Another option is donating your hair to Locks of Love. They make wigs for kids with cancer who are going through chemotherapy. I'm just 3 weeks away from donating mine (bye bye head-banging at rock bars) just before the LA marathon. It's going to be a memorable weekend...
Thank you, Nicopa. I hereby reclaim California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for Spain. As a reward I shall be satisfied with something small. San Francisco, for example. Start brushing off that Spanish book from high school.
You can get a job gardening. I believe food and cleaning are outsourced at UCI, so gardening might be too. Still, given their wages, you're better off buying the article you need.
IANAL, and I haven't read more than your post and a couple of others. But I interpret that "publicly perform" refers to "perform" in the theatrical sense. As in you can't go to a conference and present this paper in public. As for the concepts described in the paper, I don't see how anything other than patents can bind you not to use them once they're public.
I'm afraid your solution would kill many US business that have a legitimate need for specialized foreign workers. A tech company that needs a world expert in XYZ might not be able to wait two years to prove that they can't find an American to do the job. If the government makes it hard for them to hire a certain needed foreigner, they will simply hire him at an off-shore location, and his salary will be fully spent abroad.
2) H1-B visas aren't trade per se. 65,000 H1-Bs for IT workers means 65,000 domestic IT workers without a job. 65,000 TVs imported from China, OTOH, create more jobs than they cost.
You're so wrong it's painful. 65k foreign workers in the country are spending most of their money in the US, thus creating proportional business to 65k US nationals (ok, some of that goes abroad to their families). 65k imported TVs from China are money spent and gone, increasing the national debt, already the largest in human history.
Disclaimer: I'm a Spanish citizen, just finished my degree at an American university and intend to stick around for a while, making your tax money invested in my education not be a complete waste to your country. I wish in Spain we had a similar program.
I don't think H1B workers apply in the OP's comment. They would count as US workers, and he wouldn't be complaining about shrinkage of his immediate workplace.
I just got my PhD in an American university. I plan to stick around for a while working in an American company, because I have great opportunities and because as much as this country has some utterly annoying aspects to it, I love its people. If your government suddenly says there's no room for me, I don't have the slightest intention to remain in the country washing dishes for a dime an hour. I'll go home to Europe and your tax money spent on my education will be completely wasted. Which is what European countries are doing, anyway, by not having a flexible immigration policy for well qualified workers and higher degree students.
We're way behind the US in those terms, but recently the EU governments (notice the 's' emphasizing our lack of coordination) agreed on the basic terms for a "blue card" to be granted to qualified foreign workers. If I remember correctly, the main rule said that you need a job paying over 35k euros a year, which depending on the country it might be utopia or a medium-low level job. More soon, I hope.
One interesting thing that I've noticed is that Orange County's ACTA has its buses wait at every 3 or 4 stops, if necessary, to meet the schedule. This makes commuting easy to plan, but it still does not compensate for the pathetic service frequency. LA's DASH takes the opposite approach: There are sufficient buses, but often two buses come next to each other. If only you could have the best of both...
I would take the subway more if the route to Pasadena was more direct from my office and if it went to the west side of Los Angeles where it is desperately needed.
I believe the plans for a subway/light-rail to Malibu are pretty advanced, so you might be lucky.
I am in SoCal, and I disagree that it's useless. Ok, I'll give you that for the OCTA, but I've spent enough time in LA doing my complete daily routine using only DASH buses, and I can't complain. They're frequent enough, they run non-stop and the lines reach every corner in the city with no more than 10-15 minutes walk even if you're in the boondocks. If you account for the time it takes to find parking in places where you'd want to go by car anyway (work mostly), then DASH is a sure winner.
I am an European expat living in California, and I can attest for that. I found it intriguing that my college roommates would refuse to ride the bus on the principle that buses are for losers. I know they were half joking, but there's a kernel of truth to it (that they believe what they joke around, not that it's actually true).
