Comment: Re:How is that a test? (Score 1) 90
This is Dexter's laboratory in the real world
Comment: Re:Oh boy (Score 1) 761
There are such things as 20minute engineering job? If it takes that long, that's technician work.
See what I mean?
Comment: Re:Not hard... (Score 1) 761
80k a year? Hmmm. Live for 30k, save 50k a year, so you must have 300k saved. Why not move back to the UK and live off that?
Because A you cannot live for 30K per year in Silicon Valley, and B I don't want to go back to the UK, you amusingly stupid mucksavage.
Comment: Oh boy (Score -1, Flamebait) 761
Summary of most of the comments so far: "There are plenty of qualified Americans, companies just don't want to pay them the wage they deserve."
Our company once tried to hire graduates from American colleges as engineers and offered them plenty of money. It usually took them three days to do a 20-minute job. Once we started hiring people of the same age and same levels of experience from Europe and offering them the same money we filled the positions with qualified people who actually knew what they were doing.
Fix your broken education system and quit your whining about how downtrodden you are by these evil foreign workers "stealing" "your" jobs. If you'd spend more time getting your shit together and competing, and less time building Berlin Walls through the New Mexico desert, then maybe you'd get somewhere.
Oh yeah, and the usual xenophobic mods can suck my dick. I have karma to burn.
Comment: Re:Not hard... (Score 1) 761
20K / year? I suspect a bit of exaggeration there. I came to the US as a H1B. I started on a pretty decent salary (which was twice what I was getting in the UK). Sure it wasn't 80k, but it wasn't far off and doesn't exactly compare with minimum wage which you're implying with your "next to nothing" quip. And as time wore on my salary increased very quickly to the point where I'm now getting slightly more than the going rate for the work I'm doing. And I stayed long enough to get my green card at great expense to myself as well as my employer after an epic six year wait.
Mathematicians Show Why Bubbles Sink in Nitrogen-Infused Stouts 53
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from the don't-get-caught-in-the-beer-vortex dept.
from the don't-get-caught-in-the-beer-vortex dept.
SicariusMan writes "The age old question: do Guinness and other stouts' bubbles really sink, or is it an optical illusion? Well, some mathematicians have figured it out."
Full paper via arXiv; From the article: "To analyze the effect of different glass shapes, the mathematicians modeled Guinness beer containing randomly distributed bubbles in both a pint glass and an anti-pint glass (i.e., an upside-down pint). An elongated swirling vortex forms in both glasses, but in the anti-pint glass the vortex rotates in the opposite direction, causing an upward flow of fluid and bubbles near the wall of the glass."
Comment: Re:An English translation, for us non-sociologists (Score 1) 497
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Comment: Re:An English translation, for us non-sociologists (Score 1) 497
Terms like "Culturally congruent risk perception" have no obvious meaning for the general reader. Field-specific jargon is just annoying
I did have to think about it for a second, but I don't find that phrase particularly field specific. YMMV
Well bully for you.
Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change 497
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from the apparently-knowing-is-not-actually-half-the-battle dept.
from the apparently-knowing-is-not-actually-half-the-battle dept.
New submitter gmfeier writes "An interesting study reported in Nature Climate Change indicates that concern over climate change did not correlate with scientific literacy nearly as much as with cultural polarization. Quoting: 'For ordinary citizens, the reward for acquiring greater scientific knowledge and more reliable technical-reasoning capacities is a greater facility to discover and use—or explain away—evidence relating to their groups’ positions. Even if cultural cognition serves the personal interests of individuals, this form of reasoning can have a highly negative impact on collective decision making. What guides individual risk perception, on this account, is not the truth of those beliefs but rather their congruence with individuals’ cultural commitments. As a result, if beliefs about a societal risk such as climate change come to bear meanings congenial to some cultural outlooks but hostile to others, individuals motivated to adopt culturally congruent risk perceptions will fail to converge, or at least fail to converge as rapidly as they should, on scientific information essential to their common interests in health and prosperity. Although it is effectively costless for any individual to form a perception of climate-change risk that is wrong but culturally congenial, it is very harmful to collective welfare for individuals in aggregate to form beliefs this way.'"
Comment: Re:What's a "cloud-based world"? (Score 2) 212
Agreed.
mobile devices are eclipsing PCs as the center of people's computing lives
"eclipsing"? Oh please. Quick poll: How many of you are posting your comments from a smartphone, tablet?