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Exactly. The main way to get promoted at Google is to claim that you launched something important. Results in a lot of busywork and misaligned incentives.

That amazing internal knowledge graph you're talking about folks on the outside never seeing? That is very ironic because that knowledge graph used to be Freebase.com and a lot of the data came from the open data community who volunteered their efforts and expertise. Then Google bought Metaweb and shut down Freebase.

I think it's far from a fad, the adoption of the semantic web has been enormous in the past 5 years. Almost every major tech company (and many financial institutions) now have their own Knowledge Graph team.

There's no mention of any NDA, you've just constructed it as a straw man.

Why are you reading and replying to the comments when you haven't read the article? You've come at this with a terrible take by inventing a non-existent NDA that would exonerate the CEO. Why bother?

His car was found abandoned with the engine running. He was murdered.

I'm not sure if he designed the game as such, but it's widely reported that it was Sids last project before his departure from Microprose.

It's still a cult classic among MTG fans for the novel RPG aspects.

This is harmful racial stereotyping. Most of the hardest workers I know are Indian.

That's a ridiculous expectation for a city. Urban housing needs to be dense. The kind of housing you're describing belongs in the suburbs.

There is a large contingent on HN who are both rich and cheap, so I don't think this holds any water

I don't know why you're up in arms about this, but it's clearly not false. Almost all of the games content is PvE based. The PvP mode is very small in scope compared to everything else that's available.

Oh dear, there's no way anyone can be that stupid is there?

It may be reasonable, but it's very poor optics. It makes it seem like they are trying to coverup any possible COVID exposures within the force.

If you're not a US citizen, you won't have to pay income at all due to tax residency rules. only the US is brazen enough to charge non-resident citizens income tax

This is a bit like when they cancelled the Rotherhithe walking & cycling bridge because it was allegedly going to cost 400 million. Powerful establishment lobbying groups ensure that government estimates for green projects make them seem unaffordable.

It's noteworthy that Deliveroo is already doing the kind of vertical integration you describe, it's called "Deliveroo Editions"

The thinly veiled subtext is that the place they are required to pay it is nowhere.

This is a disgraceful verdict for the Irish people. We laid ourselves bare as a tax haven for MegaCorps, and now we're not even seeing the benefits.

Nope, they don't make any profit even when charging 30% fees. So this 10% cap will probably cause them to withdraw from the market.

It's not that complicated. If you look up Ocado, they have entirely automated their warehouses.

It says a lot about my knowledge of ML that I went into this post fully expecting it be about Autobots and Decepticons.

There are other places for discussing the movie as a whole: a torrent discussion should focus on the torrent IMO.

In general, I find this approach incredibly annoying. Usually I would rather see the canonical version of a given site.

Hypothetical example: because I'm running Linux and in the US, a site shows me content/software geared towards US Linux users. However I am trying to find a solution for a Windows issue with my girlfriend's laptop, who is based in Ireland.

And a similar but different anecdote: Steam has consistently refused to let me pay for games with my US credit card while I'm in Europe. I have to use a VPN for the payment to process. Wat?