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by aaaxyz 6y ago
This smells an awful lot like the Tamiflu story. Rumsfeld was chairman of Gilead until he was nominated as Secretary of Defense. He refused to sell his shares in the company and thus was forced to leave the room whenever discussions that mi
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
The Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin might interest you
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Yep, close to 50% of the cost for burying power lines is having to manage and redirect traffic (in Canada)
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I'm no propaganda expert but I think you're comparing apples (teaching about an ideology that a German living in Russia came up with a century ago) to oranges (receiving money from the current Russian state to push the stories the
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
There might be some students that are just as good as the top ivy league students but in a smaller faculty (~100 students) that number is most likely closer to zero.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
As someone who got an undergrad degree from a top 40 school and is now taking courses at a state system school accepting a lot more students, I completely agree. The difference in terms of work output and professionalism between students is
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Does anyone still take anything he says seriously?
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
VSTAX's 10 year return since 2010 was 11.29% annually (191% total return). That means Universa could've lost around 23% every year until 2020, gain 4144% in 6 months and still beat the index (according to my naive arithmetic at l
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Also great for all the managers and VPs who get to put on their CV that they managed a team of n engineers that worked on X to increase Y key metric by an insignificant amount or that they created a new product that will get the can in 9 mo
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I've been using chat and meet for a few months. Chat has seen no new features added in months, the UI is atrocious (switching from a dark terminal window to a Google chat tab will burn your retina), it offers no customization besides t
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
> Storing all the video isn't feasible, not is analyzing it in real time, so the only sensible threat model is targeted attacks, but the companies have no reason to do that. Governments do, but this makes the companies resistant to