tomcorrigan

> Also keep in mind we've only heard one side of the story, so any interpretation of events so far is incomplete.

That’s not quite true though is it. OpenAI is fortunate enough to have one of its employees (you) here to advocate for its side of the story.

Sure; if you define the quality of a problem by reference to your ability to solve it.

In the real world the quality of these esoteric problems is typically gauged by the difficulty of solving them.

I’m pretty sure you think you are doing a good job of defending your employer and you probably believe “Open”AI are the good guys here. I also acknowledge that they butter your bread so your financial future currently depends on their success.

However the way you are conducting yourself in public, while announcing yourself as an OpenAI employee is doing enormous harm to the greater and magnanimous aim of your organisation. Take a step back and read the temperature of the room. Being the smartest guy in the room will never protect you from alienating the rest of the room into a baying mob. Right now you are Icarus flying straight into the sun.

What you are describing is 'no guaranteed PTO - everything is at the whim of your manager' which is a far cry from the 'unlimited PTO' narrative the employer is pushing. Calling it unlimited if it comes with limits is disingenuous and likely to cause anger and resentment as we can see here.

So you mean 'no defined limit but definitely not unlimited' or do you mean 'unlimited except with the following limitations'? You don't have a great argument.

For the benefit of anyone else reading fabrication is the key word in the origin of “Mobile homes”

She didn’t die

That's called transfer pricing and is essentially illegal in almost every jurisdiction. There are of course plenty of loopholes and ways around it and large companies such as Apple spend a fortune with the big 4 accounting firms to take advantage of every such loophole.

That's only if linking from https to an http page which is not the case here.

I am in Australia and we have had contactless payments for years. Apple Pay with an iPhone was more trouble than using a card. On the other hand since I got my Apple Watch I haven't carried credit cards with me. It started out as a 1 month experiment to see if I could survive and it has never been a problem.

I don't think you understand your "really qualified audience" very well if you thought a coordinated marketing campaign with all the other "chosen" launch partners was a good idea.

The deeper you get in to a bottle of wine the easier the conversation becomes.

Next time carry it up one flight of stairs and put it in the lift out of sight of the doorman.

I'm very dubious about the first source you posted. It claims vehicles consume 15-20% less fuel when travelling on concrete compared to asphalt. That statistic doesn't pass a basic sniff test in my opinion.

You are correct about the HK case. However there weren't many observers who though Phillip Morris stood a chance. The lawsuit was much more about signalling to other countries considering plain packaging than actually overturning the laws in Australia. There is still a pending WTO arbitration which is also expected to be decided in Australia's favour.

See also the outcome of Phillip Morris v Uruguay

Their concerns were misplaced and the outcome lawsuits against the Australian government (they won every time) show how ridiculous the scare campaign about ISDS was.

It's definitely not. Illegal drugs are also much more expensive in Australia than in many other places in the world. There is a growing problem with black market untaxed "chop chop" tobacco here. The tax increases have made it more and more attractive to both importers and smokers.

That ignores common sense. If Uber is more profitable by circumventing W2 regulations it will do so. There is no morality in capitalism, only worship of the bottom line. Businesses don't care about "reasonable" regulations, they care about profit. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. A corporation is not a person, it can't be expected to think like one. Instead people must elect representatives that impose laws that force business to operate in a way that is compatible with our collective morality.

Why would I even care about credit card information being stolen. My bank will reimburse that no questions asked. I am much more concerned about my personal information being leaked. CC fraud costs other people money, identity fraud is much more damaging to me.

The conduct described in the article is definitely unlawful in Australia.

> Swiss post, a company that still thinks that a 4 digit pin on their debit card is good enough

How many examples can you provide of a 4 digit card pin being brute forced? Is there any other scenario where a 4 digit pin has been compromised but a 6 digit pin would be safe?

You are pretty much totally wrong. Australian banks make much less from interchange fees than their US counterparts. Apple wanted the same fee in Australia as it collects in the US. With interchange fees being smaller in Australia this cut represented a much bigger portion of the total fee. The banks here have also already invested a lot of money and effort in driving contactless payments by issuing all cards with the technology for at least the last few years plus providing the payment terminals. They therefore think Apple is providing less value than in the USA and should thus be entitled to a smaller cut when an Apple Pay transaction happens.

When they banks applied to the competition regulator for permission to collectively bargain with Apple they specifically undertook to negotiate about fees individually. What the banks want to collectively negotiate is access to the NFC hardware on Apple devices so they can provide their own digital wallets and bypass Apple Pay.

I'm inclined to agree given that voting is not compulsory. In Australia, where voting in all elections and referenda is compulsory, I would have to stridently disagree. I suspect the result today was skewed by the big swing towards the 'Remain' vote following the assassination of Jo Cox causing a lot of 'Remain' voters choosing to stay at home in the expectation of 'Remain' comfortably prevailing.

I would love to see Mozilla (a big backer of Let's Encrypt) drop the Comodo root certs from their alpha and beta Firefox builds for a couple of days to show them how ugly things get when both sides play nasty.

Having withdrawn the citation you should either replace it with a better one or retract your assertion.

> You can't actually expect people to hire lawyers from 108 different countries

You could expect facebook, with their almost infinite resources to so.

> This looks like the "move fast and break things" crowd trying to run a medical lab.

That's a disingenuously kind interpretation. This was a bunch of fraudsters with failed technology making out that it worked.

Essentially Telstra (the biggest ISP in Australia) charges a fortune for transit. Cloudflare provide some detail about the relatively high cost here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...

His price target for Valeant is zero.

Given what little we know there is no suggestion of an actual intent to kill. Without such an intent how can you possibly suggest attempted murder? You have overreached massively. The logical conclusion of your reasoning is that any assault with a deadly weapon amounts to attempted murder.