I don't think you read this right. There is an entire different mentality, unions prevent people from being promoted and force people to work in a particular position. Sure, Japanese manufacturers often can't layoff workers due to Japanese labor laws but those people aren't then forced to work and don't get pay raises every year either like the labor unions require.
You're thinking about NSF (National Science Foundation) they do more of the basic non-health-related research programs. NIH does most of the biomedical research.
NSF only has a $6B budget whereas NIH has $26B. Compared to the next runner up China that funds ~$2B worth of research total, half of which is biomedical.
It seems to me for higher up the ladder jobs, connecting via a social network may be useful. 95% of recruiters? Keep dreaming Microsoft, 95% of the recruiters on LinkedIn are either con jobs or massive spam campaigns by some India-based consultant recruiting company.
What helps: - Having an up-to-date LinkedIn if you want to connect to your recruiter. Recruiters don't go out and research your LinkedIn, not enough time for that. but there's nothing worse than getting an invite from a candidate and your resume doesn't match your profile - Treat LinkedIn like your workfloor, if you like to post inflammatory comments on our feeds we'll assume that's how you treat coworkers - Not stalking your recruiter, wait at least until you pass the first interview - Having an up to date resume plain and simple relevant to the job you're applying for. - Send a brief but to-the-point cover letter - Your first phone interview is the most important, not just a formality to a sit-down; we discard ~75% of applicants at resume but ~90% after phone calls. By the time you sit down, we only have a handful of candidates. Treat it as such, if I say 11am, don't sound like you just woke up, don't have a bowl of soup, don't type on your computer to find an answer, if it helps wear a suit and tie and get an empty quiet room at your local library.
A few months ago we bought a Tesla at 50% off. The mining/datacenter gear is pretty cheap right now, nVidia has been giving free gear to researchers for a while. Home GPU's are not the channel they are talking about.
It sure does. The UK government through UKRI funds MCR and NHS which NIHR is part of. Together they are probably the second largest grantor of research funding in the world (behind the US's NIH).
NHS - National Health Service - even though the UK is a small country, it competes as one of the largest funders of public health research right behind the US's NIH. If you add all the branches integrated with the NHS together, they'd probably end up in second place right behind the world's least socialist country, the US NIH, which spends more than the next 20-something countries combined (including the EU, China, Germany and the UK) on health research.
Yes, GM invested in automation but so did its competitors.
The main problem was twofold. Bad leadership that couldn't look further than end of quarter results and labor unions that forced companies to keep people in the same torpor of drudgery rather than uptrain the good ones and fire the bad ones. GM still can't fire workers until they have to close down the entire factory, so you end up with line workers being bored most of the day as they meet their quota faster and faster due to automation.
Japanese car companies on the other hand invented the kanban board and people with the right skills and motivation drifted to the top, the rest fell to the wayside.
I think you just made my point that although you are blind to the realities, you support the nanny-state, high taxes (healthcare for all) and more regulations which increases costs of living. The "progressives" would love to decouple the politics from the cost and the policy but it's undeniable that wherever you go, if you want universal x you are going to pay for x and you are going to pay for it through taxes and it's going to be highly inefficient because the government is bad at everything.
Well, all the people are moving from California to Texas due to high taxes and regulations promptly forget why they got there and vote again for high taxes and regulations.
I don't think you understand this is not an issue of engineering but rather physics.
You can't build something that moves with a certain amount of force to suddenly increase or change its mass (and size/structure) to withstand a force 4000 times as large.
How about we invent a motorcycle with two modes of operation - one optimized for high speed driving and one that suddenly reinforces itself while you are crashing.
Big word there is 'when'. So far nobody has because Tesla-style EV's are still a niche. You either cram so much batteries in it that it becomes prohibitively expensive or you don't and you have a 50 mile range (what GM tried) or you come with an anemic hybrid so mechanically complicated (drivetrain with both ICE and an electric motor) it is going to be prohibitively expensive to maintain long term (Toyota).
The biggest problem is for the largest markets you'll continue needing an ICE due to issues with energy density even if you can use a battery pack for the short haul.
The US Army is heavily subsidizing electric and hydrogen systems for tanks - making troop movements more stealthy, better accelerating and less dependent on a supply/repair line is any army's dream.
Gates isn't a dummy. Off course they will, but he still wants to sell them the product. Better get some money than getting none of it and having your competitors sell it anyway or China buy the startup company out directly through a shell or investment bank.
A robot operator does all that a lot better. Detecting obstructions and mechanical failures is a lot better with the right sensors. And even so, for a train it doesn't matter much what is on the tracks, by the time it's detected it's probably too late.
