Great! Well then, let's look at 1200 to current time? Oh, is that cherry picking again? Then why do we start in 1970, instead of 1930? Oh wait - cherry picking?
The globe gets warmer and cooler and has since it formed, life goes on.
So prove that the current warming is natural.
Warming in the past was natural, right? And we just had a big pause from 1998 to 2015 (broken by the recent El Nino). You're the one claiming that man is causing warming, meaning it is incumbent upon YOU to make the proof. Absent proof of man's forcing of warming - we're left with only one conclusion: it's natural (it has to be either natural or man-made).
Explain the temperature pause from 1998 to 2015. CO2 went from ~360ppm to ~405ppm - and the temperature was essentially flat. A 12% increase in CO2 - and no change in temperature. Prior to the 1990s, CO2 lagged temp. Now it leads it whilst the temp was basically flat. That would tend to indicate that CO2 is a byproduct at worst, and a very minor effect at best, of global temperature.
Math is more than just a multiplication tool. It's a process for breaking down an algorithm into easily handled processes and steps. A computer is simply a high-end calculator. It's executing algorithms, it's doing math - that is all it really does! Learning algebra, mid-level math, teaches a person to think algorithmically, to think logically, to determine steps needed to ensure quality of results. Programming is simply an extension of math. Saying it is different is like saying adding 2+2 is different than math. If you try to program without a context of mathematics, you're really just doing a bunch of basic web graphics and not much else...
You can buy a CSR 8670 and use it without issue; the second you start to use the AptX firmware inside, though, you need a separate license. Chips that run embedded firmware can very easily require two sets of licensing, because not all users of the chip will need all the firmware the chip designer offers.
More people learn English today in China, than live in the UK. English is required for all middle and high school students, has been for the last 10 years or so. Mandarin skills are still very helpful, but in a business situation they are rapidly fading as a requirement or even a big bonus.
First, programming is quite different to math, the latter is the application of rules and pattern onto problems to, for example, describe and model them, while programming is mostly the division of a problem in smaller parts which can be expressed in a programming language.
Great! So recruit like crazy from NZ and IS! How many programmers in SV are from those countries, as opposed to the US? Given that the population of both countries is about equal to the population of the Bay area, I would submit very few SV programmers are from NZ and IS. And if the difference is cultural - and I am completely willing to accept that - then the solution probably isn't to adjust on the output of the school system, but the internal workings of the school system. So given the population you're most likely drawing from, is it surprising there is an imbalance in who goes into CS?
Of course, I submit that it's already been skewed too extreme, given than women greatly outnumber men at universities. Perhaps we need more "get men into colleges!" programs?
OK, then how many female combat fighter pilots are in that pool? Again - you used the example, then you back it up. If it is 1% of all pilots, and there is a 20% increase in potential injury to that 1%, and solving that potential injury method results in a 1% increase of damage to the other 99% of the pilots, is that a good change? There's a reason that air forces around the world don't allow overly tall or portly men as pilots - they would have to redesign too many things to handle enough adjustments. Look at MIL-STD-1472 (any version). The US military - and most militaries around the world - design for the 85% case. If you're an extreme outlier for the typical person in a given role, you're not going to "fit" in - literally.
No, you are looking at the profit that all the Tesla fans throw around incorrectly. The 25% is the GROSS profit - meaning, you make that $25 per widget. But what about sales costs? Overhead? Shipping? Utilities? Marketing? Those add another $30 of cost. NOW we want to expand our factory as well, which is another $15 in cost. Our gross profit of $25 is now -$20. We're losing $20 per unit. Unless your expansion of the factory can bring the costs per unit down at least $20 (a ~30% decrease in production cost), you're still going to lose money on each and every unit.
On the SAT, males score about 30 points higher in math than females. Programming is highly related to math and algorithmic work - and thus one would expect the average male to do better at programming than the average female. Yes, there are superstar women programmers! But the average would most likely be a bit lower in performance than the average male - just based upon the SAT math score difference. Is that sexist? Or is that just looking at physiological differences in how we're wired and extrapolating from that?
