i agree tht it is not a zero sum game...the world economy is larger than it was 30 years ago....and yes you will be able to trade more since there will be more consumers....but standards of living and of most economies will definitely decline...the stuff that you bought from china for really cheap wont be so cheap anymore....which means tht the average westerner will be no better than the average asian in terms of healthcare,education,food cars etc....(the average asian right now lives on less than $1 a day)...so far so good...we are all happy rite...wrong!!....the asian countries still have a huge advantage in such a scenario...population!!...when everyone has the same standard of living ...it is population which will decide who has more power!!
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haha ....I got a little too emotional over there(edited) that part...but dont tell me you dont know about the gradual shift of power and revenue from the western to the asian markets....watch the documentary two million minutes.
>British Empire has contributed more net good to humanity than any other nation in history.
Thats complete bullshit
1)In 1650 the Indian per capita GDP was more than 80 per cent of the British level, by 1871 it had fallen to less than 15 per cent.They did this by completely destryoing the indian cottage industries by westernized machinery. http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=8007
2)So they were not just content with taking all the money....they also wanted to starve people to death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India
3)The british rule was very racist too.Indians were not allowed to travel or dine in the same places as the British.They called us "dirty kaffirs".
4)Even when these motherfuckers were leaving coz they got fucked in WW2 and did not have any more money to rule India(by then the british had sucked all the money from India anyways) they seperated the country into India and Pakistan based on religion."Estimates of the number of deaths range around roughly 500,000, with low estimates at 200,000 and high estimates at 1,000,000" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India#Perspectives
absolutely!!
haha I tried that yesterday....my boss asked me to come up with documentation for some objective C code....in three days I not only documented two classes but also used a tool called appledoc for autogenerating documentation for all the classes....in fact I wrote a script that I added as an xcode target that when run not only autogenerates documentation but also uploads it on a central server.
RESULT...I got severly REBUKED for not creating a word document and emailing it to him...in fact he threatened me about escalating my disobedience to senior management
m on it sir!!
exactly....the current system was not built keeping software innovation in mind!!
yeah the audience is going to burst in applause when the prosecution reads out this comment.
What I am saying is that on that you dont want to think about what you will say to the judge even before building your product....if your product was really that successful tht you got patent trolled you will probably have the money to hire a lawyer to represent you.
a) whenever i comment on something on the internet I do not want to think about what legal implications it might have for a hypothetical legal dispute tht I might get involved in the future b) We are assuming that the prosecution will be smart enough to figure out that samyzee on hacker news is in fact me. c) To Hacker News: Please add a feature that lets me delete my comments!!
if i was you,i'd honorably ask mr.snodgrass to eat shit and die!
why m i not surprised IBM came up with that
It gets me so angry when I see complete idiots getting free corporate trips to europe to "present to customers" stuff that me and my fellow engineers built working late on weekdays,sacrificing our weekends...while these douchebags were at the bar talking to women about their exciting "work".
"customer facing roles" and "management positions" sound like the shitty corporate bureaucracies which engineers want to stay from.
The corporate culture of exploiting engineers will soon come to an end.
awesome guys...really innovative!
hahaha!!