Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
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Don't care what's in the zfs source code but this will become the corporate cause for next year.
Somebody in senior management will notice that everyone above the level of serf is a white golf buddy and order some diversity.
Which means they go and play golf and we get stuck in a 'workshop' with a GROLIES 'facilitator' demanding that a racially diverse group of engineers role-play how words can have meanings.
Ironically this is one case where a non-compete would be reasonable.
Say Intel intend to launch a multi $bn new chip line it would make sense for a competitor to pay their chief chip designer $10M/year to come and work for you - even if they did nothing.
Imagine if Nokia had hired away Mr Ives a year before the iPhone launch
I imagine their accountants are looking very carefully at this.
Fabs cost a lot of money and take a long time to build. It's not like a warehouse where you can run it for 11 months until the subsidy runs out.
TMSC are going to need either a 10year commitment for tax breaks and govt orders, ie from the next 2-3 administrations, or pick a state where they know can buy the legislature.
The people aren't a major part of the cost of a chip fab and the skilled people you need to run one aren't that much cheaper in Shenzhen than in Toadsuck Arkansas.
The products will still be made in china because that is labour intensive, it's just that the chips will be shipped from USA rather than Taiwan.
For TMSC this is a great move, they get a fab built for free - assuming their tax accountants are any good. They get a captive market with infinitely deep pockets - US military/govt/etc required to buy made in america "Freedom chips" from TMSC at whatever premium they want to charge
Any threat/boycot/law suit aimed at TMSC from anybody in the world becomes a threat to America.
In France the compensation could well have been his salary till retirement age plus a pay rise for everyone else due to the emotional stress of hearing about this.
One of our French grad-students left for a very minor academic role in a tiny college in the middle of France. Once he was there for 3 years he would be a permanent civil service employee and impossible to fire, so could shop around for any academic job in the country.
Here on the left pond I worked in a government lab that was unionised. For an open job I have to take the union member with the most seniority who is "qualified", I spent a lot of time justifying job requirements like "a PhD in physics" or "10 years embedded c++ experience in nuclear" to get a choice of candidates.
>It reminds me a lot of how I heard things work in academia, especially when a tenured position
Possibly a little more justified in a university post.
Otherwise every 4 years it is: Party X is in power, everyone who has researched climate change please collect your redundancy cheque, followed by party Y is now elected, all fossil fuel researchers are fired.
>position which the employee is suited, or can be retrained, for.
The problem is that it isn't a reasonable technical analysis of this route.
It's being decided by unions and lawyers who have a vested interest.
So a salesperson who used a laptop can of course be retrained as a sysadmin because they are both computer jobs. Don't agree then see you in court.
>we also have a one party system in the West
Ridiculous there is a huge difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
With one you get a right wing capitalist administration run by ex Goldman-Sachs partners with Ashkenazi surnames and with the other you get a right wing capitalist administration run by ex Goldman-Sachs partners with hispanic names.
So in normal (non-Trump) days your choice basically comes down to abortion and gay marriage.