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It does work but not always. The busier the person, the less likely a cold contact works. Warm intros are better. Sometimes cold emailing somebody who can get you a warm intro can work

The best advice I've found is this post by Steve blank on getting meetings with busy people: https://steveblank.com/2013/08/12/how-to-get-meetings-with-p...

Basically offer people something in return for their time. Do your homework and genuinely try to help people when you ask for their time. It may feel inefficient or slow, but your hit rate is so much higher w this approach than a shotgun approach that it's worth it

Not to say that shotgun approaches can't work, it just depends on your audience. I used linked in searches combined with a tool called hunter.io that guesses people's emails based on public info w reasonable accuracy, downloaded the email addresses into excel and did a mail merge. The results were that like 60-70% of the emails were wrong, and of those like 10% responded, and of those maybe I got calls with half. So single digit hit rate. It took maybe a half hour to get 100 emails sent, so a half hour or so got me 2-4 calls maybe

This effort was for physicians however, so for other groups your numbers will likely be better. Many physicians aren't on linked in and don't have emails on their websites, so your linked in searches won't be that efficient. They are also extremely busy and inundated with annoying survey requests / marketing materials. For this group cold calls actually were almost better
I suspect it would be "just being alive" because I imagine eating chocolate alone would come with a whole host of other problems over a long period of time (including scurvy). I'm not sure vitamin D deficiency would be an issue if you were stranded on an island with limited shelter.

However, there is something to be said for chocolate's nutritional value in special circumstances. Most modern military rations include chocolate or chocolate-flavored items in some form as a significant part of their caloric value (predominantly fats and carbohydrates, even for the flavored items, as your OP mentioned). Aside from its propensity to melt, its size and weight make it somewhat convenient to carry on patrol and for lightweight rations, calorie-dense items are important.

I'm sure there's probably some literature on its use in rations that may be a good starting point, but as far as I remember from watching far too much Steve1989 on YT [1], most of the historic survival rations--think plane crashes--tended to rely on candy, malted milk tablets, or compressed oatmeal/cornflake bars rather than chocolate.

I've linked his channel below because I think you might find it fascinating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA/vid...
A lot of comments here talk about the defense padding, and that's certainly part of it when it comes to long-term, low level concussive hits to the head. The idea is also mentioned in other comments that the problem is not sufficiently realized in rugby: that is also probably true.

There are also other factors. The forward pass often puts receivers in dangerous positions, as they often have to turn and track the ball when it isn't thrown perfectly. Also, the stop and start nature combined with the spread in position that the threat of the forward pass creates more high speed head-on collisions. Extreme specialization among the positions also mean that there are a lot of very large, very fast people out there whose job is just to hit as hard as possible.

Those game mechanics also combine negatively with the amount of money at stake due to the extreme commercialization. A lot of these players grew up in high school or younger programs being told that if they want to go pro and make the big money, they have to be out there hitting the hardest, or there's always someone to take their spot. That isn't really incorrect, but it leads to poor outcomes.
That's missing the point...
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Aren't you worried because CSS grid isn't supported by a lot of older-traditional browsers, so couldn't this break the user experience.
I had a very strange experience like that recently when listening to Radio 3, the BBC's mostly-classical channel. They had an opera programme with guest presenters from the Met Opera in New York. The usual BBC presenters of course have British accents, and one of these American presenters had a particular accent that my brain latched onto as matching the sound of synthetic speech. I just could not suspend disbelief and convince myself that this speech - which rationally of course I knew was human - was that of a real person rather than some sort of AI assistant. It was a very strange feeling.

I did have a fever at the time, which might not have helped.
> employers to invest more in capital / automation or cause them to give all current and new employees a raise

Or more cynically: fire employees and do more with the remaining employees.
> Don't put too much faith in them to save you.

Is that really the best lesson here? Tests have known false positive and false negative ratios. That's why for some things you get immediately retested if the first result is positive. People cannot know/remember everything, so there will be always done room for error. But if you want to get better, you've really got only the choice to trust a doctor, or learn enough medicine to help yourself (still can't get access to drugs this way).

