Collapse by Jared Diamond lept to mind reading the summary. The article quotes that book and invokes him at the end.
Jared Diamond openly wept seeing malaria patients struggling to survive in an African hospital. He has illustrated the intelligence of the so called primitive tribes people in so many anecdotes in his book. And the climate change denialists managed to mire him into a law suit. They have instigated some Papua New Guineans mentioned in his last book to sue him for slander and other stuff. That is the extent they are willing to go, and that is their favorite weapon, law suits and puppet legislators.
All organs of all the animals are perfected for short term survival of the individual. Humans are not special, Brains are not special. That is why animals which could not adapt went extinct. Cultures that could not adapt went extinct, even in the absence of external threats.
Forgot to mention, I also have access to a HPC cluster, 256 machines, each with 8 processors and 16 GB memory. I usually farm out jobs to them to my test engineers. Also in the pipeline 1 TB RAM, 64 processor machines 1 linux and 1 windows, but unfortunately I have to share it with other teams:-(
My main desk top is Dual Xeon 3.10 GHz, E5-2687W 32 hyperthreads, 16 processors. 64 GB RAM. Two 250 GB SSD. Two 0.5 TB SCSI disks. Two full HD monitors. NVIDIA quadro 6000 card.
My test machines are headless, no monitor or video cards. But they have 256 GB RAM, no SSD, two 1 TB SCSI disks. One linux and one windows.
At home I have an old iMac, and an old Win7 four processor 8GB machine. A few chromebooks, kindles, nexus phones round up the devices list.
Specializing in science basically means more and more about less and less. The limiting case of a specialist is someone who knows everything about nothing. He is a great bio-chemist, no doubt. But thinking he is great in anything other than that narrow sub-speciality within sub-speciality of bio-chemistry, is illogical.
Thanks. I did not know that. I imagined the automatic transmission to be using analog computation, along the lines of Watt's governor of steam engines. Was it digital?
Originally fluidics circuits mimicked electronic circuits but all those valves controlling fluid flow were quite cumbersome. They built standard "cells" that would have a large inlet and out let for main "flow" and then additional taps which were controlled by smaller streams of the fluid. There were cells that would do the plumbing of making tap of one cell be the main inflow for another cell etc. They had the equivalents of transistor, one small bias flow controlling a large main flow to either "out/ground" or to tap A etc. They could stack them up to avoid running tubes. They could do what the primitive digital electronic circuits could do. They had built simple ripple counters, and flip flops etc. They are digital circuits, but with "power"! They had enough power to move small actuators. Enough to move baffle doors of air ducts etc. (Quoting from memory of some IEEE spectrum article read some 25 years ago. sorry for the mistakes)
It produced some PhDs and some R&D grants. But never went beyond academic labs. I don't think there was the Big Digital Electronic conspiracy to stymie the upstart competitor. Even their proponents did not really believe it could take on digital electronic circuits.
H1B visas are limited 65000 a year. Since 2008 the job creation rate has been over 100K a month. It is over 200K a month in the last 9 months. These are the documented jobs reported by the government and is corroborated to the numbers published by the payroll processing company ADP.
It is a javascript file. Every user of Airtel and every victim of companies using Flash networks to monetize the traffic will get these files when they visit websites. So it is very easy to get a copy of the code. So what did they achieve by this DMCA take down notice against git hub?
How many people routinely check the source of their own web page through different connections to look for such injections? If some major US cell network or ISP did this, how likely they will be caught? Would https stop them from messing around with injections?
US Government acting as the strong arm enforcer for the US Business interests has a long history. But usually it undermined the rights of the citizens of foreign countries more than it undermined US citizens' rights. And the businesses were US businesses, which ultimately made them have lots of common interest with USA. What is new is, these businesses are no longer US businesses, they are trans national corporations, they don't feel any allegiance to the USA. They treat USA just as they have treated all the third world countries all these years, using corrupt puppet governments to sign treaties that gave away all the wealth of the nation...
One small consolation is now some in the USA feel what it was like to be a poor South American or South Asian or African whose government was totally controlled by foreign companies.
Cleveland Browns spokesperson Big L Oser announced that the Browns are planning to use Virtual Reality training to their fans. The fans will use this technology to see the Browns win the Superbowl virtually. The spokesperson said, "This is probably the only way a Brown fan is going to see a Brown quarterback lift the Lombardi trophy in the next few decades".
