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Comment · 5 years ago
The real world is often far more low-key than Hollywood would have you think.
Comment · 5 years ago
good advice
Comment · 5 years ago
I guess I'm more interested in him growing as a person. I do understand where you are coming from.
Comment · 5 years ago
You question the sincerity of his apology, then tell him to hire a PR firm.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Whatsapp is worried the Indian market. They've gone as far as taking out full page ads in Indian newspapers to try to convince people "nothing to see here!"
Comment · 5 years ago
Can you elaborate?
Comment · 6 years ago
"every" being the operative word.

The "feel" for good code that comes with experience is not reducible in practice to a set of black-and-white rules.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is circular reasoning.

It was possible to game them because the contracts were not priced correctly.

We know the contracts were not priced correctly because it was possible to game them.

Comment · 6 years ago
Why not compare it to the post office, or NASA?
Comment · 6 years ago
Couldn't the truth be somewhere in the middle?

Clearly both are different ways of looking at the same phenomenon. Emphasizing different parts of the whole truth.

Comment · 6 years ago
The seed analogy may be onto something.

Some viruses don't directly cause the host to create new viruses. Instead they direct the creation of virus creating factories, which create the virus.

Then you get virophages which are even tinier than normal viruses, which infect the virus factories of other viruses.

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