If you take 11 or more of your vacation days, you are more than 30% more likely to receive a raise.
Correlation is not causation. It could be that low performers don't take vacation because they are worried about getting fired, while high performers feel more secure, and take more time off.
Disclaimer: I take all my vacation days, but I still spend an hour or two each day answering work emails and dealing with random problems that come up.
Interns have to be paid. Software works for (almost) nothing.
You remind me of this guy: "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- William Henry Preece, explaining why telephones would never be used in Britain.
Programs that can auto-generate glue code from a GUI input have been around for decades. You just need to fill in the stubs with the other 99% of the code. The problem with these GUI input systems is that the code they generate is fragile and even small changes are often more difficult than just starting over. I have never found them useful, but they are popular for iPhone and Android apps.
I read TFA, and it says almost nothing, but I think the new thing about this system is that you don't need to use a GUI input, and instead you can just show it a picture or screenshot of an existing GUI (say, your competitor's product), and it will auto-generate code to create that GUI, with stubs for the actual functionality. That seems pretty slick.
the ONLY way you can run a modern airline, hospital, utility or whatnot is with a computerized system.
If you have people at the gate with boarding passes, and a plane ready to fly, it is idiotic to refuse to board them because your computer is down. You get a sheet of paper, you manually write a manifest, and you send them on their way. It was done that way for decades.
Power failures happen. Hacks happen. It is the way you handle them that matters. BA's behavior was horrible. They should have had a fall-back paper based system. It would have been slow, error prone, and required them to rush-hire a lot of temps, but they could have muddled through without stranding tens of thousands of people. Also, it would have saved them money. The cost of the paper-pushing temps would have been far less than the cost of all the refunds for cancelled flights.
Privacy is also a Western concern. In Asian and African countries people have very different expectations. I lived in China for several years, and I don't remember anyone ever knocking before entering a room. At the hospital I saw a nurse interrogating a patient about his impotence problem while other patients were queued directly behind him. Restrooms often had a row of toilets with no stall doors between them, although this did make it easier to ask someone to pass the toilet paper.
People willing turn over their data to these companies for use of "free" products.
As long as the terms of the transaction are clear, there is nothing wrong with that. I use Google search, Google Docs, etc. They mine the data I give them, and I occasionally get ads for stuff I am actually interested in. If I don't want them to know about something, I use an incognito window or a different computer.
No. EITC is not paid to the employer. Most minimum wage workers do not qualify for EITC, because it depends on household income, not their individual income. In many cases, an employer will not even be aware of which employees are receiving EITC.
Even when filled with hydrogen, airships are not particularly flammable. With proper compartmentalization, they can take some hits and keep flying. Germany conducted many Zeppelin bombing raids on Britain during WW1. They were mostly successful, although they had to switch from daylight to nighttime raids in 1917 because of improved defenses.
1. Many Republicans have long been supporters of EITC. 2. It is the Democrats who are generally opposed. 3. EITC is means tested, and requires people to work, so it is pretty much the opposite of UBI.
Expanding EITC has two big advantages over UBI: 1. It is politically realistic. 2. It addresses a real problem rather than an imaginary problem.
EITC addresses inequality, which is a real problem, by applying a negative income tax (subsidy) to people earning low incomes.
UBI addresses the problem of jobs disappearing completely, which is imaginary since there is no evidence that is actually happening.
The actual paper is paywalled, but the abstract says nothing about working "the morning after", so the journalist who wrote TFA may have just made that up.
It was peer reviewed, published in a prestigious journal, and they aren't selling anything. So I don't see anything "fishy" about it. It is often hard to get funding to study naturally occurring substances, because they can't be patented, so there isn't any money in it. The chemicals they studied were extracted from mangoes and dandelion roots.
Who is "they"? If you mean the corps that profit from selling electricity, it is likely that they would be more profitable with greater efficiency. Most electricity is sold at fixed prices, and power companies run "peakers" at a loss. So if more intelligent energy use smooths out the peaks and troughs, the peaker plants can be idled, cheap base power will cover more of the load, and their profits will go up.
