Nope. China took the jobs. List of countries by steel production. China produces five times as much steel as the EU, and ten times as much as America.
Steel is a really bad money-losing business to be in. An automated steel mill may seem clean, but you also need coal mines, coke kilns, limestone quarries, etc. It is better to let someone else make it, and just buy what we need.
The history of how Walmart crushed Kmart and other competitors is interesting. Walmart was very innovative, and used technology to streamline their supply chain, cut shrinkage, avoid surplus inventory, etc. This let them cut prices below what their competitors could charge.
They also used tech to forecast demand and improve sales-per-customer. Before Walmart, a department store would have a "men's accessories" section with ties, belts, socks, etc. But then Walmart scrutinized checkout data and make the SHOCKING discovery that people don't buy ties, belts, and socks together. They buy ties with shirts, belts with pants, and socks with shoes. Who would have guessed? So Walmart reconfigured their sales floors to put the belts next to the pants, the ties next to the dress shirts, and the socks near the shoes. The result? Increased sales.
vertical, where the company controls every aspect from beginning to end as much as possible and dictates all aspects of everything that the company deals with.
No. Horizontal integration can make you a monopoly. Vertical integration does not, unless you horizontally dominate at least one of the layers. Having dominating power over suppliers is not a monopoly, it is a monopsony.
There are strong and weak points in the American system. Overall, our healthcare system sucks big time.
But if you look at overall economic performance, the American model works better. We are better at creating prosperity, and better at putting people to work. The few EU countries that even come close are small, and demographically homogeneous. Blacks in America have twice the average unemployment rate, while blacks in Sweden have four times the average unemployment rate. This indicates their model relies more demography than economic principles. We tried using the "Swedish Model" of high taxes and generous services in America, and the result was Detroit.
Yea, too bad Steve Jobs as a non-tech person couldn't lead Apple....err...wait a minute...
Technical details were not Steve's strong point, but he knew how to code, and knew circuit board design. Before starting at Apple, he worked as a technician at Atari, where his boss said: "Steve was difficult but valuable. He was very often the smartest guy in the room, and he would let people know that."
Steve knew enough about engineering to know what was possible, and know when engineers were BSing him.
Yes it is, at least economically. List of countries by average wage. In the EU, only Luxembourg has higher household incomes, and it is a tax haven. Norway has a higher per capita GDP, but it also has a small population and a lot of offshore oil. Denmark and Sweden are behind, but close. The US is far ahead of most other EU countries.
Otherwise, we are going to see some serious upheaval - people are going to revolt.
Instead of revolting, people can just vote for what they want instead of voting for what they don't want. The Libertarian and Green party candidates who promised real change got a collective 4% of the vote. That doesn't seem like a groundswell for change. Somebody too apathetic to vote likely will also be too apathetic to join a revolution.
And we have guns
The gun owners voted for Trump.
Anyway, the current economy is working very well for me, and revolutions have an extremely poor track record of improving living conditions, so I'll just make some popcorn and hope your revolution is televised.
The alternative scenario is that oil will have run out and become too expensive to fuel even economy eurocars
Current trends are that oil is getting cheaper, and we are finding new sources of oil faster than we are depleting old wells. Cheap plentiful oil is actually a problem, because it makes it harder to transition to carbon-free transportation.
Anyway, I hope he negotiated one hell of a golden handshake.
Why? Is giving some rich guy a luxurious reward for failure really more important that leaving the money in a company that will spend it advancing technology?
Way too many co-workers were forced or voluntarily tried the Engineer -> Engineering Leader route and turned out to hate it.
Not all techs can lead, but some of them need to. Non-techs can't effectively lead technical teams. Some may claim that "leadership is leadership" but that is not true. You can't lead if you don't understand the issues.
yoga is a way for Hinduism to infiltrate the western world and spread their religion.
Hindus have very little interest in spreading their religion to the Western World. Hinduism is tightly bound to Indian culture, and doesn't fit well at all into other cultures. Christianity and Islam are unusual in being universal religions that can apply to all of humanity. Most religions are tribal, like Hinduism and Judaism, and adherents make little or no effort to proselytize to other ethnicities.
Yoga is not a threat to American civilization. You should go back to worrying about Sharia.
Isn't yoga physical therapy? Except for the therapist / yoga guru, they seem the same.
Pretty much. My wife has a back injury and tried both yoga and physical therapy. The yoga was stretching and exercises. The physical therapy was stretching and exercises. The only difference was that PT cost money, while she could learn yoga for free from Youtube videos.
Nonsense. America is not "moving back to coal". That was just empty talk to win votes from stupid people.
