Also, as any freshman business major can tell you, sunk costs should be ignored. You don't fire people because they lost money in the past, you fire them because you think they are going to lose money in the future.
My experience is that the most common reason people are fired is incompetence. The 2nd most common is being on the losing end of internal office politics. As you move up the hierarchy from janitor to CEO the first reason diminishes and the 2nd increases.
It's beyond reasonable doubt, not beyond ANY doubt.
Indeed, and "reasonable doubt" means roughly a 90% probability.
When DNA evidence first became available, The Innocence Project went back and evaluated old archived evidence, and were able to show that about 10% of convicted defendants couldn't possibly have committed the crimes. This is a floor on the number of wrongful convictions, since there are other people that are innocent but without enough evidence to exonerate them.
So our society is clearly willing to send plenty of innocent people to prison rather than acquitting too many of the guilty.
Is there more than a 10% chance that some stranger logged in and wiped her phone? Of course not. It was either her or an accomplice. She is guilty.
But can the phone wipe be used as circumstantial evidence that she is the shooter?
Anyway, at least she is paving the way for future female murderers. I hate the way everyone looks at drive-by shooting as a "guy thing".
Just reiterating the fact that the chips were a half-measure
Not even half, maybe a quarter measure. The chips can not only be bypassed, but because America doesn't use chip-and-PIN, the chip can be used directly by anyone stealing your card.
It is like putting a titanium deadbolt on your front door, and having an aluminum screen door on the back of the house, and also putting the deadbolt cylinder in backwards so the thumbturn is on the outside.
The rest of the world did this right. Only America screwed it up so badly, and mostly because the people with the ability to fix it (that banks) have no incentive to do so. They just push the losses off onto the customer or the merchant.
That is why a Chinese keyboard has over 1000 keys.
China uses standard QWERTY keyboards. They enter hanzi using Pinyin, a phonetic script using the Latin alphabet.
Keyboards with over a thousand keys were made decades ago, but they were for manual typing (keystroke directly to paper), and nobody uses them anymore. I have only seen them in museums.
Exactly, since the EU Supreme Court just decided that the historic facts Islam is based on is "hate speech"
Their ruling is based on the principle that if people get offended and react violently, then it is hate speech.
NOT hate speech: Mohammad had sex with a 9 year old girl. -- This is a widely accepted historical fact. NOT hate speech: Men who have sex with 9 year old girls are pedophiles. -- This is a noncontroversial fact. HATE SPEECH: Mohammad was a pedophile. -- This is a logical syllogism of the previous two facts, but is hate speech because people got offended.
NOT hate speech: Jesus was a pedophile. -- This is ok, because Christians don't get offended easily. NOT hate speech: Joseph Smith was a pedophile. -- Also ok, because Mormons don't riot. NOT hate speech: Buddha was a pedophile. -- Buddhists don't riot either.
So in Europe, if you want your right to not be offended enforced by the courts, you need to be willing to get violent, vandalize cars, and burn some shops. Some bombings will bring you even more respect.
all of those things you speak of are incremental improvements on existing technology.
No they aren't. SSDs are not an "incremental improvement" over HDDs. They are a fundamentally different technology. There have been similar fundamental shifts in networking, and circuit board fabrication. High-K semiconductors, fractional-step lithography, and Fin-FET are all still based on transistors, but they have added up to revolutionary improvements in performance.
i'm still waiting on all those cold fusion and 3d holographic storage breakthroughs from the 1990s.
Scientific research doesn't work that way. Of course there will false hopes and dead ends. But only an idiot would obsess on those failures, while ignoring the cell phone in his pocket that is only made possible by profound breakthroughs.
Countries without wage stagnation have workers who can afford to save and invest more.
Nonsense. The highest savings rate in the world is in China which has a median household income about one quarter that of America. Saying they save more "because they can afford it" is ridiculous.
The Chinese make deep sacrifices by giving up current consumption to invest in their future. Americans fail to make much shallower sacrifices, that they could easily afford.
They tested for 2000 cycles, and saw no degradation at all. So it is almost certainly reliable enough for SSDs. It is not clear if it is reliable enough for RAM, which would have to be good for billions of cycles.
And how far away do fridge magnets need to stay?
The effect is based on the movement of hydrogen ions. A refrigerator magnet would not be strong enough to interfere. But you likely wouldn't want to leave a strong magnet sitting on top of your phone for long periods of time. Even more so if your phone is hot, perhaps sitting in a car parked in the sun while running Bitcoin mining malware.
let me know when this shows up in a commercial product.
If you are not interested in learning about leading edge research, then why are you reading a nerd website?
more "research" that doesn't work outside the lab and goes nowhere.
We have made huge strides in computing power and efficiency, year after year, because of the efforts of the very researchers you so flippantly denigrate.
