Are you joking? H1Bs "prove there is no national qualified to do the job"?
How often have you worked with H1Bs? Many competent, many not competent at all. Never seen US citizens as incompetent as bottom rung H1Bs. The "certification" is fraudulent BS. H1B pimps funnel kick backs and favors to corporate hiring managers. The slush funds that H1B pimps can suck from the system is what fuels the demand for H1Bs, not a lack of local labor.
I'm not sure about that. Lots of research assistants and teaching assistants were foreign nationals back in my day. Did they still have to pay full tuition? Even if they didn't, graduate engineering TAs and RAs receive little compensation compared to their market value, and work long hours. Probably still a good deal for the university.
It's the problem of status and perception. Once you take a factory job, you have become a "factory worker", and the next office isn't going to hire a factory worker for an office job, now will they?
Forgive me, but I dont really understand why people in this country deserve jobs more than people in another country, particularly if theyre more skilled or asking for less money.
They don't. Just as the people in this country don't *deserve* courts, laws, armies, police, fire departments, food stamps, welfare, health care, etc., more than people in other countries.
But the US federal government wasn't created to give everyone in the universe what they deserve, it was created by US citizens for the benefit of US citizens.
Think about where Osama was hiding. He was practically within shouting distance of a major Pakistani military base. Do you really think that's a coincidence?
No. It's a ridiculous Kabuki dance. The Pakistanis are our enemies. They protected Bin Laden.
Pakistan doesn't want to announce to the American people that they are our enemies, because then the US might actually do something. So they pretend. Similarly, no US administration wants to publicly admit the Pakistanis are our enemies, because they don't want to fight a nuclear nation. So, everybody pretends.
They pretend they help us fight Al Qaeda. We pretend they weren't protecting Bin Laden. So, hey, sorry about that sovereignty thing, but we're both fighting Al Qaeda, so we didn't think you'd really mind if we took out Bin Laden.
Defeating fascist totalitarianism, soviet totalitarianism, Baathist totalitarianism, and now fighting theocratic totalitarianism is "pushing everyone on the playground over in the mud".
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that all of the oil fields in Alaska are owned by the state, and that the reason taxes are so low is that the state government makes more than enough money from the oil. That was always one of the amusing ironies of Sarah Palin, that for all her neo-conservative talking points, she was governor of what was a pretty communist state.
The principle behind a citizen's dividend for private use of a natural resource is at least as old as Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice. Paine was all for private property rights, but unlike modern day right wing hacks, he limited them to where they were justly earned.
Addiction represents zero freedom. Indoctrination represents zero freedom. Lack of resources represents zero freedom. Lack of "needs" represents zero freedom. Blah blah blah blah...
The only freedom some people believe in is their freedom to run their neighbor's life.
We are talking about the same SCOTUS that fucked up Citizen's United right?
No, we're talking about the same SCOTUS that got Citizen's United perfectly *right*, and protected the right of citizens to engage in political speech.
"and the knowledge that, at the end of the whole process, nearly everything they worked on would likely end up tossed away."
Do they think that's the last election that will ever be held? Or are they just all pretending that all code and documentation was thrown away, so that each of them can sell their "secret backups" at the next gig?
Or not. More than once, the reponse I've seen was the icy equivalent of "Your understanding is not my problem."
Under most management, it's worst than that. "Your misunderstanding is my asset." When you have a large chunk of code that only you understand, you become the genius/hero/cowboy to most managers.
Where the management class can't code, and the inability to code is increasingly a prerequisite to a management position, writing code that is maintainable by others is a career liability.
we already know that there is no single difficulty/intelligence scale that can explain the observed patterns.
Who do you think didn't know that? Who do you think believed that the variety of capacity of mental function could be resolved into a single number predicting it all to every last detail?
IQ has strong information content as a predictor. It won't predict everything. The 3 functions they decompose intelligence into may have strong, and even stronger information content as predictors. One would hope that they wouldn't use a higher dimensional space to encode *less* information. But even if they have succeeded at that, their 3 functions won't predict everything either. Should the next research ninny with a more specific functional decomposition say that those functions are "myths" too?
When we looked at the data, the bottom line is the whole concept of X — or of you having a higher X than me — is a myth,” said Dr. Adrian Owen, the study’s senior investigator and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at the university’s Brain and Mind Institute. “There is no such thing as a single measure of X.”
Let X = Reasoning, short-term memory, or verbal ability.
Functional decomposition does not mean the higher level functions cease to exist.
“If there is something in the brain that is IQ, we should be able to find it by scanning. But it turns out there is no one area in the brain that accounts for people’s so-called IQ. "
That is so inconceivably stupid. Yes, if IQ is real, there will be a little IQ cell in the brain. Didn't find one? Guess IQ is a big fraud.
Grown ups who say such things shouldn't be allowed out in public without an adult chaperone. And these guys are researchers? I hope someone competent gains access to their data.
I wouldn't say that Singularitizing is the only reason he has gone to Google, but I do expect him to steer some research in that direction, and in general convert more of google employees to a broader view of technology.
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No. "Not Even False."
Back in my day in electrical engineering, tuition was waved as part of your reimbursement.
Are you joking? H1Bs "prove there is no national qualified to do the job"?
How often have you worked with H1Bs? Many competent, many not competent at all. Never seen US citizens as incompetent as bottom rung H1Bs. The "certification" is fraudulent BS. H1B pimps funnel kick backs and favors to corporate hiring managers. The slush funds that H1B pimps can suck from the system is what fuels the demand for H1Bs, not a lack of local labor.
I'm not sure about that. Lots of research assistants and teaching assistants were foreign nationals back in my day. Did they still have to pay full tuition? Even if they didn't, graduate engineering TAs and RAs receive little compensation compared to their market value, and work long hours. Probably still a good deal for the university.