Well, that's not a fair comparison. You can't count 80% of the country as inhabited for public transport purposes. The density of actually inhabited areas in Sweden is much higher than the US. The city models are just different. In the US, especially, the West coast, cities were designed with the car in mind, and that inertia is hard to beat.
You're forgetting that fuel efficient cars are often more expensive than guzzlers. I read recently that, over the life of the car, the greater efficiency of the Prius still does not offset its bigger price tag. Still, I prefer not to kill everyone slowly with my fumes...
I understand they will not put old cars in a blender. They'll just retire them from circulation, but working parts would still be usable. At least that's how things worked out with Spain's 'Plan Renove', which is periodically revived by politicians. As a plus side, thanks to the improved safety of newer cars, even though there have been just as many accidents, total road deaths decreased significantly in the past few years (I'm talking 50%-ish).
I hear you. I love my 1998 SC2, which looks pretty slick for the $2700 I paid a couple of years back and saves me in gas while not polluting as much as cars from pretty much every other American brand. And they're getting rid of the line. Way to go, Detroit.
I find the Brazilian take more interesting. Since the US started fingerprinting tourists, Brazil makes US citizens only take a picture and a fingerprint. Just to make a point. I bet they just threw them in a dustbin anyway. I wonder if they still do that.
Parallel algorithms are fundamentally different from sequential ones. Take sorting. No multi-threading is going to help you if you keep implementing quicksort. While many problems are inherently parallel and it is easy to undo their serialization, several others will turn into bottlenecks. I am almost done with my Ph.D. and still I haven't received a proper education in parallel algorithms. It'll take a whole new generation of CS teachers to make the grand paradigm shift.
Hey, I was thinking the same! In fact, I just sent this link to my girlfriend. Hi hun! Still, it's expensive even for a bday... Perhaps splitting the cost:).
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Another option is donating your hair to Locks of Love. They make wigs for kids with cancer who are going through chemotherapy. I'm just 3 weeks away from donating mine (bye bye head-banging at rock bars) just before the LA marathon. It's going to be a memorable weekend...
Thank you, Nicopa. I hereby reclaim California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for Spain. As a reward I shall be satisfied with something small. San Francisco, for example. Start brushing off that Spanish book from high school.
You can get a job gardening. I believe food and cleaning are outsourced at UCI, so gardening might be too. Still, given their wages, you're better off buying the article you need.
IANAL, and I haven't read more than your post and a couple of others. But I interpret that "publicly perform" refers to "perform" in the theatrical sense. As in you can't go to a conference and present this paper in public. As for the concepts described in the paper, I don't see how anything other than patents can bind you not to use them once they're public.
I'm afraid your solution would kill many US business that have a legitimate need for specialized foreign workers. A tech company that needs a world expert in XYZ might not be able to wait two years to prove that they can't find an American to do the job. If the government makes it hard for them to hire a certain needed foreigner, they will simply hire him at an off-shore location, and his salary will be fully spent abroad.
2) H1-B visas aren't trade per se. 65,000 H1-Bs for IT workers means 65,000 domestic IT workers without a job. 65,000 TVs imported from China, OTOH, create more jobs than they cost.
You're so wrong it's painful. 65k foreign workers in the country are spending most of their money in the US, thus creating proportional business to 65k US nationals (ok, some of that goes abroad to their families). 65k imported TVs from China are money spent and gone, increasing the national debt, already the largest in human history.
Disclaimer: I'm a Spanish citizen, just finished my degree at an American university and intend to stick around for a while, making your tax money invested in my education not be a complete waste to your country. I wish in Spain we had a similar program.
It's IBM. They make Lotus Notes. Nuff said.
I don't think H1B workers apply in the OP's comment. They would count as US workers, and he wouldn't be complaining about shrinkage of his immediate workplace.
