swalkergibson

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by swalkergibson 3y ago
Nothing happens in a vacuum. Professional boards of directors are supposed to be attentive to the risks to the organization as a whole, regardless of whatever weird ass governance structure exists. Blowing out your CEO on a Friday afternoon
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
I would venture to say that it is a near certainty that those researchers who left Google originally to work for OpenAI are going to be wanting to head right back there.
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
Their relationship with MSFT is now effectively over. They will remain aboard for as long as it takes to find a suitable replacement.
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
Microsoft has spent the past 12 months absolutely PUMPING their share price talking about AI on every single earnings call. Now that is over, and Google has taken the lead now that Microsoft crashed into the wall.
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
OpenAI is not far ahead of Google. In fact, they are within reasonable distance. Although now Google is the undisputed leader, given that Microsoft does not have the internal resources to maintain this thing.
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
You make such announcements outside of trading hours, and you damn sure don't imply that he was lying about something.
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
And now I expect that we see this "board" dissolved. Frankly, as it should. If you are going to take $10B from another organization and you nuke the CEO during market hours and then later it turns out that it was just an ordinary
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
MSFT dropped over 1% in two minutes, and Monday is almost certainly going to feature more selling. If I am Vanguard, I am on the phone right now with Satya telling him to get control of this shitshow of a BOD before it nukes my positions.
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by swalkergibson 3y ago
This was my reaction as well. If a competent doctor had prescribed her medication and she took herself off of it without medical supervision, I think it is pretty reasonable to condition money on going back on medication (or at least going
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by swalkergibson 5y ago
Without question this extends to the other iBuyers in the market. Zillow exiting because they could not make it work should be a massive alarm bell. Not only are they no longer buying new properties, they are liquidating their existing asse
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by swalkergibson 11y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Phoenix, AZ - Remote I have a project related to an M&A of two mid-sized web hosting companies. I need a bunch of resources. Specific roles and tasks are listed below! - C# .NET developer (some classic ASP) (x2) The
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Ask HN: Who wants to start a body cam company with me?
4 points by swalkergibson 11y ago|3 comments
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
You answered the question yourself. If someone is a wizard in PHP, then they should use PHP. People that get caught up in the decision of what language to use don't ship code. Shipped code > language decision circle jerks.
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
I agree with you to an extent. However, the flyer says the session starts at 6:00PM, not 5:50 or 5:55PM. Generally speaking, when someone says to arrive at a particular event 5-10 minutes early, it is simply so that everyone can be seated a
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
I would posit that nothing can be done about this in engineering. PE, big banks, all of that money is based on information gathered from the companies before the rest of us peons get wind of any of it. John Q. Public is playing what he thin
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Even programmers and system administrators get taken by well-crafted spear phishing and other security-related goofs. If you really want to invest your hard-earned money in some unproven start-up, go and pull down $200k for a couple of year
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Yes. A lottery ticket is one dollar, and people know that the chances of winning are infinitesimally small. The difference is that a cold-call from a a convincing enough salesman can get someone to invest too much money in what is essential
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Mostly relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/773/
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Comparing cars to human beings is disingenuous. A car is a machine with a finite number of parts and well-documented methods of action. A human body is an enormously complicated set of systems that can mysteriously fail at anytime for no re
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Discussion about what, exactly? That women are not trusted enough to not bring false allegations, therefore men should always have witnesses to make sure that men are not victims of even false allegations? Seriously, if you are the victim o
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Wow. What a steaming pile of useless crap Mr. Mateen is. Those texts are ruthless and unrelenting. I hope that she gets millions in compensation and this asshat gets fired immediately. Fucking prick.
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Glad to hear it! Congratulations on the success so far. It is exciting when someone pays you money for your product, definitely a great buzz!
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
This is assuming that someone will buy their stake in the business. It seems to me that there are some holes in the business model, and the traction might be overblown. For instance, the website suggests that the most expensive advertising
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
> They're just about the cheapest form of loan you can get In what sense? Unsecured credit has the absolute highest interest rates, especially for college students. They are no doubt the most convenient, but cheapest is a bit of a s
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
> And a lot of people are critiquing our business plan/strategies--which I am grateful for and do actually appreciate--but I didn't really intend for this to be an elaboration of our business and I didn't really write my O
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
You have an absolutely gorgeous product. I say that as someone who contributed on a contract basis to a similar system for a couple of guys in Arizona trying to do the same thing. I think that your local advertising model is going to be ext
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
> I think colleges advertise this poorly but it makes a huge difference. Many colleges do not have the endowments of the Ivy League, therefore, need-based financial aid awards are essentially non-existent for people who are simultaneousl
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
As a counterpoint, people with creative writing degrees can easily, easily slip into any "inbound content marketing specialist" role at $PICK_YOUR_TECH_COMPANY and immediately turn that degree into money. Drama, creative writing,
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
The best advice I can give you is find a dance studio and take a beginner Latin/swing/ballroom class. Make sure to find the super-beginner variety, it will help to know that everyone is basically in the same place as you. It is a
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
The forfeiture action is a civil proceeding against the asset itself. If somebody has a claim to the asset, they can come forward and contest the proceeding, and potentially win. However, in a case like this, coming forward would essentiall

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