The liberal arts education dates back to 12 or 11th centuries. The liberal arts consisted of trivium (grammar, rhetoric and logic) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy). These were deemed to be the fields of learning suitable for the "liberated man", hence called liberal arts. These were meant for people who had independent wealth and did not have to earn anything from these pursuits. The liberal arts never were meant to provide means for earning a living from day one.
Professional arts, which enabled you to earn a living through the learning were all done through apprenticeship programs, and the skills were passed down the family. Universities started teaching skills that will get you a job very late, in 18th century. Till then poor and middle class people learned some skill from father, grand parents, and uncles on the job. Rich people went to the university to learn something useless.
Rich aristocrats people also entered the government and military service as "officers" while the working masses have to start out as lowly clerks, peons and enlisted men. Thus "liberal arts" education got associated with officers and the elites, and a higher starting point into the management cadres.
Are they chaotic? The friction in inter galactic space is nearly zero. These bodies will obey the conservation of mass, linear momentum, angular momentum and energy. They are way below reltativistic speeds to be involved with Hawkins radiation and such stuff. They should be fully predictable and non chaotic, right? The period might be very long and complex compared to our sunsets and sunrises, but are they chaotic?
It is not a crime to help people build their own firearms or assist them in evading tracking by federal and local police. The current law is, every US citizen has the right to unlimited number of untrackable weapons, they have no obligation to assist or help any government agencies in any crime involving any fire arm.
If some regulation or a law or some enforcement of any law would help the agencies find lots of criminals and solve lots of crime, but for every thousand crime solved, one law abiding citizen's access to the unlimited number of untrackable weapons will be delayed by 30 seconds, that regulation/law/enforcement is the start of a slippery slope to police state, and an unacceptable loss of the liberty of the free citizens.
Your body is still producing those anti bodies, and they have cataloged that substance in the data base and weeded out anti-bodies produced by auto-immune diseases, to reduce false positives. But still it is a major advancement.
The cable companies are monopolies lightly regulated by the public utility commissionaires elected by a very tiny fraction of the electorate. PHBs abound everywhere but they kill their host companies eventually. But they thrive in these utility companies because they can't go under, they can always pass on the costs to the customers with lots of padding.
People have always complained by all PUC industries, sewage, water, electricity, landlines, streetcar/tramway/trolley companies... But most of the other industries, the quality of service is tangibly defined, unfair bundling not possible or easy to spot. So the only complaint about them is the cost. The cable companies get to play fast and loose with their quality of service, game the system by confusing choices and bundling, there is lots of money involved. So it naturally attracts worst of the worst PHBs.
One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. The Sikh separatist movement is largely funded by expatriate Sikh diaspora a week's pay here would equal a half year pay in India. They blew up an airliner over Atlantic, Kanishka, assassinated Indira Gandhi... India calling them terrorists is exactly what US calls American citizens siding with Al Queda or ISIS. Similarly the the Tamil dispora funded the civil war in Sri Lanka for decades.
That is not to say the Sikhs do not have genuine complaints. Following Mrs Gandhi's assassination there were anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi were some 1500 Sikhs were torched and thousands more were injured and their businesses looted, torched and destroyed. And all the perps went completely unpunished. That is a one genuine complaint the Sikhs have. But some of the other things they have funded would make them terrorists.
“The program has created a highly lucrative business model of bringing in cheaper H-1B workers to substitute for Americans,” said Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University who studies visa programs and has testified before Congress about H-1B visas.
By law the H1B should not be cheaper than hiring Americans. They need to demonstrate they are paying prevailing wages and that they have made good faith effort to recruit Americans. But the companies game the system thoroughly. They lobby the congress to create strict dead lines like, "if there is no reply from immigration side for 90 days the application is deemed to be approved" and they the congress cuts the budget and staff of the immig department. They pad up the qualification requirements on one hand, "degree in math/engineering, x years of experience in y technology blah blah blah", then on the payment side they name the positions that have low pay. Naturally they would not find qualified Americans willing to work at that pay.
The way around these issues should be to create some sort of bounty program. Let the government crowdsource it. Make these H1B applications and the documentation supplied by these companies public. Any one should be able to challenge and point out the "gaming". There should be some sort of reward for people who catch them cheating. There should be some safe guards against frivolous challenges, and this program could be revenue neutral by making the cheaters pay for this by fines.
