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This feels like classic Microsoft. Put some great marketing out there. , claim the victory and deliver the actual product months from now. This puts any other vendor or company in a bad place with investors and the public.

You have to love it. Shrewd as hell.

God, I miss Sierra games. Such a big part of my growing up.

Doesn’t matter unless they follow through with this and are willing to give up revenue to do security. MSFT always puts this garbage out to safe face, but the organization always reverts to speed and money over anything else.

Untrustworthy. It’s wild how enterprises have overlooked the rampant problems at MSFT for decades.

Not to mention they were out in their Paris availability zone for a month last year.

Did anyone catch that Elon Musk provided the fix. What?!

I can’t help thinking how tests like these could be abused by malicious governments around the world. I think I’ve been watching too much Black Mirror

Im not a mathematician, but does this have potential application in some Neural Networks and such where dangerous connections or isolated information flows could exist?

Bingo. The for profit stuff was probably ok with the board to raise capital. But the closeness with Microsoft probably went too far for the board.

Occams razor. He probably pursued a sale to Microsoft without the boards approval. Hes buddy buddy with Satya. Board basically said no, thats not our mission. Firedd

- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently

- Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity

- They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying”

The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fireable offense that warrants this language.

My bet: Sam initiated some commercial agreement (like a sale) to an entity that would have violated the “open” nature of the company. Likely he pursued a sale to Microsoft without the board knowing.

Honestly if even $1 of public money goes toward research, the work, data, journal, etc should all be public domain. End of story. That should be a basic requirement of taking public funds.

“Nine people familiar with his thinking”

This seems to happen a bit too often tbh on all things Databricks.

What’s going to happen: Trucking companies are simply going to leave CA. They will deliver goods to the border. Then some enterprising company with electric trucks will pick those up at the border and deliver into CA.

Congratulations, you’ve now significantly increased the cost of all the goods going into California. You’ve only moderately reduced the climate burden and likely increased the amount of traffic via container ships that pollute significantly more.

Agree, this movement seems almost non-existent.

Seems like SK is more suffering from an overwork culture that leaves little time for anything outside of work. Fastest way to destroy fertility rate is wage slavery.

Pay gap studies are notorious for being overly ignorant of confounding factors. There probably is a pay gap but it’s incredibly hard to quantify and many studies choose to look only at $$ versus benefits (schedule flexibility, maternity leave, part time, etc)

US studies for example don’t always consider that women overindex in less technical careers (teaching, humanities, etc), often those that have lower salaries but significantly higher benefits and more flexibility. Women also overindex in part time positions.

- Employers adding as requirement

- Government free money policies

- Virtually guaranteed loans that made money easy and invented lenders to lend exorbitant sums without questioning the efficacy of the degree

- Colleges reacting to demand and greedily inflating tuition costs and adding admin costs - feeding the bureaucracy

- Parents valuing credentials over impact of college degrees and creating a biscuits “tiger” cycle that extends from toddler age to excel

- Graduates of colleges knowing the issues and continuing to feed the ‘old boys club’ behavior.

- Laws and regulations a certifications that are so overwhelming the only way to be certified is an expensive degree (even for low risk jobs)

We are ALL to blame. Blaming one part of this isn’t going to solve the problem. It’s a basic problem of greed fed by lack of risk.

I think the solution here is to introduce risk in the process. Make lenders foot the risk of defaults. Allow borrowers to declare bankruptcy. Allow companies to create apprenticeship programs without incurring legal risks. End the Fed :) . Retool our educational system to cater to the vast majority of non college students to learn useful life skills and technical skills versus mandating crap for all students. Kill or reduce most school sports funding as %of total academic spending. If you are spending anywhere close to 10% on sports, full stop.

Wow. Yeah. It’s not just moral or societal, I guess. It’s also is influenced by $$$$

This is why I oppose ESG. It’s being pushed by the financial institutions under the guise of sustainability. But now you have many things unrelated to climate that have been show-horned in.

It’s fine to create regulation that’s voted upon, it’s not okay to use financial firms to push moral or societal change in collusion with governments.

This seems like a bad idea. But hey, to our congress that has no concept of money or anything, of course it seems like an amazing idea.

Good. Claw back the sold stock value as well from top execs.

It won’t make a drop, but it’s more than these corrupt/stupid banking execs got in 2008.

So many hyphens in this abstract

Most of the rail is meant to transport people from low density areas to city centers. I’m not sure how you would solve that problem without doing that?

I agree with the premise - not all situations benefit from usage-based pricing. However, this discussion misses many dimensions of what makes usage-based pricing valuable.

It’s akin to a poorly developed benchmark that doesn’t consider all the real world factors but tries to win on one vector.

Here are some other intangibles:

(1) Subscription pricing is difficult to scale upwards. The concepts of upsells and new products are difficult to execute and increasingly result in lower and lower adoption. Each new capability needs to be “sold in” with a new sales motion creating endless amounts of feature creep and unused features.

(2) If your costs are variable and your revenue is fixed, you better hope your customers don’t like you or your product is really simple. Otherwise, you risk more margin compression as customers use you more and more beyond what you modeled. The difference between your ARR and the cost to serve gets smaller. Like a perverse Innovators Dilemma.

(3) Innovation tends to be simpler with usage based pricing, when done right. In a subscription model, product teams tend to be much more conservative. Each new sellable feature needs to be fully supported with training and enablement for sales teams. When the product fails to grow like the first product, then the sales team becomes increasingly more conservative. It’s a viscous cycle.

Usage- based pricing makes a lot of the above moot. If any existing or new benefits of the product are offered to all customers, then it actually aligns the incentive of your company and your customer. Use more to drive revenue (you) or use more to get more value.

Of course, marginal value isn’t always the same, so that’s when usage tiers develop.

Now how you quantify all this I’m not sure. But there are far more simplification benefits to usage based pricing.

You may be right - in theory. But existence of Journalist collaboration networks make this a moot point. Google JournOList and tell me there isn’t any coordination.

Edit - one other point, so many articles are also sourced from Reuters and AP that the Media, while different companies all have the same source material.

This. Offices are hugely distracting. All sorts of things to take your attention away and add the hierarchy element and your are obligated to talk to higher ups if the “swing by”

This looks great. Good call on not making yet another plant based meat.

And so reliable to

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