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Pear Ave and the restaurants next to Sports Page are directly adjacent to buildings on the south end, but Maps does say you’re right about the stuff north on Rengstorff (about 20 minutes from building 42). I guess time flew and I didn’t mind the walk. Faster if you GBike it.

This is also hyperbole. Mountain View is very dense compared to most of the suburban USA. There are numerous non-Google burrito, taco, Korean hot-pot, etc. places all with a few minutes’ walk of the Googleplex. I know because I’ve walked to them.

For non-Valley insiders: the above is hyperbole. For one thing, the massive Intuit campus is right next door to the Googleplex. For another thing, the industrial areas just across Highway 101 (a quarter mile from the ‘plex at most) are full of non-Google startups and midsized tech businesses, as well as junkyards and auto body shops and who knows what else.

History and the Constitution provide for a solution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

But that’s just it. How is 5G-based rural broadband a significant improvement on LTE-based service?

You missed the “once-” before “Marxist:”

Sowell described his serious study of Karl Marx in his autobiography; as a former Marxist who early in his career became disillusioned with the philosophy, he emphatically opposes Marxism, providing a critique in his book Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (1985).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell

>you're confusing what communism is about and what people did

The trouble with communism is as ever that it has to be implemented by people. Communists as ever tend to gloss over this detail. As once-Marxist economist Thomas Sowell put it: great idea, wrong species.

I haven’t read any of David Graeber’s books. Your comment doesn’t make his thesis clear, but I do know what’s written in the Code of Hammurabi:

“If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.”

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Codex_Hammurabi_(King_trans...

Likewise in pre-Columbian Mexico, as per the Florentine Codex:

“It was a crime to light a fire in the woods without permission, to cut down trees, to move boundary-markers, to take game from another man’s hunting trap and to steal crops from the fields. All these were crimes that could be punished by death.”

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-experts/which-were-t...

I’ve read that the magnitude of punishment has less of a deterrent effect on crime compared to the certainty of receiving punishment at all. Softer consequences that you will probably face, as in parts of Europe, are different from harder (on paper) consequences that you will likely escape under a progressive prosecutor in the US. See the Chicago, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Baltimore DAs for examples of this.

Edit: And don’t confuse American police/law enforcement, who are often harsh to say the least, with the legal arm of the criminal justice system. In many US cities the two are often at odds, as lax prosecutors and DAs release criminals almost as soon as police apprehend them. The Washington DC Chief of Police in particular complained about this recently.

Obviously, but that isn’t what the GP comment asserted and it isn’t the statement I replied to.

*in America. Not a reason why they shouldn’t work in Japan, Switzerland, Norway…

>The trains are clearly being robbed out of desperation by the poorest citizens.

That isn’t clear to me at all. In Washington DC, for example, much of the recent increase in theft (grand theft auto especially) has been committed by unsupervised juveniles. AFAICT they do it because they’re bored, it’s easy, it’s exciting, and they generally escape punishment. Who’s to say it’s not a similar situation with these train robberies?

The right to protect oneself and one’s property goes at least as far back as the Code of Hammurabi. Every ancient civilization from Babylon to Tenochtitlan had some variation of this idea. It is practically the definition of civilization itself.

I left Amazon after 11 months as a new college grad in engineering. As others have noted, Amazon’s RSU vesting structure is blatantly designed with the expectation that many (most?) new hires will leave after only 1-2 years. When I was there, the typical plan backloaded the bulk of the vest amount in the third and fourth year of employment. Contrast this with Google or many other tech employers who distribute RSU vesting evenly across the term of the plan. One of many reasons I’m glad I left such an anti-employee company.

Not altogether uncommon, especially among Americans born to 1960s flower children. For instance the current mayor of Madison, Wisconsin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Rhodes-Conway

I agree that Africa is a huge continent, and one person’s experience in one country at one time may differ enormously from others’, yours included. I disagree with your assertion that user scabarott made anything resembling a “substantive point” in his reply, which ignored everything ChrisMashallNY said in their comment about growing up in Africa and seemed to malign them purely on the basis of their European ancestry. You appear to be piling on based on the same sentiment. If I missed the substantive point, could you please explain it to us?

Maybe their experience wasn’t representative of Ghana, but it was representative of recent history in Rwanda, Nigeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Chad, Mali, Angola, Eritrea, Somali, Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Maybe we shouldn’t pile on to people for sharing their life experiences.

>The movies don't get published here (for obvious reasons)

I saw Wolf Warrior 2 at the AMC cinema in Sunnyvale, California. There weren’t a lot of showtimes but the theater was packed for my showing. Chinese audio with English subtitles. Thought it was an entertaining action movie with some ridiculous propaganda set pieces a la Rambo. My mostly Chinese (maybe Taiwanese? didn’t ask) fellow audience members audibly groaned en masse at some of these, like when the hero gets a truck full of refugees past some African rebels by dramatically waving a PRC flag.

An American friend of mine saw the film a few months later on a cross-country fight, the airline had it on the inflight entertainment system. It’s also apparently on Prime Video. So such movies can be found here for those who want to see them; that’s just a pretty small group of people.