> ...and the internet has latched onto it and now misuses it all the time. I can't decide if this comment is very clever ironic satire or... not ;-) > Politicians started using that phrase en masse about a year ago…
> Nothing existential about it at all. It's an actual threat to Facebook's business model. "Existential threat" means a threat to the very existence of a thing, so a thing that is an "existential threat" is a very big…
WE DEVELOPED AND DEPLOYED SEVERAL VACCINES TO A NOVEL VIRUS IN LESS THAN A YEAR. The year over year progress on computing power/efficiency/size is beyond impressive. Modern computer hardware is an amazing feat of…
Exactly. If schools explicitly acknowledged their dual purpose, then they could more cleanly separate the two functions. I think doing so would even improve the educational component. I've volunteered in high school…
> There is a 50% chance that a random person from that population can create a successful business... All 100 attempt to start a business. 50 succeed, 50 fail. This is the most glaring wrong assumption that causes your…
> I wonder if this is again another example of class-war in disguise (i.e. upper class kids pretending to be civil rights leaders by forcing working class officers to be their youtube material). 1. Poor people exist in…
> ...and the internet has latched onto it and now misuses it all the time. I can't decide if this comment is very clever ironic satire or... not ;-) > Politicians started using that phrase en masse about a year ago…
> Nothing existential about it at all. It's an actual threat to Facebook's business model. "Existential threat" means a threat to the very existence of a thing, so a thing that is an "existential threat" is a very big…
WE DEVELOPED AND DEPLOYED SEVERAL VACCINES TO A NOVEL VIRUS IN LESS THAN A YEAR. The year over year progress on computing power/efficiency/size is beyond impressive. Modern computer hardware is an amazing feat of…
Exactly. If schools explicitly acknowledged their dual purpose, then they could more cleanly separate the two functions. I think doing so would even improve the educational component. I've volunteered in high school…
> There is a 50% chance that a random person from that population can create a successful business... All 100 attempt to start a business. 50 succeed, 50 fail. This is the most glaring wrong assumption that causes your…
> I wonder if this is again another example of class-war in disguise (i.e. upper class kids pretending to be civil rights leaders by forcing working class officers to be their youtube material). 1. Poor people exist in…