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CoronitaParticipant[quote=The-Shoveler]What ever rocks your boat, I just would not invest in it myself.
Most of the engineers I know are fairly stingy LOL.[/quote]
there is a luxury complex already in Mira Mesa.
engineers tend to be stingy. they are saving for home ownership
CoronitaParticipantZk,
I might have come across as a heartless dick that doesn’t care about the less fortunate. But I am not…
It’s not that I am totally against giving some breaks to those that are less fortunate, or that I think a certain level of subjectivity should be allowed as long as it follows the following guiding principles
1. Any sort of subjectivity criteria/score should be publicly well known, where it can be subject to public scrutiny
2. There should be a clear separation between entities responsible for objectivity versus subjectivity
The College Board built its reputation on establishing a standard based scoring system, where one could objectively determine how well or not so well an individual is based purely on academic performance. It was designed so that someone who gets an 4.0 at school #1 could be evaluated versus someone who gets a 4.0 at school #2, and reduces the changes of one school scoring harder versus the other. In other nations, particularly asian nations, that’s the purpose of national entrance exams at the middle school, high school, etc… so that there is a one common source of truth in determining one peer versus the other. The College Board test was to establish this sort of standardization and objectivity. Folks can argue about how true or not true college board tests accurately represents kid’s knowledge and learning in school (I would argue a lot of it is bullshit, especially the vocabulary section), but the gist of some sort of objective standardization, as it was designed to represent, was a good thing… And if anything, improvements should be made to make sure the test contents were more an accurate representation of kid’s knowledge and learning…objectively….
Now that College Board introduces this adversity score… It sends a completely different message… It basically says, that standardized testing isn’t really that meaningful… Even though we are responsible for coming up with an objective academic score for candidates, it’s not that important, and here’s another score that is a “feel good, adversity score that could possibly explain why that kid didn’t do as well”… This begs the question: why bother even having a standardized test to begin with…
The current CEO of the College Board keeps saying that economic adversity is a real problem and it should be accounted for and dealt with… HOWEVER, if the College Board is really so concerned about economic adversity to disadvantaged kids, why does it continue to charge $65 ($95 if you register late) for each ACT/SAT test one wants to take, $25 the first test result transcript, and $15 each additional transcript thereafter you want to send to a college???
More importantly, why is it that College Board, in 2006 took in $582.9 million of revenue but spent only $527.8 million, or the College Board paid out over $1.3 million in 2009 to the CEO and 19 executives more $300k/year, despite being a “non-profit organization”? I guess the non-profit organization means the organization can’t make a profit… but wow, the executives sure are killing it, more so than a lot of for-profit organizations… The CEO of College Board makes more than the head of the American Red Cross and Harvard
Source: wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_BoardI mean, doesn’t this scream hypocrisy or what???
There are plenty of vehicles where colleges already consider subjectivity in college admissions. If anything, any sort of subjective scoring/consideration is already behind close doors, and there already lacks any sort of transparency to those subjective measures. All the lawsuits, all the fights, even the ones raised and taken to the Supreme Court by the Asian community has always been about improving the transparency of such subjective scoring… If there was truly nothing to hide, and nothing shady going on, there would not be a need to do any of this hidden/behind closed door scoring. The fact that there is a lack of transparency, is because those doing it knows it would raise eyebrows…because it would be considered systematic discrimination.
All our ‘fixes’ to try to address any sort of inequality is always quick fixes AFTER the impact of adversity has happened. If anything, if money/resources should be spent, it should be spent to shore up those blight communities with adverse environments at the grade level… not lowering the bar after adversity has happened.
