed they'll call in the Feds to go all Aaron Swartz on his ass.
Refreshingly, at this time, the novelty will be in the fact that it is NOT on the computer!
Indeed. On that note, I've just submitted a patent application for a method for scheduling elevator cars in a multi-elevator building. It's based on well-known hard disk array head scheduling algorithms.
There ought to be a lagged correlation between those statistics, but they're in almost perfect lock-step. Suspicious, to say the least.
Indeed. Perhaps the issue is not the numerator but the denominator: that is, there's some source of people, mostly without drivers licenses, which is relatively evenly distributed over ages 16-24. Young immigrants, for instance.
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Things that are "bargains" will increase in price or decrease in quality or quantity until they are merely "ok" deals. Yet another reason economics truly is the dismal science.
Right, men should be attracted to women only because of their purely physical charms, not because of anything they actually do. And by "men" I mean "not neckbearded nerds", who should just stay in their fucking parents basements and forget about any sort of relationship.
Warp drive. Lawyers with a conscience. Guns which never need reloading. And magic infinite photo enhancement. When do we get those, huh?
In fact, 20% survive in Arnold Schwarzenegger alone. Add the National Football League, WWE Wrestling, and the Texas State Board of Education, and you've probably got well above 90%.
Before re-introducing the elephant and the lion, let's get the wolf fully established in its old territory. Should take care of the surplus population of troublesome creatures, such as deer, geese, and tourists.
Plenty of hippies still around in SF. Also in NYC, though between the hipsters and the yuppies they've kind of been kicked to the curb and are hard to distinguish from regular homeless people.
The really clever ones fantasize about women who might actually be terrorists and spies. They never get caught.
Perhaps, but an argument could be made that NeXT was the "real Apple" all along, which can't be said about Compaq and HP.
Google isn't looking for people who know "current technology" or the current needs of business. Google is looking for (at least in the software engineering role) intelligent people who know the fundamentals of computer science and software and system design. Nobody's going to ask questions in a Google interview about esoterica of Mapreduce or Bigtable or even Go.
(In case it isn't obvious, I work at Google)
Schiller's wrong, but HP isn't the company which exists from that era. It's Compaq, they just call themselves HP.
The problem with education isn't money; we throw tons of money at schools in the US, and the outcomes don't correlate well with money thrown; Newark, NJ schools receive more funding than Millburn, NJ schools, and the former are horrendous while the latter are among the best in the state.
As far as CS goes, it's not about replacing lessons about the American Revolution with lessons on Mexican culture neither one, whatever its merit, has any relevance to science and math. Nor does it matter for CS if students know more about Booker T. than George.
Nor is it any lack of CS or other computer education in primary and secondary schools. Nearly every CS job nowadays requires a bachelor's degree at minimum, and those 4 years are plenty to learn the fundamentals of computer science, assuming the underlying foundation is strong. So what's necessary IMO, from a CS education point of view, is for the foundation to be strengthened. The major thing missing from the traditional algebra-geometry-trignometry-calculus sequence is formal propositional logic; it's kind of taught alongside geometry proofs, but it might make sense to teach it separately and before (or even instead of) that sort of geometry. That doesn't necessarily require any more money.
But the real problem is the foundations just aren't strong. A lot of students can't do algebra entering 9th grade, and they can't do arithmetic entering 6th. Until you solve this, you can't solve anything at a higher level. Fix elementary education, fix secondary education, and only then worry about adding CS programs.
This is a problem in other places. Not in California; you can't be priced out of your current residence by property tax increases, thanks to Proposition 13 (which leftists hate BTW)
And you should feel bad.
Of course this is just a way of screwing people over.
From the article: "They wanted to know who I am, where I live, where I work, how much Iâ(TM)m making, how many computers I have at home, why am I recording the movie, who am I going to give the recording to, why donâ(TM)t I just give up the guy up the chain, â(TM)cause they are not interested in me. Over and over and over again."
That's an interrogation.
No, the ultimate words of power are "You choose everything which happens to you." But you have to say it while you're fucking someone over big time. You hear similar formulas from judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement all the time. The lowliest bully understands this -- "Why are you hitting yourself?" they cry, as they drive their victim's hand into his face.
Equal Opportunity is so last century. Now we're looking for equality of result (except when the inequality is in favor of the traditionally disadvantaged group)
You've failed to rule out the alternative hypothesis of sociological pressures working against some girl's natural predilection against STEM. This is particular relevant because the only sociological pressure you mentioned is a positive one, pushing girls towards STEM.
You know what else begins around middle school? Puberty.
The physical sciences are much less imbalanced than computer science. The social sciences are more imbalanced than the physical sciences, but the other way (nobody complains about this). Biological sciences are slightly imbalanced, again towards women.
Because it's an attack on geek culture. It comes down to "All you smelly nerds are discouraging women from entering the field through your geeky ways. Therefore you must abandon those ways and conform to the culture we decide for you."
Yeah, fuck that shit. We've already been rejected by the mainstream, and gone and rejected it right back. Nobody's going to show up and tell us we have to give up what got us rejected in the first place; we've already made that choice.
Tough luck. CS is a nerd field. If you want to start you your own CS program which is full of people who care more about Katy Perry and "The Bachelor" than D&D and Ender's Game, go right ahead. Don't expect nerds to help you out, though; if you want to engage in cultural warfare, you can't expect assistance from the enemy.
Look at Richard Reid (the shoe bomber). Or Feisel, the NYC Times Square bomber. Or the Glasgow airport attack. Yes, our police state is incompetent (which is mostly a good thing). And yes, the terrorists are even more incompetent. They've had one really spectacular idea (which they had to steal from Tom Clancy), another pretty deadly one (the Madrid subway bombing) and a whole string of fizzles and failures. If they were competent, there'd be buildings coming down and SUVs blowing up in crowded areas on a regular basis.
He'll be lucky if Yale's disciplinary board is the only kangaroo court he faces. If Yale is sufficiently annoyed they'll call in the Feds to go all Aaron Swartz on his ass.
Indeed. On that note, I've just submitted a patent application for a method for scheduling elevator cars in a multi-elevator building. It's based on well-known hard disk array head scheduling algorithms.
The NSA under a different name, I would expect.
Indeed. Perhaps the issue is not the numerator but the denominator: that is, there's some source of people, mostly without drivers licenses, which is relatively evenly distributed over ages 16-24. Young immigrants, for instance.