In the real world, achievements mean more than ambitions. If you look at which country has made the most breakthroughs in efficient lighting, better engines, more power dense batteries that charge faster, biofuels, solar energy, bigger wind turbines, and the manufacturing techniques to make it all happen, it is not Sweden, but America that is in front. Europeans should talk less and do more.
Waiting to fly at night is one solution. Another solution is to lighten the load, by limiting the number of passengers, or carrying less extra cargo. Shorter flights can still take off in the heat since they have less fuel to weigh down the aircraft.
" It is computers solving complex problems" If THAT is what you call "AI", then the term is meaningless.
It is not AI because it is solving "complex" problems, but because it is using machine learning to figure out for itself how to solve the problem. Machine learning is a (very important) part of AI.
Look, I understand that you have seen some Will Smith movies on Netflix about robots and AI and stuff, and you think that is "AI". But this is a technical forum for nerds, not a movie discussion board. When actual researchers are discussing "AI", they are almost never talking about human level "strong AI", which is still science fiction. They are talking about "weak AI", which means exactly the type of research referred to in TFA.
Every time there is any article about AI, someone (often you) has to stick their nose in and start saying "This isn't AI", "This isn't AI". That adds nothing to the discussion. So either learn the terminology, and participate like an adult, or go back to Netflix.
Also, AI researchers did not "steal" the term "Artificial Intelligence" from Hollywood. It was the other way around.
You know, a McDonalds won't be around long without a burger flipper.
But the burger flipper can be easily replaced by someone willing to accept a similar wage.
There is plenty of room for that wage to grow before it becomes financially better to not run the McDonalds.
It doesn't need to grow much to price burgers out of the market, and people will eat something else that requires less labor. Or the McDonalds franchisee will switch to an automatic grilling machine. Or hire fewer but more productive people.
Go to a Walmart and look at the people working there. My local store has one worker in a wheelchair, and a few that look and act like they have Down's Syndrome. Raising wages won't help these people, because if wages go up, Walmart will be able to hire different people, and their current workers will be priced out of the market.
You have to prove that not only the sample test parts pass standards, but that the process is consistent and will always produce parts that meet standards. That's a little more time consuming.
Yes, it is time consuming, but it has ALREADY BEEN DONE. These parts have been thoroughly tested, have already been used in military aircraft, and have a good track record.
You are implying that the FAA is saying "We would like you to do more testing of X, Y, and Z for issues A, B and C", when what they are actually saying is "I am retiring in two years, and I don't want to make any decision that might jeopardize my pension."
In a 3D printed part every one of the thousands of layers is a potential failure point.
You are making it sound like each "layer" is an monolithic element. A 3D part is built up by layers, but the sintering is done by a spot laser that does not leave any continuous shear weakness between layers. The parts can also be annealed after forming, to make them behave more like traditional metal parts, although that is not always helpful. 3D parts can have slightly lower bulk strength, but are better at inhibiting crack propagation, which is a bigger concern in aerospace applications.
Nothing is being "rushed to market". 3D printed structural parts have been in use for more than a decade, including in military aircraft. It is proven technology.
This is one area where you REALLY want to make sure you get it right.
The delay in approval is not to take more time to "get it right". It is just bureaucratic inertia by career chair warmers afraid to make a decision. The tests necessary to prove the structural integrity of these parts is not particularly time consuming, and has ALREADY BEEN DONE. Now we are just waiting while the forms sit in somebody's inbox.
what do you keep on your phone that doesn't fit on 100+GB of storage??
The point of a card slot is not having "extra" storage but having "removable" storage. I can pop out the card, edit the files on my laptop, or give it to a friend or co-worker.
Also, my family photo album is way more that 100+ GB. I don't really need to carry all the photos and home-movies with me, but it is nice, and a 256GB MicroSD card costs less than $40, so why not?
Most leaks that originate in Asia come from component suppliers. Apple has little control over wages deep in their supply line, even if there was some reason to believe that would stop leaks (it wouldn't).
Apple does not directly employ many people in China, but the people it does employ are pretty well paid by Chinese standards, and Apple is considered a prestigious company to work for. The contracting assembly companies also pay well by Chinese standards. A Foxconn worker in Shenzhen can take home about $600 per month, which is considered middle income in China. Workers in Chongqing take home less, but the cost of living there is also less, and it is much easier for migrant workers to visit their families back on the farm on weekends and holidays.
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Nope. China took the jobs. List of countries by steel production. China produces five times as much steel as the EU, and ten times as much as America.
Steel is a really bad money-losing business to be in. An automated steel mill may seem clean, but you also need coal mines, coke kilns, limestone quarries, etc. It is better to let someone else make it, and just buy what we need.
