Chicago is surrounded by states where guns can be bought without any real background checks. Legally. On the other hand, New York and its surroundings passed tough gun laws and as a result the gun crime actually went down a lot.
Sukhoi Superjet is OK - it's not exactly top of the line in all parameters but it's a solid airplane, competitive in some markets. Its next model (slated for 2020) is going to be more much interesting and it probably will be able to compete with Boeing directly.
First, there ARE software patents. They describe ideas that can be implemented on a general purpose computer without any specialized hardware.
Second, pretty much NONE of software patents are useful. Most of them are filed for defensive purposes or to show "value" for investors and are never asserted or licensed. During the recent years 20 years or so the cost of patent litigation exceeded the licensing revenue for software patents ( https://arstechnica.com/inform... ).
Third, there ARE useful patents. Pretty much none of them are purely software ones. A novel agent for extinguishers would be a great invention. However, in software patent speech it would be described as: "An agent consisting of chemical matter that utilizes heat-sensitive decomposition reactions to rapidly terminate the free-radical heat-driven chains reactions", - without any actual chemical structure specified in the patent.
I hate misconceptions about H1B and GC. H1B holders can change work easily. A new employer simply applies for an H1B transfer that is granted more or less automatically, and the old employer has no knowledge of this until the worker quits. There can even be multiple concurrent H1B transfers (and the worker chooses which one to complete).
GC is pretty much full citizenship. Obtaining GC is complicated and can take any amount of time from 1 year to 10 years depending on type of GC and the applicant's home country. And the GC actually binds the candidate to the workplace, as the process has to be sponsored by the employer.
H1B transfer is easy - it just involves paying an attorney to file all the paperwork. There's no H1B lottery or anything, and the cost is trivial (around $2000) for a highly-compensated engineering employee. On the other hand, obtaining a new H1B visa is hard.
Honestly, from what I see the problem is societal. The whole society in the US disdains engineers and scientists and instead focuses on performers and athletes. It's not important to study "maths", and it's much better to study "people skills". If you live here you might not notice this, like a fish doesn't notice water.
In the US the most popular BS degrees are: business, healthcare, social studies, psychology, education (source: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/... ). Engineering is on the distant 8-th place, number of math graduates has actually decreased since 70-s ( https://nces.ed.gov/programs/d... ).
It hits you like a punch in the face if you visit China or (to lesser degree now) Japan. They actually show state-sponsored motivational ads on TVs with engineers building rockets, dams and automobiles! And the whole attitude towards humanities (history, language, literature) is different - it's seen as an occupation for truly interested people rather than a checkbox "higher education" item on job applications.
I've studied the US public schools (to see if I ever want to educate my children here) and its... adequate. If you live in a good location then the public schools offer enough flexibility for motivated students to succeed. But the problem is that the parents are not really motivated themselves and this rubs off on their children.
The question is not about additional vetting and checks. The question is about the ban - it affects people who ALREADY hold visas and/or green cards.
Nothing terrible would have happened if Trump announced 80 days from now new rules to apply to new visa applicants. Instead we got an unexplained ban designed to throw red meat for Trump's rabid base.
Yeah, so you build a craft with rotating wings that takes off vertically and then transition into regular airfoils. Electric motors are ridiculously powerful so it's not a problem at all to provide peak thrust for takeoff, they just need enough electric power.
The problem is the amount of energy available. This can be overcome with hybrid designs and theoretically there are engines that are lightweight enough to (at least) provide enough power for the horizontal flight. It's around 40kW for Cessna 172, probably a bit more for a less-streamlined VTOL car. I crunched the numbers for this a couple of years ago and it's definitely possible. Would be interesting to see if some company finally bites the bullet and does this.
The whole USB-C is a burning trash fire. The standard got overcomplicated and is essentially unsafe - a bad USB-A cable can at most damage your data and/or devices it's connecting. A bad USB-C cable can burn down your house, easily. Just throw in a defective cable claiming to support 50W power transmission and wait for it to catch fire.
