Not sure how a prenup is relevant given that she married Bezos in 1993 and Amazon didn't exist until 1994.

Yes, shaking hand is the most common greeting form, just like in the west. In Vietnamese households, several generations live together often sharing a small space. Classrooms in schools are large (50 students) sitting very close together. You see women walking holding hands, even man holding hands if they are good friends (doesn't mean they are gay). If you ride around the city (commuting is by motorbikes), you will see hundreds of tiny cafes, where people sit close together around a tiny table with no space between them whatsoever. For a westerner, the lack of personal space is a bit of a culture shock when first arriving to the country.

Not all Asian countries. Ever seen commuting pictures in Japan? Also, I live in Vietnam, where personal space is virtually non-existent. I would say in most South-East Asian countries you would see the same.

However, the response in Vietnam has been professional and reassuring. Contact tracing from the very beginning, quarantine zones for suspect patients have been ready for months (converted army barracks, university campuses, etc.), now the country makes test kits to export to other countries, proper protective garment for health workers, etc.

Unfortunately, that's probably accurate. Some more context:

After the Ebola crisis in 2014, president Obama created something called the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense. This was basically responsible for pandemic preparedness. In 2018 Trump got rid of it. Fired the guy who ran it, fired the whole team, never replaced them. He got rid of the whole Global Health Security Unit at the National Council, at Homeland Security and even at the Pentagon.

Then just recently, Trump blamed Obama for the unpreparedness of CDC and the whole country.This is how deranged he is.

As it stands now, the USA has been sitting on its ass for months, with zero preparation. There has been 10000 and some change tests done so far in TOTAL, while South Korea can do the same amount in ONE DAY. The virus has been doing its rounds in the country for weeks now, and once widespread testing starts, the number of infections will skyrocket.

Encoding times have dropped dramatically in the last 12 months. Check out this article to see see the difference (in 2018 encoding was a thousand times slower than h265, now it's only 3 times slower). https://www.streamingmedia.com...

There are more and more hw based decoding options. Mediatek just launched a new SOC that supports hw based decoding. I expect hw decoders to show up in a few 2020 products, (LG announced that their 2020 TVs will have it) and become commonplace the following year.

They made steps to mitigate this problem. And now, we have a variety of Android One devices with pretty decent support. My current phone, a Xiaomi mi A1 came out in 2017 with Android Nougat, and runs the latest Android (9.0 Pie) with regular monthly security updates. That's not bad for an $200 phone. There is plenty of choice now with long(ish) term support for devices from a variety of vendors.

I did watch the entire season, I think Jodie Whitaker is a fantastic Doctor but wish the show had better/more consistent writers supporting her. I didn't care for the historical events episodes at all, too much Quantum Leap and not enough science fiction. BUT there were a few really great, what I consider true Doctor Who episodes like The Ghost Monmument, The Tsuranga Conundrum, Kerblam! and It Takes You Away.

They also make money from businesses that use G Suite.
And consumers that pay for extra online storage on Google drive (I do).
And Google Fi, their wireless cell service (I use this, too, sooo much better and cheaper than verizon).
And Google Fiber, their internet service (I don't use this but would if it was offered in my area).
I also use Google domains and pay for registration through them and Virus Total which Alphabet owns and is an invaluable free service.

So yeah, they sell ads, but they are not wholly dependent on clickbait revenue the way Facebook is.

...a reputable auditor verifies the source of data and process, reviewing evidence directly from the systems involved. This is standard for anything, it's why we have CPAs to ensure companies aren't cheating investors. If it's really true, then a third-party should be able to verify the results.

But it doesn't matter because Facebook obviously isn't interested in stopping any clickbait like fake news since they depend on the revenue it provides. If they were, they would simply create a whitelist of all reputable news sources which all share the same traits regardless of bias accusations: they have qualified editors and journalists (no, random bloggers who copy/paste/scrape news from the AP wire are not editors or journalists), do fact-checking and verify sources per journalism best practices, publish retractions/corrections as needed, and mark opinion pieces clearly as such. They can come up with whatever criteria they want to make the bar high enough to filter out the clickbait crap. It's really not that hard.

On a side note, I don't know why anyone believes anything that has more likes or followers (aka whenever something "goes viral") has more value since it's highly likely it's all being manipulated by paid spambots.

But how many of those users are just spam or fake bot accounts? Seems like once Facebook buys a company they essentially become yet another spam machine of whatever nonsense generates CTR (that's at best, at worst they help distribute malicious payloads).

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

"Dovetale said that, on average, 16.4 percent of the followers on Instagram’s top 20 accounts were fraudulent.

Sylo, which requires influencers to share access to their public and private post statistics, said it had rejected 77 percent of influencers who have tried to register on its platform after their accounts showed issues like abnormal spikes in engagement on posts or a large number of generic, emoji-laden comments that bots are known for."

...someone to say in order to protect its existence. ;)

For more information, see this movie: https://www.rottentomatoes.com...

Once I saw that the latest version is iLO 5, I figured it had to be vulnerable to the same exploit as iLO 4 and sure enough:

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/d...

"A security vulnerability in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 4, 5 (iLO 4 prior to v2.60, and iLO 5 prior to v1.30) could be remotely or locally exploited by an Administrative user to allow remote or local code execution."

Clearly, you don't know what it's like to have someone spam/harass you online with insults and threats because you had the audacity to determine you didn't want to be in a relationship with them anymore. I witnessed it happen firsthand to a close friend of mine, They had to block their ex online, change their cell phone number and file a restraining order.

If you haven't read it please consider doing so, it contains solid insights:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/a...

Many of the engineers agree with certain aspects of the original memo while respectfully debunking the logical fallacies it presented.

Enjoy.