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by squokko 4y ago
At this point, people who buy stuff from Google deserve what comes to them.
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by squokko 4y ago
LOL, this is funny. I'm imagining some bushy tailed assistant finishing all the data entry and asking for another task and being told to prove the Collatz Conjecture.
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by squokko 4y ago
What's really the most astonishing thing about all of this is that one of the top 10 brains in the United States is doing this administrative bullshit in the first place. A well run society should find a way to hire someone to do this
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by squokko 4y ago
Of course I could be wrong, but the number of times the guy screws up and the incredibly poor decisions he makes if not completely specified indicates some structural intellectual deficits. I don’t know whether that’s literally IQ or not.
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by squokko 4y ago
I don't look down on him. I'd rather live next to him than my existing neighbors. But do you think that maybe I have a better read on him than you do, given that I see him every 2 weeks and you have no idea who he is?
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by squokko 4y ago
What do you think this proves, and why?
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by squokko 4y ago
My gardener is not high IQ. Good guy and hard worker but there has got to be some correlation between IQ and education.
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by squokko 4y ago
Fewer than half of the hypereducated peers I know have kids, while my gardener has 8 kids, so I expect that this trend will continue
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by squokko 4y ago
Not true between CO2 and methane. The total amount of carbon is the same but in methane form is worse for greenhouse effect.
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by squokko 4y ago
Are you saying that the US is low humidity? Visit Florida.
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by squokko 4y ago
Sure it's sustainable. Wear a jacket indoors. Won't kill you.
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by squokko 4y ago
Can't Apple invalidate these devices remotely and make them unable to use any Apple services?
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by squokko 4y ago
Tech is on another planet. Silicon Valley companies usually give 3 paid months of maternity leave but if you work at McDonalds you get 0 days and are sometimes back on your feet 3 days after giving birth.
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by squokko 4y ago
This is why I don't use startups' products: at a bigger company I have a lower likelihood of being looked at by a person.
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by squokko 4y ago
A big part of the PR is internal - to make people at Amazon from the top to the bottom feel like they're still working at a "Day One" innovative company building cool new tech that they can excitedly tell their family about
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by squokko 4y ago
Yes, to be clear - Amazon has never had a real drone delivery dream. It's just theatrics for them.
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by squokko 4y ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-... The US is hampering its own businesses so that Chinese businesses can belch even more CO2 into the air. Simple as that.
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by squokko 4y ago
There was never a drone delivery dream. This has been PR since Day 1. And this article is proof that it worked.
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by squokko 4y ago
Not when China is building coal fired power plants. It's like taking water out of the Titanic with an eyedropper saying "every little bit counts." Sometimes, it doesn't.
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by squokko 4y ago
The emissions regulations are also marketing BS. Like Oregon can affect global CO2 levels.
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by squokko 4y ago
Well if someone has downloaded many of the files then the files can be pulled from there.
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by squokko 4y ago
Wow, count on another $4,200 in net income next year. Seriously, how expensive is an AM radio?
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by squokko 4y ago
This is why despite G Suite being in many ways a superior product, it's made almost no inroads in Corporate America vs. Microsoft Office. Enterprises need to be able to specify a business workflow and depend on it, and if there are nas
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by squokko 4y ago
I mean NVIDIA designed the hardware and software for massively parallel computation. That's not really luck.
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by squokko 4y ago
I believe that my kids will be materially OK but I think that the world will be a worse place for them than the one that I grew up in. Geopolitics, sociopolitics, loneliness, dating, fertility, etc...
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by squokko 4y ago
Why?
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by squokko 4y ago
India doesn't even pretend that it is a free speech country so this is not surprising.
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by squokko 4y ago
Wow, amazing. There was a daisy wheel and a tulip wheel and they were different technologies. Apologies to GP
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by squokko 4y ago
"Tulip wheel" is hilarious because a print wheel looks a lot like a daisy and nothing like a tulip.
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by squokko 4y ago
If you are at the highest level of SWE in a FAANG with very little work to get there, you are probably exceptionally talented, which makes your advice less actionable for most people.

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