Getting into those countries other than through birth, on the other hand, is not.
Nonsense. If you apply to one of these universities and are accepted, then you simply ask the country's government for a student visa and can move there. As long as you maintain a certain amount of money in the bank (something like 6000â), it's pretty much automatic for anyone from a first world country (and for many from the developing world).
So the solution is simple. Let's all wear burqas to protect our privacy!
Maybe the "scramble suits" in Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, instead of being a sad manifestation of the author's mental illness as long thought, were an idea whose time is coming. On the other hand, many jurisdictions already have laws against walking around in a face mask of any kind.
Education in many countries, especially at the PhD level, is free. There may not always be grants available or other research or teaching positions on offer to pay the bills, leaving the student rather short of cash. Why do you assume that a PhD student has lots of income to invest in certs?
Seems to me like the poster thinks he/she can make big money in IT freelancing without verifiable training, or experience.
Read again. The poster noted his verifiable experience: "I can only prove my knowledge by... showing what I've done so far."
The direct cause of Alzheimer's is already well-known: plaques in the brain. Destroy the plaques early, and brain function will not be impaired. While the OP may unreasonably fear the repercussions of this research, claiming that it could lead to a cure for Alzheimers is going rather too far in assuaging his fears.
Five or six years ago one could find decent work on Mechanical Turk. I used to do podcast transcriptions for around US$10/hour, and some of the podcasts were on topics of interest to me, so it was enjoyable. The ability to do such work remotely made for some good times sitting on beaches in various backpacker hideaways, where the money from a couple of hours of work a day was more than enough to pay one's travel costs.
Eventually I got better, more dependable work and stopped logging into MTurk. When I visited it again a couple of years later, I noticed that the money now paid for such tasks is miniscule. It really became a race to the bottom. Even if the money offered was enough for people in the Third World, surely people with the English language skills required could find something better. It's unclear to be just what demographic MTurk is depending on now.
I have relatives in Alabama who have voiced the same fear about their small town. Perhaps this hysteria is quite widespread, as even The Onion spoofed it (their article is set in Murfreesboro, TN, not too far away in fact).
If you want to get something educational for your children, why not just buy the simplest Kindle and load it with books? Sure, you won't have a color screen and flashy games, but for younger children the various electronic features will probably be enough to satisfy their desire to explore. People often overestimate what it takes to keep a child staring at a screen for hours on end. Tthey could actually read something edifying and there wouldn't be quite the same distractions as an Android tablet.
2) Poverty, one aspect is that it's strongly tied to a lack of space. If we develop the means to expand our habitable environments. Poverty can be greatly reduced.
The old argument "We need to explore space to have more room!" is doesn't hold water. In his trilogy beginning with Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson makes the point that with the current world population, even with multiple space elevators you couldn't move more people off the planet than are being born on it at any given time.
And if you had some way of lowering the population so drastically that you could move some significant amount of people away, you wouldn't need to anyway.
The submitter is in Europe (presumably the EU). "Community colleges" are not really a phenomenon here, as university tuition is so low (or, in some countries, education is free) that one can easily complete one's studies at a respected institution, which also offers the possibility of employment in academia while one is trying to find opportunities in the marketplace.
The important thing about this kind of research is that the artificial solutions move in the same way as the biological models. That makes it easier to integrate them with biology. Amputees won't ever be happy to have lost a limb, but an artificial replacement that can outperform the original is a lot better than an artificial replacement that can do no more (and often does less) than the original.
More fancifully, perhaps the Rat Things from Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash are now a possibility.
Despite my disgust at the term, the best way I can describe "decentralized social networking" is THE FREAKING BLOGOSPHERE WE ALREADY HAVE, YOU GODDAMNED BUZZWORD WHORES.
On a traditional blog, how can I conveniently specify that a post should be visible only to a selected subset of subscribers ("friends")? You can make the website completely closed, requiring a username and password to read, or you can keep it completely open and every visitor can see everything. There's no in-between.
