A product has its components fabricated in east Asia, is assembled in east Asia, sold in Europe, and the profits from the sale are held in Europe. Somehow you consider this “illegally offshoring money”. Somehow you think the US government deserves 34% of these profits. Apparently, the spirit of the law being violated is that the US government has the right to stick it’s nose in anyplace in the world it wants and extract rent.
At a physics conference Wolfgang Pauli heard a talk that was so misguided that his comment was that “it wasn’t even wrong.” IMO your comment isn’t even wrong.
Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.
From the first sentence of the paper: “I explore functions f that can be written as a sum f=g1+g2 where g1 and g2 are shifted and possibly reflected versions of each other, both strongly resembling the original function f.”
Note, not f but “both strongly resembling the original function f.”
My friend stopped graduate school at a MS and didn’t pursue a PhD because all the American grad students were forced to take teaching assistantships while the foreign grad students were given research assistantships.
The Apple STOCKS app on my iPhone is showing updates as I watch and says Yahoo! at the bottom. So, it seems Yahoo is still providing fairly real-time stock quotes via some means.
Sadly, this is the way many federal laws come to be. Agencies and Bureaus in the executive branch propose rules(laws) and if congress doesn't specifically vote them down, they become federal statutes.
I'm glad to see congress actually exercising it's oversight instead of letting the executive branch run so much of everything.
But, I wish it hadn't exercised it's oversight on this specific matter.
My paraphrase of page two with a direct quote:
He possibly did stuff important to us and "other nations controlled by insane dictators." We should consider watching him and protecting him.
If you liked this essay, you might also like the book by Marcel Berger, Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Higher Geometry.
A quote from the cover:
"The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built "above" the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs"
My Dad told me that the house he grew up in was ordered from Sears. They had to build a foundation to set it on, but everything else was shipped to them from Sears and they assembled it. That was about 90 years ago.
I wonder if Amazon will start selling prefabricated houses?
Go to Amazon and pick out the features you want in your converted shipping container. Pour a slab to set it on. Free 2nd-day delivery with Prime.
New symmetries for elliptic curves. It seems like these pariah groups could be used to speed up cracking elliptic curve cryptography. Does anyone have an informed opinion?
In "Exploring Black Holes" by Taylor & Wheeler, project A is titled 'Global Positioning System', where they say locating your position accurately depends crucially on General Relativity.