asciilifeform: (the nre cost is what i'm speaking of)
asciilifeform: because, at least partly, the latter represents 'capital allocation', or as mircea_popescu's article put it, 'a thing we can't all be doing'
asciilifeform: was thinking re: how 'moore's law', even in its heyday, did not substantially affect the inflation-adjusted COST of having a chip baked
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: written in browsercrud even. imagine what could be done on an ~actual~ comp
asciilifeform: PHYSICAL simulation of the thing, based on photographed and ocr'd dies, with animation.
asciilifeform: money is 'given' so that you can 'buy 200 mil of ads from arsebook, who gave it' as per mircea_popescu's article.
asciilifeform: (not that anyone would have given money for that)
asciilifeform: he was not equipped to birth the thing with own hands
asciilifeform: 'brogrammers' frittered away the funds, whole thing collapsed in a giant black hole of mismanagement, graft, and varied charlatanry
asciilifeform: at one point, after decades of futile crackpottery, he made phriends with some money fella and actually got funded, but turned out that this did not help
asciilifeform: people are losing jobs and there’s more challenges to survive.'
asciilifeform: 'The challenge: what is “financially over-extended” today? It is more common now than before, and debt has become the norm. We have to take financial situation into consideration and be flexible; otherwise, almost no one will qualify for a security clearance if we aren’t careful. We can’t ignore it, but need to consider the reasons for it. Before there may have been clear indicators but today
asciilifeform: 'People want to be here, but why? Polling data suggest that the reasons are mostly instrumental (public funds, ease of travel), with only 17 percent expressing an affective reason.'
asciilifeform: 'There are three forms of employee commitment that may apply to commitment to country as well: affective (emotional: ― I feel good when I see the flag), normative (obligation: ― I belong here) and instrumental (no other option: ― I’m here because I have no choice).' << l0ltr0nic
asciilifeform: or, hm, first chart is 'issues' and second 'serious' (i.e., disqualifying) issues.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: earlier thread, p. 134 of turd has a chart, claims 1,084 usgrasty applicants with breakdown of why rejected
asciilifeform: in other news, blocks that take my trb nodez 5-10 min. to verify have become sop.
