I looked into Python for scientific/numeric programming, and from what I gather, key value paired lists are at its foundation and everything, including its object class model, is layered on top of that. Java, on the other hand, is based on an object class model from which you construct data structure objects such as key value paired hash lists?
What I like about Java is that it supports dense arrays of numeric values. Its dense-array model is an exception to "everything is a" hash list/object/thingy. It appeared to me that Python implements arrays on top of key value paired lists/hash lists/dictionaries/whatever-you-want-to-call-them. Maybe that works for sparse-array numeric linear algebra, but much numerical programming involves operations on dense numerical arrays where compilers optimize array access in loops to incrementing address registers. Even in Java, which does not allow disabling this safety feature, the compiler will analyze loops to optimize bounds checking.
Python has NumPy to support dense arrays of numeric values in this fashion, but NumPy, at least at the time 10 years ago I looked at it, was this wart on the Python language, in other words, something that sticks out and gives the appearance that it doesn't really belong there. It is straightforward to operate on NumPy arrays in native-code extension modules to Python, but on the Python side, such an array is this "blob" that you can only poke at with native-function calls.
Matlab is the "thing", the expensive, proprietary thing that persons with engineering domain knowledge who cannot be bothered to learn a "real" programming language use. It is for the people who used to use Fortran to perform engineering calculations with one of those Tektronix "vector storage" video displays 40 years ago and now they have Matlab, which combines a goofy scripting language with a GUI with a vast legacy Fortran and C numerical library with a graphical visualization library.
Forget about Matlab; I run Java as my "FORTRAN" in Eclipse and my Java programs output tab-separated columns of numeric data. Java does not have an "immediate mode eval-prompt" like the Matlab command windows, but the incremental syntax checking and compiling allows for much faster edit-build-execute cycles that what Visual Studio offers with C/C++. If my program crashes, I can quickly find the offending line in the Eclipse edit window -- good luck with that in C/C++. The Eclipse console window is a text-mode GUI allowing data exchange with other GUIs -- C++ in Visual Studio does not support such data exchange of numeric console-mode output. My "Tektronix vector storage display" is copy-and-paste to an Excel or Open Office Calc spreadsheet to plot the results.
In my ideal world, there would be 3 layers, scripting/incrementally compiled managed-code/native code. I would like something other than the serious-coin-per-seat sole-source Matlab as the scripting layer (it interfaces well with Java with transparent exchange of dense arrays, in fact, the Matlab GUI is written in Java), but I really like Java for that middle layer.
on the Engineering Quadrangle, Google had students queued up to get a donut along with a chance to win a Google Donut or whatever they call their clone of the Amazon Echo. They were totally slow because you had to give over your personal information to even get the kind of donut you could eat, and they had this Disney-ride line-control labyrinth filled with students by 8:30 AM. Sure wish I had my camera to photograph Google treating a large mob of Engineering students like cattle in a feedlot.
What did this have to do with the mission of the College of Engineering?
I had thought that Mr. Damore posted to an internal Google message board where employees were encouraged to post their views on the diversity policy?
If he had posted publically in his role as a Google employee, I would concur with the sobriquet "dumbass."
Had he on his own initiative circulated an "you are entitled to reading my opinion" memo within Google, also "dumbass."
Since he responded to an internal Google request to carry on a conversation on a potentially controversial company policy . . . wait, "conversation" doesn't mean having a back-and-forth exchange of views, "conversation" means the company speaks with one voice and the employee politely listens. This is a widely known social convention, this is not by everyone in the world apart from maybe a 'spergie coder. Never mind, "dumbass"!
Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin comments on an impresario in the news for allegations, which the subject of these allegatiions has as much as admitted, that he had assaulted many women. Mr. Baldwin remarks on Twitter or other public places that "everyone knew" what was going on but said impresario was not held to account because "women accepted settlements."
The response to Mr. Baldwin was yes, women accepted financial settlements in exchange for their silence but what choice did they have given how the "system is rigged"? Excellent point, and there is also a "you go first" problem. Once many women come forward with corroborated stories, it is not anywhere near as hard as if you are the first woman to come forward against a well-connected man and how you as the accuser are going to be put on trial.
