Yeah, and will they be filled with the booths of individual sellers, like their online store and flea markets?
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I just mentioned NewEgg for sourcing. By "they" I meant Lenovo.
Tangent: I went to NewEgg because they have fought the good fight against patent trolls. I was so disappointed to discover this third party relationship had taken hold there. It's one reason why I hate shopping at Amazon anymore.
It also makes me feel a little peaceful.
They sell higher end preconfigured also.
As for the ⅔ pay cut, aren't you spending a good bit of that now on excessive London costs? Plus the intangibles of feeling like shit?
Finally, there must be someone who will pay you remotely (even if "remote" is just WFH in the City) for your skills, or for your fundamental abilities that your skills are built on. For example, an advanced engineering firm that uses statistical quality control, informed by ML.
Not disputing, just curious ...
How much would that ride from those two services cost today?
They should have true and magnetic north indicators, and current time, visible from that vantage point.
And maybe a leet code puzzle under a stone tablet at the center.
See, for example, thehill.com. Although they do some of their own reporting, summarizing other articles and linking to them is their bread and butter.
But I think it's a human rights violation to prevent your citizens from leaving and entering the country.
I'm in favor of the idea, I just think it's going to have problems.
This also makes room for the algorithm to bring in its own people.
Best strategy for a remaining employee is to suck up to the algorithm and try to transfer in to its team.
I suspect that, with the advertising/tracking and hardware/infrastructure ecosystems that they all are growing, they probably "know," or have at least recorded and have it available to analyze with each incremental capability advance, every audio, video and digital utterance and act we have ever committed since $DATE, and on into the future.
Who needs the NSA when you have the FAANG?
(Exactly how they do it, which was your question, I don't know.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_tracking_system
https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineCalenda...
In other words, I woke up this morning "knowing" that oil came from dinosaurs, and I will go to bed tonight knowing it came from plankton.
I'm 63.
Those characteristics that we have, likely evolved in tandem with our use of them, through mutual feedback/reinforcement. We evolved, creating a world that's hospitable to more evolution in similar directions.
We now have the world that humans could and have built with those characteristics.
There may no longer be physical and evolutionary space for the other great apes to similarly evolve, and create the world that they might have, and the mutual feedback between that world and their evolution.
We were first movers.
Speaking from ignorance, of course.
While solar will probably have some end of life issues, I don't they will be near as lethal and expensive as nuclear.
Plus the inevitable cost overruns on the front end.
> How can that be even possible? That’s what obsession with optimization brings.
Oh. So that's why my paper back books arrive curled or folded.
I wear photo gray glasses (or whatever they call it now) with a UV coating, and sunglasses when i drive (against eye fatigue, the windshield already has UV coating).
WTH?
> Set aside for now the debate over whether vaccinated individuals can spread the Delta variant.
That's the whole effing point! Vaccinated people, when infected, can transmit!
Whether masks work or not is one debate. But we're not just trying to save vaccinated individuals. We're trying to stop the spread, and more variants.
Vaccinated people can and do spread the virus. "Vaccination," with the current variant(s), is not a good argument against masks.
Defense in depth.
Covid can't live long outside a host, and it absolutely can't reproduce outside a host. It uses the host's cell reproduction mechanisms to reproduce. IT CANNOT REPRODUCE ON ITS OWN. That's why the virus infects you, so that it can reproduce, and its species can continue to exist. Its niche is to use the host's cell reproduction mechanisms to reproduce.
If we had strong herd immunity, then covid would likely become something deadly but manageable, because the spread would be limited and slower. Mutations would slow, because the mutations would have fewer opportunities to persist.
Everything that reproduces experiences genetic mutation. "Mistakes are made." Most mutations don't persist and don't have much effect. Some mutations cause the organism to die or otherwise fail to reproduce, limiting the mutation's persistence.
Some mutations do persist. Red hair. Downs syndrome. Etc.
The "life cycle" of a virus is very short and very fast. Anyone infected with the virus gives that virus an environment to reproduce, and to mutate. A lot.
All the variants we have, including Delta, which won't be the last, are because enough people gave the virus an environment to thrive.
If you are infected, even if you have no symptoms, then you are providing the virus a safe haven to reproduce, thrive, and mutate. And you will spread it to others.
As for immunity, we have two ways to acquire it. With the vaccine, your body produces an immune response without having to host, increase and spread the virus.
Without the vaccine, if you're infected, and you don't die, then you'll likely have some immunity. But you've also spread it to other people, who may die from it, and who will further spread it. And you'll all probably contribute to the next mutation.
"I'm not vaccinated, and I never got the virus." Maybe. You could have been infected without symptoms, and therefore you did spread it, possibly killing one or more people.
"I got covid, but didn't go to the hospital. I beat it!"
Or,
"I got covid, went to the hospital, but recovered. I beat it!"
No you didn't. You spread it to other people, and helped it mutate into something stronger and more deadly.
"My $PERSON got it, and died in the hospital. But that was their choice, it didn't affect anyone else."
Yes it did. They spread it to other people, and they consumed medical resources and staff that could have been used by other covid and non-covid patients.
It's not just you, it's the people around you that you will infect, and all the follow on results.
Get the fucking vaccine.
Some people just don't give a shit if it doesn't affect them personally.
It's good to be the largest military in your alliance, and to control the world's reserve currency.