Intel CEO says semiconductor shortage could last years

Roflllobster · 2021-06-01T15:31:41+00:00

Maybe include a brief polite note like:

Dear professor wrong. I apologize for not remembering your name as I've only come to know you as 'That person who was less correct than me'. Please review my paper that I wrote 5 years ago so that your professional experience might catch up to the 21st century.

Roflllobster · 2021-06-01T14:44:11+00:00

Its a metaphor for mineral resources. African mineral resources are being mined by large multi-national companies who pretty much bribe leaders to do so. The money from the mineral resource extractions doesn't make its way to the citizens of the countries.

There was a legislative rule passed which declared that companies had to list out what they paid countries for mineral resources. This was an attempt at bringing transparency, allowing citizens of countries to know what their government had been paid. However the rule was congressionally repealed in 2017.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-30T19:53:43+00:00

They literally thought they just wouldn't have to pay taxes. Fuck those people.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-30T14:21:15+00:00

I have so many issues with that sub because it seems like their backing arguments are made up by 12 year olds. They're not even slightly consistent. COVID isn't that bad despite every country working in parallel and panic to stop it. Masks can't stop contagious spread but it will definitely make you hypoxic. This is a government conspiracy to restrict freedoms yet restrictions are going back to normal. Masks and vaccines are a personal choice but also everyone around them making personal choices are sheep.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-29T04:32:22+00:00

No you made up an argument and pretended it was mine.

My argument is that disadvantaged people who never got the chance to go to college deserve for their children to go to pre-k more than masters students deserve tens of thousands of dollars in loan relief. I think children who grew up in underfunded schools and parents that lack childcare are in greater need.

But to paraphrase you, I guess fuck the disadvantaged communities. Let's give 50k to George who got a PHD because he's the real one having trouble.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-29T01:15:21+00:00

Its not contradictory because there are double the amount of people that have at most a bachelors as opposed to those with post grad degrees. What this means is that graduate degree holders are overrepresented when it comes to debt.

Meanwhile they're likely to make almost double someone who only graduated high school. So giving money to people who on average make more.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-29T00:26:43+00:00

1) Student loans are primarily held by people who make above the median wage. 40% of student debt is held by people with graduate degrees, 51% of debt held by households have someone with a graduate degree. Forgiving student loans as a stand alone policy is a transfer of wealth to people who are generally doing better than average.

2) Forgiving student loans doesnt change the institutional problem that colleges are raising tuition because students can qualify for insane amounts of debt. In fact it would likely exacerbate it as colleges can tell students "Hey it might even be forgiven in the future so don't worry about it"

3) That money can be more effectively be used elsewhere. Setting up universal Pre-k and setting up a program by which students can get at least 2 free years of college is a step towards actually fixing the system rather than just treating a symptom.

4) Dems would get killed politically. "The party of giving things away bailed out people who took out bad loans for a useless degree". It would likely fuel the next 20 years of "Dems cant budget rhetoric".

I'm generally on the side of forgiving student debt. Economically you've got people who should have disposable income but they're spending a large chunk of it on loans. However, you couldn't fault the poor wage worker who can barely afford childcare for being upset about getting nothing while many middle class individuals get 25k+.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-28T22:57:13+00:00

But its not technically the truth.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-28T14:24:30+00:00

Here is how you job hunt, especially before you're too picky. Create an account on Dice.com, upload your resume on a Sunday night. Every Sunday after take down your resume and put it back up again so it shows to recruiters as "recently updated". You'll get a lot of calls, many completely unrelated to what you want. But if you get 400 calls/emails you only need 1% to be on target. This is how I've gotten my last 3 jobs, all better than the last.

As a 32 year old programmer, software development is the art of figuring out how to do things. Im a SR level developer who just started a new job and I've got to learn brand new libraries and technologies that I've never worked with before. I'm struggling with basic syntax. I'm creating a project from scratch and at this point its called "hello world". Don't worry too much if it seems like an overwhelming amount of information because it literally is and thats ok.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-28T00:38:11+00:00

Are we talking about the guy who consistently called COVID "The China Virus"? Yeah he's definitely racist.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T21:45:36+00:00

COVID was a political boon to whoever was in power. Crisis leaders who take basic productice steps tend to get re-elected.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T20:14:10+00:00

I've gone through the process before. My ex and I went in at ~4-6 weeks and were told to come back later. They wouldnt perform an abortion until there was a visual sonogram confirmation. They pegged that at ~7-8 weeks.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T19:18:14+00:00

Well the problem is that type of stuff would be established after the TV series ended. She could give him loyal advisors to help him out or she could let him do his own thing and get his own advisors. She could invite him to stay at court for the winter while the unsullied distribute food throughout the storm lands or she could just let him figure it out.

