30 minutes does seem a bit strict, but in my experience with the restaurant industry, such policies are usually enforced fairly loosely - if you’re at 30 minutes and still eating food, they’ll let you go. It’s when you get into “finished 20 minutes ago and is just refilling drinks and chit-chatting” territory that you…

For most people, $1M isn’t quite at “walk into the sunset and never work again” levels  - it’d be awesome and welcome, it’d be life-changing for many people to get out of debt...but unless you’re already fairly close to retirement, it’s probably not quite enough that you could realistically take it, retire, and just…

Yeah, End and Home are extremely useful once you learn how to use them properly. Especially in combination with other keys - Ctrl+Home moves you to the very start of the document, Shift+Home moves you to the start of the current line and selects all the text (good if you need to replace a bunch of words at once), and…

Pause/Break was originally prepared when computer keyboards were based on telegraphs - since only one person could ‘type’ at a time, the button was used to send a signal to the other side “hey shut up for a second so I can say something”.

Personally, the part that I find most weird is all the fans talking up toughness...as though they wouldn’t retire their job on the spot if they were in his shoes.

Hey, journos are waiting by their phones, just ready for Uber et al to provide access to verifiable data to disprove the allegations.

Laura Wagner: I had heard a funny story/rumor about that person (or so I thought) and so I shared the story with the table. Only when I felt a foot slam into my shin and got a text telling me that I was an ABSOLUTE IDIOT did I realize my mistake: The funny story/rumor that I had gleefully shared with the table was not…

(Sarcasm aside, this was a very informative article...but “keep an old pair of glasses on the bedside table” is such an obvious fix that I’m surprised he didn’t suggest that)

On the other hand, someone with very poor eyesight who opts not to wear contact lenses for fear of acanthamoeba may be more likely to slip break his or her neck, Krauss says.

Sure, but as a practical matter, those fees are going to be there no matter how you pay - Best Buy or Macy’s or whatever has already assumed they’re paying X% to the credit card company and have worked that into their price.

It’s actually both.

I get the feeling we’re going to look back on vaping and wonder why people thought it was ok, like smoking or putting lead in everything.

Yeah definitely.

The problem is that even if they become profitable, it’s still hard to figure out what justifies the $47 billion valuation.

I meant “absolutely fantastic” in terms of prediction accuracy, not morality. If you’re talking about predicting outcomes that rely on human behavior before they happen, 90% accuracy is unheard of, a level of correctness straight out of science fiction.

I mean, just between Bidwell and Kroenke you’ve already got enough material for a lifetime, and I’d venture to say they’re not in the top half of high-profile owners. Once you get to the Snyders and the Jerrahs and the Maras you’ve got a full froth going.

I think we’re disagreeing on how the model is going to be used. You’re talking about the model as a last-step refinement after you’ve already come up with your list of “30,000 potential problems” through other means, then the model tries to narrow 30,000 down to 3,000.

Well, yeah, that’s the point: A model that’s 90% accurate (absolutely fantastic by all reasonable standards of predicting human behavior) is by definition wrong 10% of the time...which are the false positives.

Nope, I did not miss a decimal point, but maybe I wasn’t entirely clear.

Almost as importantly, the models have an enormous false positive problem. Let’s say you could create a predictive model that’s 90% accurate. That would be by all measures, absolutely incredible, but let’s assume we could.