Hell, the F-35 helmet is designed to disproportionately kill women when ejecting. Nobody thought that was a good idea. Just... nobody thought.
How many female combat pilots are there in the USAF? If the answer is "none", then designing a helmet that would better protect women seems not just superfluous on the surface, but may lead to impaired operation for men. Head size differences and neck strength may result in compromised solutions for men. Is that sexist?
For SJWs, words mean whatever they want them to mean. And the same words can have different meanings within the same document, or even change from minute to minute. It's your homophobic / misogynist / racist hatred that forces you to try to require your hateful structure of language upon others. Or something like that...
Get those lungs looked at! The GP claimed they were making a 25% margin on their cars, and implied it was profit (because he was countering my claim they are not profitable). Facts show otherwise. And it is admirable to invest all earnings into growth - but they have no path to profitability right now, even if the investments weren't there. Look at their financial statements, remove the factory expansion, and they still lose money.
A company with real product, real facilities, real employees, real orders and PROFIT. Telsa has yet to turn a profit, and is about to turn the bulk of their revenue over to much lower margin product. Product that is as complex to make as their high-profit stuff, but has even lower returns. If you can't make a profit on esoteric, high-value, tax-advantaged products, what is expected when the move to more pedestrian, low value, zero-tax advantaged products?
It's because, at least in CA, we like to spend tens of billions on high speed rail to nowhere, and billions of dollars on illegal immigrants, and then ignore the infrastructure that would actually benefit ALL citizens of CA...
Now try being a late 40s conservative working in tech in the SF area. Even harder, as it's even more rare. Yet it's not an issue because "white male". If companies promote because of socializing with your coworkers, then they have a pretty poor way of promoting. Talent, output, productivity, and trule leadership is what's required. Choosing hockey, or demanding a specific gender or racial quota must be the goal/result are equally bad.
Hillary! was rightfully pegged as breaking the law regarding mishandling classified information by James Comey. But she was "excused" because of "intent"- something that does NOT appear in the law at all. She and her impeached husband have been handled with kid gloves by the media forever, even though the facts are otherwise.
Let's put doors out there that say "women only" and then for boys - it's shut and locked because "womyn". That kind of attitude resulted in segregation and drinking fountains for whites and blacks... Women greatly outnumber men at universities, should we have targeted recruiting campaigns to bring more males to the University? Where is the handwringing over an underrepresentation of males in higher education? How about we set aside "boys who code" programs to encourage boys to get into STEM classes?
Your daughter could very well be the exception! But here's the catch - should she demand that half of all metal workers in the future are female, even if most of them are not interested in it? I welcome people into the job who have a passion for the job - female or male, But I'm not going to go around hand-wringing because when I start interviewing for a mechanical engineering position, 90% of all applicants are male, and thus there's an 90% chance that my hire will be male (ME students are about 90% male).
Equality should mean both genders are perfectly accepted into positions and roles, and it's their opportunity - NOT the numbers who are present - that determines equality. Equality of opportunity should be the goal, not equality of results (which can never actually happen).
Really? When? I mean they reported on potential investigations of Hillary! but then went to GREAT lengths it assure us it was a big nothingburger and simply evil GOP tactics. That she was completely blameless in her illegal server, that her lies about her past were simply not relevant, and that her defense of a self-admitted sex offending husband were all normal and on the up-and-up (the last being great hypocrisy given the supposed women's rights she pushed; rights for them to be abused by her husband, perhaps...)
Now find an article in the mainstream media that was as critical of President Obama as they are of President Trump. Just becaise RT toes the party line in Russia because of potential blowback from the Kremlin does not mean our own media becomes passive lapdogs of a President they like because of a few of his claimed political stances (never mind he broke just about every promise he made when campaigning).
So - what innovative thing did Apple do that allows them to put voices in your head? What is news-worthy of this article other than "OMG Apple!"? There are plenty of examples of this very technology already existing from multiple vendors. Why is this news-worthy?
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Great! Well then, let's look at 1200 to current time? Oh, is that cherry picking again? Then why do we start in 1970, instead of 1930? Oh wait - cherry picking?
