Costco is apparently a really good employer based on wages, benefits, and how they treat their employees
And every time I go in there, the staff are friendly, engaging, and generally seem in a good mood, despite the fact that the place is generally a zoo and the customers behave like animals
There's a whole international system for orphan disease research where governments issue grant money to companies and universities researching those diseases.
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Having interviewed STEM job applicants I can say that while there is no shortage of STEM graduates, there is a shortage of good STEM graduates.
My company isn't even trying to underpay or offer shit benefits and they've already accepted that they won't be getting google and apple level talent. And yet still, candidate after candidate cannot answer simple questions.
The ones that can answer are typically swimming in offers and take whatever tickles their fancy.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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Lunch was food.
are YOU on the beer list?
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OH MY GOD HE ASKED A BLACK REPORTER IF SHE COULD SET UP A MEETING WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS "ARE THEY FRIENDS OF YOURS?"
Spool I have been to cybernetics talks and it's always someone with DOD grants.
I'm sure other people are doing stuff, but yes. Most of that science is done by people who want to fix IED amputations and such.
Terrifying cyborg/robot armies are also pretty much the military wet dream.
After rail guns.
Hey...wait a second
What about rail guns... okay you got the rail gun
and you put the rail guns in the robot arms
No, wait... what if we reverse it.
What if we take the souls of all the people who get cybernetic limbs (because that shit fucks up your soul anyway), and we put them in the railguns. Now, we have railguns that can kill people *and* exorcise their vengeful ghosts at once!
That or we get railgun-demons. I'm a mad engineer, not a mad theophysicist.
I ate an engineer
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Having interviewed STEM job applicants I can say that while there is no shortage of STEM graduates, there is a shortage of good STEM graduates.
My company isn't even trying to underpay or offer shit benefits and they've already accepted that they won't be getting google and apple level talent. And yet still, candidate after candidate cannot answer simple questions.
The ones that can answer are typically swimming in offers and take whatever tickles their fancy.
Can you give examples? This kind of thing makes me curious
Having interviewed STEM job applicants I can say that while there is no shortage of STEM graduates, there is a shortage of good STEM graduates.
My company isn't even trying to underpay or offer shit benefits and they've already accepted that they won't be getting google and apple level talent. And yet still, candidate after candidate cannot answer simple questions.
The ones that can answer are typically swimming in offers and take whatever tickles their fancy.
what if the questions are not as simple as you think : (
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what use is a STEM if it doesn't lead to a pretty smell-good flower.
is what DK is trying to say
Having interviewed STEM job applicants I can say that while there is no shortage of STEM graduates, there is a shortage of good STEM graduates.
My company isn't even trying to underpay or offer shit benefits and they've already accepted that they won't be getting google and apple level talent. And yet still, candidate after candidate cannot answer simple questions.
The ones that can answer are typically swimming in offers and take whatever tickles their fancy.
Look donkey kong just because I don't know how to program in the language in the job description, or code at all, or use anything but my tablet, or get my tablet to run for longer than I spend ranting about the accent of call-center workers, doesn't mean I can't do the job.
Having interviewed STEM job applicants I can say that while there is no shortage of STEM graduates, there is a shortage of good STEM graduates.
My company isn't even trying to underpay or offer shit benefits and they've already accepted that they won't be getting google and apple level talent. And yet still, candidate after candidate cannot answer simple questions.
The ones that can answer are typically swimming in offers and take whatever tickles their fancy.
Can you give examples? This kind of thing makes me curious
canny edge detection and building boxes, etc
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Spool I have been to cybernetics talks and it's always someone with DOD grants.
I'm sure other people are doing stuff, but yes. Most of that science is done by people who want to fix IED amputations and such.
Shiv I am working at the world leader in lower limb prosthesis and we don't even have a contract with the VA right now.
Ok but now we're not talking about research anymore
I'm still talking about research! The science is being done in-house.
Hmm
I am not actually sure we are talking about the same thing
Are we discussing the kind of thing that involves brain implants to control/get sensory feedback, or just prosthetics?
The conversation started out about "badass cyborg limbs" and I'm not sure that conjured up the same thing for both of us
I am talking microprocessor and accelerometer and peizoelectric sensor control.
The brain stuff is public-private yeah, but it is at the Basic Foundational Concept level. A device that can function without its attached laboratory is not currently being attempted or really even considered beyond the theoretical.
that being said it can both be true that
1. the government (as research grants, DARPA, etc.) is funding prosthetic research
2. the government (as medicare / the VA) won't actually pay for cutting edge prosthetics, b/c of cost control reasons
The US having super expensive healthcare is actually globally important. That money pays for all the R&D.
having private money pay for all the R&D is objectively a bad thing
this is how you get 30 different penis pills while non-profitable diseases get shit-all in funding
It's also how you get badass cyborg legs instead of the bullshit placeholders medicare pays for.
that being said I am not sure what spool's original post was actually trying to say - it seems to be contesting the claim that private funding of R&D is bad because private money will chase profit, not necessarily societal benefit, but bringing in Medicare makes it confusing to read since that is not on the R&D side of things.
anyway spool32 the point I was trying to make is that, ideally, the majority of R&D costs should be funneled through an organization that doesn't have a profit motive
if you have a national healthcare system with stats whose mission is to provide the best health outcomes with the money they have then they can look at what's actually affecting the populace and spend their money on that
instead aiming at things that are profitable which sometimes lines up with improving health outcomes but certainly not always
I think the US has a pretty okay system overall.
Exploratory research where we discover novel new mechanisms of action and interesting new families of drugs are funded mostly through government grants.
