they're handling it absolutely in the worst possible way
Nope. Heavy handed as it seems, the only way to make cuts like this is to identify the people who have to go and get it over with quickly. Otherwise the good people leave and you're stuck with people you don't want.
EVERYTHING in the market requires people who want to buy a share later to pay a premium in price to the people who bought shares early
Completely wrong. Investing means buying shares of a company that is expected to become more valuable by earning a profit through business operations. Apple and Microsoft earn billions per year - that income does not come from people speculating on the share price, it comes from selling their products. The price of a share goes up or down depending on what investors expect the company's income will be in the future; a higher price for a more valuable company is not a "premium".
Of course, some people can be talked into buying based on emotion rather than a reasonable expectation of future earnings (e.g.Tesla). That's speculation, not investment, and also borders on Ponzi schemes.
The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer.
Not only feel-good nonsense, but it makes a ridiculous generalization about "coders" as if they are some kind of special life form. Do "carpenters" have a primal urge to "kill inefficiency" because they use power tools?
Yea, I know nobody actually reads the linked article. But if you do happen to read it you'll see this tidbit:
Loyalka and his colleagues also looked at the difference in scores between the men and women in the sample. In every country, the men came out ahead...
It's easy for you ti give consent so HIPAA is not an issue. The problem with looking up your medical record is that looking up medical records is darn near impossible until they become standardized (and don't hold your breath for that or your watch will set off another alarm)
The article doesn't explain how the monthly savings are calculated. The dollar amounts they quote certainly wouldn't cover the installation cost of solar panels (before subsides of course, since they don't change the cost of the installation).
The last Presidential race was a shit show of insane proportions
You ain't seen nothing yet. I wonder if next he's going to brag about how he slept his way up the political ladder. Oh wait, that was Kamala Harris. Or lie about his minority heritage? Nah, Elizabeth Warren already has that angle covered.
When Nancy Pelosi wanted to fly to Brussels on that junket during the government shutdown, did you happen to notice what was going there on that day?
By some amazing coincidence there was a major children's march to raise climate change awareness among political leaders around the world on the day she scheduled a layover in Brussels. Nancy wanted to just happen to be there to stand in front of the cameras posturing as if she's a leader of some sort. Then Trump took away her plane ticket.
Not the way government financed news was set up in the US. Back in the 1960's, Democrats controlled Congress and the White House; they set up PBS and NPR in a way such that it will always be controlled by the left.
Those organizations only hire who the existing management wants to hire - government cannot meddle with it. Sounds fair, right? Wrong. When it was set up originally it was packed with left leaning management and editors, and has drifted even further left since then. There's nothing to keep it fair or unbiased, not the government, not outsiders, not advertisers, nothing. It was set up that way for a reason.
The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. People who maintained this schedule had a unique level of focus in their work.
Based on my experience he has it backwards. People who have a unique level of focus are very good at budgeting their time and know how to pace themselves.
You can buy fractional shares of stock today. This claims to save some broker fees, but that has nothing to do with blockchain and sensible (small) investors don't trade stocks very often anyway.
Gaining enough time to get a second job is irrelevant because that time wasn't available before the wage increase anyway.
Up to the point that the increased workload becomes an excessive burden, fewer hours but getting the same total pay is usually very beneficial; leisure time is scarce and valuable.
What is needed is to bring executive compensation down to merely 500 times minimum wage from the 5-10,000 it currently is.
There are a few grossly overpaid executives, but it's nowhere near as common as some think. You would find a lot more money by limiting entertainers' and professional athletes' compensation.
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they're handling it absolutely in the worst possible way
Nope. Heavy handed as it seems, the only way to make cuts like this is to identify the people who have to go and get it over with quickly. Otherwise the good people leave and you're stuck with people you don't want.
EVERYTHING in the market requires people who want to buy a share later to pay a premium in price to the people who bought shares early
Completely wrong. Investing means buying shares of a company that is expected to become more valuable by earning a profit through business operations. Apple and Microsoft earn billions per year - that income does not come from people speculating on the share price, it comes from selling their products. The price of a share goes up or down depending on what investors expect the company's income will be in the future; a higher price for a more valuable company is not a "premium".
