I think anyone who was educated on the hyperinflation of the Deutsche mark after WWI could have called it. The reason for that hyperinflation is completely unrelated, but it doesn't take much to see that being completely tied to one currency that is fluctuating wildly isn't sustainable and wreaks havoc on economies.
Bitcoin might have staying power. It might keep getting acceptance for some things. But it's a pipe dream to assume it's going to obsolete the fiat currencies we have today (at least in its current form). Those currencies are the way they are PRECISELY because they are centrally managed to try to control inflation/deflation.
Darn near every example quoted could be argued as some time of hiring discrimination. "Good cultural fit"? Haha, might as well get your lawyers on speed dial.
MAYBE just MAYBE you could try to argue that it would allow you to detect a candidate who is full of it, but this idea overall sounds like a legal nightmare.
While I don't disagree he's got stuff coming out of his ears, I seriously doubt he is getting the semi-fab business. In this case, likely an ASIC, it will probably be designed by an outside firm and fab'd by one of the many contract fabs available.
If there are dedicated functions or custom designs it can certainly make sense to drop the investment to develop one if you expect volumes to be high.
With the inordinately low volume of bitcoin and its inherent instability, I can't see it gaining a foothold anywhere significant. Its value is fluctuating so widely, any major business would be crazy to accept it now. How are you supposed to budget and forecast against a currency that fluctuated 65% in a week?
To big businesses, it might as well be monopoly money. Trying to work that against cost of goods sold, operating expenses, etc is in now way worth the effort.
They did. The laws are designed to protect against someone who is unqualified from claiming to offer engineering as a service or offer their work as certified licensed work.
The person down at the local subway can call himself a "sandwich engineer" if they so choose, but as soon as they start claiming they can design structures, power grids, etc for someone, they're in trouble.
As an example, my good friend couldn't even put "engineering" in the title of his side business because he wasn't going to offer true engineering as a service. He is a licensed P.E. in three states..
Maybe the way to scare these ISPs into leaving this alone is making it an "all or nothing" situation. If you are going to throttle or block certain data, then you become responsible for policing ALL OF IT. If you insert yourself as the keeper of the data, you better be blocking all illegal and illicit content, failing to do so at their own peril.
Maybe some are realizing there are other paths to life than spending a majority of it sitting in traffic and in a cubicle. Good for them. Farming is no picnic of its own, of course, but definitely a different road.
I had to have a look myself. To be fair, she is responding to some pretty self-righteous men in her column. The only problem is she is responding ALSO in the most arrogant, self-righteous way possible.
Nobody wants to hear that he might have autism. Not because it may or may not be true, but it forces people to recognize this is a complex issue with valid points from many sides. It makes it harder for people to vilify someone with black and white logic, and people who have already made up their minds hate that kind of thing.
Not every slide needs a graphic. Seriously, just explain the concept instead of throwing up some kooky graphic pulled out of the depths of your arsehole to try illustrate something complex.
Is person getting their shit done in a timely manner? Yes/No. If Yes, job done. If no, have you given them feedback on this? Yes/No. If Yes, maybe they don't belong here. If no, give them feedback they need to be a little more disciplined.
Oh wait, that requires actual work. Hahaha, who am I kidding.
(Actually I'm lucky enough to work in a company that does behave this way)
Those are good points (and the reality). I suspect the ignorance of those leads most people to immediately dismiss it because losing a package feels like much less risk than letting a stranger into your house. Obviously it's not unsupervised or without oversight as you point out, but apparently that messaging isn't getting through. (Or is intentionally being omitted to make more interesting news pieces)
I mean, unless you work for a soul-less corporation who will preemptively can you because you are a "flight risk", how's this bad for employees? If you truly are a good performer or marketable, sounds like this will just make companies step up if they want to keep you around (if they choose to use it, which they obviously don't have to).
If people knew the crap mobile device manufacturers had to do just to make the tiny, barely speakers actually act like anything resembling the behavior you'd expect from a speaker, a DAC would be the least of their worries.
Audio is a race to the bottom right now, especially in the consumer space. Super high integration (read: tiny) and cost are the key drivers because of mobile electronics.
