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Ordering is just a special case of categorizing.

I think part of your question is, why does every p2p app not work on all platforms equally well. This is true of pretty much 90% of apps and software - they don't work on all platforms equally well. This is because of conscious design and business decisions taken by the builders.

The decks are stacked up with containers. No room for sails

The prices of modern appliances have come down due to really intricate miniaturization of many components, which enables larger scale manufacturing and cheaper supply chains.

Because of the prices being low, it's not really worth it to repair consumer goods anymore. And if it's worth it in some cases (iPhone), it can only be done by a specialist due to the extreme miniaturization.

Yeah that was classic Man-in-the-Middle attack.

Have your run ANALYZE? ;)

> The big Mac will constitute nearly 50% of calories in a meal

The big mac in India is chicken, and a lot smaller. Edit: Also, it's called The Maharaja.

India is hardly resource rich. Especially not per-capita.

Wow looks a bit like the venerable MiG-25 foxbat

Equifax worked, the other two failed for me

You also missed out violence inflicted on colonies, in Asia and Africa.

The big assumption in David Brooks' piece is that the so-called "manifesto" was Damore's one and only "transgression". Were there other, previous internal complaints about him, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back?

In the article, the author clearly provides clickable references in the form of hyperlinked text. I don't think he claims "he dug the proof himself".

The first example (tree represented in Japanese) seemed a bit misleading, because the "alphabet" has not been kept as a constant. Since the Japanese alphabet is much larger, it may be argued that the number of bits actually occupied in storage by "本" and "tree" are about the same. Could someone clarify if this is correct reasoning?

Mr. King sounds like inspiration for some part of George Smiley's character.

Yes, in India, shops don't close in the middle of the day. But business is very slow during those few hours.

I think every story is different, and it all depends on the individual circumstances. I worked for a startup where the founder was a "family man" - with an extensive family, and he was doing great at work afaik. Wasn't sacrificing much on either front. He did have to employ a part-time nanny, to free up time for his wife and himself could both simultaneously have good careers.

Could excess power from CA be exported to Mexico or Central America?

Yes, but they did hold a lot more of Afghanistan than the British.

> there never was one power that controlled the whole subcontinent

There were several - indeed, the British had it easier because the Mughals had dissipated within living memory, and all their bureaucracies and systems were still functioning.

> My mentor suggested to stay at Google until I find an interesting startup idea to work on.

This is a sound piece of advice.

However, it looks like you're very keen on traveling. Maybe you can take a 3-month unpaid sabbatical from Google, and see what it feels like?

Not really. You can't use just any soil for construction, it has to be a sandy/grainy variety.

> Almost everything the Soviets built

The T-34. The epitome of sound, sensible, pragmatic engineering.

Do you mean the ones who are actually employed by AWS, or anyone who works as a Solutions Architect focussing on using AWS technologies?

> lowering our bar for hiring

Let me guess, Amazon?

Not sure about the quality of this piece. One company, Cognizant, is obviously in some form of trouble. The others are laying off a few hundreds/thousands jobs, on a base of 100K+ employees, as part of the performance review process. There's also no mention of hiring being reduced for any of these companies.

Do a lot of these "data quality" problems go away if you were simply to use a relational DB, and related best practices, like table versioning, PKs, using a last_updated timestamp for each row, etc.?

The hackability of the GPIO pins is what keeps me going back to Raspberry Pi.

> Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western

Not really. The need for maintenance occurs when a specific "Thing" has been around for long enough, and when the institutions, schools of thought that sustain that Thing persist for long enough. When there are radical, rapid political/economic/political changes, "maintenance" and the need for maintenance goes away. This article focusses on maintenance of industrial artifacts, and nowhere in recent times have industrial artifacts (boats, lifts, software), the companies that produce them, and the living standards they create, and the governments that encourage them been continuously existent longer than the "Western countries" (since the early 1800s at least). If you were to look outside the sphere of industrial artifacts, for example at old religious buildings - churches, mosques, temples - you'll see solid examples of good maintenance all over the world. The Koran, a literary artifact, for example, has been well-maintained for over a thousand years across the world by a mostly pre-industrial society.

TLDR: Keeping something running isn't just a "Western" thing - but keeping industrial products running is certainly Western, because only the West has seen a continuous and sustained industrial movement for over 200+ years.

> What _are_ the "correct" use cases for NoSQL?

When you need a highly available and reliable DB for your application, then you need a cluster approach for data replication. Most popular SQL DBs are single-node, with some application-level clustering solutions, so the only option is to scale vertically. However, a lot of no-SQL DBs like Redis and DynamoDB do clustering/replication closer to the iron.