They should have specified that the cable resistance must be monitored by the endpoints and the charging must stop if it's too high (i.e. the wire is heating up or is too thin).
Area on the flight path between Portland and Seattle is hardly a vast expanse of untamed forest. You'll find a human settlement or a road if you walk for about 10 miles straight in any direction. Hardly a feat that requires superhuman abilities. Then you just use a payphone to call in your accomplice to pick you up.
Alternatively, you can make several caches with clean clothes and camping gear beforehand. Then just find the nearest cache and backpack wherever you want.
Thankfully, it's not as scary as it seems - resistance evolves easily but it carries heavy metabolic cost for bacteria. So resistant bacteria are outcompeted by non-resistant ones easily.
The problem here is that eventually bacteria always find a way to evade antibiotics with low enough metabolic cost.
It's not hard to change jobs on H1B (and I'm speaking as an H1B holder). The receiving company just needs to file a petition to do an H1B transfer, there can be multiple concurrent petitions and the current employer is not notified. The cost of filing with all the attorney fees is around $2k. H1B transfers are also not subject to quotas.
Indentured servitude comes with a Green Card filing - you need to start the process all over again if you change the workplace. And it takes _at_ _least_ 2 years now.
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Chicago is surrounded by states where guns can be bought without any real background checks. Legally. On the other hand, New York and its surroundings passed tough gun laws and as a result the gun crime actually went down a lot.
Tupolev's Construction Bureau doesn't really exist anymore. The Russian civilian air companies were merged into United Aircraft Corporation and its currently produced airplanes are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sukhoi Superjet is OK - it's not exactly top of the line in all parameters but it's a solid airplane, competitive in some markets. Its next model (slated for 2020) is going to be more much interesting and it probably will be able to compete with Boeing directly.
Electromagnetism is just a corner case of electroweak theory. Take that, Maxwell!
First, there ARE software patents. They describe ideas that can be implemented on a general purpose computer without any specialized hardware.
Second, pretty much NONE of software patents are useful. Most of them are filed for defensive purposes or to show "value" for investors and are never asserted or licensed. During the recent years 20 years or so the cost of patent litigation exceeded the licensing revenue for software patents ( https://arstechnica.com/inform... ).
Third, there ARE useful patents. Pretty much none of them are purely software ones. A novel agent for extinguishers would be a great invention. However, in software patent speech it would be described as: "An agent consisting of chemical matter that utilizes heat-sensitive decomposition reactions to rapidly terminate the free-radical heat-driven chains reactions", - without any actual chemical structure specified in the patent.
I hate misconceptions about H1B and GC. H1B holders can change work easily. A new employer simply applies for an H1B transfer that is granted more or less automatically, and the old employer has no knowledge of this until the worker quits. There can even be multiple concurrent H1B transfers (and the worker chooses which one to complete).
GC is pretty much full citizenship. Obtaining GC is complicated and can take any amount of time from 1 year to 10 years depending on type of GC and the applicant's home country. And the GC actually binds the candidate to the workplace, as the process has to be sponsored by the employer.
Were you beaten by SJWs as a child? Have you checked under your bed, they might be hiding there!
H1B transfer is easy - it just involves paying an attorney to file all the paperwork. There's no H1B lottery or anything, and the cost is trivial (around $2000) for a highly-compensated engineering employee. On the other hand, obtaining a new H1B visa is hard.
JFYI, the current employer DOES NOT KNOW that somebody else is applying for H1B transfer for their employee. It's a protected personal information.
Honestly, from what I see the problem is societal. The whole society in the US disdains engineers and scientists and instead focuses on performers and athletes. It's not important to study "maths", and it's much better to study "people skills". If you live here you might not notice this, like a fish doesn't notice water.
In the US the most popular BS degrees are: business, healthcare, social studies, psychology, education (source: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/... ). Engineering is on the distant 8-th place, number of math graduates has actually decreased since 70-s ( https://nces.ed.gov/programs/d... ).
