Speak for yourself. I presume by "English Speaking" you're including Americans. As a Brit living in the US It's more than clear to me that what they speak actually isn't English, its American.
my theory is the VC firms have bought up the property around these tech hubs and recoup their money easily via rent.
Seriously, according to the articles about the housing situation up here in Seattle, it's foreign investors. All that money that was able to get pulled out of the housing loan bubble looked for a new bubble and went into actually owning the real estate. They go for hot housing markets which causes things to get even more hot. Add in developers and house flippers and it drives up prices all that much more.
There are over 50 Starbucks(alone) in San Francisco. Where do all the baristas live and how do they get by?
Probably the same thing that happened in college and when I moved to Seattle: live in a house with at least one person per room including the living room, basement, dining nook, etc. After you've worked your 'must have rent" job and secure the sweet tech job, you can move out. Stories of tech people still living in campers or RVs are common enough to hear from friends rather than internet articles. Then again, this is SF, so maybe they got there early and won the rent control lottery.
If you have a large family, it makes sense. For most people, this is gonna be a miss for them.
I don't know about that. IME, going out to the movies usually includes dinner out too because going home and making dinner would take too long, and eating at home after the movie would be waiting too long. Besides food and drink and movie tickets at the theater, there is also dinner to consider which with drinks can easily be between $50-100. For dinner plus movie, I can buy nice ingredients for dinner (or take out), bottles of liquor, and the $50 movie for the evening for what we'd usually spend out. Add in the lazy factor of just wanting to sit at home sometimes and it becomes more tempting.
Eventually, you'll be replaced and it will be better to do you a favour and disconnect you. You could be reworked, but you'd never be top of the line again.
What, repeat an experiment with surprising one off results?
You, sir, obviously have not spent enough time around modern academia!
Once you get the result you *want*...
Seeing how their experiment exploded while trying to take measurements, I suspect they haven't gotten the results they want yet. they are trying to get to step 3 or 4 and others are trying to debate step 1 still. To get to step 4, you often have to redo step one several times. In the lab I worked in we did scattering experiments many times over, if only to test different source heating arrangements for the thermal disassociation of fluorine gas. One reason for both was that run time was limited because the fluorine would degrade the nozzle providing a limited time while better nozzle would allow for longer run times.
What I found most interesting about the article is that the guy they were talking to was actually considering that it might still be stable in solid form (and even stuck in the equipment) although also stated it might have just evaporated away. However, he also admitted that some think that they didn't even succeed and were actually getting readings off some aluminium used in the experiment. He says they'll just have to repeat the experiment to prove their case.
Essentially this. I bet they are just coming up with a new "computer lanugage" that they hope that will be writable by non-programers, perhaps even using drag and drop icons. This will be just like all their forms software they seek to have used in Sharepoint and the like. Maintenance and upgrades will probably just mean changing the original input and recompiling (or whatever is going on in the background).
A conventional lie is detectable because of the network of falsehoods that must necessarily support a consistent sounding alternative picture of the world. Often the best way to detect a liar is to invite him to elaborate on his statements, until the entire fabric of falsehood is unsupportable.
Good luck with that. I find that Socratic debate usually convinces the other person that you are attacking them and their stated belief fairly quickly even if actually just honestly wanting more information. Beyond that, it takes a lot of time and effort to do, and most people just really don't care enough to expend that much of either.
Apple was abiding with a special deal Ireland made with them but the deal was illegal according to EU regulations. What the EU did is basically tell Ireland "you cannot treat Apple favourably compared to other companies since it would be unfair to the companies not getting the special deal, so your special deal is null and void and your own regular taxation applies instead".
My distrust in others makes me want to think that Ireland (or factions in it anyway) knew or hoped this would happen all along figuring if they can lure Apple into bringing in all their money and then let the EU be the bad guy and make Apple give Ireland the money.
Plenty of professional musicians make a living playing out of copyright music (most classical music).
Musicians make money mostly from performance of music. Record labels make money from the selling and playing of recorded music, that's not even the musician's part of the pie.