In some fields in some ways H1-B applications are legitimate. People who come to USA, get a degree from accredited US university who work in the field they got their degrees in are not to be confused with these body shopping companies that import people with degrees from diploma mills in India. Indians who came in the early 1990s with degrees from top univs like IITs, IISc, TIFR, AIIMS, RECs and got further degrees in US universities earned the good will and the reputation for Indian engineers. Now all that is being squandered by these cheap body shoppers gaming the system bringing ill-repute to all Indian Americans.
These dumb phones have very good reputation in third world countries. I use a cheap 15$ Nokia in India. It supports texting in local languages, Indian astrological calenders, etc. Incredibly some of these cheap phones are meant for families, not individuals. They would support multiple "user profiles" with independent call logs and contact lists. And the battery! Lasts for ever.
It would actually make sense to use a smart phone as a digital assistant and carry these cheap phones for voice and text. Many of us still wear watches right? Same way, the smart phones are actually personal computers, it is better to have an independent device with its own long lasting battery for voice and text.
Depends on the device that is paired with the remote. The set top boxes made by near monopolies of Fisher Scientific and its compatriots have no real competition and they ship crappy remotes designed back in 1970 because... because they can. What's the user gonna do? Most remotes made by global brands that sell in third world countries have very strong voltage regulation of their main products and very good remotes that work with dead batteries. Indian local language magazines will routinely report, "If you leave your batteries in direct sun light for 8 hours, your remote will work for one more year!"
There are tons people who could raise money to launch satellites. Please concentrate on delivering the 40K sedan with 200 mile per charge range. As if he is going to listen to some random/.tter....
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Jared Diamond openly wept seeing malaria patients struggling to survive in an African hospital. He has illustrated the intelligence of the so called primitive tribes people in so many anecdotes in his book. And the climate change denialists managed to mire him into a law suit. They have instigated some Papua New Guineans mentioned in his last book to sue him for slander and other stuff. That is the extent they are willing to go, and that is their favorite weapon, law suits and puppet legislators.
All organs of all the animals are perfected for short term survival of the individual. Humans are not special, Brains are not special. That is why animals which could not adapt went extinct. Cultures that could not adapt went extinct, even in the absence of external threats.
Forgot to mention, I also have access to a HPC cluster, 256 machines, each with 8 processors and 16 GB memory. I usually farm out jobs to them to my test engineers. Also in the pipeline 1 TB RAM, 64 processor machines 1 linux and 1 windows, but unfortunately I have to share it with other teams :-(
My test machines are headless, no monitor or video cards. But they have 256 GB RAM, no SSD, two 1 TB SCSI disks. One linux and one windows.
At home I have an old iMac, and an old Win7 four processor 8GB machine. A few chromebooks, kindles, nexus phones round up the devices list.
Specializing in science basically means more and more about less and less. The limiting case of a specialist is someone who knows everything about nothing. He is a great bio-chemist, no doubt. But thinking he is great in anything other than that narrow sub-speciality within sub-speciality of bio-chemistry, is illogical.
Thanks. I did not know that. I imagined the automatic transmission to be using analog computation, along the lines of Watt's governor of steam engines. Was it digital?
It produced some PhDs and some R&D grants. But never went beyond academic labs. I don't think there was the Big Digital Electronic conspiracy to stymie the upstart competitor. Even their proponents did not really believe it could take on digital electronic circuits.
H1B visas are limited 65000 a year. Since 2008 the job creation rate has been over 100K a month. It is over 200K a month in the last 9 months. These are the documented jobs reported by the government and is corroborated to the numbers published by the payroll processing company ADP.
It is a javascript file. Every user of Airtel and every victim of companies using Flash networks to monetize the traffic will get these files when they visit websites. So it is very easy to get a copy of the code. So what did they achieve by this DMCA take down notice against git hub?
How many people routinely check the source of their own web page through different connections to look for such injections? If some major US cell network or ISP did this, how likely they will be caught? Would https stop them from messing around with injections?
One small consolation is now some in the USA feel what it was like to be a poor South American or South Asian or African whose government was totally controlled by foreign companies.
Why are battery assisted bikes so expensive? I looked at one for 2000$. Even the conversion kits are 300$ without the battery. Why?
Cleveland Browns spokesperson Big L Oser announced that the Browns are planning to use Virtual Reality training to their fans. The fans will use this technology to see the Browns win the Superbowl virtually. The spokesperson said, "This is probably the only way a Brown fan is going to see a Brown quarterback lift the Lombardi trophy in the next few decades".
