By the time you finish the product design and manufacturing pipeline the chip shortage will be long over, and the market for a car without any modern amenities is not actually that big.
If someone told me I were killing it, I would feel like a 22 year old engineer again and have flashbacks to that one PM who loved my work but who came to work still tripping some Mondays. Glad to be making a key stakeholder happy, but holy fuck am I glad we finally fired that tool.
If someone told me I was doing above average and they appreciated my work, I would feel... appreciated and proud of my work.
The world where killing and crushing are used in an unironic way is tiny and occupied mostly by people under 30. Can you retire at 30?
Doubling down on the tech, no matter what that means quantitatively, would mean qualitatively increasing your bet on the actual product. E.g. you’d fire every last milin if that meant you could keep a LiDAR engineer on staff.
E.g., the massive amount of money that is redirected from productive cities into relatively unproductive rural counties, many of which subsist on jobs that would not exist without superfluous military bases, over-incarceration, massive farm subsidies, or, yes, branch campuses of state university systems. This happens at the state level too. Many of our state’s rural school districts are almost entirely funded by redistributed taxes. Because their local populations won’t even pass no-tax-increase no-debt-load-increase bond issues to fix roofs.
Hopefully work from home will take off and rural communities/states will find a way to become more productive.
The "Ethnic and national feuds" section seems like it gets a certain point across: things that seem silly in current context were extraordinarily important cultural touch-points at one point, and could well become so again. E.g., the U2 Irish/UK thing. Easy to laugh at today, but equally easy to understand why to some people at some point in time nationality difference between Irish and UK really mattered. Most flamewars are just real arguments that happen in the wrong time/place/tenor.
OFC some examples are clearly just the product of either drugs or a bad week, or more likely both.
Kind of like reading slashdot articles about "websites", hacker news articles about "capitalism", or newspaper article comment sections about "immigrants" in the late 20th/early 21st century. Or whatever. You get the point ;)
Meh, dunno - a lot of people having strong opinions and emotions doesn't really mean the fact they're discussing is important.
Let's say my parents are from A, I was born in B and live in C. There was an important and well known historical conflict between A, B and C fueled by nationalism at some point.
I am an established artist/scientist and I don't care about my own nationality. Is it important that people flame about it on my wiki article?
In other countries banks don't make five+ figures on every doctor's education, and their doctors certainly don't make enough to service six figures in education debt.
Finance capitalists keep the vicious cycle going. Doctors' unions scratch and claw for high comp because without it their new entrants are screwed.
Depends on how long the rent goes delinquent. It's not uncommon for the rent to finally show up around the 15th. I used to rent out a property and would typically write the lease so that the rent was due within 5 days of the 1st. I would send a reminder but I didn't really start to worry as long as it showed up before the 20th. If it took longer than that I would start to worry.
The difference here is that the percent of that 31% who really can't afford the rent -- not now, and not any time soon -- is probably closer to 100%.
> To clarify: Are all rents in the US monthly and due on the first of the month?
Yes, at least in all the markets I'm aware of. If someone moves in after in the middle of a month, you'll pro-rate the rent for that first fraction of a month so that everyone's back on the monthly cycle for the rest of the lease (typically 12 months, but in some markets there's a strong preference for a particular month and so the lease will be written to end after less than 12 months. Typically uni towns where you really want to lease to end on August 31st regardless of when it started).
To clarify the 15th: paychecks typically also always arrive bimonthy and on fixed days. So, people would fail to budget for the 1st but would be able to cover rent when their second bimonthly paycheck hit their account. As a land owner extracting rent from folks, I think it's more than fair that they get a ~10 day interest fee loan as needed. And even if I were an asshole, it wouldn't be in my economic interest to do anything about those sorts of 10 day delays.
But I sort of suspect a lot of the folks who couldn't afford rent on the 1st of April 2020 won't be able to afford rent on the 15th of April 2020 either...
Where I live, although the rent was technically due on the first, there's an automatic grace period of three days without late fees so the actual due date is the fourth.
Years of renting. I imagine it goes by state law but the grace period has always been three days. The 4th of the month is when the late fee would be tacked on.
The article pointed out that a significant portion of renters spend over half their income on their rent. If they are not working, they will not be able to ever make up the difference.
Seems about par for the average New Yorker. Folks in NYC seem especially gullible to spend more than half their paychecks on rent, something even folks in SF would hesitate. This is not for lack of options - my colleagues who make the same as me would rather pay $1000 more a month to stay in Manhattan instead of (a very comfortable still) place in Brooklyn. The commute is still very tolerable by any modern city standard, probably around 30 minutes (12 if you want to stay in downtown Brooklyn), but apparently thats too long?
Everything that you just listed is basically how our current system works.
Accredited institutions can issue degrees if you pass their courses. There are various "grades" that bucket people, but as far as getting the degree goes, you just need to pass. Grading is at least ostensibly objective. Admissions to accredited institutions is selective, and colleges compete with one another for students.
The only two differences are price per class and "objective grading".
The former amounts to "what if we had our current system, except everything were cheaper". Which, I guess I have to admit, would indeed be nice. It'd be nice if healthcare and cars and real estate were cheaper as well. Not sure how to actually do it, though.
And for the latter, we've done that in K12 (standardized tests). Almost everyone seems to agree it's a terrible system.
I'm the accrediting institution. For my degree in physics, you have to pass this online class on electrodynamics from MIT, because it's the best one there is. And you have to pass this other online class from Caltech on special relativity, because it's the best there is on that. And so on.
The "accrediting institution" doesn't need to own any of the course content. It can take the best of the online courses that are available. And the online stuff that's available tends to be the best of the available lecturers.
That's why it could be less expensive. You don't have to have classrooms. You don't have to pay the lecturers' salaries (though you do have to pay license fees on the video). You have to have a very small amount of administration, and you have to write and administer tests that show whether the student actually knows the material.
Western Governors University already runs on something like this model, except that I believe that they use their own content instead of the best available online content, and they only have a limited set of majors.
And, I didn't say "standardized tests". The tests would probably belong to the accrediting institution. But there need to be tests, so that they can tell that you actually learned something, instead of just sitting through the videos watching something else on your phone.
Okay. So, everyone needs to be able to pass MIT's electrodynamics course if they get a degree that requires and electrodynamics course. And without intensive one-on-one and in person tutoring.
I'll risk sounding like an asshole or making an ass of myself and just straight up ask: Have you ever taught before? Somewhere other than a top ten CS or ivy league university?
What you're proposing sounds way more expensive than the status quo.
