The recent trend in software companies is to fire middle managers, and the metric used to evaluate managers for firing is the velocity. So that's the reason.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/2...

If you like your manager enough to help them, then break up tasks into smaller tasks that take an hour or so but still have 1 point of value.

Correct. I used the term "pattern." SCOTUS has a number of mechanisms for temporary rulings, often made by a single justice, or by the full court. That is not officially a "panel," but it has the same outcome, and so fits the pattern. Stays, injunctions pending appeal, emergency/summary court orders, etc. SCOTUS has done this many times and whether any given matter ever subsequently appears before the full court is not a given.

So while not termed a "panel," this is a distinction without a difference.

It's shoveled into a $40T pit.

The vast majority of tech workers are able to work remotely. There's really no reason to pay a huge fee for an H1-B when you can hire an outsourcing company. Probably not a great idea to open a branch office in India, you aren't going to save much money since the tax is so high there (40%+)

Great for China, but the North American economy is weighed down by escalating tariffs. We're on track to look a bit like Brazil in the 1980's with different root causes to our economic woes.

Also custom DNA vaccines? is kinda misleading. Many patients can probably have the same variant and easy splice job. Quite cheap. What do you do when a patient comes in and the DNA mods look complicated OR the drug company KNOWS its efficacy for that problem is low or few successes recorded. Do they tell? Do they discount or charge more? These a good questions.

Consumer affairs need to heavily fine misleading and deceptive statements, triple that if the cause claimed is specific but untrue in descending order of cause. If Amazon said, import duties, transport, distribution costs, decreased discounting, interest costs, return costs, compliance costs, then yeah, fine. Or even bulk deal and old stocks have run out. Or claim it was a loss leader. They know their own buy cost. And they dont want to tell consumer affairs when the PR department make over the top generalization's. But speakers have garden variety electronics, and el cheapo parts, and a 30 cent mcu. Clearly memory was NOT a cause on low end bucket speaker boxes. plastic, made from oil, probably did raise the production cost in China. maybe they used up all obsolete bluetooth 4 modules, and the latest bluetooth chip cost 60 cents more. Honesty is best. It is no secret that when helicopter covid money landed, retailers all raised prices on flat screen TV's because they could. Raw computer memory did triple in price, That is true. Bust so did the humble USA letter stamp cost. Transport is the biggie.

I think that's likely wrong given a serious financial collapse: much of the hardware in play here is booked sales a year or more out. If the bottom falls out, those orders will get cancelled. Further on (speculation upon speculation...,) recovery would be more circumspect, and the demand for hardware less absurd.

Bubble pops don't happen all at once. They progress, first from the weak sisters to the big, name brand to-big-to-fail "omg my pension!" deals. Media exaggeration about historical finance collapses create the misperception that it happens very rapidly, with no warning. That's never the case; there are always precursors.

I don't know if this "Situational Awareness" is such a case, and you don't either. But this is exactly how the start of a larger collapse looks: a nasty little headline about some sketchy outfit no one has heard of, goes unnoticed outside finance or other narrow media sources. Then more, a couple months later. Then something happens that rocks the world.

Bad news. the so-called free market does not care, if your devices are too expensive then demand will fall.

There will be a reckoning with the bungling of the memory component supply chain. Too many industries have staked their business on a handful of manufacturers and went for spot pricing and low inventory overhead over hedging through contracts and second source warehousing on the components they need to build devices.

Because consumer electronics margins have been so bad, we're seeing multiple parallel failures across OEMs, and compounded by a tightening of many whitebox foreign imports into the US that would help in the lower tier pricing that dampens the demand for mid tier products.

A self-important arsehole sees the pricing bubble and thinks he can have it all, the golden age will never end, and his immense wealth is proof of his righteous power and magnificence. Doubtless, this was compounded by Aschenbrenner hiring employees happy to copy his delusions of self-importance (Emperor's new clothes). His arrogance meant he didn't look at the unpleasant reality barrelling towards him.

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That fact that they offer higher end configuration for higher prices does not change this. These constitute supplemental sales that help keep the original mission going.

According to the people who have never set foot in the USA. Go find a World Cup traveler that visited the USA, even the red states. It seems reality did not quite match what their respective (foreign) media had portrayed.

Which is basically what foreign engineers I have worked with in the past have also said.

Which is basically what foreign students I have gone to school with have also said.

Yes, but that waiver is only worth it for an individual that truly is exceptional. For the more common skilled engineer or scientist the waiver is not worth it, it would be cheaper to just hire domestically, In other words the system is back to what it was intended to be. A supplement for the domestic workforce not a replacement.