A lack of understanding of just how much components can differ, usually passive components, can turn a decent design into a yield nightmare. Take the humble capacitor for instance. If you don't understand the dielectric type you are using, you are in for it. The "specs" of the cap will likely guarantee you very little. You design your power supply expecting a loss of about 30% of capacitance at the output voltage. Then you switch manufacturers with a slightly different dielectric chemistry (or your manufacturer simply modifies their chemistry) and you lost 50% and your power supply suddenly becomes an oscillator. Too bad, the specs only guaranteed capacitance variation over temp. They give no guarantees on capacitance change with bias voltage. Ask me how I know... These are hard learned lessons for any design engineer serious about electronics.
From first hand experience, clearance != good performer. So what are you left with? Hoping they'll divulge secrets? That's the whole point of the security clearance. They see things and work on things they CAN'T and WON'T (or at least shouldn't) share anywhere else.
I had a friend who wanted security clearance so he could talk to other people with clearance and learn cool secrets. It doesn't work that way. You seriously do need a reason to be exposed to classified information, you can't just start sharing it freely once you're "in the club".
These likely also have ITAR concerns as well. At the company I work for, we are not allowed to sell products with powerful FPGAs to many countries without an explicit export license, and lattice makes many FPGAs.
As someone who designs electronics, if you had to design it so it couldn't possibly fail in 2 years it would be so prohibitively expensive no one would buy it.
Warranties are meant to catch the outliers, and they are a liability. Of course they are going to limit it. Yeah it sucks if it dies at one year and one day, but there a lot of other conditions that Apple did not force that make that suck more.
Sincerely, an android user.
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Good to know our U.S. government aren't the only idiots to declare war on ideological and intangible things.
You want to fix a problem, then work towards a solution instead of chest-beating and pretending to "declare war" on it.
I think anyone who was educated on the hyperinflation of the Deutsche mark after WWI could have called it. The reason for that hyperinflation is completely unrelated, but it doesn't take much to see that being completely tied to one currency that is fluctuating wildly isn't sustainable and wreaks havoc on economies.
Bitcoin might have staying power. It might keep getting acceptance for some things. But it's a pipe dream to assume it's going to obsolete the fiat currencies we have today (at least in its current form). Those currencies are the way they are PRECISELY because they are centrally managed to try to control inflation/deflation.
First rule of responsible gambling: Don't gamble with more money than you can afford to lose. I guess nobody taught them that?
And make no mistake, it most certainly IS gambling at this point.
Darn near every example quoted could be argued as some time of hiring discrimination. "Good cultural fit"? Haha, might as well get your lawyers on speed dial.
MAYBE just MAYBE you could try to argue that it would allow you to detect a candidate who is full of it, but this idea overall sounds like a legal nightmare.
Good point!
While I don't disagree he's got stuff coming out of his ears, I seriously doubt he is getting the semi-fab business. In this case, likely an ASIC, it will probably be designed by an outside firm and fab'd by one of the many contract fabs available.
If there are dedicated functions or custom designs it can certainly make sense to drop the investment to develop one if you expect volumes to be high.
With the inordinately low volume of bitcoin and its inherent instability, I can't see it gaining a foothold anywhere significant. Its value is fluctuating so widely, any major business would be crazy to accept it now. How are you supposed to budget and forecast against a currency that fluctuated 65% in a week?
To big businesses, it might as well be monopoly money. Trying to work that against cost of goods sold, operating expenses, etc is in now way worth the effort.
They did. The laws are designed to protect against someone who is unqualified from claiming to offer engineering as a service or offer their work as certified licensed work.
The person down at the local subway can call himself a "sandwich engineer" if they so choose, but as soon as they start claiming they can design structures, power grids, etc for someone, they're in trouble.
As an example, my good friend couldn't even put "engineering" in the title of his side business because he wasn't going to offer true engineering as a service. He is a licensed P.E. in three states..
Maybe the way to scare these ISPs into leaving this alone is making it an "all or nothing" situation. If you are going to throttle or block certain data, then you become responsible for policing ALL OF IT. If you insert yourself as the keeper of the data, you better be blocking all illegal and illicit content, failing to do so at their own peril.
