It's not as good as it's sounds, especially with new Ryzen cores.
IBM won't let you do benchmark comparisons, but I've found unofficial ones that show Ryzen is almost 3X performance per thread on general purpose workloads.
You can get a 32 core 64 thread Ryzen for $2000. And it should have around 2/3 the performance of a top of the line z15 mainframe that costs $200,000+ . And the Ryzen is a single chip, so the rest of the hardware is cheap and compact.
This was partially a PR move. Surfside is over 1/3 Jewish and a large number of Israelis lived in the building.
Not saying it's "bad" at all for Israel to send in experts. But it's important to realize that governments selectively help people in other countries for political reasons sometimes.
Would they have sent in their experts if the building was full of Palestinians?
It's because it contains a chemical used to make meth. It has nothing to do with corporate, it's federal law. Sales are tracked nationwide because gangs were bussing groups of people to different stores when they couldn't buy large quantities anymore.
Hardly "petty authoritarians". I worked at the drugstore counter for years and people entitled enough to make a scene because they needed ID to buy a drug precursor were one of the worst parts of the job.
There's a certain portion of US population that thinks it's trendy to protest anything they don't understand. Which is why people are getting kicked off planes and out of restaurants at record highs. We had a certain leader that normalized bad behavior and it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.
Propaganda. Orban is a dictator in everything but name, like Putin.
He stacked the courts and government servants with loyalists. He controls over 90% of the media. The election system is corrupted to the point that nobody else can win.
He's been in charge for 11 years with no signs of leaving
The Hubble was also a redesigned spy satellite. The main mirror design was chosen so it could be built with existing mirror tech made for military imaging satellites.
There's probably a dozen satellites out there right now with optics an order of magnitude better than Hubble. They're just pointed down
It's a repeat of the gilded age about 100 years ago.
Unions are dead, gig jobs get around the worker protections that took us 80 years to win. The gap between the richest and the rest is as big as it was then.
We need labor to rise up again and antitrust these robber barons
I never knew that about exhaust velocity. So as propellant mass efficiency goes up linearly, power use goes up exponentially? does that make fast interstellar travel impossible?
The corruption runs deeper than that. Something like 50% of drug discovery is funded by US govt, taxpayers. Yet 100% of the profits from new drugs goes to big pharma. They're robbing us.
Japan gets more flak because it's physical and historical isolation plus high cultural homogeneity have resulted in unique societal quirks.
Going to western Europe feels like the US. Going to Japan from the west still feels like traveling the world once did. Its unique culture is appreciated worldwide, even from closest neighbors.
They had smartphones almost a decade before we did. They had high speed rail before anyone else . Manga and anime are now worldwide, but they were born in Japan. Kawaii has spread to south Korea and to some extent the west, but it was born in Japan. Hanko instead of signatures is unique. Bowing. Onsen. Sumo. Vending machines. Much of the food... There's countless examples.
We're should be celebrating human uniqueness, Japan is a special place
This seems to imply millennials are lazy. They're the most educated generation in US history, and at the same time, the poorest in at least 60 years.
COVID relief funds are only paying them more than their normal wage because they got paid so badly to begin with. All older generations have averages incomes significantly higher than what COVID unemployment pays. And that's despite Millennials being more educated than all of these prior generations.
It's finally given many of them the freedom and agency to choose their jobs rather than take the first thing they can find to avoid going broke. Many of these people looking for jobs were also the first laid off at the beginning of the pandemic. Why should we feel bad for companies that treated these people as disposable?
There's not a "worker shortage". Companies are complaining that they have to raise wages to attract talent because workers are shopping around and getting counter offers.
This is not unprecedented. The same phenomenon happened after the Spanish flu, and was arguably a big factor in the collapse of the fuedal system during the black death.
Wide scale destruction of jobs followed by increased demand gives workers leverage. You have a huge group of people not afraid of being jobless because they already have been.
We have to remember that 600k people are dead too. A decent chunk of available labor is gone forever.
COVID restrictions blocking employers from hiring foreign labor is also a factor. There's increased competition for American workers because it's harder to import cheap labor