In high taxes places like the UK and Sweden everyone earning a decent hourly rate incorporates. Even though personal taxes are high the corporate ones are low.
That's competitive with the Swedish rate of 22% or the UK rate of 19%.
Also it could be argued that forcing people to leave money in a company encourages them to use it in ways that generate more money - it's sort of like an ISA in the UK which is exempt from income tax and capital gains tax. At least until you draw the money out. ISAs are used for retirement savings - if you put shares in them you don't get hit for taxes until you cash out.
And of course if you let people use their money to generate more money by having low tax rates, they'll eventually end up paying more tax than if you took their money away and gave it to the government which will spends all the money it gets and more.
The government needs to pass the Marshmallow Test!
The tax policy stuff isn't really Trump though. It's people like Paul Ryan. Trump is the Steve Jobs of the party - nasty but charismatic. Paul Ryan is more like the Wozniak - geeky but politically not that astute.
In a odd sort of way the fundamentally corrupt nature of American politics works well for tax reform. If you have a bunch of lobbyists complaining all the time you can gain quite a bit of information from that. So if you know Apple and co have tonnes of money overseas, you can figure out what it would take to make them bring it back.
Which, to the Trump administration's credit, they actually did
Apple Inc. said it will bring hundreds of billions of overseas dollars back to the U.S., pay about $38 billion in taxes on the money and spend tens of billions on domestic jobs, manufacturing and data centers in the coming years.
The iPhone maker plans capital expenditures of $30 billion in the U.S. over five years and will create 20,000 new jobs at existing sites and a new campus it intends to open. The Cupertino, California-based company's shares rose 1.7 percent to a record closing price of $179.10.
âoeWe are focusing our investments in areas where we can have a direct impact on job creation and job preparedness,â Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said in a statement Wednesday, which also alluded to unspecified plans by the company to accelerate education programs.
You don't necessarily need to do what an individual lobbyist is lobbying for to make the companies they're lobbying for do what you want them to do.
A combination of tax cuts policy wonkish stuffs like this and good old fashioned Trumpian bullying and intimidation to get companies to create jobs in the US should do the job. And of course Trumpian praise for ones who comply.
Plus of course the Trumpian bullying and praise affects market cap
Apple's market cap is $886 billion. 1.7% of that is $15 billion. And they presumably reckon they'll make some more cash if public approval boosts their share price and on their business operations in the US.
All in all it's an interesting mixture of conventional and unconventional incentives.
Naah, just put a sticker on your Macbook Pro saying you care about the environment and hate capitalism and go on chucking perfectly good phones and laptops in the trash where they poison otters and then getting Mum and Dad to buy you a new one. Similarly put a "I respect wamen" sticker on but keep having drunken one night stands of dubious consensuality and buy goatee oil made out of rendered otter fat even though the North American River Otter is endangered by mercury and organochloride runoff from e-waste landfills and hunting for goatee oil.
It's all about signalling virtue rather than actually doing anything to inconvenience yourself.
As it happens Porter Industries are selling a limited edition set of Save The Otter stickers and cases for your new Macbook Pro and iPhone! And we sell Goatee Oil too! Plus stickers for the Women's March!
It's not out of the question that China is supporting Communist rebels in Latin America to mess with the US and out of a nostalgia for the good old days when Mao was murdering millions.
China, long suspected of aiding Philippine communist rebels, is now a capitalist country from which the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), or its armed wing, New People's Army (NPA), could no longer expect support, a spokesperson for President Duterte said.
"You've been left behind. China has left you behind," said former human rights lawyer Harry Roque, now Malacañang spokesperson.
The rebellion being waged by CPP and NPA, Roque said, "has gone on for so long that China has become the best in capitalism" but Philippine communist rebels "are still Maoists."
"What is that?" Roque said. "Move on," he said, addressing himself to communist rebel leaders.
Roque said Chinese communists, who had preached the principles of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, were now "billionaires" who have turned their backs on communism after economic reforms in the 1980s led to "socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Roque said local communist leaders were still stuck to Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principles. Communist rebels were adhering to a guerrilla strategy attributed to Mao of surrounding the capital from the countryside.
Now that China is a capitalist country, Roque said local rebels would no longer have a patron to turn to. "Who will you report to?" Roque said.
