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I don't work at Google, but I think their productivity comes from not wasting time. I had some interactions over the years so here is what I have noticed (might not be true, might not be all, might depend on the teams I interacted with).

There seems to be a lot of effort to remove day to day time wasters in small things.

Then, if you think about it, having subpar teammates is also a waste of time. They are not only wasting their own time but also everybody elses. So making sure you don't let people with IQ less than certain threshold is also important for everybodys productivity.

Solving a problem once is extremely important. Instead of reinventing infrastructure for each and every project at the company as many companies do (mine, one of the largest banks in the world, in my team there are still people who are devoted to maintaining a handful of servers running Windows -- including completely custom everything from project structure, to build, to configuration mechanisms, everything reinvented for the project). Solving a problem once also means you can focus on a single problem because you are solving this problem for an entire company.

If you do Agile right you get to the part at the core of the process where you mercilessly optimize your process. I think most companies talk about Agile where Google is one of the very few that actually do it.
Run as many instances as your fault tollerance requirements needs. The expense of adding another physical box is trivial when that physically box is $99 to $250 total to own. They "pay for themselves" in their first month of use, versus any cloud configuration running any 'amp or node or Mean or simply "traditional" web stack.
I would encourage you to look at product managers currently employed in your area by big co's. From those cohorts there might be some who are disenchanted with the cube life and looking for a change. Especially if the big co might have people who possess domain expertise in the area you're building in.

I'd also encourage you to seek out startup meetups or any programming that's done by people in the entrepreneurial ecosystem as it often attracts people who are thinking about getting in to the startup game but aren't quite there yet.

Networking is a huge part of being a successful startup. You could treat this as your first foray in to an activity that's absolutely critical for success.

Good luck out there, but take your time and be extremely selective. A truly amazing cofounder is 1) hard to find 2) a pre-requisite for success.
I've mainly stayed because I don't want to support the mega-corporations when there's a smaller ($12bn counts as "smaller" these days...) company doing a fine job. That aside, I appreciate that they've mostly stayed focused on the core task of syncing files between computers, that there's no bias in terms of devices or OSes, and that their client software tends to work just a little bit better than the competition.
This isn’t true at all. The only extra tax you pay as a contractor is the other 7.65% of the FICA, or $5500 here. You also get a bunch of new deductions you can take, including that $5500 itself.
Sorry, I missed the Black Friday comparison. Prime Day and Black Friday simply aren’t comparable, because no one camps out for Prime Day.
PDFs have line breaks.
I wonder if general research is really a great charitable investment either. Medicine seems the most obviously positive research initiative to fund, but looking at the last few decades of medical research, I don't see many discoveries that have demonstrably improved human well being.
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> Doesn't it leave you shaky

The 5 mg IR (Instant Release) did leave my a little shaky, and I also felt 'high' as opposed to feeling focused. I also felt the 'come down' you mention.

You should try the Adderall XR (Extended Release). Shire, the company that made the original Adderall IR, sold it's IR forumula and now in many ADD forums, people are complaining about the efficacy, salt concentrations etc. The Adderall IR are now manufactured in India, and the Pharma has standing FDA complains against it w.r.t. Quality Control, salt composition and concentration etc.

Shire makes the XR version now. You should try it if your doc can prescribe it for you. My Psychiatrist had me try the IR and then the XR in the lowest possible dose i.e. 5 mg, and it works for me.

Like I said, if you do end up on the Addy XR, do take complete breaks every few weeks. This helps with not developing tolerance, and staying with the lowest does, which will, in turn, keep side effects and long term changes (if any) to an acceptable level :)
So... you save $9k a year in recurring and it will be more than 5 years before you break even due to your $68k up front equipment costs.

And that's assuming you don't have any needs to quickly scale up or down and you are limited to 1 colo instead of the ability to expand to multiple regions like with AWS.

And that's not even taking into account the cost of the brain power to make sure your hardware stays up and running.