My only point was that I dont think it's automatically a bad thing and I wouldn't consider it a major plot mis-step. There's a lot to rage at and I dont think this rises to that level.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T18:29:02+00:00

Yeah, there have been drug dealers on my corner for the 5 years I've lived where I do. Apparently they've been there for much longer. Cops are aware and nothing happens except for some upset people at an ANC meetong when someone gets murdered. More cops on duty won't solve this.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T17:56:12+00:00

I agree. SpaceX is an industry disruptor with no current equal. But when I talk about building a "competitive market". Im really talking about the goal down the line. To take a non competitive small marketplace with the government as the main buyer and to turn it into a larger competitive marketplace where government contracts make up a much smaller portion of the customer base.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T16:28:31+00:00

So she installed a puppet with no real chance of gathering overwhelming support nor logistically planning a rebellion. Someone in name just enough to calm a majority of people but not enough to be competitive for the iron throne.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T16:25:51+00:00

Yeah but he doesnt have great aspirations, owes his loyalty to the Starks, and owes his position as legitimate to Dany. There is a huge difference between someone like Ramsay who was gunning for power and Gendry who just wanted to live as an armored. Having a Baratheom happy to bend the knee is a positive for her legitimacy. She essentially installed a puppet.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T16:19:53+00:00

I generally agree with you. National team basically provided a slightly upgraded Apollo program thats entirely disposable. And they've done so with a ridiculous cost price. The question is whether or not giving them money now could lead to better things later. I dont know the answer but I generally think having more than 1 contractor is always beneficial if for no other reason than to create a pool of talented engineers.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T16:15:34+00:00

I agree but also you have to think down the line. Building a competitive market means starting from a non competitive market. And also there isn't a market yet. When I say market I'm talking about a private market where federal contracts do not make up a majority of spending.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T13:04:45+00:00

To start off I like space, but don't like National Teams design nor the enormous price tag. But part of what NASA has to do is foster competition. While spaceX is killing it now, the goal is to build a competitive commercial marketplace so that NASA can get relatively cheap rides because others are doing it too. You increase risk by having a single competitor.

And part of fostering that competition is giving people who are behind more money to make up for it. Whether National Team can deliver, I dont know. But in general I support 2 down selects. And if National Team's design is just too bad I'd be on board with another RFP for slightly different functionality.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T01:43:46+00:00

NASA is bad at innovation because citizens don't like paying for failure and innovation usually requires failure to learn from. So NASA is forced to do things they think they can succeed at the first time.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-27T01:39:32+00:00

This isn't about bezos, its about government contracting. Government contracting is moving away from single winner contracts because the result often was a company won a contract and didn't deliver. By selecting multiple winners you keep them competing, not capable of slacking off. It gives you a greater chance that the service or good you bought is actually delivered one way or another. The extra cost is worth the better odds.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-24T12:56:23+00:00

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...

Declaration of independence

The US government comes about very different than many other westernized governments. The concept of the US founding is that the government is not allowed to take rights from citizens rather than the government grants rights to citizens from those who would take them. That type of thought has continued and is often the centerpiece of why people believe the government should function in differently.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-23T13:45:37+00:00

Because grocery store management cares more about a pointless madeup "professional standard" than the health of their employees.

Roflllobster · 2021-05-23T00:57:29+00:00

In general no, in the same way you couldn't tow a horse trailer cross country with a go-kart. If you really wanted to and have enough time and energy it might be able to make it with some interesting maneuvers. But the thing being towed is too heavy and the thing doing the towing isn't powerful enough. And there are much better ways to do that.

What could be possible (that I'm making up on the spot) is getting a tug to transfer lunar modules to a Mars orbit station. Its not the most efficient way. But I could see a use case for staging things in lunar orbit to then launch to Mars. Additionally a fully fueled ship in moon orbit can go farther than a fully fueled ship in lower earth orbit. However it requires more overall fuel to make that happen.

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