There are still some Maoist true believers in China
4. (S) Turning to the Six Party Talks, Chun said it was "a very bad thing" that Wu Dawei had retained his position as chief of the PRC's delegation. It had been the ROK's expectation that Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, who was hastily transferred from Tokyo back to Beijing, would be taking over from Wu. Chun said it appeared that the DPRK "must have lobbied extremely hard" for the now-retired Wu to stay on as China's 6PT chief. The VFM complained that Wu is the PRC's "most incompetent official," an arrogant, Marx-spouting former Red Guard who "knows nothing about North Korea, nothing about nonproliferation and is hard to communicate with because he doesn't speak English." Wu was also a hardline nationalist, loudly proclaiming -- to anyone willing to listen -- that the PRC's economic rise represented a "return to normalcy" with China as a great world power.
TSMC's Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology delivers higher performance, faster time-to-market, lower power consumption, more competitive manufacturing costs, and superior manufacturing reliability than Gallium Arsenide technology.
Silicon Germanium BiCMOS technology includes a deep trench approach for bipolar device isolation, multiple Ft bipolar devices, deep N-well, multiple Vt devices, precision MiM capacitors, precision high poly resistors, thick-metal inductors, and high-quality varactors and diodes. CMOS devices are compatible with the TSMC's standard logic platform. Power amplifier applications have been added to the 0.18-micron SiGe technology platform to enable the integration of a power amplifier and RF transceiver front-end for WLAN applications.
Combining the integration and cost benefits of silicon with the speed of more esoteric and expensive technologies such as Gallium Arsenide, makes Silicon Germanium an ideal process for wireless/wired communication applications. Products designed for and manufactured with TSMC Silicon Germanium processes demonstrate dramatically improved functionality at a lower cost
Sounds pretty different from the proposed process where they're depositing SiGe to create defects in a Si crystal
Instead of using amorphous materials as an artificial synapse, Kim and his colleagues looked to single-crystalline silicon, a defect-free conducting material made from atoms arranged in a continuously ordered alignment. The team sought to create a precise, one-dimensional line defect, or dislocation, through the silicon, through which ions could predictably flow.
To do so, the researchers started with a wafer of silicon, resembling, at microscopic resolution, a chicken-wire pattern. They then grew a similar pattern of silicon germanium - a material also used commonly in transistors - on top of the silicon wafer. Silicon germanium's lattice is slightly larger than that of silicon, and Kim found that together, the two perfectly mismatched materials can form a funnel-like dislocation, creating a single path through which ions can flow.
Both use SiGe, but they're using it in very different ways.
Go to TSMC and say you want to make chips out of Silicon Germanium and watch as they stare at you like you're some sort of crazy bug person and then change the subject to 'loathsome sounding foods you should try before you leave Taiwan'.
Apple are more evil than Microsoft. However they don't have the same monopoly power. Most people using Macs could switch to Windows - everyone except for people who want to run XCode and a few other corner cases where the application they need only runs on macOS. But for the average Mac user everything they need is on Windows. And probably on Linux too.
Google are also more evil than Microsoft and they control a larger chunk of the mobile market. E.g.
So Google has a domination of the mobile market similar to Microsoft's domination of the desktop market. And if you look at mobile and desktop you find that Android and Windows are level pegging.
Windows still dominates desktops but tablets and phones are gradually taking over from desktops. Since Microsoft have given up on Windows phone the odds are that Google will eventually have a Microsoft like domination of the whole market.
I.e. Google already has the dominance of mobile Microsoft had on desktops. And as mobile takes over from desktops they will end up with the dominance they have of the whole market.
And of course the have the most used search engine, the most used video sharing site and the most used browser. Plus, unlike Microsoft or even Apple, they're willing to use their market dominance to shut down ideas they dislike. Microsoft and Apple only use(d) theirs to cripple their competition, something Google does with alacrity too.
Microsoft was a bit like the Shah or Czar - a dictator sure but so long as you didn't directly oppose them they'd leave you alone. Google is like the Ayatollah or Lenin - even if you didn't directly oppose them they might decide to target your group for purging for, as they see it, the good of the body politic.
