Merit isn't the dominant criteria.
The patents are usually at least nominally related to a product, and the allocation of engineering to product is very intentional. You're correct that there's some loss in that process, and lots of funny…
> Its a formal logic symbol I've never seen this notation used in modern mathematical logic papers. I've even had (non-US) logic phds ask me about this notation. > which was also used by standardized test writers like…
"X:Y :: A:B" an anachronistic way of saying "X is to Y as A is to B". Meaning, "A and B are related to one another in a similar kind of way that X and Y are related to one another".
I grew up and spent some of my adult life in Missouri. I interacted with folks in the Missouri GOP quite a lot in the mid-naughts and early 2010s. Lots of GOP state rep staffers, some state reps, some state-wide…
Merit isn't the dominant criteria.
The patents are usually at least nominally related to a product, and the allocation of engineering to product is very intentional. You're correct that there's some loss in that process, and lots of funny…
> Its a formal logic symbol I've never seen this notation used in modern mathematical logic papers. I've even had (non-US) logic phds ask me about this notation. > which was also used by standardized test writers like…
"X:Y :: A:B" an anachronistic way of saying "X is to Y as A is to B". Meaning, "A and B are related to one another in a similar kind of way that X and Y are related to one another".
I grew up and spent some of my adult life in Missouri. I interacted with folks in the Missouri GOP quite a lot in the mid-naughts and early 2010s. Lots of GOP state rep staffers, some state reps, some state-wide…