A... massive distinction.
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> Meta spends 10% of last year's revenue to acquire 49% of a top AI data company and poach their leadership, to ensure they are a key player in what could be a ~5-trillion dollar industry by 2033.
Meta has a history of this. Acquiring Oculus (and leaning in on VR), Ray-Ban partnership (and leaning in on AR)... etc.
These all just seem like decisions to ensure the company's survival (and participation) in whatever this AI revolution will eventually manifest into.
Regarding the payout-- I'm curious if targeting (in the disclosure video) a CEO/C-Suite exec @ Google would have encouraged a higher amount from the panel.
Realistically you do need someone (vendor or not) to translate 1000's of pages of legal jargon into actual product decisions. There's a tipping point where paying an engineer $x or $y to do that themselves (if they even have the skill to interpret it) is waste of talent.
I'm seeing 2TB/4TB/8TB Nand Flash being sold online (the latter for a hefty ~$650). Is there anything stopping me from paying a professional like this to install an 8TB unit?
edit: I see those NAND flash models are supported by Macbooks. Perhaps I am mistaken in thinking an iPhone could support it.
I would perhaps argue the opposite here. They list it on the official page as "starting" at $3499 which gives me the indication that there will be other, higher tiered models to choose from on release.
This was mostly an infrastructure problem that Apple innovated on and helped AT&T solve- carriers would no longer need to sell "minutes" but could instead sell Data, which was a much better value proposition. There's a quote in the movie Blackberry along the lines of "the problem with selling minutes is that there's only 60 of them in a minute to sell".
I can only assume this attributed to the global adoption of the "data sale" model (and the iPhone with it) since the profit ceiling was exponentially higher for every carrier.
I love the freedom it gives me during my day (like you explained very well) but looking back, I'm not sure if it's even worth it at the end of the day.
Bias for what is 'cruel' cannot exist without historical context, for Mammoths or even humans for that matter.
Any species (human or otherwise) is a product of its environment. We've seen this time and time again in historical examples such as human sacrifices, fights to the death, torture- all these ideals were cultivated and accepted by the majority at one point or another.
It's important to also recognise that mammoths only became extinct roughly 4000 years ago and that they are the closest ancestor to modern day elephants. Mammoths existed at the same point in time as bison, grizzly bears, and camels. Camels even predate mammoths and co-existed with species like the giant beaver.
In the timeline of evolution 4000 years is an extraordinarily short period. I'd wager that reintroducing mammoths into a suitable environment would go surprisingly smoothly.
> If humans go extinct and some alien species works out how to clone us in vitro and put us in a breathable atmosphere, do you think that would be a life worth living? Hard pass for me
This seems like a catch-22. In this example, you would be reborn in a new environment with zero historical knowledge of the human race.
As odd as it seems... Even if you were made to ride around an alien spaceship naked on a unicycle for your foreseeable lifetime, you would still have no context in the slightest for if this would be a life worth living for you, or if it is an experience you would want to endure.
You would be crafting and designing the social norms for your ancestors from scratch.
In the beginning Musk stated in interviews that he wasn't concerned about the monetary amount. I can't pull it up on my VPN, but I recall him taking the stance of it being a social-impact-y investment and not one that is designed to make a profit.
Is there a 'safe' space I can give feedback regarding this that doesn't damage my chances of making it through the process?
Credit where credit is due, I guess.
In my experience using agile, I haven't observed any failures- just failures from teams implementing it incorrectly.
There are many billion dollar consulting companies that have completely committed to agile and are flourishing. If it were as garbage as many people in this thread are saying, I feel like we would see more concrete evidence of it.
Source: Worked in agile teams on-and-off for ~5 years now, not at my current company.
Fast forward about 12 months and I began longing for the social interaction, and even just the different visual stimulus of having a large open space to walk around and think in.
I don't think there will ever be a true answer to WFH vs. WFO.. But I think opening up that choice to the employee will give numerous benefits to employers in the coming years.
So you're telling me ... There's a chance?
As a rider myself, the first week or so was a bit rough and an unusual feeling- it wears off after that.
Because of this I am less attached to the work, there is more wiggle room, and I am less stressed about meeting deadlines.
Expectations from management will also be lower because you are a new-hire without any context. I'm not even going to get into the huge salary bumps you'll receive by hopping instead of waiting and fighting through performance reviews for a raise...
I would argue that if building strength, clarity, and focus is someone's main goal then this could be just as easily achieved by regular routine exercise like a calisthenics or bodyweight program with a healthy diet to boot. At least this way you can realise the benefits much quicker than a year or two.
I can't speak to the rewarding 'zen' nature of Yoga. After close to a decade of full-time weightlifting though, perhaps it has conditioned me into treating it as a sort of routine, mental therapy.
From a business perspective though, it's absolutely bonkers to see Amazon wasting such an immense amount of resources in an attempt to slow the competition down, rather than speed their own up.
It's like watching a child flip the monopoly board after realising they can't buy any more properties and remain on top.
But I do hope it stays pure and becomes a way to genuinely support a creator who provides valuable opinions or views.
Perhaps a scenario like being able to super-follow the person behind a Wall Street Journal article, instead of the journal fees instead.
8200 years from now (from a biological standard and considering our technological growth) we might barely be human anymore.
We would sooner need to worry about our 6th dimensional energy-blob children getting tattoos before we need to worry about the economy.