can you share some of events/incidents that showed the concerning traits you mentioned?
Also, who are the shady characters he had associated himself with?
It might be a common practice for consulate to do that:
Russian consulate in SF did it in 2017 in response for an eviction related to "Russian gate" [1]
The U.S used shredder to destroy document in Iran in 70s but
Iranians were able to piece back the document to get intel from it so I guess the intelligence community learned a lesson there.
Also the Distributed system course at MIT is fantastic. The labs are also great way to get your hands dirty with distributed system. The link to the class schedule is here: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
If you like the Foundation series, you would probably like the three body problem trilogy. The scale(both in space and time) of the story is as big if not bigger than Foundation and the story is equally fascinating. Really good read!
I remember reading my offer and there was a line that goes like this "only the CEO has the power to sign contract". and everybody else's offer are "at-will".
As long as there are knowledge and cognitive gaps between groups and demographic, there will be luddite. This brings up an interesting thought; Is it in the best interest of politicians to keep the divide and gap?
Comparing Chinese tech companies with Google here feels like comparing apples and oranges and also "Chinese tech companies" is too big a entity to be compared with a single company.
But scenes at Yahoo/Reddit/Baidu and other smaller ads-driven companies aren't pretty
I recently posted a Ask HN asking about the effect of how drop in ads money would affect Google/FB and someone did a quick and dirty analysis for their runway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22884042
Just curious if Google has suffered similar level of revenue damage. If so it would be really bad since they got a hundred thousand people on paycheck.
Does the train have WiFi? Or you are just coding offline?