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Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by joehartshorn »

hollerith wrote: post #38
seedless-sensat wrote: post #8

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You need to login to show the whole thread. I hit the same wall. Twitter was already a terrible medium for these kinds of posts, now it just got worse.

I didn't need to log in: I got the rest of the thread by following the link "see rest of this thread". That link though is easy to miss, what with being somewhere mid-page and being surrounded by elements that are visually much louder, and I, too, wish that no one here would submit or upvote links to Twitter.

I had this issue, sussed it in about 10 min. If you're in a Chrome-based browser (incl Brave), DL the Ublock Origin extension, then: Extension options > "My Filters" > add one of the filters in the reddit thread linked. (https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/p5lgcv/twitte...)

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by usrusr »

dan-robertson wrote: post #138
teekert wrote: post #134

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The wealth gap is a lot bigger in the US and here you can walk into a hospital even when you’re homeless and leave debt free. Anyone can apply for social security of about 1000 eur/month. People are only homeless when they have mental issues preventing them from following the steps to get them out and they can get help at any point. This is pretty different from the US.

I don’t disagree with what you wrote but I don’t understand what it has to do with differences in software engineer salaries between the US and the Netherlands.

Yes, pre-tax income is also different, even if you use "pre-tax" in the broadest sense (cost per employee, but without expenses like office space that happen to scale worth employee count but are not related at all to the contract). But if you look at cost per employee you still see much higher numbers in the US, that's what you were talking about, right?

I think the explanation is that the US simply has enough global dominators in their field (e.g. Google basically eating up the non-Chinese ad market over the whole range from local business directories to the brand awareness stuff that used to make TV stations a big business) that they define the market, pulling up the bids of weaker bidders, whereas in other places outliers looks ASML are so much of an exception that the bids they need to get whoever they want hardly influences market rate.

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by teekert »

usrusr wrote: post #222
dan-robertson wrote: post #138

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I don’t disagree with what you wrote but I don’t understand what it has to do with differences in software engineer salaries between the US and the Netherlands.

Yes, pre-tax income is also different, even if you use "pre-tax" in the broadest sense (cost per employee, but without expenses like office space that happen to scale worth employee count but are not related at all to the contract). But if you look at cost per employee you still see much higher numbers in the US, that's what you were talking about, right? I think the explanation is that the US simply has enough globa…

Well to counter that, when comparing similar employees within my international company between the US and the EU, the US employees are about 1.5 times more expensive (this is the money that an FTE will cost a project). Not sure why that is, perhaps it is really an inequality issue and maybe the cleaners are cheaper in the same company in the US than in the EU? I don't know those details.

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by teekert »

brailsafe wrote: post #147
teekert wrote: post #125

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I applied there, they asked me what I would do if there was too much work for the week. Of course I answered I would just work nights, np. No, they said: Go to your team lead tell her/him you can do one thing and discuss what to choose. They don’t want people getting burned out, they are too important. I liked that.

> Of course I answered I would just work nights Was this intended as a joke or would you really work nights just because there was too much work?

If it happens once or twice a year, I still wouldn't be bothered by it. In fact, I'm such a procrastinator that I sometimes do it because of my own tendency to postpone things.

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by teekert »

sumedh wrote: post #166
mypalmike wrote: post #154

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In most interview situations, the interviewer is looking for someone who will "go the distance" to deliver no matter what, i.e. someone who will work nights

You can use this question to show your strength, you can say if its a one off situation you will go the distance but if its happening regularly then you will try to raise questions like why are projects always going into crunch mode, are we not estimating the tasks properly etc. This shows that you are a team player but also willing to push back.

I indeed answered with something like this, still, they wouldn't have it.

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by spaniard89277 »

rasz wrote: post #204
mongol wrote: post #193

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What happened with Philips? As a consumer brand I think they have languished. I liked them a lot in the 80s-90s, now I avoid them.

Philips history in 6 chapters, written up by RF engineer with 30 years at Philips/NXP https://www.maximus-randd.com/technology-history.html TLDR Commodore level management. It ends with picking inferior but marginally cheaper third party components for TVs instead of using own internal products developed specifically for the role, in effect sinking R&D budget and destroying market leader position. WSP (World Standard…

Sad to read, tbh

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by tullatulla »

01100011 wrote: post #201
s0rce wrote: post #181

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X-ray producing synchrotrons are generally pretty large and expensive. There has been thoughts of using them for lithography and microfabrication in the past (see LIGA) that haven't really panned out. There are companies working on more advanced laboratory sources, but mostly for analytical applications (EasyXAFS, Sigray). There is a company working on a lab scale synchrotron (lyncean tech).

Do you need to use a synchrotron? Is the radiation generated coherent or something? Otherwise why not use a liniac or cyclotron?

You would really need a free electron laser to produce sufficient photons at the desired wavelength.

The lower the wavelength, the less photons you have at constant power, so shot noise becomes an issue...

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by piva00 »

jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #57
sneak wrote: post #20

Twitter won't show complete threads now without an account. :( Twitter accounts basically de facto require a phone number, or they get suspended.

This isn't true at all. I just double checked and you can view the thread logged out no problem. Twitter's UI is admittedly garbo so depending when you clicked on the thread you may have needed to click an expand link.

It's not consistent, I've been getting these login-walls for a while on Twitter when browsing incognito and now it started to show up on my normal windows if I'm logged out.

It's some kind of A/B test or progressive rollout, they are definitely forcing me to login to view threads and there is no way around it on the official Twitter website. I've been using nitter.net instead.

Re: ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

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Post by southerntofu »

teekert wrote: post #134
dan-robertson wrote: post #133

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The US has taxes too (and their government does plenty of throwing money at things.) And many companies there still pay for health insurance. I think this argument doesn’t really make sense: taxes or other costs of doing business don’t sufficiently explain the difference in pay.

The wealth gap is a lot bigger in the US and here you can walk into a hospital even when you’re homeless and leave debt free. Anyone can apply for social security of about 1000 eur/month. People are only homeless when they have mental issues preventing them from following the steps to get them out and they can get help at any point. This is pretty different from the US.

> People are only homeless when they have mental issues

Not to say there's not a relative greater share of the homeless population who has "mental issues", but it's definitely not the only factor at play. Many situations can lead to homelessness.

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