We know climates change. The effects are less well known however. We know a little bit from geology but even there the results of mass extinctions were at least partially if not wholly caused by the event itself and not directly a result of the climate on its own.
The other problem we don't know is the economics. How will it affect progress? How will you pay for the solution? Where do we spend the energy to sustain the energy? Nuclear and beyond (fusion) seems to be the most promising but there is lots of misinformation about the effects of even the worst disasters that could happen while windmills happily chop up whatever golden eagles we have remaining.
Will having unfettered access, innovation and progress to alternative resources get us a solution or will mass murder, government intervention while regressing to the Stone Age prior to extinction be necessary. That's where left and right politics differ.
Only for the first 10 years. As I said, nuclear reactors last over 7 times as long. Most wind farms are lasting only a little over a decade: https://www.americanexperiment... More than 14,000 turbines are now abandoned, less than 20 years after they were built https://www.naturalnews.com/03...
They are literally built with tax dollars and when the grant ends 5-10 years down the road, so does the energy production because it's not feasible to keep them online.
Where is the radiation of Fukushima? 3 Mile Island is still located in the middle of a well populated area. Chernobyl is becoming a wildlife paradise because fewer humans live there.
Your rates are well off. If you're often doing small transactions, a flat rate fee structure is better which is ~2.5% for card-present transactions. For large transactions you can opt for a fee + percentage ($0.15 + 1.25% is the average).
For small business that don't do credit transactions often and don't want to pay a monthly fee and do a lot of online transactions, you indeed go to the 3.5-5% range.
No, they aren't eating/drinking, they give away food to friends, they over-return to friends, they get sticky fingers, they cancel a transaction and pocket the cash. I've worked in the business, I've seen it all and 7% is what the average is of theft across business and what restaurant chains and others report, in retail, 60% of this is employee goods theft and 40% shoplifting but you can't really shoplift a latte from Starbucks, there it is often cash and transactions.
Not in restaurant or coffee shop, there it is often cancelling a transaction and pocketing the cash or lifting a few bills extra from the till during an exchange. Fast food places generally don't care if you eat and drink on the job, you can't eat/drink that much in a day and you'll get rather sick of the same stuff all day.
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I don't think you read this right. There is an entire different mentality, unions prevent people from being promoted and force people to work in a particular position. Sure, Japanese manufacturers often can't layoff workers due to Japanese labor laws but those people aren't then forced to work and don't get pay raises every year either like the labor unions require.
You're thinking about NSF (National Science Foundation) they do more of the basic non-health-related research programs. NIH does most of the biomedical research.
NSF only has a $6B budget whereas NIH has $26B. Compared to the next runner up China that funds ~$2B worth of research total, half of which is biomedical.
It seems to me for higher up the ladder jobs, connecting via a social network may be useful. 95% of recruiters? Keep dreaming Microsoft, 95% of the recruiters on LinkedIn are either con jobs or massive spam campaigns by some India-based consultant recruiting company.
What helps:
- Having an up-to-date LinkedIn if you want to connect to your recruiter. Recruiters don't go out and research your LinkedIn, not enough time for that. but there's nothing worse than getting an invite from a candidate and your resume doesn't match your profile
- Treat LinkedIn like your workfloor, if you like to post inflammatory comments on our feeds we'll assume that's how you treat coworkers
- Not stalking your recruiter, wait at least until you pass the first interview
- Having an up to date resume plain and simple relevant to the job you're applying for.
- Send a brief but to-the-point cover letter
- Your first phone interview is the most important, not just a formality to a sit-down; we discard ~75% of applicants at resume but ~90% after phone calls. By the time you sit down, we only have a handful of candidates. Treat it as such, if I say 11am, don't sound like you just woke up, don't have a bowl of soup, don't type on your computer to find an answer, if it helps wear a suit and tie and get an empty quiet room at your local library.
A few months ago we bought a Tesla at 50% off. The mining/datacenter gear is pretty cheap right now, nVidia has been giving free gear to researchers for a while. Home GPU's are not the channel they are talking about.
The UK is only the 5th largest economy in the world on it's own and besides the US, the biggest investors in public research.
It sure does. The UK government through UKRI funds MCR and NHS which NIHR is part of. Together they are probably the second largest grantor of research funding in the world (behind the US's NIH).
NHS - National Health Service - even though the UK is a small country, it competes as one of the largest funders of public health research right behind the US's NIH. If you add all the branches integrated with the NHS together, they'd probably end up in second place right behind the world's least socialist country, the US NIH, which spends more than the next 20-something countries combined (including the EU, China, Germany and the UK) on health research.
Yes, GM invested in automation but so did its competitors.
