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“ Unlike money importance, however, the more people equated money and success, the lower their experienced well-being was on average (P < 0.00001), and there did not appear to be any income level at which equating money and success was associated with greater experienced well-being. ”

The employment and “moving science forward” are certainly not commensurate with the money pit that is F35.

How many JWST-scale projects could be funded with that money?

“members of the Big 10 conference are probably the best engineering schools conference in the world.”

1- Big 10 is not an “engineering school conference”.

2- In what world is Pitt a prominent engineering school? You have no idea what you’re talking about.

“somewhere between 4 and 8 offers right now”

How can the number of offers be indeterminate?

That’s such an ignorant statement.

For example, when it comes to hardware & electrical engineering, UCSD alone is as productive as say Purdue & Illinois combined. And it’s a young university too.

You forgot Berkeley.

It doesn't have anything to do running a fab per se, but obviously location is a factor in attracting talent.

"They needed to be close to a large city center"

I wasn't familiar with with this requirement but how close is close? I don't think the new semiconductor plants in Texas & Arizona are that close to a city center.

And how expensive is too expensive? At least compared to cities of similar size & stature, Chicago itself is not that expensive and can get much cheaper as you move slightly away from it (in the right direction).

The number of enrolled students is not a good argument here.

For such a high-tech industry, the choice of location is also about taking advantage of the talent and research ecosystem that is already established there.

When it comes to proximity research institutions, the choice of location is strange to me. Somewhere in the northern Indiana/Illinois/Michigan (i.e. "Greater Michiana") would have made a lot more sense. That way, you would be close to,

UIUC, Northwestern, UChicago, UMichigan, Purdue, Notre Dame, UIndiana, Argonne National Lab, etc.

This is not an "unlicensed emulation project". In fact, it's not emulation at all.

His research field is software engineering. Which is one of those fields where all the exciting and fun advancements happen in the industry, and the academic research is often quite boring and slow.

Not to mention in terms of making money, you would be far better off in the industry than spending 6 years in hopes of getting a tenure.

I’m under 30, healthy, and have no kids.

I got both doses of Pfizer as soon as I could last year. But until a more severe (than Omicron) variant arrives, I’m not planning to get a booster.

That calculus may be different for others and I totally understand. In fact, I encouraged my parents and grandparents to get the booster as soon as they could.

It's unfortunate that, at least in the mind of almost anyone who has taken an embedded systems course, Ariane 5 is associated with that very expensive overflow bug.

So to put this into perspective:

YouTube: $1.7 billion

Instagram: $1 billion

Zynga, with groundbreaking games such as “wizard of oz slot”: $13 billion

https://www.zynga.com/games/

This is cool, but to be usable for serious research (i.e. peer reviewed publication) it has to be compared to a gold standard device to make sure the data is valid.

“each time you roll 1d6 and if you come up with a 1 you get organ damage, cognitive impairment, and chronic fatigue lasting for years”

So he’s claiming long COVID (what ever its definition) has 16.7% chance of organ damage etc.

Except that’s not supported by the data at all.