You just do not know yet that you _will_ give up vegetarianism! They already know.

Even regular, European-style anti-trust action done half would have nicely worked. The problem is not the methods. The problem is nothing was done when the need for action was absolutely obvious.

Oh, I am sure _you_ do not do these. Competent people do backups or redundant copies for anything that is critical, regardless of time-frame.

I know a few mathematicians. None of them are stupid. All of them can do risk management to a reasonable degree. These people from the stroy must be the dross.

Yes. And that case is covered in all _basic_ BCM materials. You do not only need backup for data. You also need backups for roles.

Well, either you can trust people to not lose their keys, or you cannot. In the second case, you need some redundancy. But sure, the screw-up also included them apparently trusting incompetents too much.

Indeed. Probably some more big-ego-small-skill people managed to make it in there.

Sad but true.

Sorry, I didn't get that quite correct, they're Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners. They require no external power.

Indeed.

If you have a working market, product quality matters. The while disaster that is Microsoft is also a good example for a market failure. At fault is the US that never managed to do any meaningful anti-trust action against MS when it would still have accomplished something.

How repulsive.

"No backup" is amateur-level. Also that they did not use n-out-of-k with n k is a pretty basic mistake.

Yes, Google is profitable now. Tremendously so. But they're at risk of losing revenue and ceasing to be profitable as people cease using Google search and switch to asking questions of their AIs. So to retain their position as the place people go first for information, they have to stay ahead of the AI race. Well, they could also just sit back and wait to see if their competitors are overwhelmed by the query volume, but that risks losing traffic and then having to win it back. It's much better to keep it. And Google is better-positioned to win this race than its competitors both because of its existing infrastructure and expertise and because it already has the eyeballs.

In addition, you seem to be assuming that doubling serving capacity means doubling cost. Clearly Google is not planning to increase their annual operating expenses by 1000X. As the summary actually says in the third paragraph, Google is also going to have to improve efficiency to achieve the growth rate, with better models and better hardware. This is what the AI chief is challenging the employees to do; he's not challenging them to write bigger OPEX checks, that's his job.

I'm fine with the repeated addition. My objection is the OR in your statement. Apparently not. The question was 5x3 and the kid wrote 5+5+5=15 and got marked wrong with no explanation because the teacher wanted 3+3+3+3+3=15. So I guess that you would have had a 50% chance of being marked wrong on a 2nd grade arithmatic worksheet as well, as absurd as that is. Correct answer notwithstanding.

BTW, that's not at all new. We covered multiplication that way in the 3rd grade back in 1975. Memorizing the table was just to make it quicker. I quickly "discovered" the commutative property while looking at the multiplication table and cut my memorization load in half. The part that confused the father was why is 5x3 = 5+5+5=15 "wrong".

As for 37+55, we decomposed that in the '70s as well, but I soon decided the easier decomposition was 37+55= 87+5 = 90+2=92. So I would say that meme was just someone wanting to complain. Of course the "old way" ends up in 30+50+10+2 anyway.

Shut up and memorize was not in practice during the education of the parents of today's students.