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> That was a mistake, but not unethical.

No one cares. If you fail to demonstrate professional ethics, it doesn't matter whether it's because you are unprofessional or unethical.

As long as people post articles about "myths", the myths won't die, because people will remember the myth, and forget the debunk!

PLEASE: If you wanr people to remember your takeways, write TRUE statements, not False statements with debunkings!

Not everyone at FB is an engineer.

"Outside the light cone" is more on point -- it's far enough away or moving fast enough that we'll never be able catch up.

Any rule structured game with fixed finite bounds is solvable.

The committee is how you "pass" the interview. Only awful interview performances are rejected on interview scores alone, before committee. Committee reduces the set of interview scores into a single decision.

There was a miscommunication. The recruiter intended to communicate that "VP-level committee is usually a safety check and pretty much a rubber stamp". That's the review layer above the main Hiring Committee.

If you got rejected by VP committee, that is unusual and work grumbling about -- and possibly constrained by amount of funding available for new hires.

The "come back in a year" is absolutely honest. Many people are hired a year, or 2, or 3 later. Google is happy to say "not sure / not yet" to people and "yes" later.

Why? Uber drives aren't using the medallion.

Interesting use of CVV, since vendors aren't permitted to store it. But Chrome does, for you... is that synced across browsers? That would require Google to store the CVV on its servers...

Browsers don't auto-fill credit cards and passwords, today, because they are private.

Chrome (and I assume others) has a secure credit card and password auto-fill, separate from regular form auto-fill.

That article says that Taiwan didn't have democratic elections in 1990. How is that responsive to a claim that Nationalist China was undemocratic?

Not sure what you think "progressive" means.

That's not true, bar soap gets stuck in hair and doesn't rinse well. Look at the ingredients in soap vs shampoo.

Pensions are funded. There is a national pension insurance fund. They are completely sustainable, as long as they are funded. A pension is an annuity. The pension money comes from money that is withheld from wages.

Now, if some company engages in wage theft (raids its pension fund), that's fraud just as any Madoff-esque pyramid scheme.

Yes: http://www.hightechemployeelawsuit.com/

the tens of thousands is for all the other similar value propositions they'd want in a car.

Isn't this how every organization in the world operates?

How can anything resembling non-hobby work get done without a "directly responsible individual"?

Isomorphic means "have the same shape". It means that there is some structural property that the two objects have in common. The more interesting/complex the property is (and the more superficially different the two objects look), the more defensible the use of the word is.

Labor Productivity measurement depends on GDP, so it suffers from classic GDP mismeasurement error. GDP only measures $, not value, so it fails to measure technological improvements in a competitive industry -- so it utterly fails to measure productivity (hence the charts showing that labor productivity growth is always tiny). Your computer today costs $1000, but it's 1000x more useful and more complex than that $2000 computer of 30 years ago. In GDP / Labor Productivity terms, though, it's value hasn't changed at all -- in fact, it's DECREASED, since your new computer costs less than the old computer!

a human vacuum misses spots and isn't very strong

A robot pharmacist is a trivial application -- it's just a secure vending machine, essentially a fancy coffee machine.

> how can a guy with an AK47 and a canteen compete with that.

suicide attacks (bombs, airplanes, nuclear radiation) ...which is exactly what we see today.

It should be, though. Car #1 stopped shorted and car #2 hit it. Car #2 was at fault for hitting Car #1.

Car #3 (Tesla), if it didn't stop, would be at fault for not maintaining stopping distance, hitting Car #2.

LOC is a worse measure than "% of the product", where the product has a global impact?

Don't forget Mario Kart, another long series of genre-defining games featuring the same characters.

That show was fun, and for any of its faults, the SMB movie erased them in a transdimensional crater of awful

Sure, but hardware reboot can be a button in the paperclip slot, not the main power button.

MayaTime would be a responsible name for this project. Brand Name + Hint about is functionality.

Like "JodaTime" and "Golang"

I simple wage test -- does the worker net more than some low wage per hour, after a reasonable estimate of expenses -- would go far. The point of the employee/contractor distinction is give the right person responsibility for the complexities of the work. Someone who earns less than a "living wage" isn't a responsible business owner.

How is subsidization of labor worse than subsidization of non-labor?