The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread 36

[cardgame]

You could also contact them on twitter and maybe they send you beaucoup coupons

 

[Takhisis]

That's not a bad idea. The possible outcomes are to get beaucoup coupons, to look ridiculous, or to go unnoticed.

 

[civvver]

That probably is hilarious in the original, depending on how it's told, but I was thinking of James Clavell's Whirlwind, in which two foreigners disguised as Iranians break their cover by urinating in the wrong direction (i.e. towards Mecca) in public.

There are a lot of immigrants in this area and which direction your house faces is apparently a big deal as well. One of my neighbors (who is a white protestant) is a realtor and has some stories where they find the perfect house at a steal of a price but the hindu or muslim couple won't buy it cus it faces the wrong way.

Then we were walking past someones house in my neighborhood on a street over and my daughter saw some charcoal burning in what looked like a grill so she asked the guy coming out of the house what they were making for dinner. They weren't cooking, they were doing some ritual to bless the house prior to moving in. Indian couple, pretty sure it was hindu. The woman had her hands decorated with some makeup and the circle on her forehead among other makeup.

My other neighbor across the street his parents are immigrants from indian, so he's 100% indian descent but as homegrown american as they come. He's married to a white woman. They are not religious and don't care about any superstitions but apparently his mother made a big deal about how great their house choice was because the kitchen window faced west or something.

In total I think there are 80 houses in my sub. One is from pakistan, three are from india, we had one russian family but they moved, one other family is from belarus and both of the parents are medical residents. One couple the woman is japanese I think but I think the man is Samoan. I'm not sure, they don't socialize. He might be something else from south asia. There are only two black guys and they are both married to white women. Everyone else is white. I don't know if that's diverse or not. Most of the non native born families do not socialize at all. I think it's cus in their cultures or religions they don't consume alcohol and parties with alcohol seem to be the driving force behind neighbor socialization.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Do Hayek, Mises, and Schumpeter have any major works that aren't mostly critiques of socialism? I'm more interested in ideas instead of reactions.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The software I use to rip CDs has an option to download track information from an online database. But how is it able to recognize the album when I haven't put any information in yet?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The software I use to rip CDs has an option to download track information from an online database. But how is it able to recognize the album when I haven't put any information in yet?

Every music CD has a unique ID that's recognised by the ripping software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I should have figured it was something like the timestamps. Thank you.

 

[Cutlass]

Do Hayek, Mises, and Schumpeter have any major works that aren't mostly critiques of socialism? I'm more interested in ideas instead of reactions.

Schumpeter's great contribution is the concept of "creative destruction". What this is is the idea that the new and better will drive out the older and not so good. This applies to both product and process. You can build a better widget, or you can build a widget more efficiently, so that it costs less.

This is, ultimately, the source of all wealth and economic development. Real wealth is not about more resources. It's about resources better used. And this is what Schumpeter described.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Yeah, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy seems to be just kvetching about socialism, judging from the Wiki summary. I'm looking for works like Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom, which lay out ideas and theories instead of just criticizing those of others.

 

[Cutlass]

Yeah, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy seems to be just kvetching about socialism, judging from the Wiki summary. I'm looking for works like Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom, which lay out ideas and theories instead of just criticizing those of others.

Most economists don't really have stuff aimed at the lay audience. Hayek does. The Road to Serfdom. But in all these cases their contribution to economics is not in their political tracts. Friedman's work as a monetary economist is considered extremely important. His work as a political theorist is not really worth that much. Mises, never did a damned thing worth reading.

 

[Takhisis]

The US is offering $30-35k a year for foreign teachers to come to the US (I myself cannot qualify due to experience requirements, but other people can).
Is that anywhere near acceptable a salary?

 

[Cutlass]

The US is offering $30-35k a year for foreign teachers to come to the US (I myself cannot qualify due to expereince requirements, but other people can).
Is that anywhere near acceptable a salary?

No. Given the education requirements, a teacher should start at twice that. Now often they don't, because market power. Teachers in the US are notoriously underpaid. You can't live on that in the cities which are doing well in the US without a roommate. And in some cities, 2 or 3 roommates. You can live on that in the more economically depressed parts of the country. But generally not well.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The US is offering $30-35k a year for foreign teachers to come to the US (I myself cannot qualify due to experience requirements, but other people can).
Is that anywhere near acceptable a salary?

That has to be a "we can't get any teachers in the rural boondocks" program, and in the rural boondocks you might be able to live decently on that.

 

[Takhisis]

No. Given the education requirements, a teacher should start at twice that. Now often they don't, because market power. Teachers in the US are notoriously underpaid. You can't live on that in the cities which are doing well in the US without a roommate. And in some cities, 2 or 3 roommates. You can live on that in the more economically depressed parts of the country. But generally not well.

That has to be a "we can't get any teachers in the rural boondocks" program, and in the rural boondocks you might be able to live decently on that.

It's what some readers in the newspaper article said, but given how that particular newspaper's comments section tends to be equal to or worse than YouTube comment sections so I thought I'd ask.

Thanks.

 

[cardgame]

35k is very 'liveable' in rural areas. It's also not going to go much higher than that, so say goodbye to career growth/raises.

 

[Takhisis]

It's not for me as such because of experience requirements and what-not which I simply do not meet, but I was seriously thinking of recommending it to some people who actually do fulfil those requirements.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's not for me as such because of experience requirements and what-not which I simply do not meet, but I was seriously thinking of recommending it to some people who actually do fulfil those requirements.

Is it a regular teaching job you're after? Some countries have teacher-exchange programs so teachers from some countries can be exposed to how things are done in other countries and hopefully bring back a suitcase full of new and innovative ideas (figuratively speaking).

Some years ago there was an exchange teacher from Hawaii who came here. One of the reasons he was written about in the local paper was because his colleagues had to keep reminding him to put on all his winter clothing before going outside (apparently they don't wear toques and scarves and mittens in Hawaii, and he had trouble judging when a winter coat was necessary). He did say that it was an enjoyable experience.

 

[Cutlass]

It's not for me as such because of experience requirements and what-not which I simply do not meet, but I was seriously thinking of recommending it to some people who actually do fulfil those requirements.

If this is something you would want to do, I'd throw an application at it regardless of whether you meet the specified requirements. Many times no one really does, and they take what they can get.

 

[Takhisis]

Is it a regular teaching job you're after? Some countries have teacher-exchange programs so teachers from some countries can be exposed to how things are done in other countries and hopefully bring back a suitcase full of new and innovative ideas (figuratively speaking).

Some years ago there was an exchange teacher from Hawaii who came here. One of the reasons he was written about in the local paper was because his colleagues had to keep reminding him to put on all his winter clothing before going outside (apparently they don't wear toques and scarves and mittens in Hawaii, and he had trouble judging when a winter coat was necessary). He did say that it was an enjoyable experience.

No, I'm very much interested in getting anywhere but the USA. Now that I'm thinking of it, if it were Canada and I could leave the country then I'd be thinking of it for myself.

If this is something you would want to do, I'd throw an application at it regardless of whether you meet the specified requirements. Many times no one really does, and they take what they can get.

Yes, but as I said it's something I was thinking to recommend to other people. The job itself is definitely not my cup of tea, but, if it's nto even well paid, I'm definitely not recommending it to the two people I had in mind.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How does Santa manage to not completely tear up the runners on his sleigh when landing on roofs in places that have no snow?