Intel had one CEO without a technical background who came in after the previous guy, who started off as a process engineer, ran their fab division into the ground and caused them to lose their technological lead due to dumb decisions. The MBA guy turned the fab division around and then stepped down for a tech guy to take over for rebound on the technology side.
The funny thing is that Germany and the USA have about the same smoking rate (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/smoking-r...) but in the USA, it is culturally prohibited in almost every single state or city to smoke around children, in restaurants, in hotels, near primary entrances, or on sidewalks because people feel ashamed for doing it (and in many cases are punished criminally for smoking in those places). So yeah, the attitude is very, very different. Over here, smokers know it is bad for them and do it anyways. In Germany and Austria, many people consider it their way of life and that it isn't actually bad for them.
There's no promos in maintaining the dystopian nightmare program so it will be replaced by new dystopian nightmare programs that do the same thing but worse every 2-3 years. Eventually, enough dystopian nightmare programs will be running in parallel that they will actually create a utopia due to unexpected interactions between the dystopian nightmare programs.
I personally think that governments would be better at making decisions of what to farm and where to farm it than farmers. Farmers have a profit motive whereas governments can have other non-profit motives.
DigiKey eliminated everything except next day air for small packages some years ago because it was too expensive to have two different SKUs for shipping small orders in their system. B2B is weird.
You can reduce beef's greenhouse gas emissions by just mandating a different animal feed that results in less methane production by the cattle. But that would require governments to actually do something.
The advice that I've gotten from my doctor is five to seven portions of meat at spread over at least two days per week. So yes, you don't need to eat it every day, but you still need to eat a good amount. And it may just be simpler to eat 3 to 4 ounces of chicken each day with something else than to track how often you're eating 2-3x that much over two days in the week.
My problem with all of these fake "meats" is that they don't taste like meats, they taste like vegetables and fruits that have been handled to the point of not being enjoyable to eat. I'd rather just eat well prepared and cooked vegetable dishes like what you can get in many nations and cultures around the world than these fake "meat" products.
That's only because all of those comparisons assume cars are free and not part of your living expenses. People in the USA often save money moving to Chicago and NYC because they can get rid of their cars. So yes, the rent is expensive and buying is expensive... but is it really?
The average difference in cost between buying in Chicago versus buying in the suburbs of Chicago is the price of two median cars (~$60K difference total). Over a 30 year mortgage, in the suburbs, you'd probably buy 2-3 cars per adult. If living in the city let's you go to down to 0.5 cars per adult or even 0 cars per adult, then you've broke even or saved money. Heck, even just having a reasonably priced car in the city, driving less, and having leisure use insurance on your vehicle because you don't commute via car can result in thousands per year in savings even after you pay for parking.
Heck even without going "premium", you can pretty much just buy LG or low-end Bosch models of most things and be fine. But if you buy Samsung, you might as well budget for a replacement ASAP.
I'm in the finance industry and I often have had to push back on how fast companies want to move because I have like life happening. You can go from looking at a job posting to having an offer easily in under 5 days in this industry.
I worked for a defense contractor that had a truly unlimited vacation policy as long as you were getting your work done. We actually would get formally reprimanded and put on a PIP for not using enough vacation. All benefits started day 1 including 4 months new parental leave (fully paid; STD following birth did not count against the 4 months), unlimited vacation (no questions asked and auto-approved for the first 30 days per year), unlimited sick leave (up to 5-days per incident after which you'd transition to STD up through 12 weeks then LTD at 100%, then 70% of pay until better or moved onto SSDI exceeding the benefit respectively), unlimited jury duty leave at 100% pay (one guy that I knew there spent 4 months on a jury for a complex civil trial), dedicated paid time off to vote in every election (local, state, or federal), and a whole heck of a lot more. Had I not gotten a much better offer from a HFT firm that fully offset the decrease in benefits, I probably would never have left the company because of how amazing the benefits were. I had taken 4 weeks off for my wedding + honeymoon before I quit and my manager was talking to me about how I should still schedule another 3-4 weeks off that fiscal year for vacations at other times.
Outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder rate was highly correlated with the violent crime rate. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became less correlated as more people died due to a lack of available emergency healthcare while hospital systems were overloaded.
So let's get this straight. You know nothing about this area and you assume the experts in it are wrong? Do you know what happens if you accidentally couple lines during one of the manufacturing steps? The wafer can, in the absolute worst case scenario, explode from super heating destroying not just the wafer but potentially the entire chamber it is in (any defect beyond what was designated as allowable by the design engineers means the chamber and everything in it is now scrap).
For somewhat obvious reasons, we have a vested interest in this never occurring. So we default to safety over speed. Meanwhile in the CAD world with 64-bit math not making it into OpenGL, they just wrote a library to do 64-bit math anyways on-top of or in parallel to OpenGL. They didn't switch away from 64-bit math, they just reduced its use where it isn't needed and kept it where it is needed. The semiconductor industry is full of absolutely brilliant engineers who know far too much about all of the problems and if they could use 64-bit instead of 128-bits for a data structure, they'd switch in a heartbeat to save massive amounts of compute time (and thus money).
Yeah, they always include the full supply chain for nuclear to make it appear believable but they don't do the same thing for anything else. Heck, some people include the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the numbers too just to make the comparison more "fair" to every other power source in the world. By the way, that barely moves the numbers for nuclear. We don't do that for any other power source. The closest we get is installation deaths for solar and wind. But we still ignore all of the supply chain deaths for both.
All that said, literally anything is better and safer than burning dinosaurs or biomatter. And the future really does need to be a mix of nuclear and geothermal (where available) for baseload demand with wind and solar combined with non-battery storage for peak demand smoothing.
Most of the land is actually inhabitable but they just keep people away because it's safer to err on the side of caution. When it comes to Fukushima Daichii, more people died in the evacuation than will ever die or have ever died from the radiation exposure that occurred.
Our World in Data included the entire lifecycle and the most pessimistic models for nuclear as part of that analysis, if you use the same methods for every single source, wind and solar are an entire order of magnitude higher. Alternatively, if you use the UN's official estimates of the same thing, nuclear is an entire order of magnitude lower than where it is in Our World in Data's chart. Gotta love when they put bias into how they present the numbers.
More people die yearly from wind and solar power during manufacturing and installation than have died directly due to nuclear energy in its entire history as a power source. And yes, those direct numbers for nuclear include the entire supply chain for it if you weren't aware.
"Nuclear is super expensive!" they keep screaming as I've been living in places with primarily nuclear power for the vast majority of my life. The only 3 years when I didn't, I really felt the price of dinosaur-fuel even though it was at rock-bottom prices for all 3 years. Illinois is majority nuclear and is one of the cheapest stats in the USA when it comes to electricity rates all because of nuclear. And I grew up in Cleveland which was also primarily nuclear and electricity was so cheap there, the power and gas company was paying people to switch their entire homes from LNG heating to electric heating for about 3 decades.
As an addendum, I'd add that Sedra and Smith wrote an amazing textbook on semiconductors that I highly recommend anyone interested in the topic should read. Here's an Amazon link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Microelectronic-Circuits-Electrical-C...
People spend over 1/3 of their day working. It's the only regular social interaction a lot of people get outside of their household. They get a lot more irregular social interaction from other things, but nothing quite as regular.
People noticed it, but companies also knew what defense learned: long-term planning efficiency plummets when working remotely. And that goes for whether you're just two different in-office design centers working together, or if the entire team is remote. I'm sure companies are starting to see the decrease in quality and efficiency of project planning and management starting to show now which is why they're looking to return to offices.