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Does someone with such an interpretation have cause to mutilate the painting, though? Why not make a different painting (or some other art) conveying that sentiment, instead?

"There's a super portrait group of the war leaders in the National Portrait Gallery in London. I'm amazed it hasn't been mutilated by now."

Why would it be threatened? I'm not clear on why the portrait of WWI generals is controversial.

The article is good fodder for an episode of Silicon Valley (back when it was funny).

I've worked with many, and none have ever had a bona fide engineering or comp. sci. background, except for a few who didn't cut it in the ranks of developers, and so redirected themselves or were shunted off to UI (now "UX" to make it sound cool) -- they've all been visual artist types. I find it best to get high-level (graphics, the css, color schemes) design ideas from them, and then leave it to the engineers for implementation, who might tweak/adjust/remove some items in order to balance with performance, usability, and sanity. If, instead, UX is given "authori-tie" then it becomes ridiculous, fast.

Interesting -- that sounds very good. They're actually community-based schools, in a very true sense.

I think you can use some enlightenment, as well. You should visit the US/Mexico border to see the "some".

Generalizations are never 100% complete (by definition). But so much poverty and corruption, and so much desperate migration, sustained for such a long time (decades) is a picture of overall failure.

Mexico has the fewest excuses. It is perfectly positioned in the middle of the earth, with coasts on both the Atlantic and Pacific, and with abundant resources. They could be an economic _powerhouse_, with trade relations with the entire world (thing manufacturing, shipping, ...) if they could get it together (and I hope they do). But, history seems to show that isn't likely for a long time, if ever.

You mean the 2 North American countries? Yes, the U.S. and Canada are similar in that they have functioning economies, and citizenry that is not desperately trying to flee.

Then why are so many migrants crossing Mexico (walking, spending lifes' savings on coyotes, sending children alone, ...) to come to the US?

Surely there are photos of the early Apple engineers in the 1970s, with their _laptops_ in each other's garages. /s

Wow. I stand corrected. Thank you.

A symptom, at most. Mexico and South American countries have very few assassinations, yet all of them are failed states.

Yes. In the end, the piece is really an ad for her analytics business.

And next comes automatic detection and nullification of thoughts and feelings?

It has been over 10 years for me, with no regrets.

I'm fine with Hollywood being a 20th century relic -- way past time to move on.

That logo of money changing hands makes a bad impression IMHO. It made me laugh, but I doubt that's their goal. It seems like self-parody, though I'm sure it's not.

Off topic, but she looks like a close cousin to Greta Thunberg. Related in ideology if not genetically.

"Charging cables are heavy and require precision making them difficult for many disabled people to use. Also few charging stations have been added to disabled parking spaces."

Interesting. Why isn't the ADA used to require such affordances?

My respect for Nobel prizes ceased when they awarded the peace prize to Obama for simply having won an election. Nothing against Obama, but it revealed how meaningless and political Nobel prizes are.

It's not about Copilot, per se -- but it's clear that most users probably didn't understand when then signed up that they're giving Github (now Microsoft, let's not forget) the right to use their code, at all.

I've never been comfortable with the idea of trusting IP in places like Github, Google, etc. Although I find Copilot amazing, I find the use of user's code as distasteful as I do understandable.

Why fill to capacity?

Even at small scale, a venue might hold 500 people, but it's probably a nicer experience if there are far less than that many there.

It's a taboo topic because of people's fears and anxieties that it triggers.

A (cold) rational perspective sees that many (if not most) challenges facing society share a root cause of there being simply too many people.

I completely agree. But there was hypocrisy: Google allowed (maybe still does) conversation on that topic -- but the views he had on that topic didn't agree with the narrative that was/is popular. Those chips fell quite unfairly.

The CCP has grown to be so effective that they're managing ours, too.

Google infamously fired a male engineer for speculating on such things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Ch...

A worldview which sees only The Oppressed and The Oppressors, and maps people into one category or the other. For Marx class was used, now it's race... and complete bullshit.

Yes. TFA is racist, anti-capitalist nonsense.

I'd rather celebrate stories like the one featured on HN just the other day[1], about the Vietnamese immigrant who started Huy Fong Foods and _very successfuly_ popularized sriracha sauce.

[1] https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1409185044501987340

We're within days of Bezos' departure, and Amazon is immediately signalling traditional, boring "Mission Statements" (this one about 'leadership'). Oddly, the statements (which often refer to we, our) are signed by nobody -- no names at all to associate with the (banal and predictable) words. I'm no cult fan of Bezos (his personality seems annoying), but to become a truly faceless, nameless corporate monolith is...well, expected, I guess.

It doesn't sound like an exciting place to work, overall.

Handicapping FAANG companies could be beneficial to society, overall. Covid-19 brought a few positive outcomes -- less pollution last year, more WFH, ... Following that up with a decline or temporary slowdown in FAANG would be another.

Why is it a goal to populate the world to a maximal amount? Yeah, we could make room for more people by restricting the lives of the others... but why? Why not identify a comfortable, sustainable level, and keep the level there? The earth is not crying out for more people to be on it, and no societal problems are solved by adding more (quite the opposite). Being told you can only have 2 kids max is less dystopian than outcomes from overpopulation.

Parents shape one's character (usually), where the offspring generally become similar to the parent, or in other cases the antithesis. In this instance, it seems the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+apple+doesn't+fall+...