HeloDude Posted January 27 Posted January 27 2 hours ago, GrndPndr said: And this: Trump to sign executive order reinstating thousands of troops discharged for not taking COVID jab Pawman is having another mental breakdown over this… 2 2
Smokin Posted January 27 Posted January 27 If the process for this is anything like most of my pay experience in the military, they'll get their first check in about 9 months, but it'll be wrong, so the member will have to spend 100 hours filling out various forms, then a debt will be incurred and they'll get no paycheck at all for a month, then six months and multiple corrected W-2s later it'll finally get fixed. 1 1
SHFP Posted January 27 Posted January 27 Said in my times (before a lot of you were born…LOL): “All is fair in Love and Pay Vouchers”
uhhello Posted January 28 Posted January 28 1 hour ago, Smokin said: If the process for this is anything like most of my pay experience in the military, they'll get their first check in about 9 months, but it'll be wrong, so the member will have to spend 100 hours filling out various forms, then a debt will be incurred and they'll get no paycheck at all for a month, then six months and multiple corrected W-2s later it'll finally get fixed. Don't forget to throw the VA into the process as well. I would imagine the great majority are drawing some form of disability. Does that get paid back?
Sua Sponte Posted January 28 Posted January 28 32 minutes ago, uhhello said: Don't forget to throw the VA into the process as well. I would imagine the great majority are drawing some form of disability. Does that get paid back? You can’t have concurrent payment (paid by the VA and the military) at the same time. Once would have to be withheld.
uhhello Posted January 28 Posted January 28 1 minute ago, Sua Sponte said: You can’t have concurrent payment (paid by the VA and the military) at the same time. Once would have to be withheld. That's what I was assuming
Smokin Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Weren't they dishonorably discharged? Didn't think you get disability pay with a dishonorable discharge.
HeloDude Posted January 28 Posted January 28 32 minutes ago, Smokin said: Weren't they dishonorably discharged? Didn't think you get disability pay with a dishonorable discharge. Pretty sure none were dishonorably discharged, at least for only refusing the shot. 1
uhhello Posted January 28 Posted January 28 59 minutes ago, Smokin said: Weren't they dishonorably discharged? Didn't think you get disability pay with a dishonorable discharge. dishonorable discharges are a pretty big deal. Not going to get it for refusing an order in 'peace time'
uhhello Posted January 28 Posted January 28 God damn son. Getting shit done. In a sweeping move, the White House just ordered every federal agency to stop all grants and loans - effective tomorrow at 5pm. White House Office of Management and Budget acting director Matthew Vaeth: "Career appointees have a duty to align Federal spending with Presidential priorities" The pause impacts everything from foreign aid to domestic programs, while the administration reviews where taxpayer money should go. 1
Sua Sponte Posted January 28 Posted January 28 2 minutes ago, uhhello said: God damn son. Getting shit done. In a sweeping move, the White House just ordered every federal agency to stop all grants and loans - effective tomorrow at 5pm. White House Office of Management and Budget acting director Matthew Vaeth: "Career appointees have a duty to align Federal spending with Presidential priorities" The pause impacts everything from foreign aid to domestic programs, while the administration reviews where taxpayer money should go. Impoundment. Expect lawsuits to fly and Congress to do nothing.
Sua Sponte Posted January 28 Posted January 28 2 hours ago, Smokin said: Weren't they dishonorably discharged? Didn't think you get disability pay with a dishonorable discharge. Dishonorable Discharges/Dismissals can only be given via a General Court Martial. The most likely got General Under Honorable Conditions.
Sua Sponte Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Damn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-philip-low-b742ba_i-have-known-elon-musk-at-a-deep-level-for-activity-7288439915485315072-29fb?utm_medium=ios_app&utm_source=social_share_sheet&utm_campaign=copy_link https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-philip-low-b742ba_elon-musk-ignites-online-speculation-over-activity-7287360170349805569-DTTy?utm_medium=ios_app&utm_source=social_share_sheet&utm_campaign=copy_link
gearhog Posted January 28 Posted January 28 7 hours ago, Sua Sponte said: Damn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-philip-low-b742ba_i-have-known-elon-musk-at-a-deep-level-for-activity-7288439915485315072-29fb?utm_medium=ios_app&utm_source=social_share_sheet&utm_campaign=copy_link https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-philip-low-b742ba_elon-musk-ignites-online-speculation-over-activity-7287360170349805569-DTTy?utm_medium=ios_app&utm_source=social_share_sheet&utm_campaign=copy_link So the CEO of Neurovigil has bad things to say about the CEO of his longtime chief competitor, Neuralink. Duly Noted, and Disregarded. 4
Smokin Posted January 28 Posted January 28 China and Russia want the US to produce more chips? Taxes can and should be looked at as the government incentivizing behavior as soon as you get past standard income and sales tax. Trump wants to increase US chip production, which would make us less reliant on foreign producers. His fastest and easiest way to do that is to artificially increase the price of foreign chips to make the market more desirable for US companies to enter/expand. Clearly there will be second and third order consequences, but he must think those are worth the desired effects. 1
SurelySerious Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Can you guys please go ahead and explain this one: https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc Is this not exactly what China and Russia would want the US to do?That’s some dumb shit, especially when Intel can’t get their act together.
