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I wonder if they change their tune if enough people say they are coming from effected areas / experience symptoms.
Of they don't have to memorize random spellings it could free up mental resources for other things.
Regardless, why be stuck in the past with things like handwriting or spelling or cursive?
So what your saying is the movie "Idiocracy" already happened??
(Plot- the smartest people stop reproducing, only lower rings of society have kids. An average guy wakes up hundreds of years in the future and is a genius)
Amen to that. My company does very large cyber security contracts for DoD and has a god awful home page. It's almost like a badge of honor to someone how bad it is.
"PERSPECTIVE. The wealthiest person I have spent time with makes about $400mm/year. i couldn't get my mind around that until I did this: OK--let's compare it with someone who makes $40,000/year. It is 10,000x more. Now let's look at prices the way he might. A new Lambo--$235,000 becaome $23.50. First class ticket internationally? $10,000 becomes $1. A full time executive level helper? $8,000/month becomes $0.80/month. A $10mm piece of art you love? $1000. Expensive, so you have to plan a bit. A suite at the best hotel in NYC $10,000/night is $1/night. A $50million home in the Hamptons? $5,000. There is literally nothing you can't buy except."
Reminds me of the book "private empire" about ExxonMobil.
"Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage. The action spans the globe, moving from Moscow, to impoverished African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere in heart-stopping scenes that feature kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin."
Big cooperations could easily find a way to run a "blackops" negative PR campaign, on top of pulling strings in the SEC
Yayy. Elon fan boys unite!
> Obviously, screening for specific personality traits has not kept Bridgewater or Stripe from succeeding. Uber, however, might be a different story. I am going to argue that personality trait screening may have harmed Uber.
I agree there has been turmoil that has been detrimental to uber. But maybe the fact they specifically looked for hard core, "won't take no for an answer" is the reason they reached massive market / valuation they did. Lyft choose the "friendly" route and didn't get anything close to Uber size/valuation.
I'm not saying this is the best strategy/ always works, but you are saying you consider stripe successful basically because they have not had turmoil/bad press, despite the fact they are a fraction of the value of Uber.
Tldr: you probably NEED aggressive, won't take no, type of ppl to grow to a Uber size as quickly as they did.
Thanks for the recommendation, I just got it on Audible and I'm looking forward to listening to it.
wow there was a beautiful video. I like at the beginning how he explains how difficult it was to actually create this experiment, so I could understand how important this actually was. Also that it hasn't been done in like 40 years or whatever.
It's kinda nice to see what new jobs your friends have.... But that requires you to have friends.... Sooo I guess I have no reason to go.
Wow. Can confirm worked for me. Seems like the version low connectivity countries would get
Reddit world news has a bot that does like a 5-7 sentence summary of articles. Would be cool if you could run that on the articles and read it. Nice to hear a human voice.
> run it on a different network than your NAS and other computers. And that all other devices best require passwords to connect to them. Ideally you run a TV on a different VLAN.
Very important. I used to have no password on any of my internal network devices, then changed to all the same pw. I need to put them all different, because threats seem more likely to come from internal "trusted" sources that we bring in
I can definitely second that. History of Rome on Spotify is one of my favorite things to listen to
I was wondering how Breitbart and Trump did so well. It makes sense now that it was not luck, but they had access to new "tech" in away. Fake news for them is kinda like how Obama was the first to used Twitter and other SM platforms to get connect with voters and get elected.
Reminds me of the quote ~ "it's artificial intelligence until you understand how it works. Then it's just algorithms"
Wow that was a very detailed look at how buying and selling of vulnerabilities work. Thank you for sharing. It's interesting how many different companies there are in the world and how they seem to have a Cooperative working agreement with each other if the price is right
I love that, money is everything until you have the bare minimum.
I just graduated and moved across country for a new job and for the past few years have been incredibly worried about money constantly. I worried that the rest of my life I would be completely obsessed about having enough money. Now that I'm starting to get some paychecks the sense of relief of not having to worry if I'm going to go hungry/not make rent etc is incredible
Imagine a space where you can bet on bear fights, warm your legs by the fire, witness public dissections (human and animal), solicit prostitutes (male and female), buy and sell stocks, purchase tulips or pornographic pamphlets, observe the activities of spies, dissidents, merchants, and swindlers, and then read your mail, delivered directly to your table. The thread tying it all together is a new drug from the Muslim world—black, odiferous, frightening, bewitching—called “coffee.”
You could have "service stations" where people who want to do service aka do good could go. Wheel chair people could wait there for someone who was going to ride the subway anyway to walk past and, wanting to do good in the world, help the disabled person get on.
>To completely remove programmers from the equation would require essentially a human level artificial intelligence. And if I start seeing near sentient robots walking around, my first thought is certainly not going to be, “oh no, it’s going to take my job!”
Even with all DeepMind can do we still are very far from anything remotely human intelligence. On the extreme low end, the tiny worm C. Elegans has only 302 neurons in its nervous system. The full circuit has been completely mapped out for over a decade, and still no one knows how it works. Bits and pieces are understood, but that is all.
The fruit fly has a meager 100,000 neurons in its nervous system
The best quality content I find is almost always someones personal, non commercial writeup. often times this is something as simple as the comment section of a article, or their own blog.
They put no ads and do it because they care about the subject and care about their reputation so they make sure its not spamy.
I have alwasy hoped for a micropayment system I could use to reward this behavior.
Not sure I follow.
You are saying taxi drivers are "quality content", and Uber is low quality service/spamy. Pretty sure its the other way around.
(If you are looking only at the culture however they may actually both be closer together....)
Wow..... Just went to the site he mentioned (rotten.com). I nearly threw up. I thought I had a decent stomach for stuff but that is fucked up. Sorry for the click bait sounding comment but I am disturbed after a few of the pics. I have no words.
This is a cool idea. Having an independent rating company look at products and score them on privacy or security. May be hard to find back doors tho.
i can't believe someone as smart as he is would just blatantly stick in a usb. With how much money he was going to make he could have researched some more annomous ways to get it. Not the least would be to intercept a team members auth/pw and use that to access the data.