Journalism isn't like tech. They have low pay, and no job security. I have met several Uber drivers who tell me that their "real" job is journalism, and they just drive for Uber to pay the bills.
if they're smart, start their own news website.
Sure, because the world needs yet another news aggregator that nobody is willing to pay for.
Where I work, developers get paid a lot more than QA, so it would be silly to use developers as QA. Also, it is a different skillset. A good car mechanic isn't always a good driver.
Developers testing their own shit subconsciously avoid the shoddy parts.
They also tend to have preconceived ideas about how users will use the program that are very wrong.
The first time I watched a videotape of someone using a GUI that I had coded, I kept screaming "NO, not THAT button!!!!", but it was a recording, so they couldn't hear. It was a traumatic and humbling experience.
Any time someone says the free market can police itself, refer them to situations like this.
... and then they will correctly point out that this is not a free market. Free markets have information transparency, and sales based on insider trading are inherently asymmetric.
Here is the official Libertarian view on insider trading: It should not be a crime. Instead, individual companies should have policies and employment contracts restricting what insiders can do. Those companies that refrain from restricting insider trading will find their stock trading at a discount, and will pay more for capital. This will give companies a strong incentive to have robust rules and to enforce them rigorously. They will likely do a better job than the SEC, which has a rather pathetic record.
never email or text anyone about insider trading, got it.
It is amazing how many people don't get it. I have read many email discussions where people openly discuss tax evasion strategies, stealing office supplies, driving stoned, etc. Never, ever, say anything in writing that you can't explain to a judge and jury.
The rules have not changed, but they are complicated. Sales of restricted stock must be pre-announced. Sales of unrestricted stock only have to be announced after the sale.
There are proposals to require pre-announcements of all sales by people presumed to have insider info.
I agree that the engineering is impressive. TFA shows the front of the PCB, and here is the back. More than half the real estate is covered in BGAs. Anyone know how many layers were used? It even looks like it has a removable battery.
My wife has one on order, but, alas, I don't think she will let me disassemble it.
also "Chevy Bolt: 16%" - that's really impressive considering it's barely been on sale for 1 year. But it's also very wrong by at least an order of magnitude.
Do you mean like my Argentine raspberries and strawberries? And my Mexican avocados and coffee? And my Chilean grapes? And my Guatamalan bananas?
YES! That is exactly what I mean. Mexico, Chile, and Guatemala all have free trade access to the American market. Argentina has almost free access. Farmers in all of these countries are doing relatively well.
IOW I'm pretty sure we're already doing this.
Except I could give a much longer list of countries that are not doing this, mostly in Africa.
I'm not aware that much of central and south America have geography like the American and Canadian prairies
Brazil grows almost as many soybeans as America, and the Argentine pampas looks much like the American prairie. But mostly you are correct, which is why it doesn't make sense for Mexico to grow corn when they can make much cheaper tortillas from American corn.
Pretty much the entire Republican plan consists of ways of giving the middle finger to Californians
Farm subsidies also screw California. Midwestern corn and soybean growers get plenty of subsidies, while California walnut, almond, and fruit growers get nothing. The funny thing is, that most Central Valley farmers vote Republican.
Left to the free market, we would buy much cheaper food from overseas
For most bulk crops such as corn, wheat, and soybeans, America is the world's low cost producer. Nobody is going to put American farms out of business.
The problem is actually the opposite: 3rd world cities buy cheap American food, depriving rural areas of income, and push them into poverty. The solution? Free trade. Poor countries should buy capital intensive crops like grain and legumes from America, and focus on labor intensive crops like tomatoes, strawberries, coffee, and mangoes. That makes everyone better off.
Except for, ya know, the 95% of the world outside America.
China is the world's biggest market for electric cars, and Tesla has few sales there.
Even in America, Tesla has less than half the market: Tesla Model S: 29% Tesla Model X: 16% Chevy Bolt: 16% Nissan Leaf: 15% All others are in single digits.
I read reviews carefully, and almost never return anything. My wife, OTOH, returns stuff all the time. She is on a first name basis with all the UPS drivers.
Shoes and clothes... We still need brick and mortar for some things.
Or maybe we should standardize sizes, so an XL from one vendor is the same as an XL from another vendor. Also, sizes should include more than one number. For a shirt, both the chest and waist size should be listed. For shoes you need the length, ball width, and heel width.
There are some companies that train leaders: GE, AT&T, McDonalds.
The military puts a lot of effort into leadership training. One of their best techniques is the "reaction course". I remember doing this at Marine OCS. You take a squad of a dozen Marines, pick one guy to be the leader, and then give them a task such as moving a 55 gal drum across a 15 foot ditch in 10 minutes, using some random lumber and rope. A dozen people are too many to manage directly, so the leader needs to delegate and coordinate. After a few dozen scenarios, it becomes clear who can lead and who can't.
