Nope... Because rule 1 of negotiating for a better salary is "don't tell the recruiter either how much you currently get paid, or how much you expect/want".

And where's your evidence that these people who have high end robotics and AI skills in the apropriate research areas actually exist?

So you're saying that it's impossible to ever have a skills shortage, because there's no such thing as a skills shortage? Even if there's only 1 person capable of doing the job, and 1000 companies want to hire them, that's 999 companies' fault for not being commercially or economically viable, and not a skills shortage, right?

What would be wrong with saying Pac-Man AI?

So then who can CMU hire to replace the people that Uber hired?

Both CMU and Uber want 40 people with these skills, there are only (at least according to Uber's hiring practices) 40 people available. That's 80 jobs, and 40 people. In what way is that not a skills shortage?

You realise that this very article is pointing out a skills shortage.

The reason that Uber paid them a huge amount of money was because there's more than one job available per person capable of doing that job, so they needed to pay a huge amount.

In paying a huge amount they didn't magically change the fact that there's a shortage of people to do that job, they just (temporarily) came out on top of the pile in terms of who actually gets to employ someone.

To be fair, the cutting taxes one is pretty insane.

The country can't afford to provide health care for everyone. It can't afford to look after its veterans. It can't afford to keep its freeways in serviceable condition (in fact, in such bad shape that the bridges are collapsing!).

America doesn't need tax cuts. It needs tax hikes, and military spending cuts.

Yeh, for anything that produces heat, and hence requires a lot of power, this really isn't going to work. 250A cabling to a little electric fire place is a non-starter.

Uhhhh... In general, it's not legal to not pay your employees, but when a company has run out of money, it's run out of money. This is how going bankrupt works...

The problem is that this doesn't solve the problem. The problem that NSI calling addresses is that not everyone is prepared. Maybe I (as a brit) visit the US, and don't get a temporary SIM while I'm there - my SIM can't be used to make any calls at all... Except for that crucial 911 call that I wasn't prepared for.

Handing out free 911-only SIMs doesn't make it so that someone who is unprepared can call.

Well, the question is simple. Do receiving 70% of the calls from NSI phones being trolls cause more irreversible consequences than not receiving the 30% that are not trolls.

It may well be that more than twice as many trolls in fact cause more legitimate emergencies to go unattended than simply not receiving the legitimate NSI calls causes.

Bear in mind that KSP doesn't model several important aspects of returning to the earth (or Kerbal). It doesn't cover keeping the thing pointing in the right direction so that you don't die in a fireball. It doesn't cover keeping the thing from entering the atmosphere too steeply so that you don't die in a fireball. It doesn't cover keeping the thing from (not) entering the atmosphere too shallowly so that you don't die in the frozen wastes of space.

Aside from these basics of getting the thing flying the right way, it also doesn't cover keeping the temperature/oxygen level/g-forces/... within the capsule at reasonable levels.

Not at all - good pixel art takes way more man hours to produce than good 3D art. Heck, even bad pixel art does. It's much harder to convey an idea in a limited pallete and limited resolution than it is with all that beautiful smooth space available.

Personally, I hate the result, but that doesn't mean it's easy to make.

No, I can assure you, I find pixel art actively obnoxious. Not only does it look terrible (IMO), but someone actively put extra effort into making it look terrible.

Except that 1) you're looking at prototypes 2) only 50% of the accidents were while the computer was in control 3) accidents per person/vehicle is not what you care about, it's accidents per mile.