Saturday, December 21, 2013
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
What Would it Take to Get to a Steady State Economy?
Humans live in equilibrium with other species in a finite world. In such a world, there is never really a Steady State. Instead, there is a constant ebb and flow. For a while, one species may be dominant in an area, and then another. If populations are closely matched in “ability,” then the ups and downs aren’t too severe. If a predator depends on a particular type of prey for its dinner, it can’t eat all of the prey, or it will go hungry.
NYTimes.com: Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
From The New York Times:
Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we're beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Water Fowl around Boca Raton, Florida
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An American First: There Were More White Deaths Than White Births Last Year
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Octophant mural in east London
Octophant mural in east London
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9 Easy-To-Steal Habits Of The Super Successful
9 Easy-To-Steal Habits Of The Super Successful
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Chinese Zoo Tried to Pass Off Dog As Lion, Failed
Chinese Zoo Tried to Pass Off Dog As Lion, Failed
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Lewis & Minsky
Lewis Moment : When there are less people in the working generation supporting the old and retired ( pensioned folks).
China just passed the Lewis point.
Minsky Moment : When the private sector's credit card is maxed out and financing from govt is getting too expensive for fears fo default.
EU Passed the Minsky Moment
USA is still on the right side of the Lewis & Minsky Moment
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
The Economist | India’s demographic challenge: Wasting time
India's demographic challenge
India will soon have a fifth of the world's working-age population. It urgently needs to provide them with better jobs
PATNA, BIHAR
ONE of India's bigger private-sector employers can be found in Patna, the capital of Bihar, a poor, populous state in the east of the country. Narendra Kumar Singh, the boss, has three gold rings on his right hand and arms big enough to crush rocks. His firm, Frontline, has 86,000 people on its books. They are mostly unskilled men from rural areas in poor states like Bihar; thanks to Mr Singh they have jobs in cities all over India.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
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Friday, June 7, 2013
Making a QR Code
This QR Code will link to my blog Post
Checkout the site
http://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/#/
great place to begin
Checkout the site
http://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/#/
great place to begin
Mary Meeker 2013 Internet Trends @ D11
What is the future of the Internet, Mobile Internet and other Net related activities..
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Water Fowl around Boca Raton, Florida
I have come across 2 bird families in our neighborhood. Both are invasive species and like us Immigramts trace their origin to far away places. The first bird is all the way from Egypt. Residents brought them to Florida to make Golf courses look good. We also saw them at a large housing estates on Powerline Road which has a large water features. Not being bothered with fancy names, ( like Mallard Duck) they were named Egyptian Geese!
They really look great and beautiful. This being the season with hatchlings taking there first steps in the world, I came across a family of Egyptian Geese at the public golf course. Daddy was very protective of his family!
The same can't be said for the second Invaders. These are Moscovy Ducks and nest around our house ( we too have a water feature ) they have just hatched 10 chicks and look great with Mom and Dad crossing the road with Dad leading the way then the 10 chicks and finally mommy duck hurrying along. I'm guessing they came form Moscow, Russia. These fellows don't have a lot of ornamental beauty, but are fierce fighters, love their territory and family.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Why did Penguins stop flying?
So this new competitive environment may have placed a greater benefit on being more efficient swimmers and divers for aquatic seabirds.
That push toward being more efficient in the aquatic environment may have been enough to tip them over the edge into flightlessness
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Fantastic Mr Feynman
The Fantastic Mr Feynman BBC documentary influential inspiring scientists of 20th century
Friday, May 10, 2013
R U Kind? dash-cam Russia Lessons..
The reason why Russian people keep dashcams in their car is to protect themselves from police corruption. However, for a device designed to capture the ugly aspects of the world, this montage shows that the opposite happens more often than you would expect.
Click:
Good People
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Good People
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
China Labor costs.. Here to stay?
Over the last 5 years, 37 Million new service Sector Jobs were added compared to 29 Million Industrial Jobs. Service sector jobs can pay less and demand longer hours, but the work is less intense and more rewarding for workers.
Most Service Sector jobs are created in the Domestic Market.
So if no new people are added to the work force, and 10 to 12 Mil. Jobs are added every year, the pay inflation will continue.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Starbucks Opens First New Delhi Store - Tea to Coffee -> Cultural Decline?
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Zadar, Croatia
Zadar, Croatia, 3000 year old city ...
In July, Craotia will join the EU. The 28th Country of the union.
Any hope for Zadar?
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
End of Asia..rise of USA .. Competition in Manufacturing?
The fighting spirit of smarter competition: It seemed for a while that the United States would leave the manufacturing to emerging markets and focus instead on innovation, design, finance, and super-high-value-added manufacturing. It is now widely recognized that this was a losing strategy. As Andy Grove of Intel once observed, for every manufacturing job generated in the United States by the computer industry, 10 are outsourced to emerging markets. For job creation, it is important to realize that there are many more "makers" than "thinkers." While R&D is spreading around the world, a lot of key innovation remains in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Indeed, leading companies there have adjusted to compete in a world with huge markets outside their borders and aggressively competing emerging world class companies. They are competing smarter and are fighting back. For example:
Apple, Qualcomm, Google, Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Bloomberg are just some examples of new "brands" and of companies at the leading edge of innovation which did not exist or were tiny a decade ago. Today's world could not live without their inventions, used by millions around the world and which are constantly imitated.
Not only big companies like Caterpillar but many small companies in the United States have adapted to competition from emerging markets by specializing in technologically advanced, higher value, high-precision manufacturing that integrate electronics and use sophisticated automation. American firms hire hundreds of thousands of software engineers in India (and thus from potential Indian competitors). When smartphone baseband chip designer Qualcomm saw that a Taiwanese competitor became the "go to" source for Chinese clones for low-cost processor chips, it dropped its prices and forced it on the defensive. It could do so because it is a price setter with high margins rather than a price taker.
With some jealousy it is said these days in Asia that 90 percent of profits go to Apple and 10 percent to China. This gives these companies enormous pricing power and high margins. What most people don't realize is how concentrated the key parts of the smartphone industry are. There are less than a handful of companies that design the most expensive chips in the smartphone (based mostly on ARM architecture), and they are mostly made by two fabrication firms (TSMC and Samsung). China is way behind in this area. There are also only a handful of companies that make the touch screens for smartphones.
Infrastructure, especially in the United States, fell way behind but, while this remains a political football, more attention is being paid to the importance of infrastructure as a source of competitiveness. There were less "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects than initially believed for the stimulus but the ultimate return on investment may be higher. The United States has regained a bit of ground in the global infrastructure race as new airports, pipelines, and local projects come on stream and shale gas is being developed.
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