There’s a reason Toyotas sell like hotcakes. It gets you from A-to-B reliably.
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I don’t think walking is weird, but the route from Shinagawa station to the immigration office is weird. I’ve walked that route. It’s an industrial area and nothing to see.
And Japan still didn’t.
Not a fan of Putin, and I think the polarization is real, but then this should already be obvious to anyone whose not been asleep for the past few years.
Given the domain name includes the word persuasion, such a claim needs more substantiation, elaboration or citation. This feels like a student paper without much strong arguments beyond general hand wavy sentiments on the state of the union.
Hence, theta.
I was deliberating whether to buy the IPhone 13, but with the IPhone 14 coming out next month, the IPhone SE is a good temporary phone. It's less than half the price of the IPhone 13 Pro, so it was a no brainer.
Those prices would mean a software engineer in Europe would not even have money for rent after paying taxes, much less anything else.
Right, because the locals have changed from fishing for themselves to fishing for others. This is market economy dynamics of engaging in activity that produces the most money.
Fishing is not a modern activity. Rafts existed long before people rode horses.
The point is not about whether a country imports at all, but whether it can mobilize domestic production of essential food crops in times of crisis.
Even China import and has rice reserves. There is a reason these government have and subsidized rice reserves rather tea reserves.
Rice, unlike tea, is a defensive measure for times of crisis. Even as Japan imports food, the point is whether the country can quickly mobilize and ramp up to essential food crops. The point is having options and a hedge, which allows you leverage during economic negotiations for other things.
The percentage of imports you can have should be bounded by the runway and time horizon you have.
It seems Sri Lanka went all in on one crop without a hedge, and it would infeasibly take years to convert.
How did these island nations sustain themselves before ? In other words, what has changed that they can’t live off the land anymore? And by that, I mean the sea.
Has Sri Lanka’s fish been pillaged? Is it being exported to wealthier nations that command higher prices, even as there is a domestic food crisis?
How much of this is because of globalism and developing hard dependencies? I’ve traveled to all 47 of Japan’s prefectures and I still see bountiful agriculture in the countryside. Even as developed and wealthy as Japan is, with many global dependencies in imports/exports, it is still heavily invested in agriculture.
It’ll work half the time in the megacity, but in the cities with several million population I usually end up going through each movie theater’s website and check from there after rearranging over half a dozen queries of combinations of keywords such as “movie showtimes near me” (the granting my location data to no avail ), “movies today in <city>”, “movie theaters today “.
In 2012, Hedi Slimane took over the helm of YSL, notorious for the minimalist brand change dropping the Yves from Saint Laurent, but also revitalizing the brand. In 2018, Hedi Slimane became C.D. Of Celine, which has always been touted for minimalism, and made the already minimalist brand even more minimalist by dropping the accented e. There is a mixture of independent fashion brands there, but the majority of the luxury fashion market has been bought up by LVMH and Kering. Those parent companies create a network and platform where brands cross pollinate, in the same way YC serves as an exchange of ideas between SF style startups. In practice, this means pressuring subsidiaries to follow the model that has worked for other brands, within and outside the family. Checkout dietprada on Instagram where they call out plagiarism commonplace in the fashion industry.
My theory is that brand designers who work in tech are influenced by fashion and general product design, which follows apparel. First, trend-setting luxury brands have expanded ready to wear lines and more generally became more accessible, rather than something reserved for the ultra elite socialites. This means more exposure, familiarity. Second, designers make significantly more money than in decades prior. Following in the footsteps of Google, companies found that better design leads to more money. In prior decades, UI/UX designers didn’t exist. The profession matured relatively fast compared to the head start software engineering had. I remember the HCD ( human centered design ) department used to be really in the weeds about the science of ergonomics, and the role UI/UX barely existed. Then the other class of UI people in the early web were graphic designers. That or engineers with design sensibilities. With higher tech salaries, art and design schools have since pivoted towards these career placements. Meaning, there are now established design departments within tech companies, and these departments are comprised of people whose hobbies revolve around design and fashion. All of this creates a feedback loop where “good design” is based on its similarity to other good design. In the same way engineers didn’t get fired for electing IBM and frontend engineers picking React, designers, at least the ones in a megacorp, designers won’t get fired for electing Sans Serif.
I’d like to blame Hedi Slimane for all of this.
These are matters of nationalism and affect forward looking geopolitical outcomes.
Following WWII, a tribunal was held in Tokyo along the lines of trying German war criminals. You can imagine how celebration of what others perceive to be German war criminals could lead to conflict.
Also in the first line below the header "$3.4m... labour that would cost 2.8 per cent of the firm’s revenue". The study analyzed the work of 900 moderators, so there is likely more moderators on the platform. But as a lower bound, 900 moderators * $3.4 million * 100 / 2.8 would mean $110 billion in revenue. Reddit's last funding round was at a $10 billion valuation, so I leave it to you to decide if $110 billion in revenue makes sense.
Yes, this was a rhetorical question. Those countries that require a certification is not relevant to the discussion, because Elon Musk is operating out of America which does not require a certification to be a software engineer. In which case, by your definition, it's just a job or more specifically a job title. That's useless information because then people without a job title or don't care for one aren't engineers, and people who have the job title would automatically be an engineer. So if Elon Musk changes his job title to engineer instead of CEO, is he qualified now? Maybe he should prefix Senior to the title while he's at it.
> 1) he hasn't got anything that comes close to an engineering qualification (no, dropping off a Ph.D. after a a B.Sc. is not enough);
So people who don't have a Ph.D. aren't engineers?
> his job does not involve anything like an engineer's job, which is to "invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost."
Yes, he's a CEO. Are the CEOs of Google and Facebook still engineers if they aren't writing code? And what kind of complex system? Are organizations not complex systems?
> there is no evidence that he did any of this at any point
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If you're an engineer, you should understand this.
How do you think someone gets accepted into an engineering PhD, drop out or not, if they've never did any of this at any point in their life?
Even intelligence agencies thinks in terms of “business disruption”. I feel like the word “horrific” should be reserved.
You’re making this sound like a bad thing. It’s a kind gesture nonetheless.
What qualifies someone as an engineer? Math? What kind of math?
Building stuff? What kind of stuff?
Writing code? What languages count and what languages don’t? Does CSS count?
Or are you talking about some kind of academic certification or standardized exam?
It seems like you are basing someone’s engineering prowess based on their personal, social, political antics.