Mostly from China, but gadolinium is also mined in the US, Brazil, Sri Lanka, India, and Australia. It is co-produced along with other rare earths.
It is not particularly expensive, about 50 cents per gram, and a typical cell phone or computer based on this new tech would only use a few milligrams, costing less than a penny.
They are NOT using location data from apps. They are just counting cell phone transmissions.
They are just trying to estimate the aggregate number of people in the factory, to see if they are really working late to ship product.
Similar tactics have been used in the past. For instance, when satellite images first went on-line, hedge funds developed software to count cars in mall parking lots. This put them weeks ahead of other investors that were waiting for the Fed to release data based on retail surveys.
Another tactic is to photograph cargo ships entering and leaving port. If they sit high in the water, that means many of the containers are going back empty, and the trade deficit is more likely to widen, which means a weaker dollar.
He's not saying "be productive". He's saying "climb the corporate ladder".
This is still "zero sum" thinking. It is only true if you assume that corporations don't grow, and new corporations don't form.
A higher retirement age means more people being productive, and a BIGGER ECONOMY. This leads to more economic opportunities, not fewer.
Furthermore, older workers tend to save more and spend less. This means more investment in capital, which increases the value of labor.
Much of the stagnation in wages over the last few decades has been because of too much consumption, too much debt, too little savings, and too little capital investment, which has been worsened by declining workforce participation. Wage stagnation has NOT happened in countries with high rates of savings and investment.
Pushing people into premature retirement is exactly the opposite of what makes sense. America needs higher workforce participation, not lower. We should be encouraging older people to stay in their jobs as long as they want.
When people in their 60+ are not retiring, that is creating a workforce where it is difficult to for the younger folks to advance
This is a variation of the Lump of Labor Fallacy, and is economic nonsense. There is not a fixed number of jobs in the economy, nor a fixed number of opportunities to be productive, and late retirements do not "hold back" younger workers.
This is when you move to a less-developed country, buy some property to pay your way, and enjoy the fact that cars, food, and everything else are 25-50% of US prices.
Not true. Food is cheaper, services are MUCH cheaper, but manufactured and internationally traded goods like cars are NOT cheaper. A car in China or India is at least as expensive as a car in America. A housekeeper, cook, or nanny, on the other hand, costs very little.
The trick is to live like a local. Eat local food. Get a bicycle (or rent an Ofo or MoBike). If you want to take a car, instead of driving use Ola or Didi (way cheaper than Uber in America).
How is your Napoleon complex faring? Sounds like you skipped your meds today....
You can laugh now, but someday I will dance on your grave: short men live longer.... and you will pay more for your extra-long coffin. Enjoy the legroom.
The purpose of a business is to maximize profits, not to "survive".
This is just tall people expecting short people to subsidize them.
Tall guys get all the chicks, they are paid more, and now they are trying to take away the one thing that works in favor of short people: cramped airline seats.
Short people need to stand up for their rights... and if nobody notices, they need to stand on a stool.
The percentage of MySQL users that would migrate to Oracle must be something that is a challenge to find even with a microscope.
You are missing the point. Oracle knows these people won't migrate to Oracle-DB. Their big concern is people migrating in the other direction. Many customers (recently including Amazon) have dumped Oracle's DB, and gone to MySQL or Postgres. They want to slow that hemorrhaging.
there are of the order of 10000 such objects within the orbit of Neptune at any one time.
This comet was about 800 meters in diameter. If there are 10000 that size, then there are likely millions or billions of smaller objects, the size of a refrigerator or a baseball. At 0.2c, even a pebble or grain of sand can cause enormous damage.
We may want to delay any interstellar colonization voyages for a few years, until we get a better understanding of this problem.
The may have serious implications for interstellar travel, if it turns out there is a lot more debris out there and space isn't as empty as we thought. A chunk of ice can do a lot of damage when you are going 0.2c.
So submit the patch instead of waiting for someone else to for 15 months.
It is not that simple. Oracle controls which patches get applied. Sure, you can "fork it", but almost nobody has the time and resources to successfully fork a project.
Oracle WANTS VIRTUALBOX TO DIE. Same with MySql. They have closed source commercial products that compete with both of these. A big motivation for Oracle to acquire Sun was to get their hands on these open source projects so they could slowly strangle them. Late and slow security patches are part of the strangulation process.
If you ever see Oracle doing something that appears to not be evil, then you misunderstand what is going on.
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The last thing we want is Google owning yet another layer of the Web stack!
It is a public open standard. Nobody "owns" it.
Also, as any freshman business major can tell you, sunk costs should be ignored. You don't fire people because they lost money in the past, you fire them because you think they are going to lose money in the future.
My experience is that the most common reason people are fired is incompetence. The 2nd most common is being on the losing end of internal office politics. As you move up the hierarchy from janitor to CEO the first reason diminishes and the 2nd increases.