Eh, wishful thinking, I know.
Really? Petitioning the federal government to release a movie edit? Shit like this, no wonder this country is a laughingstock.
Maybe some are realizing there are other paths to life than spending a majority of it sitting in traffic and in a cubicle. Good for them. Farming is no picnic of its own, of course, but definitely a different road.
I had to have a look myself. To be fair, she is responding to some pretty self-righteous men in her column. The only problem is she is responding ALSO in the most arrogant, self-righteous way possible.
tl;dr douchebags being douchebags
Nobody wants to hear that he might have autism. Not because it may or may not be true, but it forces people to recognize this is a complex issue with valid points from many sides. It makes it harder for people to vilify someone with black and white logic, and people who have already made up their minds hate that kind of thing.
If you're that bad at research I don't mind you staying put.
Not every slide needs a graphic. Seriously, just explain the concept instead of throwing up some kooky graphic pulled out of the depths of your arsehole to try illustrate something complex.
Imagine the enlargement pill ads when they start figuring out who would actually benefit!
I'm terrible, I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself, the article made it too easy.
Is person getting their shit done in a timely manner? Yes/No. If Yes, job done. If no, have you given them feedback on this? Yes/No. If Yes, maybe they don't belong here. If no, give them feedback they need to be a little more disciplined.
Oh wait, that requires actual work. Hahaha, who am I kidding.
(Actually I'm lucky enough to work in a company that does behave this way)
Those are good points (and the reality). I suspect the ignorance of those leads most people to immediately dismiss it because losing a package feels like much less risk than letting a stranger into your house.
Obviously it's not unsupervised or without oversight as you point out, but apparently that messaging isn't getting through. (Or is intentionally being omitted to make more interesting news pieces)
I mean, unless you work for a soul-less corporation who will preemptively can you because you are a "flight risk", how's this bad for employees? If you truly are a good performer or marketable, sounds like this will just make companies step up if they want to keep you around (if they choose to use it, which they obviously don't have to).
Because that's TOTALLY why everyone hates it, the incorrect grammar.
If people knew the crap mobile device manufacturers had to do just to make the tiny, barely speakers actually act like anything resembling the behavior you'd expect from a speaker, a DAC would be the least of their worries.
Audio is a race to the bottom right now, especially in the consumer space. Super high integration (read: tiny) and cost are the key drivers because of mobile electronics.
A lack of understanding of just how much components can differ, usually passive components, can turn a decent design into a yield nightmare. Take the humble capacitor for instance. If you don't understand the dielectric type you are using, you are in for it. The "specs" of the cap will likely guarantee you very little. You design your power supply expecting a loss of about 30% of capacitance at the output voltage. Then you switch manufacturers with a slightly different dielectric chemistry (or your manufacturer simply modifies their chemistry) and you lost 50% and your power supply suddenly becomes an oscillator. Too bad, the specs only guaranteed capacitance variation over temp. They give no guarantees on capacitance change with bias voltage. Ask me how I know... These are hard learned lessons for any design engineer serious about electronics.
From first hand experience, clearance != good performer. So what are you left with? Hoping they'll divulge secrets? That's the whole point of the security clearance. They see things and work on things they CAN'T and WON'T (or at least shouldn't) share anywhere else.
I had a friend who wanted security clearance so he could talk to other people with clearance and learn cool secrets. It doesn't work that way. You seriously do need a reason to be exposed to classified information, you can't just start sharing it freely once you're "in the club".
1 for the original emergency
1 for the rider of the crashed "hoverbike"
1 for the poor soul now missing a limb thanks to the crashed "hoverbike"
These likely also have ITAR concerns as well. At the company I work for, we are not allowed to sell products with powerful FPGAs to many countries without an explicit export license, and lattice makes many FPGAs.
As someone who designs electronics, if you had to design it so it couldn't possibly fail in 2 years it would be so prohibitively expensive no one would buy it.
Warranties are meant to catch the outliers, and they are a liability. Of course they are going to limit it. Yeah it sucks if it dies at one year and one day, but there a lot of other conditions that Apple did not force that make that suck more. Sincerely, an android user.