I hope nobody skips a trip to the doctor just because they think it may fail.
I hear you. My mother-in-law is on dialysis. The starting price before Medicare and her supplemental insurance is $80k/month! When I had crappy insurance with a $9k deductible, my son's insulin was $570 for a 1 months supply of just 1 of the insulins he takes.
There's also an app that does $99 housecalls -- heal.com

I suspect you could find "telemedicine" services that would prescribe an antibiotic for less.
The Case-Shiller index doesn’t include income (real, or imputed rent), and the index doesn’t go all that far back.

When you include imputed rent, maintenance, and property taxes, it’s much less clear whether residential real estate or equities have better total returns over century timelines.

I was surprised by this, when I read abstracts of a paper about this recently, but it seems to be at least not as settled as I used to think it is.
Also, I think that is only reserved for hourly workers. Salaried workers are exempt from many labor laws.
Flex box is life. But Grids do look pretty powerful
I'd say the same thing without narrowing the statement to C/C++. ;-)
I am not a doctor and don't play one on TV, but it's worth noting that the pills should actually be safe for consumption by humans (I do not encourage this.) A couple of things:

- Many fish antibiotic producers just purchase pills intended for humans, because the cost is so low. Generic amoxicillin for humans can cost less than two cents a pill. The cheapest fish antibiotics I found were $20 for 100 pills at Walmart, so the actual pills could be less than 10% of the cost of the product.

- There aren't any currently USP-certified fish antibiotics, however. As a result, there are no regulations on how they are stored. This could mean they are exposed to heat and/or moisture, which antibiotics are sensitive to. That said, given that they're stored in sealed plastic containers, they should be fine.

- The differences in the actual pills should be limited to fillers and things that do not affect the potency, in the USA. None of these should be harmful however, although they could affect taste.

Again, I don't recommend consuming fish antibiotics, and amoxicillin is actually available cheaper (with a prescription) from online pharmacies.
It's not happening much at all in NFL football, since it's a major penalty if caught, and it's hard to hide.

I do hope helmet technology improves to handle inadvertent contact.
> As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-stateme...

Let's not forget that this memo was voted to be released by republicans, the democratic one was voted down. Take politics into consideration when reviewing the memo.
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The US is very large and diverse, but here are some general rules of thumb:

1) The US Gov doesn't protect much against extreme cases - that's why health insurance (generally through an employer) is important.

2) America is a very, very hard place to be poor.

3) Living like you see on TV (in NYC, LA, SF, etc, or in a cool downtown loft in an urban neighborhood) is insanely expensive and it's only possible if you design your career and life around it.

4) By trading commute time, "coolness"/novelty of neighborhood, and/or school district, and metro area, you can live well on a very reasonable middle class income. Living in Chicago, Charlotte, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, any big city in Texas or Ohio, avoids the super high cost of coastal cities.

IANAL, but as far as getting into the US, if you can have an employer sponsor you, I believe it's much easier than applying on your own. This ... may not be the easiest time to get into the USA.
GPUs are no longer used for Bitcoin mining. The recent GPU shortage is caused by the raise of thousands of little altcoins. It's obviously unsustainable, and it's going to end in a big crash, and all these GPUs will flood the market. It's hard to predict when it's going to happen (I'm guessing this year), but if you're patient you will be able to buy GPUs very cheaply.
Interesting that the company essentially owns itself, as one of the defenses of companies is any money going into them eventually findable their way to people: taxes, employees, owners, or (recursively) employees or the taxes, employees and owners of their suppliers. In the end it’s its people behind them. But this breaks that mold.
Assuming that is so, it will likely drive entities to seek direct experience of interesting things.
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Also Makes me wonder, Do children having trouble gaining weight ever get prescribed antibiotics?
Purely anecdotal, but my experience with Instagram ads has actually been useful. I have run as blockers since i learned they existed and the only place I see ads now is Instagram (I don’t use Facebook proper). Adverisisers have figured out that I run a marketing agency, and I have found dozens of helpful and informative ads through Instagram that show me what others are doing in my business, offer free strategies, or provide software that can make my business run more efficiently and provide better results for my clients. Without these ads I never would have found out about these valuable services and products.

Of course I am of two minds on this. On the one hand, it’s useful and ads value to my business. On the other hand, I agree that in the main ads are intrusive annoying and slow down pages, serve malware etc etc. Plus the privacy implications. But for Instagram specifically, I find many ads I see useful and they are never intrusive since they are native to the platform. Instagram is a product I enjoy using and it’s free. I don’t see why the company that runs it shouldn’t make money on the product, esp since the ads they serve are (sometimes) relevant and useful and reasonable in number.