But that is not how the correct-thinking persons are responding to the once correct-thinking Alec Baldwin. There is not a conversation of the form, "This wouldn't have been such a problem if the women hadn't accepted financial settlements" to which the response could be offered, "Yes, I see your point that maintaining silence perpetuates the problem. But you also have to take into account that the first woman to speak out will be facing tremendous obstacles, especially not knowing if other women will follow in speaking out."
No, Mr. Baldwin offers his opinion and then it is, "Oh the Humanity! How can Baldwin make such a sexist, insensitive remark? Alec Baldwin is the worst sort of man in Hollywood with no regard for what women in Hollywood go through! Mr. Baldwin's career is finished."
The subject here is a somewhat different aspect of men's inhumanity to women, but do not many of the "debunkings" of James Damore, here and elsewhere, fit this pattern?
Sometimes you need what the Vatican called a "Devil's advocate" when considering whether to venerate person as a saint.
Heaven knows that the late Christopher Hitchens was "one step above a stalker" of Anjezë Bojaxhiu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
On the other hand, Mother Teresa became an object of unquestioning cult veneration while living and after her passing. Her personal sacrifice, her willingness to work with the sickest of the sick among the poorest of the poor, what saintliness. "Mother Teresa" becomes a throw-away line in a Sunday sermon.
Maybe, just maybe, this saintly lady had her own obsessions. She was running a hospice, after all, but maybe her practice could have made better use of pain-relief medication rather than having end-stage cancer patients in agony, telling them that their suffering is a virtuous imitation of Christ?
So why do I "believe" the godless Mr. Hitchens instead of Catholic Christian believers regarding Mother Teresa? Maybe I have heard many accounts as well as experienced for myself where belief becomes an ideology not properly tempered by common sense? Don't tell that patient that their indescribable pain is making them go to Heaven, give them some morphine, please! Yes, Mr. Hitchens may have been crazy to doubt Mother Teresa's goodness, but there is that trope that crazy people sometimes utter truths, not just that, warnings one ought to heed.
So what is so wrong about "making her a saint." For all of Hitch's knocks, Mother Teresa is in Heaven for all I am able to know and for all I am permitted to judge. On the other hand, the rush-to-sainthood on her, in light of suppressing her human frailties, weakens the moral authority of the Vatican with respect to its role in steering others towards becoming unheralded saints. I am told the Vatican cut corners in this process (like Elon getting his Model 3 line running?) by leaving out the Devil's advocate.
OK, I have played out the analogy of Missionaries of Charities to a car, but one can get the idea. Father Elon is shepherding us towards our de-carbonized transportation Future, but there is an Amen Corner of supporters who cannot admit to any of his shortcomings. Do you think that the Niedermeyers (and Hitchens) are doing a service in that their absence, there will be no questioning taking place?
The white-supremacist meme that the unarmed black men shot by the police deserved to be shot by the police?
Or the BLM meme that the unarmed black men were shot by racist cops?
But that the cops are racists may encourage the white supremacists because they want the cops to be racists who shoot black persons for no apparent reason?
Or the BLM view that the cops are indeed racists despite their denials because of the white supremacists wanting the cops to be racist?
As I said, Mr. Gassee visits the assembly line as a celebrity Model S purchaser, snarks about what he sees to his fellow celebrity Model S purchasers, and is treated as a social pariah.
I suspect that Tesla may be overworking its employees to square the circle between what they are promising and what is possible. Am I eager to see them fail? Would I have been eager to see the Roman Empire fail, after all, those guys who couldn't keep up with the accelerated rowing tempo deserved to be whipped -- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And skepticism about the enterprise makes me vested in seeing Tesla fail (a wrecker or saboteur or is it a moocher or looter in keeping with the Rand's anti-Socialism?).
The size of the Continental U.S. in relation to Texas in relation to UK in relation to New Jersey is 3000:260:90:7. Wales is about the same size as New Jersey.
So yes, the size of Texas in relation to the U.S. (apart from Alaska) is about the size of Wales in relation to U.K..
It is an odd thing for Ayn Rand disciples with the empathy for workers of the fictional Gordon Gecko to be so stoked to tell us "Nothing to see here, move along" about Tesla. Usually those in the free-market-uber-alles faction are just not that impressed by electric cars. A person has to wonder if a Slashdot faction commenting on this story has an "agenda."
It is also an odd thing that Honda and other multi-national automakers have been able to set up non-union shops here in the U.S. without engaging in across-the-board purges in a way to get the UAW to smell blood.