The history of how Walmart crushed Kmart and other competitors is interesting. Walmart was very innovative, and used technology to streamline their supply chain, cut shrinkage, avoid surplus inventory, etc. This let them cut prices below what their competitors could charge.
They also used tech to forecast demand and improve sales-per-customer. Before Walmart, a department store would have a "men's accessories" section with ties, belts, socks, etc. But then Walmart scrutinized checkout data and make the SHOCKING discovery that people don't buy ties, belts, and socks together. They buy ties with shirts, belts with pants, and socks with shoes. Who would have guessed? So Walmart reconfigured their sales floors to put the belts next to the pants, the ties next to the dress shirts, and the socks near the shoes. The result? Increased sales.
vertical, where the company controls every aspect from beginning to end as much as possible and dictates all aspects of everything that the company deals with.
No. Horizontal integration can make you a monopoly. Vertical integration does not, unless you horizontally dominate at least one of the layers. Having dominating power over suppliers is not a monopoly, it is a monopsony.
How's healthcare working out for you?
There are strong and weak points in the American system. Overall, our healthcare system sucks big time.
But if you look at overall economic performance, the American model works better. We are better at creating prosperity, and better at putting people to work. The few EU countries that even come close are small, and demographically homogeneous. Blacks in America have twice the average unemployment rate, while blacks in Sweden have four times the average unemployment rate. This indicates their model relies more demography than economic principles. We tried using the "Swedish Model" of high taxes and generous services in America, and the result was Detroit.
Yea, too bad Steve Jobs as a non-tech person couldn't lead Apple....err...wait a minute...
Technical details were not Steve's strong point, but he knew how to code, and knew circuit board design. Before starting at Apple, he worked as a technician at Atari, where his boss said: "Steve was difficult but valuable. He was very often the smartest guy in the room, and he would let people know that."
Steve knew enough about engineering to know what was possible, and know when engineers were BSing him.
Americe is not better of than Europe.
Yes it is, at least economically. List of countries by average wage. In the EU, only Luxembourg has higher household incomes, and it is a tax haven. Norway has a higher per capita GDP, but it also has a small population and a lot of offshore oil. Denmark and Sweden are behind, but close. The US is far ahead of most other EU countries.
Otherwise, we are going to see some serious upheaval - people are going to revolt.
Instead of revolting, people can just vote for what they want instead of voting for what they don't want. The Libertarian and Green party candidates who promised real change got a collective 4% of the vote. That doesn't seem like a groundswell for change. Somebody too apathetic to vote likely will also be too apathetic to join a revolution.
And we have guns
The gun owners voted for Trump.
Anyway, the current economy is working very well for me, and revolutions have an extremely poor track record of improving living conditions, so I'll just make some popcorn and hope your revolution is televised.
The alternative scenario is that oil will have run out and become too expensive to fuel even economy eurocars
Current trends are that oil is getting cheaper, and we are finding new sources of oil faster than we are depleting old wells. Cheap plentiful oil is actually a problem, because it makes it harder to transition to carbon-free transportation.
Turns out he got caught fucking the boss's wife!
Nope. The boss doesn't currently have a wife. Maybe it was one of his ex-wives.
Anyway, I hope he negotiated one hell of a golden handshake.
Why? Is giving some rich guy a luxurious reward for failure really more important that leaving the money in a company that will spend it advancing technology?
Way too many co-workers were forced or voluntarily tried the Engineer -> Engineering Leader route and turned out to hate it.
Not all techs can lead, but some of them need to. Non-techs can't effectively lead technical teams. Some may claim that "leadership is leadership" but that is not true. You can't lead if you don't understand the issues.
yoga is a way for Hinduism to infiltrate the western world and spread their religion.
Hindus have very little interest in spreading their religion to the Western World. Hinduism is tightly bound to Indian culture, and doesn't fit well at all into other cultures. Christianity and Islam are unusual in being universal religions that can apply to all of humanity. Most religions are tribal, like Hinduism and Judaism, and adherents make little or no effort to proselytize to other ethnicities.
Yoga is not a threat to American civilization. You should go back to worrying about Sharia.
Isn't yoga physical therapy? Except for the therapist / yoga guru, they seem the same.
Pretty much. My wife has a back injury and tried both yoga and physical therapy. The yoga was stretching and exercises. The physical therapy was stretching and exercises. The only difference was that PT cost money, while she could learn yoga for free from Youtube videos.
Nonsense. America is not "moving back to coal". That was just empty talk to win votes from stupid people.
In the real world, achievements mean more than ambitions. If you look at which country has made the most breakthroughs in efficient lighting, better engines, more power dense batteries that charge faster, biofuels, solar energy, bigger wind turbines, and the manufacturing techniques to make it all happen, it is not Sweden, but America that is in front. Europeans should talk less and do more.
