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realslimjd commented on Walmart Fires VP in Tech for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K ctol.digital/news/walmart... · Posted by u/napolux

delfinom · 9 days ago

Depends, it can come down to your corporate employment contracts and corporate policies. Also, if you work for a public company, you usually have a fiduciary duty to shareholders at a certain managerial level, so it falls into the illegal territory.

If you own your own company, it's usually not a big deal to let people wine and dine you lol

realslimjd · 9 days ago

It is illegal if you're a government employee or working as a government contractor. What most people get in trouble for is laundering the money that they're taking in bribes.

realslimjd commented on A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case 9to5mac.com/2025/05/01/a-... · Posted by u/LorenDB

nightski · 4 months ago

If that were true, you'd think you see more steam exclusive games. The problem is I can't think of a single one I own that is steam exclusive. I am sure there's at least one out there.

realslimjd · 4 months ago

Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, and their sequels are all Steam exclusive. The only mandated Steam exclusives are Valve games. Anything else is purely out of convenience for the developer.

realslimjd commented on The Moho is in reach of ocean drilling with the Meng Xiang nature.com/articles/s4156... · Posted by u/speckx

perihelions · 5 months ago

Hey, FYI, this is a plagiarized version of an article[*] from Xinhua (China's government press office), who aren't credited. The OP link is some AI slop that copies and rewrites things with an LLM.

[*] (.gov.cn) https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202411/17/content_WS6739adf7... ("China's first deep-ocean drilling vessel enters service")

If moderators see this and choose to change the URL, here's several more versions of this story:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01675-7 ("The Moho is in reach of ocean drilling with the Meng Xiang")

https://www.science.org/content/article/china-s-dreamy-new-s... ("China’s ‘dreamy’ new ship aims for Earth’s mantle—and assumes ocean-drilling leadership")

realslimjd · 5 months ago

It's sad that AI spam is starting to show up here

realslimjd commented on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting? · Posted by u/entrepy123

realslimjd · 6 months ago

I've been using Purelymail¹ for a few years now. It's simple and it just works. The one time I needed support I emailed Scott and he got right back to me.

1 - https://purelymail.com

realslimjd commented on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER) hardmodefirst.xyz/chatgpt... · Posted by u/bethanymarz

keithwhor · 6 months ago

This is incredible.

IMO, saving one life justifies every cent invested into OpenAI. How many thousands (or many, many more) will we never know about?

This is a huge differentiator from Google, where doctors sigh and act aggressively skeptical when you do your own research.

realslimjd · 6 months ago

I think doctors who are skeptical of a patient's Google research would also be skeptical about a patient's ChatGPT research.

realslimjd commented on Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarket eurogamer.net/nintendo-lo... · Posted by u/healsdata

doctaj · 7 months ago

This has to be “AI in the workplace” going awry. There’s no way an actual human thought they were adding value to a business or protecting business interests by going after this person. It’d be insane.

realslimjd · 7 months ago

Nintendo is _very_ protective of its brand. They acted like this long before AI.

realslimjd commented on Pi Chess Board readymag.website/u2481798... · Posted by u/GordonS

GianFabien · 10 months ago

So if there are challenges in moving the pieces from below, then why not have a robotic arm that reaches down and grabs and moves pieces? A bit of computer vision might help with accuracy.

realslimjd · 10 months ago

Because that's even harder.

realslimjd commented on San Francisco Is Sinking in Bad Hotel Debt wsj.com/real-estate/comme... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

potatoball · a year ago

https://archive.is/ZPedd

Not sure if full article is captured in link

realslimjd · a year ago

It is not.

realslimjd commented on NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025 nytimes.com/2024/08/07/sc... · Posted by u/lode

HWR_14 · a year ago

How many times have engineers been safely overruled?

realslimjd · a year ago

It doesn't matter when there are lives needlessly at risk. The answer should be zero.

realslimjd commented on CrowdStrike unhappy with Delta litigation threat, says airline refused free help theregister.com/2024/08/0... · Posted by u/rntn

ben7799 · a year ago

Even if Delta doesn't win this is going to lead to more and more customers wanting to negotiate terms when they buy software like this to either get money back if the vendor causes them problems or hold the vendor liable.

Seems ridiculous but big customers seem to be able to negotiate this stuff. One place I worked Verizon Wireless was a customer and they were able to negotiate money back over bugs taking too long to fix and/or outages caused by the software. That was a long time ago.

realslimjd · a year ago

I don't think it's ridiculous that if a company violates their SLA they should compensate their customers. A lot of hosting and cloud providers do this regardless of customer/contract size. The good ones will refund you automatically, and for others it's like pulling teeth.

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