Talking about blood, Jean-Louis Gassee, who has a chronic medical condition requiring frequent testing of his own blood, had some interesting insights as to why tech wunderkind Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos blood-testing company seemed odd. More recently he blogged about visiting the Fremont plant as a celebrity Model S purchaser and how he rubbed his Tesla-enthusiastic fellow celebrities the wrong way with his remarks (Gassee was buying a Model S for his wife, he explains). Parts were stacked high in contradiction of Lean Manufacturing dogma, and in contrast with the Maryville, Ohio Honda plant he had observed, the Tesla shop floor activity was frenetic. The Honda plant, by contrast, had its assembly line running so smoothly that the workers did not appear to be breaking a sweat.
The Tesla Model S is an incredible automobile, they tell me, and maybe the problem with it is that it is incredible that Tesla is able to sell an automobile of that sophistication for the price they charge without it all being smoke-and-mirrors of burning out its workers and fleecing its investors to contribute the labor and money to in effect give away what are effectively hand-built quarter million-dollar cars?
The stories of 70-hour work weeks of relentless pressure are just sour grapes from slackers who deserved to be cut loose? And what about SpaceX, the darling of the Ayn Rand space cadets, where Musk is able to work miracles launching reusable rockets for low money while the Boeing and Rocketdyne or whoever are spinning their fins attempting to build a new rocket, using armies of slacker aerospace workers who just put in their time and then go home to watch their daughters' soccer games, whereas SpaceX has a cadre of enthusiastic non-slacking workers putting in the 70-hour work weeks of the Apollo era where everyone ended up divorced?
Back at Tesla, they are trying to speed up their line ten-fold to go from the high-end luxury market of the S to the upper-mass market sedan market of the Model 3. And there are just some "bottlenecks" to be worked out? While their "body" line tooling is still being put together in some undisclosed location in Southeast Michigan?
So everything is fine with everything Elon, and he is going to work out these snags like he has worked out every engineering problem he has faced before because he is a Genius, the bitching about these recent dismissals is just a distraction. OK.
I ran a Google Scholar search that turned up a paper "Jerk Influence Coefficients, Through Screw Theory, of Closed Chains." The title is not a vulgar joke as each of the phrases is a term-of-art on the topic of rigid-body (yes, another domain-specific term) mechanics.
Let's just say Google served me a large number of adds on the assumption that I belong to what is only a narrow subculture of a broader and more diverse community.
You are saying what a lot of people are saying, that a cohort of people are living in the United States, brought here has infants or very small children, speaking only English and they really don't have a home country apart from the United States. You are strongly suggesting that these circumstances demand a legislative solution given that President Trump will no longer continue President Obama's Executive Order.
I am saying that if a person is in violation of immigration laws because their parents or someone else violated those laws, grant that person some type of immigration amnesty but strengthen enforcement going forward that successive generations of children without "agency" are not put in the same position. I agree with what you are saying, I advocate giving legislative relief to the persons you describe, and I say that legislation should be combined with enforcement against putting the next generation in that position.
I gather that you are taking offense that I am equating your position with Yes DACA, No Wall? Yes, you never said that you were against an enforcement provision to a law helping persons already here? Everyone else who is demanding action on DACA on account of that heart-wrenching personal stories, however, is demanding a "clean DACA bill."
I hereby stand corrected and apologize to the extent that I have been critical of your remark, being that you at least tacitly and silently do not have difficulty with combining a DACA bill with immigration-law enforcement?
So the First Amazon, on the farthest reaches of the American continent, was based on technology and engineering. The Second Amazon, its location kept secret but as far from the First Amazon as possible in the oldest American city, was based on persuasion and manipulating customers' minds?
And when the First Amazon fails/falls, the Second Amazon will already have taken over without anyone knowing about it. But then the whole thing will be proved a sham as everything was a scheme hatched by the first intelligent robot?
You are forgetting that W advanced a Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- I remember his Oval Office speech advancing his case to the American people as if it were yesterday. It lit up the telephone switchboards of the rightwing nuthouse (U.S. House of Representatives) of which you speak.
You are forgetting that on News for Nerds that a whole lot of nerds here are under the impression that their careers got sidetracked and that they are working as Wal-Mart greeters on account of H1B, outsourcing, etc. from the very corporate organizations that are pleading for the DACA people.
