if the homogenization of the world has made this lost to humanity now
While improved communication has promoted some degree of homogenization, I think there's still plenty of culture variation. Some cultures promote development and some don't, so even if cultures do homogenize (i.e. we reach some Fukuyamian end-of-history) it depends on what type of culture results and whether it remains stable.
My guess would be the amount of text on a page. While your critique is somewhat harsh I would agree with the main point that: "it looks like one of those websites made for tablets printed on paper." The concept reminds me of opera productions set in (typically more modern) eras different than when the libretto was written for. If you're going to go trendy then change the text to suit the presentation, somewhat how Hamilton updated the Chernow text.
. Earth could carry many more people if we did things, you know, intelligently instead of merely greedily.
Greed has proven to be the worst except for all other forces towards improving productivity which has enabled us to carry as many as we do as well as we do. Up to this point human labor has been a factor in improving productivity by staying one step ahead of automation. It's far from clear that can continue to be the case.
This. Review quality should be added as a weight. One, albeit crude, way to measure the quality of a review is its length. With more effort the quality includes product specificity. And finally there's specificity applied to features. For example, aesthetic based reviews might weigh less than those on functionality. A thousand this-product-is-great single line reviews might mean as much as ten negative reviews that go into a lot more detail.
Not just accuracy but redefinition. Originally the second was based on astronomical measurements which would vary. With this redefinition it's also easier for scientists to create their own accurate clock. The kilogram is still waiting for its redefinition.
It would be an interesting gambit. Sacrificing reputation somewhat in exchange for a settlement payout and whatever he can garner from his fifteen minutes of fame. Whether it succeeds I think is tbd.
There's actually a nugget of truth to this. The technology's changed significantly such that familiarity with it may be of greater relevance than experience with an older installation. Our telescope mount, originally built almost fifty years ago, is now fully automated. Larger projects rarely have the luxury of keeping up. It may be more worthwhile to promote a local who's familiar with the science and technology and provide him with managerial experience than go the other way. Management:
I think the point was Netflix is shielded from making their audience ratings public. Clearly there's not going to be an incentive to maintain an unpopular show, but there's just as much incentive to make an exaggerated popularity claim to increase the number of viewers, aka false advertising.
Youth and gender were likely a factor in her hiring. These components were to be integrated with the brand being promoted. It was effectively a band-aid covering what was hoped to be the healing wound of the Yahoo brand. Her competence was on par with her peers and removing her would have been like tearing the band-aid off before the wound had healed. Verizon's changing the wound treatment.
What I've yet to understand is what unique or special skills these CEOs have that justify their compensation outside articulation combined with excessive ambition.
What matters are future results, and that the effectiveness of whatever algorithm is used is continually measured. There's also question of whether sentencing alone can effectively reduce recidivism. The Economist has an interesting article on making America's prisons work better.
While you certainly don't want music to intrude in a negative fashion, its transparency to a viewer might not be a bad thing. In other words, the music might contribute to a viewer's experience of a film without their explicit awareness (or acknowledgement).
film is where the the majority of good, new music is coming out of these days
I recall speaking to a local community college professor composer several years ago whose aim was film scores. I was initially surprised till I realized a good score stands alone. Mark Snow (of X-files fame) comes to mind. I just saw 'The Founder' and enjoyed Carter Burwell's work.
Bottom tier managers are going to face more stress and its consequences than those above them. Competence, both your own and that of your manager is going to contribute to stress no matter what position you're in. Finally, there's stress regarding job performance and stress centered on reliance on a job in general. Failing or incompetent managers are let go less often than their reports. I suspect the stress a CEO of a large company might face over poor company performance and negative publicity, while great, is not the same as the stress of a typical worker facing a lay off - particularly with respect to negative health benefits.
As stated in the summary the gov't does pay for these schools and "the issue is quality". Or is it? Is our protagonist asserting these schools are unfairly being evaluated as colleges when they're essentially vocational schools focused on what's apparently become a blue collar vocation?
Over 20 years ago I collected the handicapper picks from the LA Times over the course of at least one season from Santa Anita and Hollywood Park. Each handicapper had his own methodology and the key was that they were relatively independent. One went for long shots, one typically went with the favorite and one was in between. The plan was to train a neural network to tease out which handicapper worked best in a given race. I didn't quit my day job.
Fortran has been a staple of high performance computing applications for decades and will continue as such. As such, there are several off the shelf tools available for profiling, optimization and vectorization, many from the vendor that includes architecture dependency. This task is something that normally would be better accomplished in-house, but also makes a clever and probably lower cost recruiting tool.
You and Laffer both have an unstated and hidden assumption, that maximizing tax revenue is a good goal. It's not; the long-term maximization of the income of Americans is a good goal.
