Temporary unemployment is natural as the economy evolves... a while back, we had tons more farmers than we do now. Has farmer unemployment hurt everyone? No, we just don't need as many farmers as we do since we have more efficient methods available (albeit that produce crops that taste worse). If someone is being paid $60/hr to do what could be a $15/hr job, the former should find something more worth his time. If his skills are worth 1/4th of what they are.. he has to learn new skills.
I realize that sounds pretty harsh and terrible. I don't know which is better: A) don't let foreigners in, engineers keep their jobs, prices stay the same, or B) let them in, some engineers have to retrain / find new jobs, prices are lower for everyone / economy is more efficient.
Every bit of cheap crap at you local big box store that was made in China ought to have "plus some fraction of an American manufacturing job" added to the price tag.
What's special about an American manufacturing job as opposed to one in a different country? If it's cheaper to make something in China and fly it thousands of miles to the US, then why not? Some objections I could see are:
1) the product is lower quality. in this case there is an actual difference, and people would be willing to pay more for higher-quality things manufactured in the US. If not, then I guess quality didn't matter that much, eh?
2) if we cut off trade with China, we'd have no manufacturing. That's true, that'd suck. but if we piss China off, they own enough of our debt to screw us over anyway. 0
You can talk about the "free market" in labor just as soon as you revoke all government-issued corporate charters; in a free market there is no IBM, Google, etc.
I agree with this. Well, there'd still be Google, probably, just not with charters from the government.
If that were true, then hard drives and computer parts would never have gotten cheaper. Why would they ever charge less for a product when they could just charge the same and keep the profits?
You're right. What I should have said is it's restricting freedom to force people to get H1B visas to work in the US. But in this case I was doing a comparison between allowing visas and not allowing visas, and it seemed the latter restricted freedom more.
There's a reason you're modded 1 and the "unhelpful" reply was modded 4. Even if the code is something like: "int keyIsValid = validateKey(); if (keyIsValid) turnItOn();", and "all you have to do" is flip "keyIsValid" to 1, you'd have to: 1) do it at the right second, 2) find where in memory "keyIsValid" is which... is like finding a needle in a haystack. And every time you run the program it's a different haystack with the needle somewhere else.
How would a company hiring engineers working at $15/hour hurt consumers? It would put you out of a job. It would give consumers cheaper products.
Also, it seems _not_ allowing more H1B1 visas is colluding/restricting freedom. It's restricting the free market by not allowing labor that wants to participate in the labor market to come here.
I'm not sure unicorn bacon would be a good one... you were on the right track with combining two things that are awesome, but I don't know about killing unicorns to make bacon out of them, regardless how awesome that bacon would be =P.
I noticed this with google reader recently. I had like 40 feeds, 20 different comics, that I'd check throughout the day. I just unsubscribed from 80% of them and realized I don't really miss it. The only difference is that now it's more obvious to me when I'm trying to waste time, since I just open and find an empty google reader page. And now it seems I've resorted to slashdot..
If you don't check email on a constant basis throughout the day, you'll probably end up wasting less time on it. Then once you have a few emails at a time to read, something like this might be useful.
You would also waste less time if you stop reading/posting on slashdot, though... so not sure how much it applies =P.
The only point I can make of the government deregulating "improperly" is that they put up long-term frequency rights for auction, leading to most of them being bought by 3 companies. That is definitely regulation - only these 3 companies are allowed to use these frequencies. On the other hand, it seems the earlier, stricter regulation they had of short-term rights was better. Furthermore, I don't know what would happen if government had no part in enforcing any frequency rights. Would probably be a shitshow at first, then maybe companies would get together to figure it out.
1Prohibition for ISPs (those that provide Internet access) to interfere with, discriminate or interfere in any way the content, applications or services unless measures to ensure the privacy of users, virus protection and security the network;
Am I the only one that thinks this, or isn't #1 a bit ominous sounding? On the face of it, it sounds great - ISPs are not allowed to discriminate between traffic, ensuring that all traffic will be "equal"/"free" etc. But isn't all an ISP does "interfere" with the traffic? Traffic goes along their wires, and they direct it and route it (ideally) according to what they think is most efficient. That might mean giving some packets precedence over others. But that's a violation of #1. Also, who decides what is a violation? It'll be whatever body established to take care of that. It seems in the absurd case you'd have that body dictating how to route traffic instead of the ISPs.
I agree w/ the idea that ISPs shouldn't block traffic to certain websites, and charge more money to have access to those.. but it seems like this goes beyond that.
This isn't a "barrier" like the "sound barrier". There are no special difficulties that start around 1G/sec! It's just a threshold.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying this isn't impressive, but no "barrier" was broken here!
