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What is the skillset they're looking for that would be proven out by having worked remote before?

They weren't kicked out from the normal White House press briefing. I'm sure you know that from reading the article.

Now's your opportunity to learn, then. China isn't exactly some tiny country at the end of the world.

Agriculture needs to go where, exactly?

They're a for-profit company.

They are not good guys. They might be good guys in their personal life, but hiring someone from outside the country, letting them cut ties, and then laying them off immediately is not something a "good guy" does.

The ops people you work with are also developers? That sounds great but has never been the case at anywhere I've been.

Pardoning only Turing isn't enough, but it would be a start.

Sticking Fact: in front of something doesn't make it true.

Living your best life, and achieving your own goals, doesn't mean ignoring everyone else in the world's well-being (for most values of "your own goals" and "your best life").

No, actually, it's a TIE Advanced x1. An Interceptor has characteristic dagger-shaped solar panels.

There was an interesting talk that mentioned CAPTCHA by one of its creators, Luis von Ahn, at the AAAI-12 conference on AI and robotics this past week.

In ReCAPTCHA, the two-word CAPTCHA version, one of the two words is taken from a scanned book. That (unknown) word was one that failed OCR for that book.

The other word is one that captcha already knows the answer to.

The assumption is if you get the known captcha correct, then you probably got the other one correct as well (if it was possible to read it). The answer to the unknown word supplements the OCR of the book.

The captchas are put in random order, and you only have to get one of them right.

Luis's thought was that people are wasting all this time doing captcha - why not use that time to do something useful, like help digitize books.

As an aside, he's also one of the principal people behind duolingo, which is a quite awesome language learning / human-assisted translation engine.

It may be an imperfect analogy, but to call it "rude" seems like a stretch.

I'd posit that your real point is exactly that which you say you don't want to argue. It's a strong statement and worthy of discussion.

Much more interesting to discuss that than how clear Buffett's argument is. (Which is quite clear, in my opinion.)