That's similar to the UK. There are "senior" jobs in London offering as low as £50,000/year, which means you can barely afford a shoe box to live in or face a long commute. So the only people who take those jobs are the young and desperate who quickly burn out or people from Eastern Europe who will accept the shoe box.
The difference is that in the UK if you are unemployed you have meagre but survivable benefits to fall back on. The government will pay the interest on your mortgage, for example, so you don't become homeless. I thought people were basically fucked if they were unemployed for any length of time in most of the US.
Thanks, that explains the mechanism. A genuinely useful explanation.
All evidence points towards you not being interested in knowing the truth, and far more interested in shitting on workers. But that's OK, we'll drag down your wages too.
Oh, well, fuck you then.
Why can't people be nice and assume a tiny amount of good faith any more? Don't say it's because it's amimojo, I have repeatedly stuck up for workers' rights and strongly favour employment laws protecting them.
Are wages so low that people would rather be unemployed, allowing employers to go the H1B route? I also hear that there is a lot of H1B fraud, in which case higher wages won't help.
People say there are lots of skilled workers, but also that all the young workers are idiots with no clue and low ability levels.
Women are apparently clever for avoiding tech jobs, but for some reason men are desperate for them and unable to do the jobs women are doing instead.
I just want to know the truth. I don't live in the US so it's hard to know based on Slashdot and crappy "news" articles.
Indeed. Broadcast video quality in Japan is vastly superior to anything I've seen in the US or UK. They decided to have a small number of high quality channels instead of a large number of shit quality ones. In Tokyo you can get about six channels over the air.
The lenses for 8k have been in development since the 1960s when IMAX was introduced. The main challenge was reducing size, power demands and cost of the cameras for use on TV, as well as attaching real-time digital capture/compression tech.
8k resolution is close to IMAX for detail. Not quite as good as 70mm film, but close.
You also have to remember that even if your eyes can't see individual pixels at that resolution (a good thing), what matters is the Nyquist frequency which is half the sampling frequency. That's why CDs sample at 44.1kHz, even though the human ear can't hear much about 20kHz.
Basically 8k reduces aliasing, which is something that the eye is quite good at spotting and makes the image look artificial. That's why most of the 4k demos you see are careful to select images that avoid aliasing.
8k isn't just resolution. When they start broadcasting in Japan for the 2020 Olympics, it will be 60Hz native format, and with a colour gamut beyond what current TVs can display.
8k isn't just a resolution bump like 4k was, where they mostly used the same equipment and some upgraded but fundamentally the same cameras as HD/2k. For example, manual focus is impossible with 8k. Until recently only extremely specialist, power hungry hardware was able to process an 8k video stream and save it to storage fast enough. NHK, the Japanese national broadcaster, has been working on it since the 90s and skipped over 4k to concentrate on it. It's not just incremental, it's a genuine attempt to make video almost indistinguishable from reality.
The machine was a shiny toy, designed to be desirable and get people to buy into their overpriced ecosystem. They sold it at a loss, hoping to make money on the juice bag subscriptions. Break even was probably around a year.
In my experience they know that their spec is unrealistic, and are just using it as an excuse. An excuse to offer less money, or dismiss candidates they dislike but can't legally give the real reason why (age, race etc.)
If they offered me the position but at a lower salary due to lack of experience, I'd just call their bluff tell them to go with the candidate who has more experience. It's not like there is a shortage of tech jobs around here at the moment.
This reminds me of ex slave owners bitching about how they are expected to PAY people to work on their farms now so while abolition was great for the blacks it's really fucked them over.
Was it really malicious though? Everyone knows that Google promotes things your friends have hit +1 on in search results, so naturally putting a handy +1 button on the site will encourage them to do that.
It sounds like a misunderstanding. Can't be sure, need further confirmation.
This. Men are slowly being liberated, like women were in the 60s, from the old gender roles and can now be much more involved with their children with little social stigma. Unfortunately there is still a lot of pressure to take less paternity leave than their partner, and the change is taking much longer than it did for women, but it's happening.
