See's Candy is also what Charlie Munger considered their shift from distressed companies to high quality companies; its sentimental on a company level because it represented a real shift in investment philosophy.
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Hard to get sympathy here.
Output from AGIs used by experienced engineers tends to be vastly different quality than output from these leaders who are too disconnected from the slaughtering.
If governments want to require private companies to verify ages, those same governments need to provide accessible ways for their citizens to get verification documents, starting from the same age that is required.
He also lied about using his computer, his wife told on him to his parole officer, according to the court documents.
He was on parole for DDOSing* a former employer...
*Ah, I see your update, guess it was less distributed and more direct denial of service with the physical destruction and all.
Is there any plans for expansions? I find the different maps to be less interesting. I want some kind of harder progression, higher levels of difficulties and of course more of everything that exists.
I found myself out of stuff to do at ~20 hours (which is awesome and beats a lot of games I've tried to buy.).
The company I work for has embraced Copilot heavily and its been an absolute game changer in terms of productivity. When you have a clear problem, it is quite amazing at producing working code that then can be modified. I've really enjoyed the edit in place feature as well. Yeah, I could go through and do all the work manually, but why waste the time? AI is a big time saver.
Just had to deal with this for the first time in the last two weeks when someone tried to open a fraudulent account in my name... Interestingly, this happens for the first time in my life 2 months after I had to write down all my personal information to get a 0% APR credit card from a jeweler store...
It should be a default frozen system, not a default open system.
Perhaps the brain is simply making use of extraneous matter for energy or its purging out unnecessary neurons. Maybe it decreases creativity, but increases arithmetic ability.
My entire point is we have no idea what the end results are, just because there's a reduction doesn't necessarily indicate a problem.
So at a federal level, it seems relatively clear. The only uncertainty is on the state level.
I see they went to the Supreme Court who kicked it back to the Ninth who then re-affirmed their position that HiQ Labs was not in violation of the CFAA.
This makes doing studies on their effectiveness a neutral to losing scenario.
Either:
The nootropic works. Great, you probably spent a decent amount of money and... The results are still going to be hard to quantify and measure. It may not be good enough results to convince people who already weren't convinced. Might as well not do it and keep making money off people who buy it without scientific studies.
Or
The nootropic doesn't work. Shit. Bury the results and never publish or risk losing a money maker.
Some of those games that you mentioned only contained cosmetic items in the lootboxes.
Gamers as a community have a much more visceral reaction to paying for power in the game, compared to paying for cosmetics.
I ended up just buying it again. Pretty obnoxious.
This company is completely doomed because the founder is basically treated as an enemy of the state.
"China plans to break up Ant" could have been a headline nearly every week/month since Jack Ma dropped out of the public sphere.
Well, to provide a different perspective, there are car plants around the US that have been shutdown for months and the people formerly employed there haven't been able to work.
Not necessarily arguing that more cars are better, just its not only shareholders and executives who are hurt by the chip shortage.
They are lucky that hot tub streamers haven't gotten mainstream news attention yet, I can't imagine the outrage of parents when they see some of the stuff thats allowed....
Twitch is a gaming site. Kids watch youtube videos of people playing games, they get funneled to check out the minecraft/fortnite/etc. category on twitch then they get curious and check out the large streamers on the site. What do you know? There's a streamer who is sitting in a hot tub with 20k viewers (enough to put her in the top streams). It doesn't matter that twitch has a "mature audience warning".
Anyone who has used the site for any amount of time knows Twitch is providing a clear on-ramp to underaged kids accessing nearly-softcore porn.
They can't have their cake (young, gaming advertisers) and eat it too (allow nearly naked young women in kiddie pools) on the same site... Only reason they are even being forced to make a change is because of advertisers. I can only imagine if parents actually knew the extent of the hot tub streams, twitch wouldn't be allowed in a lot of households, but since its a "gaming" site first, its under the radar.
Simple as that.
People are allowed to analyze world events and their consequences like this without having to individually pander to everyone who was personally affected.
This is like yelling at someone for analyzing the effect of WW2's aftermath on Europe.
If there's a 100% chance YC takes their pro rata stake, then the YC brand is more valuable.
Does this not strongly dilute the power of being in YC? Seems nuts to me. Why not just shrink the number of incoming companies?