Actually he is right. If you calculate the probability of being hit by an asteroid in one month to be 1e-20 and the probability of you being wrong is 1:50. Then the *worst* case probability of being hit by an asteroid absent any other information is ~1:50.
However, in real life there is always other information. So someone may have shown with absolute certainty that the worst case probability of being hit by an asteroid is no more than 1e-6. In that case the *worst* case probability is ~0.98e-6.
For the LCH the other information is that these types of collision have been happening for eons without destroying the universe. So even if the physicists are fallible the probability of destroying the universe is not that great.
As opposed to the squeaky clean politics in the US. yeah right!
India has a per capita income of ~$3500. At that level of development it's democracy is quite a achievement. I don't need to know from which country you are from but I am sure you didn't even allow women and minorities to vote in your elections at that level of development. Forget about electing them to the highest office in the country.
You will get few eggs thrown at you while the person in China will only get a few tiny pieces of lead thrown at him/her. Since few eggs are larger than few small lead pieces, you lose.:-)
Actually you could. Some people in my company moved to India and the process to get work visa in India is much much easier than that for H1 in US. You don't need to prove that you are paid greater or equal salary as an Indian, there is no quota etc.
Get real! There is always churn in any industry. I am been hearing about the demise of outsoursing to India since 1999. How companines are going to find out that it doesn't save any money, I cannot understand their accent, their code is no good, etc etc. Look at the revenues of some Indians companines:
Sikkim joined India after a 97.5% of its citizen voted to join India in a referendum. India liberated Bangladesh after the leaders of the Awami League party who had won elections but were prevented by the generals from taking office asked India to stop the genocide. The elected government of Sri Lanka requested India to enforce the peace treaty.
After the Gulf War 2 the Bush administration requested India to police the Kurdish parts of Iraq. Indian diplomats, military personal and politicians talked with various Kurdish leaders and found that there wasn't widespread support for Indian troops in the Kurdish regions. So, India decided *not* to send it's troops in keeping with their wishes.
Sorry to burst your bubble but in each case India intervened at the request of leaders with popular vote. When there wasn't popular support for intervention, they didn't.
I have read newpapers here in the US which claim that. But you need to take that with a pinch of salt. Look at the gini index which is a measure of inequality. Gini Index of 0 => everyone has the same income. 1 => Only one guy (Bill Gates for eg) earns all the money.
Mexico => 0.546 China => 0.447 USA => 0.408 India => 0.325 Germany => 0.283
So no it's not true. India is fairly good about income distribution. I find American newpapers do very lousy research when it comes to India and probably other countries.
The focusing of the light just helps with a sharper images. If the light from one point in the external world focused on a wider area you would see things blurred. (Like I do when I don't wear my contacts.)
How you detect this light is by exciting the rod/cones at the location in the retina. So all that this system has to do is to excite those same rod/cones and you would not know the difference.
So in for real objects, the light spreads out over the entire lens of the eyes. The lens focuses the light on one point of your retina and you can see a sharp image of the object.
For virtual objects: the light start from the laser goes through the lens only at one location and hits the same rods/cones and you cannot tell the difference.
The brits did have the exclusive say in what happened in India before independence. The life expectancy then was much lower than elsewhere and as soon as the British left it dramatically improved.
For example take the Bengal famine in which millions died because the British would not release food for drought relief from rest of the empire which had ample supply. On the other hand after independence there has never been such a mass scale starvation even though there was no empire to get relief from. Amartya Sen got the 1998 noble prize for studying the mechanisms of this.
I quote Roosevelt speaking to Churchill: 'As a commonwealth, she would be entitled to a modern form of government, an adequate health and educational standard. But how can she have these things, when Britain is taking all the wealth of her national resources away from her, every year? Every year the Indian people have one thing to look forward to, like death and taxes. Sure as shooting, they have a famine. The season of the famine,they call it.'
The British has no incentive to improve the healthcare/food/education system in India beyond what they needed to continue looting the country.
Ya, I agree. That was not the point. The point was that something changed for the better in India after independence that increased the life expectancy really quickly. Or conversely something really stank before independence that depressed the life expectancy.
Oh so pointing out the truth make me a RACIST? I am blaming the people who ruled England at one point in time. I am not blaming the people in England today and I am not blaming the poor factory worker in England then. I am not blaming the caucasians in USA, nor Russia, nor Iceland. Heck, if it was not for USian influence, the British would have starved lots more Indians to death at the end of WW2. Go grow a brain, moron. Not everyone thinks in terms of races.
