They will have one person take the interview for them, and another do the actual "work".
Probably happens all the time, irregardless of North Korea.

Yeah, it's genius. Especially the bit where they gave their competitor $13.75 billion first.
Thought leaders of tomorrow, right there.

People don't quit or stay over a 0.2% pay difference.
They quit because they hate their boss.

Oh great. Clippy on crack cocaine. My life is complete.

Where are the customers going to go? RISC?
ARM is leveraging their market leading position to open up a new market - not surprising

The best part of this proposal is that either way they sod off, and nobody else has to deal with them any more.
They either succeed at creating something workable or not. Either way, nobody is forced to interact with them.

No it's not. He doesn't care about them having the information.
He doesn't want to waste his valuable time explaining it all to them, which is very different.
He doesn't believe in what they're doing and thinks it's a waste of everybody's time and resources, a position with which many others would agree.

It'll also crash into a firetruck at 60mph occasionally.

It's not just insulation, they also have (on average) vastly lower thermal mass in the walls and roof.
Plus much of the US is not only hot, but also humid.

A better test would be to submit a consistent sample to all different testing companies, multiple times.
Test for consistency across companies, and inside one company.
Those that can't even do the latter truly deserve to be closed down.

Thanks Richard, no need to comment every time though.

Sometimes this is because the customer can't write a decent specification, so nobody will bid except on something more akin to a time and materials basis.
Wouldn't surprise me ...

I still find it amusing that the only way I can remember how to spell "fuchsia" is by saying "fucks-yer" in my head.

Maybe, or he's making up the duration ;)
I doubt they did 30 yrs ... no firm reference I can see.

T-Bills are by definition 1 year or less in duration.