If you learn on the job, then you had a job - which means that the employer hired someone who was not an expert already, exactly the opposite thing that the article, or the post I replied to, recommends.
This is what I meant by 'train', hire someone who does not have lots of experience already and let him learn - either by learning from his mistakes or learning from a more senior programmer that is also on the job.
Self-taught is somewhat less problematic, but where the heck am I supposed to get experience writing accounting web apps interfacing with old mainframes on my own? I don't have a mainframe, and I have only a vague idea what accounting apps need to do. There are lots of things that businesses need that almost nobody could/would ever learn on their own.
This idea of lets get someone in and train them up is assinine.
Dumb question, but if nobody trains new developers, then where the heck are those more experienced developers supposed to come from? And of course the related question, where did the few that we now have come from?
We are nowhere near the speculation levels that occurred during the last bubble.
Actually, we are well beyond those speculation levels. It is just that the speculations are in bonds, asset-backed securities and other financial thingies, where last time it was mostly tech stocks.
If you don't understand the size and scope of the problem, and can't even do the basic math to find out, what the heck are you doing proposing solutions?
find ones that coded for working protiens at each step.
This is (currently) an impossible step. Just going from amino acid sequence to protein shape is a very hard task. (see folding@home) We don't have any real way of proving whether or not the resulting protein 'works'. Is it structural? an enzyme? is it merely a building block for something else? (protein clumps on ribosomes for example?) The problem is akin too taking random shapes and proving which are parts for working machines - without any real way of knowing just what those machines do or how they work. That and not all mutations are single base-pair mutations. This experiment is far too simple.
We know that we have to upend physics as we know it. Current theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity are incompatible - at least one on them is wrong. What did you think the string theorists were trying to do anyway?
cat/proc/kcore > lpr
And send the MPAA the bill for a new laser printer, toner and about a thousand reams of paper, and first class postage for shipping it to them.
Rerun this command as often as the printer finishes, (and get more ram *evil grin*)
You and the post you replied to seem to be using differend definitions of 'capitalism'
His definition seems to be closer to Laissez-faire, and your definition seems closer to 'He who has the gold makes the rules' Your phrase 'governments forcibly taking away' is about as far from laissez-faire economic policy as one can get. It does however, fit the other golden rule definition rather well.
Most/. discussions about capitalism make this mistake, as both definitions are common - and in their own way each are very real.
how can you believe that we can predict the climate 50 or 100 years from now when we can't accurately predict next month's weather? Computer models?
I was under that particular misunderstanding at one point. The problem is that weather is inherently unpredictable. It is a chaotic system.
This means that even if we had perfect computer models. Completely perfect models. And we had excelent current data, down to 1/1000 of a degree accuracy in temprature. 3 weeks later, the model and the actual weather are unlikely to look anything like each other. This is due to the nature of weather, any inaccuracy (1/1000 of a degree) is amplified.
Since I have seen no evidence that climate is also chaotic, I have no reason to think that the same applies to the climate models. Our inability to predict the weather has no real bearing on our ability to predict climate.
Don't you mean the return of malaria to Italy? The word malaria itself is derived from italian. See some history. Notice places like Paris, Britian, and Canada are in there.
Global warming will cause some problems, but malaria is not one of them.
If all you had to do in order to practice medicine was get a degree, then you might have a point.
But, as you stated, a licence is also needed.
A licence is a form of competition control - the established doctors want to keep the number of doctors down too keep prices up, and also want to prevent new types of medical practice from starting. So they lobby the government to require a licence to practice. If this licence is going to be effective the licence must be hard to get - and so this alone keeps the quality of doctors fairly good.
There are certainly problems in the USA medical system. And they are related to money, as you guessed. But this particular case is not one of them. Just a hint, most of the $$$ in medicine - on a per person/hour basis - is not made by the doctors. It is made by the pharma. and medical tech. companies. Capitalized medicine is not the source of the trouble - how the givernment has regulated it is.
Intriguing. Do you have a net-based reference for this?
Try wikipedia - they have a decent writeup with references.
If the Central Dogma of biology is correct, then the deletion cannot be caused by increases in dietary vitamin C. The large amounts in the diet is simply what allowed this deletion to not be fatal.
I stole that piece from wikipedia to save time and effort, not because it is an authority. Refute the statement, not the source.
My knowledge of economic history comes from, among other places, sources such as this, taught by this guy
Every command economy discussed in this lecture (Soviet Union, China, India, etc) was a complete failure. They have all to some extent abandonded them, and their economic success is in direct porportion to how close to a free market they went. (China more, India less, Soviet union - depends on what part. None as far as the US which has also deregulated a lot in the same time-frame.)
Could you point out any references to your claim that unregulated markets are all failures? And were any of these unregulated markets also free markets? (need I repeat that they are not always the same thing?)
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If you learn on the job, then you had a job - which means that the employer hired someone who was not an expert already, exactly the opposite thing that the article, or the post I replied to, recommends.
This is what I meant by 'train', hire someone who does not have lots of experience already and let him learn - either by learning from his mistakes or learning from a more senior programmer that is also on the job.
Self-taught is somewhat less problematic, but where the heck am I supposed to get experience writing accounting web apps interfacing with old mainframes on my own? I don't have a mainframe, and I have only a vague idea what accounting apps need to do. There are lots of things that businesses need that almost nobody could/would ever learn on their own.