I will continue to run ad blockers on every other site though because I do not find this to be the case anywhere else besides Instagram.
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In TCP if you ACK something that wasn't sent the ACK is dropped.
Born and raised in the US. I don't think it's a crazy place to live.

I live off of a relatively small amount, less than 30k per year. I pay my insurance bills and I pay my taxes. Average rent for a studio where I am is ~$900/mo, and I live in a major east coast city.

I get my teeth cleaned every 6 months at the dentist. I have yearly physicals. I was in a car accident and had to go to the ER. That was covered by my auto insurance as well as health insurance.

I never have thought about bankruptcy as an outcome of breaking my leg... how on earth would that happen with insurance?
Music and audio production make extensive use of visual programming interfaces that produce production-quality output. Just look at the workflow for something like FLStudio or Processing. I personally started down this road around age 10.

Also, old visual IDEs had a nice, quick programming loop. VB, back in the day, maybe check out Lazarus now.
Every company pays more later, I was trying to say that the pay gap between other companies disappears for mid+ level positions.

Also, they do not treat employees badly. Are there cases where certain managers treat their employees poorly? Of course, you can find the same anecdotal examples at company of sufficiently large size. Since the infamous 2015 NYT article, employees are treated very well on average. For perks, if you're referring to free catered meals then, yes, Amazon lacks there. But how about working in downtown Seattle instead of some random suburb outside of San Jose?

Finally, you ask for a citation about my claim while offering none for your own. My source: I work here so I actually have first hand experience.
Other high collision football codes are not immune to concussion.

In Australian football, AFL not rugby, we have recently seen a change in the rules where dangerous contact to the head is to be avoided and tightening medical governence on diagnosis of concussion during games. The initial reaction from fans was that making the game less rough bordered on pedantic but there's now an acceptance that degenerative brain injuries as mentioned in the article are a huge concern.
Create more value than you capture.
> But if you want to get better, you've really got only the choice to trust a doctor, or learn enough medicine to help yourself (still can't get access to drugs this way).

The latter method also sucks when surgical intervention is necessary.
To be fair, bread is the result of employee ownership of Arizmendi bakeries. I don't see how that's a problem, though.
Methinks it's only a matter of time when someone creates a phony video using a software like deepfakes. What a bizarre age we live in...
Many of the more serious impacts occur at high speeds, some at full speed. Special teams (kickoff, punt return, etc) are particularly bad for this. There are players on the payroll that are kept for just this purpose.
I am not an expert and I am not sure to what extent a solution to the measurement problem is possible, or even needed, but I think it would mean that the current QM theory is incorrect or at least incomplete. In the first case (v.g. the "objective collapse" theories) the Schroedinger function may be very good approximation and it may be practically impossible to get a experimental/observational verification. In the second case (v.g. the "non-local hidden variables" theories) the predictions of the Schroedinger function may be exact so a verification could be impossible even in principle.

Weinberg, one of the greatest theoretical physicists alive, wrote last year a piece explaining why he's not satisfied with any interpretation of QM. He distinguishes two main approaches: "realist" and "instrumentalist". Here is the article and some comments:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/trouble-with-quan...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/06/steven-weinberg-p...

He gives more details in section 3.7 of his "Lectures on Quantum Mechanics" (Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics) which ends as follows:

"My own conclusion is that today there is no interpretation of quantum mechanics that does not have serious flaws. This view is not universally shared. Indeed, many physicists are satisfied with their own interpretation of quantum mechanics. But different physicists are satisfied with different interpretations. In my view, we ought to take seriously the possibility of finding some more satisfactory other theory, to which quantum mechanics is only a good approximation."

The last chapter in Commins' "Quantum Mechanics: An Experimentalist’s Approach" (The Quantum Measurement Problem) gives a nice description of the problem and the proposed solutions which fall into three categories:

1.- there is no problem. [Decoherence doesn't completely avoid the problem; it makes the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix zero but the issue of going from a mixture to a specific outcome remains.]

2.- the interpretation of the rules must be changed but this can be done in ways that are empirically indistinguishable from the standard theory. [De Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory postulates "real" particles compatible with QM predictions, but currently only works well in the nonrelativistic setting.]

