All of these scenarios are written by kids that don’t understand the concept of fungibility.

Siobhan.

This aligns pretty well with what I know, with the one correction (?) that the execution method is nitrogen-induced hypoxia, since nitrogen is much cheaper than helium.

I’m a Diablo dad that’s cleared into the late 60s so far and killed some tormented bosses with a necro friend, and I consider this season a complete success.

Yes. Spoiler: it’s hard.

The entire skin of the pyramids, including the capstone, is gone. Because… exposure.

The things inside are only exposed to air and heat because they’re in a desert, and they’re either inorganic or desiccated/dehydrated. They’re also not complicated.

Put an AK-47 in that tomb when Tutankhamen was interred, and you can argue that MAYBE it’ll still work a few thousand years later. Maybe not - rust is inevitable!

Put a computer in any tomb that era, and it’s not going to work today.* The more complicated something is, the less likely it is to work after extended periods without proper care. There’s a reason that we typically recover simple items from antiquity - complicated things didn’t last.

• and if it DID work, you would be rightly amazed! Assuming you could figure out what kind of power source it took (frequency/amps), had something that could hook up to it, and knew how to turn it on without blowing something ancient and irreplaceable.

People ask all the time on r/guns about weird old firearms from the last few hundred years… what caliber does this shoot… what pressure round can it take… will it explode if I use a production round from 1980 in a gun produced in the 1940s… there’s a real chance that even if volkite weapons had been readily available, user error would have broken them over time without the capacity to replace or fix them.

As a fun reminder, we almost lost one of the Voyager probes recently because the “OS” for the probe corrupted, and we didn’t have a copy to troubleshoot on. They had to build a copy from scratch and guesswork. What happens if 90% of the NASA scientists had died in an invasion and their buildings had been bombed into oblivion?

Shit dude, they’re not even sure that the atom bombs are all still capable of going off, and those are still actively maintained.

Now give it a thousand years without anyone knowing how they really work or how to maintain them… it’s likely that none of them work just due to entropy.

How easy is it to die when you get shot?

You can get your head blown off by a 50 cal, or you can have a .22 clip your aorta, and you’ll die either way.

Or you can get shot several times at once and recover, like fiddy cent.

Thing is, most people never get shot.

The probability of X if Y can be really high (easy), but if the probability of Y is low, then you’re still not going to see much of it.

Probability of falling to chaos IF tempted = high Probability of being tempted = low Overall probability = low

Meta answer: it’ll happen as often as GW needs to write stories and set tone. The scale is a joke.

I’m not sure what you think happened here, but I promise you that if you inhale pure CO2, it sets off panic alarms in your brain like you’ve never felt before. I did this once by accident in grad school with a dry ice chest, and it’s an immediate sensation of “GET OUT!!”

What you’re describing about lethargy is true, but only for hypoxia/anoxia, like a replacement of atmosphere with nitrogen. That’s also dangerous, and it’s responsible for several high profile deaths.

If you had a CO2 cylinder somehow vent on you in an enclosed space, then it’s absolutely assured that someone in this scenario is a moron, either for running a negligent operation or for ignoring safety requirements.

Carbon dioxide inhalation prompts an extremely visceral reaction. Carbon MONOXIDE, CO, will cause what you described, because it’s a competitive inhibitor for oxygen, so you suffer hypoxia and can flush it out with oxygen over time, but I’ve never heard of a CO tank venting because it’s so obviously negligent and likely to present criminal liability.

Source: PhD that did a lot of work with gases (CO2, CO, N2O, etc.), lab safety officer x3, author of site chemical safety plan.

The relevance level is… low. I’m not competing against FT MBAs, and it doesn’t matter to me either way. It’s mildly surprising because it suggests saturation when you get to that size, but there’s just no reason to care.

Thanks for answering. Not sure why I got downvoted - this is not obvious for people that aren’t in FT MBAs.

Wait, are T20s accepting 400+ people a year? My EMBA is roughly 80, and I wouldn’t expect the FT to be 3-5x the size.

Personally, this sounds like an n+1 problem to me.

I was really confused for a second until I realized that not everyone has a graphing calculator on their desk.