I just got my PhD in an American university. I plan to stick around for a while working in an American company, because I have great opportunities and because as much as this country has some utterly annoying aspects to it, I love its people. If your government suddenly says there's no room for me, I don't have the slightest intention to remain in the country washing dishes for a dime an hour. I'll go home to Europe and your tax money spent on my education will be completely wasted. Which is what European countries are doing, anyway, by not having a flexible immigration policy for well qualified workers and higher degree students.
We're way behind the US in those terms, but recently the EU governments (notice the 's' emphasizing our lack of coordination) agreed on the basic terms for a "blue card" to be granted to qualified foreign workers. If I remember correctly, the main rule said that you need a job paying over 35k euros a year, which depending on the country it might be utopia or a medium-low level job. More soon, I hope.
I think jammag forgot the last sentence. Who kept his job? I want to know.
One interesting thing that I've noticed is that Orange County's ACTA has its buses wait at every 3 or 4 stops, if necessary, to meet the schedule. This makes commuting easy to plan, but it still does not compensate for the pathetic service frequency. LA's DASH takes the opposite approach: There are sufficient buses, but often two buses come next to each other. If only you could have the best of both...
I would take the subway more if the route to Pasadena was more direct from my office and if it went to the west side of Los Angeles where it is desperately needed.
I believe the plans for a subway/light-rail to Malibu are pretty advanced, so you might be lucky.
I am in SoCal, and I disagree that it's useless. Ok, I'll give you that for the OCTA, but I've spent enough time in LA doing my complete daily routine using only DASH buses, and I can't complain. They're frequent enough, they run non-stop and the lines reach every corner in the city with no more than 10-15 minutes walk even if you're in the boondocks. If you account for the time it takes to find parking in places where you'd want to go by car anyway (work mostly), then DASH is a sure winner.
I am an European expat living in California, and I can attest for that. I found it intriguing that my college roommates would refuse to ride the bus on the principle that buses are for losers. I know they were half joking, but there's a kernel of truth to it (that they believe what they joke around, not that it's actually true).
Well, that's not a fair comparison. You can't count 80% of the country as inhabited for public transport purposes. The density of actually inhabited areas in Sweden is much higher than the US. The city models are just different. In the US, especially, the West coast, cities were designed with the car in mind, and that inertia is hard to beat.
You're forgetting that fuel efficient cars are often more expensive than guzzlers. I read recently that, over the life of the car, the greater efficiency of the Prius still does not offset its bigger price tag. Still, I prefer not to kill everyone slowly with my fumes...
I understand they will not put old cars in a blender. They'll just retire them from circulation, but working parts would still be usable. At least that's how things worked out with Spain's 'Plan Renove', which is periodically revived by politicians. As a plus side, thanks to the improved safety of newer cars, even though there have been just as many accidents, total road deaths decreased significantly in the past few years (I'm talking 50%-ish).
I hear you. I love my 1998 SC2, which looks pretty slick for the $2700 I paid a couple of years back and saves me in gas while not polluting as much as cars from pretty much every other American brand. And they're getting rid of the line. Way to go, Detroit.
Too late. If you can imagine it, there's porn of it.
...I've though this would be a great way to make a woman-free, child-free club...
To paraphrase Brian Griffin, they already have those. They're called gay bars.
I find the Brazilian take more interesting. Since the US started fingerprinting tourists, Brazil makes US citizens only take a picture and a fingerprint. Just to make a point. I bet they just threw them in a dustbin anyway. I wonder if they still do that.
Wouldn't that make it pandemic? Endemic is something specific to a confined location or population.
Parallel algorithms are fundamentally different from sequential ones. Take sorting. No multi-threading is going to help you if you keep implementing quicksort. While many problems are inherently parallel and it is easy to undo their serialization, several others will turn into bottlenecks. I am almost done with my Ph.D. and still I haven't received a proper education in parallel algorithms. It'll take a whole new generation of CS teachers to make the grand paradigm shift.
Hey, I was thinking the same! In fact, I just sent this link to my girlfriend. Hi hun! Still, it's expensive even for a bday... Perhaps splitting the cost :).