Someone needs to do a WoW parody of Cretin Hop "Gonna go for a whirl with my Dryad girl"
Also a population preferring virtual sex over real sex is probably the end of the species. Or at least of the groups or cultures capable of building that sort of technology.
Net Neutrality is a slogan they use to promote Title II regulation of ISPs, i.e. they want to regulate their complements. It reminds me of Joel On Software's memorable line that 'smart companies try to commoditize their complements'. E.g. Microsoft encouraging clone PCs. That drove down hardware prices which meant a consumer buying hardware and software would have more free cash to spend on software.
Once again: demand for a product increases when the price of its complements decreases. In general, a company's strategic interest is going to be to get the price of their complements as low as possible. The lowest theoretically sustainable price would be the "commodity price" - the price that arises when you have a bunch of competitors offering indistinguishable goods. So:
Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements.
If you can do this, demand for your product will increase and you will be able to charge more and make more.
Similarly Title II regulation of ISPs theoretically means that ISPs will be less able to charge Google a premium to be on a fast lane and/or less able to charge consumers a premium to access that fast lane. Meanwhile Google would be unregulated and free to do non Net Neutral stuff.
Sounds good in theory? Well even under Wheeler the FCC allowed for zero rating, e.g. T Mobile's Binge On, though he muttered he might rule differently about future offerings.
"Tom Wheeler's comments regarding T-Mobile's new BingeOn zero-rating plan calls to mind the good familiar cop/bad cop routine," said Randolph May, president of free market think tank, the Free State Foundation. "On the one hand, Wheeler's statement that the plan is pro-competitive and innovative is commendable. On the other hand, his further elaboration that the FCC will monitor the T-Mobile plan for compliance with the Open Internet Order's 'good conduct' rule is disturbing. This is because the vague 'good conduct' standard means anything that Wheeler's Enforcement Bureau says it means on any given day."
No, but they're not sciences in the way that, say, particle physics is. As Lubos Motls pointed out the number of sigma required to verify a hypothesis is very different
Some disciplines of science try to be as hard and reliable as particle physics so they adopted the same 5-sigma (1 in 3 million) standard for discovery; most other disciplines, especially soft sciences such as medical research, climate science, psychology, and others, are often satisfied with 3-sigma (1 in 300) or even 2-sigma (1 in 20) evidence.
That's assuming there's enough data for this sort of thing, which there most likely isn't for history where you're relying on a couple of second hand sources.
That doesn't mean history is junk, it just means you can't be as certain of it as you can with physics. And in fact new discoveries turn up all the time and change the consensus view of historical events. Similarly the consensus on economics can change pretty drastically - e.g. Keynesianism took a major beating in the 80's due to stagflation. Arguably post Keynesian economics did post 2008, though that may be coming to an end.
Social sciences have fuzzy data and the interpretation of the data is influenced by politics - that's especially true of climate change and economics. They're not at all like particle physics with its spectacular 5 sigma near certainty. You could probably find examples of present day politics influencing linguistics too.
Incidentally literature isn't science and it definitely isn't junk. And good literature isn't influenced by politics, except in the extreme Orwellian case where a worst case totalitarian regime ends literature.
Literature has sometimes flourished under despotic regimes, but, as has often been pointed out, the despotisms of the past were not totalitarian. Their repressive apparatus was always inefficient, their ruling classes were usually either corrupt or apathetic or half-liberal in outlook, and the prevailing religious doctrines usually worked against perfectionism and the notion of human infallibility. Even so it is broadly true that prose literature has reached its highest levels in periods of democracy and free speculation. What is new in totalitarianism is that its doctrines are not only unchallengeable but also unstable. They have to be accepted on pain of damnation, but on the other hand, they are always liable to be altered on a moment's notice. Consider, for example, the various attitudes, completely incompatible with one another, which an English Communist or 'fellow-traveler' has had to adopt toward the war between Britain and Germany. For years before September, 1939, he was expected to be in a continuous stew about 'the horrors of Nazism' and to twist everything he wrote into a denunciation of Hitler: after September, 1939, for twenty months, he had to believe that Germany was more sinned against than sinning, and the word 'Nazi', at least as far as print went, had to drop right out of his vocabulary. Immediately after hearing the 8 o'clock news bulletin on the morning of June 22, 1941, he had to start believing once again that Nazism was the most hideous evil the world had ever seen. Now, it is easy for the politician to make such changes: for a writer the case is somewhat different. If he is to switch his allegiance at exactly the right moment, he must either tell lies about his subjective feelings, or else suppress them altogether. In either case he has destroyed his dynamo. Not only will ideas refuse to come to him, but the very words he uses will seem to stiffen under his touch. Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write
The problem you seem to be crying about is that science is a process, it changes and no single result is immune to being looked at again and no conclusion cannot be overturned by further experiment.