It's beyond reasonable doubt, not beyond ANY doubt.
Indeed, and "reasonable doubt" means roughly a 90% probability.
When DNA evidence first became available, The Innocence Project went back and evaluated old archived evidence, and were able to show that about 10% of convicted defendants couldn't possibly have committed the crimes. This is a floor on the number of wrongful convictions, since there are other people that are innocent but without enough evidence to exonerate them.
So our society is clearly willing to send plenty of innocent people to prison rather than acquitting too many of the guilty.
Is there more than a 10% chance that some stranger logged in and wiped her phone? Of course not. It was either her or an accomplice. She is guilty.
But can the phone wipe be used as circumstantial evidence that she is the shooter?
Anyway, at least she is paving the way for future female murderers. I hate the way everyone looks at drive-by shooting as a "guy thing".
Just reiterating the fact that the chips were a half-measure
Not even half, maybe a quarter measure. The chips can not only be bypassed, but because America doesn't use chip-and-PIN, the chip can be used directly by anyone stealing your card.
It is like putting a titanium deadbolt on your front door, and having an aluminum screen door on the back of the house, and also putting the deadbolt cylinder in backwards so the thumbturn is on the outside.
The rest of the world did this right. Only America screwed it up so badly, and mostly because the people with the ability to fix it (that banks) have no incentive to do so. They just push the losses off onto the customer or the merchant.
That is why a Chinese keyboard has over 1000 keys.
China uses standard QWERTY keyboards. They enter hanzi using Pinyin, a phonetic script using the Latin alphabet.
Keyboards with over a thousand keys were made decades ago, but they were for manual typing (keystroke directly to paper), and nobody uses them anymore. I have only seen them in museums.
Exactly, since the EU Supreme Court just decided that the historic facts Islam is based on is "hate speech"
Their ruling is based on the principle that if people get offended and react violently, then it is hate speech.
NOT hate speech: Mohammad had sex with a 9 year old girl. -- This is a widely accepted historical fact.
NOT hate speech: Men who have sex with 9 year old girls are pedophiles. -- This is a noncontroversial fact.
HATE SPEECH: Mohammad was a pedophile. -- This is a logical syllogism of the previous two facts, but is hate speech because people got offended.
NOT hate speech: Jesus was a pedophile. -- This is ok, because Christians don't get offended easily.
NOT hate speech: Joseph Smith was a pedophile. -- Also ok, because Mormons don't riot.
NOT hate speech: Buddha was a pedophile. -- Buddhists don't riot either.
So in Europe, if you want your right to not be offended enforced by the courts, you need to be willing to get violent, vandalize cars, and burn some shops. Some bombings will bring you even more respect.
The difference between Europe and China is that in China the censorship is pure, while in Europe it is diluted with hypocrisy.
Sounds like an improvement on core memory..
... in the same way that fractional-step UV photolithography sounds like an improvement on a hammer and chisel.
all of those things you speak of are incremental improvements on existing technology.
No they aren't. SSDs are not an "incremental improvement" over HDDs. They are a fundamentally different technology. There have been similar fundamental shifts in networking, and circuit board fabrication. High-K semiconductors, fractional-step lithography, and Fin-FET are all still based on transistors, but they have added up to revolutionary improvements in performance.
i'm still waiting on all those cold fusion and 3d holographic storage breakthroughs from the 1990s.
Scientific research doesn't work that way. Of course there will false hopes and dead ends. But only an idiot would obsess on those failures, while ignoring the cell phone in his pocket that is only made possible by profound breakthroughs.
You got the causality backwards there, chief.
Countries without wage stagnation have workers who can afford to save and invest more.
Nonsense. The highest savings rate in the world is in China which has a median household income about one quarter that of America. Saying they save more "because they can afford it" is ridiculous.
The Chinese make deep sacrifices by giving up current consumption to invest in their future. Americans fail to make much shallower sacrifices, that they could easily afford.
For how long?
They tested for 2000 cycles, and saw no degradation at all. So it is almost certainly reliable enough for SSDs. It is not clear if it is reliable enough for RAM, which would have to be good for billions of cycles.
And how far away do fridge magnets need to stay?
The effect is based on the movement of hydrogen ions. A refrigerator magnet would not be strong enough to interfere. But you likely wouldn't want to leave a strong magnet sitting on top of your phone for long periods of time. Even more so if your phone is hot, perhaps sitting in a car parked in the sun while running Bitcoin mining malware.
let me know when this shows up in a commercial product.
If you are not interested in learning about leading edge research, then why are you reading a nerd website?
more "research" that doesn't work outside the lab and goes nowhere.
We have made huge strides in computing power and efficiency, year after year, because of the efforts of the very researchers you so flippantly denigrate.
Go back to Facebook.
Where do you even get gadolinium?
