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People beaten over the head with a progressive education is concerning. The leaders of today are the bigots of tomorrow. The future requires us to think for ourselves

Is there a country with balanced gender ratios in STEM employment? I wasn’t aware of such

It doesn’t help that politicians face as much hardship in removing old laws as adding a new one.

Leading to us always creating laws and rarely removing them.

I’ve actually been suprised feminist aren’t pushing for this. It’d help their overall narrative.

You have similar gender gaps in nursing as well.

“ Without teachers’ bias in favor of girls, the gender gap in choosing a science track would be 12.5% larger in favor of boys.”

Does this not mean we have a gender bias towards females in STEM at the education level?

If so it’d turn around a long held belief that STEM education is biased towards men. At least in grade school.

Which is not a concentration camp.

The us does not currently have a concentration camp. If they do please let us all know so we can put a stop to it.

On the flip side. The CCP has been committing a genocide by UN standards and has previously admitted to organ harvesting.

The arm MacBooks will mean developing ARM code for your server is easier than x86.

I highly suspect we’ll see a switch from intel to arm in the server space in next 5-10 years.

The cloud vendors have so much to gain by building their own arm chips.

Earthquake damage isn’t covered.

And California has relatively dry mild weather.

And we are talking about a 1.5 million dollar house in Bay Area being 1000 sqr ft with insurance rebuild cost of 300k+.

Chance of needing a rebuild are very, very, low.

Don’t forget owning a house the “cost” is mortgage INTEREST, property tax, and insurance premiums for owning.

With interest rates at 3%, property tax fixed to track inflation for life thnx to prop 13, and California home insurance stupidly low (50$/month for 1+ million house). It’s not that bad.

I did the math and owning is cheaper than renting in just a few years.

I’d argue they didn’t face an existential threat. Causing the employees to stop focusing on the business.

Same thing that brought down intel.

Like intel (of the past). You can coast and the money will keep coming in. Up until it doesn’t.

I thought it was running google tv. With Android tv deprecated.

Smaller companies with presto won’t get the same performance benefit.

Snowflake & BigQuery get the ability to have multiple customers on a large cluster.

It’d be cost prohibitive for a single smaller customer to have all that compute sitting idle for a few queries per minute.

Storage also benefits as snowflake/ BQ can shard your data across a much larger array of disk giving you better IO.

Think is it faster to drive a car 100 ft starting at 0mph and flooring it. Or to drive 100ft with a car which starts off doing 120mph

I suspect lots of incoming freshmen are taking a gap year program.

All the party schools with questionable degree value must also be hurting

There is no android proper. There’s google play services and the android os.

The fire tablet is using the android os

They actually don’t buy all the products they sell.

They often only pay the manufacturers after its sold. And sometimes don’t return the units which don’t sell

Name one project that’s lived long term that came out of a120?

By lived I do mean no changes to end user for the absorption into another team.

Aka we will kill this at any time.

> That's why we built Tables...as part of Area 120...for experimental projects.

Yeah I’m going to pass. This will just be deprecated in the near future.

Plants sadly don’t make a significant impact to indoor co2.

I see a future indoor co2 sequestration device being incredibly popular

And a household pays a single rent. This means I’m average ppl can afford 6% increase to rent.

Afford might be poor choice of word though

I actually think rent going down in sf will open up a lot of opportunities that wasn’t possible due to cost.

So much culture left sf to Oakland due to cost. As SF rent gets cheaper, I suspect we’ll see art, food, and activism jobs come back.

The USA does 5903 million metric tons of co2 annually [1]

You’d need 1.5 million of these to remove just the USA’s yearly co2 emissions.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas...

YouTube music sucks. Now that google play music is canceled. I either continue paying for yt red and stick with the worse music platform. I switch to prime music. Or I ditch yt and google music all together and use Spotify.

I still don’t get why google deprecated me as a customer. Google’s churn is exhausting. Starting to want the “Microsoft” & “Apple” experience of it just works.

I tried YouTube music. But it’s so repetitive and playlists are just the same songs I’ve listened to recently.

I miss google play music and Spotify style discovery.

Curious how you found Spotify to compare to YouTube music. As google play music was deprecated.

Curious what university you attended. From my experience the engineering liberal arts courses were still engineering focused. E.g. English was about writing ieee formatted papers.

I had an engineering ethics course where we discussed sensitive issues such as a medical radiology device which accidentally delivered 10x the dose due to sticky keyboard keys.

The best math professor I had was atrocious at teaching. If not down right abusive.

Taught me how to ask the right questions. How to capture requirements and learn on my own.

Top Universities aren’t their to teach. They are their to empower you to teach yourself and explore deep in areas. While also learning the fundamentals that are necessary for this enablement.

That is drastically different than the average ranked schools.

Agreed. Been debating switching to Spotify. But not having ads on YouTube has been amazing.

Exactly. Pinterest still is holding onto existing sf office space.

They are right that it probably doesn’t make sense to pay top dollar for this spot when other spaces in east bay, South Bay and Seattle are cheaper with access to same talent.

The Bay Area will still thrive but sf proper-city will have a rough time

They’d just be underwater. But if the property is cash flow positive, over time they’d recover.