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Dumb question, but if nobody trains new developers, then where the heck are those more experienced developers supposed to come from? And of course the related question, where did the few that we now have come from?
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Actually, we are well beyond those speculation levels. It is just that the speculations are in bonds, asset-backed securities and other financial thingies, where last time it was mostly tech stocks.
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If I could be assured that the president would only use it to kill pork, then I would be all for it.
But you see, it could be used to kill everything but the pork. No deal
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300 / 12 = 25
US population is 300 million
number of illegals is about 12 million.
The 1 in 20 number probably came from some media report like this one
If you don't understand the size and scope of the problem, and can't even do the basic math to find out, what the heck are you doing proposing solutions?
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I believe his name is Robert Soloff. At least, he made the stupid things possible. Here is his company website. See also Wikipedia
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The energy of an individual air molecule in a pressure wave is too low to do much either, but the right note can shatter glass.
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In many cases the spelling does indeed reflect the pronunciation - or rather the way it used to be pronounced.
Quick example : food
Two vowels together, should be a long o, right? Yep, that is how it was, but it isn't any more.
Question for you, since pronunciations change, should spelling change too?
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You are confusing the Theory of Gravity (mass warping of space-time, etc) with the fact of gravity. (stuff falls).
The Theory of Gravity is an attempt to explain the facts of gravity. They are distinctly different things.
Besides, it is far better to try to fall up a cliff than to not fall down it. If you fail, at least you are around to try again.
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This is (currently) an impossible step. Just going from amino acid sequence to protein shape is a very hard task. (see folding@home) We don't have any real way of proving whether or not the resulting protein 'works'. Is it structural? an enzyme? is it merely a building block for something else? (protein clumps on ribosomes for example?) The problem is akin too taking random shapes and proving which are parts for working machines - without any real way of knowing just what those machines do or how they work. That and not all mutations are single base-pair mutations. This experiment is far too simple.
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We know that we have to upend physics as we know it. Current theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity are incompatible - at least one on them is wrong. What did you think the string theorists were trying to do anyway?
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And send the MPAA the bill for a new laser printer, toner and about a thousand reams of paper, and first class postage for shipping it to them.
Rerun this command as often as the printer finishes, (and get more ram *evil grin*)
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Mass of the earth = 5.9742 × 10^27 grams
Make the drives out of the earth, you need a drive density of 57Gb/gram
A drive with a density of 1 bit per carbon atom, 5.4 *10^10 metric tons
Size of said nanotech drive, a cube 2.88 Km tall (at the standard density of carbon)
Never in your lifetime is a really safe bet.
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You and the post you replied to seem to be using differend definitions of 'capitalism'
His definition seems to be closer to Laissez-faire, and your definition seems closer to 'He who has the gold makes the rules' Your phrase 'governments forcibly taking away' is about as far from laissez-faire economic policy as one can get. It does however, fit the other golden rule definition rather well.
Most /. discussions about capitalism make this mistake, as both definitions are common - and in their own way each are very real.
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I was under that particular misunderstanding at one point. The problem is that weather is inherently unpredictable. It is a chaotic system.
This means that even if we had perfect computer models. Completely perfect models. And we had excelent current data, down to 1/1000 of a degree accuracy in temprature. 3 weeks later, the model and the actual weather are unlikely to look anything like each other. This is due to the nature of weather, any inaccuracy (1/1000 of a degree) is amplified.
Since I have seen no evidence that climate is also chaotic, I have no reason to think that the same applies to the climate models. Our inability to predict the weather has no real bearing on our ability to predict climate.
T
Don't you mean the return of malaria to Italy? The word malaria itself is derived from italian. See some history. Notice places like Paris, Britian, and Canada are in there.
Global warming will cause some problems, but malaria is not one of them.
T
If all you had to do in order to practice medicine was get a degree, then you might have a point.
But, as you stated, a licence is also needed.
A licence is a form of competition control - the established doctors want to keep the number of doctors down too keep prices up, and also want to prevent new types of medical practice from starting. So they lobby the government to require a licence to practice. If this licence is going to be effective the licence must be hard to get - and so this alone keeps the quality of doctors fairly good.
There are certainly problems in the USA medical system. And they are related to money, as you guessed. But this particular case is not one of them. Just a hint, most of the $$$ in medicine - on a per person/hour basis - is not made by the doctors. It is made by the pharma. and medical tech. companies. Capitalized medicine is not the source of the trouble - how the givernment has regulated it is.
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This requires way too much energy to do.
Don't be ignorant. This is precisely what is being proposed. It is even being done in some places.
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Please buy another one next week!
Try wikipedia - they have a decent writeup with references.
If the Central Dogma of biology is correct, then the deletion cannot be caused by increases in dietary vitamin C. The large amounts in the diet is simply what allowed this deletion to not be fatal.
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Looks like you really can write FORTRAN in ANY language, even english.
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Do not hold it to that standard.
I stole that piece from wikipedia to save time and effort, not because it is an authority. Refute the statement, not the source.
My knowledge of economic history comes from, among other places, sources such as this, taught by this guy
Every command economy discussed in this lecture (Soviet Union, China, India, etc) was a complete failure. They have all to some extent abandonded them, and their economic success is in direct porportion to how close to a free market they went. (China more, India less, Soviet union - depends on what part. None as far as the US which has also deregulated a lot in the same time-frame.)
Could you point out any references to your claim that unregulated markets are all failures? And were any of these unregulated markets also free markets? (need I repeat that they are not always the same thing?)
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