What are the corporations pleading for the DACA people offering by way of a "deal"? Documenting the DACA people by statute and then restricting H1B? Outsourcing? Or is it a "Clean DACA bill"? There is no "deal." Deals are morally corrupt? Do what we demand because the people wanting something in return (like every other person commenting on Slashdot) are nutcases?
Speaking as the child of refugee immigrants, I can speak to at least one immigrant community, whose Fourth of July gathering was conducted in a language of which I understood not one word (Mom was grew up as an ethnic minority to that community in the Old Country that spoke a different language -- Dad grew up as an ethnic minority speaking the language in a different community in the Old Country).
I didn't understand anything said, but a lot of American flags were waved. I am not requiring anyone to wave an American flag or not to wave a Mexican flag, but waving an American flag -- I was raised here, I speak English and not a word of the language from the Old Country (like me), I am culturally American and you want to send me where? -- waving the American flag could elicit a great deal more sympathy.
If anything, it would make one's narrative a good deal more concordant?
How about this arrangement. People come here legally and not legally from Mexico and many other countries, so what is so special about Mexico? For starters, Mexico is our next-door neighbor, so there is a basis for making an exception.
As president of Mexico, Vincente Fox expressed a vision that Canada-U.S.-Mexico through NAFTA could be a North American version of the EU, not only free trade but also free migration of people. He expressed the hope that through NAFTA and future agreements that the economy of Mexico could develop to the point that free migration was tenable, and he pointed to how Spain improved economically to become closer to the level of Germany to allow visa-free movement of people between Spain and Germany. I heard such a thing when Mr. Fox was interviewed on of the U.S. Sunday Interview programs.
We have such free migration of people between the individual states in the United States because Federalism. The states can do what they want, up to a point, but the Federal government does a lot, for example, to harmonize social welfare programs between the states so there is not a stampede of the destitute of Chicago migrating to Wisconsin.
Do we get to impose conditions on Mexico to "get their act together" to allow a free and open shared border between us, or is that too much like that "insult and honor" thing or too much like the history of Texas? Does the U.S. get to scold Mexico the way Germany and EU HQ in Brussels does of, say, Greece?
Each person who crossed the border or overstayed a visa or was below the age of majority and whose parents did the same on their behalf has their unique personal story and life circumstances. Each one of them has a personal need to remain in the U.S. (and I take it they are all fluent in English and are not speaking a language of their birth country?) To issue a blanket dismissal of such concerns and not look to the needs to persons among us is indeed not who we are as a country.
Well good. Especially since many people under those circumstances are here, raised and indoctrinated in our shared American since early childhood. They are here because immigration laws were not adequately enforced, creating de facto Open Borders.
OK then, we offer work permits and legitimate Social Security Numbers and amnesty to those here under those circumstances. And going forward, we more sincerely enforce immigration laws so future generations of children do not end up in the same vexing circumstances, whether that enforcement take the form of a Border Wall (more like a more secure border fence), E-verify of citizenship or work-permit immigrant status or whatever.
The optics of this I am seeing is "DACA/Dreamer yes, Wall no!" I see the House Minority Leader meeting with the Administration to work out a "deal" combining an amnesty of this segment of the undocumented population with some manner of improved enforcement and then turn around to a political rally and demand a "clean" DACA/DREAM bill (amnesty with no enforcement).
So a DACA/DREAM bill is existentially and essential but Mr. Trump's Wall is an insult? Go ahead, block the Wall as a matter of honor that one's heritage and national origin is insulted by the mere thought of such a thing, but demand (a partial) immigration amnesty? Why not, if you have the political power demand DACA Yes, Wall no? No deals!
Where does that leave the DACA people according to the current political climate -- no legal status and no Wall? If you are going to agree to that to not be insulted and dishonored by the Wall, then is that status of the DACA people really that existential that they are employed as political pawns in standing up to Mr. Trump? Is that what you want?
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I looked into Python for scientific/numeric programming, and from what I gather, key value paired lists are at its foundation and everything, including its object class model, is layered on top of that. Java, on the other hand, is based on an object class model from which you construct data structure objects such as key value paired hash lists?