Except for global warming, err climate change, err increased extreme weather, which is Settled Science.
Interesting thing is that Edge is supposed to be quicker than Chrome. So it may well be that it runs better on a Goldmont cored Apollo Lake mobile chip than Chrome. These machines have eMMC storage too. Which is probably quicker than a 5400 rpm hard disk but not as quick as a SATA SSD.
I remember Chrome running pretty badly on my Asus 1015PX. In fact that's why I got rid of it.
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In high taxes places like the UK and Sweden everyone earning a decent hourly rate incorporates. Even though personal taxes are high the corporate ones are low.
http://stats.oecd.org/index.as...
The Trump tax cut cut the US corporate rate from 35% to 21%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's competitive with the Swedish rate of 22% or the UK rate of 19%.
Also it could be argued that forcing people to leave money in a company encourages them to use it in ways that generate more money - it's sort of like an ISA in the UK which is exempt from income tax and capital gains tax. At least until you draw the money out. ISAs are used for retirement savings - if you put shares in them you don't get hit for taxes until you cash out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And of course if you let people use their money to generate more money by having low tax rates, they'll eventually end up paying more tax than if you took their money away and gave it to the government which will spends all the money it gets and more.
The government needs to pass the Marshmallow Test!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The tax policy stuff isn't really Trump though. It's people like Paul Ryan. Trump is the Steve Jobs of the party - nasty but charismatic. Paul Ryan is more like the Wozniak - geeky but politically not that astute.
In a odd sort of way the fundamentally corrupt nature of American politics works well for tax reform. If you have a bunch of lobbyists complaining all the time you can gain quite a bit of information from that. So if you know Apple and co have tonnes of money overseas, you can figure out what it would take to make them bring it back.
Which, to the Trump administration's credit, they actually did
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Apple Inc. said it will bring hundreds of billions of overseas dollars back to the U.S., pay about $38 billion in taxes on the money and spend tens of billions on domestic jobs, manufacturing and data centers in the coming years.
The iPhone maker plans capital expenditures of $30 billion in the U.S. over five years and will create 20,000 new jobs at existing sites and a new campus it intends to open. The Cupertino, California-based company's shares rose 1.7 percent to a record closing price of $179.10.
âoeWe are focusing our investments in areas where we can have a direct impact on job creation and job preparedness,â Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said in a statement Wednesday, which also alluded to unspecified plans by the company to accelerate education programs.
You don't necessarily need to do what an individual lobbyist is lobbying for to make the companies they're lobbying for do what you want them to do.
A combination of tax cuts policy wonkish stuffs like this and good old fashioned Trumpian bullying and intimidation to get companies to create jobs in the US should do the job. And of course Trumpian praise for ones who comply.
Plus of course the Trumpian bullying and praise affects market cap
https://finance.yahoo.com/quot...
Apple's market cap is $886 billion. 1.7% of that is $15 billion. And they presumably reckon they'll make some more cash if public approval boosts their share price and on their business operations in the US.
All in all it's an interesting mixture of conventional and unconventional incentives.
You can slow down the processor speed and people will not notice it much, however if you lower the battery life they will.
I reckon they notice both. The main reason people replace phones is either 'it got slow' or 'the battery life got really bad'.
Also the Apple thing about how old phones 'died in the cold weather' is something that only affects iPhones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Naah, just put a sticker on your Macbook Pro saying you care about the environment and hate capitalism and go on chucking perfectly good phones and laptops in the trash where they poison otters and then getting Mum and Dad to buy you a new one. Similarly put a "I respect wamen" sticker on but keep having drunken one night stands of dubious consensuality and buy goatee oil made out of rendered otter fat even though the North American River Otter is endangered by mercury and organochloride runoff from e-waste landfills and hunting for goatee oil.
