induscreep

so how does the Japanese raw denim industry compare to US/China?

Motorist blames self driving car for causing a collision.

much poorer job at integrating with the American culture

doesn't browse Reddit, or HackerNews, or TechCrunch, even though he's into tech and startups

he doesn't know most of the popular memes on western social sites

doesn't use Facebook, at all

Is this what "American" means?

No universities

You have KAUST there, which is a decent place.

From what I know, all the blue collar labor is imported, and the Saudis don't work that much (or at all?). So, there is no worry of generations of workers getting trained etc.

Can someone tell me what problem it solves that other architectures don't? All I see is a lot of buzzwords and very little technical details on why it is better...

I don't understand this about healthcare in the USA. Why not import a few thousand doctors from Asia through H1Bs, and drive down the cost of medical care? Remove artificial caps on licenses imposed by the AMA while at it.

What does "goofy message passing architecture to get polymorphism and inheritance" mean?

Where is the support for the citizens?

Why should citizens be treated differently when H1Bs pay the same income and other taxes as citizens? H1Bs even pay into social security, even though they are on a temporary visa.

Anyone who pays the same tax as citizens should be treated the same as citizens.

Not to mention the C8 fiasco in WV, courtesy DuPont.

Windows 10 isn't free, only the upgrade (from 7/8/8.1) is, and it's a limited time offer.

Have any of the major players (Geico?) signed on? Do they feel threatened by Goog Compare?

I don't think it was a teaching job...really low teaching loads at Harvard. More of a research job.

Could you explain what you mean by "deal with infrequent flyers at security"? What exactly do infrequent flyers do wrong?

Seems to be back. http://thepiratebay.cr/

Maybe it depends on the song as well? Classical music is supposed to have a much greater frequency spectrum - meaning, the effects of MP3 encoding becomes apparent when played on high fidelity equipment.

24/192 flac as opposed to 16 bit flac. flac/mp3 is about compression, bits and khz are about sampling/representation.

That's great, but volunteering for adventure etc. should best be left to private enterprises. When NASA is funded by taxpayer money, the goal should be science and not adventure.

That's interesting. I'll try to look for a human vs. robot comparison.

Adventure is kind of a selfish goal, considering that only one or two humans get to enjoy the experience. All those resources and manpower is a waste if the rest of humanity doesn't benefit from it.

It's perfectly OK for a rich billionaire to do it...but NASA's focus should be science and not pleasure, I feel.

No it's not trolling. I just want to see if a human's workload on space missions can be replaced by a set of sensors and robots.

Primarily, the reason to send humans is because we have to in order to ensure the continued survival of (known) life in the universe.

Sure, but why not send multiple robots and a bunch of sensors? Humans need food and water to live (don't know how much of the payload will be a year's worth of food/water), and are generally inefficient at converting food sources to energy.

Humans have collectively agreed that it's worth 10,000+ annual deaths in the USA in exchange for the convenience of cars.

Wrong. This is why we need autonomous cars. Driving is best done by computers, and humans will agree that it is NOT worth 10k+ annual deaths a year just to give humans "the pleasure of driving".

What exactly is the need to send humans to Mars? Why not robots? Is it worth risking a human's life for science, when a robot can do an equally good job?

I don't understand what everyone is up in arms about.

H1B visas increases the supply of programmers. You don't exactly need a CS degree to be a programmer, so there are a lot of programmers.

If people are complaining that H1B visas depress wages, then the correct solution is unionization/collective bargaining.

I'm sorry, but programmers are a dime a dozen nowadays. Talent ALWAYS commands a higher pay - H1B or not. Everything seems completely fair to me.

There was an article on HN sometime ago about the practices of some old tribe to choose where to sow the crops for the next year.

Really interested in this...do you have a link to/name of/keywords in said article?

I like the "Delbert" at the extreme right of the spectrum.

What I don't understand is that this sort of thing happens between other sectors - for example, 'defense dollars could be used to provide healthcare', or 'subsidies could be used to pay teachers more and improve schools'.

In these cases, the sectors each have their own lobby, and they are able to fight back with publicity and ads.

But scientists are defenseless. Where is the pro-scientist lobby? Should universities just get together and throw some dollars at hiring a lobbying firm?

EDIT: the scientist lobby could release an ad that said this: "politicians are spending millions on armament that was never used and rusted away...do YOU want bacteria in your seafood? do YOU want cheap shrimp buffets? If so, say YES to NSF!" The "say yes to nsf" actually rhymes haha.

I saw discussion about this on reddit. The top comment noted that kids sit on the couch (and do not need move) while playing this video game - so it's not clear how this video game helps.

I guess it's a very bad idea that also was poorly planned and managed.

Open access can be mutually independent of "selective" for a journal. How readers access a journal has nothing to do with the pedigree and the quality of the articles it publishes.

A solution would be for universities to host the journals. They can hire salaried staff for proof reading/marketing etc. Scientists can volunteer for peer review. The journal can be as selective as it wants. Once an article is accepted for publication, it's hosted on the university website.

The indirect costs from grants can cover the salaries of the admin staff - and very few staff are needed because the authors themselves can give the staff a good head start by using latex to prepare the manuscript.

Why can't this be done?

It's embarrassing to realize that racial discrimination was happening in the USA even 20 years after WW2/Holocaust. Didn't the world learn that being racist = bad??