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by moandcompany 2y ago
Agreed. Japan's "lost decade" started 10-20 years before the rest of many Western (e.g. United States) and non-Western nations (e.g. People's Republic of China, Republic of Korea, etc).
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by moandcompany 2y ago
- Office Space - Idiocracy
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I think the authors should mention the background story for how this project originated at Google in Google Research (UK). Tried browsing through the Github project page and didn't see any obvious references, aside from the committers
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by moandcompany 2y ago
(I am not a lawyer, not familiar with Florida state law, and this is not legal advice nor a legal opinion) It is possible that Disney's lawyers expect their motion to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit from the Florida trial court and
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Amongst other things, I believe one of the motor-vehicle electrification catalysts in China is the fact that China's electric grid uses 220V AC as its standard for normal receptacles/outlets. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Jack Barker: "Pied Piper's product is its stock. Whatever makes the value of the stock goes up is what we are going to make. Maybe sometime in the future, we can change the world and perform miracles and all of that stuff. I hope
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The Groupon of 2024?
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by moandcompany 2y ago
AI learned that electrolytes are what plants crave. Enough people on the internet said so.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I'm glad they've finally learned to appreciate the conjoined triangles of success.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Programmers are seldom the ones driving the conditions that are the root cause for operational failures, but often the ones that bear the consequences.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
It's definitely ironic, and compatible with the security engineering world joke that the most secure system is one that cannot be accessed or used at all. I suppose one way to "stop breaches" is to shut down every host entire
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Crowdstrike was originally founded and headquartered in Irvine, CA (Southern California). In those days, most of its engineering organization was either remote/WFH or in Irvine, CA. As they got larger, they added a Sunnyvale office, an
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by moandcompany 2y ago
L8 and L9 are Director/Senior Director positions. In the software engineering family of career ladders, it is part of the Engineering Manager career ladder, which generally starts at L6, with occasional L5 managers (L5 SWE individual c
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The typical software engineering employee at a company like Google will be L4 or L5. Staff-level (L6) and higher is a relatively small percentage of employees. The base salary and bonus component will be in the ballpark of $200k/yr USD
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by moandcompany 2y ago
L10 is generally the Vice President level at a company like Google or Facebook. The vast majority of engineers will never make it to L10.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Some aspects of hierarchy-based power dynamics (i.e. bullying and abuse) have been captured into a relatively new, and unique Korean word, "Gapjil" (갑질). Gapjil (Korean: 갑질) is an expression referring to an arrogant and authoritar
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by moandcompany 2y ago
They said they were an "AI-first company" :)
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by moandcompany 2y ago
> RAND was literally founded to figure out how to wage nuclear war. It evolved after Vietnam. Particularly in the 50s and early 60s, the firm was the brain of the Air Force, period. This is literally a stretch of reality. Was the Jet Pro
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Will try to update this post if I come across a good book. This RAND Blog Post covers activities that happened during RAND's first seventy-five years of history, which is still nice, as well as browsing through some of the publicly ava
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Indeed, everyone and every organization ends up having to consider how the bills get paid (i.e. "be careful about biting the hand that feeds). That's probably a universal understanding. Yet we also have real life examples where pe
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by moandcompany 2y ago
While people may like to call the RAND Corporation as an entity of "nuclear hawks," it seems a bit dismissive of the mission and nature of what the RAND Corporation was chartered to do. They were tasked, and encouraged, to apply t
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by moandcompany 2y ago
(Disclosure: I once worked at RAND, but at a much later time in its history) RAND's heydays were during the period of WW-II and post-war period including the so-called Cold-war era. From my point of view, RAND during its golden days wa
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by moandcompany 2y ago
"The Decline" is worth a listen for anyone interested in this band. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_(EP)
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I heard they suck live
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Yes. There's also an interesting tangential topic of so-called "counterfeit" or "replica" luxury goods where they can sometimes be unofficial items produced from the exact same factory, in-country, or abroad as &quo
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The description of "non-tourist" Chinese is intended to describe persons that are of Chinese ancestry, and in these contexts, more likely than not, immigrants from China now living-in, and/or working-in a different nation, fo
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by moandcompany 2y ago
On a past trip to Paris and Florence, I wondered why there were so many non-tourist Chinese living in the region. It turns out... Many of those "Made in Italy" luxury goods are made by skilled Chinese artisans (in Italy). The valu
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Adding a note here that "Google Research" was formally named as "Research and Machine Intelligence (RMI)" during the John Giannandrea era.
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The "Hybrid Approach to Research" paper describes how "Google Research" first started when Google was mostly, if not entirely, about Search and "Research" was part of the Search organization. In these days, the
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Technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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