> Doing a Numbeo cost of living conversion suggests at least the base salary is roughly comparable to what you'd be making in the US.
Where in the US? Maybe in the boondocks, but those salaries are shit compared to major city salaries in the US. I made more than that working as an intern before graduating nearly 10 years ago during great recession.
They write the same shit every year, every generation.
People said the same thing about newspapers. The same thing about radio. The same thing about rock 'n roll. The same thing about rap/hip-hop. The same thing about TV ( IDIOT BOX ). They said the same thing about myspace 10 years ago. They said the same thing about porn.
I'm sure in 10 years, they'll say the same thing about VR because people need to sell ads and justify their paychecks.
Nope. We get maine lobsters in the NY area and the price has increased in the last few years. Haven't had lobsters because I refuse to pay extortion prices.
If you find the topic of consciousness interesting, here is an interesting neuroscientist's talk on consciousness. The idea that we can measure levels of consciousness as brain scanning tools become available and how consciousness may just be a "prediction process/function/tool".
It's not "I think therefore I am", but "I predict, therefore I am".
> I'm a huge Elon Musk fan and I deeply share his vision for getting humans on mars, being more environmentally friendly, etc. However, I'm starting to lose faith in him.
Same here. A fan of musk. But SCTY's demise should serve as a canary in the mine. TSLA had to buy SCTY to prevent it from going bankrupt.
Not going to bet against Musk since he is a great salesman and he seems to have a lot of powerful friends who have and are willing to bail him out, but TSLA is a company that might not be around in 5 to 10 years if the business/economic environment shifts against him.
He better hope his TSLA self-driving software is the best in class.
People forget that Musk and TSLA was pretty much bankrupt 10 years ago before he got bailed out.
> Had he kept it in XOM, his $3 million would have been worth $22 million today, with a dividend that would have covered his expenses and that kept pace with inflation.
His house value probably rose at a higher rate than XOM's did.
Also, what's your point? His shares would be worth $22 million today and he'd still be dead.
I always watch Alien and Aliens back to back. From time to time, if I have more time to kill, I watch Alien 3 ( the extended director's cut ). I watched Alien: Resurrection once and have never watched it again and have no desire to. Terrible movie.
I will never be able to forgive Alien 3 for killing off hicks and newt so unceremoniously ( off screen ). That was so lazy and cowardly, it ruins what is a fun movie to watch.
> I think these kinds of stories play well to governments, the press, and some groups of people as ideas or as cool photo opportunities, but they don't translate into meaningful agricultural production.
As with almost all of these type of stories, it's "filler" material for journalists who need to write something to justify their paychecks and it's free advertisement for the companies. Nothing more, nothing less. Companies contact WSJ|NYTimes|etc to do pieces on them all the time. It's free publicity and journalists need to write something and of course the media has to sell ads. It's a form of busybody work.
At least this is a break from the relentless "solar savior elon musk" craze on social and traditional media.
> The "China vs America" narrative is unnecessary.
It's central to the current world event. The major theme of the 21st century is going to be china's growth in power vs the US.
Power is a zero sum game after all. If china's power increases, it's going to come at the expense of the lone superpower.
> If China wants to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure to develop their region that's a great thing for America too.
A china-centered economic order isn't a "great thing for America".
> Eventually the demand for low-margin, subsidized, Chinese steel will flatten, while the demand for high-margin American technology and cultural products will grow.
What makes you think that china isn't going to take over the high-end steel market too?
Unless you think chinese are intellectually incapable of developing high-end steel...
And the US, britain, [insert any country]'s narrative.
You act like we are any different from china or russia.