It's all about signalling virtue rather than actually doing anything to inconvenience yourself.
As it happens Porter Industries are selling a limited edition set of Save The Otter stickers and cases for your new Macbook Pro and iPhone! And we sell Goatee Oil too! Plus stickers for the Women's March!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It tells you a lot about Apple's politics that they release an OS with a name that sounds like "Yo! Semite!" and then refuse to patch it.
Oy veh!
Global Warming is just G*d's way of telling you you need to build a Dyson Swarm.
He could have said a huge asteroid was incoming and would liquefy the planet and wipe out all life, whether in a sewer or not.
The problem is that people assume that autopilot means they don't need to think of things like delta-v.
Would *YOU* seek your original's destruction if you knew that you were just an artificially made copy?
Fuck yeah I would. There can be only one!
It's not out of the question that China is supporting Communist rebels in Latin America to mess with the US and out of a nostalgia for the good old days when Mao was murdering millions.
E.g. they do/did in the Philippines
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/9...
China, long suspected of aiding Philippine communist rebels, is now a capitalist country from which the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), or its armed wing, New People's Army (NPA), could no longer expect support, a spokesperson for President Duterte said.
"You've been left behind. China has left you behind," said former human rights lawyer Harry Roque, now Malacañang spokesperson.
The rebellion being waged by CPP and NPA, Roque said, "has gone on for so long that China has become the best in capitalism" but Philippine communist rebels "are still Maoists."
"What is that?" Roque said. "Move on," he said, addressing himself to communist rebel leaders.
Roque said Chinese communists, who had preached the principles of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, were now "billionaires" who have turned their backs on communism after economic reforms in the 1980s led to "socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Roque said local communist leaders were still stuck to Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principles. Communist rebels were adhering to a guerrilla strategy attributed to Mao of surrounding the capital from the countryside.
Now that China is a capitalist country, Roque said local rebels would no longer have a patron to turn to. "Who will you report to?" Roque said.
There are still some Maoist true believers in China
https://www.wikileaks.org/plus...
4. (S) Turning to the Six Party Talks, Chun said it was "a
very bad thing" that Wu Dawei had retained his position as
chief of the PRC's delegation. It had been the ROK's
expectation that Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, who was
hastily transferred from Tokyo back to Beijing, would be
taking over from Wu. Chun said it appeared that the DPRK
"must have lobbied extremely hard" for the now-retired Wu to
stay on as China's 6PT chief. The VFM complained that Wu is
the PRC's "most incompetent official," an arrogant,
Marx-spouting former Red Guard who "knows nothing about North
Korea, nothing about nonproliferation and is hard to
communicate with because he doesn't speak English." Wu was
also a hardline nationalist, loudly proclaiming -- to anyone
willing to listen -- that the PRC's economic rise represented
a "return to normalcy" with China as a great world power.
https://www.jordanmerrick.com/...
Smart Punctuation can, thankfully, be disabled in Settings > General > Keyboards.
TSMC's SiGe process is an alternative to GaAs. They use SiGe crystals.
http://www.tsmc.com/english/de...
TSMC's Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology delivers higher performance, faster time-to-market, lower power consumption, more competitive manufacturing costs, and superior manufacturing reliability than Gallium Arsenide technology.
Silicon Germanium BiCMOS technology includes a deep trench approach for bipolar device isolation, multiple Ft bipolar devices, deep N-well, multiple Vt devices, precision MiM capacitors, precision high poly resistors, thick-metal inductors, and high-quality varactors and diodes. CMOS devices are compatible with the TSMC's standard logic platform. Power amplifier applications have been added to the 0.18-micron SiGe technology platform to enable the integration of a power amplifier and RF transceiver front-end for WLAN applications.
Combining the integration and cost benefits of silicon with the speed of more esoteric and expensive technologies such as Gallium Arsenide, makes Silicon Germanium an ideal process for wireless/wired communication applications. Products designed for and manufactured with TSMC Silicon Germanium processes demonstrate dramatically improved functionality at a lower cost
Sounds pretty different from the proposed process where they're depositing SiGe to create defects in a Si crystal
https://news.mit.edu/2018/engi...
