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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by threeseed on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:05AM (#22582743)
And that there isn't 1700 people working on it.
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by tathougies on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:35PM (#22584366)
Good point. The most important part of the speech is the number of engineers working on it. If we have 1699 it might not work but if only we could know we had 1700 then we would all be saved /s.
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by threeseed on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:50PM (#22586639)
Number of engineers is a sign of the scale and significance of the project.
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