Professional arts, which enabled you to earn a living through the learning were all done through apprenticeship programs, and the skills were passed down the family. Universities started teaching skills that will get you a job very late, in 18th century. Till then poor and middle class people learned some skill from father, grand parents, and uncles on the job. Rich people went to the university to learn something useless.
Rich aristocrats people also entered the government and military service as "officers" while the working masses have to start out as lowly clerks, peons and enlisted men. Thus "liberal arts" education got associated with officers and the elites, and a higher starting point into the management cadres.
Are they chaotic? The friction in inter galactic space is nearly zero. These bodies will obey the conservation of mass, linear momentum, angular momentum and energy. They are way below reltativistic speeds to be involved with Hawkins radiation and such stuff. They should be fully predictable and non chaotic, right? The period might be very long and complex compared to our sunsets and sunrises, but are they chaotic?
If some regulation or a law or some enforcement of any law would help the agencies find lots of criminals and solve lots of crime, but for every thousand crime solved, one law abiding citizen's access to the unlimited number of untrackable weapons will be delayed by 30 seconds, that regulation/law/enforcement is the start of a slippery slope to police state, and an unacceptable loss of the liberty of the free citizens.
Your body is still producing those anti bodies, and they have cataloged that substance in the data base and weeded out anti-bodies produced by auto-immune diseases, to reduce false positives. But still it is a major advancement.
People have always complained by all PUC industries, sewage, water, electricity, landlines, streetcar/tramway/trolley companies ... But most of the other industries, the quality of service is tangibly defined, unfair bundling not possible or easy to spot. So the only complaint about them is the cost. The cable companies get to play fast and loose with their quality of service, game the system by confusing choices and bundling, there is lots of money involved. So it naturally attracts worst of the worst PHBs.
And a fine friend you turned out to be!
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[1] All stated figures are approximate.
Yeah, They seem to be too low by an order of magnitude.
That is not to say the Sikhs do not have genuine complaints. Following Mrs Gandhi's assassination there were anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi were some 1500 Sikhs were torched and thousands more were injured and their businesses looted, torched and destroyed. And all the perps went completely unpunished. That is a one genuine complaint the Sikhs have. But some of the other things they have funded would make them terrorists.
“The program has created a highly lucrative business model of bringing in cheaper H-1B workers to substitute for Americans,” said Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University who studies visa programs and has testified before Congress about H-1B visas.
By law the H1B should not be cheaper than hiring Americans. They need to demonstrate they are paying prevailing wages and that they have made good faith effort to recruit Americans. But the companies game the system thoroughly. They lobby the congress to create strict dead lines like, "if there is no reply from immigration side for 90 days the application is deemed to be approved" and they the congress cuts the budget and staff of the immig department. They pad up the qualification requirements on one hand, "degree in math/engineering, x years of experience in y technology blah blah blah", then on the payment side they name the positions that have low pay. Naturally they would not find qualified Americans willing to work at that pay.
The way around these issues should be to create some sort of bounty program. Let the government crowdsource it. Make these H1B applications and the documentation supplied by these companies public. Any one should be able to challenge and point out the "gaming". There should be some sort of reward for people who catch them cheating. There should be some safe guards against frivolous challenges, and this program could be revenue neutral by making the cheaters pay for this by fines.
In some fields in some ways H1-B applications are legitimate. People who come to USA, get a degree from accredited US university who work in the field they got their degrees in are not to be confused with these body shopping companies that import people with degrees from diploma mills in India. Indians who came in the early 1990s with degrees from top univs like IITs, IISc, TIFR, AIIMS, RECs and got further degrees in US universities earned the good will and the reputation for Indian engineers. Now all that is being squandered by these cheap body shoppers gaming the system bringing ill-repute to all Indian Americans.
It would actually make sense to use a smart phone as a digital assistant and carry these cheap phones for voice and text. Many of us still wear watches right? Same way, the smart phones are actually personal computers, it is better to have an independent device with its own long lasting battery for voice and text.
Depends on the device that is paired with the remote. The set top boxes made by near monopolies of Fisher Scientific and its compatriots have no real competition and they ship crappy remotes designed back in 1970 because ... because they can. What's the user gonna do? Most remotes made by global brands that sell in third world countries have very strong voltage regulation of their main products and very good remotes that work with dead batteries. Indian local language magazines will routinely report, "If you leave your batteries in direct sun light for 8 hours, your remote will work for one more year!"
There are tons people who could raise money to launch satellites. Please concentrate on delivering the 40K sedan with 200 mile per charge range. As if he is going to listen to some random /.tter....