It isn't the "indentured servants" that make china attractive, it's their huge market. I love how the internet trash also spout the same idiotic nonsense. China may have a lot of workers, but they also have a lot of…
If that is a human rights violation then what do you call the US, Australia, etc? The native americans, aborigines, etc are in far worse situation than the tibetans. I love the hypocrisy we have. I wonder if the china…
> 3. I’d be for a submersible carrier that could surface to launch and retrieve drones that act as missile trucks for both air-to-air and strike missions. Agreed. If we are going to waste hundreds of billions every…
If you think the off-shore worker is 10% as effective, then you are either over-valuing "on-shore" worker or under-valuing the off-shore worker. >I'm not so sure about considering the anecdata I've amassed over the…
> Congrats to anyone who was holding LinkedIn stock. Microsoft's bid of $196 per share has LNKD up $63 bucks a share or 48% in premarket Or tough luck to those who bought LNKD at $258 a few months ago and held on...
"Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction" (McClellan, Dorn) lays out an interest overview of how technology led science throughout world history. We naively think that science leads technology, but for…
> "Bernie Bros"? seriously? The NYTimes endorsed Hilary 6 months ago... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/hillary-cli...
Anti-semitism and racist speech is free speech. Hate speech is free speech. If we are going to censor "hate speech", then we would have to ban atheist speech for being hateful to the religious or pro-gay speech for…
> What I don't see is why this is worthy of an article on the NY Times. You left Twitter for various reasons, none of which are newsworthy. Lets be honest here. It's newsworthy because a jew is affected. The writer is…
Wait til TTIP and TPP becomes law. Times are good now, but once hilary gets elected and these "free" trade agreements gets signed, the monied masters will immediately raise interest rates and cause a recession which…
Money. Hollywood is running out of ideas and they've rebooted/re-imagined/re-released/sequelized/etc everything. So while we are debating whether to watch ghostbusters or independence day ( and whether our choices make…
> Lots gets published negative about those groups. Lots? And you name one book that was marginalized more than 20 years ago. > Lots of people are at least somewhat willing to be persuaded by arguments. No they are not.…
Licensing is old news. The hip new thing in business is the social media model. Businesses are now trying to give you things for free in exchange for rights to your data. That's the entire social media business model.…
That's amazing. It's both awe-inspiring and unnervingly depressing to be reminded that we are ultimately just biological machines. Reminds me of that procedure where a surgeon can freeze you, drain your blood, take out…
> What in heavens name are you talking about? I was fairly explicit and straightforward. > There are countless books and articles published in this country, in and out of academia, describing and condemning oppression…
Yes it is easy to use. But too bad it also fails "transactions" silently so that you don't even know if your changes were "committed" or not. Don't worry, it only happens every once it a while so it's not a big deal...…
> If you're EVER going to read the data back and do anything with it, it has a schema. You are giving the NoSQL crowd too much credit. Some abominations have no recognizable schema at all. The data store will just…
> Something that is unusual about modern West is we make it possible to publish all the different perspectives I think we have to stop patting ourselves on the back. Yes, we claim to allow it, but it's a bit more…
> While it is true that complete unbiased understanding of past events is impossible, that does not therefore make it unimportant to try for. Agreed. But as long as you understand that history is ultimately propaganda.…
It's not even a chinese invention. It's a human invention. We do it in the US. And so do the brits, europeans, etc. After "historians" were paid to write histories extolling someone and denigrate someone else. From…
Actually it wouldn't be. You are buying an asset for 50% off which will continue to go up in price. And you get to pay a rentor a cheap rent to take care of your asset their entire lives. It's a great deal if you can…
It isn't the "indentured servants" that make china attractive, it's their huge market. I love how the internet trash also spout the same idiotic nonsense. China may have a lot of workers, but they also have a lot of…
If that is a human rights violation then what do you call the US, Australia, etc? The native americans, aborigines, etc are in far worse situation than the tibetans. I love the hypocrisy we have. I wonder if the china…
> 3. I’d be for a submersible carrier that could surface to launch and retrieve drones that act as missile trucks for both air-to-air and strike missions. Agreed. If we are going to waste hundreds of billions every…
If you think the off-shore worker is 10% as effective, then you are either over-valuing "on-shore" worker or under-valuing the off-shore worker. >I'm not so sure about considering the anecdata I've amassed over the…
> Congrats to anyone who was holding LinkedIn stock. Microsoft's bid of $196 per share has LNKD up $63 bucks a share or 48% in premarket Or tough luck to those who bought LNKD at $258 a few months ago and held on...
"Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction" (McClellan, Dorn) lays out an interest overview of how technology led science throughout world history. We naively think that science leads technology, but for…
> "Bernie Bros"? seriously? The NYTimes endorsed Hilary 6 months ago... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/hillary-cli...
Anti-semitism and racist speech is free speech. Hate speech is free speech. If we are going to censor "hate speech", then we would have to ban atheist speech for being hateful to the religious or pro-gay speech for…
> What I don't see is why this is worthy of an article on the NY Times. You left Twitter for various reasons, none of which are newsworthy. Lets be honest here. It's newsworthy because a jew is affected. The writer is…
Wait til TTIP and TPP becomes law. Times are good now, but once hilary gets elected and these "free" trade agreements gets signed, the monied masters will immediately raise interest rates and cause a recession which…
Money. Hollywood is running out of ideas and they've rebooted/re-imagined/re-released/sequelized/etc everything. So while we are debating whether to watch ghostbusters or independence day ( and whether our choices make…
> Lots gets published negative about those groups. Lots? And you name one book that was marginalized more than 20 years ago. > Lots of people are at least somewhat willing to be persuaded by arguments. No they are not.…
Licensing is old news. The hip new thing in business is the social media model. Businesses are now trying to give you things for free in exchange for rights to your data. That's the entire social media business model.…
That's amazing. It's both awe-inspiring and unnervingly depressing to be reminded that we are ultimately just biological machines. Reminds me of that procedure where a surgeon can freeze you, drain your blood, take out…
> What in heavens name are you talking about? I was fairly explicit and straightforward. > There are countless books and articles published in this country, in and out of academia, describing and condemning oppression…
Yes it is easy to use. But too bad it also fails "transactions" silently so that you don't even know if your changes were "committed" or not. Don't worry, it only happens every once it a while so it's not a big deal...…
> If you're EVER going to read the data back and do anything with it, it has a schema. You are giving the NoSQL crowd too much credit. Some abominations have no recognizable schema at all. The data store will just…
> Something that is unusual about modern West is we make it possible to publish all the different perspectives I think we have to stop patting ourselves on the back. Yes, we claim to allow it, but it's a bit more…
> While it is true that complete unbiased understanding of past events is impossible, that does not therefore make it unimportant to try for. Agreed. But as long as you understand that history is ultimately propaganda.…
It's not even a chinese invention. It's a human invention. We do it in the US. And so do the brits, europeans, etc. After "historians" were paid to write histories extolling someone and denigrate someone else. From…
Actually it wouldn't be. You are buying an asset for 50% off which will continue to go up in price. And you get to pay a rentor a cheap rent to take care of your asset their entire lives. It's a great deal if you can…