The globe gets warmer and cooler and has since it formed, life goes on.
So prove that the current warming is natural.
Warming in the past was natural, right? And we just had a big pause from 1998 to 2015 (broken by the recent El Nino). You're the one claiming that man is causing warming, meaning it is incumbent upon YOU to make the proof. Absent proof of man's forcing of warming - we're left with only one conclusion: it's natural (it has to be either natural or man-made).
Explain the temperature pause from 1998 to 2015. CO2 went from ~360ppm to ~405ppm - and the temperature was essentially flat. A 12% increase in CO2 - and no change in temperature. Prior to the 1990s, CO2 lagged temp. Now it leads it whilst the temp was basically flat. That would tend to indicate that CO2 is a byproduct at worst, and a very minor effect at best, of global temperature.
Math is more than just a multiplication tool. It's a process for breaking down an algorithm into easily handled processes and steps. A computer is simply a high-end calculator. It's executing algorithms, it's doing math - that is all it really does! Learning algebra, mid-level math, teaches a person to think algorithmically, to think logically, to determine steps needed to ensure quality of results. Programming is simply an extension of math. Saying it is different is like saying adding 2+2 is different than math. If you try to program without a context of mathematics, you're really just doing a bunch of basic web graphics and not much else...
You can buy a CSR 8670 and use it without issue; the second you start to use the AptX firmware inside, though, you need a separate license. Chips that run embedded firmware can very easily require two sets of licensing, because not all users of the chip will need all the firmware the chip designer offers.
More people learn English today in China, than live in the UK. English is required for all middle and high school students, has been for the last 10 years or so. Mandarin skills are still very helpful, but in a business situation they are rapidly fading as a requirement or even a big bonus.
First, programming is quite different to math, the latter is the application of rules and pattern onto problems to, for example, describe and model them, while programming is mostly the division of a problem in smaller parts which can be expressed in a programming language.
Wow. Just - wow. I hope you're not a programmer!
Great! So recruit like crazy from NZ and IS! How many programmers in SV are from those countries, as opposed to the US? Given that the population of both countries is about equal to the population of the Bay area, I would submit very few SV programmers are from NZ and IS. And if the difference is cultural - and I am completely willing to accept that - then the solution probably isn't to adjust on the output of the school system, but the internal workings of the school system. So given the population you're most likely drawing from, is it surprising there is an imbalance in who goes into CS?
Of course, I submit that it's already been skewed too extreme, given than women greatly outnumber men at universities. Perhaps we need more "get men into colleges!" programs?
OK, then how many female combat fighter pilots are in that pool? Again - you used the example, then you back it up. If it is 1% of all pilots, and there is a 20% increase in potential injury to that 1%, and solving that potential injury method results in a 1% increase of damage to the other 99% of the pilots, is that a good change? There's a reason that air forces around the world don't allow overly tall or portly men as pilots - they would have to redesign too many things to handle enough adjustments. Look at MIL-STD-1472 (any version). The US military - and most militaries around the world - design for the 85% case. If you're an extreme outlier for the typical person in a given role, you're not going to "fit" in - literally.
No, you are looking at the profit that all the Tesla fans throw around incorrectly. The 25% is the GROSS profit - meaning, you make that $25 per widget. But what about sales costs? Overhead? Shipping? Utilities? Marketing? Those add another $30 of cost. NOW we want to expand our factory as well, which is another $15 in cost. Our gross profit of $25 is now -$20. We're losing $20 per unit. Unless your expansion of the factory can bring the costs per unit down at least $20 (a ~30% decrease in production cost), you're still going to lose money on each and every unit.
On the SAT, males score about 30 points higher in math than females. Programming is highly related to math and algorithmic work - and thus one would expect the average male to do better at programming than the average female. Yes, there are superstar women programmers! But the average would most likely be a bit lower in performance than the average male - just based upon the SAT math score difference. Is that sexist? Or is that just looking at physiological differences in how we're wired and extrapolating from that?
Hell, the F-35 helmet is designed to disproportionately kill women when ejecting. Nobody thought that was a good idea. Just... nobody thought.
