> It's a way of finding out whether you might be promotable.

Heh, so, if I googled your company before interview, and able to quote marketing sentences about how this is the "Great people. Great challenges. Great opportunities. Groundbreaking technology." etc., only then I can expect a promotion in a future years?

Not necessarily, but if the interviewer can tell that you didn't google the company, it's unlikely that you'll be the type of person who gets promoted?

Blocking other users that (probably) did nothing wrong is always the first thing that comes to mind.

Do people with bigger IQ is more ethical, more friendly, more interesting, more liberal to different views?

Do people here is more ethical, more friendly, more interesting, more liberal to different views?

> low cost robot platform able to follow people and carry stuff around and avoid obstacles.

So, basically autonomous self-driving mini vehicle. Сompanies spend billions on self-driving cars with quite limited luck.

> Сompanies spend billions on self-driving cars with quite limited luck.

That's in part because it needs to be very reliable to not kill people.

If the worst that can happen is killing a garden gnome or running over someone's toes you can tolerate more error.

Yeah, a "small enough to kick out of your way" autonomous driving project is a one or two semester student project (if you're starting from nothing, Sebastian Thrun's old Udacity course was a good way to bootstrap through the algorithmic parts, then maybe watch James Bruton for "everything you could possibly imagine doing with wheels, motors, and an infinite supply of 3d printer filament")

that is because they run in a very different environment than an RC-size car in your living room would

100%. Arms are hard. Mobility is hard. Mobile arms are double hard.

No, rather a larger version of robotic vacuum.

Huh, for me its opposite, I`m ok with reading/fixing/updating few pages of code if its easy to read and easy to update.

Short code with multiple levels of abstractions, with dynamic inheritance, and with a lot of dependency inversion, etc. etc... I don't like it. I will spend a lot more time (probably) just digging into code while trying to understand it.

Sorry, but you are wrong, IPhones is not waterproof, just water resistant. Put IPhone in a water for a day, it will not survive. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108039

Apparently many iPhones are fished out of water after 1 or more days and are still working fine.

Some even after some months (or even years IIRC but I can’t find the link) https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/03/iphone-recovered-...

You mean thats the USA that indirectly attacks China, Russia, Iran?

Pretty much but not the US directly its the US hiring Mercs in the form of Ukrainian proxies recently and in the near past it was Isis and co in the middle east to attack Iran and China's belt and road plans.

> its the US hiring Mercs in the form of Ukrainian proxies

or, its just a russian propaganda... Could you please next time start you comments with disclaimer "according to russian propaganda.."?

From your other comment:

> You also had Russians finding a lot of virus labs in ukraine etc.

You understand that no one except russian trolls believes in this lies? On second though I think even russian trolls do not believe in it..

Naturally.

Wait, so its his fault that he did not pay Google more? "Just in case" money?

He probably wouldn’t have been able to even if he wanted (barring using multiple accounts, which comes with its own problems, including an increased risk of Google taking it as a reason to shut the accounts down).

You did not use Android phone, never tried Google search, Google Bard, Chrome browser, never ever go to YouTube, never opened Google Maps, and refuse to open Google Doc or Google Sheet link?

Regarding Ukraine salary sub-$1k belongs to juniors mostly.