If you need helium badly enough you will pay a premium. Don't know but it is hard to believe the cost of helium is a significant factor in semi-conductor manufacturing.

Don't know much about college today but I got my masters degree in CS in 1972. I'm 80 years old and retired after 40 years as software engineer starting with IBM and later full time consulting. In school there was almost no programming involved as actual computer time too was costly to run bug-ridden student jobs. Instead we were taught algorithms with Knuth, studied Turing machines, calculating with boolean logic, operating systems and database systems. Over my career I learned and unlearned many programming languages like Fortran, Cobol, ADA, Basic and more obscure ones like Lisp, Jovial and Simula. I've programed in assembly for Motorola, Intel, IBM and long forgotten machines like Burroughs, DEC and Data General. I've even worked with a 18bit 1's complement machine. What my experience tells me is that coding is a mechanical task readily automated. What counts is the ability to develop software requirement that are complete, consistent and realizable requirements, no easy task. The old cliche is that you go to college not to learn a skill but how to think. So I'm in the math camp perhaps adding algorithms and a little computer architecture. But what do I know about today's employment market.

Writing code is least important task of a software engineer. My job comprises deciding what the software should do, how should it do it and how can it be verified that it works as specified. In addition there are tradeoffs of time, space, and speed, cost to be analyzed. If I do my part correctly the coding is essentially a mechanical task to be done by AI.

Is there an element of racism here; going after Africans when Indian scammers ae more prevalent in my opinion.

I'm amazed at how many commentators imagine how well or badly AI might work in this environment without any objective evidence. Let's some testing before jumping to conclusions. AI does not have to be perfect whatever that means in practice just good enough to be justified by speed and cost savings. Of course we now have a problem of who evaluates the test results.

You completely miss the purpose of government. I can hardly do better than to quote the US Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." However if you insists on government as a service provider we have off the top of my head: defense from enemies both domestic and foreign, infrastructure (roads, dams, water, airports), courts for business disputes (patents, labor issues, contract enforcement), technology research and development (note the internet was created by the government agency DARPA), libraries and universities supplying educated STEM employees as well as free primary schooling for their children.

Feels a lot like Kodak.

Is there historical precedence for a large failing company turning around by selling assets and firing employees? What is worse for Intel is a significant asset is knowledge in the brains of its workers that is likely to walk away if they feel their futiue is in doubt.

It is characteristic of ethics is that views change over time and place making snapshots at a particular time and place lack stability.. For example very few would think homosexuality let alone gay marriage moral in 1924 and many thought slavery was moral in 1824. No one knows what ethical standards will be in 2054.

The strength of the electric field is roughly the magnetic field strength divided by the speed of light. Magnets can pick up cars and electricity can pic up lint.

Easy enough to replace these cards since hotels assume a single use anyway.

I've been a software engineer for decades and I've always said that coding is a mechanical operation readily susceptible to automation. Once correct, complete, consistent requirements are generated creating code is in some sense trivial.

I see no objective reason why electronic devices can not perform all neural activities. If you want to claim humans haves souls or existence somehow above or beyond the physical you should do so openly rather than make touchy feely comments. To me this is reminiscence of the time when creating organic compounds were thought to be beyond human capability.

No newspaper will ever publish a story that says no corruption in the mayors office or the power grid is stable. So the only stories we see about problems. A corollary to this is that there is no danger of EV's overloading the power grid. What happens is that utility companies always need excuses to raise rates which, to be fair, is partially invested but also used for private jet travel to Paris for conferences on how to raise rates .

To predict technology for more than 10 years in the future is act of staggering hubris and arrogance. If these guys are so smart how about a stock tip for next week.