We can save weight by trading shielding for distance. Just use a long conductive tether to tow the reactor a km behind the main payload. The radiation will drop off as the square of the distance.
Within 20 points of the mean (80 to 120), IQ scores are strongly correlated with income and financial success. Outside that range, the correlation breaks down. If you have an IQ of 140, you are unlikely to earn much more than someone with an IQ of 120. Likewise, someone with an IQ of 60 won't earn much less than someone with an IQ of 80.
IQ is strongly and negatively correlated with incarceration. People in prison tend to be dumb. This could mean that dumb people commit more crimes, or that they are more likely to get caught and be convicted. Mostly likely it is a bit of both.
No it doesn't. When someone dies, unless their wills says otherwise, any copyrights go to their estate. It is up to their heirs what happens after that.
Tencent and Alibaba are prestigious companies that can hire the best of the best. The salaries they pay are not typical. It is similar to America, where the salaries paid by Google and Facebook are far above average.
1) Does this hypothesis have testable predictions,
Yes. The aliens would likely implement physics with some specific features to conserve resources. Here are some predictions:
1. To localize causality, the propagation of information will have a speed limit rather than happening instantaneously.
2. At the lowest levels, reality will be discrete, or "quantum", rather than continuous. The degree of quantum granularity will depend on the size of the floating point registers in the alien computers. Planck's Constant is 6.626e-34, which implies a binary mantissa of at least 115 bits.
3. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how a GPU running OpenGL will skip the generation of hidden polygons. Since only an infinitesimal portion of the Universe is actually observed, this is a huge optimization win.
All of these are actually true of our Universe. Ergo, we are just alien puppets, and our only purpose in "life" is to provide them with entertainment.
It is also dumb for another reason: 90% of the water in Phoenix goes to water lawns. So just build the new city without grass, and use xeriscaping instead. Problem solved.
See my userID. I am in Shanghai right now, although I hope to return to California before Christmas.
Power outages?
My company has had an office in Shanghai since 2002. During those 15 years, we have had this many power outages: 0.
Engineers leaving work at 5pm sharp? (how dare they!) not unusual.
Well, Chinese people value family time, but how many tasks really really can't wait till the next day?
More than 20 days paid holidays per year (I'm looking at you India).
In China nearly everyone takes vacation during the same 20 days: The lunar new year, in Jan/Feb, and "National Week" in October. That makes it easy to manage.
Teams paralyzed because problems appear and projects slip while the team waits for the US leadership to make decisions?
You are missing the point. If you move the entire team overseas, that includes the decision makers. There is no need to "phone home".
Labor costs creeping up overseas
True, but still way below Silicon Valley levels. I can hire solid engineers and devs in Shanghai for $35k.
The cost of moving development infrastructure overseas?
You're supposed to put sufficient tariffs on those companies to prevent that.
If you do this to only American companies, then jobs and investment will flow to non-American companies. This is already happening because of our extraterritorial tax laws. Punitive tariffs will turn a flow into a flood.
If you do it across the board, that will require America to withdraw from the WTO. Other countries will quickly retaliate with their own tariffs, and American workers will shift from designing iPhones to sewing blue jeans. Airbus will be delighted to see Boeing go bankrupt.
Protectionism is not a new idea (it has been around for millennia), and it has never worked out well. You can't create prosperity by shutting out the rest of the world. The most protectionist country in the world today is North Korea (per capita GDP: $580). The least protectionist is Singapore (per capita GDP: $53,000).
Just to be clear: This action is NOT reducing the number of H1-B visas issued. It is reducing the INPUTS to the lottery, not the OUTPUTS. So the same number of visas will be issued, just to different people.
yeah, I can't imagine the physics behind this work... and you'd have to wear it tight as shit..
Even then, it won't work for people with Raynaud's Syndrome. My spouse has Raynaud's, and in the winter her hands (and feet) are so cold that there would be a negligible thermal gradient.
you can see the direction that the plate is moving by looking at the chain of islands.
Kure is the last island in the chain, and is the northernmost coral atoll in the world. Beyond that there is a chain of seamounts that have eroded below sea level. The last is more than 80 million years old, and is on the edge of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, a subduction zone near Russia. It is likely that even earlier seamounts once existed, but they have been subducted back into the mantle.
What would the effect of a really strong gamma-ray burst be?