What I like about Java is that it supports dense arrays of numeric values. Its dense-array model is an exception to "everything is a" hash list/object/thingy. It appeared to me that Python implements arrays on top of key value paired lists/hash lists/dictionaries/whatever-you-want-to-call-them. Maybe that works for sparse-array numeric linear algebra, but much numerical programming involves operations on dense numerical arrays where compilers optimize array access in loops to incrementing address registers. Even in Java, which does not allow disabling this safety feature, the compiler will analyze loops to optimize bounds checking.
Python has NumPy to support dense arrays of numeric values in this fashion, but NumPy, at least at the time 10 years ago I looked at it, was this wart on the Python language, in other words, something that sticks out and gives the appearance that it doesn't really belong there. It is straightforward to operate on NumPy arrays in native-code extension modules to Python, but on the Python side, such an array is this "blob" that you can only poke at with native-function calls.
Matlab is the "thing", the expensive, proprietary thing that persons with engineering domain knowledge who cannot be bothered to learn a "real" programming language use. It is for the people who used to use Fortran to perform engineering calculations with one of those Tektronix "vector storage" video displays 40 years ago and now they have Matlab, which combines a goofy scripting language with a GUI with a vast legacy Fortran and C numerical library with a graphical visualization library.
Forget about Matlab; I run Java as my "FORTRAN" in Eclipse and my Java programs output tab-separated columns of numeric data. Java does not have an "immediate mode eval-prompt" like the Matlab command windows, but the incremental syntax checking and compiling allows for much faster edit-build-execute cycles that what Visual Studio offers with C/C++. If my program crashes, I can quickly find the offending line in the Eclipse edit window -- good luck with that in C/C++. The Eclipse console window is a text-mode GUI allowing data exchange with other GUIs -- C++ in Visual Studio does not support such data exchange of numeric console-mode output. My "Tektronix vector storage display" is copy-and-paste to an Excel or Open Office Calc spreadsheet to plot the results.
In my ideal world, there would be 3 layers, scripting/incrementally compiled managed-code/native code. I would like something other than the serious-coin-per-seat sole-source Matlab as the scripting layer (it interfaces well with Java with transparent exchange of dense arrays, in fact, the Matlab GUI is written in Java), but I really like Java for that middle layer.
on the Engineering Quadrangle, Google had students queued up to get a donut along with a chance to win a Google Donut or whatever they call their clone of the Amazon Echo. They were totally slow because you had to give over your personal information to even get the kind of donut you could eat, and they had this Disney-ride line-control labyrinth filled with students by 8:30 AM. Sure wish I had my camera to photograph Google treating a large mob of Engineering students like cattle in a feedlot.
What did this have to do with the mission of the College of Engineering?
Since Mr. Torvald's kernel was the enabling contribution, I propose calling it "Linux-GNU."
I had thought that Mr. Damore posted to an internal Google message board where employees were encouraged to post their views on the diversity policy?
If he had posted publically in his role as a Google employee, I would concur with the sobriquet "dumbass."
Had he on his own initiative circulated an "you are entitled to reading my opinion" memo within Google, also "dumbass."
Since he responded to an internal Google request to carry on a conversation on a potentially controversial company policy . . . wait, "conversation" doesn't mean having a back-and-forth exchange of views, "conversation" means the company speaks with one voice and the employee politely listens. This is a widely known social convention, this is not by everyone in the world apart from maybe a 'spergie coder. Never mind, "dumbass"!
Just asking.
Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin comments on an impresario in the news for allegations, which the subject of these allegatiions has as much as admitted, that he had assaulted many women. Mr. Baldwin remarks on Twitter or other public places that "everyone knew" what was going on but said impresario was not held to account because "women accepted settlements."
The response to Mr. Baldwin was yes, women accepted financial settlements in exchange for their silence but what choice did they have given how the "system is rigged"? Excellent point, and there is also a "you go first" problem. Once many women come forward with corroborated stories, it is not anywhere near as hard as if you are the first woman to come forward against a well-connected man and how you as the accuser are going to be put on trial.
But that is not how the correct-thinking persons are responding to the once correct-thinking Alec Baldwin. There is not a conversation of the form, "This wouldn't have been such a problem if the women hadn't accepted financial settlements" to which the response could be offered, "Yes, I see your point that maintaining silence perpetuates the problem. But you also have to take into account that the first woman to speak out will be facing tremendous obstacles, especially not knowing if other women will follow in speaking out."
