Secondly, there is nothing to suggest the use of the word "malicious". If I tell my grandma how much we charge a client, it's sharing confidential business information, but I'm not doing it to undercut my company, I'm doing it to impress her. I'm not even sure who I would maliciously share business information with if I wanted to, nobody would care enough to listen.
It's just economics: Grad school has become an export commodity. Since it's one of the few areas where the US has a positive trade balance with the world, I wouldn't complain too much. From my experience, foreign grad students are frequently paid for in their entirety by their government. Meanwhile as a US student, funding grad school was entirely my responsibility.
It really depends on whether we are producing enough grad students, and if we feel grad degrees are important for our economy going forward. Foreign governments obviously feel American grad degrees are important to their economic growth and are willing to invest in them. If we agree, then we have to invest as well. If we don't, then we can consider grad degrees as mostly an export product, which is the direction we are headed in.
Do these figures count Kylin, which is just Ubuntu, and other international OS's? It would seem to me if you count the entire world linux has a huge share of desktops.
I've seen a lot of this in my area, generally what they call podium construction, where you have a 1 to 3 stories of concrete construction and then build wood frame up to the maximum height allowed, typically 5 stories of wood. As TFA outlines, it is cheap and very fast compared to all concrete, and has become a go-to for mid rise residential. Unfortunately, it makes it possible to cut corners to an even greater degree when it comes to flooring, and fire safety is entirely dependent on active suppression. I have actually seen one of these buildings survive a fire during construction (with a great effort by the fire department), but afterwards it was demolished back down to the podium.
In the end it comes down to labor cost, concrete is surprisingly labor intensive and labor costs are a huge part of construction in first world countries. I've seen some beautiful concrete work done in South America that would be impossible in the US simply because of labor costs - Imagine a 20 story concrete facade entirely finished by hand: Beautiful, but impossible to do in the states.
This is absolutely not true, carbonation will only occur where the concrete has access to the outside atmosphere. Deeper in the pour there will be no carbonation unless the concrete is cracked. In fact, carbonation is one of the main problems that a reinforced concrete structure faces, as it contributes to corrosion of internal rebar by raising the pH of the surrounding concrete.
Security clearances are one of the biggest rackets going. It has become nothing more than a system of cronyism and classism disguised as a security concern. The well-connected breeze through the process and into a world of guaranteed money while the poor are fenced out. The whole systems sucks up billions, and in the end has failed to prevent infiltration and security breaches.
The best part for the people running the con? Zero transparency by design. There will never be an accounting because the only people who could perform it are at the top of the system.
Huh, that explains a dispute I had over a fraudulent change I had with my CC company years ago. After telling them, no, a grocery store charge half the country away from where I had paid for lunch an hour earlier was not me, they sent me a copy of the signed receipt, saying essentially, "No, it totally was, here's your signature". When I responded that the weird squiggle on the receipt looked nothing like my signature, they let it go and reversed the charge. From your comment I infer that is just a step they did automatically.
This is unfortunately true I fear. I feel they have been struggling recently to stay ahead of the curve, as companies have moved beyond yearly product updates and product lines have expanded beyond any reasonable attempt to categorize them. The last few times I have looked at their reviews for appliances, for example, I've found that the models they reviewed a few months earlier have been supplanted by new ones. It's a shame because for some time they were an amazing resource.
This is most likely the case. Twenty years ago, a six year old computer was basically worthless. Now unless it's for high-end gaming, a six year old home computer is fine.
I don't think the author is criticizing the inclusion of technical details, so much as the lack of a more general overview. What mostly confuses me about your critique is if you have done the "heavy lifting," why in the world would are you using wikipedia as a reference for a technical subject? Is there really no better reference available at that level?
As for your second point, whether they are basic topics or not is irrelevant, there should be an overview available.
Or perhaps they encountered a reference to something they weren't familiar about, and went to an encyclopedia to try and find out what it was. Which is generally the purpose of an encyclopedia, to give brief overviews on a wide variety of topics. If an average person can't get that overview, the encyclopedia has failed.
In general, there are two groups that need this technology, hospitals in poor countries, and hospitals in wealthy countries that experience disasters. Poor countries (generally) can't pay for this kind of research, so wealthy countries need to have disasters to prod advancement. I will note that Romania is home to one of the research efforts and they aren't exactly wealthy, but they are an order of magnitude more wealthy than say, Chad.
This is a bizarre comment. $175k is about three times the average salary in Houston ($59k), which is not so far above the national average for a pediatrics resident at roughly $50k. I would say it's a lot of money. Being a doctor is certainly considered high-status careers, along with lawyers (who, incidentally have their own advanced education and period of being "underpaid"). I'm sure they also want to help people, but it would be foolish to assume that there are no other advantages to the profession.
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What? This is the best article /. has had in months.
Trying to be clever with a little subliminal messaging, eh? I'm on to you, John.
Every plane has a pilot for now. Not for much longer though.
On the contrary, this only strengthens my beliefs about the internet. Like all the rest of it, at the very root is some man jacking off.
