Sunday, August 31, 2014

When is difficult to get an answer

When is difficult to get an answer

When  who should respond doesn't ever expect to hear from you.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

How many Americans live abroad?

How many Americans live abroad?

The State Department estimates that 7.6 million Americans live abroad.

Friday, August 29, 2014

What happens when the system has winners and losers?

What happens when the system has winners and losers?

The system cannot consider people inherently reasonable and inclined toward peaceful compromise and common sense.

Why is not good to have large sums of money in a business?

Why is not good to have large sums of money in a business?

Because more money can mean you do too much and you don't have any focus.

Part of the success with a business is you have no money but you go out and raise it when you need it.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Because we do not know each other.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

Cashing out his investment by executing tax-free swap of assets.

Exchange defers or eliminates tax.

Friday, August 22, 2014

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

The poor has less opportunities and less skills to implement the same impulses the rich has.

Who are the America's enemies?

Who are the America's enemies?

People desperate to belong to something.

Something like, al Qaeda, Taliban or ISIS.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

Machine learning
Belief propagation
Markov chain approximation method (MCAM)
MATLAB
Natural language processing (NLP)
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR)
Default logic
Machine perception

Another issue of national security

Another issue of national security:

Close to half of black men drop out of high school. High unemployment and high rates of out-of-wedlock birth leave too many of them without guidance.

Monday, August 18, 2014

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

The Bureau of Justice Statistics put the number of full-time equivalent sworn state and local police officers at 646,213 in 2011—up from 531,706 in 1991.

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level, percent, 2008-2012: 22.0%   

Thursday, August 14, 2014

How regulations are designed?

How regulations are designed?

They are designed to be  complex  and to create compliance advocates.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Because you have a weapon to fight a risky dollar currency fluctuation.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Because according to the IRS 2009 Data Book, IRS workforce counts up 93,337 employees , 91,082 of which being full-time permanent.

Because according to the IRS :

IRS FY 2014 Shutdown Contingency Plan (Non-Filing Season)


Total number of employees expected to be employed prior to implementation of the shutdown plan (direct and reimbursable)
    94,516
(as of 09/07/2013)    

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Why nobody blames himself?

Why nobody blames himself?

Because Washington exists

A new NBC/WSJ poll finds that 71 percent of adults believe the United States is on the wrong track, and 60 percent think we’re in a state of decline.

Roughly 70 percent pointed the finger of blame at political gridlock for the current state of the economy.

79 percent are just fed up with the political system in general.

Monday, August 4, 2014

Finding something new to justify an existence

Finding something new to justify an existence

Any government, any political institution, any bureaucracy will always find something new to justify its existence, whether or not it's needed.

Friday, August 1, 2014

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Political patrons