Ya, but Japan wasn't looted to the extent India was by the British either. The British left India only after they had finished stealing all the wealth that was in India. In 1950 just after the British were done looting, the female life expectancy in India was pushed down to 38 years. In Japan in 1950 it was 63.1 years. In 1998 in India it increased to 63.7 while in Japan to 83.3.
In 48 years, the female life expectancy went up by ~26 years in India while in Japan it went up by 20 years and ~12 years in the US.
So India just was pushed much behind by the British and had a longer distance to climb.
For Rs 1000 the maid will work for 1hr for 5 days in Mumbai. She can easily earn Rs5000 a month working 5hrs a day. Government subsidized schools (std 1-10) are about Rs 50 a month. Engineering colleges cost Rs5000-Rs10000 per year. In India parents don't save for retirement (mine didn't). Their kids are their retirement. So, assuming the worst case that there are no savings when her kid is going to engineering school, she is spending ~17% of her income on education. This may be considered hardship in other parts of the world but parents routinely do that in India. Here we are not even taking into account help from relatives and scholarships from foundations etc.
To claim that IT will not solve India's problems is knocking down a strawman. India's problems will be solved through free markets that allow the citizenry to employ their skills to the their own maximum benefit, a central government that only focuses on infrastructure, education, basic research and defense, and competing state governments trying to out do each other in attracting businesses. Thankfully, things are moving in exactly that direction.
Actually the Chinese have the world only Maglev open for public use in Shanghai.
http://www.gluckman.com/Maglev.html
Show which way the wind is blowing.
Actually you can get a job in India and you can get a work visa. The point is are you willing to compete with the people there for them. You will probably need to market a unique skill like interfacing with clients etc.
It was called East Pakistan, now it is Bangladesh (a democracy). What more, it was done under the shadow of Nixon's nukes who did not want his favorite mass murderer replaced by an elected president.
We have had untouchable presidents and a prime minister within 50yrs. American hasn't managed to elect a black, Jewish or even a women president in 200+ yrs.
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Actually he is right. If you calculate the probability of being hit by an asteroid in one month to be 1e-20 and the probability of you being wrong is 1:50. Then the *worst* case probability of being hit by an asteroid absent any other information is ~1:50. However, in real life there is always other information. So someone may have shown with absolute certainty that the worst case probability of being hit by an asteroid is no more than 1e-6. In that case the *worst* case probability is ~0.98e-6. For the LCH the other information is that these types of collision have been happening for eons without destroying the universe. So even if the physicists are fallible the probability of destroying the universe is not that great.
As opposed to the squeaky clean politics in the US. yeah right! India has a per capita income of ~$3500. At that level of development it's democracy is quite a achievement. I don't need to know from which country you are from but I am sure you didn't even allow women and minorities to vote in your elections at that level of development. Forget about electing them to the highest office in the country.
You will get few eggs thrown at you while the person in China will only get a few tiny pieces of lead thrown at him/her. Since few eggs are larger than few small lead pieces, you lose. :-)
Actually you could. Some people in my company moved to India and the process to get work visa in India is much much easier than that for H1 in US. You don't need to prove that you are paid greater or equal salary as an Indian, there is no quota etc.
Get real! There is always churn in any industry. I am been hearing about the demise of outsoursing to India since 1999. How companines are going to find out that it doesn't save any money, I cannot understand their accent, their code is no good, etc etc. Look at the revenues of some Indians companines:
INFY: $ 120.96M(1999) -> $ 2,152.0M(2006)
WIT : Rs 17B (1999) -> Rs 103B(2006)
SIFY: Rs 103M (1999) -> Rs 4,682M (2006)
I could go on and on. Those are y-o-y growth rates of 40-50% and there are no signs of any slowdowns yet.
Sikkim joined India after a 97.5% of its citizen voted to join India in a referendum. India liberated Bangladesh after the leaders of the Awami League party who had won elections but were prevented by the generals from taking office asked India to stop the genocide. The elected government of Sri Lanka requested India to enforce the peace treaty. After the Gulf War 2 the Bush administration requested India to police the Kurdish parts of Iraq. Indian diplomats, military personal and politicians talked with various Kurdish leaders and found that there wasn't widespread support for Indian troops in the Kurdish regions. So, India decided *not* to send it's troops in keeping with their wishes. Sorry to burst your bubble but in each case India intervened at the request of leaders with popular vote. When there wasn't popular support for intervention, they didn't.