No, Mr. Baldwin offers his opinion and then it is, "Oh the Humanity! How can Baldwin make such a sexist, insensitive remark? Alec Baldwin is the worst sort of man in Hollywood with no regard for what women in Hollywood go through! Mr. Baldwin's career is finished."
The subject here is a somewhat different aspect of men's inhumanity to women, but do not many of the "debunkings" of James Damore, here and elsewhere, fit this pattern?
Who knew that the Airbus Consortium designs ships for the United States Navy?
Sometimes you need what the Vatican called a "Devil's advocate" when considering whether to venerate person as a saint.
Heaven knows that the late Christopher Hitchens was "one step above a stalker" of Anjezë Bojaxhiu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
On the other hand, Mother Teresa became an object of unquestioning cult veneration while living and after her passing. Her personal sacrifice, her willingness to work with the sickest of the sick among the poorest of the poor, what saintliness. "Mother Teresa" becomes a throw-away line in a Sunday sermon.
Maybe, just maybe, this saintly lady had her own obsessions. She was running a hospice, after all, but maybe her practice could have made better use of pain-relief medication rather than having end-stage cancer patients in agony, telling them that their suffering is a virtuous imitation of Christ?
So why do I "believe" the godless Mr. Hitchens instead of Catholic Christian believers regarding Mother Teresa? Maybe I have heard many accounts as well as experienced for myself where belief becomes an ideology not properly tempered by common sense? Don't tell that patient that their indescribable pain is making them go to Heaven, give them some morphine, please! Yes, Mr. Hitchens may have been crazy to doubt Mother Teresa's goodness, but there is that trope that crazy people sometimes utter truths, not just that, warnings one ought to heed.
So what is so wrong about "making her a saint." For all of Hitch's knocks, Mother Teresa is in Heaven for all I am able to know and for all I am permitted to judge. On the other hand, the rush-to-sainthood on her, in light of suppressing her human frailties, weakens the moral authority of the Vatican with respect to its role in steering others towards becoming unheralded saints. I am told the Vatican cut corners in this process (like Elon getting his Model 3 line running?) by leaving out the Devil's advocate.
OK, I have played out the analogy of Missionaries of Charities to a car, but one can get the idea. Father Elon is shepherding us towards our de-carbonized transportation Future, but there is an Amen Corner of supporters who cannot admit to any of his shortcomings. Do you think that the Niedermeyers (and Hitchens) are doing a service in that their absence, there will be no questioning taking place?
https://dailykanban.com/2017/1...
Production Hell? How about Tesla as a business-to-business customer-from Hell.
Russians? I am mad at the Germans too! They are all strange-talkin' ferriners.
The white-supremacist meme that the unarmed black men shot by the police deserved to be shot by the police?
Or the BLM meme that the unarmed black men were shot by racist cops?
But that the cops are racists may encourage the white supremacists because they want the cops to be racists who shoot black persons for no apparent reason?
Or the BLM view that the cops are indeed racists despite their denials because of the white supremacists wanting the cops to be racist?
Mark Zuckerberg trolls . . . you!
Links http://www.mantouchong.com/201... http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
As I said, Mr. Gassee visits the assembly line as a celebrity Model S purchaser, snarks about what he sees to his fellow celebrity Model S purchasers, and is treated as a social pariah.
I suspect that Tesla may be overworking its employees to square the circle between what they are promising and what is possible. Am I eager to see them fail? Would I have been eager to see the Roman Empire fail, after all, those guys who couldn't keep up with the accelerated rowing tempo deserved to be whipped -- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And skepticism about the enterprise makes me vested in seeing Tesla fail (a wrecker or saboteur or is it a moocher or looter in keeping with the Rand's anti-Socialism?).
Battle speed, hortator!
The size of the Continental U.S. in relation to Texas in relation to UK in relation to New Jersey is 3000:260:90:7. Wales is about the same size as New Jersey.
So yes, the size of Texas in relation to the U.S. (apart from Alaska) is about the size of Wales in relation to U.K..
It is an odd thing for Ayn Rand disciples with the empathy for workers of the fictional Gordon Gecko to be so stoked to tell us "Nothing to see here, move along" about Tesla. Usually those in the free-market-uber-alles faction are just not that impressed by electric cars. A person has to wonder if a Slashdot faction commenting on this story has an "agenda."