Bad. Really bad. They are the strongest electromagnetic events known to occur in the Universe. A big one can sterilize an entire galaxy. They are most likely to occur in the center of galaxies, which may explain why all known life bearing planetary systems are in the galactic fringes (disclaimer: data is limited).
Would there be time to point to the skies, cry out "Good lord! (choke!)"?
Many artists want their ticket prices reasonable so any fan can have an opportunity to see a show not just rich ones.
That is basically BS. They price the tickets below market so the event will be sold out fast, giving the illusion of scarcity, and making them appear to be popular. This is the same reason that IPO stock prices are below market. The resulting "pop" makes them look successful and "hot" even at the cost of raising less money in the short term.
Scalpers are to concerts as underwriters are to IPOs. The both buy quick and sell slow.
someone cries that high ticket prices is just another way to discriminate against the poor.
An obvious solution would be to tax concert tickets and use the proceeds to pay for food stamps and other programs that help the poor. That way higher prices will actually be better for the poor.
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That means you have to carry an external display, mouse, and keyboard with you.
Or you could have an external display and keyboard at home, and another setup at the office, like millions of people already do with their laptops.
We can save weight by trading shielding for distance. Just use a long conductive tether to tow the reactor a km behind the main payload. The radiation will drop off as the square of the distance.
So what are you claiming it actually measures?
Within 20 points of the mean (80 to 120), IQ scores are strongly correlated with income and financial success. Outside that range, the correlation breaks down. If you have an IQ of 140, you are unlikely to earn much more than someone with an IQ of 120. Likewise, someone with an IQ of 60 won't earn much less than someone with an IQ of 80.
IQ is strongly and negatively correlated with incarceration. People in prison tend to be dumb. This could mean that dumb people commit more crimes, or that they are more likely to get caught and be convicted. Mostly likely it is a bit of both.
IQ is not correlated with happiness.
refusing to acknowledge the work of others is not the same thing as independence, especially not independence of *thought*.
Yet your post is contains unsupported assertions, no citations, and you acknowledge the work of nobody.
It becomes public domain
No it doesn't. When someone dies, unless their wills says otherwise, any copyrights go to their estate. It is up to their heirs what happens after that.
Tencent and Alibaba are prestigious companies that can hire the best of the best. The salaries they pay are not typical. It is similar to America, where the salaries paid by Google and Facebook are far above average.
1) Does this hypothesis have testable predictions,
Yes. The aliens would likely implement physics with some specific features to conserve resources. Here are some predictions:
1. To localize causality, the propagation of information will have a speed limit rather than happening instantaneously.
2. At the lowest levels, reality will be discrete, or "quantum", rather than continuous. The degree of quantum granularity will depend on the size of the floating point registers in the alien computers. Planck's Constant is 6.626e-34, which implies a binary mantissa of at least 115 bits.
3. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how a GPU running OpenGL will skip the generation of hidden polygons. Since only an infinitesimal portion of the Universe is actually observed, this is a huge optimization win.
All of these are actually true of our Universe. Ergo, we are just alien puppets, and our only purpose in "life" is to provide them with entertainment.
Then you get wasted by an a2a missile from 60-70 km because your fancy laser only has a range of 10 km.
The obvious solution is to put the laser on the missile, yielding a combined range of 70-80km.
Or even better, put it on a reusable drone. If you are firing a laser from 10km away, what is the purpose of the pilot?
almost twice the initial estimate.
That is good. They normal rule of thumb for DoD projects is triple.
It means what it says, Open Source! the SOURCE is OPEN.
That sounds great in theory, but in practice it means that anyone can build their own binaries, so why should they pay you?
Plenty of people (including me) make money writing FOSS, but few of us do it by "selling the software", and those that do don't earn much.
It is at least 60k CNY below market rate for an any much senior developer
35k USD, not 35k CNY. You can't hire a janitor for 35k CNY.
The naysayment regarding water is dumb.
It is also dumb for another reason: 90% of the water in Phoenix goes to water lawns. So just build the new city without grass, and use xeriscaping instead. Problem solved.
No one writes C for embedded control systems, we let Simulink and Matlab handle that.
I work on embedded systems. I have been involved in dozens of projects. I have never, not once, seen Simulink or Matlab used in a final product.
Python makes programmers more efficient than any other language. It will win out eventually
Let me know when you can run Python on an embedded AVR with 256 bytes of RAM. When you get down to bare metal, it is either C or assembly.
Have YOU even spent any time overseas?