M2 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 32 minutes ago, SurelySerious said: That’s some dumb shit, especially when Intel can’t get their act together. Not really, you can't trust chips made in China...
Boomer6 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 38 minutes ago, Smokin said: His fastest and easiest way to do that is to artificially increase the price of foreign chips to make the market more desirable for US companies to enter/expand. Clearly there will be second and third order consequences, but he must think those are worth the desired effects. Idk if I agree or disagree with the proposed policy yet. With that being said, do you realize how much a chip fab costs? They're upwards of $20 billion and like most building projects in the US take several years to construct. Idk that there is going to be anything fast about this. 8 minutes ago, M2 said: Not really, you can't trust chips made in China... The high end chips we use for AI, military applications, etc. are made by TSMC. They're made by TSMC because Intel is several years behind TSMC technologically. They bet wrong awhile back and have a lot of catching up to do. I get the point about using taxes to incentivize companies to move production to the US, but it was the CHIPS Act that helped TSMC begin construction on 3 high end fabs in the US. It'll be interesting to see how TSMC reacts. 1
ClearedHot Posted January 28 Posted January 28 54 minutes ago, Boomer6 said: Idk if I agree or disagree with the proposed policy yet. With that being said, do you realize how much a chip fab costs? They're upwards of $20 billion and like most building projects in the US take several years to construct. Idk that there is going to be anything fast about this. Shack on the cost...time can be up to five years, large scale clean room production is not cheap or fast to set up. That being said I thought Samsung invest a crap ton a few years ago when the shortage was at its peak and they were building new factories in South Korea. I though at similar effort was underway to build a factory here in the states as of two years ago. 56 minutes ago, Boomer6 said: The high end chips we use for AI, military applications, etc. are made by TSMC. They're made by TSMC because Intel is several years behind TSMC technologically. They bet wrong awhile back and have a lot of catching up to do. That was the big news yesterday that crushed NVdia and tech stocks. China "claims" to have found a way to have a better working AI model that does not require TSMC chips...AND it can be trained for pennies on the dollar. Supposedly they use a technique that uses on demand processing modules versus always on, which dramatically reduces the requirements on both the processor and power consumption. Interestingly the new DeepSeek Model has already been trained to ignore questions about Chinese leadership and government. Between AI and Quantum things are really moving fast and it will be interesting to see how chip production is impacted. 1
uhhello Posted January 28 Posted January 28 (edited) They are dumping heaps of money into the PHX area chip plant. It's biggest issue was finding qualified folks to do the work. Got years behind but apparently is spinning up much faster now. https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/ Edited January 28 by uhhello
SurelySerious Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Not really, you can't trust chips made in China...Taiwan isn’t China. Also, Intel’s fab work has been failing left and right lately, so you can’t trust their work. 1
SurelySerious Posted January 28 Posted January 28 They are dumping heaps of money into the PHX area chip plant. It's biggest issue was finding qualified folks to do the work. Got years behind but apparently is spinning up much faster now. https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/Edit: My mistake, yes TSMC is having trouble finding the staff for their Phoenix fab. Intel is also dumping tons of money into US fab facilities, but their quality control with existing fab right now is garbage and as referenced they got complacent and didn’t continue developing new processes 5-10 years ago.
busdriver Posted January 29 Posted January 29 8 hours ago, SurelySerious said: Taiwan isn’t China. Also, Intel’s fab work has been failing left and right lately, so you can’t trust their work. I'm aware of the fab contamination thing in early Raptor Lake, beyond that what fab fails? Design fails abound though.
Boomer6 Posted January 29 Posted January 29 31 minutes ago, busdriver said: I'm aware of the fab contamination thing in early Raptor Lake, beyond that what fab fails? Design fails abound though. One reason is Intel held off on employing EUV lithography while TSMC embraced it. EUVs cost $300-700mil. There are several other reasons as well, that's just one. Source: Chip War and google
busdriver Posted January 29 Posted January 29 13 minutes ago, Boomer6 said: One reason is Intel held off on employing EUV lithography while TSMC embraced it. EUVs cost $300-700mil. There are several other reasons as well, that's just one. Source: Chip War and google I got that. Surely mentioned actual fab fails and quality control problems. What I know: In the early portion of 13th generation Core i production, a summer monsoon fucked up one of the Chandler fab's HVACs and seriously fucked up a bunch of stuff (corrosion, etc). Other than that, they have been having one problem after another with their designs. But I'm not aware of chronic QC problems in the fabs themselves.
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