Of course, some people can be talked into buying based on emotion rather than a reasonable expectation of future earnings (e.g.Tesla). That's speculation, not investment, and also borders on Ponzi schemes.
It required a constant infusion of cash to pay those who got in early and had the sense to cash out when they had a chance.
it would be like a carpenter spending hours to make a chest of drawers open more neatly
Carpenters don't make chests of drawers. Carpenters build houses, stores and banks; furniture makers make furniture, it's an entirely different profession.
And if you think "coders" don't follow established procedures you don't know anything about writing software.
Laziness
The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer.
Not only feel-good nonsense, but it makes a ridiculous generalization about "coders" as if they are some kind of special life form. Do "carpenters" have a primal urge to "kill inefficiency" because they use power tools?
He should have axed you to explain it.
They are retroactively imposing a business tax after Google figured out how to legally avoid paying them the first time around.
Loyalka and his colleagues also looked at the difference in scores between the men and women in the sample. In every country, the men came out ahead...
It's easy for you ti give consent so HIPAA is not an issue. The problem with looking up your medical record is that looking up medical records is darn near impossible until they become standardized (and don't hold your breath for that or your watch will set off another alarm)
Gerrymandering does not effect a statewide race, because it's...statewide.
The article doesn't explain how the monthly savings are calculated. The dollar amounts they quote certainly wouldn't cover the installation cost of solar panels (before subsides of course, since they don't change the cost of the installation).
The last Presidential race was a shit show of insane proportions
You ain't seen nothing yet. I wonder if next he's going to brag about how he slept his way up the political ladder. Oh wait, that was Kamala Harris. Or lie about his minority heritage? Nah, Elizabeth Warren already has that angle covered.
When Nancy Pelosi wanted to fly to Brussels on that junket during the government shutdown, did you happen to notice what was going there on that day?
By some amazing coincidence there was a major children's march to raise climate change awareness among political leaders around the world on the day she scheduled a layover in Brussels. Nancy wanted to just happen to be there to stand in front of the cameras posturing as if she's a leader of some sort. Then Trump took away her plane ticket.
Government financed news can possibly be fair
Not the way government financed news was set up in the US. Back in the 1960's, Democrats controlled Congress and the White House; they set up PBS and NPR in a way such that it will always be controlled by the left.
Those organizations only hire who the existing management wants to hire - government cannot meddle with it. Sounds fair, right? Wrong. When it was set up originally it was packed with left leaning management and editors, and has drifted even further left since then. There's nothing to keep it fair or unbiased, not the government, not outsiders, not advertisers, nothing. It was set up that way for a reason.
NASA has always been a marketing agency that does some space and military related work.
And an earlier comment is correct - skip linking to junk news outlets like CNN and use the original source
The scientists calculate that the storm sent at least 10 billion protons per square centimeter into the atmosphere.
That number is hard to comprehend. What would it be in Libraries of Congress per square furlong?
Bribes, - excuse me, donations - payed directly to the schools are also deductible. But at least the school benefits from those.
That's a reasonable idea for an app, but Alexa doesn't add anything to existing apps that use a headset
It doesn't explain dark matter. But I'm sure this is somehow related to Superman's ability to fly.
The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. People who maintained this schedule had a unique level of focus in their work.
Based on my experience he has it backwards. People who have a unique level of focus are very good at budgeting their time and know how to pace themselves.
It is relevant in that the objective is a net improvement.
Why do you believe that? Amazon's objective is to silence criticism that its employees are underpaid.
Employees want $15 per hour? Okay fine, here's $15 per hour - now you need to earn the higher wage.
You can buy fractional shares of stock today. This claims to save some broker fees, but that has nothing to do with blockchain and sensible (small) investors don't trade stocks very often anyway.
Gaining enough time to get a second job is irrelevant because that time wasn't available before the wage increase anyway.
Up to the point that the increased workload becomes an excessive burden, fewer hours but getting the same total pay is usually very beneficial; leisure time is scarce and valuable.
What is needed is to bring executive compensation down to merely 500 times minimum wage from the 5-10,000 it currently is.
There are a few grossly overpaid executives, but it's nowhere near as common as some think. You would find a lot more money by limiting entertainers' and professional athletes' compensation.