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The pyramids were not built with slavery

how were they built?

By teams of people stacking enormous stones on top of one another. Fun fact, there's inscriptions by the teams.

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Microfilm cameras if you want to cosplay as the CIA too

Mostly not necessary these days; everyone is already expected to have a portable supercomputer with a radio, passible quality camera, microphone, and shitty text input capabilities in their pocket.

News to me

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Maybe he realizes that, and is just a jackass.

Where are the nice bosses of top tech companies? Maybe that's how you build a big tech company.

I don’t think it’s nice or not thing but more a management strategy thing. Hard-driving can be great at extracting value from an organization but it isn’t as effective at exploring potential as other management styles.

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The following is only tangentially related, but somewhat interesting. For most of its history the USSR systematically distorted publicly available maps of the country, misplacing or omitting streets and geographical features etc. This was done as a security measure, while accurate maps were classified. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-... In contrast, the classified maps were remarkably det…

China has a lot of mapmaking and GPS technology restrictions, present day, for supposedly the same reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Di-UVC-_4

"Why Every Map of China is Just Slightly Wrong"

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Mostly not necessary these days; everyone is already expected to have a portable supercomputer with a radio, passible quality camera, microphone, and shitty text input capabilities in their pocket.

News to me

What's a microfiche camera compared to a camera in every phone which is a commonly found every day item.

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Well, Gates is an asshole, Jobs was an asshole - where's the middleground? Maybe niceness leads to [business] mediocrity.

Just because the Great Pyramids were built with slavery doesn't mean that slavery is okay, or that there is not a better way to build a pyramid.

> Just because the Great Pyramids were built with slavery

They weren't build by aliens with alien technology? ;-)

SCNR because we are talking about Elon Musk with his space obsession.

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Stick the email into Google Translate, translate to Spanish and back, correcting any major mis-translations and Juan is your uncle .

Or put your own space noise in the message to frame a coworker.

Chaotic Evil at its finest.

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Stick the email into Google Translate, translate to Spanish and back, correcting any major mis-translations and Juan is your uncle .

Or put your own space noise in the message to frame a coworker.

Wouldn't you have to have access to your coworker's email in-box to do that?

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I used to work in a laboratory where we tested pre-production cell phones (this was before the iPhone...). Different OEMs would send us sample devices with different fonts on the keypad, or with little blemishes on the keypad, or would put little subtle cosmetic changes to devices to catch leakers. Funny when you would see devices pop up on the internet with these little things, and wonder who lost their contracts/jo…

I remember coming across these pirated DVDs etc where they had some kind of Academy watermarks from pre release or intros that were supposed to be give aways as to the source path for smoke testing.

Even visibly putting someone's name in a watermark won't always prevent one from getting shared

https://waxy.org/2014/01/ellen_degeneres_walter_mitty_screen...

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