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You are absolutely factually correct in your analysis, but you are completely missing how business works.

Fundamentally, there is value to most businesses in being able to just buy a decent solution to a non core competency.

That’s where Algolia and AWS and basically all service companies come in... a medium scale clothing manufacturer with a booming e-commerce site may well know they have no clue how to do search, and no clue how to assess and hire individuals who could implement it, and no clue how to find and hire a cio who could put together a team from scratch who could do this on a reasonable timeline.

I think this is a bit unfair to SOAP.

SOAP was\is a pretty stable technology that did exactly what it promised to do, without too many releases or breaking changes for about 10 years.

Even today it has a good utility for the situations it is designed for...

RPC over a well known standard format, for tightly coupled endpoints, that require metadata, enforced schema, security, and perhaps transactions.

big problem for SOAP is it was the default for web services for a long time, when in reality a big shift happened in about 2008 where webservices were most likely NOT going to fit into those constraints. just my 2 cent

that stood out to me too... not the monorepo really, but the fact its a monorepo of a billion lines of code. seems almost impossible to maintain when you have a dependency change at the lowest levels that affects numerous projects.If i am understanding google was in a situation where they had to update every project that used typescript inside the entire company at the same time, that seems untenable.

I would like to understand what multiplication is in your (and i guess advanced mathematics)

Well according to the people quoted in the article it's a textbook scenario of fed either acts aggressively or recession. That's the take away.

Now the quoted folks might be wrong, or they might be right but sometimes the textbook scenario doesn't play out...

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I found the database design portion of this to border on... if just felt like they were trying to model the most basic of design decisions as some kind of technical achievement. seemed to me they were trying to garner tech 'street cred' without something to be worthy of credit, not sure i understood.

Honestly, my understanding is prison are supposed to be a deterrent for the free, and a rehabilitation for the imprisoned.

Most prison terms are not 40-60 year virtual life sentences, so most people who go to prison will see the outside again. So while I dont think we should 'take it easy' on prisoners we really shouldn't be trying to do damage that will prevent them from having a chance to function in society.

Besides all that fundamental as a society either the society believes in human rights or it doesnt...

I think we already do this. Its built into the fabric of the web. Not sure why we are proposing arbitrary limits and additional user opt in for this.

Wether a website wants to be inefficient or has a good reason for having a lot of resources it impacts the speed with which the site loads. The slower the site loads the more users are going to abandon the site. Stats say by 2 seconds most users have abandoned a slow loading site. Caveat that if the user feels the site is really worth the wait, they will wait longer.

So seems everything in this proposal is already addressed...

They are literally laying off 9% of their employees. Saying that they are laying off people is not "bias", it is stating facts. The fact that Tesla is taking steps that typically are associated with "financial trouble" is just what the reality of the situation is.

Good point and this 'logical' way of determining an object is a cube is something i wondered about as well.

It should be possible, if the subject is given enough time and approaches the task from a rigorous angle, to deduce that the object must be a cube. through a path like...

eyes -> visual processing of the brain -> logical facts about -> mental model of the object in question -> categorizing the mental model -> determining what the object is.

However, I think, the fundamental issue is that in sight, touch etc, typically the concious/logical part of the brain is not involved in determining objects. probably because this is much to slow. There is dedicated hardware/software that does this as far as i am aware.

There are people with the condition where they cannot name, or identify objects from touch but can from sight, even more interesting some people can identify things from touch with their right hand, but not with their left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astereognosis

The thing is, philosophy in this case was using the knowledge available and applying reasoning to drawn conclusions.

While it was entirely possible that Locke's prediction would prove to be incorrect. It was not 'dumb luck' it was an 'educated guess'. 'dumb luck' literally is pretty much exactly the opposite of what occurred here.

Serious question, Keynes was born in the late 1880 and didnt publish anything until 1900s... we had boom and bust cycles long before this. How do you explain that?

japanese did not eat us automotive industry alive because of unions. japanese primarily eat the us automotive industry alive because of far superior manufacturing innovation.