There may indeed be a perception that productivity can't be the same
It is much more than just a perception. Some people will be more productive when telecommuting. Many more will see their productivity drop, in some cases to zero. This is partly due to laziness and distractions, but also due to miscommunications and lack of coordination.
or that any lessening of productivity is not management's fault
There is no magic pixie dust to create perfect managers. Policies should be designed for people as they are in reality, not for some unobtainable ideal. Failure is not okay just because you can put the blame on others. You still failed.
For most of us the answer to why we still commute is buried in organizational resistance to change.
That doesn't explain why many companies tried telecommuting, found the results disappointing, and went back to requiring everyone to come to the office.
Companies are driven by profit. If they could get the same productivity without paying rent and utilities, most would do it. But productivity is not the same.
Einstein never said that. He said that inertial motion is relative. Rotational motion is not inertial, and is not relative. Objects move linearly relative to other objects. But objects rotate in an absolute sense.
If you are locked in a black box, there is no way to determine if you have constant linear velocity. There is also no way to distinguish between gravity and acceleration. But you can detect rotation by using a Foucault pendulum or other scientific instruments.
You realize the USA has some of the most aggressive environmental protection than all of the world, right?
Do you realize that Americans emit twice as much CO2 per capita as China, and eight times as much as India? Expecting them to make equal cuts is ridiculous. The cuts need to be where the waste is.
Actually, no. GDPR clearly states the 4% is calculated for the worldwide turnover
That is NOT clear, since "turnover" is not an accounting or legal term, and is ambiguous. Depending on context "turnover" can mean gross revenue, net revenue, net income, or even include consignments that are neither revenue nor income. I doubt very much that the actual law will use that word.
there needs to be criminal liability for senior management too.
If we are going to start putting people in prison for incompetence, then we will need a lot more prisons.
America already imprisons four times as many people as any other 1st world country. Perhaps we should stop looking at incarceration as the solution to every problem.
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Those people will likely quickly land somewhere
Journalism isn't like tech. They have low pay, and no job security. I have met several Uber drivers who tell me that their "real" job is journalism, and they just drive for Uber to pay the bills.
if they're smart, start their own news website.
Sure, because the world needs yet another news aggregator that nobody is willing to pay for.
Or we could just NOT BUY THIS CRAP.
That is still an option snoflake..
No, not an option. Go to Walmart and look at the TVs. Every single one is "smart".
Where I work, developers get paid a lot more than QA, so it would be silly to use developers as QA. Also, it is a different skillset. A good car mechanic isn't always a good driver.
Developers testing their own shit subconsciously avoid the shoddy parts.
They also tend to have preconceived ideas about how users will use the program that are very wrong.
The first time I watched a videotape of someone using a GUI that I had coded, I kept screaming "NO, not THAT button!!!!", but it was a recording, so they couldn't hear. It was a traumatic and humbling experience.
I’m obviously no expert, but even I know you can't just say "strength".
Also, "under certain conditions"... Could you get any more weasely?
The weasel words came from the journalist, who felt a need to dumb things down for a general audience.
The actual paper is much more specific and unambiguous.
Any time someone says the free market can police itself, refer them to situations like this.
... and then they will correctly point out that this is not a free market. Free markets have information transparency, and sales based on insider trading are inherently asymmetric.
Here is the official Libertarian view on insider trading: It should not be a crime. Instead, individual companies should have policies and employment contracts restricting what insiders can do. Those companies that refrain from restricting insider trading will find their stock trading at a discount, and will pay more for capital. This will give companies a strong incentive to have robust rules and to enforce them rigorously. They will likely do a better job than the SEC, which has a rather pathetic record.
never email or text anyone about insider trading, got it.
It is amazing how many people don't get it. I have read many email discussions where people openly discuss tax evasion strategies, stealing office supplies, driving stoned, etc. Never, ever, say anything in writing that you can't explain to a judge and jury.
The rules have not changed, but they are complicated. Sales of restricted stock must be pre-announced. Sales of unrestricted stock only have to be announced after the sale.
There are proposals to require pre-announcements of all sales by people presumed to have insider info.
I agree that the engineering is impressive. TFA shows the front of the PCB, and here is the back. More than half the real estate is covered in BGAs. Anyone know how many layers were used? It even looks like it has a removable battery.
My wife has one on order, but, alas, I don't think she will let me disassemble it.
also "Chevy Bolt: 16%" - that's really impressive considering it's barely been on sale for 1 year. But it's also very wrong by at least an order of magnitude.
So their actual market share is 160%?
Do you mean like my Argentine raspberries and strawberries? And my Mexican avocados and coffee? And my Chilean grapes? And my Guatamalan bananas?