Yeah, I get it. My family has money. If my kid wants to retake the SAT 20 times, and takes 10 prep classes, I can afford that and my kid can get a pretty good score… Some kid from the inner city with crack addict parents that have no money probably can’t take the test 20 times, and probably cant afford to go take an SAT prep class a few times too, and would probably score lower…. Because the damn test costs a lot each time and resources to prepare for the test costs a lot too. But instead of addressing THAT issue, let’s not do anything, and just come up with a bandaid and invent this “adversity score” that ranks parents based on how much they can bend over to our fees and costs to prepare for things, so that those who pay more, have a lower score…even though eventually our salaries depend on those very parents that pay more….And if theoretically more and more colleges actually abandoned the College Board standardized tests, and parents/kids no longer had to bend over and pay any of those ridiculous test fees and prep-course fees, while it would allow more families/parents/kids keep more of their hard earned money as they pursue higher education, it certainly would make us, the CEO and executives at the College Board, unemployed! So, of course, the current CEO (Common Core architect) thinks the way to address this is to add a fudge factor, to represent the economic disadvantage of students that itself (the College Board) contributes to, with its exorbitant fees……just another quick fix, so that the big $$$$ can continue coming into the College Board so that the CEO can college his $1million paycheck while not really solving the problem, besides pushing the burden and cost onto some other non-suspecting group of people…
And while we are at it .. why stop at SAT? Why not include the adversity score into LSAT, MCAT, GRE, GMAT, etc…
Also, since we want to start considering economic adversity, what about other forms of adversity, like health/mental adversity. Should a kid who otherwise is mentally fit/physically fit in a ghetto neighborhood be considered using one subjective score…versus a kid with autism that is from 4S Ranch/Carmel Valley? How much harder is it for someone with Autism to learn versus someone who is worried about getting shot in a bad neighborhood???
What about dyslexic kids who take more effort and time to read, that scored well in a AP/Honor’s English, versus someone kid that isn’t dyslexic in the same class. Where’s their adversity score?Personally, this is one of the cases in which the federal government should salary cap non-profits and heavily regulate the College Board in what it can and can’t do.
CoronitaParticipantYup, looks like XBox is going the same way as PS5
Microsoft announces Xbox Scarlett uses the same AMD Navi / Zen 2 silicon as PS5
https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/xbox-project-scarlett
Google Stadia is preorder.
https://store.google.com/product/stadia_founders_edition
It will be interesting to see what else comes out at E3 this week
Funny how Morgan Stanley finally capitulated last week and admitted they called it wrong…considering they were prominently very negative for years…
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/3571e957-f99a-36cc-965c-5f73ecb597ad/morgan-stanley-says-its.html
There is one irony too. Intel spent $Billions to create 5G chips for the mobile phone market. We can agree that Intel’s revenue will be $0 from this….. On the other hand,
AMD spent $0 to create chips for the mobile phone market. We can agree that AMD’s revenue will be more than $0 and could be $billions in this market, with the Samsung partnership …..CoronitaParticipant[quote=zk][quote=flu]The adversity score does not affect the SAT score but it does affect your chances of getting accepted.
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What information/source are you using to come to that conclusion?[/quote]
Evidence. None… yet. Especially since the score is confidential and private and how it is used will be behind closed doors, which was intentional…Perfect for institutional discrimination, just like affirmative action and quota limits.
seems like our colleges care more about making things “fair” than expecting the best. and yet, employers always say they can’t find enough well qualified technical people, and that’s why they need to hire H1Bs.
Your kids might not have gotten into those UC schools if they had the same crendentials today. neither would I. of course we can’t turn back time and prove that is true. and since your kids don’t need to worry about it, it’s not your problem. so this is a good thing obviously…. lucky you.
CoronitaParticipantThe adversity score does not affect the SAT score but it does affect your chances of getting accepted.
It’s part of a long list of practices that see institutionalized War on American Success.
Fortunately, for people who think this is a good idea, they don’t have kids that have to go through this crackshit system. They either don’t have kids or their kids weren’t subject to this bullshit.
Architect of this adversity score is the Head of College Board, who was also was the architect of Common Core
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CoronitaParticipant[quote=Myriad]I’m not sure it’s new news that INTC 10nm isn’t so great. The question for 2H19 – 1H20 is how well is the ramp to 7nm.
For INTC, the question isn’t really about market share loss, it’s how much loss the analysts expect vs what happens in reality.[/quote]Well, yes and no.. Intel sure seems to be still marketing and claiming that 10nm ice lake is going to hit volume production and improved performance over all the previous 14nm products… It just screams misrepresentation.
And I would take talk about Intel’s 7nm with a grain of salt… The same way Intel was claiming that their 5G baseband chip was “production ready”, even showing a supposedly real picture of it… Except semiaccurate figured that 5G chip picture was just a photoshop of a previous fake 4G chip …… People didn’t believe semiaccurate at the time too… Well, we know what happened to Intel’s 5G chip….
