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Batterygate looks bad, but the technical reason of the battery not being able to supply enough current for the CPU to run at full speed without crashing makes sense, so I think it's mostly a case of communicating the change poorly.

But also

> the HR lady looked at the evidence of all the listed issues and concluded that the iBuddy just does not know how to speak English

I also suspected it's a clique of a single race, but I went through all the normal ones (white, Mandarin Chinese, Indian), and nothing fit.

Ironically, if you're here illegally working in fields, it's probably easier to find an employer who treats you better.

Explains why Pixar was such a good fit with Disney.

> Being an early retail employee in the Bay Area, we had very close ties to Cupertino. I worked when Steve was still alive.

Steve Jobs actually interacted with retail underlings?!

Agreed. This is really only interesting to journalists if they're building a story like the NYT/Amazon one a few years back.

> googling the author's name for quite a long time

Yup. Especially for someone with one year of experience and needing a visa, this isn't a good look.

> Apple was my first job. A dream that came true after many years of hard work...

I might be reading into this, but "dream jobs" are likely to disappoint. I've seen it happen a few times.

> humans as resources

I'm still disappointed this game never got made:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/human-resourc...

The author avoided this, but I wonder if the clique was all the same ethnicity. I've definitely seen teams in tech companies that are Chinese teams or Indian teams. Also some white teams, but not as many.

It gets into James Damore territory pretty quickly.

Google and Facebook don't really sell personal data, and least not directly. They might buy some, and advertisers happily give them data, but I rarely hear about them actually selling it. They do let advertisers run ads that are targeted using this data, but that's not the same as "felling personal data." It's more like selling user attention.

Maybe it's better now. At least before Thanksgiving, it was bad:

https://abc7.com/coronavirus-testing-covid-dodger-stadium-ap...

My unresearched pet theory is that, at least in mammals, males are risk-takers, do stupid things, and are where the genome gets to try new things, because they're more "disposable" when propagating a species.

When engineers make companies that sell tools like this, it makes all the talk you see about ethical AI and privacy look like bikeshedding.

> We can’t just spin up testing capability, though.

Back in March and April, I'd agree. It's December now, so there's no excuses for this. There's also no excuses for the problems with the vaccine rollout.

Try to book one in the coming pre-Christmas week or look at lines for drive-thru testing.

I need to see a citation for that. My gut tells be that if people had mostly accurate at-home tests they took ~daily, it would actually reduce spread massively, especially when it can be asymptomatic.

> I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I said it, it was correct. We were told in our task force meetings that we have a serious problem with the lack of PPEs

I don't trust Fauci because of this. He lied, he doesn't see it that way, he he doesn't seem to acknowledge how it undermined trust.

I also don't like his approach. It's very preachy. That's not what we need right now. We need someone saying "please stay home, but we know some of you are going to see loved ones for the holidays, so we added testing capacity and locations so it's super easy to get tested."

> If you're not sure about a recommended dental filling, just go to a different dentist for a second opinion.

This happened to me, probably twice. The first time I got rushed through the fillings and had them the same appointment as a cleaning because they were minor (they were). I still felt abused by it. A few years later, the same dentist found something else. I got a second opinion this time. It was basically that an aggressive dentist might reasonably want to fill it, but the second opinion was "don't bother." Five years and on a new dentist and it hasn't been so much as mentioned by the new dentist.

Unless something is obviously wrong or you have a known history of cavities, I'd always get a second opinion.

I'm not looking forward to platform balkanization again. I guess the web at least works everywhere. Sorta.

With Graviton, it's really just try it for your use case, see if it's cheaper.

With all of Intel's problems right now, this current shortage is a good chance to halfway catch up since they at least have their own dated fabs.

A lot of the vaccine vials that had 5 doses actually have 6 or 7. The hanukkah story is about a candle that had enough oil to burn one night, but it lasted 8. This happened right on hanukkah, too.

How was Facebook able to do this? I remember when they weren't all that profitable around their IPO, Google was clearly the market leader. My only theory is that first mover advantage wasn't everything, and both companies know a lot about you, so they can target really well.

I have a feeling hospitals aren't using volunteers right now

You could just sell the hanukkah doses. No one's tracking those. You're also not allowed to pool partial doses, but I'm sure someone paying $25k would be fine with a pooled dose.

They're both being rational; they're just weighing costs and benefits with a lot of unknowns differently.

> $25k seems low for a life-saving queue-jump during a crisis.

Not really. Right off the bat, if you figure there's a 1% chance you die if you get it and a 20% change you get it, that values a life at $12.5M. That's a little on the low side for someone rich, but not not by that much.

You also have to factor in that it's free in 6 months, and for at least 3 months, it's not like you can do anything. The drug is also experimental, so there's an off chance something really bad happens. The vaccine also means you won't be a long hauler, so that adds some value.

$25k feels about right.

> What is the name of the Austrian bodybuilder who has been Mr. Universe three times and Mr. Olympia seven times?

Also the second most famous Austrian-born politician.

Yeah, framed like this, backing up in your phone's default cloud, seems a lot more reasonable. If Facebook turned down Dropbox or Google added that to the contract, there might be an issue, or if Google did sketchy things with the backup. Maybe they did, for the framing was disingenuous.