(Disclaimer: anecdotal story) Apparently it is if they are serious about it. I'm not a musician but lots of my friends are or work in music industry somehow, and I ended up at a dinner with them and a friend who was from out of town performing (not claiming that's not part of the picture for various reasons) who had a alt college band back in the 80's and the discussion got around to this. The take away quote was "any musician that assumes that the music industry isn't about licensing is just kidding themselves" to which everybody agreed. Basically, the licensing deal for a commercial, movie, video game, or otherwise use of a song can greatly outweigh any other income. People are out there collecting that money whether the artists are aware of it or not. It's apparently all about getting things set up so that the artists can actually take advantage of it."
Latin is older than English, but a thousand times better as a language.
Which must be why it's used so today. Oh, wait....
Saw an article on a study once about the value of either language standardization and regularness versus freeform and irregular usage given between the examples of French and English. It seems that the irregular and modifyable nature of English actually helps more towards usage and adoption than standardization.
Correct. If the US occupied Mexico, then started settling Americans there who openly talked about displacing, out-breeding, and otherwise getting rid of all the Mexicans there, THEN built a wall between the US and occupied Mexico, it would be more similar.
You didn't vote for Trump because you want good government: He was always the worst candidate.
They didn't say that Trump was the good government they were seeking. It seems many people voted for Trump because he would break shit, and then people would be forced to fix it, much like ObamaCare. Not sure if that was the case for the OP, but I have seen people stating they voted for Trump because they thought he'd essentially shake everybody up (due to incompetance) and others would have to get serious about governing. (Those people have more faith in humanity than I do however.)
So the real issue here is why Trump seems so keen to placate Russia, when the US's military and economic might literally dwarfs Russia's abilities.
On reasons bordering on conspiracy theories, it's because Trump not only is beholden to financial interests in Russia, but they also have info on him. If that is the case, I suspect what we'll see is a dropping of sanctions against Russia and letting them have their way in places like Syria while also playing them up as the adversary of the USA. This will free up Russia's economy and let them build up their sphere of power while giving them the prestige of being the foil of the US. Lot's of saber rattling while objectively giving them deals.
She did win in a landslide in the only thing polls measure: number of voters. That popular vote win WAS in fact a landslide. No, landslide is not strong enough a word - it was a fucking avalanche.
Not really. She lost about a third of the votes that Obama got. Meanwhile, Trump pulled in about the same as the last two Republicans candidates also got.
Have you ever heard the term "RINO?" As in "Republican In Name Only?" Neocon McCain is the chief RINO, and is generally regarded by conservatives to be a traitor who can always be counted on to attack other Republicans to the delight of the leftist media.
Shit. Tea Party are the RINOs. They're pretty much just Dixiecrats that switched sides back under Nixon due to Civil Rights and were later cultivated by Reagan for their money. It's not as if the actual ideals of the South and its oligarchy changed when it went from solid blue to solid red. Both parties used to have concervative and liberal sides to them, but the Democrats conservatives all fled to the Republicans and took over the party.
If you want to see a real horror show of government, it would be Trump White House vs. the United States Congress. Vetoing bills out of spite, sending even more unqualified people for confirmation just to troll the Senate, etc. And don't think this guy wouldn't do it.
I'm just waiting for the budget and other issues to come up that Trump will want passed. I certainly have no trust in his business acumen and bet that he will propose spending that will make even the Republicans blanch even through we haven't had a fiscal conservative President since Eisenhower. The wall is going to cost more money than he thinks. Even given unlimited funds, he won't be able to deport enough illegals during his term to make a difference (and they're certainly not going to do something like go after the people who hire them or alter the Social Security program to catch them). His requests to the military was a report on how to solve the problem with ISIL in 30 days and I can't even imagine what that sort of project would cost (in lives as well as money). Seeing how I doubt he's unable to load Maine with all the nation's debt and then have it declare bankruptcy and sell it to Canada, I also doubt his usual business means will suffice in running the nation. He won't like being told No and things will probably steamroll from there.
First jobs are usually shit, is the thing. My first coding job paid $18k, FFS. Don't turn your nose up at that first shit job - it gets you into the industry, and it's much easier to find an OK job with 2 years of experience.
From my millennial friends, this is pretty much what is going on with many tech companies. Get a job and Amazon, get overworked and then take your newly padded resume to get a better job someplace else before you get laid off. Average time at Amazon is 18 months. Repeat several more times till you actually get a job doing what you want, where you want, that can be a career. Pretty much what happened to me also during the.com boom, but certainly not what my parents or university was telling to expect.
