your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted
(www.nytimes.com)
from dgerard@awful.systems to sneerclub@awful.systems on 01 Nov 2024 16:46
https://awful.systems/post/2753903
from dgerard@awful.systems to sneerclub@awful.systems on 01 Nov 2024 16:46
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His Wikipedia article is quite a ride. Apparently he and a Stephen Chamberlain were recently found innocent for a bunch of fraud charges. They boil down to inflating the value of a SW company he sold to Hewlett-Packart. They died within a day of each other in unrelated accidents. Must be rough.
Damn, HP doesn’t mess around. I’m going to stop trashing them around the office.
Right? Didn’t even get caught hiring assassins, unlike those Boeing clowns. Just a weird coincidence, haha!
Given that his codefendant was hit and killed by a car three days after the acquittal, I’m not sure if they even hired assassins or if they have some kind of black magicians on staff.
On one hand, if inflating the value of the startup you’re offloading onto a tech giant is a crime we should put half of Silicon Valley in prison. On the other hand, maybe we should put half of the Valley in prison.
Wait, they replaced the two masts with one double sized one? That seems a bit unwise.
Yes that is how sailing often feels if the water isnt choppy.
- Designer of sunken ship
“no no you don’t get it, you’re floating it wrong”
Never ever board a ship if someone calls her unsinkable.
@Soyweiser To be fair that change request was made by the original purchaser of the yacht, long before it was re-christened Bayesian by its new owner
I know, still a strange choice, a Dutchman should know better.
between this and the submersible guy I’m starting to think we need more billionaires on the ocean. maybe peter thiel is onto something
The orcas were trying to send us this message for a while now
Sadly the orcas only attack smaller sailboats, not the mega yachts. They are not the anti billionaire allies.
Maybe if we funded them better they’d be able to tackle larger projects.
Think it is just a skill issue, they need to git gud.
Bring down a mega yacht any%
That still puts Larry Ellison in the danger zone, at least.
Poseidon is said to prefer Australian Prime Ministers as sacrifices, but maybe he’ll accept a few techbros.
Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.
Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their
driverspriors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–Oh.
The boat wasnt called that at first, the guy who ordered it gave it a different name. Guess he sold it as the weirdest HP assassination play
I don’t know. I feel like the prior for putting tech billionaires on massive single-masted yachts with high waterlines and low air vents is still pretty positive. This is only one bad voyage; consider how many trips provide evidence that this is a good plan.
Much like Titan, which had several successful voyages to the Titanic that other billionaires should seek to emulate by using the exact same sorta-procen design and construction that Titan did.
Still think this is a bit expensive, both on cost and collateral damage. Popularizing being your own helicopter pilot among the mega rich is a tried and true tactic.
Clearly safety rules shouldn’t apply to the rich and famous. For example, princesses shouldn’t need to worry about wearing seat belts in cars speeding away from Parisian paparazzi.
Ok so if hubris somehow becomes a synonym of bayes I’d be all for it
bayesian epistemology for sure
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@dgerard Do not mess with HP, they have the *real* orbital weather control lasers! /s
Happy cake day, Charlie!