No controls for any other industry - if you want an H1b, bid.
So anyone who desperately needs someone on a visa can get them. Low-end body shops go away and a bunch of industries that are being cheap don't get their visas. This is called a good thing.
There are many sectors where hiring managers want degrees and other certifications and pay minimum wage or damn close. Then they complain about worker shortages.
This is all solved by higher pay and better conditions, but people want to bring in indentured servants as it's easier. As someone who has run businesses and bootstrapped, that's utter BS.
I'm appalled at the lack of ethics in civil and mechanical engineering!
Automotive engineers willfully destroyed opportunity for stablehands, whip manufacturers, and train conductors out of hundreds of other occupations annihilated.
Civil engineers with their oriented strand board trusses, reinforced concrete, and dimensional lumber stole the livelihoods of masons, carpenters, foresters and so many more.
Engineers have centuries of unethical practice to atone for. They need to stop their work because everything that they do is harmful and unethical!
You need good sightlines for the kids, room for desks, and need to ensure kids aren't isolated in a corner. Plus light (not just to a small courtyard), ability to escape in case of fire or other emergency!!!!!!! and for minimal noise intrusion from other classrooms.
Minimal space and building material are just not the right constraints and speak to absolute ignorance of the actual problem on the part of the designer.
it seems like it speaks more to the disinterest in providing an actual solution. The article is providing a possible route to finding a solution; not giving it. I mean he literally only optimizes on three parameters: windows, escape routes, and traffic usage.
He even clearly states his goals: The creative goal is to approach floor plan design solely from the perspective of optimization and without regard for convention, constructability, etc. The research goal is to see how a combination of explicit, implicit and emergent methods allow floor plans of high complexity to evolve.
Nowhere does he claim this is an implementable solution, or meant to be one... just an interesting one, given a set of priorities.
It all comes down to how explicitly preferences are originally understood and then if the reward function can incorporate implicit analysis.
There have been recent studies about AI powered shirt design - the original input uses existing designs in terms of color and shape rather than the basic naive description of requirements that an engineer would give. Then the designs can be assessed by a review board or put up on a site and not produced until some n quantity of purchases.
You wouldn't try to detect cats in images without labelled data why would you try something MUCH harder without labelled data?!?!?!?!?!
The proposal was fine and jail for repeat offences, now it's been kicked to "review".
Like Seattle's job tax once you get serious attention on something, not to mention the teeming hordes of trial lawyers drooling at the opportunity to sue Santa Barbara Council for ADA violations, the idea is going to die a quick death.
They would have gotten away with it without all those people blowing it out of proportion...
Many pensions have ambitious assumptions of 7 or 8% annual returns.
S&P went from 1565 Oct 07 2007 to 735.09 Feb 27 2009.
We're now up to 2818 but if we had delivered 8% since october 07 we'd be at 3649 by this Oct 5. So we're 28% short!
If you use S&P peak in 2000 it's 1552 and to deliver 8% since then we'd need to be at 6209!!!
Catching back up to steady state growth, especially after a 50% loss, is unfathomably hard!
What makes it worse is that the present value of obligations skyrocketed as interest rates went to 0. In 07 the Fed Funds rate was 4.5% and it's currently 2%. This rate was 0.25% until the end of 2015. For a payout of $50k per year for 10 years, ten years in the future, the present value is $481,031 at 0.25%, $368,442 at 2%, and $254,761 at 4.5%.
So the current obligation is 44% higher than it was in 07 and the amount of money is 28% lower than expected. And this is AFTER the S&P has had an incredible run from 735 to 2818!
Too many critics focus on pure dollar optimizing rather than value optimizing. We all have different value maximization functions - if you understand that dollars are just one type of value so called irrational behaviour is coldly rational. Dynamic time preferences for money are accepted but dynamic preference functions for other things (status, sense of self, stress level..) are ignored.
It's not billiard physics to general relativity, it's billiard physics to fluid dynamics and predicting the exact route of a stick through a set of rapids.
In economics our biggest complaints are around failure to determine that we're near a singularity and failure to predict behaviour through singularities (in a signal processing sense). It's understandable, as we all strongly care about the path of the stick, yet still unreasonable.
Macro is a decent enough tool most of the time, as are traditional fluid mechanics approaches. What we don't have are ultra precise CFD tools but in our arguments we act like we should/do. Sometimes traders think that they do have a great CFD solution and that's how we get LTCM crashes!
Fluids is a pretty good metaphor, but I would say that today we have sufficiently good reproducible physical understanding of fluids that we can generally fly airplanes at a high level of certainty (e.g. turbulence on the wings is both predictable and controlled in the correct ways that the plane does not crash). In comparison we crash the economy and even sub portions of markets periodically (and the last general crash was worse than many previous recessions) - we don't even have a complete picture of which turbulent areas to be wary of economically.
Or to maybe to a more human point, we can carry humans around on airplanes just fine, but don't know how to carry a payload of a nation of humans on a stable and healthy economic vehicle.
This is exactly why people have been screaming about this problem for a couple of decades.
It is going to be HUGE and do incredible damage. Retirees will be hurt catastrophically, costs of government borrowing will skyrocket, programs will be cut massively, workers will abandon government.
The issue is that the costs of meeting the prior obligations will be completely impossible. States, cities, and school districts will go bankrupt, massive numbers of people will be fired, and taxes will go up while service goes down.
Unfortunately the politics prevent a fix today and prevented a fix 10 or 20 years ago when it would have been much cheaper. The fix will happen in 10 to 20 years and it's going to be horrific.
So anyone who desperately needs someone on a visa can get them. Low-end body shops go away and a bunch of industries that are being cheap don't get their visas. This is called a good thing.
There are many sectors where hiring managers want degrees and other certifications and pay minimum wage or damn close. Then they complain about worker shortages.
This is all solved by higher pay and better conditions, but people want to bring in indentured servants as it's easier. As someone who has run businesses and bootstrapped, that's utter BS.