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Weird/Wonderful creatures that lived in Cambrian seas over 500M years ago(cbc.ca)
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Not all species of bats are studied in the same detail. Again, there are over 1000 different species of bats, and when it comes to the internal immune system they can have large differences between species. Focusing on internal temperature
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> only flying mammals A bit misleading to use the term "only" here, as there are over 1000 species of bats and they make up almost one quarter of all identified mammal species.
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> That sounds like a huge disincentive to mentoring and developing your team. I've heard there are huge communication issues within teams, thanks to policies like this. You have to look out for yourself first and foremost, otherwise
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by qqtt 5y ago
Another angle is that in software development, it's pretty common to have days where there isn't much material progress but things are getting better understood by the developer themselves. Senior engineers in my experience are qu
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Amazon has plenty of over-engineered crap made for optimizing promo docs.
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It's easy to use 20/20 hindsight and say failures were a mistake, but at the time, Genesis was selling like bonkers in the USA and was a relative failure in Japan. Sega (both Japan + USA) had to balance the need to generate excite
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That might be the case outside Japan, but the Sega Saturn was still relatively successful inside it's home country. Sega Saturn outsold the N64 in Japan. Saturn and Playstation were competing head to head for a while, with the Saturn f
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by qqtt 5y ago
Definitely gives me pause to hear things like Facebook disallowing support of an individual embroiled in a hostile media environment and dubious criminal charges. Where would figures like Amanda Knox be if a similar wave of thought-crime st
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Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.
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It's probably not so much about Nintendo specifically as one advertising partner, as much as it is about encouraging the advertiser ecosystem to be comfortable with continually spending money on Youtube as a platform. If Youtube remove
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I think it's totally fair to see OKRs as silly and useless as an engineer. Personally I think they are really only relevant at the VP level and above. All the things you say are true about OKRs, they run up against the reality of the b
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I think most would consider facebook’s usage of onavo pretty gross from an integrity perspective https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-socia... The characterization as Spyware seems pretty accurat
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Bring those action items to the grooming session.
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Opaque boxes have been issues before, when they end up being "semi-transparent" and you can up the brightness to beat them. Safest is probably just to cut/crop the sensitive bits out.
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by qqtt 5y ago
> This is a baffling. "Something that is always changing could be seen as not changing because it's never not changing." I'm having a hard time seeing that as a good-faith rebuttal. I think we are talking in abstract
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by qqtt 5y ago
> "I'm smart, life is easy, and I'd like to keep it that way." How is this not complacency? It's all about your perspective. "I have many ideas, I'm working hard to achieve them, and I'd like to ke
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by qqtt 5y ago
I find it interesting how people want to characterize your choice between "living easy" versus "living interesting". Or "living simple" versus "living complacent". There seems to be this tendency to i
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I find the PS3 historically interesting partially because the convoluted architecture was a natural evolution of Sony's continuing steps to make developing for their consoles harder and harder, driven partially by their arrogance at pa
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How would one "prove" the reason they changed their name is for PR? A company would never outright say "Our reputation is terrible so we are trying to trick everybody by coming up with a new name to redirect attention."
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The discussion and debate about nuclear energy needs to be a constant war of attrition against the long held and stubborn inertia of anti-nuclear sentiment. This letter signed by 25 "intellectuals" (oddly vague name for writers an
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A shame how many of these links are now pointing to 404 not found pages. People assume that once it's on the internet it's there forever, but it's really not true. Some of our favorite articles and insights from past days are
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by qqtt 5y ago
Another interesting historical analogue to the current situation with China is the Soviet Union - who some of us can remember was also poised to massively overtake the American economy at one point. History had other plans and in particular
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by qqtt 5y ago
A bit naive to assume there isn't quite a bit of centralized control of media in the West. Not only are the media largely owned by a scant few large conglomerates - the government itself also gets routinely involved in controlling the
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> we're operating in an environment of virtue signaling and fear of speaking up. Well, which is it? Are people speaking up too much (virtue signalling), or not enough (fear of speaking up)? Perhaps the people speaking up aren't
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Along similar lines, nobody "really knows" how Google search works. Sure, you have some experts who can talk about how parts of the algorithm work, you have the underlying bones of page rank, you even have SEO experts who can get
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> But Apple, Google, and Amazon are now creating their own ARM CPUs for their own products. So most of FAANG, all if you count the ones with consumer products. The F in FAANG - Facebook - has consumer products (notably, the Oculus VR hea
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With things like dilution mattering and stock options being popular vehicles for early stage start up it would be really interesting and elucidating to have practical examples to compare against. It's easy to understand a FAANG style o
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It would be interesting to see some analysis comparing pre-IPO offers versus standard FAANG-style engineering offers and see what the monetary difference actually is. In the not-so-distant past, start ups were pretty much the only avenue to
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Just to put a button this excellent summary, the classic example of "rearranging words to form a sentence that we think has meaning" that Wittgenstein uses in Investigations is the question: "What is the meaning of life?&quot

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