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Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with that, but commitment goes both way.
Then China had an anti satellite test in 2007.
Basically what I am saying is that your idea is not new, and it is not getting anywhere either. Trying to weaponize space is just more war-mongering.
I am not American.
The problem is that the decision making is not about the product. The decision making is about making money. Unfortunately, for a lot of companies, making money is not equal to building good product. IC is completely unequipped to make decisions that would maximise the company top/ bottom line (this is a descriptive statement, and it is not about the individual either: modern corporation is famously broken)
Rest in Peace, Jake.
If the tech is going to transform humanity into a new economic paradigm and give the country controlling it a decisive advantage to be the sole superpower, being an investor is either futile or meaningless. Even doing nothing and just enjoy the ride seems to be more rational.
I definitely do not have any misunderstanding here, and my description of hiring is the same as what you wrote, just in different phrasing: after a period of time, the company has to pick a candidate, presumably the best one by their interview signals.
I am disputing the standard claim of "it's better to have false negatives than false positives" by pointing out how that mindset does not work: since you have to choose someone anyway, the whole "avoiding false positives" might not be a thing at all
I've seen this reasoning, but I'm wondering if this is actually true, especially if you also believe the other myth in hiring: most people applying are not qualified for the job. Since most hiring actually requires you to fill the position in the end (in other words, you can't leave it open indefinitely if no one qualifies as eventually the pressure to hire mount up), every false negatives does increase the odd of you hiring a false positives as well. Just take the example at the extreme, if there is only ever one person on Earth qualified for your job and you got a false negatives on him, there is no other way but getting an idiot in the job.
Many people would say those candidates should be failed anyway due to X, Y, Z reasons. But I want to highlight that in those cases, the interviewers should realize they are assessing something else, and not programming skill.
One google interviewers ask me a question that starts with “implement google search” and ends with my implementing splitting a paragraph. Of course I failed the interview, but I have to think he has failed me way before we get to write any code.
For line managers, the manager has to talk with human employees, and bad managers asides, that is where the human element comes in: fundamentally, your employees are still human.
On the other hand, if the line managers are all human, then the middle managers have the same human elements, too.
I am not saying that ALL insurances provide values. Like any other kind of trades, you can lose values if you make a bad decision. That does not make insurance inherently zero- or negative-sum.
> When a business suddenly has a large liability, and it goes bankrupt, all that happens is that the equity owners are wiped out and the creditors take over. The underlying business can and often does continue uninterrupted, and has approximately the same value as a going concern as before.
This assumes the original owner brings no value to the business. Even in that case, the disruption itself is harmful, not to mention the assumption that bankrupted business can restructure rather than closing down.
Your claim is contradicted by the article you linked.
I am Vietnamese, currently still living in the Vietnam, and I believe the VCP is doing what they are saying on the can: purging corruption (rather than this being political purge).
Just as concrete counterexample on why it is not merely political purge: In the past 3 years, the last two Presidents of this term both had to resign due to corruption, the first one related to covid testing kit was from the Northern faction. The last two Chairman of People’s committee of Hanoi (basically Hanoi’s mayor/ governor) were also removed and arrested for corruption.
Someone below was wondering what the trigger for this was, so here is it: people were tricked into buying bonds by SCB (My Lan’s bank) when trying to opening saving account. Some lost their entire life saving to the bullshit bonds, and to this day I still occasionally see protester in front of Vietnam’s state bank (it is on my daily commute).
I am not saying there weren’t political infighting, but past few years weren’t it
Unfortunately, this is your personal interpretation of the downvote buttons. I agree with your interpretation, in fact, but it is not the norm. And confidently telling people to "get lost" while being misguided is very much not appreciated here.
Here is some comment from the horse's mouth more than a decade ago on this very same topic:
You need short-term bond (6-month, 1-month or even shorter) so that at worst you will get 100% of your money out by waiting for the maturity date. Money-market would be super short term: consider them as days-length bond.
But if we are talking about down payment money here, it's probably 100-200k something, which would translate to a few thousand dollars per year. Might not be worth your time, and definitely not worth it if you misunderstand and buy ETF bond or something like that. So yeah, keep it in a high-interest rate saving account is ok.
But anyway it is a reasonably sound plan for what you are doing.
It is probably something with the content being produced itself, rather than bias within the search engine. But then, with the way things work, it might make no sense to separate the two.
How the toilet actually get clean is left as the exercise for the reader.