Har. Yes, let's have the fun of spending a different currency each time we cross a state border. Or of having to go through immigration when I want to take a job in another state.
Or you want to keep the same currency without a strong central government? I don't get the impression that's working out so great for Europe at the moment....
A google search for "john kenneth galbraith new york city budget" suggests that your quote is from "The American Left and Some British Comparisons, 1971. Looks like the quote said "doubling", not "tripling".
An August 27, 1972 New York Times article ("City's 71-72 Expense Budget Balanced") gives the 71-72 budget as $8.5 billion, $44.53 billion in today's money (according to the first inflation calculator I found on the web). The NYC OBM gives $63.1 billion as the budget for the current fiscal year. That looks like an inflation-adjusted increase of 42%.
I could have gotten the numbers, and the quote, wrong. What was your source?
(And ditto for "problems have become both larger and more numerous". Sources?)
The OP is essentially saying that there can't possibly be waste anywhere in the NSF budget at that anyone who would even suggest such a thing must necessarily be anti-science.
No, but anyone thinking that random web surfers making fun of individual grants are going to help---is anti-science.
And anyone thinking that chiseling away at the NSF's budget is worthwhile doesn't understand the federal budget too well, either....
Who on earth told you this?
It was growth in GDP (inflation)
"Growth in GDP" is not the same thing as "inflation", and in fact real (inflation-adjusted) GDP has also increased since WWII (link)
bullshit, the three developers I gave (real) example always must work inside company on local network. name one advantage of distributed system for them
Simpler setup, no need to configure a new network service just to get started, much faster history browsing (even on a fast local network), ability to try out lines of development privately without giving up completely on version control for them, ability to keep working when the server goes down, simpler backup of the history (just backup any repo),
Personally, I thought it was complete overkill for the two-man project we were working on.
With git, setting up a new project is
cd myproj
git init .
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
and you're off--no setting up a server. And if you want to share it with one or two people, ssh will do.
I suspect bzr is similar.
So at least for me the low-overhead setup makes them more attractive for small projects too.
I'll admit they require some initial investment to learn, but it's very much worth it.
People donate books to libraries because they want to share their love of books.
I donate books to the library fairly regularly. Sure, I love books, and sharing them, but a) I'm just as happy to share them with somebody who really wanted that particular book and paid market price for it as the person who ran across it serendipitously in the library basement sale, and b) I donate mainly to clear space on my shelves, save having to deal with selling them myself, and maybe make the local Friends of the Public Library a few bucks.
Slowly the general public will come to realise that there will be no hidden gems and will stop going.
Agreed that part of the fun of going to these sales is the treasure-hunt aspect, but that's not the only attraction. Sometimes I just want a classic or pulp mystery or whatever, and know that's the kind of thing they'll have for cheap.
The general public will not know the value of things, and more likely pay a premium. Hence the seller loses because he/she deals with informed buyers.
Well, there will also be things that sell more quickly because informed buyers know they're valuable, and that can be a benefit to the seller.
"What modern-day success exists today did so without screwing over a bunch of people in the process?"
Most of the people I know?
Unless you have some bizarre definition of success that doesn't include making a living, doing quality work, contributing to a community, raising healty children, doing things you enjoy, learning about things that interest you....
Here. I'll offer the simplest advice you can get: Stop clicking on stupid shit.
Just by doing that, internet/computer security would be vastly improved.
Eh. The scammers use "stupid shit" as the bait because that's what works. If "intelligent shit" started attracted the most clicks, they'd start using that instead.
Once a single mouse click on an infected link is enough to propagate the link, it's already game over--the choice of bait is a detail.
... degree holders are more dense where people are more dense. Wow, blinding insight.
Yeah. On the other hand, if (for example) you're an employer looking to locate an office near lots of potential employees, degree-holders-per-square-mile might actually be the right number for you.
So why would you have to move to create a concentration of "human educational capital"?
In person-contact with teachers and classmates, physical access to labs, etc., seems useful enough that most people are still educated at physical institutions. And for obvious reasons it's often easier for them to stay nearby after they graduate. And it's therefore to the advantage of employers to locate nearby.
Similarly it's often more effective for coworkers to work physically together. And if you're a company trying to decide where to locate an office, locating it near potential employees--which probably means locating near lots of other companies in your field--may be attractive.
you don't see all those jobs that were outsourced to India requiring that their workers move to North America or Europe.
But they may be required to relocate to Bangalore, for example.
Personally: starting next month I'm working from home with my nearest coworkers hundreds of miles away. But I also live a few minutes from a significant number of the other main developers in my field, who work (also from home) for other companies.
Locality in the age of the internet may turn out to be more complicated than you'd expect.... Instead of leaving people distributed homogeneously across the globe, it may just enable them to clump together in different ways.
"How did these guys get away with it for so long?"
The data is from internal probes. The SEC did in fact know about these cases and was investigating (and dealing with) them, or else we wouldn't know about them.
The fact that they take their time and don't react immediately doesn't necessarily strike me as so surprising. Especially if it's to the point of a firing offense, they probably need to build a pretty good case.
"Is it actually news that ~1% of *any* organization consisting primarily of office workers with internet connections would surf for porn?"
A financial crisis caused the economy to tank. We're now attempting to modify the regulations with the hopes of preventing a recurrence.
The GOP's response apparently is to a) promise very very sincerely not to bail out any more banks next time, and b) blame the whole thing on internet porn.
Good grief. Please don't tell me anyone's going to fall for this.
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
