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Reminds me of this guy https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless/comments/1c9vs22/millionai...

Millionaire who believed he could go from homeless to $1m again in 12 months as an experiment (with advantages) with something more or less like agency alone.


The fact that you personally haven't had negative experiences associated with something doesn't mean that other people can't have.

Imagine for example that you were the CEO of a software company having an affair with the head of HR...


Looks quite a lot like an esports team!


At least he seemingly pretended afterwards not to have meant to order "go kill him".

The knights who murdered the archbishop weren't so lucky... my direct ancestor fled to Ireland afterwards (as family legend has it).


It's more common in less personal, more formal contexts. Another place you might see this in addition to hiring notes is police reports. It's fine English in any context though, just convention driven.


Thanks, this looks great and I will try it.

Just FYI, on the marketing website on iOS safari iPhone 11 the hamburger menu currently opens an empty side panel, looks like a bug.

Cheers!


Almost all experienced lifters experience injuries. Lifting heavy weights is a more dangerous activity than some other forms of exercise.


The issue with preprepared demos is that you can carefully curate the scenario and make choices that you know are likely to show the best outcome, out of a wide range of possibilities. If you know your model (or VC product demo etc) performs poorly under certain conditions, you simply avoid them. This is a reason to be somewhat skeptical about demos.


Well, perhaps not quite :D

> But ultimately, should Google have hired me? Yes, absolutely yes. I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT. I make really good things, maybe they aren't perfect, but people really like them. Surely, surely Google could have used that.

But he did add some nuance to the situation


This must be localised; where I live "suit up" means "wear a suit".


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