You both are wrong. The question is whether it's worth the cost.
It's a bad, fuzzy, over-generalized question. My answer would be both yes and no. Is a college degree in art history economically worthwhile? No. Is a college degree in nursing economically worthwhile? Yes. Is a college degree averaged over all fields for all people in all situations worthwhile? That's a worthless question.
Nah. The Program Committee members are the ones who pick the peer reviewers.
To be fair, though, usually reviewers are hard to motivate, and some are late or just drup out of sight, so as the program-committee area head you probably end up having to review the papers you can't find reviewers for.
Different conferences do it differently. I'm in computer architecture, and for conferences in that field, the PC members are the primary reviewers because the assumption is that PC members are the top experts in the field. Anyone they ask to do a review is a secondary reviewer. Ostensibly the reason for finding a secondary reviewer is that you know someone is an expert that would be better than you for that specific paper. However, most of the time, secondary reviewers are chosen because the primary reviewer is lazy. But again, other conferences may do things differently.
Peer review is part of the fundamental basis verifying the integrity of the scientific enterprise, but it is done anonymously, gets you no credit, nobody knows whether you do a good job or a bad one, and is basically a time sink with little reward except a vague feeling that you did something useful.
There is a lot of truth in what you said. However, reviewers (well at least primary reviewers) get to be listed as program committee members. And PC members generally get more consideration as future PC and general chairs. As a PC chair, I would always pass along info to the next PC chairs about which reviewers were slackers in terms of writing short or useless reviews, failing to submit reviews on time, using an inordinately high number of secondary reviewers, or scoring papers significantly differently than other reviewers for the same paper. These slackers (sometimes) acquire a reputation as bad reviewers, although conferences still want recognizable names on the PC.
The American sentiment that its allies should pay more for military defense is only half the sentiment. The other unspoken and uncomfortable truth is that the US (well, mostly Trump) expects to retain full hegemony in the "alliance." However, the more other countries increase their military commitment, the more their independence from the US will grow.
Trump only knows bully tactics, but as with TACO tariffs, his assumption that the bullied will never fight back is sometimes wrong.
Hmm, a French school puts out a ranking that is dominated by European countries and that elevated Singapore, where it fortuitously has a campus, to the top spot.
What does this mean? Nothing. An arbitrary ranking from a school that most of us have never heard of.
Russia invaded Ukraine to grab land.
that's a lie, and a very stupid one. prove it. it ignores completely what ukraine is, the developments from 2014 on, the government toppling, the nato poisoning, the civil war and the war crimes against western ukrainians (cultural russians). that's why russia invaded.
Wow, that really sounds a lot like arguments from the Sudetenland. And that's not an exaggeration. Sort of eerie. Almost everything you said sounds like it came straight from the Russian PR machine.
Hey here is a simple idea... Why not do a toll? You know something simple that they do with trucks. For what I hate about this tax is what happens when you are outside of the country?
Some countries collect money via tariffs on imports. Some do so via fines. Both are largely arbitrary in terms of monetary amounts and application, usually have domestic political motivations, and have no avenue for appeal. The only recourse is to exit economic activity with that country or to convince one's home country to retaliate in a way that causes the other country to back down. If this case proceeds further in India, I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump get involved. There's no way that India could collect this massive fine without massive retaliation from the US.
What does "technically perform" mean? Depending on that definition, the report could be significant or completely irrelevant. How well is a task done, what is the probability of failure, and what is the impact of the task (in terms of safety and significance)? For example, Tesla FSD could be labeled as technically performant. However, there are scenarios with a more than insignificant probability of failure. That's why FSD is legally Level 2, even though it is technically performant more than 99% of the time.
The report doesn't even come close to providing insight into these pivotal questions. Furthermore, the O*NET database that forms the basis of the framework for skills evaluation contains short descriptions that are open to wide interpretation, which likely means that the conclusions of the report are heavily dependent on the evaluation abilities and biases of the researchers.
the hunger by the 1% to remove as much humanity from the workplace is sickening.
they fully know they are destroying the middle and lower classes (even more than they already have).
they, like the R party, just dont care. they think they are rich and insulated enough. they never cared what their own people need. the 'let them eat cake' time has come back again, but even worse.
there will be no thought to social systems needed to support the unemployed (which will be many of us, given enough time).
I'm glad I'm retiring soon. I would not want to compete in a job market that bosses think can be done by computer, alone.
and I would not want to be the 'prompt meister' to try to coax answers from the machines that make sense.
some see a great future with AI. I see nothing but doom and gloom. the greed factor is strong in humans and the class disparity will cause rioting and civil wars.
maybe not wars. the US has created a special police force that is above the law, so any uprisings will EASILY be dealt with. they thought about that. ICE is not just for foreigners. its a general purpose police force answerable only to 1 person.
people, please show me I'm wrong. but all signs point to a very bad future for 95% of the 'thinks for a living' workforce.
d. In the process, wiping out the US debt
The US can easily wipe out its entire debit overnight. Just declare a default on the entire debt. Easy-peasy.
The problem is that wiping away that debt necessarily means taking that money away from the debt holders. Erasing around a $1 trillion in assets each from Japan, China, and the UK would prompt a global economic crisis that would necessarily significantly affect the US.
The other problem is that once the debt is erased, the US will no longer be able to find foreign buyers of its future debt. That's the real problem.
Also, most of US debt is held by Americans. That includes $7 billion by Social Security and other $4 trillion by the Fed. Also, another $20 trillion by American companies and individuals.
But the real problem is that the US government would no longer be able to borrow money by selling treasuries. I guess that's one way of immediately balancing the budget and completely torching the US economy.
You mean, make them self-destructing? yyyyYYYEAH.
Or just lay down tripwires a few hundred feet from the real cables. Something that will trigger an alarm. Maybe something that traces the offending anchor line back to the boat and does something like explode a glitter bomb, play a recording of very stern warning message, attach a homing device, etc.
Europe like America gives too much money to its 1%. The only way to maintain their economies is with cheap goods made by slave labor in China. That's the only way to offset increasingly large amounts of money being moved from the bottom to the top.
If you want to fix that you have to cut off the flow of money to the top and we're not going to do that. There's a variety of terrible reasons why that is the case but it just is.
An alternative view is that China's cheap imports benefit mainly the American masses. The 1% can afford to pay extra to buy from anywhere, but the bottom 80% cannot. However, since the US economy is largely consumer driven, the bottom 80% must be kept alive and buying in order to support the economy (particularly the stock market) for the 1% to maintain and grow their assets.
It's not wrong to say that America is largely at fault. We got Ukraine to give up nukes in exchange for vague and non-binding promises that we would protect them from Russia. Obviously this is a deal they should not have taken, but it was our sleazy idea.
Russia invaded Ukraine to grab land. Trump negotiates a deal to give Russia the land it wanted all along. In exchange, Ukraine gets a promise of "peace for our time." Dictators that invade neighboring countries for conquest can always be trusted to honor these agreements. We'll see if Russia beats the 11 months after Chamberlain's appeasement before completely trashing the "agreement."
Would be interesting to know if modern "heat assisted magnetic recording" hard drives are of similar resilience while at ambient temperature.
I'm guessing the answer is yes. The need for heat assistance implies high coercivity at anything close to room temperature. HAMR write temperatures go beyond 400C, far above room temperatures.
PURGE COMPLETE.
