Morgan Freeman's character, Professor Samuel Norman said, "It is estimated that most human beings only use 10% of the brain's capacity." So this is quite true. Look forward to become Scarlet Lucy! Imagine we do 100%!
Argentina only. I worked in super multi congloromerates HR. USD is near 100%. We avoided South America because unstability and persistent high inflation. We do have other South American working in different regions (yes, including those from IT/AI you name it). They all being paid with USD or their residence currency. When I was in another company, small one, we did paid with baseball cards too (I doubt anyone willing to consider that as usual payments)
Apple also spent money on cars too. They likely could have spent billions judging by their tell-tale hiring ads over the past decade. What they are good at is huge amount of cash to operate very clandestinely (just park other RnD in their guidance) and they rarely tell stockholders what they doing other than the mundane usual iPhone, iPad, Foxconn, MacOS news. Meta, Google and Alphabet do things very publicly whether they intentionally seek publicity or unintentionally leaked out (like their near santient AI - they must have it with firing of so many concerned scientists there - only 2 prominent one make it to news, there are others....and didnt released it with OpenGPT beating them)
Intonation. He writes by thinking aloud (or in his head) how he says it. Usually we type simply by following grammar. But the way you read a sentence can imply different meanings or subtle emphasis what matters or "between the lines thingy". You can see TESLA being capitalize seems to hint he is a bit emotional whenever TESLA topic being brought up. As poster commented below, he should be capitalizing ORIGINAL given his observations of past price volatility. But instead, TESLA is consistently capitalized. I could be wrong if he intended to use the stock ticker name TSLA (perhaps the E is typo).
At least there are copius amount of dragons cgi in S8 GoT. Wheel of Time is a waste of time to watch. That witcher Blood is also mediocre despite strong casts. I expect S3-S4 Witcher will be bad as well. Netflix is really going for dumpster metrics these days. Even if the viewership is no at Squid level, complete the storyline. HBO able to do that with Westworld. Netflix the biggest streamers cant.
You want to talk about professionals? Why not Shadowstat? The person who is doing the national calculation is not pro. They are bureaucrats subject to political adjustments. I have friends in six states everyone of them tallying their monthly expenses which increased more than 30%+ compared sametime last year. If yours didnt either you have significantly cut down your expense or oddly expensing very different to many others. The CPI is grossly not reflecting the reality.
He didnt figure out the concept of online subscription and ads. It shows he wasnt that revolutionary. Just lucky, born at the right time to the right family and lived in right neighborhood/country.
Democrats want to govern? Maybe you want to check the 10 bottom cities in America say by crime rate and poverty metrics. Name too 10 cities or even towns in USA and check which party doing the governing.
Just to highlight Singapore government pays millions to high IQ talent to be government ministers. Singapore Prime Minister for example draw about 2-3mil USD range a year in salary and can code sudoku in c++. Many of the civil servants are scholars and have PhDs.
Recommend him continue doing MBA. He isn't that technical even though maybe very gifted academically or even programming. As long as he is not heavy into dirty programming, after 3-4 years he will be very weak compare to his peers. By 10th year he will be totally consider incompetent in programming even though he can read a bit of the codes. Since he is social, it is more likely he able to flourish well in the management level (or sales). Having MBA from reputable school allows him to have direct entry into that tier without needing to go thru the lower ranked CS artisans. I am in HR for more than 3 decades, so that is what I can observe and tell.
Only Islam get that privilege partly due to French magazine publisher bloody attack years ago and Palestinian guilt. The rest like Buddhism, Taoism, Catholic, Protestant, Sikhism, etc usually don't get much specialty treatment. Take Sikhism that require carrying a Sikh dagger and having long hair, I known many universities blatantly forbid it. The main reason is because a small minority of Muslim devotees tend to be very violent when it comes to their religion "honor". And many Westerners are scared of retaliations.
There are 2 kinds of businesses...one extremely profitable and another on dying path. If the company you're dealing with not dime nickel you sooner or later they will be the on the dying path. You can readup Nokia outrageous expenditure in Europe. Heck if they are dying or extremely profitable, just take advantage of it. It is business. Nothing personal.
How about middle aged women? Surely their birthrate sex ratio isn't exponentially bias to men. Also polygamy where a man having multiple wives (or mistresses) isn't a culture there.
Majority of consumers dont really care fossil fuel destroying the biosphere. They care only affordability. The vast majority car purchases are non-EV...and maybe at best hybrid. Currently EVs sales have stagnant and Tesla had to subsidized it partially via 7K credit and free charge. I dont see as a way going forward unless Tesla type of car can drop to under 10K in 2nd hand market and motorshop repair able to service it. Toyota still outsell and outvolume Tesla by several fold and still growing with recalls near miniscule unlike how many times Tesla doing recalls this year alone.
Have been here for more than 8+ years. I noticed HN has started to be very bubble-like though at least the biased-conforming opinions still from time to time has reference cited. But if it is purely opinions and logical one, it gets downvoted or marked as dead for not conforming to group-thinks that specific type of HN readers disagree with. Nowadays I just rarely to contribute and just throw away accounts after a couple months or 1-2 years.
