@haydesigner If my understanding of the available accounts is correct, multiple things were done wrong by multiple people at Quip, and all of them wanted to deny knowing anything about it. Eventually, some kind of agreement happened, and toothbrushes went out along with the famous Schrodinger’s Toothbrush Club medallions. (I wasn’t here then, but thanks to the generosity of someone who was, I have medallion #3699.)
Not discussed in the video, sometimes importers do stupid things that get them kicked off Spamazon (like buying 5-star reviews) and end up with a warehouse full of stuff that’s never going to move without either a whole lot of work and time on eBay, or a deep discount offload of the merch to an outfit like Meh. And sometimes they have a QC problem with a batch of merch, and foist it off on Meh without being completely transparent about the issues (like a certain batch of steam cleaners). Those are not the only added potential routes by which stuff gets moved to Meh.
Everything here has a story behind it, and sometimes the original seller is entirely honest and up-front about it.
I have been somewhat relieved to see fewer herpetoleic offerings lately than had been showing up a while back.
@werehatrack I can’t figure out for the life of me what “herpetoleic” means. I get the “herpeto/a-” part, but not the meaning when it’s combined with the rest of the word.
How good is your staff at cracking AI systems and persuading them to do things - like - Idunno - pull over and let someone “inspect” the cargo?
“You can’t actually port into the Aurora Driver and tell it what to do,” Fisher said. “We can only give it advice. So our command center, which is where we are right now, can say, ‘Hey, think about pulling over.’ But if it ever gives advice that is not safe, like, ‘Run over that cement barrier,’ the Aurora Driver thinks about that and says, ‘Nope, not going to do that.’”
Look at all those trackers.
@yakkoTDI I should prefer not to.
So how did the Quip deal happen then?
@haydesigner If my understanding of the available accounts is correct, multiple things were done wrong by multiple people at Quip, and all of them wanted to deny knowing anything about it. Eventually, some kind of agreement happened, and toothbrushes went out along with the famous Schrodinger’s Toothbrush Club medallions. (I wasn’t here then, but thanks to the generosity of someone who was, I have medallion #3699.)
Not discussed in the video, sometimes importers do stupid things that get them kicked off Spamazon (like buying 5-star reviews) and end up with a warehouse full of stuff that’s never going to move without either a whole lot of work and time on eBay, or a deep discount offload of the merch to an outfit like Meh. And sometimes they have a QC problem with a batch of merch, and foist it off on Meh without being completely transparent about the issues (like a certain batch of steam cleaners). Those are not the only added potential routes by which stuff gets moved to Meh.
Everything here has a story behind it, and sometimes the original seller is entirely honest and up-front about it.
I have been somewhat relieved to see fewer herpetoleic offerings lately than had been showing up a while back.
@werehatrack I can’t figure out for the life of me what “herpetoleic” means. I get the “herpeto/a-” part, but not the meaning when it’s combined with the rest of the word.
@ItalianScallion
Oleic acid is a fatty acid that occurs naturally in various animal and vegetable fats and oils.
@rockblossom Thank you!
So I guess this mean no more “who cleans the cleaner?”, i.e., liver cleanse pills?
@ItalianScallion It would be excellent if the entire category remained absent from the site and the IRKs, but that may be too much to hope for.
So why don’t you tell the stories of how you ended up with something if the story is weird or interesting enough when you are selling the product?
How good is your staff at cracking AI systems and persuading them to do things - like - Idunno - pull over and let someone “inspect” the cargo?
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/driverless-semi-trucks-are-on-the-road-in-north-texas/