Instead of using amorphous materials as an artificial synapse, Kim and his colleagues looked to single-crystalline silicon, a defect-free conducting material made from atoms arranged in a continuously ordered alignment. The team sought to create a precise, one-dimensional line defect, or dislocation, through the silicon, through which ions could predictably flow.
To do so, the researchers started with a wafer of silicon, resembling, at microscopic resolution, a chicken-wire pattern. They then grew a similar pattern of silicon germanium - a material also used commonly in transistors - on top of the silicon wafer. Silicon germanium's lattice is slightly larger than that of silicon, and Kim found that together, the two perfectly mismatched materials can form a funnel-like dislocation, creating a single path through which ions can flow.
Both use SiGe, but they're using it in very different ways.
I believe the GP is being sarcastic. I know this from looking at some of the words and having seen a quite a few examples of sarcasm in my time.
Go to TSMC and say you want to make chips out of Silicon Germanium and watch as they stare at you like you're some sort of crazy bug person and then change the subject to 'loathsome sounding foods you should try before you leave Taiwan'.
Apple are more evil than Microsoft. However they don't have the same monopoly power. Most people using Macs could switch to Windows - everyone except for people who want to run XCode and a few other corner cases where the application they need only runs on macOS. But for the average Mac user everything they need is on Windows. And probably on Linux too.
Google are also more evil than Microsoft and they control a larger chunk of the mobile market. E.g.
https://www.idc.com/promo/smar...
Right now it's 85.0% Android 14.7% iOS.
So Google has a domination of the mobile market similar to Microsoft's domination of the desktop market. And if you look at mobile and desktop you find that Android and Windows are level pegging.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-m...
Windows still dominates desktops but tablets and phones are gradually taking over from desktops. Since Microsoft have given up on Windows phone the odds are that Google will eventually have a Microsoft like domination of the whole market.
I.e. Google already has the dominance of mobile Microsoft had on desktops. And as mobile takes over from desktops they will end up with the dominance they have of the whole market.
And of course the have the most used search engine, the most used video sharing site and the most used browser. Plus, unlike Microsoft or even Apple, they're willing to use their market dominance to shut down ideas they dislike. Microsoft and Apple only use(d) theirs to cripple their competition, something Google does with alacrity too.
Microsoft was a bit like the Shah or Czar - a dictator sure but so long as you didn't directly oppose them they'd leave you alone. Google is like the Ayatollah or Lenin - even if you didn't directly oppose them they might decide to target your group for purging for, as they see it, the good of the body politic.
Someone needs to do a WoW parody of Cretin Hop "Gonna go for a whirl with my Dryad girl"
Also a population preferring virtual sex over real sex is probably the end of the species. Or at least of the groups or cultures capable of building that sort of technology.
Net Neutrality is a slogan they use to promote Title II regulation of ISPs, i.e. they want to regulate their complements. It reminds me of Joel On Software's memorable line that 'smart companies try to commoditize their complements'. E.g. Microsoft encouraging clone PCs. That drove down hardware prices which meant a consumer buying hardware and software would have more free cash to spend on software.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com...
Once again: demand for a product increases when the price of its complements decreases. In general, a company's strategic interest is going to be to get the price of their complements as low as possible. The lowest theoretically sustainable price would be the "commodity price" - the price that arises when you have a bunch of competitors offering indistinguishable goods. So:
Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements.
If you can do this, demand for your product will increase and you will be able to charge more and make more.
Similarly Title II regulation of ISPs theoretically means that ISPs will be less able to charge Google a premium to be on a fast lane and/or less able to charge consumers a premium to access that fast lane. Meanwhile Google would be unregulated and free to do non Net Neutral stuff.
Sounds good in theory? Well even under Wheeler the FCC allowed for zero rating, e.g. T Mobile's Binge On, though he muttered he might rule differently about future offerings.
http://www.multichannel.com/ne...
