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EA Leaders Were Repeatedly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Before FTX Collapsed(time.com)
52 points by williamsmj 4y ago|6 comments
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by williamsmj 4y ago
The most interesting bit of this letter to me is this one: "Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on averag
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by williamsmj 4y ago
“Even if it weren't in many cases the exact same pundits offering the nearly-identical praise while disappearing their previous plaudits down a memory hole…” Laurie Voss, one of the focusses of the article, is not one of these people.
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The Pandemic Used-Car Boom Is Coming to an Abrupt End(nytimes.com)
1 points by williamsmj 4y ago|0 comments
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Why? Anything you (an investor) do with your money should be compared to the lower risk alternatives. If it doesn't at least beat those then it's a failure as an investment. And FWIW, Loopt sold for $43m, but $10m of that went on
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Taking seven years to turn $30m into $43m is a worse rate of return than an S&P500 index fund.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
I wonder if there's anyone left at Twitter to backport security fixes to the custom fork of git they use to support their monorepo.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Totally plausible. The credulous awarding of PR points by tech workers on HN whenever a blog post describing severance > $0 is even more stupid without that information asymmetry in mind.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Read the letter again. This CEO is absolutely not forthright about taking the blame. He doesn't even speculate about root causes, much less assign blame. He describes the problem... "While our revenue has grown by five times sin
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by williamsmj 4y ago
The board and investors and remaining employees don't need an apology. They need better leadership, or they need performance management of the current leadership with actual consequences, as they would rightly expect for any other fail
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by williamsmj 4y ago
I'm not suggesting he publicly admonish himself or take a "virtue signalling" pay cut or something. I'm suggesting the board fire him or other parts of leadership for cause, and hire people who make better decisions.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Because he's responsible for the fact they need to do this? This email is basically: Oh dear we're in a tight spot, no idea how we got here, it's a mystery! I guess someone (definitely not me!) ran the business in a way that
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by williamsmj 4y ago
They are investing $250. The author realizes that this is not a great trade. It’s a proof of concept.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
`:cq` exits vim with exit code 1. This is useful if you're in vim to write a git commit message and you realize don't actually want to commit. Or you're in vim from `fc` to edit a shell command and you realise you don't
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Walgreens exec admits it may have overblown threat of retail theft(sfchronicle.com)
4 points by williamsmj 4y ago|1 comments
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by williamsmj 4y ago
You might enjoy Wolf's appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas... .
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The best class-action lawsuits to which I was a party of the year(maxread.substack.com)
1 points by williamsmj 4y ago|0 comments
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Also voted no. Every minute he spends torching his reputation as CEO of a company he personally owns is good for the world.
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A Return to the Office Wave(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
7 points by williamsmj 4y ago|4 comments
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The world's stupidest, smallest smartphone(maxread.substack.com)
5 points by williamsmj 4y ago|1 comments
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by williamsmj 4y ago
> First, none of our policies have changed. Our approach to policy enforcement will rely more heavily on de-amplification of violative content: freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. This is bullshit on its face. The first sentence
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by williamsmj 4y ago
It's not lockdowns. They had lockdowns all over the world. The US is almost the only countries in which roads became more dangerous during the pandemic (see second chart here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/2
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Here's a statistic for you. 100% of my two (2) kids can't get to sleep until 10pm on Sunday nights because I live half a block from a south LA takeover intersection.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Thank you for posting this. About a third of the comments on this thread are people talking about 1950s-style drag racing.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Takeovers aren't races. They are groups of cars doing donuts, usually at an intersection, watched by a large crowd. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow_(automobile_exhibitio... .
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by williamsmj 4y ago
The problem is not the racial makeup of the LAPD.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
I can absolutely assure you there is plenty to do in Los Angeles at 7pm. It’s not San Francisco. The problem is the seven and nine lane residential streets with no traffic lights for a mile.
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by williamsmj 4y ago
This. I live in south LA and I’m a block away from a street with regular takeovers, mostly on Sunday nights. It is a residential street with seven (!) lanes of traffic. Part of the problem is admittedly that LAPD does not enforce road traf
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Eight movies to watch after finishing 'Andor'(maxread.substack.com)
7 points by williamsmj 4y ago|0 comments
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by williamsmj 4y ago
Yes. To provide the context necessary to understand the "this is why we can't have nice things" quote, you have to say what "this" is. That's how pronouns work.

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