another important point, typhoons are very big, so wind blows against a building in one direction. Tornadoes are very small, and would push on a skyscraper in multiple directions in the rare event that it hits a skyscraper and doesnt immediately dissolve due to lack of airflow. Airflow from multiple directions would mostly cancel out.
it has everything to do with it. the current issues are a symptom of shortcuts and cost cutting at the expense of long-term growth and continued success. 737 MAX MCAS was the result of MBAs cutting costs when the right thing was to spend more and develop a new plane. Aircraft doors blowing open mid-flight is the result of MBAs cutting costs and outsourcing safety device manufacturing and install to ultra-cheap low quality vendors like malaysian spirit aerosystems.
that's ridiculous. it's like saying i separate myself the employee from the private individual receiving the salary. the two are the same. Just because the catholic church can get away with separating the same entity into multiple parts doesn't mean anyone can or should
This is so incorrect it's laughable. If you look at the data, public opinion in america has changed almost exactly in step with new generations emerging and old generations dying. People almost never change their opinion on political issues, they just die.
There's tons of lazy freeloaders, dead-end projects, products that need to be cancelled, toxic underperformers, etc. All of these lead to layoffs, because firing individual people is harder, and it's nicer to just let people go in annual waves.
Or maybe this is how you keep a company alive and producing good work. Sure Disney is more profitable, but it's become a soulless corporate machine, and will falter and die in the next 30 years. Nintendo will stay profitable and will continue to produce high quality products forever.
Layoffs could also mean trimming the dead weight at the company that is sitting around and collecting paychecks, which in my experience is super common in california tech. Hit L4/L5, attend that weekly standups, and rest and vest till 50, then FAT FIRE and move to New Zealand
oh god, how will SF SWEs survive with more expensive potatoe chips and soda. Maybe stop drinking poison and processed foods and you'll be fine. A whole rotisserie chicken is only $8.99 at whole foods
boo hoo, how will SWE survive on a paltry $150k per year for adjusting drop down menu fonts. The salaries in tech were ridiculous and an insult to other professionals that actually improved the world. Now that 0% interest rates are gone and most tech is mature and cranking up margins by pushing more ads, you don't need as many SWEs. Michelin-chef meals, onsite daycare, 400K salaries, and nap rooms were not a sustainable long term thing
Becuase the AI cycle is still in the hype phase, and VCs and private capital is getting in right now before unloading onto retail investors to hold the bags.
And also, like every major tech invention in the past 40 years (smartphones, search, operating systems, social media, e-commerce), AI will quickly be dominated by a single corporation that will hold 80%+ of the market share. Nvidia on the hardware side and Microsoft/ClosedAI on the software side.
Actually, those million dollar cars aren't really cars, they're collectibles. the real top of the line cars today are probably either a Porsche GT2 RS, an Aventador SVJ, or Cullinan if you only want comfort. And all of those only run about $300k-$500k
Assuming you are German, then: The US liberated your country from fascism, saved half of your country from 50 years of soviet occupation, rebuilt your country with the Marshall Plan after your country started two world wars that killed 100 million people, and now defends your country from genocidal russian aggression because your country is too cheap/lazy to meet your NATO defence spending obligations.
If you can trust the US to defend you from Putin, you can trust the US to handle your data. China doesn't have that relationship with Germany as far as i'm aware
Western Automakers already control their respective markets and are seeking to break into china, so they design towards chinese consumers. Chinese automakers already control their respective markets and are seeking to break into the western markets, and thus design towards western consumer tastes.
You would think that "savy" HN visitors who know about A/B testing, market data driven decisions, etc. would know that if something looks ugly it's usually designed that way for a reason. But keep being smug while you ruin your website/app's color schemes and layout based on the same data driven corporate design strategies.
let's stop repeating this nonsense. You wouldn't say LVMH has minority market saturation in the clothing industry, because it doesn't compete in the global clothing industry. It competes in the global luxury goods market, where it has a dominant market majority control. Similarly, Apple has, and for a long time has had, a near monopoly on the luxury electronics market.
This is categorically false. The VAST majority of automobile accidents that result in deaths, even though drivers were at fault do not result in jail time. Even a large part of DUIs that result in deaths only result in community service and probation.
Bill of Materials should really only be used for things that require a list of items/labor, and aren't sold individually such as a datacenter, a building, a hardware integration project, a wedding, etc. For things that are sold individually, "cost" will suffice, and BoM is an example of incorrectly using a more complicated term for the sake of seeming smart.
Yeah, let's burn through $500 worth of glassware for every single freshmen's weekly lab class. We occasionally used flasks worth $300. Let's also make computers single use as well.
Everyone I know who has changed jobs has gotten 30%+ raises in my circle. Very few people I know still work where they worked in 2019. The few that do are either very poor, or very wealthy.
In the modern economy, you don't get raises anymore, you get a new job every 2-3 years. Anyone who is upset that they haven't gotten raises to keep up with inflation has only themselves to blame.
That's every monopoly in history. Any smart monopoly allows just enough competition to tread water to show regulators that "hey, look, there's competition, we're just dominant".
doubtful. Imagine if instead of everyone owning a car, we had bullet trains everywhere, and amazing public transport. Almost no traffic, much quicker intra- and inner-city commuting. Ugh. Cars, from an engineering and city planning perspective are super innefficient. Imagine all the housing, stores, and other economically beneficial things we could build instead of the hellscape of parking lots we have today.