"Our flight should prove that it's possible to make long-distance flights using solar energy if you only ever need to fly east"?
One proposed use of solar planes is as communications relays, to replace satellites. They would circle the earth continuously, one trailing the previous by about 200 km. They could fly either direction, but flying east wins in both sunlight and prevailing winds (at least in mid latitudes).
Using solar drones instead of satellites for communication is cheaper not just in launch cost, but in the cost of the electronics. Satellite electronics need to be rad-hard, but also need to be super redundant because otherwise a single bad chip can cost $100M. But with a solar drone, if there is a failure in the relay electronics, you just land it and swap out the board.
There are plenty of jobs that don't require much. Accountants benefit from a neurotic focus on details, and their lack of social skills is often at programmer levels. Most Aspies can fake it well enough to get by in normal day-to-day social interactions. Many of my co-workers knew me for a long time before they finally realized I was weird. For instance, someone at my company died, and since I barely knew him, it didn't affect me emotionally, and I failed to display a socially acceptable amount of despondency.
people present that could barely function in society
Aspergers is defined as high-functioning autism, so someone this dysfunctional probably shouldn't be diagnosed as an Aspie.
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If you take 11 or more of your vacation days, you are more than 30% more likely to receive a raise.
Correlation is not causation. It could be that low performers don't take vacation because they are worried about getting fired, while high performers feel more secure, and take more time off.
Disclaimer: I take all my vacation days, but I still spend an hour or two each day answering work emails and dealing with random problems that come up.
77% accuracy just to do the layouts?
This is version 1.0. It will rapidly improve.
I've got interns better than that.
Interns have to be paid. Software works for (almost) nothing.
You remind me of this guy:
"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- William Henry Preece, explaining why telephones would never be used in Britain.
Yes but Chinese companies like Baidu, TenCent and Alibaba are comparable to Google, Facebook, and Amazon
Baidu's main AI lab is in California.
Most of the researchers there are Americans.
Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab
Programs that can auto-generate glue code from a GUI input have been around for decades. You just need to fill in the stubs with the other 99% of the code. The problem with these GUI input systems is that the code they generate is fragile and even small changes are often more difficult than just starting over. I have never found them useful, but they are popular for iPhone and Android apps.
I read TFA, and it says almost nothing, but I think the new thing about this system is that you don't need to use a GUI input, and instead you can just show it a picture or screenshot of an existing GUI (say, your competitor's product), and it will auto-generate code to create that GUI, with stubs for the actual functionality. That seems pretty slick.
the ONLY way you can run a modern airline, hospital, utility or whatnot is with a computerized system.
If you have people at the gate with boarding passes, and a plane ready to fly, it is idiotic to refuse to board them because your computer is down. You get a sheet of paper, you manually write a manifest, and you send them on their way. It was done that way for decades.
The food on their flights is terrible even by airline standards.
They're British. What do you expect?
Power failures happen. Hacks happen. It is the way you handle them that matters. BA's behavior was horrible. They should have had a fall-back paper based system. It would have been slow, error prone, and required them to rush-hire a lot of temps, but they could have muddled through without stranding tens of thousands of people. Also, it would have saved them money. The cost of the paper-pushing temps would have been far less than the cost of all the refunds for cancelled flights.
You honestly like ads intruding on your workflow while you're trying to do something else?
The ads are going to be there anyway. I don't see more ads, just different ads.
on the day you want or need X, you search for "product X"
What about stuff you don't know you want or need?
20 years ago, how many people wanted an iPhone?
Privacy is also a Western concern. In Asian and African countries people have very different expectations. I lived in China for several years, and I don't remember anyone ever knocking before entering a room. At the hospital I saw a nurse interrogating a patient about his impotence problem while other patients were queued directly behind him. Restrooms often had a row of toilets with no stall doors between them, although this did make it easier to ask someone to pass the toilet paper.
People willing turn over their data to these companies for use of "free" products.
As long as the terms of the transaction are clear, there is nothing wrong with that. I use Google search, Google Docs, etc. They mine the data I give them, and I occasionally get ads for stuff I am actually interested in. If I don't want them to know about something, I use an incognito window or a different computer.
