As a fellow European, I used to feel that way. Having lived in Canada for a while now, I prefer short notice periods.
It means that I can be more flexible in pursuing opportunities. Businesses also tend to be more risk-seeking because the downside of hiring someone is lower. That benefits me as an employee because it is much easier to get hired.
I’ve been laid off, so I also felt the negative consequences. The key for me was building an emergency fund. Granted, if a person is in an employer's market, the short notice system is terrible.
Skills are the ability to meet spec quicker than someone who has to learn as they go. Sounds like potential energy to me. Since capital acts like potential energy, it follows that skills are capital.
I enjoy in-depth by first-round review[0], which explores what goes into building companies and teams through conversations with people that have successfully done so.
The fall in house prices will probably not affect the prices of rental units. The cost of acquiring a home should be roughly the same, considering an increase in interest rates.
Rental prices might fall if people are forced to sell their houses at lower prices. In my area, people buy houses on 30-year mortgages with variable rates and require an in-law suite to finance it partially. The margins are so thin that I encountered people who had to sell their homes because of increased property taxes.
> Rental prices might fall if people are forced to sell their houses at lower prices.
How? I think the bank will just sell the house, possibly for a lower price then the market value. Then, the previous owners need to rent somewhere. As there are less people able to pay a mortgage, the more people need to rent.
Good point. If someone is forced to sell their house and stays in the same area, rental prices should stay the same because demand remains the same. What would happen if an investor living elsewhere is forced to sell?
If someone is forced to sell their house and stays in the same area, rental prices should go up I would say.
As seemingly everywhere around the globe interest rates have gone up, the influx of new home buyers have gone down. Those people have to compete with each other at the rental market. Unless your country is able to create a new big supply of rental homes to somewhat balance the market, the rental price is definitely not stable, but trending upwards.
In the Netherlands we are getting stricter rental controls to keep the rental price to not increase that much. Some people are sitting between a rock and a hard place now: not able to buy, not able to save due to high rents.
I wonder why they didn’t archive the most relevant tweets only. A library keeps only a subset of all available books in its archive as well.
Edit:
From the article, there are copyright issues when archiving tweets. The people tweeting own their tweets. So the archive doesn’t want to expose itself to that risk.
> The 14nm technology is at least three generations behind the latest advances available on the market but it is already the second-best technology that China’s chipmaking champion Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. owns.
Out of curiosity, what is the west gaining by restricting more advanced chips? China can build computers, smartphones, and weapons with the older generation of chips.
Is it to make their chip industry uncompetitive so we don’t become dependent on them?
Those chips exclusively come from West-aligned geographies. China can't fully disentangle its supply chain from that of the West without building EUV-based technologies. Taiwan remains a shared pressure point so long as China needs TSMC.
This buys time for the West to build more defensible fab infrastructure before China attempts to take Taiwan or damage its fabs.
That's a good question. It's already not that uncommon to do surgeries remotely using surgical robots, operated by a surgeon on another continent. I wonder if the labor laws have caught up to this yet.
Uh, it's been done a few times as a neat tech demo, but the reality of surgery is that you really need a surgeon there, in the room, who is capable of doing the surgery as an open procedure if the robotic attempt fails, or if they hit a bleeding source.
And you need someone who's qualified to place the ports in the body in the first place.
In practically all cases, if someone needs a highly specialized surgeon, it's logistically much simpler to take the patient to them.
My grandma used to tell me about this situation. Specifically, how infuriating it was to work with people that would do the absolute minimum and be rewarded like people making an effort.
And there's also some kind of a real psychological incentive for some, like myself, to be basically unable to do "absolute minimum" when I come to do the job and engage myself, because that would drive me crazy.
