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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 …

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.

Their relationship with MSFT is now effectively over. They will remain aboard for as long as it takes to find a suitable replacement.

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…

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 resou…

You make such announcements outside of trading hours, and you damn sure don't imply that he was lying about something.

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 the…

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 contr…

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 con…

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 buy…

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 liste…

Self - explanatory title. It is time that the citizenry of the United States hold those that are assigned to protect and serve us in our communities accountable for their conduct. …

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. Ship…

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 …

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 g…

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 un…

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 c…

Mostly relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/773/

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 se…

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 o…

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 immediat…

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!

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 instanc…

> 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 dou…

> 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 o…