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I wonder if they change their tune if enough people say they are coming from effected areas / experience symptoms.
It won't be embarrassing if no one else in the room can spell better than you. (I once had a Chinese professor forget how to write a certain character while writing on the blackboard. He just laughed it off.)
It's also not clear to me that spellcheck will lead to people forgetting how to spell, since it's all about notifying you of spelling mistakes.
So we should study things so we don't get embarrassed? Moving on are you embarrassed because you don't know how to swordfight or any other outdated skills?
That's begging the question. It's not an outdated skill if there are situations you need it! If I couldn't spell the things I were writing on the board in tutorials, it would quite reasonably look like I have no idea what I'm doing. Not a great look.
I think in the entirety of my 16 years as a student, I probably wrote less than 100 words total on blackboards or whiteboards. There weren't computers or ipads in those classrooms either.
Whiteboards are something I use more often at work these days, but not really when I was in school.
So what your saying is the movie "Idiocracy" already happened??
(Plot- the smartest people stop reproducing, only lower rings of society have kids. An average guy wakes up hundreds of years in the future and is a genius)
Amen to that. My company does very large cyber security contracts for DoD and has a god awful home page. It's almost like a badge of honor to someone how bad it is.
Maybe there's a style guide for the US intelligence/cybersecurity apparatus that demands ugly design straight out of the 90s? Maybe that style guide is also top secret ;-)
I've been wondering about that since Snowden afforded us a glimpse into the internal PowerPoint world of the NSA. That stuff - all of it - looked just like I would have designed presentations around 1996. When I first discovered PowerPoint. As a kid.
any organization that has to support computers that were brand new in the 90s ends up with websites like this. you literally cannot do any better. plus the same users would want the same look even when they're going onto a newer pc which further constrains designs.
hell this is happening to apple right now - look at their giant wonky volume button and full screen call window when the rest of the mobile world has already ditched those design concepts? settings are also still hidden in the settings menu even though it is bog standard on android to be able to directly goto a settings menu from a toggle via long press
"PERSPECTIVE. The wealthiest person I have spent time with makes about $400mm/year. i couldn't get my mind around that until I did this: OK--let's compare it with someone who makes $40,000/year. It is 10,000x more. Now let's look at prices the way he might. A new Lambo--$235,000 becaome $23.50. First class ticket internationally? $10,000 becomes $1. A full time executive level helper? $8,000/month becomes $0.80/month. A $10mm piece of art you love? $1000. Expensive, so you have to plan a bit. A suite at the best hotel in NYC $10,000/night is $1/night. A $50million home in the Hamptons? $5,000. There is literally nothing you can't buy except."
Reminds me of the book "private empire" about ExxonMobil.
"Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage. The action spans the globe, moving from Moscow, to impoverished African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere in heart-stopping scenes that feature kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin."
Big cooperations could easily find a way to run a "blackops" negative PR campaign, on top of pulling strings in the SEC
> Obviously, screening for specific personality traits has not kept Bridgewater or Stripe from succeeding. Uber, however, might be a different story. I am going to argue that personality trait screening may have harmed Uber.
I agree there has been turmoil that has been detrimental to uber. But maybe the fact they specifically looked for hard core, "won't take no for an answer" is the reason they reached massive market / valuation they did. Lyft choose the "friendly" route and didn't get anything close to Uber size/valuation.
I'm not saying this is the best strategy/ always works, but you are saying you consider stripe successful basically because they have not had turmoil/bad press, despite the fact they are a fraction of the value of Uber.
Tldr: you probably NEED aggressive, won't take no, type of ppl to grow to a Uber size as quickly as they did.
I wonder if they change their tune if enough people say they are coming from effected areas / experience symptoms.