I think your point is 100% spot on. HOWEVER to be clear no one really should be investing in anything they don't truly deeply understand. There is no invest X amount of money, not understand the business, get X + Y money out... unless Y is negative.

Except maybe the stock market with a 30 year horizon.

your point is valid... however i think its going to get into the same feedback loop as regular movie studios. fundamentally even if you have 100 million to make 5 films, you really cant afford a 20 million dollar flop. As long as your a rational actor your going to start chasing hits and trying to minimize flops by 'standardizing' your films.

The fundamental problem is in my opinion we want folks with millions on the line to not act like rational actors but instead do it 'for the art'... this will happen from time to time but will not really be the norm i think.

It is known he didnt successfully lead microsoft into the mobile computing industry, and its known he didnt successfully lead microsoft into the cloud computing industry... so whatever his initiatives, goals and objectives were, they were wrong.

The problem is Ballmer point blank completely utterly failed to successfully transition Microsoft in the single biggest revolution in the Computing Industry in the last twenty years. He also utterly failed to successfully transition Microsoft in the second biggest revolution in the Computing Industry in the last twenty years.

Ask microsoft right now, they would probably trade 50% of their windows and office business to have a strong 25% share in the mobile market. They would also probably trade the other 50% of their windows an office business for 50% of the worlds cloud computing business.

He had no CEO vision, he was an excellent COO who streamlined and improved margins, but absolutely failed to make any of the moves necessary for Microsoft to continue to be at the top of the software industry over the long term.

CEOs need the vision to recognize, and the cajones to go after the big 'bet the company' moments...

I agree with a lot of what she is saying, but two points: 1) The basic solution outlined is 'do a lot of work'. Which is kind of a no brainer, you will learn if you do a lot of work. The tension is how do you get the most productive learning out of the time that the student has

2) The US only recently moved from memorization and rote learning to focus on understanding for a reason. The reason ultimately is the students werent excelling under that regime.

What you describe is a great program for certain kids especially 'gifted' kids, but is extremely detrimental to most children in general. Most children need guidance to learn, and do not have (yet) the self discipline to just read books and learn.

Lets take learning off of strict academics for a second. Imagine playing a guitar, the guitar method of just reading some guitar books and listening to music, will definitely work for motivated students, and it is a necessary at some point to reach this independent learning level. The most common reason why most guitar students don't progress is because they don't do the necessary boring ass drills, scales, arpeggios, chord movements, slurs etc. This is ok with guitar, it fine to just lose the 75% of students who really want to learn the guitar, and have some motivation, but dont have the ingrained motivation to do 20 minutes of pentatonic scales a day for 6 weeks. However it is not ok with practical math, its not ok to just lose the 75% of students who don't have the ingrained motivation to memorize the times tables. rote memorization and practice is important in education for most students.

I think more or less this is where it is going to have to end up.

Its probably bad PR for AirBnB but fundamentally, there is a reason that their is a 'high' barrier to entry for the hospitality business...

Why on earth would he do this? Why would you be compelled to believe this?

Seems to be way to early in the cycle to start doing startups on this...

I think you are misunderstanding... there are multiple dimensions to 'getting-away-with-it' power. While you are correct that Microsoft is under way less legal and public image scrutiny, they also have lost the lock in that gave them the power to do what they want and have everyone else in tech follow.

point blank most families these days have 3 or 4 iOS or Android computing devices for every 1 windows computing device.

Your points are valid, but that kind misses the major thrust of the argument... which is that facism isn't based on a shared set of common principles or political thought, facism is in the authors opinion not linked to specific beliefs...

as for trump being a facist, i think the primary reason he wouldnt be a facist is he doesnt really seem to have any strong interest in athoratarian centralized power... in fact if anything unless kaisich is actually just flat out lying, he is pretty open about wanting to minimize his day to day control and be more of a symbol for the movement... thats extremely un-facist

I thought he was pretty douche until i got to the part where it says he bought the land... if he bought the land whats the beef?

cant upvote enough... the triangle notation is actually "wrong"

Ehhh what you are describing is an algorithm for evaluating the truth of a statement. Which is not the same thing as a proof at all.