Doesn't sound like rolling your own stuff in a colo is a very good idea in this case. But that's job security if you are the sys admin I guess.
I had the pleasure to attend an epidemiology doc's lecture about how difficult sourcing food poisoning actually is. Part of the problem according her-- most cases require some amount of incubation time (2-3 days and several meals). There are some exceptions, but most of the time it's not the last meal eaten, even if the symptoms began within hours. Could I suggest you encourage users to report their last few meals prior to illness? You could also try to codify user import-- things like symptoms and ingredients. "Temperature > 101.5*? Nightsweats? Abdominal pain? Diarrhea?"
I guess you don't know, their solution is weak.
Said a lot of people in 1999. And say a lot of people who are commanding high-level wages for relatively specialized skills and experience.
In Brazil, in the 1980s, a couple of burglars broke into an abandoned hospital and stole a supply of cesium chloride from a radiotherapy machine. The difference between your scenario and this one is that the thieves didn't know what it was -- it just looked important and expensive. The whole thing was a huge screw-up, and a number of people -- including one of the burglars -- died from exposure to radiation before the authorities sorted it all out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
Carl is so good. I made the overlay for a charity stream last year. The mario maker guys are a good bunch.
> Risk assessments on GDPR litigation are blown wildly out of proportion.

Easy to say when you're telling someone else to take the risk.
I see plenty of units available for under $650/month...well within the reach of someone making minimum wage. They're not the most luxurious units or in the nicest neighborhoods but if you're making minimum wage you don't get to quibble about the lack of a pool or the proximity to a liquor store.
The difference between Bezos and Gates reminds me a lot of the difference between Jobs and Gates, in terms of philanthropy.

Gates has been very public about the plans for his wealth since at least the mid 90s, famously saying that his kids would only inherit a few million. He's regularly committed very large amounts of his capital and time to his philanthropic organization since it was started in 95.

I admired him back then, and even more-so now that he's followed through on his commitments and his encouragement for other billionaires to do the same.

I get the impression that he understands that hoarding huge amounts of wealth commits you to using that wealth for the public good more than most other billionaires.

Jobs was never publicly philanthropic (and actually shut down a lot of Apple's internal philanthropic work himself when re-instated as chief), and the best that we've gotten from Bezos so far is the nebulous message that philanthropy is in his future, but not now. Even Zuckerberg is doing better on that front.

Bezos may turn it around and surprise us, but right now we don't really have much data to support that.
Lots of support for non-apple styluses on Goodnotes. I can only vouch for the Apple Pencil which works well.

https://medium.goodnotes.com/the-6-best-styluses-for-note-ta...
CRISPR is a revolutionary research tool that enables researchers to efficiently study the effect of changing genes, commonly by "knocking them out". CRISPR basically cuts a specific piece of DNA from the genome, so you can study how a cell / animal / disease model is different with and without the gene -- testing causality of gene and phenotype

when CRISPR knocks out a gene, the cell tries to repair the DNA using its natural dna repair mechanisms. this can lead to unexpected insertions or deletions of DNA. researchers are widely aware of this risk and have studied it

however, this paper exposes shortcomings of prior assessments of this risk. specifically, prior studies thought that the unexpected insertions or deltions of DNA were usually small, less than 20 nucleotides. there were observations of larger "indels" but these were thought to be rare. there are a few other shortcomings of the research into "crispr induced lesions", the article lists them in detail

the scientists suspect that prior research has significantly underestimated the level of genomic alteration induced by crispr, and that some of this alteration could cause disease like cancer

the authors first tried to delete a gene with crispr by targeting the protein coding part of the gene, and also non protein coding parts. the crispr targeting the protein coding part of the gene showed significnat knockdown of the gene (over 97%). however, so did the crispr targeting the non protein coding part of the gene (up to 20% of cells did not express the gene). some crispr constructs targeted sites that were over 2,000 base pairs from the nearest protein coding site, and 5-7% of those cells did not express the gene. they determined that loss of the gene was due to loss of the protein coding region, not just regulatory elements in the non protein coding part. they did similar experiments in other cell lines and with other genes

so this suggests that researchers may have wildly underestimated the amount of genetic chaos induced by crispr. it is more possible than we thought that people receiving crispr therapies may also have pathogenic crispr induced dna damage

the paper references six studies, all in China, currently using crispr to treat humans. 3 of the studies use crispr to "knock out" PD1, a molecule that blocks the immune system from attacking cancer, 2 use CRISPR to make cells express CD19 to attack cancerous blood cells, and one study tests an HIV therapy. anti PD1 antibodies and anti CD19 cell therapies using other gene editing techniques are approved and highly effective. anti pd1 antibodies are expected to generate over $20B in sales in the next few years. so these treatments have strong scientific basis supporting their potential effectiveness, but we may have drasticlly underestimated the risks
The T2 chip now has the SSD controller on die so its probably the consolidation of that and other features that make this happen. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862
Well, considering that GDPR has been voted two years ago and is based on 20-years-old EU privacy laws, even if it took 6 months or 2 years it still wouldn’t be a valid excuse.

