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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Except by now, even Foxconn has openly admitted that there aren't going to be tens of thousands of $60k+ manufacturing jobs. WI spent 4B+ on the "deregulated manufacturing hub" idea and it's still going to fail to materi
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
I see. Yeah, I meant more like 10-30 years. I measure governments in terms of "politician generations", so 5-10 years is still "the present" in the sense that anything less than 10 years can very easily encapsulate just
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Notes: 1. the percentages changed because the total numbers dropped. I.e., it's not like there's going to be a ton of white collar jobs. It's more like there aren't going to be a ton of jobs, period. 2. And even then, th
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
I lived in WI for years and have family there. Everything mentioned in your post is relatively recent. If you go back even a decade or two, a lot in WI government was working well.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> That's unfair. I'm not painting with a broad stroke here. I'm referring to specific people I have had specific conversations with. Of course, Milwaukee, Madison, and also many of the smaller cities in Wisconsin have gr
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Wisconsin had an extraordinarily well-functioning state government in the very recent past.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Agreed; Milwaukee has many good schools. No top-tier research universities but MSOE, Marquette, and UW-Milwaukee all have strong STEM departments. Plus, Foxconn isn't hiring a bunch of PhDs, they're hiring engineers (and not nearl
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
A maximum of 13k jobs. They still get billions and carte blanc environmental waivers even if only a tenth of those materialize. Also worth noting that the average salaries required to get those subsidies have dropped substantially since
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Perhaps a better way of saying is is that hidden data is a characteristic of abstraction. Which is certainly fair, and fits the analogy to algebra quite well. But in any case, parent's comment that "OOP has no special claim&quot
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
I think the author does characterize a primary distinguishing feature of OOP. That said, the post is a windy road with some dead-ends. Lots of statements that are highly contestable (see other top-level comments for examples). So here is, I
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> But you definitely do not need to be a doctor, or even have PhDs on staff to make companies or products that are material relevant to people's wellbeing or fitness. Again, research labs are not hiring people to build products. T
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Frankly, your post isn't relevant to this thread. Major R&D research labs exist to do the "R" in R&D. Many of them are explicitly not doing research that is intended to become a new business/product. There are
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> There needs to be legislation enacted to strictly control how this information gets used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Sure, but parent is talking specifically about heavy-R research labs (he mentions Intel labs, Amazon Lab126, etc), not more D-oriented data science or ML positions.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
a) it's not absolute b) you could apply to phd programs and get a phd. But yes, it's impossible to get into R&D labs if you've never done research. You can self-teach and publish in top conferences on your own (this is pr
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
My sibling comments miss something important: people actually do something for those 5+ years. They don't just sit on their hands. They're publishing papers, collaborating with respected researchers, building a personal network&#x
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
That's true, but all of them have/had a lot more "mathematical maturity" than most programming 101 students today (who are often middle/high school students, university students who didn't do particularly wel
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
As a Christian, I don't have any objection to The Rule. As an American who believes in the separation of church and state, I definitely understand and sympathize with the instinct that, although religious laws often provide good moral
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
First, alternative schools are 100% part of the "system", and are often have a far more "institutionalized" feel than their mainstream counterparts. Second, in most districts, alternative schools really are a strictly in
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Your brother has more leverage than he thinks. Responsible school administrators do not waste money/time on free speech lawsuits unless (a) they are dead-to-rights certain that they will win, or (b) there is some other incredibly impor
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> Not sure what the fix is either, other than ruthless enforcement of quotas. Buy older computers (1980s/early 1990s) that don't provide access to those games or the internet.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
That's true. I perhaps should have put "allowing" in italics to emphasize it's the permission to use, not the actual use, that's unlimited. No one worries about allowing 24/7 access to a microscope, because alt
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Your methodological criticisms are spot-on. > The same people that buy organic peas also have a paranoia about screens. How unsurprising. A lot of parents lack sophistication when it comes to "screen time". I have multiple in
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> Incredibly, the proportion of households with two earners is LOWER in 2014 than in 1980 because of the large increase in households with one or no earners. Marriage is not nearly as common as it used to be. The data are here in Table
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Only if GDP remained constant. Inflation-adjusted GDP increase from ~5 trillion in the 70's to ~18 trillion today. Much larger than 2x, and not every household is dual-income.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
The most important take-away from this article is the Science paper by Jalal et al., "Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016" [1]. In that paper, the authors conclude: > The
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> These cities may as well be "coastal" relative to their regions. IF KC and Pittsburgh aren't "middle america", then the term ceases to have much of a meaning and we might as well stick with "rural".
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
The "premature deindustrialisation" phenomenon was the most interesting/novel part of this article. The rest is the normal AI/MOOC/software-eating-everything hand-wringing. However, somewhat ironically, the actual p
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> The fact that the concerns of rural communities are summarily dismissed when making policy was one of the big contributing factors to the election victories of both Brexit and Trump Do you think that an influx of underpaid skilled la
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> If you set a quota and give to the highest bidder, you're going to see private sector executives, lawyers, and financial roles being filled in cities with high costs of living and competitive wages. Yes, that's the point. S

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