For those that don't know even more, this interview never happened and this interviewer doesn't exist. It's a funny joke on the internet.

If the candidate didn't even show up to an interview, they're definitely not worth hiring. :p

Palantir, arguably the closest thing to Torment Nexus Inc. IRL, literally builds a product that does this.

It's doing well, TODAY. 6% daily bumps are big but they happen all the time. Look at its performance over the past year for a better picture.

The restaurant doesn't choose the prices DoorDash displays, DoorDash does.

Are you sure about that? I thought the restaurant does. On DoorDash's Help page (https://help.doordash.com/merchants/s/article/How-to-Maximiz...) There's a quote: "To provide a high-quality experience for all of our customers, we set prices on DoorDash the same as our in-store prices. DoorDash even enables operators to set different pricing for delivery and pickup, but a core part of us providing high-quality customer service is accomplished through our consistent menu pricing." - Manuel Bucio, Owner, Razpachos" That seems to indicate the restaurant sets the prices.

You really think Doordash sets individual prices for each dish for the half million restaurants that it lists on its service? It is a simple platform. The restaurant sets up and manages its own menu, and Doordash takes a cut of the final sale.

Based on the fact that other platforms like GrubHub hijacked Google Places registrations for restaurants and also presented menus of non-customer restaurants in the platform, yes, I would not be surprised at all if that type of shenanigans were going on at DoorDash as well.

Without taking any sides here, the most liberal estimate of Palestinian casualties, coming from the Palestinian Health Authority, don't break 70,000 Palestinian deaths TOTAL. Where did you get these numbers from?

That is not an accurate estimate, that is the number of bodies that they have managed to count. If people are stuck under rubble or are otherwise "lost" without leaving an identifiable body then they don't go into the official count. And as you can imagine the ability of Palestinian authorities to count bodies is significantly diminished since Israel has destroyed so much infrastructure. We'll only learn of the true number when this genocide finally ends. And then we'll all be shocked and surprised and can join the German civilians after WO2 in saying "Wir haben es nicht gewusst".

Discord servers are the closest. People do build up friendships, relationships, enemyships, and a public persona / reputation within a Discord server.

My limited experience with discord was either no activity at all, or so much activity it’s hard to follow what’s going on.

I suppose I never found the right place

Discord is centralized, heavily censored, and surveilled, so it can’t serve this purpose for many communities (such as most of the ones in which I participate).

That's really cool! Sounds complicated though.

He's got a lambda eyebrow!

Yeah, but that statement is basically information-free re: potatoes.

"Boiled squid liver is a popular food. Along with wheat, maize, rice, and potatoes, they make up 80% of all calories eaten by people worldwide."

is technically true, but doesn't tell you anything about boiled squid liver consumption.

FWIW, the data I found puts potatoes at 1.7% of world calorie consumption [0], but also puts the sum of maize+wheat+rice+potatoes at closer to 50% than 80%.

[0]: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-important-staple-fo...

Is "we" the particular set of scientists who know those last four people? Surely you realize they're nowhere near as famous as the Wright brothers, right? This is giving strong https://xkcd.com/2501/ feelings.

Yes, that is indeed the 'we', but I think more people are knowledgeable than is obvious.

I'm not an aerodynamicist, and I know about those guys, so they can't be infinitely obscure. I imagine every French person knows about Bleriot at least.

I'm an avgeek with a MSc in engineering. I vaguely recall the name Bleriot from physics, although I have no clue what he actually did. I have never even heard the names Busemann, Prandtl, or Whitcomb.

I find this super surprising, because even I who don't do aerodynamics I still know about thes guys.

Bleriot was a french aviation pioneer and not a physicist. He built the first monoplane. Busemann was an aerodynamicist who invented wing sweep and also did important work on supersonic flight. Prandtl is known for research on lift distribution over wings, wingtip vortices, induced drag and he basically invented much of the theory about wings. Whitcomb gave his name to the Whitcomb area rule, although Otto Frenzl had come up with it earlier during WWII.

What is wing sweep, what is induced drag, what is the area rule?

Airliners don't have the wings going straight out, instead being swept back. You can also sweep them forward to get the same effect, but you will rarely want to do that due to other problems. This means that the cross sectional area of the aircraft varies less along the length and reduces wave drag.

If there's no lift there's no pressure different between the upper side of the wing and the lower side of the wing. But if there's lift there's higher pressure on the bottom and lower on top, so air wants to flow around the wing, from bottom to top, producing a wingtip vortex. This flow creates drag, and this drag is called lift-induced drag or just 'induced drag'.

The area rule is about minimizing wave drag by keeping the cross sectional area of different parts of the aircraft close to the cross sectional area of the corresponding cross-section of a minimal drag body. It leads to wing sweep and certain fuselage shapes.