This is a very good point. A strong job market directly competes with grad school for labor/students.
First, this is an ad, not a news article.
Secondly, there is nothing to suggest the use of the word "malicious". If I tell my grandma how much we charge a client, it's sharing confidential business information, but I'm not doing it to undercut my company, I'm doing it to impress her. I'm not even sure who I would maliciously share business information with if I wanted to, nobody would care enough to listen.
It's just economics: Grad school has become an export commodity. Since it's one of the few areas where the US has a positive trade balance with the world, I wouldn't complain too much. From my experience, foreign grad students are frequently paid for in their entirety by their government. Meanwhile as a US student, funding grad school was entirely my responsibility.
It really depends on whether we are producing enough grad students, and if we feel grad degrees are important for our economy going forward. Foreign governments obviously feel American grad degrees are important to their economic growth and are willing to invest in them. If we agree, then we have to invest as well. If we don't, then we can consider grad degrees as mostly an export product, which is the direction we are headed in.
Do these figures count Kylin, which is just Ubuntu, and other international OS's? It would seem to me if you count the entire world linux has a huge share of desktops.
I've seen a lot of this in my area, generally what they call podium construction, where you have a 1 to 3 stories of concrete construction and then build wood frame up to the maximum height allowed, typically 5 stories of wood. As TFA outlines, it is cheap and very fast compared to all concrete, and has become a go-to for mid rise residential. Unfortunately, it makes it possible to cut corners to an even greater degree when it comes to flooring, and fire safety is entirely dependent on active suppression. I have actually seen one of these buildings survive a fire during construction (with a great effort by the fire department), but afterwards it was demolished back down to the podium.
In the end it comes down to labor cost, concrete is surprisingly labor intensive and labor costs are a huge part of construction in first world countries. I've seen some beautiful concrete work done in South America that would be impossible in the US simply because of labor costs - Imagine a 20 story concrete facade entirely finished by hand: Beautiful, but impossible to do in the states.
This is absolutely not true, carbonation will only occur where the concrete has access to the outside atmosphere. Deeper in the pour there will be no carbonation unless the concrete is cracked. In fact, carbonation is one of the main problems that a reinforced concrete structure faces, as it contributes to corrosion of internal rebar by raising the pH of the surrounding concrete.
Can we trade our old broken Surfaces for these new, reliable ones? Because if not I would call this a case of too little, too late.
Security clearances are one of the biggest rackets going. It has become nothing more than a system of cronyism and classism disguised as a security concern. The well-connected breeze through the process and into a world of guaranteed money while the poor are fenced out. The whole systems sucks up billions, and in the end has failed to prevent infiltration and security breaches.
The best part for the people running the con? Zero transparency by design. There will never be an accounting because the only people who could perform it are at the top of the system.
Are there answers to these questions behind the paywall? I'm guessing no.
Huh, that explains a dispute I had over a fraudulent change I had with my CC company years ago. After telling them, no, a grocery store charge half the country away from where I had paid for lunch an hour earlier was not me, they sent me a copy of the signed receipt, saying essentially, "No, it totally was, here's your signature". When I responded that the weird squiggle on the receipt looked nothing like my signature, they let it go and reversed the charge. From your comment I infer that is just a step they did automatically.
This is unfortunately true I fear. I feel they have been struggling recently to stay ahead of the curve, as companies have moved beyond yearly product updates and product lines have expanded beyond any reasonable attempt to categorize them. The last few times I have looked at their reviews for appliances, for example, I've found that the models they reviewed a few months earlier have been supplanted by new ones. It's a shame because for some time they were an amazing resource.
They probably died, as anyone who drinks dihydrogen monoxide inevitably does.
This is most likely the case. Twenty years ago, a six year old computer was basically worthless. Now unless it's for high-end gaming, a six year old home computer is fine.
As for your second point, whether they are basic topics or not is irrelevant, there should be an overview available.
Or perhaps they encountered a reference to something they weren't familiar about, and went to an encyclopedia to try and find out what it was. Which is generally the purpose of an encyclopedia, to give brief overviews on a wide variety of topics. If an average person can't get that overview, the encyclopedia has failed.
I'm not sure why but I found this hilarious.
I hope this is copypasta and you didn't waste your time typing this all out.
In general, there are two groups that need this technology, hospitals in poor countries, and hospitals in wealthy countries that experience disasters. Poor countries (generally) can't pay for this kind of research, so wealthy countries need to have disasters to prod advancement. I will note that Romania is home to one of the research efforts and they aren't exactly wealthy, but they are an order of magnitude more wealthy than say, Chad.
I forgot that Kissinger got one. That is the definition of irony.
This seems like a very angry response for what was a rather well-thought out concern.
This is a bizarre comment. $175k is about three times the average salary in Houston ($59k), which is not so far above the national average for a pediatrics resident at roughly $50k. I would say it's a lot of money. Being a doctor is certainly considered high-status careers, along with lawyers (who, incidentally have their own advanced education and period of being "underpaid"). I'm sure they also want to help people, but it would be foolish to assume that there are no other advantages to the profession.