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From context they mean pretending to be a legitimate law-abiding telemarketer who plans to use the do not call list for screening purposes when in fact they are an overseas telemar…

The US and Canada also already have an outright ban on auto dialing and telemarketing calls to cellphones. There are exceptions for nonprofits, political campaigns and surveys and …

Commoditize your complements - still a winning strategy. If you make chips, you want models to be free.

At the end the truckload of chips should be happily on its way to a consumer electronics factory when it gets suddenly diverted along with all the others down a side road that dump…

A vanishingly small portion of the US rental market is rent controlled - fractions of one percent. In New York City there are only about 25,000 units that are actually rent control…

Describe in single words, without making a bulleted list starting with emoji, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.

Thematically appropriate for it to be difficult to tell something human-created from something generated by a computer. Almost a bit too on the nose.

Douglas Adams put the source of the rot a bit further back: > This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of th…

Doesn’t “enthusiasm to try and tackle somewhat abstract puzzling questions” act as a reasonable proxy for some of those attributes?

The answers to this questions will tell you whether the candidate is a good storyteller, whether they have been lucky or unlucky in group project assignments, and whether they can …

This was an internship interview over a decade ago. Nothing wrong with a brain teaser interview question under those circumstances. What would you rather ask an internship candidat…

I’ve always wanted a version of this sort of a timeline that really lets you zoom out and in to the fractal complexity of it all. Right at the end we’re talking about updating the …

This scenario does not include payment. Would be much more interesting if it did.

It only inserts a sku and a quantity into a Postgres database - yeah, there’s a few things missing from this purchase scenario. Might have been better to have made it clicking a ‘l…

I do find it interesting that while modern map apps do a great job of replacing road atlases, and we can get satellite and photogrammetry overlays that give us immense insight into…

You’re right. RC4 was what I meant. See sibling comment. 128bit SSL precedes the AES contest.

You’re right - 128bit SSL 2/3 used RC4 not 3DES. I was misremembering - one did occasional see marketing describe 3DES with two 56bit keys with 8 bit parity checks as 128bit (actua…

Is it really? I think the assumption that there is some sort of formal ‘reasoning’ process that is inherently superior to whatever ‘non-reason-based’ decision process ‘non-reasonin…

Slight timeline correction: 25 years ago in 2001 Blowfish was no longer contraband - the crypto export rules had been changed by 2000. As of January 2000 Netscape and IE were both …

An automated car assembly line is highly specialized to the production of a specific car. Reconfiguring the assembly line to produce a different car requires people or general purp…

If it can make any robot then it’s not very specialized.

A product doesn’t need to appeal to or reach the average American to be a viable product.

Robot lawnmowers are mostly over $1000 already and they only do one thing. Heck, a lot of lawnmowers are over $1000. You can pay over $500 for an automatic cat litter box. Robot va…

The AI will need generalized robots to build the highly specialized ones.

Good thing they asked for people with experience of professional app development then.