Of course some people see this as a bad thing. They seem to want to go back to the old 1950s model of children being the mother's sole responsibility, except for the odd punishment beating when they misbehave. They see women's liberation as ruining that sweet set-up for them.
Unfortunately conservative politics make this a difficult one to solve.
"Having children is a lifestyle choice! Why should I subsidise them?" "There are too many immigrants taking the jobs and housing" "I've worked hard all my life, I'm entitled to a good pension"
The only solution is to accept that these are all social problems with social solutions, i.e. socialism.
whatever tiny number of kids were actually born in the future would live in a better world for it.
Probably not... Population decline is a serious problem for society. It causes all sorts of economic and social issues. Workers end up supporting too many retired/non-working people, there is a shortage of workers to do all the jobs that need doing (especially healthcare) and so on.
The world fertility rate is already nearing 2.1, i.e. zero growth/decline except for people living longer or catastrophic events like war. The total population will likely level off around 10-12bn by 2100. Modern farming methods can provide more than enough food for that already, and clean energy sources can provide more than enough power for us all to live well. We still need to deal with pollution and waste, but those are solvable problems and the solutions don't involve huge declines in living standards.
Population decline means either massive declines in quality of life or massive immigration. People don't seem to be very keen on either of those.
Maybe it's just the US, there is a boom in tech jobs in Europe at the moment.
In any case, I think a lot of the reason why tech is well paid in the US is that it tends to be based in areas where the cost of living, particularly rent, is insane.
Contrary to what you've been brainwashed to believe, there is no economical value in education beyond the point where someone can use it. There's already legions of people walking around with worthless college diplomas, and yet you're suggesting to take money out of people's pockets to create more of those.
No, the problem is that people seem to think education should give people the exact skills and knowledge they need to do a specific job. That's stupid because the nature of work changes over time, even over the three or four years someone studies for.
University level education is more about giving people a mixture of skills for further learning and general knowledge of common techniques. That's why most courses include general classes on things like economics, basic law, mathematics, English, research techniques, the scientific method etc.
It's then supposed to be up to employees to specialize new employees, with training and accumulated experience.
Instead companies want to treat workers as commodities, and if they can't get those skills locally they just import them. The idea of finding someone who has proven they can learn and has the skills necessary to do so to a high standard and training them doesn't seem to fit the model of "next quarter's bonus" very well.
One disease's gains represent another disease's losses.
Not at all. This technique for this cancer, now proven, will lead to it being adapted for other cancers. No point aiming for the hardest one first, start with an easy one to prove it works reliably and safely and then move on to the harder problems.
as I understand it, the treatment tends to be highly specific to a single person
Indeed, but the most important part of the technique is being able to quickly and relatively cheaply create such a treatment for any given individual.
They are probably realizing that they need to do something fast, because Chinese companies already have mass production and highly successful electric busses with 450kWh batteries. With them on one side, Tesla on the other, and self-driving tech looking at their industry as the first one to conquer, this is the best they could come up with.
It even looks stupid. Why build it in the shape of a classic US style "big rig" (I don't know the proper name), it's not like you need room for a huge motor under that front protrusion.
Wheeled trains can already reach those speeds, the problem is noise. Current high speed trains in Japan run under their rated maximum to keep noise down, especially when leaving tunnels where the air pressure creates a boom.
Japan has been trying various things to deal with the problem, and is going to have its ultra high speed maglev line 90% tunnel with very long braking areas to dissipate the pressure wave.
Maybe they don't care so much about the noise in China, perhaps the tracks are further from populated areas or they have come up with a way of muffling the sound.
The speed limit is because it's not a hard vacuum, it's just low pressure and the cars stay under the speed of sound in it so there is no sonic boom or excessive heating.
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That's similar to the UK. There are "senior" jobs in London offering as low as £50,000/year, which means you can barely afford a shoe box to live in or face a long commute. So the only people who take those jobs are the young and desperate who quickly burn out or people from Eastern Europe who will accept the shoe box.
The difference is that in the UK if you are unemployed you have meagre but survivable benefits to fall back on. The government will pay the interest on your mortgage, for example, so you don't become homeless. I thought people were basically fucked if they were unemployed for any length of time in most of the US.
