By and large, these guys are elites being trained to do elite stuff. If they go back home, they are likely to remain in the elite class and are not likely to address the systemic issues which plague these developing countries with such high income inequality.
Now I've heard everything - letting individuals travel wherever they please to seek out a better life is "selfish".
Extra points for thinking that highly-educated elites returning to their poor countries will help rather than exploit the poor. They have a gigantic wealth disparity because that's how their wealthy have the system rigged, not because the sons of the rich people are taking tech jobs in America.
Many indeed do have designs on eventually going home, but few actually do. According to this article, only around 1800 people gave up their US green card or citizenship in 2011... and that doesn't even mean they necessarily "went home", just that for some reason they left the US - presumably for good.
Eh, there are certainly historical parallels - but also vast differences. The US "empire" does not include much in the way of overseas holdings.... there isn't really an empire to lose. The US will almost certainly slowly lose influence, but not because it declines. Rather, others are catching up. This is actually a pretty nice situation for all of humanity - save for the brutally oppressive political system in one of the up-and-comers.
No. A free market would result in the most efficient market, which in general means lower prices. In this case, we do not have a free market - instead, we have a distorted market where immigration rules, practical limits on movement of people, and direct government subsidy skew things wildly. If it were a simple matter of not getting into Harvard, shrugging, and then attending the University of Delhi, that would be one thing. That's not a practical scenario, so instead you have tons of foreign money and student population coming in and comparatively little flowing out. Worse, the money and students flowing in are high-performing and mostly paying full sticker price - it's not a representative sampling coming in, it's the cream of the crop with elite-level money. No worries, though, the US government will throw thousands in direct subsidy and loan guarantees so that locals can still go, and this in turn will further distort the market.
You think a PhD in whatever Indian who was considering living in the US will just throw up his hands and say, "Oh, well!"? He's not going home, even if America kicks him to the curb.
It's absolutely not worth the societal cost of driving our education costs up to the moon if we aren't going to retain these people. Either let them in or don't, but don't make our local education market for all into a global market for the elite without realizing some benefit.
I made the comment because your original statement "Most of the world thinks that's kinda stupid." implied that "most of the world" follows civil law. When you look into it, though, "most of the world" has a mixed system - much like Louisiana. If Louisiana isn't an example of civil law... not pure enough... then you are restricting yourself to a handful of countries in Europe - and some of their colonies - that follow the German tradition.
To let them integrate their hardware and make customizations that suit their customers? Why would a Linux distribution be a surprise? There are already like 300 of them.
The fact that the owner of the factory was running them over by hand in 1000-piece batches tells me they weren't planning their supply chain very well. Probably a late change to the design that needed to be produced with zero lead time. I'm sure they had them on a plane from China ASAP.
Norway isn't "socialist". They rely on their capitalist system to finance their social programs. The usual term for this is social democracy. Someone who advocates for this is a social democrat.
In any event, even if you were to term Norway "socialist" for strange branding reasons, unless your country sits on huge reserves of oil and gas and has a tiny population to actually care for it is not much of a realistic model.
Jesus, I looked at the website - either the phone is as big as the TV hanging on my wall or the model has dwarf hands. I don't think people in the market for the diminutive SE are going to be interested in owning a quarter acre of phone.
Only because people rarely get measles. The mortality rate is between 0.1 and 10%, depending on the country. Maybe 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10 is "rare" to you, but it seems pretty tragic to me when it is so preventable.
If the hash is used in common-tech systems you can just re-use the hash.
If anyone is using hashes without salt, that's their problem.
It's just a dumb idea to use a security regime to try to provide convenience it was never meant for generally.
I'm not sure I follow. Disney was having a problem where people would buy an (for example) 8-day pass, use 4 days, and then sell the remainder of the pass. They don't need perfect security, they only need to make this practice less likely. Fingerprints are fairly quick and fairly accurate. They add a little bit of time at the gate, but not as much as the back-check/security so it is acceptable in terms of flow rate. For honest people with a bad fingerprint, it's no big deal - you just wait until they take your picture. Could it be more secure? Absolutely? Does it work well enough to discourage the old practice they were trying to stomp out? Yes.
before we have proper controls in place
I don't exactly have a lot of trust in Disney to have our interests at heart, but I don't have that confidence about the government either. Right now the government in my state (PA) requires fingerprints if you want to work with kids. Not a hash of fingerprints - your actual fingerprints. I don't worry that Disney's hashes will leak and people will use them on similar unsalted systems. I do worry that the entire government fingerprint database will leak and people will use my actual fingerprint as they would a stolen social security number.
No, they don't - and that's my point... the "fingerprint" is just a hash. If the hash is proper, they cannot recreate your fingerprint. They can only confirm that the reader created a hash that matches the one you have on file.
As for the face... I mean you are walking around the park with cameras all over the damn place. 7/11 has your face when you buy gas. We've long since moved on from "OMG they have your picture!"
For this purpose, it's good enough. Look at how Disney does it: you have a fingerprint scanner. If it fails, they come over with an iPad and take a picture of your face. From that point forward, your picture comes up on the little turnstile reader so that the attendant can make sure it is really you. Thus they cut down pass sharing to a maximum of one single transfer and... mission accomplished.
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That would sting a lot more if people weren't lining up to get in here.
By and large, these guys are elites being trained to do elite stuff. If they go back home, they are likely to remain in the elite class and are not likely to address the systemic issues which plague these developing countries with such high income inequality.
It's not one or the other - both massive foreign competition for spots (demand competition) and government subsidy add to the problem.
Now I've heard everything - letting individuals travel wherever they please to seek out a better life is "selfish".