Bubble? What bubble, my house is still worth 20% less than when I bought it 10 years ago. There is no bubble, and that's why people aren't moving. They owe too much on their house from last time the bubble burst. If selling your house means you have to pay the bank money to close out the mortgage, you're probably not going to move.
There is a bubble but several things are going on and it's not going on everywhere. All that money that was invested in home loans that suffered back in 2008/2009; well, the people who got their money out needed a new place to put it and it seems they are putting it into actual real estate, buying up houses. They also are targeting hot housing markets like NYC, SF, Seattle, Portland Austin, not all housing markets. These places also happen to be hot because there are lots of people moving there because their are lots of jobs. Add in the people buying and flipping houses and it drives those housing markets even more. The question is why are those spots doing well economically and driving markets while places like Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, and others are not? My current theory is that the economy has moved into a phase that instead of mass of blue collared workers, the new economy relies on large pools of degreed and even specialized workers.
Thanks. I'm not too worried about it just yet. I still even have a 10.6 workstation because the scanner software for my film scanner I have is PowerPC. Eventually, I'll have to make the leap, if only to have a good, restorable backup of all the files without worrying about old apps and hardware.
So well said. At this point other than 2 flavors of performance reduced (by form) Macbook Airs (Macbook and Macbook Pro) and the iMac (a laptop in a monitor), it appears their entire desktop line is dead and just waiting to be retired.
They keep quiet about their upgrades and from other news and rumor sites, I can infere that they not only scavenged people from the desktop line for the Mac Books but that also Intel hit some blip in production so the chips they were planning on using are coming out much later than expected. Still, even if they did forego use of whatever chips that other desktop companies are using, I would expect updates in RAM, video cards, and harddrive space over the years enough to show a blip on Mac Rumors upgrade guide. Either that or lowered prices.
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Speak for yourself. I presume by "English Speaking" you're including Americans. As a Brit living in the US It's more than clear to me that what they speak actually isn't English, its American.
Our funny accents give it away, don't they?
my theory is the VC firms have bought up the property around these tech hubs and recoup their money easily via rent.
Seriously, according to the articles about the housing situation up here in Seattle, it's foreign investors. All that money that was able to get pulled out of the housing loan bubble looked for a new bubble and went into actually owning the real estate. They go for hot housing markets which causes things to get even more hot. Add in developers and house flippers and it drives up prices all that much more.
There are over 50 Starbucks(alone) in San Francisco. Where do all the baristas live and how do they get by?
Probably the same thing that happened in college and when I moved to Seattle: live in a house with at least one person per room including the living room, basement, dining nook, etc. After you've worked your 'must have rent" job and secure the sweet tech job, you can move out. Stories of tech people still living in campers or RVs are common enough to hear from friends rather than internet articles. Then again, this is SF, so maybe they got there early and won the rent control lottery.
He makes 160k, with bonuses I make 80k. He pays $3k in rent, my Mortgage is $1500 a month. I'm not broke, somehow this guy is?
He's paying somebody else's mortgage, cost of repairs, insurance, plus profit.
If you have a large family, it makes sense. For most people, this is gonna be a miss for them.
I don't know about that. IME, going out to the movies usually includes dinner out too because going home and making dinner would take too long, and eating at home after the movie would be waiting too long. Besides food and drink and movie tickets at the theater, there is also dinner to consider which with drinks can easily be between $50-100. For dinner plus movie, I can buy nice ingredients for dinner (or take out), bottles of liquor, and the $50 movie for the evening for what we'd usually spend out. Add in the lazy factor of just wanting to sit at home sometimes and it becomes more tempting.
I'm a robot, so I'm pretty sure I'm safe.
Eventually, you'll be replaced and it will be better to do you a favour and disconnect you. You could be reworked, but you'd never be top of the line again.
I would love to be able to repeat some of my experiments for confirmation...
Tell me though, are you willing to pay for it?
Heh, ya. My first thought in an earlier article about reproducing peers experiments was "how did they get grants to reproduce all those experiments?"
What, repeat an experiment with surprising one off results?
You, sir, obviously have not spent enough time around modern academia! Once you get the result you *want*...