Thanks, that explains the mechanism. A genuinely useful explanation.
All evidence points towards you not being interested in knowing the truth, and far more interested in shitting on workers. But that's OK, we'll drag down your wages too.
Oh, well, fuck you then.
Why can't people be nice and assume a tiny amount of good faith any more? Don't say it's because it's amimojo, I have repeatedly stuck up for workers' rights and strongly favour employment laws protecting them.
I came here for an argument, but seem to have stumbled into abuse. At least it's not getting hit over the head.
Since I'm here... How much to call me a malodorous bastard?
What is the truth here?
Are wages so low that people would rather be unemployed, allowing employers to go the H1B route? I also hear that there is a lot of H1B fraud, in which case higher wages won't help.
People say there are lots of skilled workers, but also that all the young workers are idiots with no clue and low ability levels.
Women are apparently clever for avoiding tech jobs, but for some reason men are desperate for them and unable to do the jobs women are doing instead.
I just want to know the truth. I don't live in the US so it's hard to know based on Slashdot and crappy "news" articles.
Surely the name "bootcamp" implies that it's just an introduction.
Indeed. Broadcast video quality in Japan is vastly superior to anything I've seen in the US or UK. They decided to have a small number of high quality channels instead of a large number of shit quality ones. In Tokyo you can get about six channels over the air.
The lenses for 8k have been in development since the 1960s when IMAX was introduced. The main challenge was reducing size, power demands and cost of the cameras for use on TV, as well as attaching real-time digital capture/compression tech.
I'm looking forward to affordable 8k computer monitors. 4k is okay up to about 24", but the pixels are visible above that.
8k resolution is close to IMAX for detail. Not quite as good as 70mm film, but close.
You also have to remember that even if your eyes can't see individual pixels at that resolution (a good thing), what matters is the Nyquist frequency which is half the sampling frequency. That's why CDs sample at 44.1kHz, even though the human ear can't hear much about 20kHz.
Basically 8k reduces aliasing, which is something that the eye is quite good at spotting and makes the image look artificial. That's why most of the 4k demos you see are careful to select images that avoid aliasing.
8k isn't just resolution. When they start broadcasting in Japan for the 2020 Olympics, it will be 60Hz native format, and with a colour gamut beyond what current TVs can display.
8k isn't just a resolution bump like 4k was, where they mostly used the same equipment and some upgraded but fundamentally the same cameras as HD/2k. For example, manual focus is impossible with 8k. Until recently only extremely specialist, power hungry hardware was able to process an 8k video stream and save it to storage fast enough. NHK, the Japanese national broadcaster, has been working on it since the 90s and skipped over 4k to concentrate on it. It's not just incremental, it's a genuine attempt to make video almost indistinguishable from reality.
I seem to recall the NSA had some kind of leak a few years ago. Windows is massively pirated in the West already.
In any case, I think you vastly overestimate the value of Windows source code.
It's an iPhone.
The machine was a shiny toy, designed to be desirable and get people to buy into their overpriced ecosystem. They sold it at a loss, hoping to make money on the juice bag subscriptions. Break even was probably around a year.
You could replace "Chinese" with "American" in the headline.
The NSA has access to source code, legally or otherwise, and is just as untrustworthy.
In my experience they know that their spec is unrealistic, and are just using it as an excuse. An excuse to offer less money, or dismiss candidates they dislike but can't legally give the real reason why (age, race etc.)
If they offered me the position but at a lower salary due to lack of experience, I'd just call their bluff tell them to go with the candidate who has more experience. It's not like there is a shortage of tech jobs around here at the moment.
This reminds me of ex slave owners bitching about how they are expected to PAY people to work on their farms now so while abolition was great for the blacks it's really fucked them over.
Was it really malicious though? Everyone knows that Google promotes things your friends have hit +1 on in search results, so naturally putting a handy +1 button on the site will encourage them to do that.
It sounds like a misunderstanding. Can't be sure, need further confirmation.
