_audakel (u/_audakel)

_audakel commented on Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull Out, 30K Sign Petition hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/... · Posted by u/grej

sequoia · 6 years ago

Write again and tell them you have a roommate who just returned from Iran, you have flu symptoms etc.* I'm curious to find out their response to someone worried they have symptoms and trying to cancel to avoid infecting others.

* Or don't lie & perhaps someone else can do it

_audakel · 6 years ago

Any and all payments made to SXSW are not refundable for any reason, including, without limitation, failure to use Credentials due to illness, acts of God, travel-related problems, acts of terrorism, loss of employment and/or duplicate purchases.

I wonder if they change their tune if enough people say they are coming from effected areas / experience symptoms.

_audakel commented on The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/boh

watwut · 6 years ago

Education has many goals and one of them is to teach them spelling. The fact that fourth grade homework is spelled correctly does not matter at all - the goal is not to produce correctly spelled homework.

_audakel · 6 years ago

Of they don't have to memorize random spellings it could free up mental resources for other things.

Regardless, why be stuck in the past with things like handwriting or spelling or cursive?

_audakel commented on Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds sci-news.com/otherscience... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton

hashberry · 7 years ago

"Homo sapiens" is Latin for "wise man," but there were many Hominin species who possessed comparative culture, art, and intelligence. Neanderthals actually had larger brains compared to modern humans[0]. There are many theories on why Neanderthals became extinct[1]; my favorite is that we simply outbred them because of our sex appeal. What is Latin for "sexy human?"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Anatomy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction

_audakel · 7 years ago

So what your saying is the movie "Idiocracy" already happened??

(Plot- the smartest people stop reproducing, only lower rings of society have kids. An average guy wakes up hundreds of years in the future and is a genius)

_audakel commented on The Invasion of Giant Pythons Threatening Florida smithsonianmag.com/scienc... · Posted by u/80mph

savant_penguin · 7 years ago

pip uninstall Florida

_audakel · 7 years ago

apt-get remove python

_audakel commented on Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack forbes.com/sites/thomasbr... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

StudentStuff · 7 years ago

GrayShift is targeting government and large companies as customers, it will likely not be a quality website.

_audakel · 7 years ago

Amen to that. My company does very large cyber security contracts for DoD and has a god awful home page. It's almost like a badge of honor to someone how bad it is.

_audakel commented on DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities gao.gov/mobile/products/G... · Posted by u/molecule

1001101 · 7 years ago

Now they can queue up some multi-billion dollar contracts to fix it. I'm in the wrong business.

_audakel · 7 years ago

Lol let's do a startup

_audakel commented on Instagram’s CEO stratechery.com/2018/inst... · Posted by u/quanganhdo

kbenson · 7 years ago

I've always wondered about this. How much inventive is that? When the person thinks "if I work really hard and this, I'll increase my huge pool of money from an amount I can't easily spend given the rest of my life to an amount almost six times as much!", does that really resonate?

It's not like it's the same as $700 to $4,000, or even from $7,000,000 to $40,000,000. There are things you can buy to spend most of those amounts, but those are things it's not really worth buying multiple of (e.g. houses, super yachts), so at the point you have close to a billion dollars, what does another billion buy you, besides bragging rights?

I imagine there's some impetus to stick around because you want to see what you built succeed, but at some point I imagine you realize it's not really yours anymore, so why not leave and do what you want, instead of what other people want you to do? I mean, you literally have "fuck you" money.

_audakel · 7 years ago

"PERSPECTIVE. The wealthiest person I have spent time with makes about $400mm/year. i couldn't get my mind around that until I did this: OK--let's compare it with someone who makes $40,000/year. It is 10,000x more. Now let's look at prices the way he might. A new Lambo--$235,000 becaome $23.50. First class ticket internationally? $10,000 becomes $1. A full time executive level helper? $8,000/month becomes $0.80/month. A $10mm piece of art you love? $1000. Expensive, so you have to plan a bit. A suite at the best hotel in NYC $10,000/night is $1/night. A $50million home in the Hamptons? $5,000. There is literally nothing you can't buy except."

_audakel commented on Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/whatok

reggieband · 7 years ago

I'm starting to get conspiratorially minded about all of this. It began when I couldn't understand the seeming coordination of the attacks against the Uber CEO. I mean, he seemed like the same kind of garden variety psychopath I expect in the role of CEO - why were there so many hit pieces about him specifically? Now Musk is a new target and somehow everyone is cheering for him to fail.

Seems like if you get into competition with the auto industry or threaten the oil industry by attempting to change consumer behavior then you become a massive target. I actually feel like forces other than public opinion are at work here.

_audakel · 7 years ago

Reminds me of the book "private empire" about ExxonMobil.

"Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage. The action spans the globe, moving from Moscow, to impoverished African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere in heart-stopping scenes that feature kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin."

Big cooperations could easily find a way to run a "blackops" negative PR campaign, on top of pulling strings in the SEC

_audakel commented on Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/whatok

S_A_P · 7 years ago

Not sure what you think is wrong with this statement. Seems to me that he let his hubris, lack of sleep and desire to stop the short sellers get in the way of using a bit of discernment. For him that tweet was a weapon against the shorts. I have no reason to doubt that he is fully committed to Tesla being successful, so I stand by the statement.

_audakel · 7 years ago

Yayy. Elon fan boys unite!

_audakel commented on What Companies Mean by Culture Fit triplebyte.com/blog/what-... · Posted by u/Harj

_audakel · 8 years ago

> Obviously, screening for specific personality traits has not kept Bridgewater or Stripe from succeeding. Uber, however, might be a different story. I am going to argue that personality trait screening may have harmed Uber.

I agree there has been turmoil that has been detrimental to uber. But maybe the fact they specifically looked for hard core, "won't take no for an answer" is the reason they reached massive market / valuation they did. Lyft choose the "friendly" route and didn't get anything close to Uber size/valuation.

I'm not saying this is the best strategy/ always works, but you are saying you consider stripe successful basically because they have not had turmoil/bad press, despite the fact they are a fraction of the value of Uber.

Tldr: you probably NEED aggressive, won't take no, type of ppl to grow to a Uber size as quickly as they did.