Is the implication here that folks would prefer for Intel to keep employees on the payroll for a loss, and make up for that loss by slashing dividends?
I think that would be criminally poor management of a company.
Maybe some econ gurus can school me.
It would be trivially easy to add privacy any number of ways if they didn't insist on tracking the users and logging that info.
They could even track it and just not make it available by web. Or require 2FA. Not exactly a nation-state level attack being described here.
People have just become accustomed to not caring about privacy and so that's what we get.
Every city had a fine system using cash/coins or cards you could fund at a kiosk by cash coin or card. Those cards were anonymous.
Now everyone has to be fancy and link credit cards and phones to accounts for every activity of daily life.
This comment is the perfect balance of sarcasm and valid analogy
Hard to believe these days. Do you have a blog or publish any list of your alternatives? Particularly difficult around smartphone and apps like email/calendar/photos etc isn't it?
Which smartphone do you use and what makes that company different from Apple/Samsung?
There seems to be some confusion about the level of jobs involved here. This isn't about standing on an assembly line for as long as you can hold your bladder. Low-level tasks like that are highly automated in these factories. But these also aren't smoothly running processes where tasks are all routine and well-defined.
These are equipment technicians who find out one day from another team that a robot arm off by one tenth of a mm results in ruined product, and the current calibration only has mm resolution. A delay in addressing this could cost millions. Folks will need to stay late. Orders will need to be followed. Just an example.
Starting up a fab is like building an airplane mid flight. It's not as simple as hiring more workers because the new problems aren't predictable, and knowledge can't be conveyed to new folks fast enough. Workers learn on the fly.
This is what Asian cultures have been kicking our ass in as far as semiconductor fabs. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on work culture and hours, but I don't think we (Americans) can expect to compete with Asian peers in this space without compromise.
Also, these are great careers for people who don't mind working and enjoy challenges.
Everyone complaining or saying leave but nobody talking about alternatives that solve some of the problems. Mastodon exists. Nostr exists. BlueSky kind of exists.