If at all, it seems like Intel’s become a big company that over promises and under delivers, things that AMD was once accused of doing.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=livinincali]
Trump’s appeal isn’t the right way of looking at this election. Hillary’s appeal is rather low as well. This election comes down to how the people that don’t really like either candidate vote or don’t vote for them. I think Hillary will probably win. She’ll possibly win big if voter turnout is good, but I don’t think voter turnout is going to be very good. Trump’s path to victory is low voter turnout. Are the disenfranchised Black and Hispanic voter who tend to vote at polling places going to show up and possibly wait in line to vote for Hillary. They did enthusiastically for Obama but I don’t really see it for Hillary.[/quote]
I am willing to bet that Hillary will win by a wider margin than Obama won in 2012. More electoral votes.
If i lose, I give my word of honor I will donate $500 to next republican nominee. Are you willing to donate to the Democratic nominee in 2020?[/quote]
Hey Brian… Since you resurrected this thread, like every other political thread…… You gave your word of honor. Please post a picture of the donation receipt you made to Trump’s 2020 campaign….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=Myriad]At under $40, it would be worth holding on to INTC through 2020.
It’ll be at <9 P/E, if you take a safety factor of 10%, it's still under 10.
And you'll be getting a 3% dividend.
Seems rather safe to park money there compared to other companies.AMD is sitting at 30+ forward P/E.[/quote]
Did you read this?
https://semiaccurate.com/2019/06/05/a-look-at-intels-ice-lake-and-sunny-cove/
If any shred is true, Intel is in serious trouble with 10nm...
10nm slower than 14nm, and even with an 18% IPC gain, 10nm that's not going to be that great...
Semiaccurate was pretty dead on about the server fiasco and 14nm shortage...
And if the leak from china is true, it's pretty telling.. Blue dot is ice lake 10nm... Red dot is 14nm.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Not naming names, but undergrad wasn’t particularly affordable, and I felt I was pushed into attending a private US school by my HS guidance department. Not because they necessarily wanted me to be successful, but because “prestigious” schools improved the high school’s stats.[/quote]
CoronitaParticipant[quote=Myriad]Probably a good time to sell AMD. The valuation is ridiculous at the moment. INTC is starting to look cheap again – maybe when it gets to $40[/quote]
I don’t know. I just convinced our it Dept to hold off another Xeon server purchase, and they are going to go with a new Epyc Rome server when it’s available…
We are already using second generation Threadrippers for some engine related work…..
I think Intel is in trouble , at least for 2019….They are still having 14nm capacity issues and 10nm is still not available yet. OEMs include Dell and HPC are already ramping up OEM builds with AMD due to the Intel CPU shortages..
Ryzen 3000 series on 7nm launching 7/7 along with Navi on the new architecture…maybe the tides will change in 2020..
but so far $329 for a Ryzen 3700x is a pretty compelling reason why AMD is eatting Intel’s lunch.
AMD has locked in the higher end GPU to cloud gaming offered by Google, Microsoft, and also consoles like PS5 and supposedly the next gen Xbox. It is the going vendor for Apples higher end graphics systems…. And Apple eventually supposedly is ditching Intel x86 for ARM.
I am going to wait until Intel’s fog clears which probably won’t be until 2020
Things are trading on lofty expectatios on this generation which seems like will be on target. 2020? who knows.
I am wondering which company will hit $40/share first.. AMD or Intel.
CoronitaParticipantSo spdrun, which college did you attend? How affordable was it?
CoronitaParticipantLisa Su answered my prayers. Selling some of my $20 Jan 2020 calls for AMD today now that AMD is over $30….
Lisa Su: MAGA making AMD great again.
loltime to put some money into Qualcomm.
CoronitaParticipantWell, BrianSD and spdrun….
I guess thinking a person who had no previous experience being a parent can give better parental advice than parents with the experience….would be analogous to thinking a reality star with no former experience being a politician can be much more competent president than a previous president that had lots of experience in government, or a former bartender with no political studies and political experience can be a competent Congresswoman..
So I guess the two of you are in good company and similar to President Trump and AOC….
I.A.G.A.O.W ? (Isn’t America Great Again Or What?)
Lol
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