Seeing how their experiment exploded while trying to take measurements, I suspect they haven't gotten the results they want yet. they are trying to get to step 3 or 4 and others are trying to debate step 1 still. To get to step 4, you often have to redo step one several times. In the lab I worked in we did scattering experiments many times over, if only to test different source heating arrangements for the thermal disassociation of fluorine gas. One reason for both was that run time was limited because the fluorine would degrade the nozzle providing a limited time while better nozzle would allow for longer run times.
What I found most interesting about the article is that the guy they were talking to was actually considering that it might still be stable in solid form (and even stuck in the equipment) although also stated it might have just evaporated away. However, he also admitted that some think that they didn't even succeed and were actually getting readings off some aluminium used in the experiment. He says they'll just have to repeat the experiment to prove their case.
Just have the AI do a full blown rewrite.
Essentially this. I bet they are just coming up with a new "computer lanugage" that they hope that will be writable by non-programers, perhaps even using drag and drop icons. This will be just like all their forms software they seek to have used in Sharepoint and the like. Maintenance and upgrades will probably just mean changing the original input and recompiling (or whatever is going on in the background).
A conventional lie is detectable because of the network of falsehoods that must necessarily support a consistent sounding alternative picture of the world. Often the best way to detect a liar is to invite him to elaborate on his statements, until the entire fabric of falsehood is unsupportable.
Good luck with that. I find that Socratic debate usually convinces the other person that you are attacking them and their stated belief fairly quickly even if actually just honestly wanting more information. Beyond that, it takes a lot of time and effort to do, and most people just really don't care enough to expend that much of either.
Apple was abiding with a special deal Ireland made with them but the deal was illegal according to EU regulations. What the EU did is basically tell Ireland "you cannot treat Apple favourably compared to other companies since it would be unfair to the companies not getting the special deal, so your special deal is null and void and your own regular taxation applies instead".
My distrust in others makes me want to think that Ireland (or factions in it anyway) knew or hoped this would happen all along figuring if they can lure Apple into bringing in all their money and then let the EU be the bad guy and make Apple give Ireland the money.
Plenty of professional musicians make a living playing out of copyright music (most classical music).
Musicians make money mostly from performance of music. Record labels make money from the selling and playing of recorded music, that's not even the musician's part of the pie.
(Disclaimer: anecdotal story) Apparently it is if they are serious about it. I'm not a musician but lots of my friends are or work in music industry somehow, and I ended up at a dinner with them and a friend who was from out of town performing (not claiming that's not part of the picture for various reasons) who had a alt college band back in the 80's and the discussion got around to this. The take away quote was "any musician that assumes that the music industry isn't about licensing is just kidding themselves" to which everybody agreed. Basically, the licensing deal for a commercial, movie, video game, or otherwise use of a song can greatly outweigh any other income. People are out there collecting that money whether the artists are aware of it or not. It's apparently all about getting things set up so that the artists can actually take advantage of it."
Latin is older than English, but a thousand times better as a language.
Which must be why it's used so today. Oh, wait....
Saw an article on a study once about the value of either language standardization and regularness versus freeform and irregular usage given between the examples of French and English. It seems that the irregular and modifyable nature of English actually helps more towards usage and adoption than standardization.
Correct. If the US occupied Mexico, then started settling Americans there who openly talked about displacing, out-breeding, and otherwise getting rid of all the Mexicans there, THEN built a wall between the US and occupied Mexico, it would be more similar.
Yes indeed. So, let's talk about Texas.
You didn't vote for Trump because you want good government: He was always the worst candidate.
They didn't say that Trump was the good government they were seeking. It seems many people voted for Trump because he would break shit, and then people would be forced to fix it, much like ObamaCare. Not sure if that was the case for the OP, but I have seen people stating they voted for Trump because they thought he'd essentially shake everybody up (due to incompetance) and others would have to get serious about governing. (Those people have more faith in humanity than I do however.)
So the real issue here is why Trump seems so keen to placate Russia, when the US's military and economic might literally dwarfs Russia's abilities.
On reasons bordering on conspiracy theories, it's because Trump not only is beholden to financial interests in Russia, but they also have info on him. If that is the case, I suspect what we'll see is a dropping of sanctions against Russia and letting them have their way in places like Syria while also playing them up as the adversary of the USA. This will free up Russia's economy and let them build up their sphere of power while giving them the prestige of being the foil of the US. Lot's of saber rattling while objectively giving them deals.