The main reason EV is popular now is because of Tesla as adult toy. As Tesla stock prices getting hammered (and tanking olin coming recession), EVs popularity overall will take a dip. EVs are generally front-loaded cost. As long as you get a new car and totally ignore any of those batteries swap and disposal. EVs is very cheap. Once you considered entire cost, then ordinary cars (or even non-lemon used cars especially from Toyotas) aren't that bad.
"Project manager". That says it all. Do you think existing oracle DBAs willing to assist to kill their cushy jobs? Even if not complete replacement, partial replacement like postgresql would easily slash that 100m bill by several millions.....more than enough to hire developers to replicate those missing features.
Doubt that calibration is the impetus to stay with Oracle. Most C-suites are quite dumb when it comes to technical stuff. They also don't value technical people more than it is just a replaceable organic "machinery". I have seen many instances IT advising moving away from Oracle but every additional budget to do so (even if it is just time and no direct dollars involve) even if just to test feasibility is shotdown. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of dollars they gladly pay as long as they freely grumble that their staff too dependent on Oracle tech.
Basically Singapore. Unfortunately that country can't be model in any western countries due Chinese inherent concept of devine right to rule (mandate from heaven). The system depends on people believing in a single party in overwhelming majority (>65%) and mandatory voting. Western countries depends on majority of voters being lazy and bot involved and let a small subset of vocal minority to control the government with small margin of winning votes (~55% out of say 60% voters turnout). For a city to be designed around active lifestyle, you need strong and consistent government with good resources to implement. Even some Nordic countries that are well ran compare to say a messy western country like USA, still can't implement the active lifestyle properly and consistently across more than a single election.
If you look at the Amazon revenue and stock prices which is closer to something like 2018-2019 before pandemic, they only had 800K staff back then. Now they have 1.6M. You do the math. 20K only? If they can shed it under 50K that would have been miracle...I won't be surprise by end of 2023, they total more than 1M let go.
Yes you talked about economic definition. You are 100% right....as right as Paul Volcker with his economic theory. But at corporate c level we discuse productivity with another unit attached....money.
You can. It is called outsourcing. Seen it. Done it. Everytime, productivity increased! It os only when employees retaliate and government intervention then there is some cost involved to mitigate that. But still productivity is high (as in using the same amount of money to get more widgets and revenue in the same amount of time). You might be young say under 30s. Look back since the Nafta treaty signed in the 90s. There is enough evidence to back me on this productivity/revenue increase for the companies. For American, of course painful layoff.
You forgot twch recession is picking up momentum everywhere. Majority of programming job can be done remotely. Even EM cut to only 10%, he can up the remaining salary double, and programmer can increase output productivity easily x2 with those hardcore 10% left. 3 decades of HR experience back this fact easily especially money is no problem. For EM, money is no problem. I am willing to bet $10K with you on this issue that EM will make it through woth all those fired and let go.
That is with power tools available. Destruction of nearby medic tents, storehouse, petrol can prevent the repair to Japanese WW2 manual level. That cant fix within 72 hrs. China has huge productivity vs Russia and USA combined. They are the one written Sun Tzu that is used in Westpoint. Taiwan is so near, once carriers are taken out, Guam will be massive bomb with napalm. SK and Japan will seat out because China can nuke them without repercussions. They know USA dont dare to nuke back because of the Kabul flee incident showing how weak American is when their citizen is unhappy. Plus Russia and Iran is on their back. India and Asean will be neutral. USA is pretty much isolated when the war begin. Of yeah, dedollarisation will be in full swing so USA cant touch much China economy without Walmart store running empty. Oil? Russia unlimited. Taiwan? Checkmate. As Chinese there...historically they will surrendar exactly like Ming Taiwan to Qing China. The chess set pieces had USA setup for failure before the opening gambit by Chinese-Putin-Iranian. Think about it, American cant beat Talebans for 20 years with sheer air supremacy, the chances against superpower China+Russia with unlimited oil gas and rare mineral resources plus world gold reserve, USA as according to Ray Dahlio, is declining just like no so great... Great Britain.
Let's be honest here..."...getting them trained up to do..."...probably doesn't exist these days. In my 3 decades of HR interviewing exits, near 19 out of 20 replied no training...heck some don't get any proper intro by their manager in charge. During interviewing, hiring managers already expect candidates are better than the one leaving complete with company internal workflow knowledge. During 2008, the expectation of resume thickness exceed a doctorate-master thesis.
Only 11? Gosh she literally faking medical results with death consequence. At least Madoff only con "investment money" of the rich. Holmes literally play millions of poors their lives. Says a lot about gender equality and every American lives equality....guess George said it best....some are more equal than others.
Right now USA has not seen the peak IT layoffs yet...it just started. Ask this question again in April 2023. I pity a lot of those Twitter staffs that survived the first cut but quit. They will find it difficult to find similar paying job for the next 6mths. When if one do secure a job, they will be on the first to let go chopping list when layoffs quota needed. Or getting substantial pay cut. I have been on HR for couple decades on a lot of firmwares probably across Fortune 5000 all the way to 10. This is by far the most spookies with at least 3-4 layoffs planned almost per quarter for 2023. Some middle management even discussing padding departments with expandable staffs to lessen the damage to core veteran staffs.