No. EITC is not paid to the employer. Most minimum wage workers do not qualify for EITC, because it depends on household income, not their individual income. In many cases, an employer will not even be aware of which employees are receiving EITC.
If any industry needs disruption, it's the education industry.
Education costs have risen faster than any other cateogy for the last 20 years. Faster than housing or even healthcare.
Here is more data that indicates that even in Silicon Valley the young are more likely to be unemployed than the old.
Outside of tech hiring, the young are still on the short end of the opportunities.
Indeed. Unemployment decreases with age. It is the young that have a hard time finding jobs, not the old.
Too often your friends won't provide feedback.
You just need to understand what the feedback means.
Feedback 1: That is a fantastic idea. You will make millions.
Meaning: Your idea stinks.
Feedback 2: That is a good idea. When will it be available? Can I buy one?
Meaning: You idea is good, and with proper execution you will be successful.
Depends on what you fill them with...
Even when filled with hydrogen, airships are not particularly flammable. With proper compartmentalization, they can take some hits and keep flying. Germany conducted many Zeppelin bombing raids on Britain during WW1. They were mostly successful, although they had to switch from daylight to nighttime raids in 1917 because of improved defenses.
1. Many Republicans have long been supporters of EITC.
2. It is the Democrats who are generally opposed.
3. EITC is means tested, and requires people to work, so it is pretty much the opposite of UBI.
Expanding EITC has two big advantages over UBI:
1. It is politically realistic.
2. It addresses a real problem rather than an imaginary problem.
EITC addresses inequality, which is a real problem, by applying a negative income tax (subsidy) to people earning low incomes.
UBI addresses the problem of jobs disappearing completely, which is imaginary since there is no evidence that is actually happening.
The actual paper is paywalled, but the abstract says nothing about working "the morning after", so the journalist who wrote TFA may have just made that up.
And we should trust them for birth control advice?
None of the researchers are Chinese, either by ethnicity or nationality.
It was peer reviewed, published in a prestigious journal, and they aren't selling anything. So I don't see anything "fishy" about it. It is often hard to get funding to study naturally occurring substances, because they can't be patented, so there isn't any money in it. The chemicals they studied were extracted from mangoes and dandelion roots.
You think they will let that happen?
Who is "they"? If you mean the corps that profit from selling electricity, it is likely that they would be more profitable with greater efficiency. Most electricity is sold at fixed prices, and power companies run "peakers" at a loss. So if more intelligent energy use smooths out the peaks and troughs, the peaker plants can be idled, cheap base power will cover more of the load, and their profits will go up.
Not if you have a ~800 km altitude constellation.
Round trip latency to a satellite 800km away: 5ms
Round trip latency to a solar drone 100km away: 0.7ms
"Our flight should prove that it's possible to make long-distance flights using solar energy if you only ever need to fly east"?
One proposed use of solar planes is as communications relays, to replace satellites. They would circle the earth continuously, one trailing the previous by about 200 km. They could fly either direction, but flying east wins in both sunlight and prevailing winds (at least in mid latitudes).
Using solar drones instead of satellites for communication is cheaper not just in launch cost, but in the cost of the electronics. Satellite electronics need to be rad-hard, but also need to be super redundant because otherwise a single bad chip can cost $100M. But with a solar drone, if there is a failure in the relay electronics, you just land it and swap out the board.
Sadly all jobs require social skills
There are plenty of jobs that don't require much. Accountants benefit from a neurotic focus on details, and their lack of social skills is often at programmer levels. Most Aspies can fake it well enough to get by in normal day-to-day social interactions. Many of my co-workers knew me for a long time before they finally realized I was weird. For instance, someone at my company died, and since I barely knew him, it didn't affect me emotionally, and I failed to display a socially acceptable amount of despondency.
people present that could barely function in society
Aspergers is defined as high-functioning autism, so someone this dysfunctional probably shouldn't be diagnosed as an Aspie.
I didn't realized that the British celebrated U.S. Memorial Day weekend.
Ramadan starts today, and Monday is the Spring Bank Holiday, when many schools and businesses close.