No, I don’t need it, and it’s total overkill, but I paid like $100 for this calculator 20+ years ago and I’ll use it until it stops working.

Also, why the fuck would anyone use their computer calculator when they’ve got a fucking smart phone?

Going into consulting typically involves having a roster of people that know you and trust you can solve their problems, so it can be very tough if you don’t have a strong network. (It can be tough if you DO have a strong network, too!)

I’m in a completely different market space - physical product research and development.

Oh, no, I definitely don’t think this is universally true. Most employers won’t fire someone unless there’s not another good way to get rid of them. In big companies, the worst people really just get traded around because it’s cheaper than hiring someone and there’s no risk of a lawsuit.

I used to be friends with several people in HR at a US corporate with 10k people, and I know that things like failing a drug test or watching porn on your company laptop weren’t grounds for immediate termination.

I used to work at an international consulting firm, and we had a sales guy who literally never hit his quota, but he still made it for most of a decade.

I once worked with the counterpart to my boss for a different business - she worked ‘at a different site’ that was a short drive away, but was never at her desk there. She was responsible for a huge amount of data, but I eventually saw it and found it was an unannotated Excel sheet that was functionally unusable. To the best of anyone’s knowledge, she didn’t actually do any work, but she was there a decade before leaving on her own to do a similar job at an extremely prestigious university.

Basically the only people I’ve seen terminated for ‘cause’ and not laid off due to poor sales were someone that was overemployed and someone who had irreconcilable opinions on business strategy with his leadership.

“If you meet an asshole at work, you met an asshole.

If everyone you meet is an asshole, you’re the asshole.”

People seem to have a skewed definition of “toxic” and “traumatic”.

My dad once defined a toxic workplace as one not where your colleagues get mad when you don’t do their jobs, but where your colleagues are actively working to undermine/destroy you.

I saw some people on r/phd argue that someone’s supervisor yelling at them was traumatic. A terrible work environment, definitely, but it really waters the word down for people like my buddy who watched his friends die in front of him in Iraq.

People these days just don’t know what a well-adjusted adult looks like. There are parts of life that suck, often for very long stretches, and your reward for dealing with that is that eventually you get old and die. Well-adjusted doesn’t mean you like that, it just means that you’re able to deal with it (because you didn’t get a choice).

Holy shit, this article is close to the definition of “my model doesn’t include this, so therefore it’s unimportant.”

Dude didn’t even say that Biden is predicted to win in his model, just that debate performance isn’t in his model.

This is also hilariously underpowered for a predictive model. Just remember that, statistically, there are people who will be the market ten years in a row, and you won’t know if it’s because they’re good or lucky.

FWIW, Trump is already favored in Nate Silver’s model to win the electoral college by 2-1, and Biden stands a real chance to lose the NPV. In 2020, Biden underperformed the final polls by 4%, and his current national polls only put him up by 1.5% at the moment.

I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but there’s a rational, non-partisan, plausible case that Democrats lose whether they replace him or not. If they keep Biden, I suspect that Republicans win EC convincingly and NPV by a moderate amount (1-2%).

Thanks!

The real question is whether you’re below 2019 salaries or not. Lots of salaries got wild during the pandemic. A friend of mine in software that had earned a similar amount pre-pandemic is now making 40% more than I was last year (before I was laid off).

I was ready to take less money, but I didn’t expect them to just stop hiring my function at all. That was a big blow.

I had a former colleague refer me to a job the other week under one of his direct reports. HR has run the first set of interviews already and they did not contact me.

I have the HM’s boss on my side, came directly from this business unit, and left this BU for exactly the function that was open. Absolutely wild that I wouldn’t at least get a first touch from HR, but here we are…

Made 160 TC prior to being laid off in April 2023, started consulting on my own, and I have to work twice as hard to make half as much right now.

I did a lot to try to get back into corporate work, and I had 10-12 final interviews, but most of them were closed without being filled. Have a serendipitous interview tomorrow for a sales role where OTE is 160-250, so fingers crossed…

Is this for regular or tormented?

Why do they all claim to run, too? No one bikes, swims, hikes, lifts, or climbs. Only running is allowed when bragging.

Buy 5% and you can ask for a board seat. You don’t need to own the whole thing.