I think it's more akin to, if someone shoots at you, don't take cover or return fire until you radio up the chain of command, describe the situation, obtain observations, and get approval to respond. Meanwhile, bullets have been fired, and you're dead or the assailants have moved on.

It's actually insanely good. $80K/yr would be WELL above average for just out of school.

These were people around 30 yrs old with 5-7 yrs of experience and MS degrees.

They weren't top students/coders, but they were competent enough to get hired by EA.

When thinking about salaries, I think people need to separate out what top hires make in Silicon Valley from most people who are more average and not living in SF.

$60K/yr out of school would be pretty solid/good for an average university CS grad in a random town. In SF it would be rough.

what do game devs make? a few years back, friends of mine at EA were making around $80K/yr although they were working 60+ hrs/wk.

surveillance
disaster monitoring
coms relay / internet
electronic warfare / jamming / decoys

i sold my car to an Egyptian who had recently moved to the USA. she paid me with a several inches thick envelope of $100 bills. i had a bit of a problem with carrying that cash with me. it was pretty mobile and anonymous...but in all the wrong ways. i immediately went to the bank.

OTOH, a secure payment transfer would have been pretty nice.

20,000 yen is less than $200 USD. Plenty of people carry around cash amounts in excess of $200 USD that they could also lose.

Having Apple Pay or similar tied to a credit card provides protection from unauthorized purchases/fraud while also allowing a much higher limit than $200 USD.

yea, great idea, it's not like they can run! bwahahaa..

"Last Post" is fine though. You can keep posting those.

The fact that they won't open source the data and make it available, which costs them nearly nothing...is a big fuck you to the American people from our friends in the government. Is this part of their war on STEM?

I have health problems that prevent me from riding. Sucks, as I used to ride all the time. Then had to sell my bike one day and stop. Still, I wish there was more biking infrastructure around where I live.

Each product spec sheet should include a list of all countries that will be spying on you as a result of your purchase. Then you can compare various models and decide who would make you most happy if they were to know everything about you. Customer transparency. Customer choice. Even Apple can get behind that!

Salaries are very local. Sure $87K/yr is low for 5 yrs exp in NYC or SF, but in some parts of the country, that's a decent senior engineer salary, especially if the job has other benefits like 40 hr work weeks, flex scheduling, overtime, pension, health care, etc.

Amazing that we're getting to 7nm, and rather than saying we can't do it, there's just casual talk about how they will have to switch away from silicone. Really incredible. Will they just keep marching forward to less than 7nm and into other exotic configs?

perhaps there will be an uber crash

I don't want to use the tool because I don't want to degrade my enhanced shopping experience. It's just so premium now.