Unlike a typical blog, decentralized microblogging seeks to offer variable privacy of posts. It's not even a matter of privacy (which is threatened by the ability of any reader to repost the content anyway). If I am writing a post about some nerdy subject like Emacs or hacking the N900, I might as well limit its visibility to those friends who I know are passionate about that subject, and avoid cluttering most of my friends' feeds.
I bet this is what people said 100 years ago about putting a man on the moon. Think of all the incredible things that have been done or discovered in the last century...
Assuming technology were still accelerating at the same pace it did in the 20th century, it's probably less likely that we'll travel to the stars. If the human race ultimately merges with machines, we may decided to move into a virtual reality, with the infrastructure located deep underground where nothing will bother us for many millions of years. See Vernor Vinge's classic novel Marooned in Realtime for some musings on this possibility.
And even if we did launch such a mission to the stars, that first mission would likely be overtaken by missions that, while launched much later, are capable of travelling faster. Vast spaces missions are not worth bothering with in the short term.
You could just leave the SIM card at home and take the phone with you. The wi-fi capability is all you need to maintain communications with the outside world in most urban environments, and doing encrypted, TORed VOIP over a wifi connection shouldn't identify you like the SIM would.
The first two results are academic papers that should make it quite clear what the term means. Saarikivi's paper contains an extensive bibliography on the subject. If they make "little sense" to you, there's nothing more I can do.
Your poll speaks of "organized religion". Interest in philosophy of religion doesn't necessary imply belief in organized religion -- many philosophers of religion are content to examine questions of the existence of a deity without any belief in the doctrines peculiar to any particular religion. And although the West sees declining support for organized religion, belief in the supernatural remains predominant even in highly secular places like the Nordic countries.
However, one of the reasons Russian and Ukrainian sound different from, say, German
The vast, vast number of differences between those languages and German date from the developments that Proto-Slavonic and Early Common Slavonic underwent on one hand, and Proto-Germanic on the other. The Slavic language family encountered the Finno-Ugrian languages rather late (after 800 CE), and by that date their peculiarities had been in place for centuries. There are a handful of features of Russian that can be attributed to contact with a Finno-Ugrian substrate, but it's hardly those that set Russian apart from German.
On the basis of dialect geography I would put it in the Balkans or lower Danube.
Substrate toponymy makes it clear that the Indo-European languages are not native to that area. You seem to have some knowledge of the Indo-European family, so it's strange to me that you could overlook this.
Turkish is a Turkic language. The Turkic languages do not have demonstrable common ancestry with the Indo-European language.
The idea of an "Altaic" language family has fallen out of fashion, especially since the 1990s when some major Altaic linguists announced they no longer believed in their own theory. It's essentially limited to a handful of Russians now, whose methods are viewed as at best optimistic and at worst as outright crackpottery.
Mainstream linguistics now prefers to view the Tungusic, Turkic and Mongolic families are isolates, the similarities between them due to longstanding contact. Even during the heyday of the Altaic theory, the idea that Korean and Japonic were part of such a family was a minority view.
Rubbish to Ukraine being the homeland of PIE. All you have to do is look at a map. Which one is closer to historical trade routes and the path of human migration?
If you knew anything about this subject, you would be aware that from the Eastern European steppes, there is extensive evidence for population expansion in several directions in the middle of the first millennium BCE. And those various populations settled in other early homelands that then carried them further.
Of course, the majority view in linguistics being something silly is nothing new. While nearly every other psychology-related field is long past over-reacting to behaviorism's decline, we're stuck in the Chomsky era.
Linguistics is a big field. Chomsky's work (the popularity which is mainly limited to North America, by the way) has nothing to do with historical linguistics and archaeology.
Agreed, as a linguist working with early Indo-European languages, I'm appalled to see this recent Anatolian study being credulously passed around by laymen who are completely unaware of the longstanding debates in the field. It's like Slashdot posting an article on string theory saying that the mystery of the universe is now solved, without even mentioning that this is an alternative theory that most physicists do not hold to.
I'd encourage everyone interested in the issue to read David W. Anthony's The Horse, the Wheel and Language (Princeton University Press). It represents the mainstream on the origin of the Indo-European language family and is written in a fairly friendly tone, accessible to anyone with some basic undergraduate knowledge of history and archaeology.