YES! That is exactly what I mean. Mexico, Chile, and Guatemala all have free trade access to the American market. Argentina has almost free access. Farmers in all of these countries are doing relatively well.
IOW I'm pretty sure we're already doing this.
Except I could give a much longer list of countries that are not doing this, mostly in Africa.
I'm not aware that much of central and south America have geography like the American and Canadian prairies
Brazil grows almost as many soybeans as America, and the Argentine pampas looks much like the American prairie. But mostly you are correct, which is why it doesn't make sense for Mexico to grow corn when they can make much cheaper tortillas from American corn.
Pretty much the entire Republican plan consists of ways of giving the middle finger to Californians
Farm subsidies also screw California. Midwestern corn and soybean growers get plenty of subsidies, while California walnut, almond, and fruit growers get nothing. The funny thing is, that most Central Valley farmers vote Republican.
Left to the free market, we would buy much cheaper food from overseas
For most bulk crops such as corn, wheat, and soybeans, America is the world's low cost producer. Nobody is going to put American farms out of business.
The problem is actually the opposite: 3rd world cities buy cheap American food, depriving rural areas of income, and push them into poverty. The solution? Free trade. Poor countries should buy capital intensive crops like grain and legumes from America, and focus on labor intensive crops like tomatoes, strawberries, coffee, and mangoes. That makes everyone better off.
the only real electric vehicle producer is Tesla.
Except for, ya know, the 95% of the world outside America.
China is the world's biggest market for electric cars, and Tesla has few sales there.
Even in America, Tesla has less than half the market:
Tesla Model S: 29%
Tesla Model X: 16%
Chevy Bolt: 16%
Nissan Leaf: 15%
All others are in single digits.
1/3 of all online orders are returned?
Does this match anyone's experience?
I read reviews carefully, and almost never return anything. My wife, OTOH, returns stuff all the time. She is on a first name basis with all the UPS drivers.
Shoes and clothes ... We still need brick and mortar for some things.
Or maybe we should standardize sizes, so an XL from one vendor is the same as an XL from another vendor. Also, sizes should include more than one number. For a shirt, both the chest and waist size should be listed. For shoes you need the length, ball width, and heel width.
There are some companies that train leaders: GE, AT&T, McDonalds.
The military puts a lot of effort into leadership training. One of their best techniques is the "reaction course". I remember doing this at Marine OCS. You take a squad of a dozen Marines, pick one guy to be the leader, and then give them a task such as moving a 55 gal drum across a 15 foot ditch in 10 minutes, using some random lumber and rope. A dozen people are too many to manage directly, so the leader needs to delegate and coordinate. After a few dozen scenarios, it becomes clear who can lead and who can't.
There may indeed be a perception that productivity can't be the same
It is much more than just a perception. Some people will be more productive when telecommuting. Many more will see their productivity drop, in some cases to zero. This is partly due to laziness and distractions, but also due to miscommunications and lack of coordination.
or that any lessening of productivity is not management's fault
There is no magic pixie dust to create perfect managers. Policies should be designed for people as they are in reality, not for some unobtainable ideal. Failure is not okay just because you can put the blame on others. You still failed.
For most of us the answer to why we still commute is buried in organizational resistance to change.
That doesn't explain why many companies tried telecommuting, found the results disappointing, and went back to requiring everyone to come to the office.
Companies are driven by profit. If they could get the same productivity without paying rent and utilities, most would do it. But productivity is not the same.
As Einstein said, everything is relative...
Einstein never said that. He said that inertial motion is relative. Rotational motion is not inertial, and is not relative. Objects move linearly relative to other objects. But objects rotate in an absolute sense.
If you are locked in a black box, there is no way to determine if you have constant linear velocity. There is also no way to distinguish between gravity and acceleration. But you can detect rotation by using a Foucault pendulum or other scientific instruments.
You realize the USA has some of the most aggressive environmental protection than all of the world, right?
Do you realize that Americans emit twice as much CO2 per capita as China, and eight times as much as India? Expecting them to make equal cuts is ridiculous. The cuts need to be where the waste is.
List of countries by per capita CO2 emissions
How many are incarcerated for petty drug crimes?
In America, about 20% are incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses.
Actually, no. GDPR clearly states the 4% is calculated for the worldwide turnover
That is NOT clear, since "turnover" is not an accounting or legal term, and is ambiguous. Depending on context "turnover" can mean gross revenue, net revenue, net income, or even include consignments that are neither revenue nor income. I doubt very much that the actual law will use that word.
%.00006 of $11.2B is $7,000.
The $11.2B is revenue, not profit. Their profit last year was $309M, or less than 3% of revenue.
there needs to be criminal liability for senior management too.
If we are going to start putting people in prison for incompetence, then we will need a lot more prisons.
America already imprisons four times as many people as any other 1st world country. Perhaps we should stop looking at incarceration as the solution to every problem.