Also, giving a bit of detail or a minimal schedule is easier than a PR campaign. It’s called transparency, and it works even if you’re alone on a project.
"We" is society as a whole. (Moderately careful reading of my first post should have made that clear, but you seem more interested in arguing than in understanding.)

How do we decide? The process wasn't specified. (How does society as a whole make decisions? These kind of decisions it makes through the political process.) The point wasn't the mechanics of the decision-making process. The point was that we should view these people as an under-utilized asset rather than a liability, and figure out how to use them for the progress of our society.

> Steal from the productive and call it "taxation"?

You want to let people starve (judging by your posts in this thread) rather than pay taxes, which you regard as theft? You need to replace your moral compass; it's a bit defective...

Do you feel the same way about taxes to pay for, say, highways and airports? Or do you give those a pass because it's infrastructure, from which you benefit?

If we can get these people able to contribute to society, we'll benefit, in at least two ways. One is that they'll pay more taxes, which could lower yours. Second, they'll do things that are useful, and some of it we'll personally use.
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Somebody else posted this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I - this actually evokes something.

There just isn't something creative about the video, which is an unremarkable transformation of an unremarkable video.
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>that nobody hearing their American accents presumes that they are less capable, less ambitious or less honest than if their R’s had a nicer trill

I don't know if i'd say...less capable personally, but I'm a Urban-Modern-Australian english speaker, as distinct from what I'll call the lower-class suburban australian, rural-strine, or "snooty adeladian-recieved". I've included 4 accents there where most older australian academic literature seems to recognise 3, and I'm not including the various ethno-tinges based on how you might pronounce the phrase "fully-sick sub-woofer" for example.

I've been personally told my accent sounds "upper-class and educated" from an american perspective, which I find hilarious considering I think i sound like an absolute bogan whenever in the presence of americans/english. However, I've also been told by non-english speaking persons that they really like the way myself and my wife speak: something to do with clear annunciation or something.

Anyway, back to the main point: I question whether this is true, because you can bet I pick up on and have various aesthetic opinions on the various english accents. I find it very hard to believe that there are not connotations attached to how various english speakers speak and pronounce other languages. This would make english some kind of "magical" language that overcomes social-regional-contextual interpretation, and I simply do not believe that can be the case. And i know enough american friend's experiences overseas. I know there were parts/towns of the middle east while travelling I was advised not to stay in for very long with my accent, and I am well aware of the general advice for certain american accents to take advantage of the ambiguity and identify as canadian while travelling.

For the record, the non-exhaustive list of accents I identify and their subjective opinion are something along the lines of (keeping in mind, I'm not saying these are my explicit-acted on opinions, they're the subjective-connotations I recognise them as carrying in my own subculture):

> Californian: loud, extroverted, a little bit of extroverted stupidity, annoying.

> New-york: loud, extroverted, annoying in a different way.

> Boston-twang: personally, a bit humorous, not exactly intellectual (park the car in the harvard yard)

> Various-southern US: slow, naive but friendly

> English-RP: snooty, but never hear anyone who actually talks like this, except on some BBC programs, where sometimes it comes across as a bit comical like someone's taking the piss.

> English-other: pretty friendly/approachable in general, obviously can't list all the many english-native accents

> Scottish: cool, though stronger ones border on unintelligible until you get used to it

> Irish: extremely cool + attractive

> New Zealand: its practically urban-australian except for a handful of fish and chips-esque give-aways, basically one of us

> Wog-english (using the term in a friendly way, not as a put-down): generally to cover the greek, lebanese, italian accents. Does have lower-middle class connotations for better or worse.
Youtube video that goes over this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tbVDV1xdQI
I never understand why people assume that services that charge money will be more responsive to users' concerns than free services. You are worth the revenue that you generate, whether that money comes from you paying or indirect means like advertising doesn't matter to the company at all.
IIRC, on the 2016 MBP revision, they included a port to be used for data recovery by authorized repair centers.

They appear to have removed that port for this revision.
Would it kill them to say "We're sorry about the keyboard problems. Here's what we did to try to address them"?

My future buying decisions will depend a lot on my confidence level in the keyboard.
From the first:> Shane Co. signed a contract with SAP AG in 2005 for a "highly sophisticated point-of-sale and inventory management system," with an original projected cost of $8 million to $10 million and a one-year rollout schedule, the filing states. But costs ended up skyrocketing to $36 million, and the implementation stretched out to 32 months before the ERP system eventually went live in September 2007.

Does anyone offer SAP rollout insurance?
Having used Dropbox and then switched to Google Drive, what had me coming back to Dropbox was how much Dropbox is used for sharing than Google drive.

