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That is amazing! Hope the view didn't distract your ability to focus since it is so gorgeous.

Does the train have WiFi? Or you are just coding offline?

can you share some of events/incidents that showed the concerning traits you mentioned? Also, who are the shady characters he had associated himself with?
It might be a common practice for consulate to do that: Russian consulate in SF did it in 2017 in response for an eviction related to "Russian gate" [1]

The U.S used shredder to destroy document in Iran in 70s but Iranians were able to piece back the document to get intel from it so I guess the intelligence community learned a lesson there.

[1]: https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-was-the-russian-consu...

Re:Starbucks pauses Advertising on all Social Media on Sunday June 28, 2020 @04:55PM (#23671977)
In the U.S the beneficiary might be political ads? If this is the case, would it make social medias more reliant on divisive speeches?
Most of the real world distributed systems would have some videos in some conferences: Spanner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfsTINNCooY

Chubby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqItueBaiRg

Anything Leslie Lamport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX6UrY_ooA

Also the Distributed system course at MIT is fantastic. The labs are also great way to get your hands dirty with distributed system. The link to the class schedule is here: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html

Re:Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once? on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:50PM (#23469484)
If you like the Foundation series, you would probably like the three body problem trilogy. The scale(both in space and time) of the story is as big if not bigger than Foundation and the story is equally fascinating. Really good read!
It would be a case of LDD (Lawsuit driven development). The engineers would need to redo a lot of the infra and products
How do you achieve this technically? Monorepo would be a pain to break.

Or just break up Google into two but let both of them keep the access to the same repo? Then what would this achieve?

Re:Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50% on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:23PM (#23048239)
I remember reading my offer and there was a line that goes like this "only the CEO has the power to sign contract". and everybody else's offer are "at-will".
As long as there are knowledge and cognitive gaps between groups and demographic, there will be luddite. This brings up an interesting thought; Is it in the best interest of politicians to keep the divide and gap?
Re:Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:58PM (#22940970)
I heard it is amazingly good. Here is another class taught by the same professor about security: https://tc.gts3.org/cs6265/2019/info.html
Re:Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:57PM (#22940962)
Actually all the professors in COC can afford them because they got paid very well(Full professors in COC has 200k+)
Re:1989 Tiananmen Square Protests on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:20PM (#22927352)
It's 4/20 so I guess we should expect all kinds of things

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