Yep. Actually, looking from the chart, it looks like they just thought 1G/s would be a pretty number, so they optimized their code until it was that fast, then called it a day.
dnno, it was suppose to have been here 600 BC, will be here 3000 AD. would be somewhere we haven't detected. he did say it triggered the great flood. didn't say why it hasn't messed stuff up since its other approaches. any strange things hapening in ancient history aroudn 600BC?
There's lots of rocks out there. I wonder how much mass they all add up to.
The theory in The Twelfth Planet ( http://www.amazon.com/12th-Planet-Earth-Chronicles-Book/dp/038039362X ), which sounds a bit farfetched since the author states it is gathered from ancient tablets that were dictated to us by aliens, is something like: There was a big planet around where Earth is now. This 12th planet (Moon, Sun + Pluto also being 'planets') with a 3600-year orbit came into our solar system and came really close to it. I think the moon split off from it, then another moon, which shattered to become this asteroid belt, and what was left (with the modified orbit) was Earth. Other pieces that broke off from the planet were flung away and became comets.
This is all from memory, so it might not be accurate. Interesting theory, though.
You are sipping a delicious coffee, sitting outside your favorite cafe. "Man," you say to yourself, "who would buy a set of bleachers on Amazon? $10,000! Hah!"
Presently, your friend Bob comes walking down the street. "Hey Bob!" you say, waving and nodding. Your browser starts loading a new page. "Purchase confirmed." DOH!!
Not always true. If you see the beginning of the video, there's a case where you have to adjust 4 scrollbars at the same time. We certainly have the mental capacity to do that - it's just the mouse that prevents us from doing it quickly. I can see this technology being useful anytime you have to simultaneously adjust 2 or more values.
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When unemployment goes up, we all suffer.
Temporary unemployment is natural as the economy evolves... a while back, we had tons more farmers than we do now. Has farmer unemployment hurt everyone? No, we just don't need as many farmers as we do since we have more efficient methods available (albeit that produce crops that taste worse). If someone is being paid $60/hr to do what could be a $15/hr job, the former should find something more worth his time. If his skills are worth 1/4th of what they are.. he has to learn new skills.
I realize that sounds pretty harsh and terrible. I don't know which is better: A) don't let foreigners in, engineers keep their jobs, prices stay the same, or B) let them in, some engineers have to retrain / find new jobs, prices are lower for everyone / economy is more efficient.
Every bit of cheap crap at you local big box store that was made in China ought to have "plus some fraction of an American manufacturing job" added to the price tag.
What's special about an American manufacturing job as opposed to one in a different country? If it's cheaper to make something in China and fly it thousands of miles to the US, then why not? Some objections I could see are:
1) the product is lower quality. in this case there is an actual difference, and people would be willing to pay more for higher-quality things manufactured in the US. If not, then I guess quality didn't matter that much, eh?
2) if we cut off trade with China, we'd have no manufacturing. That's true, that'd suck. but if we piss China off, they own enough of our debt to screw us over anyway. 0
You can talk about the "free market" in labor just as soon as you revoke all government-issued corporate charters; in a free market there is no IBM, Google, etc.
I agree with this. Well, there'd still be Google, probably, just not with charters from the government.
If that were true, then hard drives and computer parts would never have gotten cheaper. Why would they ever charge less for a product when they could just charge the same and keep the profits?
You're right. What I should have said is it's restricting freedom to force people to get H1B visas to work in the US. But in this case I was doing a comparison between allowing visas and not allowing visas, and it seemed the latter restricted freedom more.
Really? What about if you put a gun on it and send a few of them into a building?
There's a reason you're modded 1 and the "unhelpful" reply was modded 4. Even if the code is something like: "int keyIsValid = validateKey(); if (keyIsValid) turnItOn();", and "all you have to do" is flip "keyIsValid" to 1, you'd have to: 1) do it at the right second, 2) find where in memory "keyIsValid" is which... is like finding a needle in a haystack. And every time you run the program it's a different haystack with the needle somewhere else.
How would a company hiring engineers working at $15/hour hurt consumers? It would put you out of a job. It would give consumers cheaper products.
Also, it seems _not_ allowing more H1B1 visas is colluding/restricting freedom. It's restricting the free market by not allowing labor that wants to participate in the labor market to come here.
I'm not sure unicorn bacon would be a good one... you were on the right track with combining two things that are awesome, but I don't know about killing unicorns to make bacon out of them, regardless how awesome that bacon would be =P.
