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But code in any language can be read by any engineer in the world that is proficient in it. I do not speak or read Chinese but when I pull an interesting looking repo from Github that is Chinese I only have to stroke 3 keys to translate all python comments in the file to English. Works great!

You don't need really need another language when you have a common one in place. Even without code comments you should be able to sniff out the crackpots.

Chinese repos are trending on Github everyday. They do really cool things beyond the cutting edge on every side of our business. From frontend react and vue to shiny ML and backend golang.

Finance is still such a broad field without really adding value to your bottom line except for advice on leveraging debt to increase the return on your investment.

The shift to digital that is catapulted by platforms with network effects are the new goggles to use to look at your business model. Marketplaces are online able to service the long tail of consumer demand and a platform matches producers of the long tail with consumers of this value.

Market size cap of the top 5 most valuable firms of the world are platforms. FAA(N)G et al. Have revenue multiples of 8 while traditional businesses like Shell have a multiple of 2 and this difference has nothing to do with finances. Platforms do not create the revenue themselves.

Platforms facilitate interactions between producers that create value which others consume. Thereby comparing revenue of a platform against a traditional business model doesn't make sense because the cost and profit drivers are inverted.

I would ask your HR department for a clear example of a company at the low to mid end of the market rates on salary. And which market i.e. city, state, national or global assuming the entire software industry.

> what cool things they can do than on doing rigorous science (which makes sense -- if you optimize for rigorous science, your stuff probably isn't as flashy as the stuff produced by people optimizing for flash.

Is this a new iteration on that zigzag quote?

> Zak phases of the bulk bands and the winding number associated with the bulk Hamiltonian, and verified it through four typical ribbon boundaries, i.e. zigzag, bearded zigzag, armchair, and bearded armchair.

From "The existence of topological edge states in honeycomb plasmonic lattices"

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/1...

China also made the life of almost a billion Chines better by a factor of 50 in 30 years time.

> I frequently think that what is happening over there are the emulations of unethical experiments that the Western world would never be able to pull off.

Could you point to a specific year in the 20th century after WW II that no Western government was conducting an unethical experiment?

I seriously cannot think of an example so Im open to the fact you know more about my known unknowns.

> What's next?

Text To Video webapp that renders text to video + voice synchronised of famous people.

Who wouldn't like to laugh 5X more when social scrolling?

The first platform that enables creators with the ability to produce deep fakes of celebs from text that they can broadcast as HQ video content to their audience will kill both Youtube & Instagram.

Ranking based on likes so the best jokes of the day are trending on top of the feed.

Recommendation engine with a multibandid ML algo from the start so you can leverage all that incoming data.

I recommend buying a Google Hub with a screen for Google Assistant. It's pretty awesome to just ask Google to play Spotify on my Sonos without having to touch anything.

On the screen I can see all my interaction history with the assistant with 2 taps.

I have also experienced the elimination of my ego with MDMA use. I suspect this is the explanation that MDMA works as a treatment for PTSD.

> there are 3 people that have access to the production databases that hold account info and they aren’t developers, just managers with no clue what to do once they log in.

Just for my curiosity is this your observation or is this a company assumption?

The ultimate free lunch in insurance.

Non of the solutions China comes up with is worth to discuss?

Does WeChat cause the same problems in China as Facebook & Twitter in the west?

> Without government help there wouldn't be any airlines left.

Could you elaborate on that please?

Edit: It's just another round of socializing risk while privatizing profit. Too big to fail is a hoax. When a firm is declared bankrupt only 1% the of value is lost to bankruptcy costs.

The other 99% is recovered by creditors through asset sales, restructuring, layoffs of people that use their knowledge in other companies.

The ratio of direct bankruptcy costs to the market value of the firm appears to fall as the value of the firm increases.

As measured here, the cost of bankruptcy is on average about one percent of the market value of the firm prior to bankruptcy.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2326766?seq=1

> because the company made it clear they wouldn't sell to consumers or hobbyists.

But if you have a business address it always allowed to request a sample.

> Lufthansa was on the verge of bankruptcy and agreed to a €9 billion bailout from the German government. In an effort to save the company, the German government told Lufthansa that they don’t need to obey EU consumer protection law, and that they don’t need to issue refunds.

It's so sad to see capitalism getting killed by bureaucrats out of self interest.

> But you the human understand, because you have a lap, and you've at least seen a cat on a lap.

You really think GPT-3 never came across a comment about a cat in lap? 50% of all the pictures on the internet are cats sitting on people. GPT-3 doesn't need to understand it to echo this common knowledge.

Airplanes don't look like birds at all but they do fly.

No need for a VR set when you are already living in the simulation just reroute some plugs and you can do multitasking with remote viewing.

I had a similar opinion as you until I actually travelled to the United States. I went to San Francisco to visit a girlfriend. As soon as I was landed I felt like this version of the experiment is in a whole other gear than Europe. Everybody you meet gives you their elevator pitch and a business card. They make sure you know you can actually call this person next week and he will be there. On the way in the BART from her college to SF we lost all our money while traveling to the city. We asked a business man the way to Alcatraz, he took us to lunch and gave us $100. He told us we should do the same when we have the chance back home because that would make the world better.

This kind of paying it forward never happens outside of the USA. That positive vibe is sincerely ment and it's sad to realize we Europeans take positive signals like a smile as cynical as we do. A smile lights up your brain with an injection of happiness.

Have you seen that sign on your Amazon package? It's not a mistake it looks like that.

It's core business to every politician so you can leave Irish out.

A woman that uses the pill as birth control consumes 0.00365 gram of estrogen a year. At a consumption price of the pill for $300 a gram of estradiol is thus worth $82,191.79. Compare that to $44 for a gram of gold and you wonder if big Pharma is ready for disruption?

Aren't you aware that people on airplanes are per definition almost excluded from public buses?

First Bezos unbundles product search with Amazon from Google's core BU. Amazon US is earning an ARPU of 900 almost an order of magnitude higher than Google. Now Twitch unbundles the most profitable piece of Youtube while he bundles a Netflix video service in Amazon Prime at the same time.

What does Bezos eat for breakfast?

Why aren't we putting elephants in the wild on other continents?

Aka the bandwagon effect.

Great find! Thanks for this. But after reading I wonder how many of these subs can be out there crossing waters of the USA while the whole coast on both sides are monitored full time on irregularities by the US military?

Isn't the issue with the EU it's underperformance to what the Chinese did in half the time?

In my view China has used exactly some SV-hypergrowth model where almost every Chinese living is 50x better off than their parents.

Si, Si, is apparently number 1 in Spanish speaking communities for incorrectly triggering Siri.