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by qqtt 4y ago
It's amazing how this story has fed into the myth making and brand for both companies. It's one of those "there are no losers here" anecdotes which can be used by both companies to attract customers (Lamborghini captured
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by qqtt 4y ago
I found this quote particularly telling: > “I don’t argue with their data,” says David Fisher, chair of the dermatology department at Massachusetts General Hospital. “But I do disagree with the implications.” The risks of skin cancer, he
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by qqtt 4y ago
It's current enterprise value is only part of the story - and as we all know a valuable company today can entirely disappear in the future if it is sufficiently mismanaged. Vendor lock in was the favorite tool of IBM and Oracle. Things
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by qqtt 4y ago
Amazing how wrong Mark was about lots of things related to Messenger, and how just two months after this email FB ended up paying 20 billion to buy WhatsApp. You get the sense there was a real paranoia about WhatsApp being an existential th
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by qqtt 5y ago
HR typically actively campaigns to exert influence over the rest of the company, as some combination of justifying their existence and proving their worth, angling for higher headcount, expanding influence, and larger and larger title infla
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by qqtt 5y ago
Saying declarative short (and virolic) sentences like this also helps no one. Humans already eat a wide variety of foods as part of their daily diet that have no natural occurrence (lemons, broccoli, many different kinds of meat) - they wer
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by qqtt 5y ago
That by selective growing of plants over thousands of years, we have altered the genetic make up of the foods we consume. While "GMO" is a "new technique", reductively this isn't exactly another dimension compared t
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by qqtt 5y ago
Also lemons, broccoli, and pretty much any modern vegetable or fruit - humans have been selectively growing plants since humans have had the knowledge of how to grow things period.
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by qqtt 5y ago
Developed societies seem to be shifting into a more "selfish" paradigm, where the question of the day is "what can this situation really do for me?". Day to day actions are framed in these terms, and the result is that r
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by qqtt 5y ago
Probably helps that Tim Cook was mentored by Jobs himself for more than a decade and personally saw the rot set in at IBM first hand.
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by qqtt 5y ago
I feel teased by this comment in the fact that you didn't indicate which language (or languages) you moved to that give you those benefits? Personally I moved from Java to Go, and couldn't be happier with it. Easy to use, easy to
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by qqtt 5y ago
George W Bush's approval ratings also spiked after the Iraq war, when our country was also flooded with propaganda and lies about the justification for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_George_W._
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by qqtt 5y ago
> But this war in Ukraine showed one simple truth: if you arm the population, the invasion can only destroy the infrastructure. There are no simple conclusions about what is happening right now in Ukraine, and it is a fool's errand
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by qqtt 5y ago
> I really don't understand the Russian military strategy. I'm the opposite, I really don't understand what people aren't seeing regarding the Russian strategy. People seem to think the Ukraine invasion should look ex
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by qqtt 5y ago
Just speaking personally, but a lot of the feelings of "burn out" I was experiencing since the start of the pandemic were actually not attributable to the work I was doing, but rather the bad habits I picked up during the first ye
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by qqtt 5y ago
As much as the West operates in an environment of a free and open media, there aren't a lot of "dissenting" views being carried in any mainstream media. This has partially led to another dangerous situation for democracy, whe
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by qqtt 5y ago
Lots of zingers flying around these days. Snake Island, Ghost of Kyiv, we are getting a daily dose of things that are walked back. As much as Ukraine is turning into a humanitarian crisis, the silence from many other humanitarian crisis tha
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by qqtt 5y ago
After only a couple days, Russia is on the cusp of encircling Kyiv, and has potentially gained control of strategic airports, and hasn't even used any of their big weapons yet. If you track the timeline of the Russian developments vers
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by qqtt 5y ago
We already know how the USA would react. See the behavior in South America, and the Cuban missile crisis, bay of pigs, etc.
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by qqtt 5y ago
George Bush was actively campaigning for both Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO at the 2008 Bucharest summit in April, likely a direct link to the subsequent invasion of Georgia which occurred immediately after in August. USA relations with
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by qqtt 5y ago
Iraq invasion started on March 19 and Baghdad was formally occupied on April 9. If you look at the timeline, they were fighting over the airports close to the city just days before the city was occupied. Russia looks already to be encirclin
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by qqtt 5y ago
It would certainly increase pressure on the rest of the country (and other areas in Europe) to join NATO, but the immediate effect is an abandonment of NATO aspirations due to the territory conflict. Georgia was essentially on the cusp of r
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by qqtt 5y ago
China is all in on renewables but they are still building new coal plants today. They need all the energy they can get to power their economy. Russia can build energy pipelines to China at will, and there is plenty of time over the next 10
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by qqtt 5y ago
Russia wants to permanently block Ukraine's entry into NATO. By holding on to disputed territories indefinitely, they can make that happen. See also: Russia support of Georgia's breakaway territories after Georgia was inching clos
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by qqtt 5y ago
> Then Russia truly is screwed. Too early to say that so definitively. Russia is banking on a close relationship with China in that time frame. Looking into the future from here in 2022, that doesn't seem like such a bad bet.
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by qqtt 5y ago
With the run up of FANG-sector stock prices, lots of people have new found economic freedom and can pursue roles they are passionate about. Combined with the huge jump in tech salaries that has persisted for the past 10 years, you have a lo
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by qqtt 5y ago
Beyond removing the unique identifier that allows advertisers to track you across applications (IDFA), Apple really hasn't done much to enforce tracking via other means. Depending on who you talk to, they tacitly endorse any and all no
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by qqtt 5y ago
Walmart only announced their prime competitor in 2020 (Walmart+) and AWS is absolutely ripe for disruption on many fronts, including bandwidth fees. If you look around at cloud providers, it is getting to be a very crowded space (AWS, GCP,
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by qqtt 5y ago
> On top of that, the vesting schedule sucks (5/15/40/40%) and the RSU value is overstated: it assumes growth in the stock (no other FAANG does this). Yes I know there's a sign on bonus. No I don't care. It'
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> so it doesn't have to go up, it just needs to not drop. Amazon compensation packages assume 15% increase in RSU value year over year, so when you get a 4 year grant as a new hire, your target compensation will be projected based o

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