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by blip54321 5y ago
If your goal is to be a code monkey writing database-backed web applications, MIT is probably a very expensive way to get there. The goal of the degree is to prepare people for data analysis, machine vision, 3d graphics, ML, signal processi
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by blip54321 5y ago
Yeah.... no. Number of stupid mistakes on a test is not indicative of success at MIT. I was lucky in that I test well from having competed in different math contests, but I don't confuse that with being better. If I didn't compete
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by blip54321 5y ago
I think the bigger question is whether we should have exclusive schools like MIT. Screening for college admissions made sense a century ago, when 5% of people went to college. Today, not so much. From an undergrad class perspective, the dif
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by blip54321 5y ago
I disagree. Google Takeout is a sham. It doesn't have all the data they collect about you. It's almost adequate for data portability, but not quite. It's useless for data transparency. Google Docs keeps keystroke-level logs o
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by blip54321 5y ago
I've worked at an organization with a similar timeframe for some types of data requests (B2B, not GDPR-style ones). There were many parts of the organization which were mismanaged, but that wasn't one of them. That type of data re
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by blip54321 5y ago
It was not 2022 when this story happened. The cost of backups also depends on your income. Stories like this led to more backups, but so did going from being a student, to first-job-out-of-college, to a senior employee. There's a spect
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by blip54321 5y ago
This experience helped move me from the first category into the second. I now do Google Takeout periodically, and have a full backup on external drives. I'm also slowly degooglifying my life (and recommending the same to everyone aroun
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by blip54321 5y ago
Been there a half-dozen times with Google B2B products. Best case was GSuite/Workspace, and not the recent one. I had a startup in the freezer (developed a lot of IP nights and weekends, but we needed to stop for about a year). Google
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by blip54321 5y ago
OP has a fair assessment. It's an unfair defense. Whenever I've relied on Google, I eventually got !@#$%. I've never had that problem with Amazon. Microsoft also doesn't do it much these days. This is really specific to
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by blip54321 5y ago
China definitely does.
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... I suspect Russia will react by relaxing copyright laws on Disney films. Business will continue as usual, only without profits flowing back to Disney (or foreign reserves flowing out of Russia). On a mile-high level, sanctions make sense
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by blip54321 5y ago
How's Google pay for Americans working abroad? If you're a US-based Googler going to an office like this one, does your salary fall to 1/3?
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by blip54321 5y ago
Yeah. My read on the paper was that a fourth dose might be useless. You get the immediate antibody response for a few weeks, and then you're back to same as after three doses, which is memory cells.
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by blip54321 5y ago
My pet peeve are webcams. You can only plug in a few before you run out of bandwidth.
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I suspect Russia won't respect Ukraine's restriction on men leaving the country. And I suspect Ukrainian borderguards won't be anywhere close to the Russian-controlled border.
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by blip54321 5y ago
This seems like a good way to get saboteurs and terrorist cells into Russia.
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by blip54321 5y ago
Economic pressure hastened the fall of Soviet domination. If you believe Regan, it was the primary cause. It you don't (and you shouldn't), it was a contributing cause. I'm not commenting on the broader topic; just that this
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by blip54321 5y ago
I think you're confusing how systems of government work. For a good description of dynamics in dictatorships, I'd recommend Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a political scientist at NYU. To oversimplify, in a dictatorship, the dictator se
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by blip54321 5y ago
Why do you believe Ukraine isn't losing units at the same rate? Pentagon estimates Russia lost 3-5% and Ukraine 10% of their capacity.
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by blip54321 5y ago
Let's break this down piece-by-piece. (1) The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had elected kings and a parliament. It was a republic to the same degree as Rome or some of the more democratic Greek city-states. The only people who could v
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by blip54321 5y ago
That's a great name for the new entity. Three seas works well in Slavic languages, and is neutral. Austria should be replaced by Ukraine and Moldova, though. Austria definitely doesn't belong. Ukraine and Poland really do belong t
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by blip54321 5y ago
I would give one more potential explanation: In-fighting and a lack of unity. If I were in charge of the air force, and Putin ordered large-scale air superiority attacks against Ukrainians, I wouldn't want to do that. Putin might not h
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by blip54321 5y ago
Let's bring back to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, only under a more inclusive name. Russia wasn't always authoritarian, though. Before the Mongols, it was a bunch of independent, freedom-loving cities. Sort of like the American
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by blip54321 5y ago
Not very practical. India is among the densest countries in the world. Resources per unit population are pathetically low. Russia is among the least dense. India is 1.4 billion people, and Russia is 140 million -- ten times as many people.
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by blip54321 5y ago
This would completely change the world perception of India, and it wouldn't bode well with regards to having any sort of international support in their troubles with Pakistan, China, or any other neighbors. The West ought to work with
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by blip54321 5y ago
A destabilized situation is precisely what leads to Putin being overthrown. That's kind of the point.
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by blip54321 5y ago
I feel like this is the time for NATO to move, at least into Belarus, and not after they have nukes. Seems like Russia feels it can get away with anything by threatening thermonuclear war. At some point, a line should be drawn.
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by blip54321 5y ago
As someone constantly behind on their email, I like bumps for important things.
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by blip54321 5y ago
Oversupply is just as much a crisis as undersupply. The lead time on ramping capacity up and down is long, which leads to a cyclic market which overshoots in one direction or the other. It's hard to predict the cycles. However, an &quo
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by blip54321 5y ago
The problem is if you pay Google for "it," you're still treated as a statistic, same as the non-paying customers. It's deep in the corporate DNA. Google Workspace isn't free, and neither is the rest of GCP. I'v

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