Very interesting statement, considering that Sargon (the guy Patreon banned) was directing his offensive language AT the alt-right (i.e., he is against the alt-right, not part of it).
I don't think "100% in-house techs" is right. I have Comcast Business and my line was recently cut (probably an accident by apartment maintenance). The tech who came out and put in a temporary line was from Comcast, but he said a contractor would come out at some point in the future to put in a permanent one (hence, he could not guarantee that I could get a notification when it would happen).
Interesting. I've had techs out several times in Santa Clara, both for installs and for repairs/troubleshooting, and it's always been a Comcast employee in a Comcast Business van.
Actually looking forward to MS's UX folk cleaning up LinkedIn.
Along those lines, maybe they'll fix the very broken email alerts for group postings. For quite a while, my experience has been that if I have it set to weekly digests I do get them weekly as expected, but if I set a group to daily digests I get nothing at all. So I get nothing at all for the groups that I have the most interest in. I opened a support ticket about it but got nowhere with it. I don't know if this impacts everyone or just some subset of users, but I've seen others complain about it.
Here is the breakdown for the quants at the bank I worked for in 1995-1999 (I may have forgotten a few people):
Cornell physics PhDs: 3
Harvard physics PhDs: 2
Princeton physics PhDs: 2
Univ of Penn physics PhD: 1
Other physics PhDs: 2
Cornell applied math PhD: 1
Other applied math PhD: 1
Cornell mechanical engineering PhD: 1
Univ of Chicago finance PhD: 1
So, if by "dropout" you mean that they didn't complete their PhDs, then no, that's wrong. If by "dropout" you mean people leaving physics, then yes, it's very common (especially for theorists -- all physicists on the list above where theorists except maybe one or two).
On the assumption that their dissertations were not on relevant topics, I can't help but feel this is such a terrible waste of highly specialized education resources.
Yes, very snarky, but I can promise you that science faculty do not consider it a good use of their efforts and resources to train students for jobs moving money around in circles.
not necessarily, I often feel the same way about people who are experts in literature. But just mastering SOME topics is still a contribution to humanity and can be applied in other areas.
ETFs are a broad topic. They still bring liquidity to market, but they are a trading vs. investment opportunity. Like any other financial vehicle, they are subject to abuse, but are not the cause of such actions. The FED purchases numerous bonds in some of these portfolios, and therefore some of the costs are hidden. These do not reveal themselves in the market, and as such are bad trades or investments.
I wasn't saying that ETF's contribute to humanity, I meant the non-financial research that Ph.D's do prior to wall street. That research adds up and eventually people can apply it to do amazing things.
For the few that I looked at, clicking the "Description" tab tells you almost nothing. Clicking the word "Help" in the upper right gives a much more detailed description.
DSL is available without telephone service, at least with Verizon in Pennsylvania. It is called "dry loop DSL." 3 Mbps / 768 kbps is costing me more than the price they are advertising for 50 Mbps / 50 Mbps FiOS (which I can't get) without contract. So it exists but it sucks, and I'm not sure you actually save much (or anything) by getting DSL without telephone service.
About 20 years ago, when I was a grad student, I attended a colloquium where the speaker (a physicist, for better or worse) had computed the number of people that the planet could support if everyone consumed natural resources at the rate that Americans do. His number was 2 billion. I don't remember who the speaker was and I don't know what assumptions he made -- I don't know how much error there might be in his result or how improvements in technology might change it. If his number is even close to being right, "global populations will peak in my lifetime" isn't even close to being adequate unless you expect the bulk of the population to be satisfied with remaining poor while a small proportion of the population devours the planet.
Which is a calculation based on current technological standards, which is also not proof that we will not become more efficient and better able to manipulate our resources as needed.
Strawman. Strong environmental protections and positive population growth can coexist.
And, of course, we should be striving in our generation to solve these existential challenges, rather than squandering our time optimizing sales funnels and click-through-rates.
Neat. It would be helpful if you could go in the opposite direction (enter RGB values and get the name of the closest color). I find that when I'm making a chart or graph and I cook up some color in GIMP, I don't know how to refer to that color in the text of the document that references the chart.
