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edit: Even if we take cold simple numbers of "1 in 10" acceptance rate, we can see it is not all that it is cut out to be. One student in the elite college is not "worth" replacing the other "9". Just attribution to an elite college simply does not mean given 9 of the others, that they can somehow be 'replaced' by that one who met a minute ephemeral elitist criterion. Nor does it mean they work harder, or that they are more appropriate for any given situation or requirement, or that they would benefit any organization significantly by the same factor or anywhere near it given the other 9.
Elite colleges are more like brand names than anything else and they need that image of low/high quality and superior distance in ability to sell their highly priced packages. The substance may not even actually be there, other than as a perception and preconceived notion.
tld;r I agree that the attribution of the significance of acceptance into elite colleges is way overblown. Most of it is without substance, but maybe just driven by social status for inclusion into the top 1% of America's elite that rule the US.
Maybe the corporations might be more stable and have more integrity, but you have to realize that China is the largest economy in the world now, and they can flick Amazon out of their market with their pinky and not even blink.
edit: Also, for them to actually create an authenticating service, they'd have to establish their TOR service proxy to route through non-controlled Japanese friendly nations. By proxy, the Japanese are also given the authority of the US, and there are not many places he/she can route it to, or establish a network strong enough to deter Japanese gov./intel from tracking down dissenters.
The question is, is this method of selection conducive and is the use of obsessive aggression costing open forum projects like OSS through selective acceptance? There may have never been an alternative to the extremely abusive nature of white-male dominated cultures in the first place in regards to projects in open forums.
Some setups with an independent USB to a baseband module can still control the bus to other devices by exploiting USB host modes. (i.e. if the log output indicates it can no longer control/communicate with the usb, or the usb disconnected, then it is very likely the usb bus was hijacked by another device).
Others phones still have some type of bus overlap, and they provide no way to block the baseband chip from accessing other devices on the shared bus.
Even then, this is not an easy task as the baseband chip would be competing with the processor chip in accessing devices.
edit: It is possible in future revisions, SoC Chips in mobile phones in the US will include capabilities to control the phone irrespective of the running soft OS. As of now there are very few phone manufacturers that include open access to the phone's hardware, and the processor. It's a hunch the US companies will try to blockade open phones, as foreign phones, particularly Samsung/LG/HTC, are providing a way for secure phones to be developed. Apple's attempts and level of aggression to blockade Samsung all around the world was incredibly suspicious, to say the least, and only S.Job sycophants tend to think it was for 'competitive' value. The US is fast becoming a strange place.
This way they'll be able to maintain some argument of 'democracy', while being able to identify any threats to their usurpation by democratic means.
There is more than a hint of the populist a. randist philosophy throughout this article. Maybe this is a cult, and it goes without saying.
The privileged group (such as the author's) consider themselves hero's and the saints of today's countries, the ultimate problem solvers that defeat the overbearing complications of governments and regulation. The expectation of privilege versus the torrent of their own baser instincts that pervades their own reflection, is one even a clever author can not mask with the vanity of the wealthy with the needs of the exploited and poor.
Lets get straight to the point. The 'exotic' underclass are in resource rich regions. Investments into these 'entrepeneurs' is miniscule to the massive profits from the resources from the "emerging third-world countries".
The article is a complaint, that the unexotic underclass is unexploitable. Nothing much else is expected from the a group of sycophants whose main desire was to wheel and deal financial sludge on wall street.
The only thing Shenzhen appears it has going for it is its youth. The dominant cultural deficits of Chinese culture will eventually erode the advantages of Shenzhen's youth and it will become just another Chinese city mired in the infamous thousands of years old Chinese bureaucracy.
If Shenzhen does succeed, it could change the more able thinkers in China's enormous bureaucratic system capable of implementing change. However pivoting a bureaucratic system that is over centuries old is doubtful.
Seeing how China is still very much still an imitator, even in innovation, the phone still looks very nice.
It was interesting the author indicated the ethnicity of their background in the US. These Chinese masters of OP, who mentioned they were Korean-American where Koreans are looked down upon heavily by China and their adopted country the US, are already well aware that money alone is the primary and only necessary motivator in a capitalist economy and country.
The US' only interest in the Korean peninsula is to use it as a point of interaction with the Chinese. These Koreans are not only bootstrapped into being intermediary, but a 'bridge', which both the Chinese and Americans liberally walk all over. It is a bit of a shame the US allowed the victimization the Koreans suffered to be exploited shamelessly by both Americans and the Chinese. The hint of not finding respite, but only exploitation in their adopted land the US, is very telling of the Korean condition.
As for full curricilums... I can't stand curriculums. It's like going to a buffet to eat some shrimp, lettuce, a slice of roast beef, some smashed potatas except they stack a bunch of other meals on top of it.
edit: There was a street downtown near Lake Union when I had to work for a client in their Lake Union offices. On my way on a late night project I happened to drive right along one of these 'corridors'. It's not Pine/Pike, but further North and South of Lake Union. It was basically an entire row of street blocks that acted as if it was an invisible barrier. It was very noticeable there, and elsewhere as well. I think it's a new type of policing strategy.
> What no one here knew that day, May 30, 2013, was that the investment company, DC Energy, was reaping rewards from the swelter
Price offset gained was greater 1.5 million (* this is on one occurence of a grid overburden. The wholesale price jump was 550%, which is somewhat of a hint to the initial investment).
> Those profits are a small fraction of the fortune that traders at DC Energy and elsewhere have pocketed because of maneuvers involving the nation’s congested grid.
Key term here is 'maneuvers'. They don't plot down a one big bet scheme. How sophisticated? Here, let's look at the article:
> Across the nation, investment funds and major banks are wagering billions on similar trades using computer algorithms and teams of Ph.D.s, as they chase profits in an arcane arena that rarely attracts attention.
Their _intent is to ensure they are not signalling_.
(editted: *)
DC Energy didn't exactly go to the power companies and say, "Hey guys, when I bet against your power capacity, it means put more money in it so I can lose my investment!" That's just completely absurd.
From the article: > The contracts were intended to protect the electricity producers, utilities and industries that need to buy power. The thinking was that the contracts would help them hedge against sharp price swings caused by competition as well as the weather, plant failures or equipment problems. Those lower costs could reduce consumers’ bills.
> But Wall Street banks and other investors have stepped in, siphoning off much of the money. In New York, DC Energy accounted for more than a quarter of the total $639 million in profits in the congestion markets between 2003 and 2013, The Times found. Some of DC Energy’s biggest paydays involved Port Jefferson, a village 60 miles east of Manhattan. Because of the geography of the grid, moving power from one point to another means demand often briefly outstrips supply here.
It's exploitation by DC Energy pure and simple. Exploitation is a foundation of Capitalism. What occurred is inadequate protections, whether intentional or not. The lack of a working strategy to protect electric producers is the true 'signal' that DC Energy conveyed.
Discontent stems from being exploited, and LA, NY are clear examples of cities and areas where expectation and exploitation go hand in hand.