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Egypt flag is used for Iran.

Some believe the other stocks are being pumped by the funds either through direct purchases or flooding social medias to divert focus from GME.

I would love to talk more about it if you're interested. I posted my email below if you'd like we can set up a skype and I'll answer anything you'd want to know.

Sure! my email is reza.shirazian at gmail and my twitter is @kingreza

Little back story for more context:

A few weeks ago I was listening to Joe's episode with Tony Hinchcliffe. At some point, the discussion leads to Tom Cruise doing his own stunts. The conversation then devolves into this hypothetical situation where Cruise dies while performing a stunt and how odd it would be to watch the movie knowing Cruise dies in it. Or whether people would actually go see the movie. As morbid as the whole conversation was, I thought it was hilarious.

Days go by and I start to think back to that episode. I try to remember who the guest was so I can look it up and listen to it again, specifically the discussion around Tom Cruise. But I just couldn't remember anything. Surprisingly youtube search wasn't that helpful either. All I could remember from the episode was the phrase "Tom Cruise snuff film".

That's when I thought it would be great to be able to search Joe's podcasts (or any podcast for that matter). I spent some time researching what it would take to build out a search engine specific for a podcast. And after a few weeks of working on it, I got a prototype up and running.

And now if you look up "Tom Cruise snuff film", it brings up the episode and the specific spot where the discussion starts:

https://jamiepullup.com/search?q=Tom+Cruise+snuff+film

I'm using AWS transcribe. I would love to eventually train my own model specifically for each podcast. For this specific instance, since Joe is moving the Spotify soon, I'm not sure the investment is worth it.

I'm using AWS's Cloud Search. I'm not sure what's actually behind it but I wouldn't be surprised if it's Lucene based.

They are tweeps

This is a very good point. Top youtubers definitely have the resources to put up a decent fight and add a certain level of consequence for haphazard video claims by the Music Companies.

Trying to find cheap engineering is not a last ditch effort Amazon is going to resort to because there is a recession.

They have already expanded their engineering foot print in India and have continued to look beyond the US market when it comes to talent.

Places that get cold usually have less homelessness.

TripleBye articles are generally bad. They're a mishmash of random ideas that feel A/B tested for the highest possible SEO return. I still remember reading through this: https://triplebyte.com/blog/a-taxonomy-of-programmers when it was first published trying to make sense of it.

You monster!

https://reza.codes is mine

How valuable is that type of market to advertisers anyways.

I randomly jumped into this post and do not have the context or the experience to know what CBT stands for. What is it?

True.

I always think the European border would have extended all the way to Iran (and thus more fairly represented in western cultures) if it hadn't fallen to the Arabian conquest.

Facebook hasn't been the best for a long time. It's easy to get lost behind rosy quarterly numbers and miss the forest for the trees. The platform has been on a decline and it's starting to show in its numbers.

My comment was based on random visits to /programming and checking out what people were doing.

I didn't know of the streamers you mentioned, but I'd be sure to check them out.

Looking forward to being wrong on this.

I didn't reach a conclusion, I presented a possible reason knowing very well that I don't have the evidence to back it. Hence why I said "could it be that the engineering force at Amazon is no longer what it used to be?" and not "The engineering force at Amazon is no longer what it used to be."

My comment has nothing to do with Amazon's current financial success or growth. It's regarding their engineering team and their ability to recruit and retain top talent.

It is not a binary state of absolute destitute and top notch brilliance, it's a trend that can move one way or another and will show itself in more frequent outages, poorly rolled out products, lazy design and etc.

The plumping can keep on working for a few years even after it begins to erode. Historically there are many examples of this.

Something no one has mentioned yet, could it be that the engineering force at Amazon is no longer what it used to be?

I can personally point to two friends who I consider top notch engineers and designers that have left Amazon because of its toxic culture. I'm sure I'm not the only with these anecdotal examples, we've all heard the stories. At the end of the day years of unbalanced work/life balance, overly aggressive management and frugal approach to everything makes for a weak argument for A players to stick around.

Could this be an example of crumbling engineering standard at Amazon?

The quality is poor. It's mostly gamer streamers trying out something different. They're usually going through a udacity course or hacking a crud web application.

There is lot of blindly looking at the screen, reading tutorials or getting frustrated with compilation errors.

They do not like to be helped.

As a Canadian I got my TN at the port of entry. I've talked to Mexican nationals who said they had to go to a consular and pass an interview before getting their TN.

Unless this has changed recently, this comment is not true.

If these companies get together and create a not for profit, how can for-profit providers even begin to negotiate with them.

Also given the scale of these companies, wouldn't this raise healthcare costs for all others who don't work for one of them?

Probably not. I built it to try out CoreML and apply it for a practical solution.

Yes.

Everyone talks about truck drivers becoming obsolete once self driving cars take over the road.

What I would worry about are endless number of doctors and surgeons that spent a life time mastering a skill and will just as easily be rendered obsolete by the same technology.

Lawyers too.

I've heard this one is pretty good :) http://reza.codes/2017-07-29/how-to-train-your-own-dataset-f...