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The last event in their timeline is 2020. Moon presumed shot.

spondylosaurus 3y ago
From the submission tite I definitely thought "moonshot factory" would be some kind of analysis of how too-lofty startups fail, not an earnest mission statement from whatever this is. Blegh.
shiftpgdn 3y ago
I wonder if we can add it to the Google death pile?
- joezydeco 3y ago
  Can't say that here. You'll be downvoted as trite and cynical. IMO, it's all headed for the graveyard.
  - codetrotter 3y ago
    > IMO, it's all headed for the graveyard Every company will die some day. But some companies have been around for a very very long time. Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組, Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company founded in 578 A.D., making it the world's oldest company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi And there are some other pretty old companies that are still around as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies Now you might say, Ship of Theseus. Is a company that is over one millennia old really still the same company at all. But philosophy aside. If you’re gonna prophetize the death of Google (or any other company in particular), I want very specific numbers. When? Tomorrow? This year? Within 5 years? 313,373 years from now?
    - skulk 3y ago
      [warning: dangerously off topic rabbit hole] Huh, according to Wikipedia (without citation, unfortunately), that ancient construction company pioneered the use of CAD for temple design. I wanted to see if I could corroborate this claim, so "kongo gumi cad" on Google lead to: https://worksthatwork.com/3/kongo-gumi https://worksthatwork.com/3/kongo-gumi which makes a very similar claim. From what I can tell, this claim is echoed all over the (English) internet but originates from "worksthatwork.com". The earliest wayback snapshot of that website from 2014 doesn't mention CAD, but the March 30, 2015 snapshot does. Looking at the wikipedia article edit history, there seems to be an edit war happening regarding the accuracy of sources (someone seems to believe very strongly that Nikkei Asia is not a reliable source): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&oldid=1121470324 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&o... The CAD claim seems to have originated in 2022, but the citation to "worksthatwork.com" was swiftly removed in a subsequent edit due to lack of evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&oldid=1102660712 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&o... Well, this was a strange rabbithole to fall down. I'm interested to know from where this claim originates, or if "worksthatwork.com" just made it up in 2015. The answer probably lies beyond the English language internet. I wish Wikipedia had a "blame" feature like git. If it exists, I couldn't find it.
      - codetrotter 3y ago
        > I wish Wikipedia had a "blame" feature like git. If it exists, I couldn't find it. If there is an edit war going on, and this claim is being removed and added you’d still need to look at quite a lot of revisions manually. But there are tools to export Wikipedia page edit history to git I think. And you could write a script to grep every revision of the article for the word “CAD” to determine at what point in time it first appeared in the article. And then from there you could look at who added it and so on.
    - joezydeco 3y ago
      Googly things aren't going anywhere, as long as they are pulling in ad revenue.
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From the submission tite I definitely thought "moonshot factory" would be some kind of analysis of how too-lofty startups fail, not an earnest mission statement from whatever this is. Blegh.

shiftpgdn 3y ago

I wonder if we can add it to the Google death pile?

joezydeco 3y ago
Can't say that here. You'll be downvoted as trite and cynical. IMO, it's all headed for the graveyard.
- codetrotter 3y ago
  > IMO, it's all headed for the graveyard Every company will die some day. But some companies have been around for a very very long time. Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組, Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company founded in 578 A.D., making it the world's oldest company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi And there are some other pretty old companies that are still around as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies Now you might say, Ship of Theseus. Is a company that is over one millennia old really still the same company at all. But philosophy aside. If you’re gonna prophetize the death of Google (or any other company in particular), I want very specific numbers. When? Tomorrow? This year? Within 5 years? 313,373 years from now?
  - skulk 3y ago
    [warning: dangerously off topic rabbit hole] Huh, according to Wikipedia (without citation, unfortunately), that ancient construction company pioneered the use of CAD for temple design. I wanted to see if I could corroborate this claim, so "kongo gumi cad" on Google lead to: https://worksthatwork.com/3/kongo-gumi https://worksthatwork.com/3/kongo-gumi which makes a very similar claim. From what I can tell, this claim is echoed all over the (English) internet but originates from "worksthatwork.com". The earliest wayback snapshot of that website from 2014 doesn't mention CAD, but the March 30, 2015 snapshot does. Looking at the wikipedia article edit history, there seems to be an edit war happening regarding the accuracy of sources (someone seems to believe very strongly that Nikkei Asia is not a reliable source): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&oldid=1121470324 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&o... The CAD claim seems to have originated in 2022, but the citation to "worksthatwork.com" was swiftly removed in a subsequent edit due to lack of evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&oldid=1102660712 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&o... Well, this was a strange rabbithole to fall down. I'm interested to know from where this claim originates, or if "worksthatwork.com" just made it up in 2015. The answer probably lies beyond the English language internet. I wish Wikipedia had a "blame" feature like git. If it exists, I couldn't find it.
    - codetrotter 3y ago
      > I wish Wikipedia had a "blame" feature like git. If it exists, I couldn't find it. If there is an edit war going on, and this claim is being removed and added you’d still need to look at quite a lot of revisions manually. But there are tools to export Wikipedia page edit history to git I think. And you could write a script to grep every revision of the article for the word “CAD” to determine at what point in time it first appeared in the article. And then from there you could look at who added it and so on.
  - joezydeco 3y ago
    Googly things aren't going anywhere, as long as they are pulling in ad revenue.

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