"Tom Wheeler's comments regarding T-Mobile's new BingeOn zero-rating plan calls to mind the good familiar cop/bad cop routine," said Randolph May, president of free market think tank, the Free State Foundation. "On the one hand, Wheeler's statement that the plan is pro-competitive and innovative is commendable. On the other hand, his further elaboration that the FCC will monitor the T-Mobile plan for compliance with the Open Internet Order's 'good conduct' rule is disturbing. This is because the vague 'good conduct' standard means anything that Wheeler's Enforcement Bureau says it means on any given day."
It's "Nazis" not "Nazi's". I'm not a Grammar Nazi, I'm Alt Write (tm).
And you seem pretty hateful and murderous yourself.
No, but they're not sciences in the way that, say, particle physics is. As Lubos Motls pointed out the number of sigma required to verify a hypothesis is very different
https://motls.blogspot.com/201...
Some disciplines of science try to be as hard and reliable as particle physics so they adopted the same 5-sigma (1 in 3 million) standard for discovery; most other disciplines, especially soft sciences such as medical research, climate science, psychology, and others, are often satisfied with 3-sigma (1 in 300) or even 2-sigma (1 in 20) evidence.
That's assuming there's enough data for this sort of thing, which there most likely isn't for history where you're relying on a couple of second hand sources.
That doesn't mean history is junk, it just means you can't be as certain of it as you can with physics. And in fact new discoveries turn up all the time and change the consensus view of historical events. Similarly the consensus on economics can change pretty drastically - e.g. Keynesianism took a major beating in the 80's due to stagflation. Arguably post Keynesian economics did post 2008, though that may be coming to an end.
Social sciences have fuzzy data and the interpretation of the data is influenced by politics - that's especially true of climate change and economics. They're not at all like particle physics with its spectacular 5 sigma near certainty. You could probably find examples of present day politics influencing linguistics too.
Incidentally literature isn't science and it definitely isn't junk. And good literature isn't influenced by politics, except in the extreme Orwellian case where a worst case totalitarian regime ends literature.
http://www.orwell.ru/library/e...
Literature has sometimes flourished under despotic regimes, but, as has often been pointed out, the despotisms of the past were not totalitarian. Their repressive apparatus was always inefficient, their ruling classes were usually either corrupt or apathetic or half-liberal in outlook, and the prevailing religious doctrines usually worked against perfectionism and the notion of human infallibility. Even so it is broadly true that prose literature has reached its highest levels in periods of democracy and free speculation. What is new in totalitarianism is that its doctrines are not only unchallengeable but also unstable. They have to be accepted on pain of damnation, but on the other hand, they are always liable to be altered on a moment's notice. Consider, for example, the various attitudes, completely incompatible with one another, which an English Communist or 'fellow-traveler' has had to adopt toward the war between Britain and Germany. For years before September, 1939, he was expected to be in a continuous stew about 'the horrors of Nazism' and to twist everything he wrote into a denunciation of Hitler: after September, 1939, for twenty months, he had to believe that Germany was more sinned against than sinning, and the word 'Nazi', at least as far as print went, had to drop right out of his vocabulary. Immediately after hearing the 8 o'clock news bulletin on the morning of June 22, 1941, he had to start believing once again that Nazism was the most hideous evil the world had ever seen. Now, it is easy for the politician to make such changes: for a writer the case is somewhat different. If he is to switch his allegiance at exactly the right moment, he must either tell lies about his subjective feelings, or else suppress them altogether. In either case he has destroyed his dynamo. Not only will ideas refuse to come to him, but the very words he uses will seem to stiffen under his touch. Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write
The problem you seem to be crying about is that science is a process, it changes and no single result is immune to being looked at again and no conclusion cannot be overturned by further experiment.
Except for global warming, err climate change, err increased extreme weather, which is Settled Science.
Should we also kill people who claim that everything would be better if only some group or other were murdered en masse?
"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
* Marcus Brigstocke
Tesla owners are mostly rich Democrats who voted for those overly broad laws.
I believe the expression is 'take the piss'. Literally in this case.
Interesting thing is that Edge is supposed to be quicker than Chrome. So it may well be that it runs better on a Goldmont cored Apollo Lake mobile chip than Chrome. These machines have eMMC storage too. Which is probably quicker than a 5400 rpm hard disk but not as quick as a SATA SSD.
I remember Chrome running pretty badly on my Asus 1015PX. In fact that's why I got rid of it.