I noticed this with google reader recently. I had like 40 feeds, 20 different comics, that I'd check throughout the day. I just unsubscribed from 80% of them and realized I don't really miss it. The only difference is that now it's more obvious to me when I'm trying to waste time, since I just open and find an empty google reader page. And now it seems I've resorted to slashdot..
If you don't check email on a constant basis throughout the day, you'll probably end up wasting less time on it. Then once you have a few emails at a time to read, something like this might be useful.
You would also waste less time if you stop reading/posting on slashdot, though... so not sure how much it applies =P.
I wasn't aware of this scenario, so I read about it here: http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/rhodesprp/01_02/divide/dereg.htm#conseq. It does indeed seem that in this case, the government deregulation led to a worse market outcome.
The only point I can make of the government deregulating "improperly" is that they put up long-term frequency rights for auction, leading to most of them being bought by 3 companies. That is definitely regulation - only these 3 companies are allowed to use these frequencies. On the other hand, it seems the earlier, stricter regulation they had of short-term rights was better. Furthermore, I don't know what would happen if government had no part in enforcing any frequency rights. Would probably be a shitshow at first, then maybe companies would get together to figure it out.
1Prohibition for ISPs (those that provide Internet access) to interfere with, discriminate or interfere in any way the content, applications or services unless measures to ensure the privacy of users, virus protection and security the network;
Am I the only one that thinks this, or isn't #1 a bit ominous sounding? On the face of it, it sounds great - ISPs are not allowed to discriminate between traffic, ensuring that all traffic will be "equal"/"free" etc. But isn't all an ISP does "interfere" with the traffic? Traffic goes along their wires, and they direct it and route it (ideally) according to what they think is most efficient. That might mean giving some packets precedence over others. But that's a violation of #1. Also, who decides what is a violation? It'll be whatever body established to take care of that. It seems in the absurd case you'd have that body dictating how to route traffic instead of the ISPs.
I agree w/ the idea that ISPs shouldn't block traffic to certain websites, and charge more money to have access to those.. but it seems like this goes beyond that.
This isn't a "barrier" like the "sound barrier". There are no special difficulties that start around 1G/sec! It's just a threshold.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying this isn't impressive, but no "barrier" was broken here!
Yep. Actually, looking from the chart, it looks like they just thought 1G/s would be a pretty number, so they optimized their code until it was that fast, then called it a day.
That would be an awesomely simple rebuttal. Is that 4% the mass of asteroids we know of, or estimated total mass?
dnno, it was suppose to have been here 600 BC, will be here 3000 AD. would be somewhere we haven't detected. he did say it triggered the great flood. didn't say why it hasn't messed stuff up since its other approaches. any strange things hapening in ancient history aroudn 600BC?
Cheese and beer cause GP already started typing "cheese and b". Cheese and bwine would be a bit strange.
There's lots of rocks out there. I wonder how much mass they all add up to. The theory in The Twelfth Planet ( http://www.amazon.com/12th-Planet-Earth-Chronicles-Book/dp/038039362X ), which sounds a bit farfetched since the author states it is gathered from ancient tablets that were dictated to us by aliens, is something like: There was a big planet around where Earth is now. This 12th planet (Moon, Sun + Pluto also being 'planets') with a 3600-year orbit came into our solar system and came really close to it. I think the moon split off from it, then another moon, which shattered to become this asteroid belt, and what was left (with the modified orbit) was Earth. Other pieces that broke off from the planet were flung away and became comets. This is all from memory, so it might not be accurate. Interesting theory, though.
I think GP meant you should built the neuron elements out of forks. Maybe they have a unique potential for computing power?
You are sipping a delicious coffee, sitting outside your favorite cafe. "Man," you say to yourself, "who would buy a set of bleachers on Amazon? $10,000! Hah!"
Presently, your friend Bob comes walking down the street. "Hey Bob!" you say, waving and nodding. Your browser starts loading a new page. "Purchase confirmed." DOH!!
Not necessarily. It could be that they play a few titles 30 hours a week, and go through 24 other titles quickly and get bored of them.
Who buys 8 games a month anyway? I wonder if they just asked how many new games they played and assumed they bought them.
From the article:
"Likewise, if the light is about to change to yellow, the system prompts the driver and momentarily cuts power."
Am I the only one who thinks that could end badly?
Not always true. If you see the beginning of the video, there's a case where you have to adjust 4 scrollbars at the same time. We certainly have the mental capacity to do that - it's just the mouse that prevents us from doing it quickly. I can see this technology being useful anytime you have to simultaneously adjust 2 or more values.
"It might not have been centered (but that's just formatting)" - the whole patent is "just formatting." It's a design patent!
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Anything, as long as you divert enough power to the deflector dish.
Hmm, two people missing the joke in a row. I wonder what the record is.