How many female combat pilots are there in the USAF? If the answer is "none", then designing a helmet that would better protect women seems not just superfluous on the surface, but may lead to impaired operation for men. Head size differences and neck strength may result in compromised solutions for men. Is that sexist?
For SJWs, words mean whatever they want them to mean. And the same words can have different meanings within the same document, or even change from minute to minute. It's your homophobic / misogynist / racist hatred that forces you to try to require your hateful structure of language upon others. Or something like that...
Get those lungs looked at! The GP claimed they were making a 25% margin on their cars, and implied it was profit (because he was countering my claim they are not profitable). Facts show otherwise. And it is admirable to invest all earnings into growth - but they have no path to profitability right now, even if the investments weren't there. Look at their financial statements, remove the factory expansion, and they still lose money.
Uhh, that's a 25% GROSS margin. The profit margin of TSLA is currently -12.06%. Negative. Tesla does not make a profit today, nor has it in the past.
You mean his Ball Grid Array needs better polishing?
A company with real product, real facilities, real employees, real orders and PROFIT. Telsa has yet to turn a profit, and is about to turn the bulk of their revenue over to much lower margin product. Product that is as complex to make as their high-profit stuff, but has even lower returns. If you can't make a profit on esoteric, high-value, tax-advantaged products, what is expected when the move to more pedestrian, low value, zero-tax advantaged products?
It's because, at least in CA, we like to spend tens of billions on high speed rail to nowhere, and billions of dollars on illegal immigrants, and then ignore the infrastructure that would actually benefit ALL citizens of CA...
Now try being a late 40s conservative working in tech in the SF area. Even harder, as it's even more rare. Yet it's not an issue because "white male". If companies promote because of socializing with your coworkers, then they have a pretty poor way of promoting. Talent, output, productivity, and trule leadership is what's required. Choosing hockey, or demanding a specific gender or racial quota must be the goal/result are equally bad.
Hillary! was rightfully pegged as breaking the law regarding mishandling classified information by James Comey. But she was "excused" because of "intent"- something that does NOT appear in the law at all. She and her impeached husband have been handled with kid gloves by the media forever, even though the facts are otherwise.
Let's put doors out there that say "women only" and then for boys - it's shut and locked because "womyn". That kind of attitude resulted in segregation and drinking fountains for whites and blacks... Women greatly outnumber men at universities, should we have targeted recruiting campaigns to bring more males to the University? Where is the handwringing over an underrepresentation of males in higher education? How about we set aside "boys who code" programs to encourage boys to get into STEM classes?
Your daughter could very well be the exception! But here's the catch - should she demand that half of all metal workers in the future are female, even if most of them are not interested in it? I welcome people into the job who have a passion for the job - female or male, But I'm not going to go around hand-wringing because when I start interviewing for a mechanical engineering position, 90% of all applicants are male, and thus there's an 90% chance that my hire will be male (ME students are about 90% male).
Equality should mean both genders are perfectly accepted into positions and roles, and it's their opportunity - NOT the numbers who are present - that determines equality. Equality of opportunity should be the goal, not equality of results (which can never actually happen).
First, ALL OF THOSE HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF HILLARY
Really? When? I mean they reported on potential investigations of Hillary! but then went to GREAT lengths it assure us it was a big nothingburger and simply evil GOP tactics. That she was completely blameless in her illegal server, that her lies about her past were simply not relevant, and that her defense of a self-admitted sex offending husband were all normal and on the up-and-up (the last being great hypocrisy given the supposed women's rights she pushed; rights for them to be abused by her husband, perhaps...)
Now find an article in the mainstream media that was as critical of President Obama as they are of President Trump. Just becaise RT toes the party line in Russia because of potential blowback from the Kremlin does not mean our own media becomes passive lapdogs of a President they like because of a few of his claimed political stances (never mind he broke just about every promise he made when campaigning).
So - what innovative thing did Apple do that allows them to put voices in your head? What is news-worthy of this article other than "OMG Apple!"? There are plenty of examples of this very technology already existing from multiple vendors. Why is this news-worthy?