alasdair_

8 ms·

91.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Would the Theranos debacle have progressed as far as it did if the FDA inspected at the beginning?
92.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
I used to work in the UK. I once worked for a company that had a salesperson that wanted to quit. He was forced to do a non-sales job for thirty days stacking boxes and sorting old files before he was allowed to leave and he hated every min
93.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
I’m honestly unable to name a single innovation from a FAANG that wasn’t just buying another company or cloning a competitor in the last five years. What has Meta or Google or Microsoft actually innovated on recently?
94.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
I just looked at Walmart. Base pay was 240k remote plus a lot of bonuses and benefits. Even Walmart isn’t paying Walmart wages any more.
95.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Maybe you encrypted with 8-bit keys? :)
96.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Can you list some things graduates of this “secret sauce” have built?
97.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
A professional artist active in high status social circles is far higher regarded than a random FAANG engineer.
98.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
For life? Probably not.
99.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Perhaps the most famous time this happened in an MMO was the assassination of Lord British. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British
100.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Harvard had a similar bug - you could modify the url to find out if you had entry. They found out and revoked admission from all students who used the url on ethics violations.
101.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
The Japanese obsession with handwritten resumes and faxes come to mind.
102.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Chess moves won’t let you get out of a building on fire quivkly.
103.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
This is my fear. That everything becomes pointless. I think the solution is human augmentation to stay relevant. Or we just have silly things like weight classes for each achievement.
104.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
In the UK, 50% is a c and anything over 70% is an A.
105.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
"continue the innovation" doesn't really mean anything concrete.
106.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
"Funding secured!"
107.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Trump was never democratically elected.
108.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
They could make ChatGPT++ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B
109.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
I think you are completely wrong here. Bacteria are not going to beat a sufficiently scaled AI working at the speed of light. They are just too slow.
110.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
I can ask a dozen master astrologers what the future holds and I still won’t know very much.
111.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
> The crypto SuperBowl ads were a signal that it was about to come crashing down. Should we short Coca Cola, Nike and Pizza Hut because they too had superbowl ads? “Has a superbowl ad” doesn’t seem like a great signal to me, other than i
112.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Why can't the host of the image just delete the image? At that point, the NFT is effectively banned. Also, something like OpenSea can block you and you're effectively banned for all practical purposes.
113.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
In places where "loser" pays (such as the UK), rates are capped at fairly low hourly levels and hours are also capped (or at least there is a known "reasonable" number of hours for a particular type of case). Note also t
114.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
>It's fun to declare it "things the state doesn't like", but I legitimately don't see anyone legalizing meth or heroin anytime soon. Portugal did exactly this (or decriminalized them for personal use anyway).
115.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Quora is clearly doing this so that they rank highly on Google and get clicks. What surprises me is that Google doesn't seem to care, despite their stance that "Using automation—including AI—to generate content with the primary pu
116.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
>You are only able to trade share's during specific windows of time typically 1 week after earnings are released. As a practical matter, you can set up a 10b5-1 to get around this restriction if all you want to do is regularly sell
117.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
>On August 14, at around 11 pm, a homeless man was crossing a street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood when he was hit by a bus. Why does it matter if the man was homeless? "a duplex-owning man was crossing a street&qu
118.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
>Well, no, the article was not written in 1969. I think you mean (1696)...
119.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
My understanding of time dilation is that at the time the event is actually happening, things occur at normal speed, it's just that our memory of the event is time-dilated and so we remember everything slowing down and taking a long ti
120.
by alasdair_ 3y ago
Warren Buffet still lives in the same smallish house he bought in the 60s. The CEO of Ikea famously uses both sides of each sheet of paper on his desk.

More ›