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> What money do big companies need to raise?

For example, to buy some company to improve their business. They can do that in cash or they can issue more shares, e.g. with their Beats acquisition.

> On May 28, 2014, Apple officially announced its intention to acquire Beats Electronics for $3 billion—with $400 million to be paid in Apple stock and the remainder in cash.

Summary from nexthop conference page [0]: In this talk, we will discuss Facebook’s backbone, its evolution, and the motivation behind it. We’ll see what our current SDN backbone architecture is and how it addresses traffic engineering and failure protection. That context will also be useful for looking at the engineering framework that allows us to scale and innovate at speed while maintaining a reliable foundation.

[0] https://events.yandex.ru/events/nexthop2021/english?openTalk...

Accurate enough. Saint Petersburg has been registering daily temperature measurements and publishing them in newspapers since 1778 (in Delisle scale).

You just described Fair-trade laws[0] enacted during Great Depression and repealed around ~1971. Matt Stoller also described these laws in his book.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/fair-trade-law

What you described is called "sick leave" in Europe and you are entitled to sick pay by law.

The part where they use lidar to handle condensation from car exhausts and heating vents is very interesting.

It looks like it's almost impossible to detect pedestrians in such situations using only cameras.

> data to be downloaded really isn’t that large. We’re talking images and 3D models.

I think you underestimate image sizes for modern AR/VR applications. For example, good quality light-field can take few gigabytes for one image. Also there is a big UX difference between downloading full image ahead and downloading parts on-demand (similar to modern video streaming - today we never download full video ahead).

This is actually great in so many aspects for companies. GitHub could even change the way companies handle open-source development (in the same way Uber changed taxi market).

Instead of hiring (and keeping) full-time developer (and paying insurance, taxes, etc.) company can abuse this system and 'convince' employee that they can continue working for their project as a contract-free open-source developer and get same 'salary' (or more when this project become successful).

In such case they will be able to fire him (or replace with 'cheaper' one) and no one will be able to complain. I'm sure it can happen in some countries with weak labour rights.

So they can chase two rabbits ($$$ for marketing and $ for developemnt).

BBC says it's the same modification of Boeing 737 MAX-8 as in Lion Airlines crash and both crashes happened a few minutes after take-off.

So we have two crashes of brand new planes of a new 737 modification over half a year, wow!

If these crashes have the same reasons (it seems so) then FAA would probably force Boeing to recall these new planes (350 of them, not so much). And Boeing might even lose some of pre-order contracts (~5000 planes).

How many other hidden problems like MCAS does this plane have? Last time two crashes over half a year for a new plane modification happened in 1965 with Boeing 727, but that was a completely new plane design.

It's not because of poor Oracle reputation, it's because of technologies. Oracle is losing database-related markets.

15-20 years ago Oracle was №1 in database-related technologies and everyone knew it. For that time they had almost perfect solutions for most database-related problems on market. But market is changing. Today they stuck with their good solutions for outdated problems and their solutions doesn't solve modern problems well.

So here is my short list of modern database-related problems, for which I think Oracle is not best at:

- files/data storage (today there are better non-database solutions for that, 15-20 years ago it was a good practice to store files in database),

- full-text search (10-15 years ago substring search was enough, today we want complex search criterions),

- consistency across data centers,

- key-value cache (today we want almost instantaneous cache answers),

- OLAP (there are faster solutions on market).

15-20 years ago Oracle was one and only one solution for almost all database-related business problems. Today for many modern problems there are better solutions than Oracle.

> Rides are often too short to context switch into doing anything useful.

People on public transit usually use their newspaper / book / phone. Sometimes they miss their stop because they are too involved doing that. Have you used SF<->Bay transit on Google buses or something like that? From my experience it's pretty comfortable and productive to use laptops during ride to check tons of morning emails and it saves a lot of on-campus time.

> where people are being transported in a car not requiring focus -- but aren't effectively recovering this time:

Your examples require some kind of attention to driver or focus on road situation:

> Riding in a Lyft: I suppose in practice someone could whip out a laptop, but you rarely see it happen.

Riding alone vs riding with human driver differs a lot, especially for introvert people (e.g. talking in company of friends is much more comfortable then talking in company of strangers). It's hard to ignore presence of other human during ride.

> Riding in a vehicle that is L2 autonomous. While not legal or particularly safe, in practice, someone driving an Autopiloting Tesla can read and respond to emails. (i.e. similar situation as being in a Lyft)

You have to use your peripheral vision to control situation on the road. You can't fully concentrate on your work and be productive.

It seems they have some 'safety level' constant they can control during their training process, so about half a year ago when they were preparing for public release they decided to change safety level constant from 0.99 to 0.999 and something went wrong, like it's completely unable to do some unsafe actions (unprotected left turns, merges, and other tricky situations). And because of that they need additional training with safety drivers for this kind of situations.