Thank you. Saved me the trouble.
...making Carmen Ortiz an "example" of this kind of abusive behavior from the prosecution?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Laws don't apply to our *rulers*, and in particular, not for our rulers in the criminal "justice" system.
It's the problem of status and perception. Once you take a factory job, you have become a "factory worker", and the next office isn't going to hire a factory worker for an office job, now will they?
Forgive me, but I dont really understand why people in this country deserve jobs more than people in another country, particularly if theyre more skilled or asking for less money.
They don't. Just as the people in this country don't *deserve* courts, laws, armies, police, fire departments, food stamps, welfare, health care, etc., more than people in other countries.
But the US federal government wasn't created to give everyone in the universe what they deserve, it was created by US citizens for the benefit of US citizens.
Think about where Osama was hiding. He was practically within shouting distance of a major Pakistani military base. Do you really think that's a coincidence?
No. It's a ridiculous Kabuki dance. The Pakistanis are our enemies. They protected Bin Laden.
Pakistan doesn't want to announce to the American people that they are our enemies, because then the US might actually do something. So they pretend. Similarly, no US administration wants to publicly admit the Pakistanis are our enemies, because they don't want to fight a nuclear nation. So, everybody pretends.
They pretend they help us fight Al Qaeda. We pretend they weren't protecting Bin Laden. So, hey, sorry about that sovereignty thing, but we're both fighting Al Qaeda, so we didn't think you'd really mind if we took out Bin Laden.
If you're going to wire, wire with the best available. It's just crazy to cheap out on the wire, when the installation is the major cost/hassle.
Yes, indeed.
Defeating fascist totalitarianism, soviet totalitarianism, Baathist totalitarianism, and now fighting theocratic totalitarianism is "pushing everyone on the playground over in the mud".
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that all of the oil fields in Alaska are owned by the state, and that the reason taxes are so low is that the state government makes more than enough money from the oil. That was always one of the amusing ironies of Sarah Palin, that for all her neo-conservative talking points, she was governor of what was a pretty communist state.
The principle behind a citizen's dividend for private use of a natural resource is at least as old as Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice. Paine was all for private property rights, but unlike modern day right wing hacks, he limited them to where they were justly earned.
"Baxter" that could give cheap offshore labor a run for its money and return manufacturing jobs to U.S. soil. "
"Baxter will do that by accelerating a trend of factory efficiency that’s eliminated more jobs in the U.S. than overseas competition has. "
Oops.
White kids in America do as well as white kids in Europe. Black kids in America do as well as black kids in Europe.
The article doesn't break it down by race, but by class. What they say in the article:
But the highest social class students in United States do worse than their peers in other nations, and this gap widened from 2000 to 2009 on the PISA.
So we've got more lower class, and our upper class is worse. We have relatively uneducated children.
death represents zero freedom
Addiction represents zero freedom. Indoctrination represents zero freedom. Lack of resources represents zero freedom. Lack of "needs" represents zero freedom. Blah blah blah blah...
The only freedom some people believe in is their freedom to run their neighbor's life.
We are talking about the same SCOTUS that fucked up Citizen's United right?
No, we're talking about the same SCOTUS that got Citizen's United perfectly *right*, and protected the right of citizens to engage in political speech.
"and the knowledge that, at the end of the whole process, nearly everything they worked on would likely end up tossed away."
Do they think that's the last election that will ever be held? Or are they just all pretending that all code and documentation was thrown away, so that each of them can sell their "secret backups" at the next gig?
Two guys with a real stake and real knowledge are in control - sounds like a good thing to me.
Or not. More than once, the reponse I've seen was the icy equivalent of "Your understanding is not my problem."
Under most management, it's worst than that. "Your misunderstanding is my asset." When you have a large chunk of code that only you understand, you become the genius/hero/cowboy to most managers.
Where the management class can't code, and the inability to code is increasingly a prerequisite to a management position, writing code that is maintainable by others is a career liability.
Crony capitalism is what actually happens when you implement captialism in the real world. Capitalism is the theory, cronyism is the practice.
Crony capitalism is what happens when socialists gain government power over a capitalist economy.
When are they posting the abortion map?
we already know that there is no single difficulty/intelligence scale that can explain the observed patterns.
Who do you think didn't know that? Who do you think believed that the variety of capacity of mental function could be resolved into a single number predicting it all to every last detail?
IQ has strong information content as a predictor. It won't predict everything. The 3 functions they decompose intelligence into may have strong, and even stronger information content as predictors. One would hope that they wouldn't use a higher dimensional space to encode *less* information. But even if they have succeeded at that, their 3 functions won't predict everything either. Should the next research ninny with a more specific functional decomposition say that those functions are "myths" too?
When we looked at the data, the bottom line is the whole concept of X — or of you having a higher X than me — is a myth,” said Dr. Adrian Owen, the study’s senior investigator and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at the university’s Brain and Mind Institute. “There is no such thing as a single measure of X.”
Let X = Reasoning, short-term memory, or verbal ability.
Functional decomposition does not mean the higher level functions cease to exist.
“If there is something in the brain that is IQ, we should be able to find it by scanning. But it turns out there is no one area in the brain that accounts for people’s so-called IQ. "
That is so inconceivably stupid. Yes, if IQ is real, there will be a little IQ cell in the brain. Didn't find one? Guess IQ is a big fraud.
Grown ups who say such things shouldn't be allowed out in public without an adult chaperone. And these guys are researchers? I hope someone competent gains access to their data.
I wouldn't say that Singularitizing is the only reason he has gone to Google, but I do expect him to steer some research in that direction, and in general convert more of google employees to a broader view of technology.
that the people who want citizens disarmed are always the same people who want to run our lives through government force.