3 generations ago carrying itself as a self-perpetuating social disease
One of my neighbors escaped from Vietnam (on a helicopter that was being shot at onto an aircraft carrier), and so grew up with many stories of life under socialism/communism. Something that I recall most vividly was asking him how to solve the problems in that country and he looked very sad and said to kill everyone over the age of 18. Once an idea is embedded into a culture it is almost impossible to eradicate.
I've been to Poland a few times and have friends there. Traveling between Poland and Germany is like traveling between Mexico and the US. I get the distinct impression that they do not like each other either.
If you stand over your beans waiting for them to get done instead of spending 20 seconds to start them in a slow cooker overnight, then you are retarded and very likely on medicare and are having someone cook them for you.
Somebody should make a 1970's version of The 1900 House. Give people a median salary but restrict their purchases to that which was available and at corresponding prices. $0.55 Big Mac on a $7,000 year income.
That's the problem. Given enough time, the odds are 1 that someone evil is going to come along. And as the internet likes to remind me, leaders are sociopaths
than they did before.
As a college student in 1990, I could not afford any of this. If I was in grade school now, I could probably find it for free, or if not, make enough money from sweeping up the leaves from a single neighbors lawn to buy it on ebay. It took me mowing close to 200 lawns to afford my first 16kB computer. Inflation adjusted, an equipped Apple ][ computer cost $10,000 ($3500 in 1980).
And how do you need 103 engineers for a hair dryer? I've done medium large projects for satellites with a dozen or so people and lots of computers and machines with blinky lights.
There are many companies that market embedded chipsets. These are wafer thin (aaahaahahaa) margin products with differentiation coming in percentages of pennies by the millions. They are never seen by consumers, so couldn't care less if your remote control has an ARM, PIC, PPC, ATMEGA, Z80, 6809 or whatever Inside. You push a button, magic happens and your garage opens. That's all that counts. And price, so whenever TI drops quantity pricing and the new redesign requires a new part, the engineer gets the spec sheet and two weeks to deliver a prototype for testing. The software engineers learn the new opcodes, make a few tweaks to the C code and a month later your embedded widget is running on a new processor with reduced chip count because the new processor has more embedded whatever.
Intel exists, almost solely on a completely different business model of high wafer yields due to maniacal focus on a single process good for a couple of years that creates very high margins on each part. How they manage to wade this transition will be interesting.
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it's an affluence thing.
Obvious to anyone who's traveled extensively around the world
What if the stopped eating so much?
One of the jobs of science and data reduction is to remove bias to get to the truth. There are books on the subject.
And wages were not that great until .com sucked up all the engineering talent for anyone who could create an html page.
3 generations ago carrying itself as a self-perpetuating social disease
One of my neighbors escaped from Vietnam (on a helicopter that was being shot at onto an aircraft carrier), and so grew up with many stories of life under socialism/communism. Something that I recall most vividly was asking him how to solve the problems in that country and he looked very sad and said to kill everyone over the age of 18. Once an idea is embedded into a culture it is almost impossible to eradicate.
I've been to Poland a few times and have friends there. Traveling between Poland and Germany is like traveling between Mexico and the US. I get the distinct impression that they do not like each other either.
Ahwatukee is nice :)
If you stand over your beans waiting for them to get done instead of spending 20 seconds to start them in a slow cooker overnight, then you are retarded and very likely on medicare and are having someone cook them for you.
Given their history, distant, not so distant and recent, I would say explode.
Do you now what the median student loan debt is?
Somebody should make a 1970's version of The 1900 House. Give people a median salary but restrict their purchases to that which was available and at corresponding prices. $0.55 Big Mac on a $7,000 year income.
that would only be equivalent to an P60000-7. About enough to send five tons up 150m.
That's the problem. Given enough time, the odds are 1 that someone evil is going to come along. And as the internet likes to remind me, leaders are sociopaths
Is it better to have a very competent government or incompetent one?
True, but it's what people want. There are less costly alternatives.
And do you really spend a lot of time thinking how others see your lifestyle?
Not at all, but many people here do. Beyond the necessities of life, envy is is a form of greed.
Astronaut, doctor, lawyer, scientist, engineer, manager, artist, writer, teacher
aren't you considered poor?
At $200,000USD each (company cost, not salary), that's $20M. I guess they'll only have to sell 50,000 dryers to recoup the NRE costs.
than they did before.
As a college student in 1990, I could not afford any of this. If I was in grade school now, I could probably find it for free, or if not, make enough money from sweeping up the leaves from a single neighbors lawn to buy it on ebay. It took me mowing close to 200 lawns to afford my first 16kB computer.
Inflation adjusted, an equipped Apple ][ computer cost $10,000 ($3500 in 1980).
And how do you need 103 engineers for a hair dryer? I've done medium large projects for satellites with a dozen or so people and lots of computers and machines with blinky lights.
Intel exists, almost solely on a completely different business model of high wafer yields due to maniacal focus on a single process good for a couple of years that creates very high margins on each part. How they manage to wade this transition will be interesting.
And your watch will be you next phone.
It was gigantic. And it was also going very fast.
what you can pull out of the atmosphere
We can mine Venus for CO2 and bring it back to Earth.