It hits you like a punch in the face if you visit China or (to lesser degree now) Japan. They actually show state-sponsored motivational ads on TVs with engineers building rockets, dams and automobiles! And the whole attitude towards humanities (history, language, literature) is different - it's seen as an occupation for truly interested people rather than a checkbox "higher education" item on job applications.
I've studied the US public schools (to see if I ever want to educate my children here) and its... adequate. If you live in a good location then the public schools offer enough flexibility for motivated students to succeed. But the problem is that the parents are not really motivated themselves and this rubs off on their children.
H1B holders can change employers.
The question is not about additional vetting and checks. The question is about the ban - it affects people who ALREADY hold visas and/or green cards.
Nothing terrible would have happened if Trump announced 80 days from now new rules to apply to new visa applicants. Instead we got an unexplained ban designed to throw red meat for Trump's rabid base.
"Allow proper vetting"? WTF are you smoking? Visas are issued by US consulates, host countries have nothing to do with them.
Yeah, so you build a craft with rotating wings that takes off vertically and then transition into regular airfoils. Electric motors are ridiculously powerful so it's not a problem at all to provide peak thrust for takeoff, they just need enough electric power.
The problem is the amount of energy available. This can be overcome with hybrid designs and theoretically there are engines that are lightweight enough to (at least) provide enough power for the horizontal flight. It's around 40kW for Cessna 172, probably a bit more for a less-streamlined VTOL car. I crunched the numbers for this a couple of years ago and it's definitely possible. Would be interesting to see if some company finally bites the bullet and does this.
Wu catalogued more than 180 death threats that she said she received because she spoke out against sexism in the game industry and #GamerGate misogyny
Nah, nothing special. No need to investigate. And there was also staling involved.
But I guess you are not worried about being a target of massive harassment or stalking.
Yeah, no danger at all. There have been no murders after Internet death threats. Oh wait, http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Death threats? Nah, no need to investigate. After all, these are all alpha-plus masculine examples of humanity, like Trump! They can't be wrong!
The whole USB-C is a burning trash fire. The standard got overcomplicated and is essentially unsafe - a bad USB-A cable can at most damage your data and/or devices it's connecting. A bad USB-C cable can burn down your house, easily. Just throw in a defective cable claiming to support 50W power transmission and wait for it to catch fire.
They should have specified that the cable resistance must be monitored by the endpoints and the charging must stop if it's too high (i.e. the wire is heating up or is too thin).
So he'll be closing the divide. By slowing down Internet for ones who still have fast connections.
Solar cells recoup their energy costs in about 5 years now and become CO2 negative even if coal was used as the primary source. Coal pollutes forever.
Area on the flight path between Portland and Seattle is hardly a vast expanse of untamed forest. You'll find a human settlement or a road if you walk for about 10 miles straight in any direction. Hardly a feat that requires superhuman abilities. Then you just use a payphone to call in your accomplice to pick you up.
Alternatively, you can make several caches with clean clothes and camping gear beforehand. Then just find the nearest cache and backpack wherever you want.
Thankfully, it's not as scary as it seems - resistance evolves easily but it carries heavy metabolic cost for bacteria. So resistant bacteria are outcompeted by non-resistant ones easily.
The problem here is that eventually bacteria always find a way to evade antibiotics with low enough metabolic cost.
It's not hard to change jobs on H1B (and I'm speaking as an H1B holder). The receiving company just needs to file a petition to do an H1B transfer, there can be multiple concurrent petitions and the current employer is not notified. The cost of filing with all the attorney fees is around $2k. H1B transfers are also not subject to quotas.
Indentured servitude comes with a Green Card filing - you need to start the process all over again if you change the workplace. And it takes _at_ _least_ 2 years now.
noun: irony
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Yeah, remember that clueless Obama cabinet. For example, Steven Chu - a Nobel Prize laureate tapped to lead department of Housing?
On the other hand, ATG is way superior when flying over the continental US. It's faster and with much less latency (curse you, speed of light!).