It is also an odd thing that Honda and other multi-national automakers have been able to set up non-union shops here in the U.S. without engaging in across-the-board purges in a way to get the UAW to smell blood.
Talking about blood, Jean-Louis Gassee, who has a chronic medical condition requiring frequent testing of his own blood, had some interesting insights as to why tech wunderkind Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos blood-testing company seemed odd. More recently he blogged about visiting the Fremont plant as a celebrity Model S purchaser and how he rubbed his Tesla-enthusiastic fellow celebrities the wrong way with his remarks (Gassee was buying a Model S for his wife, he explains). Parts were stacked high in contradiction of Lean Manufacturing dogma, and in contrast with the Maryville, Ohio Honda plant he had observed, the Tesla shop floor activity was frenetic. The Honda plant, by contrast, had its assembly line running so smoothly that the workers did not appear to be breaking a sweat.
The Tesla Model S is an incredible automobile, they tell me, and maybe the problem with it is that it is incredible that Tesla is able to sell an automobile of that sophistication for the price they charge without it all being smoke-and-mirrors of burning out its workers and fleecing its investors to contribute the labor and money to in effect give away what are effectively hand-built quarter million-dollar cars?
The stories of 70-hour work weeks of relentless pressure are just sour grapes from slackers who deserved to be cut loose? And what about SpaceX, the darling of the Ayn Rand space cadets, where Musk is able to work miracles launching reusable rockets for low money while the Boeing and Rocketdyne or whoever are spinning their fins attempting to build a new rocket, using armies of slacker aerospace workers who just put in their time and then go home to watch their daughters' soccer games, whereas SpaceX has a cadre of enthusiastic non-slacking workers putting in the 70-hour work weeks of the Apollo era where everyone ended up divorced?
Back at Tesla, they are trying to speed up their line ten-fold to go from the high-end luxury market of the S to the upper-mass market sedan market of the Model 3. And there are just some "bottlenecks" to be worked out? While their "body" line tooling is still being put together in some undisclosed location in Southeast Michigan?
So everything is fine with everything Elon, and he is going to work out these snags like he has worked out every engineering problem he has faced before because he is a Genius, the bitching about these recent dismissals is just a distraction. OK.
I ran a Google Scholar search that turned up a paper "Jerk Influence Coefficients, Through Screw Theory, of Closed Chains." The title is not a vulgar joke as each of the phrases is a term-of-art on the topic of rigid-body (yes, another domain-specific term) mechanics.
Let's just say Google served me a large number of adds on the assumption that I belong to what is only a narrow subculture of a broader and more diverse community.
You are saying what a lot of people are saying, that a cohort of people are living in the United States, brought here has infants or very small children, speaking only English and they really don't have a home country apart from the United States. You are strongly suggesting that these circumstances demand a legislative solution given that President Trump will no longer continue President Obama's Executive Order.
I am saying that if a person is in violation of immigration laws because their parents or someone else violated those laws, grant that person some type of immigration amnesty but strengthen enforcement going forward that successive generations of children without "agency" are not put in the same position. I agree with what you are saying, I advocate giving legislative relief to the persons you describe, and I say that legislation should be combined with enforcement against putting the next generation in that position.
I gather that you are taking offense that I am equating your position with Yes DACA, No Wall? Yes, you never said that you were against an enforcement provision to a law helping persons already here? Everyone else who is demanding action on DACA on account of that heart-wrenching personal stories, however, is demanding a "clean DACA bill."
I hereby stand corrected and apologize to the extent that I have been critical of your remark, being that you at least tacitly and silently do not have difficulty with combining a DACA bill with immigration-law enforcement?
So the First Amazon, on the farthest reaches of the American continent, was based on technology and engineering. The Second Amazon, its location kept secret but as far from the First Amazon as possible in the oldest American city, was based on persuasion and manipulating customers' minds?
And when the First Amazon fails/falls, the Second Amazon will already have taken over without anyone knowing about it. But then the whole thing will be proved a sham as everything was a scheme hatched by the first intelligent robot?
You are forgetting that W advanced a Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- I remember his Oval Office speech advancing his case to the American people as if it were yesterday. It lit up the telephone switchboards of the rightwing nuthouse (U.S. House of Representatives) of which you speak.