3.- deterministic unitary evolution is only an approximation. [Adding non-linear and stochastic terms produce "spontaneus localization", tuning the parameters we can explain both the microscopic "unitary" and the macroscopic "non-unitary" behaviours.]

"In conclusion, although many interesting suggestions have been made for overcoming the quantum measurement problem, it remains unsolved. We can only hope that some future experimental observation may guide us toward a solution."

[By the way, I sent you an email but I don't know if you got it.]
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They're not actually well compensated.

http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-expose-how-badly-nfl-p...

They're not actually protected in any way, because NFL contracts aren't guaranteed. Imagine what you would do if your doctor worked for your boss, and when your doctor asked if you were injured, telling the truth would allow your boss to fire you on the spot with zero compensation. Every time the subject comes up there's lots of whining by the NFL, but somehow the NBA, NHL, and MLB survived with essentially guaranteed contracts.

NFL players also don't actually have options. Scholarships are a joke and most of them learn virtually nothing. They started down the path to the NFL well before they were adults capable of making decisions, and by the time they're eligible for an NFL career, they typically don't have the academics to do much else. (Obviously there are exceptions, but Richard Sherman is not your average NFL player.)
Why focus on the language and the possibility of a million and one bugs but not the architecture and design choices?
What if all legally acceptable cameras have to use multiple sensors?

In other words, 2 main stereoscopic sensors, each recording their cryptostream to their storage. In addition to that, you have 2 UV sensors doing the same thing, and 2 IR sensors as well?

The idea being that it's much, much harder to fake something if you have to take IR and UV into account.

Isn't this also where something like a blockchain is useful? Where data is dumped into it realtime by this mythical secure camera, with all its associated metadata.

Then you can ask: "does the time the data was added agree with the time the camera says the data was recorded?" "Does the blockchain agree that the data hasn't been modified after it arrived?"

Add to that the possibility that there are multiple cameras all recording this incredibly detailed video from different angles, and the evil counterfeiters will (hopefully) have a dickens of a time faking all this.

Although with all this wonderful processing, networking and storage power to enable this secure camera, you can probably create a faking system too.
Define well compensated? The average NFL player makes less than any of the other three major american sports, is unlikely to have a wealth of other marketable skills, and may be permanently disabled after what is likely to be a short (average 3.3 yrs) career.
We have been developing and selling FPGA based QAM modulators for DOCSIS and video for last 2 decades but currently all major companies are slowly moving from specialized hardware to software solutions with bare minimum of custom hardware. But some devices still retain FPGAs. All legacy devices sold in tens of thousands also may require support from FPGA expert. Multiple solutions use specialized Broadcom chips that are half way between ASIC and FPGA.

FPGAs are expensive by themselves, expensive to implement in your solution, very hot, relatively slow and require rare expertise from developers. But they have one feature that beats everything - they can be patched in production.
Semantic tags are required from an accessibility point of view. If not, there wouldn't even be a need for a <table> tag. Might as well just use <div> with display:table. Actually you could just about use <div> for everything! But by doing so, you are alienating those who use screen readers to browse your site.
An anecdotal characterization of the members of a board catering to a single representative of labor on that board isn't a model for what employee managed companies look like.

Of course, since labor representation on boards is widespread in Germany, most medium to large German businesses are a good example. I assume the German economy is in tatters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
Because some work isn't that valuable, and if wages cause the price of that product to rise too much then consumers will forego it. Occupations that pay highly are usually more inelastic in their demand compared to price.
you're right. it should be written in typescript. or maybe the java prerelease from 1995.
A broad generalization, it depends on the test. I was trying merely to make a point that the intuitive model (you want to know if you are sick, you do a test and you get a result) is not how medicine works.

I mixed up CT Scan with MRI, corrected in another comment.
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Oh, completely agreed. I'm in the same boat, and for "just get me from A to B as cheap as possible", a travel agent is overkill. A secretary - or administrative assistant - is still worth their weight in gold here, though. Plus, the ludicrous "third party" rule disappears, since they book in your name.

But yes, your wider point holds: Travel agents aren't well suited for some kinds of travel. That, I'd argue, is more the business model than an inherent problem with travel agents.

If there was somebody whom you could tell "A to B, next week, one of these three carriers, cheapest price, here's my calendar, buy in my name" and you'd pay them a $20 commission to just make that happen, would you still decline a travel agent?