The same can be said about pretty much everything. What we really needed was supercomputers and climate models of the entire planet backed by near perfect satellite data to determine if we should start burning coal 3000 years ago.
a) have a short memory span b) care more about bling then about smoke c) realise that the worlds largest mobile phone manufacturer that ships an average of 70million mobile phones each quarter is unlikely to have a systemic fault in their production methods and instead produced 1 bad model.
Then don't buy a device specific for hand note taking designed entirely around a stylus.
(Jobs was right)
No he wasn't. You just don't like styluses. On the other hand I find them indispensable, and Job's hate for them is one of the primary reasons I never jumped on the iBandwagon.
No they don't. They have a 61% accuracy (for men, from the study). But then humans also don't sit down study and classify very specific facial features of 340,000 images of 70,000 people with perfect memory. Is it such a surprise that a computer can process data faster than you can?
By the way what colour is sceptical? Is it like an envious shade of green?
If the AI were to simply assign scores of "Straight" to EVERYONE, it would achieve 90% accuracy for men and 85% accuracy for women, since about 90% of men are straight and about 85% of women are straight. So scores of 91% and 85% accuracy are not statistically significant.
I can see how you would come to that conclusion. Ignorant of science. Don't understand statistics. Didn't read the paper. Don't trust that people actually know what they are doing.
In the mean time if we employed *YOUR* algorithm you would have hit a perfect 50% given that "Gay and heterosexual people were represented in equal numbers."
I have an adblocker installed that means I'm a fuck load more secure than someone who hasn't bothered to secure their systems as well. That ultimately has nothing to do with actually being secure though. The point being, in there last few years there have been several high profile credit card breaches, all from those wonderfully PCI-DSS compliant companies.
Software is still sold in boxes on shelves? Like actually? Does it come with a CD / DVD? That leads me to a follow up questions: Do people still have working CD/DVD drives in their computers?
If this were actually true, there would be a lot fewer successful corporations in the world.
You're joking right? 90% of businesses fail in the first year. A tiny fraction of the successes make it big. The corporations in the world are an incredible tiny minority, a statistical blip buried in rounding errors of the attempted rise to significant worth. And even from those that make it there are still mega corporations which despite their incredible inertia get sunk through leadership incompetence.
The fact that power is concentrated in as few corporations as it is is the symptom.
He has a paltry net worth of a couple of million, just got ousted as CEO and his startup is on fire sale but more likely facing bankruptcy. Your definition of "won" is very strange.
but I don't think it's ok to dictate the type of vacation someone should take
No one is criticising the type of vacation, just the timing.
For a startup founder, your company is ALWAYS in crisis.
Errr no. Not even remotely.
Every week you're burning cash to keep things going.
I hope you learn the difference* between being a startup and being in a crisis before you actually end up in one. *That* will be the differences between your startup turning into a company or turning into a footnote on a bankruptcy statement.
All I can say is good luck.
* Unless you're saying your startup is also a scam poorly thought out with a product your customers found out they don't need via the nightly news, and your investors are trying to kick down your door "every week", in which case it's not luck you need but divine intervention.
It is literally none of my business, or yours (unless you own part of the business) what some guy with the CEO title does.
Anything further is nothing more than class envy...
That is incredibly short sighted given the amount of power CEOs wield over the general population at large. I am directly affected by the decision of many CEOs despite not being an investor of theirs.
What are we anyway? Socialists? Communist? or Capitalists? Take your pick because you cannot have all three.
If you think someone skimping out of his job at a critical time of his company's life excludes you or limits you to any of those three definitions then you really have no idea about these political economic theories.
A fundamental rule about businesses is: you should never have anyone who is actually indispensable.
And fundamentally that applies to pretty much everyone except the CEO. Good CEOs truly are indispensable. You can't teach or proceduralize vision and strategy.
There's a difference between burning yourself out from all the working, and taking off during a critical 2 weeks of your company's life. If he can't resolve the problem and then take a vacation a few weeks later without burning out then he's not fit for his role.
You gotta be American thinking you gotta work 110% of your time and have success.
You gotta be braindead to think the CEO of any small startup scam company worked even close to 110%. Expect that to be more like 60%.
they could have just stored a salted hash of the social security number along with a plain text full name and address
I have a better idea. Store it in plain text and start treating the SSN like what it is: a unique number, not a authenticator, not a piece of private information, and not something of importance, not something that certifies you are who you say you are, and certainly not something that if anyone got their hands on would make anyone else think that you are any more you than they did before.