You are forgetting that on News for Nerds that a whole lot of nerds here are under the impression that their careers got sidetracked and that they are working as Wal-Mart greeters on account of H1B, outsourcing, etc. from the very corporate organizations that are pleading for the DACA people.
What are the corporations pleading for the DACA people offering by way of a "deal"? Documenting the DACA people by statute and then restricting H1B? Outsourcing? Or is it a "Clean DACA bill"? There is no "deal." Deals are morally corrupt? Do what we demand because the people wanting something in return (like every other person commenting on Slashdot) are nutcases?
Speaking as the child of refugee immigrants, I can speak to at least one immigrant community, whose Fourth of July gathering was conducted in a language of which I understood not one word (Mom was grew up as an ethnic minority to that community in the Old Country that spoke a different language -- Dad grew up as an ethnic minority speaking the language in a different community in the Old Country).
I didn't understand anything said, but a lot of American flags were waved. I am not requiring anyone to wave an American flag or not to wave a Mexican flag, but waving an American flag -- I was raised here, I speak English and not a word of the language from the Old Country (like me), I am culturally American and you want to send me where? -- waving the American flag could elicit a great deal more sympathy.
If anything, it would make one's narrative a good deal more concordant?
How about this arrangement. People come here legally and not legally from Mexico and many other countries, so what is so special about Mexico? For starters, Mexico is our next-door neighbor, so there is a basis for making an exception.
As president of Mexico, Vincente Fox expressed a vision that Canada-U.S.-Mexico through NAFTA could be a North American version of the EU, not only free trade but also free migration of people. He expressed the hope that through NAFTA and future agreements that the economy of Mexico could develop to the point that free migration was tenable, and he pointed to how Spain improved economically to become closer to the level of Germany to allow visa-free movement of people between Spain and Germany. I heard such a thing when Mr. Fox was interviewed on of the U.S. Sunday Interview programs.
We have such free migration of people between the individual states in the United States because Federalism. The states can do what they want, up to a point, but the Federal government does a lot, for example, to harmonize social welfare programs between the states so there is not a stampede of the destitute of Chicago migrating to Wisconsin.
Do we get to impose conditions on Mexico to "get their act together" to allow a free and open shared border between us, or is that too much like that "insult and honor" thing or too much like the history of Texas? Does the U.S. get to scold Mexico the way Germany and EU HQ in Brussels does of, say, Greece?
Just asking.
Each person who crossed the border or overstayed a visa or was below the age of majority and whose parents did the same on their behalf has their unique personal story and life circumstances. Each one of them has a personal need to remain in the U.S. (and I take it they are all fluent in English and are not speaking a language of their birth country?) To issue a blanket dismissal of such concerns and not look to the needs to persons among us is indeed not who we are as a country.
Well good. Especially since many people under those circumstances are here, raised and indoctrinated in our shared American since early childhood. They are here because immigration laws were not adequately enforced, creating de facto Open Borders.
OK then, we offer work permits and legitimate Social Security Numbers and amnesty to those here under those circumstances. And going forward, we more sincerely enforce immigration laws so future generations of children do not end up in the same vexing circumstances, whether that enforcement take the form of a Border Wall (more like a more secure border fence), E-verify of citizenship or work-permit immigrant status or whatever.
The optics of this I am seeing is "DACA/Dreamer yes, Wall no!" I see the House Minority Leader meeting with the Administration to work out a "deal" combining an amnesty of this segment of the undocumented population with some manner of improved enforcement and then turn around to a political rally and demand a "clean" DACA/DREAM bill (amnesty with no enforcement).
So a DACA/DREAM bill is existentially and essential but Mr. Trump's Wall is an insult? Go ahead, block the Wall as a matter of honor that one's heritage and national origin is insulted by the mere thought of such a thing, but demand (a partial) immigration amnesty? Why not, if you have the political power demand DACA Yes, Wall no? No deals!
Where does that leave the DACA people according to the current political climate -- no legal status and no Wall? If you are going to agree to that to not be insulted and dishonored by the Wall, then is that status of the DACA people really that existential that they are employed as political pawns in standing up to Mr. Trump? Is that what you want?
I see that yard sign in the host community of a major public university.
I take it you do not share this sentiment?
Because salmon or because it is reliable?
Wind chops up hawks and eagles, but it is unreliable so I guess it is OK then?