Mostly from China, but gadolinium is also mined in the US, Brazil, Sri Lanka, India, and Australia. It is co-produced along with other rare earths.
It is not particularly expensive, about 50 cents per gram, and a typical cell phone or computer based on this new tech would only use a few milligrams, costing less than a penny.
We are not most people.
But we still are too dumb to RTFS.
They are NOT using location data from apps. They are just counting cell phone transmissions.
They are just trying to estimate the aggregate number of people in the factory, to see if they are really working late to ship product.
Similar tactics have been used in the past. For instance, when satellite images first went on-line, hedge funds developed software to count cars in mall parking lots. This put them weeks ahead of other investors that were waiting for the Fed to release data based on retail surveys.
Another tactic is to photograph cargo ships entering and leaving port. If they sit high in the water, that means many of the containers are going back empty, and the trade deficit is more likely to widen, which means a weaker dollar.
He's not saying "be productive". He's saying "climb the corporate ladder".
This is still "zero sum" thinking. It is only true if you assume that corporations don't grow, and new corporations don't form.
A higher retirement age means more people being productive, and a BIGGER ECONOMY. This leads to more economic opportunities, not fewer.
Furthermore, older workers tend to save more and spend less. This means more investment in capital, which increases the value of labor.
Much of the stagnation in wages over the last few decades has been because of too much consumption, too much debt, too little savings, and too little capital investment, which has been worsened by declining workforce participation. Wage stagnation has NOT happened in countries with high rates of savings and investment.
Pushing people into premature retirement is exactly the opposite of what makes sense. America needs higher workforce participation, not lower. We should be encouraging older people to stay in their jobs as long as they want.
What's the point besides trading our time and efforts for a token created by those who would "employ" us
Did you know that 42 million Americans are self-employed?
When people in their 60+ are not retiring, that is creating a workforce where it is difficult to for the younger folks to advance
This is a variation of the Lump of Labor Fallacy, and is economic nonsense. There is not a fixed number of jobs in the economy, nor a fixed number of opportunities to be productive, and late retirements do not "hold back" younger workers.
This is when you move to a less-developed country, buy some property to pay your way, and enjoy the fact that cars, food, and everything else are 25-50% of US prices.
Not true. Food is cheaper, services are MUCH cheaper, but manufactured and internationally traded goods like cars are NOT cheaper. A car in China or India is at least as expensive as a car in America. A housekeeper, cook, or nanny, on the other hand, costs very little.
The trick is to live like a local. Eat local food. Get a bicycle (or rent an Ofo or MoBike). If you want to take a car, instead of driving use Ola or Didi (way cheaper than Uber in America).
How is your Napoleon complex faring? Sounds like you skipped your meds today....
You can laugh now, but someday I will dance on your grave: short men live longer. ... and you will pay more for your extra-long coffin. Enjoy the legroom.
The purpose of a business is to maximize profits, not to "survive".
This is just tall people expecting short people to subsidize them.
Tall guys get all the chicks, they are paid more, and now they are trying to take away the one thing that works in favor of short people: cramped airline seats.
Short people need to stand up for their rights ... and if nobody notices, they need to stand on a stool.
Stuff like peanut oil should not be a major part of your calorie intake.
Why not? What's wrong with peanut oil?
For example, Italian police claims that half of the Italian "extra virgin" olive oil has been mixed with cheap oil.
I have heard that about half of "Italian olive oil" is actually from Spain.
The percentage of MySQL users that would migrate to Oracle must be something that is a challenge to find even with a microscope.
You are missing the point. Oracle knows these people won't migrate to Oracle-DB. Their big concern is people migrating in the other direction. Many customers (recently including Amazon) have dumped Oracle's DB, and gone to MySQL or Postgres. They want to slow that hemorrhaging.
Oracle is playing defense, not offense.
there are of the order of 10000 such objects within the orbit of Neptune at any one time.
This comet was about 800 meters in diameter. If there are 10000 that size, then there are likely millions or billions of smaller objects, the size of a refrigerator or a baseball. At 0.2c, even a pebble or grain of sand can cause enormous damage.
We may want to delay any interstellar colonization voyages for a few years, until we get a better understanding of this problem.
The may have serious implications for interstellar travel, if it turns out there is a lot more debris out there and space isn't as empty as we thought. A chunk of ice can do a lot of damage when you are going 0.2c.
So submit the patch instead of waiting for someone else to for 15 months.
It is not that simple. Oracle controls which patches get applied. Sure, you can "fork it", but almost nobody has the time and resources to successfully fork a project.
Oracle WANTS VIRTUALBOX TO DIE. Same with MySql. They have closed source commercial products that compete with both of these. A big motivation for Oracle to acquire Sun was to get their hands on these open source projects so they could slowly strangle them. Late and slow security patches are part of the strangulation process.
If you ever see Oracle doing something that appears to not be evil, then you misunderstand what is going on.