I have read newpapers here in the US which claim that. But you need to take that with a pinch of salt. Look at the gini index which is a measure of inequality. Gini Index of 0 => everyone has the same income. 1 => Only one guy (Bill Gates for eg) earns all the money.
Mexico => 0.546
China => 0.447
USA => 0.408
India => 0.325
Germany => 0.283
So no it's not true. India is fairly good about income distribution. I find American newpapers do very lousy research when it comes to India and probably other countries.
The focusing of the light just helps with a sharper images. If the light from one point in the external world focused on a wider area you would see things blurred. (Like I do when I don't wear my contacts.)
How you detect this light is by exciting the rod/cones at the location in the retina. So all that this system has to do is to excite those same rod/cones and you would not know the difference.
So in for real objects, the light spreads out over the entire lens of the eyes. The lens focuses the light on one point of your retina and you can see a sharp image of the object.
For virtual objects: the light start from the laser goes through the lens only at one location and hits the same rods/cones and you cannot tell the difference.
Hope that makes sense.
The brits did have the exclusive say in what happened in India before independence. The life expectancy then was much lower than elsewhere and as soon as the British left it dramatically improved.
For example take the Bengal famine in which millions died because the British would not release food for drought relief from rest of the empire which had ample supply. On the other hand after independence there has never been such a mass scale starvation even though there was no empire to get relief from. Amartya Sen got the 1998 noble prize for studying the mechanisms of this.
I quote Roosevelt speaking to Churchill:
'As a commonwealth, she would be entitled to a modern form of government, an adequate health and educational standard. But how can she have these things, when Britain is taking all the wealth of her national resources away from her, every year? Every year the Indian people have one thing to look forward to, like death and taxes. Sure as shooting, they have a famine. The season of the famine,they call it.'
The British has no incentive to improve the healthcare/food/education system in India beyond what they needed to continue looting the country.
Ya, I agree. That was not the point. The point was that something changed for the better in India after independence that increased the life expectancy really quickly. Or conversely something really stank before independence that depressed the life expectancy.
Oh so pointing out the truth make me a RACIST? I am blaming the people who ruled England at one point in time. I am not blaming the people in England today and I am not blaming the poor factory worker in England then. I am not blaming the caucasians in USA, nor Russia, nor Iceland. Heck, if it was not for USian influence, the British would have starved lots more Indians to death at the end of WW2. Go grow a brain, moron. Not everyone thinks in terms of races.
Ya, but Japan wasn't looted to the extent India was by the British either. The British left India only after they had finished stealing all the wealth that was in India. In 1950 just after the British were done looting, the female life expectancy in India was pushed down to 38 years. In Japan in 1950 it was 63.1 years. In 1998 in India it increased to 63.7 while in Japan to 83.3.
In 48 years, the female life expectancy went up by ~26 years in India while in Japan it went up by 20 years and ~12 years in the US.
So India just was pushed much behind by the British and had a longer distance to climb.
It's 4.5hrs according to the print version of Wierd ops I mean Wired
For Rs 1000 the maid will work for 1hr for 5 days in Mumbai. She can easily earn Rs5000 a month working 5hrs a day. Government subsidized schools (std 1-10) are about Rs 50 a month. Engineering colleges cost Rs5000-Rs10000 per year. In India parents don't save for retirement (mine didn't). Their kids are their retirement. So, assuming the worst case that there are no savings when her kid is going to engineering school, she is spending ~17% of her income on education. This may be considered hardship in other parts of the world but parents routinely do that in India. Here we are not even taking into account help from relatives and scholarships from foundations etc. To claim that IT will not solve India's problems is knocking down a strawman. India's problems will be solved through free markets that allow the citizenry to employ their skills to the their own maximum benefit, a central government that only focuses on infrastructure, education, basic research and defense, and competing state governments trying to out do each other in attracting businesses. Thankfully, things are moving in exactly that direction.
Actually the Chinese have the world only Maglev open for public use in Shanghai. http://www.gluckman.com/Maglev.html Show which way the wind is blowing.
Actually you can get a job in India and you can get a work visa. The point is are you willing to compete with the people there for them. You will probably need to market a unique skill like interfacing with clients etc.
Been there, done that!
It was called East Pakistan, now it is Bangladesh (a democracy). What more, it was done under the shadow of Nixon's nukes who did not want his favorite mass murderer replaced by an elected president.
We have had untouchable presidents and a prime minister within 50yrs. American hasn't managed to elect a black, Jewish or even a women president in 200+ yrs.
Now let's talk about hypocrisy.