I am not so sure on that. They raise inflation, home prices, etc. The locals see no real benefit except having to pay more for everything. While more taxes are collected, most of that goes to offsetting just some of the economic pain induced by the people living there.
and it is in fact zero sum. every spot filled in university or company is a spot not taken by a local, as its obvious by the numbers, more local people are not getting admitted into CS programs nor are they being hired. its 100% zero sum when we are looking at these numbers and %s.
now you have de-evolved the conversation by trying to change the definition of fly to swim. if you are going to do that, there is no point in continuing the discussion. Furthermore, you are confusing buoyancy with flight.
I would say, get your head out of your edge cases. Before I go on, I hope you understand no one is saying its not physically possible, and that it absolutely does not exist anywhere in the multiverse, just that if we come across other life, it will most likely be similar to our own.
by definition, the most probable form of life in the universe is the 1 we are observing. you only need math and probability to figure that out. We also have observational evidence. As far as we can tell, there is no other life in our solar system. We have 8 other planets and many moons that have failed at creating life in any form - that's literally hundreds of billions of years of failed attempts at life.
you can't just pick an element and think its going to work. you need ALL the elements, ALL the states of matter, and the right ratios and amounts of elements to work. Even if you get that lined up, expecting complex life to form under enough pressure to create diamonds in thousands of degrees centigrade also puts the probability of complex life off the table.
I don't known who this is hard to understand. in the simplest example as the article states, if you want to fly, there are things that necessitate something that will fly, such as wings. no wings, no fly. sure its POSSIBLE you can fly without wings, but UNLIKELY. given that we have multiple lineages of evolution taking different paths that end up with the same solution is evidence of that.
I completely disagree. I think the 'life can look like anything' (lets call them LCLLAs) train of thought suffers from a lack of understanding of constraint satisfaction.
Think about how some LCLLAS talked about how silicon life is probably a thing. First off, it it were, given Earth's crust is mostly silicon and its the most habitual place ever discovered, it would have evolved here. but it didnt. It turns out silicon is just too ridged, and to get life going you need all sorts of chemical properties that just aren't congruent to life.
We are carbon / oxygen organisms for a chemical reason. despite the availability of other resources, other forms of lifeforms didn't develop for a reason. maybe other forms of life does exist in some methane ocean on Saturn like planets, but its not going to be very complex, and definitely not intelligent life building space ships.
its mind boggling that the same jurisdictions that want to make e-cigarettes illegal want to make shrooms and marijuana legal. absolutely mind boggling.
I 0 click search more than I click because but not limited to:
1 ) to get the correct spelling of a word that spell check cant find a suggestion
2 ) avoid going to a site that I might potentially get malware (example searching music lyrics)
3 ) avoid having to deal with slow loading and bloated pages
First and foremost, dont buy Intel stock. This doesnt help, but I long considered Intel as a company that doesnt know what they are doing. Here is why:
I owned Intel back in 2010 when they bought McAfee for 7.8 billion. They said the future of CPU's and chip tech was embedding security on the chip. the real answer was mobile and gpus.
Not only did I immediately know this was a horrendous deal, it clearly showed that the CEO and management had no clue on their own market's desires and direction. At the time, I was hoping they were going to buy Nvidia, it would have been a larger target to digest at 10 bil, but doable by Intel at the time.
The MacAfee purchase turned out to be one of the worst large cooperate purchases in history. Had they invested the 7.8 billion $ blindly into an sp500 index fund, their investment would be worth ~19-20 billion.
there are just a lot of people who things the world owes them something and they have no respect for their surroundings / community.
I was waiting for the subway, and this guy leaning against a trash can throws his trash on the ground. If I didnt see things like this nearly every day I would write it off as a one time occurrence.
and it is in fact zero sum. every spot filled in university or company is a spot not taken by a local, as its obvious by the numbers, more local people are not getting admitted into CS programs nor are they being hired. its 100% zero sum when we are looking at these numbers and %s.