Isn't this something that software developers do everyday?
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Tariff is paid by the importer, who passes it on to the end user. If you are in a boom market for semiconductors, the manufacturer really doesn't care about how high it is. Like today with the AI bubble. Why build a plant in the US? The bubble may pop before it gets built; and the manufacturer still gets his margin.
Everyone has been optimizing to increase profits for decades. A 1950's US economy would have taken a lot longer to collapse.
But may I suggest we put it right next to Zuck's house? How about in SamA's back yard?
They are noisy buildings, designed to turn electricity into heat. And provide a small number of jobs.
And of course, when the citizens selling THC beverages were concerned about the legislature making the product illegal.
Me thinks the Data Center people have been stingy with the checkbook.
This is not due to bribery. Everyone using H1B have already done the bribing.
The Republican base is demanding this. They want jobs for themselves and their kids.
Social Security says retirement age is 67. 65 leaves a lot of good years unavailable for service in politics.
I am sure a reasonable line could be drawn. And it it less than 80...
Strange enough, I was alive back then and clearly remember my grandmother applauding Nixon's attempt to 'freeze prices'. Did not work.
The numbers published by the government may not reflect how it is felt in the populace. I think the current inflation is 'worse' than the 1970's. One thing is that wages were getting bumped all the time to compensate; not something we see today.
Strong agree. Raise taxes for everyone (except those at the bottom, please). Draw the line wherever you want, we can argue about where, but it has to be drawn.
Social Security / Medicare need to reduce benefits and increase taxation. Let's start with the easy one; social security taxes. Make every dollar of income be taxed for social security. If you make over $150k (pick a number, I don't care where it is), then 100% of your social security is taxed as income. Or maybe tax it a little more.
Cut the federal government. (mini-doge, for lack of a better term). Stop the growth in the budget of each department. Pull back 10%; done sanely by assessing what the department is doing, what it is required to do, and what it doesn't need to do.
Cut the military. Do we need both a land based and sea based nuclear deterrent? Get rid of 1 of them. Cut active duty strength 10%. Stop ridiculous projects like "B-52 Re-engine and Radar update". (So, I am going to put money into my 1950 ford, when I can buy a 2026 model (B21) at a reasonable price... this is absurd)
Raise taxes. Not a lot, but raise them. Bring in more revenue. You don't have to eat the rich, just reach a little deeper into their pockets. (also, I don't care how you define rich. Pick a number)
Do all of these in a moderate amount, and you will be OK. The yearly deficit will shrink, and some of the outstanding bonds will be paid. It doesn't have to be fixed in a year; a 20 year plan, executed, is fine.
Problem is, now we are starting to add to the principle, because there isn't enough cash to cover the interest and keep the lights on.
The problem is it is forever, and it is growing.
Fantasy that you can do this for 50 years.
At the same time, pull back on the spending. Or maybe even pull back on the growth in spending. No need to go to a full Doge; rather just pull it back a bit.
Why we can't do this, I am flummoxed.
How about paying back the principle when the bond comes due?
US policy will artificially lower the interest rate to stimulate the economy. Also, the spending of the federal government will continue to increase above the tax receipts.
This will result in inflation. Which is great if you owe money, since you are paying it back with cheaper money.
But, the interest rates being low will make it easier to borrow? The resulting divide by zero in the economy (meaning an exception that there is no solution to) will result in the US government repudiating it's prior debt and making the 'new dollar'.
This will cause a couple of years of chaos.
C++ is still king of the mountain and it will remain so for decades.
The billions of lines of existing C++ are not being re-written in rust (by humans or AI's). 100 thousands of lines are being re-written.
C++ is changing, but C++11 is moving across the land. It will be 20 years before the 'new' C++ stuff gets regularly used.
Just because it is old, doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
Just because it is done a certain way at google, doesn't mean you have to do it that way.
90% of e-mails and Teams communications are inane. Polite banter, "thanks for taking care of that, I appreciate it" "please route the forms to Janet this week because Bill is on vacation" "unit will be un available until the parts come in" . I can't see the intrinsic fact value of this kind of communication without screening it. And after screening, the gold nuggets would be minimal.
He says, without symptoms, never get a stent. Never get a bypass unless you have chest pains, shortness of breath, or other symptoms.
Lot of people have plugged up heart arteries. If it does not impact them, don't mess with them.
My story: 61 years old. excessive fatigue. echo cardiogram, no-exercise showed no issues. CT scan looked like a christmas tree. Heart Catheterization was unable to get into the vessels for stenting. Triple CABG a few days later.
The CT scan was easy, cheap (my insurance covered it), and fast. And it put me on path to get my heart fixed.
If the first derivative is positive, adding people does not help.
'give them an F' sounds good. But that impacts a lot of people.
What you need to do is move the material down a bit. Within reason.
Most of them are not ABET accredited. Class sizes are large.
In defense of this practice, how do you handle students that finished undergraduate 5, 10, 15 years ago? If you do much gating, there are not enough students.
Force young people to work with and get to know people from other backgrounds.
Unfortunately, none of the other things that should have been jokes, weren't