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Could this hint to the fact the Zodiac committed suicide in the end?

Mafia coming to you for protection money since "bad things happen" is not extortion. They just ask nicely. The fact that your building burned down after you didn't pay is totally unrelated.

I had an issue with R constantly not connecting. Ended up replacing under the warranty and now have zero issues.

> So, you are rejecting the premise that a lot of misinformation is spread and it has much wider reach than in the past?

No, but how do we jump to conclusion that government, government-controlled or government-aligned entity should be allowed to control the information we receive?

> How is it that Google create/rebrand/close so many music and chat services over the years.

It's not a rebrand. It's a rewrite. People need them promos.

In many cases, however, rewrites are actually warranted. As underlying infra gets replaced it becomes very expensive to run and maintain legacy services.

if you run Redis you need at least 25% of extra RAM on top the instance memorysize if you want to avoid a lot of nasty OOM scenarios. Memorystore gives this memory by default and in aws you need to tweak the reserved-memory. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/...

To be fair, it seems Memorystore instance is not the same gb-for-gb as Elasticache, since Memorystore gives you extra memory overhead, and on aws you have to manage it yourself. Memorystore also has free network egress/ingress. There is also a RedisLabs offering on Google Cloud with integrated billing.

Disclaimer: I work at Google Cloud.

> join a megacorp?

How will that help with the noise problem?

"Air Moorea didn’t know it had both types in its fleet, it replaced all its control cables on the interval specified for carbon steel cables — about once a year."

Did they just ordered the replacement parts per catalog without looking at what exactly is being installed? I mean, they would have noticed that one plane has a different part number.

With it's pros being the ability to know how close the points are just having the 2 coordinates and arbitrary precision.

Who knows how far away epic.region.music and epic.global.music are from just the names? While 18SUJ2163104440 and 12SVC0452723150 are 6 grid zones apart east to west.

> It tells you the intent.

A good unit test that tries to load with jit_enable=false and expects false in return will communicate intent even better.

> Now obviously Uber is a private company

No, they are not. Uber went public this month.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...

> Google could have made a much less obnoxious social network

Even today, I think YouTube has a great potential for becoming a better social network, than G+ ever was.

Indeed not all locations have it, but I believe the major ones, like Santa Monica, should have it available by now.

> For the phone interview, it will be on a Google document, and for the onsite interview, it will be writing code on a whiteboard.

That part is not completely correct. At onsite can choose to write code in a Chromebook which will have a lightweight editor with syntax highlighting.

Would you prefer the government to take your money by force and give it to Wikimedia instead of them 'begging' for money?

Engines are also very different between 737 Original and Classic, so having different thrust vectors between generations is not happening for the first time.

If anyone is interested: Memorystore for Redis is experiencing intermittent failures during instance creation. Existing instances are not affected.

You keep confusing the terms. You say "privilege to vote" in one sentence and "right to vote" in another. Constitution sees due process as a right of "persons", and ability to vote as a "right of citizens".

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Not the most beautiful solution, but I've seen it in production and it works fine.

> it's the same reason that convex mirrors in America must have the text

Precisely.

S5.4.2 Each convex mirror shall have permanently and indelibly marked at the lower edge of the mirror's reflective surface, in letters not less than 4.8 mm nor more than 6.4 mm high the words “Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.”

People who drove cars in the EU and in the USA: did you ever notice how the blind spot problem almost completely disappears in the EU? That's because US enforces in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard #111 [1] that the left side rear view mirror cannot be convex, to aid the detection of the vehicles in the blind spot. I have not yet come up with a good understanding of why that regulation even exists, but personally I feel much safer on the road with the European type rear view mirrors.

[1] 49 CFR 571.111 Rear visibility

S5.2 Outside rearview mirror - driver's side.

S5.2.1 Field of view. Each passenger car shall have an outside mirror of unit magnification [2].

[2] 'Unit magnification' mirror means a plane or flat mirror with a reflective surface through which the angular height and width of the image of an object is equal to the angular height and width of the object when viewed directly at the same distance except for flaws that do not exceed normal manufacturing tolerances.

Not that much anymore. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-...

Prop 13. They can't just increase property taxes.

So, what's the joke? I want to see you succeed.

That is definitely her personal opinion, as she is not a spokesperson for Google as far as hiring is concerned. Neither am I.

However, I think if you ask people who conduct software engineer interviews at Google, a lot of them will agree with her opinion, including myself. One thing I would add, is that there is unfortunately no strong consensus on what to expect from the candidate, so variance seems to be high. That is why candidates are encouraged to try again, if unsuccessful.

"billing practices of most hospitals are very dishonest and intentionally confusing and opaque."

Is that even true? Personally I have my doubts.

American Hospital Association: Underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid Fact Sheet, December 2017 Update [0]

FINDINGS

In the aggregate, both Medicare and Medicaid payments fell below costs in 2016:

- Combined underpayments were $68.8 billion in 2016. This includes a shortfall of $48.8 billion for Medicare and $20.0 billion for Medicaid.

-For Medicare, hospitals received payment of only 87 cents for every dollar spent by hospitals caring for Medicare patients in 2016.

- For Medicaid, hospitals received payment of only 88 cents for every dollar spent by hospitals caring for Medicaid patients in 2016.

- In 2016, 66 percent of hospitals received Medicare payments less than cost, while 61 percent of hospitals received Medicaid payments less than cost.

[0] https://www.aha.org/data-insights/2018-01-03-underpayment-me...

Medicare currently pays less than what it costs to provide for a lot of services. And providers are either declining medicare alltogether or recouping the missing funds from the other patients. Where would all those other patients come from if medicare will be "for all"?

And what does the law say in this case? Can they refuse to pay out if they themselves decide it was a mistake to take the bet in the first place?