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Japans new supercomputer cost $100M to build and takes $10M/year in electricity plus all the staff - so $1200/hour sounds pretty good. Of course the problem is that the Amazon mach…

Depends if you are a bank sitting on a lot of unsellable fancy property!

Many jobs require a degree. Those jobs that only require you to wear a suit don't care what the degree is in. Now if your future job only depends on your grade - not the subject wh…

That's a bit unfair. You have to give them a chance, they only just got democracy - it takes a while to build up a military-industrial complex.

You're forgetting people in with houses to offload and banks with foreclosed $1M homes that they might want to make 50% return on.

But if nobody had debt you couldn't have savings - well you could but the bank would charge you for storing them rather than paying you interest.

So if everybody in the country had a masters degree people would all earn 2.5x as much? Obviously an increase in PhD programs in french-fry frying would raise incomes even further.…

We spend $8Bn on some new stealth fighters. We only ever use them against countries with no air defences. So the fighters never get 'used up' so there are massive job losses at BAe…

It would make more sense for Nato to attack Saudi/UAE/Bahrain etc. They buy western hardware so if we destroy a few hundred Tornadoes/Eurofighters/F16s then there are big replaceme…

The same Qaddafi who was a "partner in the war on terror" when Prime minister Blair visited in 2004 ? Or the same Qaddafi that provided the `special questioning` facilities when th…

If the people in some other Arabic countries did the same thing we would be bombing their ruler's palaces?

Tell me - does Irony just mean "made of Iron" here?

Very little - millionaires tend not to pay much tax. Especially foreign ones whose income is difficult to trace. What happened in Vancouver when Canada did the same thing is that p…

New science, engineering, medical graduates who have just finished a US degree/masters/PhD?

The new democratic rulers of Libya / Arab extremists - depending on them signing the right contracts with the right oil companies

But many of those graduates will be in law or medicine so having more of them in the country will lower the wages in those professions And many of the others are scientists and eng…

There aren't many places where it's considered reasonable that your employer can fire you for no reason and have you and your family thrown out of the country aswell.

I think Phase tracking GPS chipsets are still pricey - outside surveying applicatiosn there isn't much demand.

"more frequently than once per month from any other person, ... shall be deemed as being engaged in the business of a secondhand dealer." So more than one Ebay a month and you are …

Trouble is that it must be from a US investor. So it's the same slave labor problem as H1B. If you don't like anything the investor suggests after you have moved then he withdraws …

They don't even have to change anything - a VISA isn't a guarranteed right of entry. You just need minimum wage guy at the airport desk to not like your face and you don't get in -…

You need a receiver in the phone that can phase track, which costs 50x as much as the simple GPS chip they fit. You also need either a lot of storage locally or a fast data link be…

I think (IANAL) is that in libel publishing is the offence - so if you publish a copy of the libel you have committed the same offence - so "is a hyperlink publishing a copy?" is t…

The case was specifically about "was a link - a republishing of an article" not, was the thing linked to legal. In this libel case publishing the article was the offence. So 'if' m…

It means you can have the CPU and OS running 24x7. So much simpler to program (and more like a desktop system) than most embedded where you have to wake up every N seconds, check f…