"Building world models responsibly"

... I'm suddenly reminded of Iain M Banks' "Surface Detail".

I think this might be what Gibson meant by "... it's just not evenly distributed"

True story:

I was working in the Techstop (40) @ Google, 2011-ish, when a nice person from PeopleOps came through and politely requested my admin powers to help them install Steam on their corp-issued Windows laptop.

I'm sorry, what?

Well see, PeopleOps was going to have an onsite intending to help recruiters better understand Engineering types, and part of the whole business was going to involve everyone firing up a copy of Portal and playing a puzzle-solving video game.

So I immediately got to it. Never heard back as to the success of the endeavor, but turns out there are circumstances where you can break out your Steam library at work.

Missing a semicolon there, I think:

"Assuming that the house is paid for, of course; if your net worth is really only $300K, odds are you don't have the house paid for either"

I think you just recapitulated the plot of Ender's Game.

Also a subplot in Arrested Development and the movie Toys.

At least in the Japanese context that I'm more familiar with, there's also levels to seals: you have (possibly mass produced) lower-value seals for low-value signatures, but you also have high value seals where an exact imprint is recorded with the government for high value signature verification, and physical possession of which is very carefully guarded.

> At least in the Japanese context that I'm more familiar with

Given your username, I have to say I'm curious why that is.

Game theory?

A long while back, I read (and just now refound) an article about a biologist's take on cooperation and competition. David Sloan Wilson is quoted as saying "Selfishness beats altruism within groups, [but] altruistic groups beat selfish groups, and everything else is commentary."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/06/david-sloan-...

Perhaps with sufficient intelligence and time, altruism/cooperation is discovered to be a better fit for any given environment, and that's passed on.

I think OP left off a /s tag; I read their post to be suggesting that they'd love to see Atlassian's products go away.

Spot on! ;-)

The way I learned it was:

"99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code... Fix one bug, compile it again, 101 bugs in the code!"

(To the tune of 99 Bottles Of Beer)

Mayne the 99 bottles of beer explains it.

But hey, one can't survive 1 week of step-by-step debugging without 99 bottles of beer.

Old Ryobi, or new Ryobi?

Serious question, as I understand the ex-Japanese market rights were sold to a Chinese corp over two decades ago, and the in-Japanese consumer device market rights went to a different Japanse company several years ago too.

Apparently they've gone back to focusing on their roots?