My cars last 8+ years. My tablets last 3+ years. I’ll pass on a software defined car unless they swap out the whole logic and display unit before the warranty runs out. Otherwise I’ve got dead hardware in the cabin. They did this to the Leaf.
Or assume you have to provide a current model iPad or android tablet to run their software. That would keep the hardware functional if they kept the software working.
And I don’t trust the vendors to try to drive resale by eol’ing the logic/software. They’ll drive everybody to leases to avoid this and battery life concerns.
If they demand 5-in-office then they should stfu about climate and affordable housing. The commute offices tend to inflict on the staff makes such arguments bs.
In order to do this, you have to at least claim you're comfortable living in places like Texas or Florida. I would think them dull after living in California, but that's me. And I would also think having women who are biologically viable in these places would be a problem at times.
Unilateral action, particularly after hostile interaction, tends to be a “you broke it, you fix it” kind of thing. If the US had interacted with and convinced the UN or NATO as to the reasoning and plan for Iran, things might have been different. But those guys aren’t interested in such mundane actions I guess.
In my experience, the number of "significant scientific researchers" is rather small. If you happen to have some of them in-country already, great! Fund them so they'll stay. If you can poach them from outside the country, it's going to take money to get them set up and going. Increasing the number of researchers in a particular place will have a magnification effect, drawing students, p-docs and the like. And it provides continuity given that such researchers are at various stages of their career.
Researchers prefer to have similar-minded people to talk to, so multi-person setups will be preferred (all things equal). Experimental research can be (real) expensive, which is another reason to clump the researchers.
How many women, and it's usually women, are interested in either giving up a career or taking a 6-10 year break from it to have kids (more years if more than 2-3)? This asks a lot from society in terms of parental leave and support, and it's really not helpful to hear "suck it up, have kids rather than a career". That genie's not getting stuffed back into the bottle unless there is significant, somewhat hostile social changes.
How many men, and it's usually men, are not interested in any fair contribution in terms of mental load and domestic labor for 6 to 10 years. This asks a lot from men, who typically haven't taken this opportunity to contribute. Now that women, gladly, have the choice to play other roles in society, it's time for men to step up and be supportive of their partners. Turn out, some of the unmarried women who don't want children know that doing both "career and kids" is impossible without a supporting partner, which is not the majority of men in Japan.
Source: The (most often) lone dad and toddler, with 35 other moms at the park, every time, every park, in Japan.
It's funny, because many of those same women end up going into HR or some other job where they treat everyone around them like the childen they never had.
Many also regret this decision when they are past the point of being able to have children.
Hmm... This is the guy who blew off the UK last week? I think the typical response will be "you broke it, you fix it". Or, if the countries are feeling chummy, "you first, and we have free trade".
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