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> There was a great article back then too about why Apple and Dell weren't going all in on AMD chips

Because Intel paid them to not use AMD chips.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/184323-intel-stuck-wit...

> just over a week into the Trump Administration.

It actually started long time before Trump. http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/3363/laptop-search...

Nobody has mentioned the "Scroogled" short story yet? I really hope this is not the future that expects us. http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html

That's an interesting twist. So my job that requires knowledge and brainwork gets fully automated, but mechanical-turk-type work somehow is not?

You life in the Middle Ages definitely would have been way much better. /s

> The difference is that your average engineer in France costs them around 1.5-2.5 times the total take home pay, because of high, compulsory labor taxes. In exchange, employees get as standard

So, France could be great to be an employee, but it's horrible for entrepreneurs.

> I'm wondering why people focus on financial compensation so much?

I think that it's unjust when people are paid crazy money for doing poor job. As well as when people are paid little money for good job.

Even several different peer review systems would be much better than Elsevier.

> Good journals, in theory, are more selective about what they publish, so the assumption is that if you have publications in a good one you must have done more groundbreaking research.

I wonder why nobody created a single peer-reviewed platform for all scientists to use? Elsevier is just piggybacking on other people's work and funds.

"Apple is not even in the same spyware league as Google." - Why? Seriously asking.

Even if you know that, you don't really have an option to stop it. You can buy a smartphone with either Android or iOS - and both are spying on the user heavily.

That's not mine. You wrote about Fiji and Pascal, but AFAIK they have nothing to do with FPGA.

HBM != FPGA

This can be a real breakthrough in computing technology. Just in time, as the improvement of desktop and server CPUs has stalled almost completely.

> getting the bug reports into a more relevant and manageable state

What means that somebody got them into the unmanageable state, in the first place.

No, it's a totally wrong apporach. It's your work that you are paid for, and nobody is ought to make your work for free.

> time required to setup, reproduce, investigate, fix and test against that and other versions

And that's not the case again. I already provided all information to reproduce that bug easily.

PS "bugs", actually. They've closed several bugs that I reported, though notified me about one only.

> it works completely different in version N+1 that you should have upgraded to years ago, and btw, we're actually on N+3 now, so we are not going to fix old

That's not the case. The bugreport that they closed is still actual in the latest version.

Well, I think that it's not some arcane knowledge that nobody but enlightened can understand. Anyway, it's better to collect some information before talking to them.

Singapore looks like a good location wrt taxes and ease of doing business, but I may be missing something.