Extra points for thinking that highly-educated elites returning to their poor countries will help rather than exploit the poor. They have a gigantic wealth disparity because that's how their wealthy have the system rigged, not because the sons of the rich people are taking tech jobs in America.
Yes, we're also giving affluent people the boot. Makes sense...
Many indeed do have designs on eventually going home, but few actually do. According to this article, only around 1800 people gave up their US green card or citizenship in 2011... and that doesn't even mean they necessarily "went home", just that for some reason they left the US - presumably for good.
Eh, there are certainly historical parallels - but also vast differences. The US "empire" does not include much in the way of overseas holdings.... there isn't really an empire to lose. The US will almost certainly slowly lose influence, but not because it declines. Rather, others are catching up. This is actually a pretty nice situation for all of humanity - save for the brutally oppressive political system in one of the up-and-comers.
Oh boy! We can be the next UK!
No. A free market would result in the most efficient market, which in general means lower prices. In this case, we do not have a free market - instead, we have a distorted market where immigration rules, practical limits on movement of people, and direct government subsidy skew things wildly. If it were a simple matter of not getting into Harvard, shrugging, and then attending the University of Delhi, that would be one thing. That's not a practical scenario, so instead you have tons of foreign money and student population coming in and comparatively little flowing out. Worse, the money and students flowing in are high-performing and mostly paying full sticker price - it's not a representative sampling coming in, it's the cream of the crop with elite-level money. No worries, though, the US government will throw thousands in direct subsidy and loan guarantees so that locals can still go, and this in turn will further distort the market.
You think a PhD in whatever Indian who was considering living in the US will just throw up his hands and say, "Oh, well!"? He's not going home, even if America kicks him to the curb.
It's absolutely not worth the societal cost of driving our education costs up to the moon if we aren't going to retain these people. Either let them in or don't, but don't make our local education market for all into a global market for the elite without realizing some benefit.
It's absolutely nuts to train the smartest people in the world at the best schools in the world... and then ask them to kindly leave.
I made the comment because your original statement "Most of the world thinks that's kinda stupid." implied that "most of the world" follows civil law. When you look into it, though, "most of the world" has a mixed system - much like Louisiana. If Louisiana isn't an example of civil law... not pure enough... then you are restricting yourself to a handful of countries in Europe - and some of their colonies - that follow the German tradition.
The sane thing to do is to just use Ubuntu
It is an Ubuntu variant.
To let them integrate their hardware and make customizations that suit their customers? Why would a Linux distribution be a surprise? There are already like 300 of them.
MMR is out of patent and is not particularly profitable, so you'll need to do better in the "motive" department.
A vaccine is superior to a treatment because it can prevent the disease altogether.
Your proposal would mean deliberately withholding vaccine and exposing people to disease for experimentation - this would be unethical.
Yeah, but are they special Apple screws with weird heads? I mean, I'll take this part of the story at face value.
If you read between the lines, Apple threw their assembler (Flextronics) under the bus and Flextronics has refused to comment on the story.
The fact that the owner of the factory was running them over by hand in 1000-piece batches tells me they weren't planning their supply chain very well. Probably a late change to the design that needed to be produced with zero lead time. I'm sure they had them on a plane from China ASAP.
Norway isn't "socialist". They rely on their capitalist system to finance their social programs. The usual term for this is social democracy. Someone who advocates for this is a social democrat.
In any event, even if you were to term Norway "socialist" for strange branding reasons, unless your country sits on huge reserves of oil and gas and has a tiny population to actually care for it is not much of a realistic model.
Jesus, I looked at the website - either the phone is as big as the TV hanging on my wall or the model has dwarf hands. I don't think people in the market for the diminutive SE are going to be interested in owning a quarter acre of phone.
Rarely is measles fatal.
Only because people rarely get measles. The mortality rate is between 0.1 and 10%, depending on the country. Maybe 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10 is "rare" to you, but it seems pretty tragic to me when it is so preventable.
If the hash is used in common-tech systems you can just re-use the hash.
If anyone is using hashes without salt, that's their problem.
It's just a dumb idea to use a security regime to try to provide convenience it was never meant for generally.
I'm not sure I follow. Disney was having a problem where people would buy an (for example) 8-day pass, use 4 days, and then sell the remainder of the pass. They don't need perfect security, they only need to make this practice less likely. Fingerprints are fairly quick and fairly accurate. They add a little bit of time at the gate, but not as much as the back-check/security so it is acceptable in terms of flow rate. For honest people with a bad fingerprint, it's no big deal - you just wait until they take your picture. Could it be more secure? Absolutely? Does it work well enough to discourage the old practice they were trying to stomp out? Yes.
before we have proper controls in place
I don't exactly have a lot of trust in Disney to have our interests at heart, but I don't have that confidence about the government either. Right now the government in my state (PA) requires fingerprints if you want to work with kids. Not a hash of fingerprints - your actual fingerprints. I don't worry that Disney's hashes will leak and people will use them on similar unsalted systems. I do worry that the entire government fingerprint database will leak and people will use my actual fingerprint as they would a stolen social security number.
No, they don't - and that's my point... the "fingerprint" is just a hash. If the hash is proper, they cannot recreate your fingerprint. They can only confirm that the reader created a hash that matches the one you have on file.
As for the face... I mean you are walking around the park with cameras all over the damn place. 7/11 has your face when you buy gas. We've long since moved on from "OMG they have your picture!"
For this purpose, it's good enough. Look at how Disney does it: you have a fingerprint scanner. If it fails, they come over with an iPad and take a picture of your face. From that point forward, your picture comes up on the little turnstile reader so that the attendant can make sure it is really you. Thus they cut down pass sharing to a maximum of one single transfer and... mission accomplished.