Because of the rapid growth of Dropbox specifically in regards to sharing it's still used for that so it continues to increase the funnel and reactivate customers, while Google Drive feels more like a personal storage system.

That could be one large factor.
Little in GDPR is completely new, lots of it has been in national law or previous EU legislation before, and the entities responsible for enforcement aren't new, so you can look at past privacy enforcement actions as at least some precedent.
I use both Dropbox and Google Drive, and the in-OS integration is a killer feature for me. The ability to just drag and drop into a normal folder (or work from a folder) and have those changes sync is great. I use Google Drive mainly for Docs and collaboration on those documents, not really for other files (due to the "manual" upload process, just a little bit more work to do).
This is a silly argument. When evaluating whether to use a tool, you should consider how /you/ would use the tool, not how someone else does.
You can’t be serious? What is this - stand up for amateurs or HN? Oh well...

Q. What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
A. A nervous wreck.

Q. What do you call a snowman in July?
A. A puddle.

Hear about the new restaurant called Karma? There is no menu - you only get what you deserve.

Etc.
I take xenadrine + b12 sublingual w/ similar benefits...

I've tried other caffeine heavy weight loss supplements with greentea and stuff, but apparently the key is (i believe) Caffeine + l-theanine. Together that helps with focus, I generally feel better if I can keep my Vitamin D up as well, as that's linked to depression and I'm deficient because of weight loss surgery.

Note: I do not use Xenadrine as a weight loss supplement, only for the energy aspects and not on a regular basis, only when I feel I have 0 chance of focusing and really need that boost.
It is likely due to several lawsuits that are targeted towards previous unreliable keyboard models, which limits their ability to say just that.
The timing isn't just to do with the Farnborough Air Show. When you have MPs launching the project rather than the partners announcing they have backing then you can see where the impetus is coming from. BAE have always got a next generation plane/boat/tank/missile on the drawing board. There is just a hand-wavy pledge by government to spend on the development, they have not ordered any planes or coughed up hard cash.

Post Brexit Airbus could pack up and leave the UK. Interestingly the Broughton factory in Wales used to be in England but the Conservatives arranged for the border to be re-drawn enabling Airbus to get an EU regional development grant for their factory.
Some artists will intentionally put scratching or crackling into their music for atmosphere. Imagine an audio codec that eliminated all scratching and crackling from music. Some people may not mind but many artists would hate it.

Film is the same. Directors choose the film type and grain patterns that match the look and feel they want. A more grainy film feels darker and more serious. Splotchiness contributes to an unrefined or maybe even psychotic feel.

You don't want your encode removing that. You want the atmosphere of the visuals to match the original, because the director likely had that atmosphere in mind and made other decisions around it.
A big part of this style of sauce is the chunkiness. We used to make tons of these types of sauces growing up, and some things changed the flavor more than others. Leaving it a bit chunky is best for this style (with carrots/etc), i.m.o.

Straining it changes the flavor the most, in my experience. It filters out the pepper skins, seeds, carrot bits, etc which add a significant portion of the flavor. I find it more astringent and less sweet after straining. At that point, I'd prefer to make "sport peppers" (fermented peppers and garlic left whole while the vinegar solution is used as a sauce).

Blending it to a fine paste seems to have less of an effect on the flavor, but it makes it a lot hotter. I'd assume that's because it releases more of the capsicum in the seeds. It also removes the variability you get with a chunky sauce (e.g. sweet bit, then hot bit). Whether that's good or bad is a matter of opinion, but I rather like the variability.
Wow, time flies doesn't it? That was my first intro to Linux - installing on a 386 I think. Compiling stuff to get the sound card and CDROM working. Lots and LOTS of learning.

And finally, when it all worked - playing DOOM which actually performed better than on Windows.
It's not about picking and choosing who you engage with, it's about filtering broad-stroke opinions you disagree with out of your life entirely, such that when one sees any trace of an opinion that runs contrary to their own internal narrative, they reach for the block/unfollow button, instead of engaging to find mutual truth, or even just ignoring it and scrolling past it. Just a few years ago, when someone saw an opinion online that they disagreed with, it didn't fill them with the urge to remove that opinion and any chance of seeing similar opinions from their worldview, but that's how we've been conditioned due to social media being used increasingly politically.
It could be legally problematic. Admitting to a general fault could lead to a full on recall which given how integrated the keyboard is could cost almost the same as replacing every single machine.

(Of course, with $100bn+ in cash, they probably should do this, but I can see why they wouldn't.)