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I don't believe that's a fair comparison.

Firstly, marijuana taken internally has a long tradition of use. GMO's not so much. Admittedly, modern strains of marijuana may pose greater concerns.

Secondly, legalisation of recreational drugs is, I'd argue, only tangentially related to the harm they may cause by using them. Take alcohol as an example. The legalisation of recreational drugs is, I'd argue, more about a) personal-sovereignty, and b) the harm caused by the war on drugs.

For the record, I'm pro GMO when and where they makes sense, and also pro personal-sovereignty.
I don't think I'd want an activation email sent to my work account.
It's something you can worry about, but you don't necessarily need to. When I have seen therapists, one of the things we discussed at the first meeting was our projection for how long the engagement would be. I asked, and was told that in most cases, both parties reach a point where they feel that further engagement is not necessary. And that's exactly what happened. We met twice a month for about 4 months, and after that, we both agreed that things were improved, and I had built strategies to help deal with my issue, and I stopped.

It's a concern, but one that can be addressed head on. Many good therapists are over-booked anyways, so their incentive to keep you on is low, as there are other people who want additional appointments and can't get them.
Just study up on algorithms and be an expert in your language of choice. Get really good at writing code on a whiteboard. Practice your public speaking skills and how to think under pressure.

Even then, it depends on the interviewers you get. Chances are some of them aren't going to like you or will set a very high bar. Some will be happy with conversational answers, and some will fail you for not providing a leetcode answer as a reflex to their question. Keep in mind these companies have people dying to work for them. They're not going to try very hard to find your strengths.

Also keep in mind that some companies(speaking from experience... gergle), like to ask you questions completely outside your domain. I just received a 'no' back from them and a note that I need to work on my coding and design skills. Well, I'm an embedded guy and they asked me a web site design question. Not sure what they were thinking, but that's their choice.

Just remember that there are a ton of non-FANG companies in the valley paying the same or almost the same and they are desperate for engineers. The FANGs are vacuuming up talent. In my case, I got a great offer from someone else. I'm sure it helped that I told them I was waiting on an offer from a FANG. Plus, at my new company, I don't have to worry about the scandal of the day, or compete with thousands of new grads willing to work themselves to death.
The cloth version of Knuth 4A (Additon Wesley) has real binding which lies flat and has visible inside margins. