Another possibility is that some people are genuinely trying to understand how organizations work. And corporate-speak gives the impression of intelligence, which can be very appealing to some smart young people, who might waste some precious energy for many years trying to make sense from all that.
Before realizing it is a bag of bullshit, these younger fellas will chase some fads or people that will definitely make them less productive.
The Qualcomm chief executive might think that quoting Star Trek makes them sound cool and with it, but he may want to reconsider quoting the bad guys.
100% agree. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
why did the student suddenly appear from behind a SUV?
Indeed.
"After the ball there will always come at least one kid" my father told me when I was learning to drive. Sometimes though, there isn't a visible ball. It could be a small butterfly, a cat in the other sidewalk, a shape in the sky... etc. That's why, when driving in areas I expect there will be kids around, I am extremely cautious when my view of the sidewalk is blocked.
It seems to me that in this case the Waymo car was not as careful as it should have been.
Provides service as advertised (pun intended).
Non native english speaker here. Where is the pun there?
Technically incorrect, you have a giant asshole in the Oval Office, the buttplugs are in congress and they are actively trying to outdo each other to see who can get in that asshole the deepest.
I usually learn a lot from the comments here, specially from technical disagreements, where the deepest insights come to light. Having said that, I did not anticipate this amount of depth... keep up the good work!!
Grabbing diffs from a mirror every month and updating a local copy isn't even hard, or maybe just spend an infinitesimal amount of that VC money on a Wikipedia API subscription. Sheesh.
Sure, if you really care about something other than making shitloads of money. It is a shame that there is a shitload of money to be made out of blurring the difference between facts and lies, which is precisely the opposite of what Wikipedia stands for.
+1 Insightful (out of mod points for now).
It may be possible to measure the real impact to some people/companies if we consider the cost of delayed transactions and some opportunity costs. But then, to be fair, you would have to include the gains of those who beneffited from this situation. More likely than not, those billions are bullshit...
Did you decide to mention Lyapunov because Tsiolkovski was not ethnic Russian? Oh well. Anyway, what Lyapunov did was in a generic math field, not specific to space. He got noticed and published abroad. Hardly "unknown".
Actually, as a control systems engineer, Lyapunov was the first one I thought of. You may not know this, but his works were not available in english at that time. Kalman had to read the french translation, as you can see in this 1960 paper titled Control system analysis and design via the “second method” of Lyapunov
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