Relevant quote: "I'm not surprised to see another large credit card breach; they will continue to happen because the impact is not a large one to the business," Doten said. "Being PCI-compliant doesn't make you secure; it only protects you from the lawsuits."
The best way is to have some sort of equal-access clearinghouse of information on consumers.
True, but the thing that we are lacking is transparency, accountability, and that equal access thing. I remember my credit rating coming up poorly when I applied for my homeloan. I had an unpaid mobile phone bill, a bill of $0 thanks to the "first month free" offer. I got the bill for $0 and apparently I didn't pay those $0 and that affected my credit rating.
Until I applied for a homeloan I had no idea of the messup, no idea of who actually has my credit rating, no ability or recourse against this rating, and no knowledge that someone is making decisions based on this faulty data.
But the problem runs deeper than this. The entire debt system in terms of power is heavily skewed against people where something as basic as checking to see if the person you're about to foreclose on is actually the person who owes you money is often not done.
Side note: No Mr Lievens does no longer live at the address you constantly think he does. Stop sending me his threatening mail.
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Lose: Any warranty whatsoever
Who the fuck cares
Gain: Ability to use a 5$ headphone
Also gain: ability to use $900 headphone.
So what's your point?
would quickly put to rest the idea that warmer temperatures are harmful.
Errr. You know a change in one direction being bad doesn't validate a change in the other direction.
You know what's bad for farming: cooler temperatures.
You know what else is bad for farming? : warmer temperatures.
It's almost like our farm land and the use of it was based on the idea of the climate being suitable at the time the land was established.
Yes but they are trending UP in the last 2 months. At this rate the entire world will be destroyed by Christmas.
Citation needed
In January there were no hurricanes. Now in September there are 2. :-)
\ Data Extrapolation /
The same can be said about pretty much everything. What we really needed was supercomputers and climate models of the entire planet backed by near perfect satellite data to determine if we should start burning coal 3000 years ago.
Not only that, it's also that people in general:
a) have a short memory span
b) care more about bling then about smoke
c) realise that the worlds largest mobile phone manufacturer that ships an average of 70million mobile phones each quarter is unlikely to have a systemic fault in their production methods and instead produced 1 bad model.
I don't want a stylus
Then don't buy a device specific for hand note taking designed entirely around a stylus.
(Jobs was right)
No he wasn't. You just don't like styluses. On the other hand I find them indispensable, and Job's hate for them is one of the primary reasons I never jumped on the iBandwagon.
No they don't. They have a 61% accuracy (for men, from the study). But then humans also don't sit down study and classify very specific facial features of 340,000 images of 70,000 people with perfect memory. Is it such a surprise that a computer can process data faster than you can?
By the way what colour is sceptical? Is it like an envious shade of green?
If the AI were to simply assign scores of "Straight" to EVERYONE, it would achieve 90% accuracy for men and 85% accuracy for women, since about 90% of men are straight and about 85% of women are straight. So scores of 91% and 85% accuracy are not statistically significant.
I can see how you would come to that conclusion. Ignorant of science. Don't understand statistics. Didn't read the paper. Don't trust that people actually know what they are doing.
In the mean time if we employed *YOUR* algorithm you would have hit a perfect 50% given that "Gay and heterosexual people were represented in equal numbers."
Exactly, but we're talking about full-fledged corporations. What percentage of businesses are foll corps is not important to the point.
100% of successful companies agree it's possible to be successful? Extrapolation failure!
If you don't see the failures as relevant then there's no point continuing discussing failures in management.
I have an adblocker installed that means I'm a fuck load more secure than someone who hasn't bothered to secure their systems as well. That ultimately has nothing to do with actually being secure though. The point being, in there last few years there have been several high profile credit card breaches, all from those wonderfully PCI-DSS compliant companies.
Software is still sold in boxes on shelves? Like actually? Does it come with a CD / DVD? That leads me to a follow up questions: Do people still have working CD/DVD drives in their computers?
Free market doesn't mean a store has to sell your product.
You need to rearrange those words: A free market means a store doesn't have to sell your product.
No, but our ancestors might be.
