Absolutely agreed, their CEO search probably started six months ago.
It wouldn't entirely surprise me if The Verge's article used sources that wanted to ensure that the transition happened, and that Korey was pushed out. If you think Korey is bad for the company long-term, you might be willing to take the hit on a single bad holiday to "fix the glitch".
To be clear, I don't think The Verge's reporter was complicit, but it would not surprise me if some members of the board helped ensure the reporter had a single, clear, named target.
BTC has always had more in common with rare gemstones like Taaffeite than currencies or even metals.
No practical value, no industrial value, no means to materially change the rate of production, nothing special at all except that it is rare, only a few people care about it, and its price will always depend primarily on the behavior of a very small number of market participants.
If PG actually meant a single word of his essay, he'd fire Dan Gackle and he'd radically change how HN moderation works.
But, as per usual, Paul Graham is full of shit. He is interested in challenging other people, but he is absolutely and totally unwilling to be challenged in any material way.
And heaven forbid you challenge any aspect of one of his most highly valued portfolio companies... lol... you'll be banned right out of this place.
because Paul Graham absolutely LOVES declaring some things heres and he LOVES to suppress speech.
He just wants to be the one who declares what is heretical and what is not.
California allows the sale of some data for a specific enumerated set of uses (below).
* Carrying out government agency functions, including courts and law enforcement.
* Use in matters of motor vehicle safety, theft, emissions, product recalls.
* Motor vehicle market research and surveys.
* Legitimate business needs in transactions initiated by the individual to verify the accuracy of personal information.
* Use in connection with a civil, criminal, administrative, or arbitral proceeding.
* Research activities and statistical reports, so long as the personal information is not redisclosed or used to contact individuals.
* Insurance activities.
Data brokers allow the sale of any data they have about me, for any purpose at all.
The latter strikes me as worse, but I respect your right to be wrong and a moron.
This is an outrage. Only private companies like Google, Facebook, LexisNexis, Experian, Equifax, Corelogic, Nielsen, Acxiom, Datalogix, Epsilon, Spokeo, Radaris, ID Analytics, eBureau, Intelius, PeekYou, Rapleaf, and Recorded Future should profit from information about me.
The algorithms that ban Muslim terrorist propaganda also routinely ban non-terrorist Muslim content. They have essentially the exact same failure modes as anti-Nazi algorithms that also ban some politicians.
Why are you tolerant of these problems in one case, but extremely bothered by them in the other?
It's a fact that we now have white nationalists in the White House.
That's not villainizing, it's just describing a thing as it stands.
Maybe you're right and the Republicans were always white nationalists, but David Duke and his types were sideshows, they weren't making policy in the White House proper.
Your video card would be shipped in that fashion if the product was certified SIOC (Ships In Own Container); wherein the seller certifies that their packaging is adequate to ship to the customer with only cosmetic damage to the packaging.
For SIOC products, I believe there's always an option to include an Amazon box _around_ the original box, however it's optional because that second box is considered to be waste, as the product packaging is already supposed to be good enough for shipping purposes.
It wouldn't entirely surprise me if The Verge's article used sources that wanted to ensure that the transition happened, and that Korey was pushed out. If you think Korey is bad for the company long-term, you might be willing to take the hit on a single bad holiday to "fix the glitch".
To be clear, I don't think The Verge's reporter was complicit, but it would not surprise me if some members of the board helped ensure the reporter had a single, clear, named target.