Once they uncover a new interesting avenue for development, private companies take that research and refine it into marketable products.
We have a number of failure points, the biggest one is that the grant money for exploratory research has declined as a share of GDP since the Bush Jr. administration. But for the most part this system actually works.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Also, if you call me and I say I am working on a deliverable and to try to call me "late next week," responding "I'll call you tomorrow" is going to just piss me off. And then telling me "I'll try you on Monday" when Monday is a holiday is also going to piss me off. When I say "late next week" on a fucking Thursday, I don't mean "tomorrow" and I don't mean "Monday" either, you goose.
anyway spool32 the point I was trying to make is that, ideally, the majority of R&D costs should be funneled through an organization that doesn't have a profit motive
if you have a national healthcare system with stats whose mission is to provide the best health outcomes with the money they have then they can look at what's actually affecting the populace and spend their money on that
instead aiming at things that are profitable which sometimes lines up with improving health outcomes but certainly not always
I think the US has a pretty okay system overall.
Exploratory research where we discover novel new mechanisms of action and interesting new families of drugs are funded mostly through government grants.
Once they uncover a new interesting avenue for development, private companies take that research and refine it into marketable products.
We have a number of failure points, the biggest one is that the grant money for exploratory research has declined as a share of GDP since the Bush Jr. administration. But for the most part this system actually works.
I think, actually, that the way US drug discovery funding is one of my preferred systems for getting science funded and in the public hands
we need a bit of work to make it better, but it's a great start
Also, if you call me and I say I am working on a deliverable and to try to call me "late next week," responding "I'll call you tomorrow" is going to just piss me off. And then telling me "I'll try you on Monday" when Monday is a holiday is also going to piss me off. When I say "late next week" on a fucking Thursday, I don't mean "tomorrow" and I don't mean "Monday" either, you goose.
I just got off a call with two salesdudes. There were two of them because they work in two different product families for the same company.
The first guy was chill, asked me what we needed from the product, addressed my concerns, gave me a straight answer on price.
The second guy was one of those salespeople who's like "WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE PURCHASING?" "WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS IN YOUR COMPANY TO SIGN A QUOTE?" "ARE THERE ANY OTHER DECISION-MAKERS?"
and i'm like... dude... chill... humping my leg and slobbering on me isn't how you get my company's money
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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It is extremely hard to get in there. Vvvvvvvery high employee retention.
The US participates, too: http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/DevelopingProductsforRareDiseasesConditions/ucm2005525.htm
As with all things involving public funding, we could be doing a lot better.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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My company isn't even trying to underpay or offer shit benefits and they've already accepted that they won't be getting google and apple level talent. And yet still, candidate after candidate cannot answer simple questions.
The ones that can answer are typically swimming in offers and take whatever tickles their fancy.
are you fuckin serious
No, wait... what if we reverse it.
What if we take the souls of all the people who get cybernetic limbs (because that shit fucks up your soul anyway), and we put them in the railguns. Now, we have railguns that can kill people *and* exorcise their vengeful ghosts at once!
That or we get railgun-demons. I'm a mad engineer, not a mad theophysicist.
Can you give examples? This kind of thing makes me curious
I hope mine is food. Forgot my lunch at home so I have to gas station it or shitty expensive sammich/wrap.
Vague. Now I wonder what gas station sells a burrito labeled "food" with the ingredients "Edible things."
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I refuse to believe that happened.
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what if the questions are not as simple as you think : (
is what DK is trying to say
This is like Bizarro "I have black friends"
Look donkey kong just because I don't know how to program in the language in the job description, or code at all, or use anything but my tablet, or get my tablet to run for longer than I spend ranting about the accent of call-center workers, doesn't mean I can't do the job.
canny edge detection and building boxes, etc
I am talking microprocessor and accelerometer and peizoelectric sensor control.
The brain stuff is public-private yeah, but it is at the Basic Foundational Concept level. A device that can function without its attached laboratory is not currently being attempted or really even considered beyond the theoretical.
Hey shark can you ask Porp if she can get Keith David to come to my birthday party?
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I think the US has a pretty okay system overall.
Exploratory research where we discover novel new mechanisms of action and interesting new families of drugs are funded mostly through government grants.
Once they uncover a new interesting avenue for development, private companies take that research and refine it into marketable products.
We have a number of failure points, the biggest one is that the grant money for exploratory research has declined as a share of GDP since the Bush Jr. administration. But for the most part this system actually works.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
wait don't you mean David Keith?
For my fellow Witcher 3 fans...
SIGgy Reuven.
Nah David Keith is a saltine american, we hang out on the reg.
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Contents 1 cylinder
Ingredients TBA pending FDA review
The two constantly competing with each other is frustrating.
I just want either a cyber liver or a pig grown liver. Pick one already science.
You'll get both, but one will be infinitely more expensive than the other.
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Yeah I've eaten it.
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I think, actually, that the way US drug discovery funding is one of my preferred systems for getting science funded and in the public hands
we need a bit of work to make it better, but it's a great start
I just got off a call with two salesdudes. There were two of them because they work in two different product families for the same company.
The first guy was chill, asked me what we needed from the product, addressed my concerns, gave me a straight answer on price.
The second guy was one of those salespeople who's like "WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE PURCHASING?" "WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS IN YOUR COMPANY TO SIGN A QUOTE?" "ARE THERE ANY OTHER DECISION-MAKERS?"
and i'm like... dude... chill... humping my leg and slobbering on me isn't how you get my company's money
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
vegas odds are "probably"