It's not clear that the goals contradict. If government isn't productive (i.e. generating benefits to society) then the optimal (maximized tax) would theoretically be less than if the government were giving good value for the taxes received. Of course you'd have to know how to measure civil service productivity and unfortunately politicians have little incentive to do that.
A theater size screen requires a large room which provides a physical setting/vibe you can't get at home. A computer monitor with headphones, a large screen in a home, and a movie theater can all provide the same field of view with relative comfort and good audio but the experience for each is slightly different. For increasing numbers I suppose the unique theater experience isn't really worth it, but for some it probably always will.
Maybe it's more like porting Linux apps to Windows using Cygwin. I have both Linux and Cygwin. Cygwin is for applications that are both portable and have need to access files also regularly accessed on the Windows side. Bothering with two operating systems (virtual or real) or cross OS file shares might be more effort than necessary. I rarely boot Linux and don't need to bother setting up file sharing. YMMV.
I've commuted in some of the worst bits of LA and you're way off. Although I no longer commute regularly, I notice that even with more people on the road they're behaving better.
Tailgating in traffic jams, allowing no room for merging or changing lanes, causing everyone to have to slam on their brakes when someone does need to move lanes.
You're overestimating the frequency of necessary lane changes. You either move left to pass or right to exit. In heavy freeway traffic there ain't a lot of either going on. Too many people changing lanes trying to chase the faster moving lane causes a lot more problems.
Waiting until the absolute last second to merge when lanes are reduced.
I saw this often enough and what I noticed is that these people would often fill in spaces that idiots opened up by failing to pay attention and
stay exactly right behind the car in front.
I'm not sure what you're advocating here. Everyone maintaining a fixed distance behind the car in front creates a rigid body effect. I've also noticed less last minute merges going on at the 405 and 101 interchanges in LA as more people pay attention, leaving fewer gaps to fill which discourages the number of last minute attempts.
I've worked for big companies most of my career, and regular employees making purchases, signing contracts, etc. takes an act of God. I can't spend $100 on supplies without getting competitive bids.
See, that's where you're going wrong. I've actually had clients tell me that a proposal has to be _over_ a certain dollar amount - if it's less than (for example) $50k, it's subject to a lot more oversight than, say, $1M.
Regular employees don't typically have much involvement with big purchases. Due diligence has been known to drop when you're spending someone else's money.
I think it was the Lexington columnist for the Economist who said that Republicans are for small government, except when they aren't. And when it comes to defense, they aren't. Trump complained about wasted defense spending in the Middle East and complained about our allies not paying their fair share - so his solution is to spend more. Businessman my ass, now he's playing army with other people's money.
Well, yes and no. While few may actually care what won best picture, more might find the idea of this type of human error involving a simple task finding its way into an such an expensive, over produced media event to be interesting. Poor procedural planning, a cellphone distracted starstruck flunky, and now poor typography. I guess we now know what could go wrong.
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While improved communication has promoted some degree of homogenization, I think there's still plenty of culture variation. Some cultures promote development and some don't, so even if cultures do homogenize (i.e. we reach some Fukuyamian end-of-history) it depends on what type of culture results and whether it remains stable.
Replying to my post, why would the software bother sampling voice at that kind of rate? Ultrasonic voice overtones adding to fidelity?
My guess would be the amount of text on a page. While your critique is somewhat harsh I would agree with the main point that: "it looks like one of those websites made for tablets printed on paper." The concept reminds me of opera productions set in (typically more modern) eras different than when the libretto was written for. If you're going to go trendy then change the text to suit the presentation, somewhat how Hamilton updated the Chernow text.
Greed has proven to be the worst except for all other forces towards improving productivity which has enabled us to carry as many as we do as well as we do. Up to this point human labor has been a factor in improving productivity by staying one step ahead of automation. It's far from clear that can continue to be the case.
This. Review quality should be added as a weight. One, albeit crude, way to measure the quality of a review is its length. With more effort the quality includes product specificity. And finally there's specificity applied to features. For example, aesthetic based reviews might weigh less than those on functionality. A thousand this-product-is-great single line reviews might mean as much as ten negative reviews that go into a lot more detail.
Not just accuracy but redefinition. Originally the second was based on astronomical measurements which would vary. With this redefinition it's also easier for scientists to create their own accurate clock. The kilogram is still waiting for its redefinition.
Ideas aren't supposed to correlate with age. To be sure any assertion that an idea is "too old to matter" should have objective reasons behind it.
It would be an interesting gambit. Sacrificing reputation somewhat in exchange for a settlement payout and whatever he can garner from his fifteen minutes of fame. Whether it succeeds I think is tbd.
