Goes to show China does not prosecute unnecessarily and force people to take plea bargains. Also if you are going to incarcerate 10% of your population which means 50% of your population has someone they know in jail, the jails have to be decent or the populace will revolt. If only 2% of the population is going to jail you can get away with disgusting jails.
Anytime anyone wants to train an AI system its always medical images. I did this as my undergrad final year project almost 20 years back. Sure the algos are probably better now but there is something about Medical Images which makes it satisfying for young idealist students to use for their project. Once the algo is perfected it can also be used for Face detection in kegger pictures. Facebook has a big problem. The govt is asking them to police offensive images. They cannot hire enough humans to do it so they need AI.
Electric trams otherwise known as light rail are present in many cities and more American cities are catching up. SO maybe the 2030s not the 1930s.
What the author probably means is teenagers in most advanced cities live in the basement playing video games so no difference (poor attempt at a joke I will grant you)
Most contractors are visa employees. The contracting firms do their visas and Green cards. Once they have green cards Apple and Google hire them as employees. This way their statistics on visa employees vs non visa employees look good (GCs and citizens are counted in the same bucket)
Highly doubt contractors have stock in the company they are working at. Its dumb to put all eggs in one basket. Employees get free stock so they have company stock but it would be dumb for a contractor to use real money to buy stock in the company they are contracting at.
At Apple its reverse. Its very easy for Contractors to convert to FTE , much easier than for someone from outside to come in. And Apple does not provide anything free so its all the same. Contractors get to use the bus. Only thing which sucks is contractors dont get the 25% discount on iPhones so we buy Samsung;) and use them inside Apple buildings.
Only companies with more than 50 employees are mandated to provide health insurance. Many contracting firms are mom and pop. They dont even have to pay the Employee part of social security (Well they do but they dont and by the time an IRS audit comes around the company will be dissolved and operating under another EIN)
You forget to factor in that as an Employee when you work from home you work from home. When you commute you commute. As a contractor when you work from home , you take a home office deduction on your taxes. Your car is a writeoff. Your lunches are business expenses. Ditto phone, internet, clothes, conferences, computers. Almost everything an employee pays for with after tax money you pay with before tax money. You also are not limited to only putting 18.5 K into 401. You can put upto 50K. Once you bring the tax benefits in that 50 dollar per hour is like 75 dollar per hour. So in return you do some paperwork. Highest bill rate use of time- doing paperwork.
I work for a contract house. Difference is I have a 25 dollar copay. The FTEs where I work have a 5 dollar copay. Both have same yearly caps and the FTEs get egg freezing covered. As a guy with 2 kids the egg freezing benefit is not really that big a difference. The point is many contract houses have good health insurance.
On the other hand when in a design discussion I make a point , people listen as I am not a threat to their career or their budget unlike the other FTEs.
Apple's got colored badge for FT and Gray badges for contractors. Its not just Google. Funny thin the high schooler at a Genius bar is a FT and can get Apple products at a discount but the 10 yr Machine learning architect driving the architecture of iTunes is a Grey badge and needs to pay full price for Apple products. (Contractors have their own way of getting back. They flaunt their Samsung phones inside Apple buildings. iPhone X has finally caught with Android by getting rid of the hardware home button so now some folks may finally get an iPhone)
In software too companies like Google , Apple etc use Contracting as a filter. You cant always tell in a 30 minute interview if the person is a good fit but once you have them as a contractor for a year you can very confidently recommend them for a FT position. And if not getting rid of a contractor is as easy as not renewing a contract. No action needed. There is also the fact that some companies have taken a conscious decision to have a certain FTE-Contractor ratio. That way if times turn bad they dont have to do layoffs - just not renew contracts. Layoffs are bad PR while contract non renewal is a non issue. As a result many times they may have a Contract req in their budget but no fulltime req. In such a case if they find someone good they ask the contractor vendor manager to bring the person in as a contractor with the understanding that when a FT req opens up they will convert him/her The contracting company is happy to oblige as they get some revenue.
Yeah well certain Silicon valley companies (make i products) pay contractors only for 40 hrs irrespective of whether they are working 60 hr weeks and taking calls with offshore at night. The contractors all hope to become FTEs and get their own chance at exploiting contractors.
The United States literally has Social Security benefits. USA is much more socialist than say India. In India you dont work you starve. Elon was able to create SpaceX because he lives in a socialist country which catches you if you try something and fail.
