There is the story of the clove tree, which was monopolized by Dutch East India company, until 1 tree was stolen and seeded elsewhere
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One point made when that fire occurred was that the tanks are placed in earthen basins, so that when tank fails, the flaming fuel just fills the basin, minimizing risk of spreading to neighboring tanks.
There is another software engineer in CA with same (unique) first and last name as I. Fortunately he's career-successful, so I'll survive if SEO confusion occurs. He accepted my Linked-In connection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/twitter-china-ti...
""" In a statement, Twitter said that as a part of its routine efforts to stop spam and inauthentic behavior, it had inadvertently gone after a number of legitimate Chinese-language accounts.
“These accounts were not mass reported by the Chinese authorities — this was routine action on our part,” the company said in a statement on Twitter. “Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives or we make errors. We apologize.”
Online, many users said they did not believe Twitter’s statement told the whole story. """
The small tax advantage is that you can sell individual stocks for tax-loss harvesting. Fisher advisors also offers this for HNW folks.
This article criticizes this as a lock-in for wealthfront, unlike funds which can be easily transferred to brokerage "in-kind" (without 500 separate securities, or selling as a taxable event) * https://medium.com/@wwalser/the-trap-of-wealthfronts-direct-...
RIP Bogle, making the world a fairer place rather than being a billionaire. I'd like to bike from Philadelphia to Valley Forge again to make pilgrimage.
* Keep the tank full of gas: air space is prone to condensation
* Avoid ethanol-added gasoline, it's more hypro-philic
* Add a fuel stabilizer (like 1 fl oz per 5 gallon)
* live in California, it's really dry.
These are adapted from techniques for winter storage of cars.
My team is interviewing for a Senior Graphics Performance Engineer position. We are seeking candidates with experience in 3D graphics programming, profiling tools and techniques, C/C++ coding. Nice-to-have knowledge includes GPU HW and computer architecture , low-level memory management (virtual memory, memory types and cache behavior, allocation), Vulkan/DX12, experience with Scrum process, code review, version control, large-scale SW development , and experience with driver development : https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCar...
From the posting : NVIDIA is looking for world-class software engineers to take a key role in the Tegra software graphics performance team. You will work with on the most advanced current and future generations of graphics hardware based on NVIDIA's Tegra products and SOCs. You will be part of a team whose mission is to achieve the best possible performance, power, and latencies on GPU-driven applications on mobile and embedded devices. This is a great opportunity to make an impact on the industry through interactions with internal teams and external experts as well, with the goal to create future graphics technologies.
Generally, the company has open engineering positions in Santa Clara, CA and locations listed on https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSit...
Legend has it that Japanese companies, rather than terminate under-performing employees, will seat them "at the window" and not assign them any tasks at all ... This is not terribly compelling short-term, but is horribly boring .
This self-centered North American still reads al-jazeera, Guardian , and Der Spiegel .