Companies always have hated sw developers guts because they are: 1) indispensable for modern companies, 2) pricey 3) hard to train.

It's not the "hard to train" part which bothers them. The first two, yes. The well-paid important people in any hierarchy are all supposed to be managers, people who get people to do things. It offends the natural order (in the eyes of management) when mere doers are so highly paid.

Most of my job isn't typing lines of code into a computer screen. It's gathering requirements from the real world (and the people in it) and then inventing/designing a system (or a modification to an existing system) that will actually accomplish the goal.

Congratulations. Are you allowed to expense your red stapler?

Of Programming, Coding, ICs, PCB, and the Electronics manufacturing process under your belt... Lateral moves are effortless

Except they aren't, because the employers will always want you to be buzzword-compliant and have 5 years of experience in whatever tech stack they most recently deployed or will want to deploy (often even if it's only 2 years old). See the guy above insisting on Angular and C# and Go for example. Embedded people want you to know their particular RTOS. PCB and Electronics industry people insist you know their HDL (down to the version number) and SPICE flavor, not to mention Mandarin.

If they could make methamphetamine, diacetylmorphine, or alprazolam, not only would this be a much larger volume of drugs, there'd be an instant industry competing to make the most of them from such easily-obtained precursors.

Making some process using a polymer membrane work for industrial volumes currently handled by fractionating columns is almost certainly going to be impractical. The membrane won't hold up long enough, and to get the separation to happen fast enough you're going to have to heat it anyway.

Yeah, if Meta was offering $100M signing bonuses, it wouldn't be an "attempt" to poach, it would be a very successful poaching.

Half a million from heat... ">4.6 million from cold. Or is there some reason the insurance industry doesn't have to cover cold?

Tee Hee, I'm just a girl canned audio about to become therapists for thousands of teen aged girls everywhere. Hey barbie, what is the roots of the following equation, 3x^2+2xy+7x

AI or no AI, Barbie's answer will still be "Math is hard. Let's go shopping!".

Right, so you pay $10M in programmer salaries, make $5M in revenue, and have to pay tax on your $3M in profit. Kinda puts a wet blanket on things. And every time you grow you go through the same thing -- expenses now, taxes now, deductions later.

The artist could have waited a year or two then approached Bungie about back licensing fees for the game Marathon which inappropriately used the artist's work without remuneration or credit.

Not unless they could come up with a good excuse for why they didn't know about the violation and attempt to stop it. Deliberately allowing damages to pile up violates the "duty to mitigate damages" and the court would likely not allow further damages after the point at which the copyright holder could have objected.

Appears to be the Phillippines.

The idea of "herd immunity" is that the immunized proportion is great enough that an introduction of the disease results in few infections and the disease dies out again, thus protecting members of the "herd" who aren't immunized also. For a region to be "post-herd-immunity", outbreaks coming from unimmunized communities or from places which never had herd immunity would have to be self-sustaining in the larger once-herd-immune population. Is that the case? I don't know, the article doesn't say. I doubt it, as it appears the Texas outbreak (largest in the US) remains concentrated in the particular community it started in.

So it appears to me this is sensationalism, we are not seeing the breakdown of herd immunity as a whole but rather a very large outbreak among a subpopulation that was never herd immune. There will be (and has been) spread to the general population, but so far I don't see evidence that there will be a return of endemic measles; the US used to have over half a million cases a year with a much lower population. In the meantime, might want to avoid the outbreak areas if you have a not-yet-immunized child or some reason to believe immunization has failed.

I want management to worry about why what I'm doing makes money and I worry about doing it. They are in fact doing that, of course. The reason they ask engineers to justify whatever they are doing in the moment in terms of its direct effect on the bottom line is to make them feel insecure and get them to work harder and not ask for more pay. And of course sadism.

That's exactly how working longer hours creates job security.

So what would predict would happen to the industry if there was no (federal) Income Tax?

Obviously all would be rainbows and unicorns.

There's no question of there not being a Federal Income Tax. The question is whether software engineer salaries are deductible in the year the expense is incurred or whether they have to be amortized over 5 years. In the latter case, a fast-growing software company would show a profit for tax purposes much sooner than they have an actual cash profit. Unfortunately, they can't amortize the tax payment; they have to pay the taxes right up front out of cash. So, expenses $50 million, income $20 million, profit $10 million, and now the company has to pay $2.1 million in taxes.