Software engineers write the autopilot which flies the plane 90% of the time. Its written much better than mass market software that retails for 39.99. And the trope about Windows crashing has got old. Since Windows 7 , Windows doesnt crash that often. In fact my Mac is crashing at least once a day. I never had my Windows 7 crash everyday when I used to be on Windows (7-8 years back). Yes my Mac is old and needs a replacement but the fact is both WIndows and Mac are pretty stable so the trope is outdated.
The cool kids have moved on. Facebook was OK when only Ivy Leaguers could get an account but now its mostly Grandmas posting pics of grandchildren. I am amazed by the amount of press given to it.
Since you are allowed to sleep in the cockpit, when you are not flying or at the Airport you dont need to sleep. Software engineers regularly work 16 hour days 6 days a week and get paid far less than pilots so boohoo
1500 hours spent in Legislative jobs before you can apply to run for Governor. Once you have spent enough time at the regionals then you can apply for the Mailine job
A surgeon is just a butcher who puts the parts back together too. Its the money which makes it prestigious so a Bus Driver in the sky can be prestigious if paid enough
The Pilots job is supervising robots. Todays planes mostly fly themselves. The Pilot is there just in case the computer screws up. Its a boring job as most of the time you are doing nothing but also demanding as you have to be constantly alert to take over if the computer screws up. You cant use a robot to supervise robots.
The trucking industry is solving the problem with self driving trucks. We need self flying planes. Oh wait we already do. Pilots work for 15 minutes at takeoff and 15 minutes at landing. The rest is autopilot. They are getting paid to be on call. Its very much like being a Fireman. The FAA should easily allow 2000 hours flying time each year and also allow napping in cockpits while the autopilot is flying. Problem solved.
900000 pilots and we have a shortage? Assuming each pilot just flies twice a day and there are 150 passengers on each flight , thats 270 Million passengers taking a flight each day. The population of the US is around 300 million. Something doesn't add up.
Capitalism doesnt work without regulation. e.g. Workers could just give the food away for free to their friends. They cant because there are laws. Guess what ? There are laws which owners too have to follow . If Owners want to live in a society without laws , workers will be happy to oblige by wlking away with all the owners property they can get their hands on. Theft is theft - whether you are stealing wages or burgers.
Using SpaceX in the title here is total trolling. SpaceX is just the delivery plan. Its like writing "Rape not a part of Slashdot editors daily schedule" as the title for an article on what Slashdot editors do.
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Goes to show China does not prosecute unnecessarily and force people to take plea bargains. Also if you are going to incarcerate 10% of your population which means 50% of your population has someone they know in jail, the jails have to be decent or the populace will revolt. If only 2% of the population is going to jail you can get away with disgusting jails.
Anytime anyone wants to train an AI system its always medical images. I did this as my undergrad final year project almost 20 years back. Sure the algos are probably better now but there is something about Medical Images which makes it satisfying for young idealist students to use for their project. Once the algo is perfected it can also be used for Face detection in kegger pictures.
Facebook has a big problem. The govt is asking them to police offensive images. They cannot hire enough humans to do it so they need AI.
Not just Computer Engineers
Electric trams otherwise known as light rail are present in many cities and more American cities are catching up. SO maybe the 2030s not the 1930s.
What the author probably means is teenagers in most advanced cities live in the basement playing video games so no difference (poor attempt at a joke I will grant you)
Most contractors are visa employees. The contracting firms do their visas and Green cards. Once they have green cards Apple and Google hire them as employees. This way their statistics on visa employees vs non visa employees look good (GCs and citizens are counted in the same bucket)
And most contracting companies do provide health insurance. Only mom and pop contracting firms with less than 50 employees dont.
Highly doubt contractors have stock in the company they are working at. Its dumb to put all eggs in one basket. Employees get free stock so they have company stock but it would be dumb for a contractor to use real money to buy stock in the company they are contracting at.
At Apple its reverse. Its very easy for Contractors to convert to FTE , much easier than for someone from outside to come in. And Apple does not provide anything free so its all the same. Contractors get to use the bus. Only thing which sucks is contractors dont get the 25% discount on iPhones so we buy Samsung ;) and use them inside Apple buildings.
Only companies with more than 50 employees are mandated to provide health insurance. Many contracting firms are mom and pop. They dont even have to pay the Employee part of social security (Well they do but they dont and by the time an IRS audit comes around the company will be dissolved and operating under another EIN)
You forget to factor in that as an Employee when you work from home you work from home. When you commute you commute.
As a contractor when you work from home , you take a home office deduction on your taxes. Your car is a writeoff. Your lunches are business expenses. Ditto phone, internet, clothes, conferences, computers. Almost everything an employee pays for with after tax money you pay with before tax money. You also are not limited to only putting 18.5 K into 401. You can put upto 50K. Once you bring the tax benefits in that 50 dollar per hour is like 75 dollar per hour. So in return you do some paperwork. Highest bill rate use of time- doing paperwork.