See my userID. I am in Shanghai right now, although I hope to return to California before Christmas.
Power outages?
My company has had an office in Shanghai since 2002. During those 15 years, we have had this many power outages: 0.
Engineers leaving work at 5pm sharp? (how dare they!) not unusual.
Well, Chinese people value family time, but how many tasks really really can't wait till the next day?
More than 20 days paid holidays per year (I'm looking at you India).
In China nearly everyone takes vacation during the same 20 days: The lunar new year, in Jan/Feb, and "National Week" in October. That makes it easy to manage.
Teams paralyzed because problems appear and projects slip while the team waits for the US leadership to make decisions?
You are missing the point. If you move the entire team overseas, that includes the decision makers. There is no need to "phone home".
Labor costs creeping up overseas
True, but still way below Silicon Valley levels. I can hire solid engineers and devs in Shanghai for $35k.
The cost of moving development infrastructure overseas?
My laptop fits in my backpack.
You're supposed to put sufficient tariffs on those companies to prevent that.
If you do this to only American companies, then jobs and investment will flow to non-American companies. This is already happening because of our extraterritorial tax laws. Punitive tariffs will turn a flow into a flood.
If you do it across the board, that will require America to withdraw from the WTO. Other countries will quickly retaliate with their own tariffs, and American workers will shift from designing iPhones to sewing blue jeans. Airbus will be delighted to see Boeing go bankrupt.
Protectionism is not a new idea (it has been around for millennia), and it has never worked out well. You can't create prosperity by shutting out the rest of the world. The most protectionist country in the world today is North Korea (per capita GDP: $580). The least protectionist is Singapore (per capita GDP: $53,000).
Mixing all the races together just results in a race war.
I live in San Jose, which at less than 1/3 white, it is the "brownest" big city in America. It is also the big city with the lowest crime rate.
The Tower of Babble. That is the whole point of it all.
Children of Asian immigrants outperform native born whites on the English verbal section of the SAT.
Just to be clear: This action is NOT reducing the number of H1-B visas issued. It is reducing the INPUTS to the lottery, not the OUTPUTS. So the same number of visas will be issued, just to different people.
Oh no, they'll have to pay higher wages instead of using foreign labor!
That is one solution. Another is to hire the whole team overseas. If you can't move the workers to the jobs, then you move the jobs to the workers.
Restrictions on immigration have a poor track record for creating jobs and economic growth.
yeah, I can't imagine the physics behind this work... and you'd have to wear it tight as shit..
Even then, it won't work for people with Raynaud's Syndrome. My spouse has Raynaud's, and in the winter her hands (and feet) are so cold that there would be a negligible thermal gradient.
Currently it’s under the Big Island (obviously)
Actually, it is under Lo'ihi.
you can see the direction that the plate is moving by looking at the chain of islands.
Kure is the last island in the chain, and is the northernmost coral atoll in the world. Beyond that there is a chain of seamounts that have eroded below sea level. The last is more than 80 million years old, and is on the edge of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, a subduction zone near Russia. It is likely that even earlier seamounts once existed, but they have been subducted back into the mantle.
What would the effect of a really strong gamma-ray burst be?
Bad. Really bad. They are the strongest electromagnetic events known to occur in the Universe. A big one can sterilize an entire galaxy. They are most likely to occur in the center of galaxies, which may explain why all known life bearing planetary systems are in the galactic fringes (disclaimer: data is limited).
Would there be time to point to the skies, cry out "Good lord! (choke!)"?
Unlikely. The initial burst can peak in 10ms.
Gamma-ray bursts
Many artists want their ticket prices reasonable so any fan can have an opportunity to see a show not just rich ones.
That is basically BS. They price the tickets below market so the event will be sold out fast, giving the illusion of scarcity, and making them appear to be popular. This is the same reason that IPO stock prices are below market. The resulting "pop" makes them look successful and "hot" even at the cost of raising less money in the short term.
Scalpers are to concerts as underwriters are to IPOs. The both buy quick and sell slow.
someone cries that high ticket prices is just another way to discriminate against the poor.
An obvious solution would be to tax concert tickets and use the proceeds to pay for food stamps and other programs that help the poor. That way higher prices will actually be better for the poor.
No. Just limit each ticket to one specific individual with proof of ID required to enter the event.
This will slow the entrance line down to the pace of the customs line at the airport. I will a long long time to fill a 50,000 seat stadium.