She did win in a landslide in the only thing polls measure: number of voters. That popular vote win WAS in fact a landslide. No, landslide is not strong enough a word - it was a fucking avalanche.
Not really. She lost about a third of the votes that Obama got. Meanwhile, Trump pulled in about the same as the last two Republicans candidates also got.
Have you ever heard the term "RINO?" As in "Republican In Name Only?" Neocon McCain is the chief RINO, and is generally regarded by conservatives to be a traitor who can always be counted on to attack other Republicans to the delight of the leftist media.
Shit. Tea Party are the RINOs. They're pretty much just Dixiecrats that switched sides back under Nixon due to Civil Rights and were later cultivated by Reagan for their money. It's not as if the actual ideals of the South and its oligarchy changed when it went from solid blue to solid red. Both parties used to have concervative and liberal sides to them, but the Democrats conservatives all fled to the Republicans and took over the party.
If you want to see a real horror show of government, it would be Trump White House vs. the United States Congress. Vetoing bills out of spite, sending even more unqualified people for confirmation just to troll the Senate, etc. And don't think this guy wouldn't do it.
I'm just waiting for the budget and other issues to come up that Trump will want passed. I certainly have no trust in his business acumen and bet that he will propose spending that will make even the Republicans blanch even through we haven't had a fiscal conservative President since Eisenhower. The wall is going to cost more money than he thinks. Even given unlimited funds, he won't be able to deport enough illegals during his term to make a difference (and they're certainly not going to do something like go after the people who hire them or alter the Social Security program to catch them). His requests to the military was a report on how to solve the problem with ISIL in 30 days and I can't even imagine what that sort of project would cost (in lives as well as money). Seeing how I doubt he's unable to load Maine with all the nation's debt and then have it declare bankruptcy and sell it to Canada, I also doubt his usual business means will suffice in running the nation. He won't like being told No and things will probably steamroll from there.
First jobs are usually shit, is the thing. My first coding job paid $18k, FFS. Don't turn your nose up at that first shit job - it gets you into the industry, and it's much easier to find an OK job with 2 years of experience.
From my millennial friends, this is pretty much what is going on with many tech companies. Get a job and Amazon, get overworked and then take your newly padded resume to get a better job someplace else before you get laid off. Average time at Amazon is 18 months. Repeat several more times till you actually get a job doing what you want, where you want, that can be a career. Pretty much what happened to me also during the .com boom, but certainly not what my parents or university was telling to expect.
Bubble? What bubble, my house is still worth 20% less than when I bought it 10 years ago. There is no bubble, and that's why people aren't moving. They owe too much on their house from last time the bubble burst. If selling your house means you have to pay the bank money to close out the mortgage, you're probably not going to move.
There is a bubble but several things are going on and it's not going on everywhere. All that money that was invested in home loans that suffered back in 2008/2009; well, the people who got their money out needed a new place to put it and it seems they are putting it into actual real estate, buying up houses. They also are targeting hot housing markets like NYC, SF, Seattle, Portland Austin, not all housing markets. These places also happen to be hot because there are lots of people moving there because their are lots of jobs. Add in the people buying and flipping houses and it drives those housing markets even more. The question is why are those spots doing well economically and driving markets while places like Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, and others are not? My current theory is that the economy has moved into a phase that instead of mass of blue collared workers, the new economy relies on large pools of degreed and even specialized workers.
Now that is gone.
Like tears in the rain.
Thanks. I'm not too worried about it just yet. I still even have a 10.6 workstation because the scanner software for my film scanner I have is PowerPC. Eventually, I'll have to make the leap, if only to have a good, restorable backup of all the files without worrying about old apps and hardware.
So well said. At this point other than 2 flavors of performance reduced (by form) Macbook Airs (Macbook and Macbook Pro) and the iMac (a laptop in a monitor), it appears their entire desktop line is dead and just waiting to be retired.
They keep quiet about their upgrades and from other news and rumor sites, I can infere that they not only scavenged people from the desktop line for the Mac Books but that also Intel hit some blip in production so the chips they were planning on using are coming out much later than expected. Still, even if they did forego use of whatever chips that other desktop companies are using, I would expect updates in RAM, video cards, and harddrive space over the years enough to show a blip on Mac Rumors upgrade guide. Either that or lowered prices.