They’re giving huge amounts to the people they’re laying off though
Severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting.
We’ll pay 2022 bonuses and remaining vacation time.
We’ll be offering 6 months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support for those affected.
I have no proof but I wouldn’t be surprised if the coal industry was indirectly lobbying for renewables. “Renewable energy” might have been the final nail in the coffin to make earth succumb to pollution while nuclear was somehow ignored.
Actual fridge temp IQs still repeating narratives about nuclear safety and nuclear waste are possibly the most environmentally damaging groups of the 21st century.
If value you mean value to PC users, it’s a tricky question. The x86 processor (the one used in pretty much every computer and laptop) is actually licensed by Intel and AMD. Apparently they’re letting some Chinese companies use it, but much like what they tried to do with Apple, it could be to keep them on a leash. Other efforts like Arm (i.e. Rasberry Pi and the new Macbooks) cannot run Windows (since Qualcomm has exclusive rights to make Arm chips for Windows), so you’re left with… Well Linux and MacOS. MacOS offers very little value to power users or gamers, and Linux has both low marketshare and to be honest subpar ARM binary support (I know Linux has had ARM support for like 20 years, but if you look at Flathub for example, it’s like 50% of the apps support Arm, and >99% support x86).
So tl;dr if they use x86 they’re on a leash, if they use ARM there’s limited adoption, and they probably can’t make their own instruction set without having the same issue ARM does. They’re gonna have to be a lot better than “Western” CPUs (made in China) to make up for these losses, so if I had to guess, it’s honestly more than 10+ years out.
I’d love to be wrong though, and they’ll probably ramp up marketshare on mobile a lot sooner (like 2-3 years)
Edit: Doing a little more research, it looks like mobile or desktop aside they’re at least 5+ years out from even being comparable to modern CPUs. Right now the best Chinese CPUs are having their performance actually annihilated by low-tier 10 year old AMD CPUs. That’s not to say they don’t have uses today (apparently Chinese government computers require them for security purposes), but they have quite a bit of catching up to do, and again, they then need to surpass that (or become cheaper, which they are not) for it to gain value in the market.
ER wait times? Sounds like Cana… Oh, yup.
Why are all the middle class people leaving to where they can pay for life saving healthcare?? They should stay and pay taxes for the rest of us >:[ >:[
Too real. The unimaginable weight that comes with running a successful piece of work is the reason I’ve stepped down from every. successful. project I’ve made.
A successful trait I’ve seen is the maintainer of the project is not someone who touches the code anymore. At a glance you’d think “What do they do?”, but the answer is a lot
If there’s one thing everyone on Lemmy.ml seems to agree on, it’s this
Huge portions of the homeless (or even poor-looking people) in South Korea have randomly disappeared multiple times now. It also happened in 1988 when SK hosted the Olympics for optics
Police officers often received promotions based on the number of vagrants they had arrested, and owners of facilities received a subsidy based on the number of people held. There were multiple reports of inmates raped or beaten, and sometimes beaten to death.
Russian and Ukrainian officials tentatively agreed on a potential peace deal during negotiations back in April 2022, according to a Foreign Affairs article by Fiona Hill and Angela Stent that cited former US officials.
The terms of that settlement would have been for Russia to withdraw to the positions it held before launching the invasion on February 24. In exchange, Ukraine would “promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.”
Huge if true, surprised I haven’t seen this before
Edit: Nevermind, I thought Russia was willing to withdraw from their occupied territory. From the article’s source:
Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea,
So this would just greenlight invading countries as a thing we can do in the 2020s. Not ideal if your interest is avoiding wasting talent and life
Details from the report conclusion: