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by shas3 11y ago
The US legal immigration system is perfectly described by the adjective, Kafkaesque. In terms of the arbitrariness of bureaucracy, it has more in common with what I saw in the socialist days of India and what one reads in books by Solzhenit
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Wow! Gratuitous negativity?
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> Any immigration policy short of opening the borders completely is "protectionist". How so? The idea of comparative advantage is that one country has a market, another, the means to provide for that market and you facilitate t
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Protectionism doesn't work. There is wide consensus among economists on comparative advantage [1]. Healthy, non-protectionist immigration policies have been proposed to have similar effects as free trade [2,3]. [1] https://e
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There's an album, 'Codebook' by alto saxophonist and composer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, which is laden with mathematical concepts. It isn't the most pleasant album to listen to, but it is interesting and intriguing to listen
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Take heart, German descent folks are a silent minority (46 million) that have done very well for themselves. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21642222-america...
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I think 'belongs to Pegida handbook' in itself doesn't say much. It would be ideological (as opposed to evidence-based) political correctness to avoid stating the obvious: it is almost impossible to absorb huge volumes of imm
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The 500 calorie number is a little sketchy. For it to hold true, here are some questions: 1. How accurately do we know how many calories are needed for maintenance? I would imagine this is highly variable, unless there is evidence to show i
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Everything you mentioned has been possible for several years now: with eyewitnesses, ubiquitous CCTVs, etc. The change will really be in that clearance rates on crimes will shoot upwards when these technologies are invented. Or criminals wi
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I think by far, the worst affected group is the Indians (and a close second, Chinese, Mexicans, and Filipinos). For a politician, from a macroeconomic perspective, it doesn't make sense to put these arbitrary bureaucratic roadblocks. T
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Patience and perseverance is a perverse way of stating it. There are numerous serious problems: 1. Spouse is prohibited from seeking employment unless he gets his own work visa 2. 8 year wait for green card for skilled workers born in Ind
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Well, she does say in the post: > Ta’izz also has a healthy distrust of the northern hill tribes who periodically descend from the north of the country and cause chaos (as they’re doing now, a year after my trip)
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I will add my anecdote to support this comment. Being an EE with probability-heavy background, I tried to give a "you guys don't use prior probabilities" sermon to a physician and his physician-in-training daughter. I was mad
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I am aware of theoretical physicists applying statistical mechanical principles to understand neurons and biological neural networks (one example: [1]). This is a reasonably hot topic in bio-physics. I am also aware of researchers who are a
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by shas3 11y ago
I am in a similar situation. My wife and I have stopped using full size iPad 3 after buying an iPhone 6+. It is way easier to read stuff on the phone and do everything else. Also more and more websites are becoming mobile friendly, obviatin
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by shas3 11y ago
> The developing countries could in theory learn from our mistakes and train their educators to use better teaching methods while skipping most of the trial and error. Are you suggesting that there aren't people in developing countr
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by shas3 12y ago
What's the basis for sending regulators to jail? Will you send cops to prison when crimes happen, because they failed to prevent them? This is somewhat of a pre-cog/ Minority Report dilemma. I think law makes a reasonable distinct
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by shas3 12y ago
They are from Singapore, not China. I have seen that such notions as last name, etc. are a bit distorted in immigrant communities, particularly for nth generation immigrants. A good example is first and last names of Indians in the Caribbea
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Fun, perhaps. I am not sure about the value of such a 'diverse' stint from the perspective of one's career progress/development. Promotions often require sustained excellence, which may be hard to achieve if you are star
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Also a few more things to add to your comment: 1. Real world spatial discovery is easier than 'virtual' discovery. Exception is probably Wikipedia, but it is not as well curated as your typical public library. Probably easier to d
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I grew up with Microsoft Encarta, but still enjoyed encyclopedias and such. So I think these are compatible. Talking about kids in the next generation, I've always wondered about whether Kindle / iPad / etc. encourage discove
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by shas3 12y ago
There's a place for brevity, but not in this paper. You are assuming somehow that there is redundancy in the paper. There doesn't seem to be, at first glance. The scope of the paper is large enough to merit the length.
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Usually, with exceptions, conglomerates (the dreaded c-word) are not desired by investors. There's even an estimated "conglomerate discount" for companies of this kind. With certain word-replacements, your comment can be appl
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by shas3 12y ago
Well, there are pockets of America that are as good as all the examples that you state. There are states and school districts that perform as well or better than Nordic states (e.g. Massachusetts). There are states and cities that have reco
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Is it the government's job to prevent legal wage depression? How exactly is H1B wage depression? If there is a legal and ethical way of hiring someone who can do your work for less, why should that be shut out? It's a different ma
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I think the principal critique of Nowak et al.'s work is based on how it gets the biology wrong, not the math. Chicago evolutionary biologist (and prolific public intellectual) Jerry Coyne, reviews a recent paper that challenges Nowak
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I wonder if the relative rate and effect of false alarms is constant or if it increases as a function of how frequently scans are done. This is related to what studies are finding about cancer screenings. The more screenings you have, the t
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by shas3 12y ago
If you are pointing out how university news departments are hype machines, you are right. I've seen that this is particularly true of MIT. I don't track these things, but I've seen too many over-hyped research stories coming
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Digital cameras very quickly became a commodity. The underlying technology is very scalable and it is harder to distinguish oneself in this space. I think a more apt analogy is film vs. CCD, rather than film camera vs. digital camera. Kodak
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The one purported benefit of TED talks is democratizing knowledge and inspiring people. The latter, possibly it does. Some claim its benefit as giving access to knowledge for people without direct access to universities, etc. The former, TE

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