That was my first thought too, strong Battle Chess vibes!
For those who never played it, Battle Chess was a chess game from 1988. It had one different: when a piece took another piece, it would play a canned animation (gruesome, funny)
Tempest had the best implementation of this. Every 3-4 levels was a checkpoint and with 3 lives as long as you cleared at least one level, you can start at your last checkpoint. If you died 3 times without completing the level, you have to start at the checkpoint below.
sorry if i'm out of the loop, but i've heard what you describe as GNU/Linux, not Emacs/Linux. did emacs change to be the branding label of things like the compiler, the ----
I sold a company to Naspers once (the parent company of Prosus). Their philosophy is to let their portfolio companies continue to operate independently.
I continued to be the CEO of my company, and I reported to a regional CEO, who reported to the CEO of Naspers. I share this because I found it odd that "CEO" was basically a middle manager ;)
That’s interesting and sounds positive you had autonomy.
Did they have an expected return on investment and just use your existing planned earnings growth? If they didn’t change your earnings slope, did they have a timeframe in mind for the multiple they used to buy you?
For example, if you earned $1 in the year of purchase and $.50 the year before and projected $2,3,4,5 in the next four years; did they use this for your purchase price? Or did they project some efficiency that shifted your projections to $3,4,5,6 and used that for the purchase valuation?
Our company had just transitioned from social networking to social commerce, and was starting to build out features like a shopping cart, product listings, etc. So the valuation was mostly hand-waiving based on the fact that we were the most recognized e-commerce brand in the region, despite not really being an e-commerce business yet.
We were doing about half a billion in annual GMV but none of it monetized yet.
Why do I feel like there is so much more attention paid to every Tesla accident? It's not news when a BMW or Mercedes has a fatal crash when their version of cruise control + lane keeping is active.
One of the 70 reported incidents happened at my house three days ago. A 4-year-old child got sucked under the treadmill and he got rather severe facial abrasions.
Before the accident, we were very happy with both the bike and the treadmill. Now it's scary to think how dangerous they are given what we witnessed first-hand.
The fix seems so simple: a guard at the end of the tread that prevents things from being sucked under it. Kind of mind-numbing that this simple feature isn't included in such a high-end product.
Peloton keeps referencing a 'key' that should be preventing this. Is this like a lanyard on a jetski or other devices that you attach to yourself in case you fall which activates a kill switch? If so, does this mean that people are leaving them in during these incidents?
(I'm not going for a 'blame the victim' attempt, I'm just trying to figure out what it is that Peloton was first trying to use as their defense before caving)
I’m sorry, but what was a 4-year old child doing near a switched-on Peloton? I cannot visualize a chain of events that leads to this scenario happening.
It was the child of a guest at a BBQ that I was hosting. The parents were socializing with other adults while some of the children were playing. They didn't see that the kids had gone into the gym.
The problem with documentation is twofold:
1. it's broadcast-only. so you have to try to anticipate in advance what the questions might be.
2. it's disconnected from the source. so someone looking at the source code has no idea whether there is good, bad, or any documentation about it.
The latter is a much smaller version of the former. GEB's central theme has to do with levels of meaning, which is delivered not only in substance but also in form. One has to look no further than Contracrostipunctus, or the final dialogue to see it on full display.
hidden in the dialogue as the first letter of each phrase is the acrostic "Hofstadter's contracrostipunctus acrostically backwards spells 'J.S. Bach'" which, when read acrostically backwards does indeed spell J.S. Bach.
Measuring intellect is one thing, valuing it is another. Within my lifetime I've sadly seen intellectual excellence valued less and less by society with each passing decade.
I see that intellect is valued more and more intensely by a smaller and smaller group of people. I'm not sure what that means, but it gives me some small hope.
