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"But, if a composite is full of a measure that’s biased, how accurate is it going to be?"

Does it matter if the measure is biased, if you're measuring over time and looking for comparative differences?

This already kind of happens. There is a right wing commentator who blocked me as I kept fact checking his posts.

However, if I create a list and someone on that list retweets the blocker's post, I can see it.

Clearly Twitter can't be bothered to implement blocking properly, so they've taken this step to "unblock" all content.

At least it is consistent.

It doesn't help that the pens look like they have a full dose of liquid, but the dispenser mechanism doesn't allow you to get to it.

I want to know how these people are in the UK legally.

To get a work visa you need to be sponsored by an employer. I struggle to believe UberEats and Deliveroo are sponsoring people from Brazil to come to the UK.

The books weren't accurate though.

Autonomy sold a lot of hardware and booked it as sales, but hide the costs as marketing.

The also signed deals with resellers and recorded it as sales, but without actually selling software to the end customer.

This made their proprietary software look far more valuable than it really was.

That's why the CFO spent five years in prison for fraud [1] and Lynch lost a civil suit in the UK [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/13/ex-autonomy...

[2] https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Autonomy...

I wonder if there is a technicality in the wording. It says "Ambulances have been called out" or "called to" it doesn't say they "attended" the warehouses.

999 operators will triage and prioritise ambulances based on the symptoms being exhibited.

I'd never heard of broadcast.com before, it is the inspiration for ROI (Radio on the Internet) and Russ Hanneman?

They didn't actually receive $445m in cash money though, surely? It must have been contingent on them having a working product, IT MUST????

Exactly. And almost everyone I knew who got discount boxes simply decided what recipes they liked and then bought the ingredients from the supermarket for half the price.

Are those blob storage options significantly cheaper than Google? I fear we are being pushing down a GCP route as it is what out consultancy know, rather than the best solution.

No. The application gives each document a unique filename and they are then only accessed via the application doing forwards.

No, not global. Each office only really need access to their own documents, there are over 2,000 offices though. It does need to be high speed and yes cost is a factor.

Does it have piles of human excrement like the real Venice beach?

Exactly. Even if it isn't technically block, it must contravene Acceptable User Policies.

The lag on Worm Game is terrible. I've been playing PUBG on Stadia all day with zero lag.

The more stickers you have, the more Agile you are. Everyone knows that.

Is Tesla luxury? I was surprised the first time I sat in a Model 3 how "normal" it was. OK, it had a massive screen, but the materials were no where near as nice as my 2019 Lexus and some were downright tacky.

Bangs fist on roof

The issue I have with IT departments is that they see their job as implementing the technology and then putting the "guard rails" in place, but not producing standards and ways of working.

As a consequence I spend too long sifting through emails, Team chats and Team sites looking for that document that I know I've seen, but cannot recall the method by which it was delivered to me.

No, the media are just useless. From the endless promotion of SBF to heralding Elizabth Holmes as the messiah, the media seem to do zero due diligence on the subjects they report on.

You need to earn £45k a year in order to pay in more Income Tax than you take out. You need a household income of £60k a year to make a net contribution in VAT.

Only around 20% of people in Britain earn these amounts, which means 80% of people are taking out more than they contribute. I don't know how this compares to other countries but it is clearly unsustainable and I think that now the era of generous Government handouts and cheap borrowing have come to an end, it is starting to bite.

I read that Bud Zero will be available. I'm not sure whether that adds insult to injury or not.

The reason resellers exist is because people are prepared to pay many multiples of the face value for tickets. If people stopped buying tickets on the secondary market, the resellers would be left with worthless paper they paid thousands of dollars for and the secondary market would disappear.

Funny, I read The New New Thing last month (yes, I'm a bit late the the party).

I do enjoy Michael Lewis, but you have to take it with a pinch of salt. Similarly though, when HFTer start to circle you do wonder if he has hit a nerve.

Anyhoo, let's see if this FTX book, with the benefit of hindsight, delves into some of the points raised by the author.

Maybe working at Twitter has been a complete doss these past few years and people realise they'd have to work twice as hard regardless of whether they stay or move elsewhere?

Let's be honest, it isn't as if Twitter is introducing new functionality on a regular basis. I log in once every few months and cannot think of the last time I saw a new feature.

Was he? I'd never even heard of Sam Bankman-Fried or FTX until it went pop.

She needs to go to prison for a long time (at least 10 years) for one simple reason, to act as a deterrent to anyone else who thinks you can create a company and then lie about your products capabilities in order to defraud investors and customers.

It isn't just a case that people lost money in Theranos and that their customer's customer's health may have been adversely impacted, it drives right at the heart of capitalism. Yes, we all know it isn't a level playing field, but when a company is committing fraud then it impacts other companies who may have been actually trying to develop a legitimate blood testing product and undermines the public's confidence in such companies.

I read an article recently that Putin has four body doubles, which went through plastic surgery to look like him.

I feel sorry for the four women who had plastic surgery to look like Liz Truss.

Yes, funny that.

As a very occasional user Twitter, I have to admit that the glacial pace of functional improvements when I drop in from one month to the next does not suggest a company with 7,000 employees.

I guess they could all work in sales and marketing, who knows.