In his Mars trilogy beginning with Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson spent quite some time musing on suits for exploring the surface of Mars. I found it interesting that, although Mars has a very thin atmosphere compared to Earth, the presence of any atmosphere at all makes it much easier to design a flexible, comfortable suit than for the landings on the moon or spacewalks.
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Nonsense. If you apply to one of these universities and are accepted, then you simply ask the country's government for a student visa and can move there. As long as you maintain a certain amount of money in the bank (something like 6000â), it's pretty much automatic for anyone from a first world country (and for many from the developing world).
Maybe the "scramble suits" in Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly , instead of being a sad manifestation of the author's mental illness as long thought, were an idea whose time is coming. On the other hand, many jurisdictions already have laws against walking around in a face mask of any kind.
Education in many countries, especially at the PhD level, is free. There may not always be grants available or other research or teaching positions on offer to pay the bills, leaving the student rather short of cash. Why do you assume that a PhD student has lots of income to invest in certs?
Read again. The poster noted his verifiable experience: "I can only prove my knowledge by ... showing what I've done so far."
The direct cause of Alzheimer's is already well-known: plaques in the brain. Destroy the plaques early, and brain function will not be impaired. While the OP may unreasonably fear the repercussions of this research, claiming that it could lead to a cure for Alzheimers is going rather too far in assuaging his fears.
Five or six years ago one could find decent work on Mechanical Turk. I used to do podcast transcriptions for around US$10/hour, and some of the podcasts were on topics of interest to me, so it was enjoyable. The ability to do such work remotely made for some good times sitting on beaches in various backpacker hideaways, where the money from a couple of hours of work a day was more than enough to pay one's travel costs. Eventually I got better, more dependable work and stopped logging into MTurk. When I visited it again a couple of years later, I noticed that the money now paid for such tasks is miniscule. It really became a race to the bottom. Even if the money offered was enough for people in the Third World, surely people with the English language skills required could find something better. It's unclear to be just what demographic MTurk is depending on now.
I have relatives in Alabama who have voiced the same fear about their small town. Perhaps this hysteria is quite widespread, as even The Onion spoofed it (their article is set in Murfreesboro, TN, not too far away in fact).
If you want to get something educational for your children, why not just buy the simplest Kindle and load it with books? Sure, you won't have a color screen and flashy games, but for younger children the various electronic features will probably be enough to satisfy their desire to explore. People often overestimate what it takes to keep a child staring at a screen for hours on end. Tthey could actually read something edifying and there wouldn't be quite the same distractions as an Android tablet.
The old argument "We need to explore space to have more room!" is doesn't hold water. In his trilogy beginning with Red Mars , Kim Stanley Robinson makes the point that with the current world population, even with multiple space elevators you couldn't move more people off the planet than are being born on it at any given time.
And if you had some way of lowering the population so drastically that you could move some significant amount of people away, you wouldn't need to anyway.
The submitter is in Europe (presumably the EU). "Community colleges" are not really a phenomenon here, as university tuition is so low (or, in some countries, education is free) that one can easily complete one's studies at a respected institution, which also offers the possibility of employment in academia while one is trying to find opportunities in the marketplace.
Sure there are. Finland continues to offer free university education even to non-EU citizens.
The important thing about this kind of research is that the artificial solutions move in the same way as the biological models. That makes it easier to integrate them with biology. Amputees won't ever be happy to have lost a limb, but an artificial replacement that can outperform the original is a lot better than an artificial replacement that can do no more (and often does less) than the original.
More fancifully, perhaps the Rat Things from Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash are now a possibility.
The FOAF project began in 2000, not "the '90s".
On a traditional blog, how can I conveniently specify that a post should be visible only to a selected subset of subscribers ("friends")? You can make the website completely closed, requiring a username and password to read, or you can keep it completely open and every visitor can see everything. There's no in-between.
Unlike a typical blog, decentralized microblogging seeks to offer variable privacy of posts. It's not even a matter of privacy (which is threatened by the ability of any reader to repost the content anyway). If I am writing a post about some nerdy subject like Emacs or hacking the N900, I might as well limit its visibility to those friends who I know are passionate about that subject, and avoid cluttering most of my friends' feeds.
