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Brought Ray Bradbury's "The Foghorn" to mind - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_Horn

Michel Danino's "Lost River: On the Trail Of The Saraswati" is a pretty good survey of this view of climate change and eastward migration. http://www.amazon.com/Lost-River-The-Trail-Sarasvati/dp/0143...

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It may be a good idea to make it clearer in your post that what you're stating is a reasoned hypothesis, and that testing it would be useful. It seems a reasonable claim, but absent validation the tone of the post seems too definite to me.

WNYC interviewed Elena Deblanco today - very poignant: http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/jan/15/daughter-auctio...

That is a good guess - the Home Subscriber Server is the authentication server in an LTE network. Short of this or a PCRF (Policy Server), I cannot think of any other single element that could bring the network down. Routing (as identified by another reply) could be an issue, but I would assume that 3G and 4G data use the same core network.

Any statement which manages to leave out a reasonable self-identification that about 1/6 of the world's population - Asian Indian - would use, is a little suspect.

You make the assumption that their re-investment is necessarily in the US economy.

Seems to fail when you enter an empty string.

This is Kepler's all over again.

Cisco has instituted boards and committees for everything in the last few years. Besides layoffs and a re-prioritization, this memo also calls out the lack of speed and accountability that has resulted; I believe this is an indication that those structures are also going to be changed.

Given the fact that a lot of us are in high-risk zones a review of preparedness would probably be a good idea.

Reminds me of a Frank Herbert story called "Committee of the Whole". It concerns an engineer who makes public the plans and method to build a super-weapon from everyday household materials - and this makes government oppression a thing of the past and forces human beings to get along.

The fundamental fallacy here is that people respond purely to monetary incentives for work. This may be true for Mr. Mankiw, but it is not a universal truth.

The best coffee in the South Bay is at Barefoot in Santa Clara.

I'm curious what the mechanism is, though. From the perspective of a complete layperson - does this mean that the genome is modified based on acquired characteristics? Or are there other mechanism to carry the signal?

Dylan Thomas said it best:

"Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Good article. One bone to pick though - Orwell's criticism was in the context of writing, whereas the article quotes Churchill's speeches. Good oratory has a great component of theater and drama.

This NPR recording with Murray Perahia further explores the connection between Bach and Chopin: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1251806...

Humility is very often correlated with smartness. I have seen this as a common quality in most great engineers and scientists: truth comes first.

I've found this useful: http://www.slideshare.net/jeff_croft/beautiful-layouts-throu... as well as this: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/settingtypeontheweb/

This is good advice for any large company, not just Google. Tips #3 and #4 are key - I would prioritize those higher than #1 and #2. In short - make sure your manager/leader is capable of pushing you; make sure you get to work on visible projects; and optimize your time to make contributions to the more visible projects. One of the things I wish someone had told me a long time ago.

I don't follow the logic of some of the complaints, but specifically, what is wrong with tag clouds? I find them quite intuitive, and in fact they help you give navigation streams or word-lines if implemented right.

Also, the author's choice of having the masthead of the blog grayed out does not seem consistent with his criticism of gray type in the design.

This is true - why does a bank - bank transfer 24 hours or more, for instance? Why do I need to start my transfer during bank working hours?

I met my wife while on camping trip to the Himalayas. Of the 4 women in the group, 3 married people they met for the first time on that trip. Anecdote, rather than hard data, of course. You could always claim that high-altitude made my wife's decision making suspect - hence she's saddled with me.

I do wonder though - when does this sort of thing stop being community policing and cross the line into web vigilante-ism?

Because his writing was of ideas as well as of people, and therefore gratifies the intellect. He belongs to a special group of writers who makes you re-examine many things you take for granted, by assuming a small variation on reality, and taking it to its logical conclusion.

I knew him only through his books, but both 'Ordinary Differential Equations' and 'Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics' were highly influential - the use of geometric methods was a breath of fresh air at the time I read them.

A location-based social network should be able to improve the predictability even more. Mobile-phone networks could be a possibility too - particularly in places like India.

Operator error and the use of checklists to avoid it is spot on; too many people learn this the hard way.

If you look at the sidebar, you'll find links to other sections of the special report with far more detail.