I work for a contract house. Difference is I have a 25 dollar copay. The FTEs where I work have a 5 dollar copay. Both have same yearly caps and the FTEs get egg freezing covered. As a guy with 2 kids the egg freezing benefit is not really that big a difference.
The point is many contract houses have good health insurance.
On the other hand when in a design discussion I make a point , people listen as I am not a threat to their career or their budget unlike the other FTEs.
Apple's got colored badge for FT and Gray badges for contractors. Its not just Google.
Funny thin the high schooler at a Genius bar is a FT and can get Apple products at a discount but the 10 yr Machine learning architect driving the architecture of iTunes is a Grey badge and needs to pay full price for Apple products. (Contractors have their own way of getting back. They flaunt their Samsung phones inside Apple buildings. iPhone X has finally caught with Android by getting rid of the hardware home button so now some folks may finally get an iPhone)
In software too companies like Google , Apple etc use Contracting as a filter. You cant always tell in a 30 minute interview if the person is a good fit but once you have them as a contractor for a year you can very confidently recommend them for a FT position. And if not getting rid of a contractor is as easy as not renewing a contract. No action needed.
There is also the fact that some companies have taken a conscious decision to have a certain FTE-Contractor ratio. That way if times turn bad they dont have to do layoffs - just not renew contracts. Layoffs are bad PR while contract non renewal is a non issue. As a result many times they may have a Contract req in their budget but no fulltime req. In such a case if they find someone good they ask the contractor vendor manager to bring the person in as a contractor with the understanding that when a FT req opens up they will convert him/her
The contracting company is happy to oblige as they get some revenue.
Yeah well certain Silicon valley companies (make i products) pay contractors only for 40 hrs irrespective of whether they are working 60 hr weeks and taking calls with offshore at night. The contractors all hope to become FTEs and get their own chance at exploiting contractors.
The United States literally has Social Security benefits. USA is much more socialist than say India. In India you dont work you starve.
Elon was able to create SpaceX because he lives in a socialist country which catches you if you try something and fail.
Software engineers write the autopilot which flies the plane 90% of the time. Its written much better than mass market software that retails for 39.99.
And the trope about Windows crashing has got old. Since Windows 7 , Windows doesnt crash that often.
In fact my Mac is crashing at least once a day. I never had my Windows 7 crash everyday when I used to be on Windows (7-8 years back).
Yes my Mac is old and needs a replacement but the fact is both WIndows and Mac are pretty stable so the trope is outdated.
The cool kids have moved on. Facebook was OK when only Ivy Leaguers could get an account but now its mostly Grandmas posting pics of grandchildren. I am amazed by the amount of press given to it.
Since you are allowed to sleep in the cockpit, when you are not flying or at the Airport you dont need to sleep.
Software engineers regularly work 16 hour days 6 days a week and get paid far less than pilots so boohoo
1500 hours spent in Legislative jobs before you can apply to run for Governor. Once you have spent enough time at the regionals then you can apply for the Mailine job
A surgeon is just a butcher who puts the parts back together too. Its the money which makes it prestigious so a Bus Driver in the sky can be prestigious if paid enough
The Pilots job is supervising robots. Todays planes mostly fly themselves. The Pilot is there just in case the computer screws up. Its a boring job as most of the time you are doing nothing but also demanding as you have to be constantly alert to take over if the computer screws up. You cant use a robot to supervise robots.
The trucking industry is solving the problem with self driving trucks. We need self flying planes. Oh wait we already do. Pilots work for 15 minutes at takeoff and 15 minutes at landing. The rest is autopilot. They are getting paid to be on call. Its very much like being a Fireman. The FAA should easily allow 2000 hours flying time each year and also allow napping in cockpits while the autopilot is flying. Problem solved.
900000 pilots and we have a shortage?
Assuming each pilot just flies twice a day and there are 150 passengers on each flight , thats 270 Million passengers taking a flight each day. The population of the US is around 300 million.
Something doesn't add up.
Capitalism doesnt work without regulation. e.g. Workers could just give the food away for free to their friends. They cant because there are laws. Guess what ? There are laws which owners too have to follow . If Owners want to live in a society without laws , workers will be happy to oblige by wlking away with all the owners property they can get their hands on. Theft is theft - whether you are stealing wages or burgers.
Using SpaceX in the title here is total trolling. SpaceX is just the delivery plan. Its like writing "Rape not a part of Slashdot editors daily schedule" as the title for an article on what Slashdot editors do.