You're not wrong. Based on the paper the closest planet we know of capable of observing the earth is 470ly away.
HATS-11 b = 2954ly
1RXS 1609 b = 470ly
LKCA 15 b = 470ly
WASP-47 b,c,d,e = 652ly
WD 1145+017 b = 520ly
If this were actually true, there would be a lot fewer successful corporations in the world.
You're joking right? 90% of businesses fail in the first year. A tiny fraction of the successes make it big. The corporations in the world are an incredible tiny minority, a statistical blip buried in rounding errors of the attempted rise to significant worth. And even from those that make it there are still mega corporations which despite their incredible inertia get sunk through leadership incompetence.
The fact that power is concentrated in as few corporations as it is is the symptom.
He's already won.
He has a paltry net worth of a couple of million, just got ousted as CEO and his startup is on fire sale but more likely facing bankruptcy. Your definition of "won" is very strange.
but I don't think it's ok to dictate the type of vacation someone should take
No one is criticising the type of vacation, just the timing.
For a startup founder, your company is ALWAYS in crisis.
Errr no. Not even remotely.
Every week you're burning cash to keep things going.
I hope you learn the difference* between being a startup and being in a crisis before you actually end up in one. *That* will be the differences between your startup turning into a company or turning into a footnote on a bankruptcy statement.
All I can say is good luck.
* Unless you're saying your startup is also a scam poorly thought out with a product your customers found out they don't need via the nightly news, and your investors are trying to kick down your door "every week", in which case it's not luck you need but divine intervention.
It is literally none of my business, or yours (unless you own part of the business) what some guy with the CEO title does.
Anything further is nothing more than class envy...
That is incredibly short sighted given the amount of power CEOs wield over the general population at large. I am directly affected by the decision of many CEOs despite not being an investor of theirs.
What are we anyway? Socialists? Communist? or Capitalists? Take your pick because you cannot have all three.
If you think someone skimping out of his job at a critical time of his company's life excludes you or limits you to any of those three definitions then you really have no idea about these political economic theories.
A fundamental rule about businesses is: you should never have anyone who is actually indispensable.
And fundamentally that applies to pretty much everyone except the CEO. Good CEOs truly are indispensable. You can't teach or proceduralize vision and strategy.
Everybody need some break from work.
There's a difference between burning yourself out from all the working, and taking off during a critical 2 weeks of your company's life. If he can't resolve the problem and then take a vacation a few weeks later without burning out then he's not fit for his role.
You gotta be American thinking you gotta work 110% of your time and have success.
You gotta be braindead to think the CEO of any small startup scam company worked even close to 110%. Expect that to be more like 60%.
Also goes unpunished
Errr no. Its the one kind of financial fraud that is actually very actively policed and punished. People are getting jailed for it constantly.
they could have just stored a salted hash of the social security number along with a plain text full name and address
I have a better idea. Store it in plain text and start treating the SSN like what it is: a unique number, not a authenticator, not a piece of private information, and not something of importance, not something that certifies you are who you say you are, and certainly not something that if anyone got their hands on would make anyone else think that you are any more you than they did before.
I'm sure nobody will be jailed.
I'm not. At least not for the data breach. The share sale on the other hand...
We have PCI-DSS for companies that deal with credit card information.
Yeah because *that* works so well.
Relevant quote:
"I'm not surprised to see another large credit card breach; they will continue to happen because the impact is not a large one to the business," Doten said. "Being PCI-compliant doesn't make you secure; it only protects you from the lawsuits."
The best way is to have some sort of equal-access clearinghouse of information on consumers.
True, but the thing that we are lacking is transparency, accountability, and that equal access thing. I remember my credit rating coming up poorly when I applied for my homeloan. I had an unpaid mobile phone bill, a bill of $0 thanks to the "first month free" offer. I got the bill for $0 and apparently I didn't pay those $0 and that affected my credit rating.
Until I applied for a homeloan I had no idea of the messup, no idea of who actually has my credit rating, no ability or recourse against this rating, and no knowledge that someone is making decisions based on this faulty data.
But the problem runs deeper than this. The entire debt system in terms of power is heavily skewed against people where something as basic as checking to see if the person you're about to foreclose on is actually the person who owes you money is often not done.
Side note: No Mr Lievens does no longer live at the address you constantly think he does. Stop sending me his threatening mail.