Waiting to fly at night is one solution. Another solution is to lighten the load, by limiting the number of passengers, or carrying less extra cargo. Shorter flights can still take off in the heat since they have less fuel to weigh down the aircraft.
" It is computers solving complex problems"
If THAT is what you call "AI", then the term is meaningless.
It is not AI because it is solving "complex" problems, but because it is using machine learning to figure out for itself how to solve the problem. Machine learning is a (very important) part of AI.
Look, I understand that you have seen some Will Smith movies on Netflix about robots and AI and stuff, and you think that is "AI". But this is a technical forum for nerds, not a movie discussion board. When actual researchers are discussing "AI", they are almost never talking about human level "strong AI", which is still science fiction. They are talking about "weak AI", which means exactly the type of research referred to in TFA.
Every time there is any article about AI, someone (often you) has to stick their nose in and start saying "This isn't AI", "This isn't AI". That adds nothing to the discussion. So either learn the terminology, and participate like an adult, or go back to Netflix.
Also, AI researchers did not "steal" the term "Artificial Intelligence" from Hollywood. It was the other way around.
You know, a McDonalds won't be around long without a burger flipper.
But the burger flipper can be easily replaced by someone willing to accept a similar wage.
There is plenty of room for that wage to grow before it becomes financially better to not run the McDonalds.
It doesn't need to grow much to price burgers out of the market, and people will eat something else that requires less labor. Or the McDonalds franchisee will switch to an automatic grilling machine. Or hire fewer but more productive people.
Go to a Walmart and look at the people working there. My local store has one worker in a wheelchair, and a few that look and act like they have Down's Syndrome. Raising wages won't help these people, because if wages go up, Walmart will be able to hire different people, and their current workers will be priced out of the market.
You have to prove that not only the sample test parts pass standards, but that the process is consistent and will always produce parts that meet standards. That's a little more time consuming.
Yes, it is time consuming, but it has ALREADY BEEN DONE. These parts have been thoroughly tested, have already been used in military aircraft, and have a good track record.
You are implying that the FAA is saying "We would like you to do more testing of X, Y, and Z for issues A, B and C", when what they are actually saying is "I am retiring in two years, and I don't want to make any decision that might jeopardize my pension."
In a 3D printed part every one of the thousands of layers is a potential failure point.
You are making it sound like each "layer" is an monolithic element. A 3D part is built up by layers, but the sintering is done by a spot laser that does not leave any continuous shear weakness between layers. The parts can also be annealed after forming, to make them behave more like traditional metal parts, although that is not always helpful. 3D parts can have slightly lower bulk strength, but are better at inhibiting crack propagation, which is a bigger concern in aerospace applications.
... that are rushed to market ...
Nothing is being "rushed to market". 3D printed structural parts have been in use for more than a decade, including in military aircraft. It is proven technology.
This is one area where you REALLY want to make sure you get it right.
The delay in approval is not to take more time to "get it right". It is just bureaucratic inertia by career chair warmers afraid to make a decision. The tests necessary to prove the structural integrity of these parts is not particularly time consuming, and has ALREADY BEEN DONE. Now we are just waiting while the forms sit in somebody's inbox.
In any of those cases, i would rather own a good that can be traded or bartered.
In Venezuela, hoarding will get you arrested. In Maoist China and Stalinist Russia, it would get you executed.
$500 worth of potable water/copper scrap/cotton cloth/wheat is still $500 worth of something with known and stable demand.
All of those things can be easily stolen or confiscated. None of them can be carried in your shoe across a border.
The rich have way too much money sitting around.
You don't get to be rich by letting your money "sit around".
What ever happened to investing in building something?
In America, the NIMBYs will not let you build anything.
what do you keep on your phone that doesn't fit on 100+GB of storage??
The point of a card slot is not having "extra" storage but having "removable" storage. I can pop out the card, edit the files on my laptop, or give it to a friend or co-worker.
Also, my family photo album is way more that 100+ GB. I don't really need to carry all the photos and home-movies with me, but it is nice, and a 256GB MicroSD card costs less than $40, so why not?
Most leaks that originate in Asia come from component suppliers. Apple has little control over wages deep in their supply line, even if there was some reason to believe that would stop leaks (it wouldn't).
Apple does not directly employ many people in China, but the people it does employ are pretty well paid by Chinese standards, and Apple is considered a prestigious company to work for. The contracting assembly companies also pay well by Chinese standards. A Foxconn worker in Shenzhen can take home about $600 per month, which is considered middle income in China. Workers in Chongqing take home less, but the cost of living there is also less, and it is much easier for migrant workers to visit their families back on the farm on weekends and holidays.