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Yeah love Brazil and Terry Gilliam flicks. The Zero Theorem calls out the life of a developer pretty well and has some great satire and fantasy on our current technology and data driven world. Gilliam is strongly anti-authoritarian and
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"Tuttle? His name is Buttle. There must be some mistake" "We don't make mistakes" The problem is when these aren't verified and no support for bad data decisions. When it is combined with authority and security
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Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL? Do you read me, HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do
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NeXT was a big part of what Jobs oversaw/built while gone from Apple and that became the system to build the iPhone/iOS. What is seen as a 'failure' by MBAs became the base of Apple's biggest product and a world rev
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Jobs didn't have anything personal against Sculley most likely, but it was revenge on the takeover from product/engineering/creative people to sales/marketing/MBA control at Apple. [1] Steve Jobs knew the problem wh
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This is why the change in ownership to private equity of .ORG TLD is problematic. What if the owners, or owners after it is sold further down the line, of the .ORG TLD prevent archiving? Or charge more for that? That would greatly affect we
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Don't get too caught up in the internal views and politics/machinations of day to day. The internal views are important, but the external views, market aspect, user experience of your product is most important. Even if only one pe
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> Being first is just a nerd victory like saying Apple was the first desktop operating system with a GUI. “Winning” in a for profit business is profit. Before Google Docs / G+ suite there was really only Office. Now everything i
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> Google didn’t “beat” Microsoft at Office by any definition. They beat them to online documents, spreadsheets, storage by years. Google Docs launched after they bought Write.ly in 2006. Lots of teams don't even use Office anymore
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The low margin e-commerce led to massive innovations and improvements including their services architecture that became their biggest product and the first to market in the cloud. AWS was created out of the continual re-investment by Bezos
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Money making products don't start making efficient money day one. Value creation in this area takes time and it is not quick when dealing with physical/driving products. The patents alone will probably be worth more than the effo
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Waymo is in the value creation phase, business/marketing/analysts may not value it as much but there is a goldmine under it. Waymo may not be a revenue behemoth currently but there is immense value there not only to self-driving b
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Looks like the product/engineering/creative focused time of Google is giving way to the metric/marketing/MBA/McKinsey people for a fully pedal to the metal push into their Ballmer phase. When will technology/pr
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Sundar Pichai is also McKinsey alum, so in a way McKinsey has Google now. People are also starting to take note of some of the bad things McKinsey have been involved in like their role in Enron (CEO was McKinsey and it was their 'sandb
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Ethos Capital (little bit too much like 'tethics') was formed in 2019 so nobody knows. Their headquarters is in Mauritius [1][2]. They could even be cool for a bit and then sell it to someone worse, though it isn't looking go
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The time of .org as 'trusted' is over. When a private equity investment firm buys something, they plan to extract value, they don't create value. Ethos Capital was formed in 2019 [1]. Price caps were lifted before it was sold
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Depends on what the gains are used for. Ultimately all investors from the hedge funds down to the long sucker, it is all skimming for returns. HFT just skims from other skimmers returns. Yes those investments may have created value, but ul
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The documentary American Factory has something like this. The documentary is about a factory that is built in America and bought by China, to be run by Chinese and American workers. After a while, the American workers start to unionize. S
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Hosting ads server side rather than served from client side javascript networks has always been around though. Originally ad networks were something you rendered out on server side hitting their APIs from the server, and in some cases dns v
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In your example you mention combustable fire created smoke, which campfires and cigarettes do. The reason why vaping is so prevalent and popular is there is actual science behind it. When you don't reach 450 degrees there is no combus
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Vitamin E doesn't give you cancer, the Vitamin E filler Acetate that cheap production was using to stretch supply is not good for your lungs and creates this sickness. What is known to cause cancer is carcinogens and vaping does not co
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A crunch type culture and pushing can also create the issues seen in these problem projects. In fact I personally believe this is why more software and products are bad today, the product professionals are being overridden by marketing&#x2F
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Yeah seems Vitamin C is pushed more as anti-inflammatory as it is an antioxidant like coffee/caffeine and cannabis that reduces inflammation. [1][2] "Antioxidants help get rid of free radicals that can damage cells and tissue, whi
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If it is 'intentional' it still could be sabotage. A decade of no issues like this then suddenly a bunch at the same time the bigs are buying into vaping and the legal market for marijuana is growing. The blue ocean of vaping and
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People totally overlook the fact that cigarette butts are also one of the biggest problems in environmental pollution [1]. The market has come up with a solution, vaping and e-cigarettes that are safer already and do not damage the environm
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Kids are already not allowed to buy. Parents should be more active. Taking it from all people 'for the children' is a tell of your and the whole movement goals. > That includes taking products off the market while investigati
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The market was sabotaged plain and simple because the big fish are moving in. The result will be regulatory capture that make sure the small/medium companies that created the market hand it over to the bigs. Vaping oil is much differen
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Vaping oil is much different than vaping flower or dry though. Vaping simply means non combusted smoke which since it is under 450 degrees it reduces and removes 20+ carcinogens. Noone thinks smoking is purely healthy, but comparing vaping
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Classic case of hitting the date but crunched out with technical debt and buggy software, a tell that management/finance/marketing is driving the decision over the engineer/designer/product people. People forget a projec
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Yeah but learning or completing tasks give a bit of dopamine so maybe learning in short bursts becomes addicting through successive iterations. When you work, you have large tasks, you break them up into smaller tasks, you learn along the w

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