This. Men are slowly being liberated, like women were in the 60s, from the old gender roles and can now be much more involved with their children with little social stigma. Unfortunately there is still a lot of pressure to take less paternity leave than their partner, and the change is taking much longer than it did for women, but it's happening.
Of course some people see this as a bad thing. They seem to want to go back to the old 1950s model of children being the mother's sole responsibility, except for the odd punishment beating when they misbehave. They see women's liberation as ruining that sweet set-up for them.
Unfortunately conservative politics make this a difficult one to solve.
"Having children is a lifestyle choice! Why should I subsidise them?"
"There are too many immigrants taking the jobs and housing"
"I've worked hard all my life, I'm entitled to a good pension"
The only solution is to accept that these are all social problems with social solutions, i.e. socialism.
whatever tiny number of kids were actually born in the future would live in a better world for it.
Probably not... Population decline is a serious problem for society. It causes all sorts of economic and social issues. Workers end up supporting too many retired/non-working people, there is a shortage of workers to do all the jobs that need doing (especially healthcare) and so on.
The world fertility rate is already nearing 2.1, i.e. zero growth/decline except for people living longer or catastrophic events like war. The total population will likely level off around 10-12bn by 2100. Modern farming methods can provide more than enough food for that already, and clean energy sources can provide more than enough power for us all to live well. We still need to deal with pollution and waste, but those are solvable problems and the solutions don't involve huge declines in living standards.
Population decline means either massive declines in quality of life or massive immigration. People don't seem to be very keen on either of those.
Maybe it's just the US, there is a boom in tech jobs in Europe at the moment.
In any case, I think a lot of the reason why tech is well paid in the US is that it tends to be based in areas where the cost of living, particularly rent, is insane.
2x800km trips in a day would be illegal in the EU. It's not safe to do 16+ hours of driving in a day.
Contrary to what you've been brainwashed to believe, there is no economical value in education beyond the point where someone can use it. There's already legions of people walking around with worthless college diplomas, and yet you're suggesting to take money out of people's pockets to create more of those.
No, the problem is that people seem to think education should give people the exact skills and knowledge they need to do a specific job. That's stupid because the nature of work changes over time, even over the three or four years someone studies for.
University level education is more about giving people a mixture of skills for further learning and general knowledge of common techniques. That's why most courses include general classes on things like economics, basic law, mathematics, English, research techniques, the scientific method etc.
It's then supposed to be up to employees to specialize new employees, with training and accumulated experience.
Instead companies want to treat workers as commodities, and if they can't get those skills locally they just import them. The idea of finding someone who has proven they can learn and has the skills necessary to do so to a high standard and training them doesn't seem to fit the model of "next quarter's bonus" very well.
One disease's gains represent another disease's losses.
Not at all. This technique for this cancer, now proven, will lead to it being adapted for other cancers. No point aiming for the hardest one first, start with an easy one to prove it works reliably and safely and then move on to the harder problems.
as I understand it, the treatment tends to be highly specific to a single person
Indeed, but the most important part of the technique is being able to quickly and relatively cheaply create such a treatment for any given individual.
They are probably realizing that they need to do something fast, because Chinese companies already have mass production and highly successful electric busses with 450kWh batteries. With them on one side, Tesla on the other, and self-driving tech looking at their industry as the first one to conquer, this is the best they could come up with.
It even looks stupid. Why build it in the shape of a classic US style "big rig" (I don't know the proper name), it's not like you need room for a huge motor under that front protrusion.
Wheeled trains can already reach those speeds, the problem is noise. Current high speed trains in Japan run under their rated maximum to keep noise down, especially when leaving tunnels where the air pressure creates a boom.
Japan has been trying various things to deal with the problem, and is going to have its ultra high speed maglev line 90% tunnel with very long braking areas to dissipate the pressure wave.
Maybe they don't care so much about the noise in China, perhaps the tracks are further from populated areas or they have come up with a way of muffling the sound.
The speed limit is because it's not a hard vacuum, it's just low pressure and the cars stay under the speed of sound in it so there is no sonic boom or excessive heating.