The main problem was twofold. Bad leadership that couldn't look further than end of quarter results and labor unions that forced companies to keep people in the same torpor of drudgery rather than uptrain the good ones and fire the bad ones. GM still can't fire workers until they have to close down the entire factory, so you end up with line workers being bored most of the day as they meet their quota faster and faster due to automation.
Japanese car companies on the other hand invented the kanban board and people with the right skills and motivation drifted to the top, the rest fell to the wayside.
Not sure since the NHS, NIH and other major granting agencies already have open access requirements for big grants.
I think you just made my point that although you are blind to the realities, you support the nanny-state, high taxes (healthcare for all) and more regulations which increases costs of living. The "progressives" would love to decouple the politics from the cost and the policy but it's undeniable that wherever you go, if you want universal x you are going to pay for x and you are going to pay for it through taxes and it's going to be highly inefficient because the government is bad at everything.
You stick people in the ground for the funeral, dig them back up to reclaim the casket and let them rot in the ground.
Well, all the people are moving from California to Texas due to high taxes and regulations promptly forget why they got there and vote again for high taxes and regulations.
I don't think you understand this is not an issue of engineering but rather physics.
You can't build something that moves with a certain amount of force to suddenly increase or change its mass (and size/structure) to withstand a force 4000 times as large.
How about we invent a motorcycle with two modes of operation - one optimized for high speed driving and one that suddenly reinforces itself while you are crashing.
Yeah, because your average consumer can afford to spend $2k on a ticket and hundreds more on food and workshops at the conference itself.
Big word there is 'when'. So far nobody has because Tesla-style EV's are still a niche. You either cram so much batteries in it that it becomes prohibitively expensive or you don't and you have a 50 mile range (what GM tried) or you come with an anemic hybrid so mechanically complicated (drivetrain with both ICE and an electric motor) it is going to be prohibitively expensive to maintain long term (Toyota).
The biggest problem is for the largest markets you'll continue needing an ICE due to issues with energy density even if you can use a battery pack for the short haul.
The US Army is heavily subsidizing electric and hydrogen systems for tanks - making troop movements more stealthy, better accelerating and less dependent on a supply/repair line is any army's dream.
So increasing the taxes on the low-and-middle classes (the truck drivers) not on the companies employing them?
Gates isn't a dummy. Off course they will, but he still wants to sell them the product. Better get some money than getting none of it and having your competitors sell it anyway or China buy the startup company out directly through a shell or investment bank.
A robot operator does all that a lot better. Detecting obstructions and mechanical failures is a lot better with the right sensors. And even so, for a train it doesn't matter much what is on the tracks, by the time it's detected it's probably too late.
We know climates change. The effects are less well known however. We know a little bit from geology but even there the results of mass extinctions were at least partially if not wholly caused by the event itself and not directly a result of the climate on its own.
The other problem we don't know is the economics. How will it affect progress? How will you pay for the solution? Where do we spend the energy to sustain the energy? Nuclear and beyond (fusion) seems to be the most promising but there is lots of misinformation about the effects of even the worst disasters that could happen while windmills happily chop up whatever golden eagles we have remaining.
Will having unfettered access, innovation and progress to alternative resources get us a solution or will mass murder, government intervention while regressing to the Stone Age prior to extinction be necessary. That's where left and right politics differ.
Only for the first 10 years. As I said, nuclear reactors last over 7 times as long. Most wind farms are lasting only a little over a decade: https://www.americanexperiment...
More than 14,000 turbines are now abandoned, less than 20 years after they were built
https://www.naturalnews.com/03...
They are literally built with tax dollars and when the grant ends 5-10 years down the road, so does the energy production because it's not feasible to keep them online.
Where is the radiation of Fukushima? 3 Mile Island is still located in the middle of a well populated area. Chernobyl is becoming a wildlife paradise because fewer humans live there.
Your rates are well off. If you're often doing small transactions, a flat rate fee structure is better which is ~2.5% for card-present transactions. For large transactions you can opt for a fee + percentage ($0.15 + 1.25% is the average).
For small business that don't do credit transactions often and don't want to pay a monthly fee and do a lot of online transactions, you indeed go to the 3.5-5% range.
No, they aren't eating/drinking, they give away food to friends, they over-return to friends, they get sticky fingers, they cancel a transaction and pocket the cash. I've worked in the business, I've seen it all and 7% is what the average is of theft across business and what restaurant chains and others report, in retail, 60% of this is employee goods theft and 40% shoplifting but you can't really shoplift a latte from Starbucks, there it is often cash and transactions.
Not in restaurant or coffee shop, there it is often cancelling a transaction and pocketing the cash or lifting a few bills extra from the till during an exchange. Fast food places generally don't care if you eat and drink on the job, you can't eat/drink that much in a day and you'll get rather sick of the same stuff all day.