From the article you linked to:
21 days is a lot less than the several months of a Mars journey.
Assuming technology were still accelerating at the same pace it did in the 20th century, it's probably less likely that we'll travel to the stars. If the human race ultimately merges with machines, we may decided to move into a virtual reality, with the infrastructure located deep underground where nothing will bother us for many millions of years. See Vernor Vinge's classic novel Marooned in Realtime for some musings on this possibility.
And even if we did launch such a mission to the stars, that first mission would likely be overtaken by missions that, while launched much later, are capable of travelling faster. Vast spaces missions are not worth bothering with in the short term.
At least on my phone (Nokia N900), I can disable the cellular radio entirely with a call to rmmod, while maintaining wi-fi capability.
You could just leave the SIM card at home and take the phone with you. The wi-fi capability is all you need to maintain communications with the outside world in most urban environments, and doing encrypted, TORed VOIP over a wifi connection shouldn't identify you like the SIM would.
The first two results are academic papers that should make it quite clear what the term means. Saarikivi's paper contains an extensive bibliography on the subject. If they make "little sense" to you, there's nothing more I can do.
Your poll speaks of "organized religion". Interest in philosophy of religion doesn't necessary imply belief in organized religion -- many philosophers of religion are content to examine questions of the existence of a deity without any belief in the doctrines peculiar to any particular religion. And although the West sees declining support for organized religion, belief in the supernatural remains predominant even in highly secular places like the Nordic countries.
No Finno-Ugrian language spread as far as Turkey.
The vast, vast number of differences between those languages and German date from the developments that Proto-Slavonic and Early Common Slavonic underwent on one hand, and Proto-Germanic on the other. The Slavic language family encountered the Finno-Ugrian languages rather late (after 800 CE), and by that date their peculiarities had been in place for centuries. There are a handful of features of Russian that can be attributed to contact with a Finno-Ugrian substrate, but it's hardly those that set Russian apart from German.
Substrate toponymy makes it clear that the Indo-European languages are not native to that area. You seem to have some knowledge of the Indo-European family, so it's strange to me that you could overlook this.
Turkish is a Turkic language. The Turkic languages do not have demonstrable common ancestry with the Indo-European language.
The idea of an "Altaic" language family has fallen out of fashion, especially since the 1990s when some major Altaic linguists announced they no longer believed in their own theory. It's essentially limited to a handful of Russians now, whose methods are viewed as at best optimistic and at worst as outright crackpottery.
Mainstream linguistics now prefers to view the Tungusic, Turkic and Mongolic families are isolates, the similarities between them due to longstanding contact. Even during the heyday of the Altaic theory, the idea that Korean and Japonic were part of such a family was a minority view.
If you knew anything about this subject, you would be aware that from the Eastern European steppes, there is extensive evidence for population expansion in several directions in the middle of the first millennium BCE. And those various populations settled in other early homelands that then carried them further.
Linguistics is a big field. Chomsky's work (the popularity which is mainly limited to North America, by the way) has nothing to do with historical linguistics and archaeology.
Agreed, as a linguist working with early Indo-European languages, I'm appalled to see this recent Anatolian study being credulously passed around by laymen who are completely unaware of the longstanding debates in the field. It's like Slashdot posting an article on string theory saying that the mystery of the universe is now solved, without even mentioning that this is an alternative theory that most physicists do not hold to.
I'd encourage everyone interested in the issue to read David W. Anthony's The Horse, the Wheel and Language (Princeton University Press). It represents the mainstream on the origin of the Indo-European language family and is written in a fairly friendly tone, accessible to anyone with some basic undergraduate knowledge of history and archaeology.
In his Mars trilogy beginning with Red Mars , Kim Stanley Robinson spent quite some time musing on suits for exploring the surface of Mars. I found it interesting that, although Mars has a very thin atmosphere compared to Earth, the presence of any atmosphere at all makes it much easier to design a flexible, comfortable suit than for the landings on the moon or spacewalks.