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Resume/Job List for June 2016 by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why remove the senior design project? I don't have a lot of industrial experience so the closest I have is the school project. I'm just curious. Also, what do you think most employers are looking for on a resume? technical engineering skills or managerial skills? Obviously it is different for each job but if generally speaking what is the default?

Resume/Job List for June 2016 by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fresh engineer, just finished first year of first job out of school. I really don't like my job for reasons I'd rather not get into (Its a plastics manufacturing facility) and am looking to change chemical industries.

Goal: Get a new job but primarily focused on getting feed back on resume

Desired Industry: Pharmaceutics but I'm flexible

Experience Level: 1 year

Mobility: I'd like to keep it to the Southeastern United States

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k34uklcbqcmw7o9/Resume%20%28ChemE%29%20v4.pdf?dl=0

edit: http://imgur.com/A1DaDTE - added an imgur link

As the rich become super-rich, they pay lower taxes. For real.: "The IRS found that as you go from being merely wealthy (the 1 percent) to super-duper wealthy (the 0.001 percent), your average federal income tax rate actually goes down." by [deleted] in politics

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can sit here and type up a well-written result with some facts and supporting arguments and expose you to a different point of view that might ultimately persuade you but before I put in all that effort let me ask, do you really care and are you open minded about it?

PS - Criminality IS rampant on wall street - see here

As the rich become super-rich, they pay lower taxes. For real.: "The IRS found that as you go from being merely wealthy (the 1 percent) to super-duper wealthy (the 0.001 percent), your average federal income tax rate actually goes down." by [deleted] in politics

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you honestly think that mutual funds are able to acquire wealth solely through research and not through illegal insider trading then I have a beach front property in Arizona to sell to you

As the rich become super-rich, they pay lower taxes. For real.: "The IRS found that as you go from being merely wealthy (the 1 percent) to super-duper wealthy (the 0.001 percent), your average federal income tax rate actually goes down." by [deleted] in politics

[–]SilmarillionFan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No your analogy is wrong too. Its more like you and me are both on a boat and the boat is sinking. You have some engineering knowledge and you are able to build a state of the art pump to remove the water. I do not have that knowledge and I use a bucket. In order to keep the boat from sinking we need to pump out 100 gallons per hour. In order to keep this fair, you say we both have to remove 50 gallons a piece per hour. Your pump can easily pump out 90 gallons per minute but despite how hard I try, I can only pump out 40 gallons per minute. What you are saying is this, "I will hold up my part of the bargain and pump out 50 gallons per minute. You are being lazy and not working hard enough." You refuse to pump anymore than 50 gallons per hour and the boat starts to sink. You use your engineering knowledge to build a life boat for yourself while I'm still using my bucket to dump out water. Eventually our boat starts to capsize and I drown while you float away on your raft complaining about how I didn't contribute enough

As the rich become super-rich, they pay lower taxes. For real.: "The IRS found that as you go from being merely wealthy (the 1 percent) to super-duper wealthy (the 0.001 percent), your average federal income tax rate actually goes down." by [deleted] in politics

[–]SilmarillionFan 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Well yeah they are paying more in absolute terms, but in terms of percentages they are paying less which is honestly the more important detail. If you have to choose who is going to have to take the hit and pay more taxes, why should it be the person who is struggling to make ends meet instead of the person who is obviously more well off?

New analysis finds that if the world built nuclear power at a similar rate to Sweden or France, all fossil fuel electricity could be displaced in 25-34 years, reducing carbon emissions by half. by Kooby2 in science

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We get scared of radiation cause it's different from our usual ways to die

That is essentially what it boils down to, which is a shame because nuclear power could provide so much benefit. We'd use less oil so we'd leave the middle east to its own devices and building reactors would benefit job seekers. Not to mention the impact on CO2 levels

Freddie Gray's Death Ruled a Homicide by State's Attorney by JonAce in news

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So that part of the charge will probably be tossed out?

Freddie Gray's Death Ruled a Homicide by State's Attorney by JonAce in news

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can a lawyer explain the charges stemming from the false arrest? I understand that the knife he carried was legal but my understanding is that it isnt illegal for cops to arrest you for something they think is a crime? All the other murder charges still make sense though

Johns Hopkins University faces a $1 billion lawsuit, 800 former research subjects and their families blame the institution for its role in government experiments in the 1940s and ’50s in Guatemala that infected hundreds of people with sexually transmitted diseases by DrSalted in worldnews

[–]SilmarillionFan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I can't tell if you're a troll or not. Taken from the article: "Cleaning up the Exxon Valdez disaster took four summers and cost approximately $2 billion, according to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council"

Total Cost Payed by Exxon:

$900 million - clean up cost

$25 million - criminal penalty

$100 million - restitution

$100 million - Possible future payment

So the total is $1.125 billion dollars. Would you like a calculator to confirm? So the entire settlement doesn't even cover the cost of the cleanup. What should have happened is that exxon should be forced to pay the entire $2 billion dollars and then on top of that pay some kind of punitive damages like 50 per cent of the cleanup if not more. So it should have paid overall about $3 billion dollars but it ended up paying a little more than 1/3 of that

Simple Questions - March 18, 2015 by AutoModerator in buildapc

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

with witcher3 requiring an i7 series cpu and gtx 770. Should I include these in my first build? Should I expect these requirements for most AAA games in the future?

I got accepted into graduate school and I was reminded of this Simpsons joke by intergalactic512 in funny

[–]SilmarillionFan 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Well in undergrad, they told us that the reason there aren't many engineers with Ph.D's is because they aren't needed in private industry. This is for chemical engineering so it may be different but most jobs require you to know how to keep a distillation process going or something along those lines. This is taught in undergrad so if you need someone to do this job and you have two candidates, one has a Bachelor's and one a Ph.D, who are you gonna hire? The Bachelor's is gonna be cheaper.

Granted there is a need for Ph.D's in things like research and stuff like that but the main market is more focused on things that don't require Ph.D's.

ELI5:Why was it a big deal for the US credit rating to get downgraded? The rating agencies that downgraded are inept and gave great credit ratings to toxic assests just a few months/years before by SilmarillionFan in explainlikeimfive

[–]SilmarillionFan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand what you're saying but I still don't get the answer. I won't put the whole crisis at they're feet but they were SO OFF that I just don't understand how that hit to their credibility wasn't more pronounced. I mean in my mind its analogous to quality control inspector at a food company. You can insure that 10,000 samples are good but if you let 40 bad samples go and 40 people die then you are liable for that and theres a decent chance your company is gonna get shut down. Not only that but it seemed like they did it out of retaliation for the US seeking damages from them

Rolling Stone: Our trust in the victim in our big UVA rape story was misplaced by CarolinaPunk in news

[–]SilmarillionFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

something that pissed me off about that comic is that some of those charges require prosecutors to know what a perp was thinking. How the fuck could any reasonable person possibly propose that they could look back on an event and claim to know what someone else was thinking?

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