Re:New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects
by hinkley on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:09PM
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When I heard how much Apple was offering versus Intel, I just had the picture in my head of a classroom where the teacher is demonstrating some showy physics or chemistry principle based on pressure.
Maybe they reasoned that they're located in a lower cost of living market and so those big paychecks aren't necessary. Or maybe the policy people just get sticker shock because of that.
Either way, making rational decisions 24 hours a day is very different than being able to consistently make them 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I've known plenty of trustworthy coworkers who make irrational personal decisions. You can't use 'econ brain' to price employee salaries and benefits.
SV is so familiar with the cheaper, irrational solutions that they're a cliche that occasionally rises to the level of self parody.
Maybe they reasoned that they're located in a lower cost of living market and so those big paychecks aren't necessary. Or maybe the policy people just get sticker shock because of that.
Either way, making rational decisions 24 hours a day is very different than being able to consistently make them 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I've known plenty of trustworthy coworkers who make irrational personal decisions. You can't use 'econ brain' to price employee salaries and benefits.
SV is so familiar with the cheaper, irrational solutions that they're a cliche that occasionally rises to the level of self parody.