There's actually a nugget of truth to this. The technology's changed significantly such that familiarity with it may be of greater relevance than experience with an older installation. Our telescope mount, originally built almost fifty years ago, is now fully automated. Larger projects rarely have the luxury of keeping up. It may be more worthwhile to promote a local who's familiar with the science and technology and provide him with managerial experience than go the other way. Management:
I think the point was Netflix is shielded from making their audience ratings public. Clearly there's not going to be an incentive to maintain an unpopular show, but there's just as much incentive to make an exaggerated popularity claim to increase the number of viewers, aka false advertising.
Youth and gender were likely a factor in her hiring. These components were to be integrated with the brand being promoted. It was effectively a band-aid covering what was hoped to be the healing wound of the Yahoo brand. Her competence was on par with her peers and removing her would have been like tearing the band-aid off before the wound had healed. Verizon's changing the wound treatment.
What I've yet to understand is what unique or special skills these CEOs have that justify their compensation outside articulation combined with excessive ambition.
What matters are future results, and that the effectiveness of whatever algorithm is used is continually measured. There's also question of whether sentencing alone can effectively reduce recidivism. The Economist has an interesting article on making America's prisons work better.
I recall speaking to a local community college professor composer several years ago whose aim was film scores. I was initially surprised till I realized a good score stands alone. Mark Snow (of X-files fame) comes to mind. I just saw 'The Founder' and enjoyed Carter Burwell's work.
Bottom tier managers are going to face more stress and its consequences than those above them. Competence, both your own and that of your manager is going to contribute to stress no matter what position you're in. Finally, there's stress regarding job performance and stress centered on reliance on a job in general. Failing or incompetent managers are let go less often than their reports. I suspect the stress a CEO of a large company might face over poor company performance and negative publicity, while great, is not the same as the stress of a typical worker facing a lay off - particularly with respect to negative health benefits.
As stated in the summary the gov't does pay for these schools and "the issue is quality". Or is it? Is our protagonist asserting these schools are unfairly being evaluated as colleges when they're essentially vocational schools focused on what's apparently become a blue collar vocation?
Over 20 years ago I collected the handicapper picks from the LA Times over the course of at least one season from Santa Anita and Hollywood Park. Each handicapper had his own methodology and the key was that they were relatively independent. One went for long shots, one typically went with the favorite and one was in between. The plan was to train a neural network to tease out which handicapper worked best in a given race. I didn't quit my day job.
Fortran has been a staple of high performance computing applications for decades and will continue as such. As such, there are several off the shelf tools available for profiling, optimization and vectorization, many from the vendor that includes architecture dependency. This task is something that normally would be better accomplished in-house, but also makes a clever and probably lower cost recruiting tool.
It's not clear that the goals contradict. If government isn't productive (i.e. generating benefits to society) then the optimal (maximized tax) would theoretically be less than if the government were giving good value for the taxes received. Of course you'd have to know how to measure civil service productivity and unfortunately politicians have little incentive to do that.
A theater size screen requires a large room which provides a physical setting/vibe you can't get at home. A computer monitor with headphones, a large screen in a home, and a movie theater can all provide the same field of view with relative comfort and good audio but the experience for each is slightly different. For increasing numbers I suppose the unique theater experience isn't really worth it, but for some it probably always will.
Maybe it's more like porting Linux apps to Windows using Cygwin. I have both Linux and Cygwin. Cygwin is for applications that are both portable and have need to access files also regularly accessed on the Windows side. Bothering with two operating systems (virtual or real) or cross OS file shares might be more effort than necessary. I rarely boot Linux and don't need to bother setting up file sharing. YMMV.
You're overestimating the frequency of necessary lane changes. You either move left to pass or right to exit. In heavy freeway traffic there ain't a lot of either going on. Too many people changing lanes trying to chase the faster moving lane causes a lot more problems.
I saw this often enough and what I noticed is that these people would often fill in spaces that idiots opened up by failing to pay attention and
I'm not sure what you're advocating here. Everyone maintaining a fixed distance behind the car in front creates a rigid body effect. I've also noticed less last minute merges going on at the 405 and 101 interchanges in LA as more people pay attention, leaving fewer gaps to fill which discourages the number of last minute attempts.
Regular employees don't typically have much involvement with big purchases. Due diligence has been known to drop when you're spending someone else's money.
I think it was the Lexington columnist for the Economist who said that Republicans are for small government, except when they aren't. And when it comes to defense, they aren't. Trump complained about wasted defense spending in the Middle East and complained about our allies not paying their fair share - so his solution is to spend more. Businessman my ass, now he's playing army with other people's money.
Lunch hour would be eliminated as a cause except that the cost of elimination does not justify the benefit of reduced accidents.
Well, yes and no. While few may actually care what won best picture, more might find the idea of this type of human error involving a simple task finding its way into an such an expensive, over produced media event to be interesting. Poor procedural planning, a cellphone distracted starstruck flunky, and now poor typography. I guess we now know what could go wrong.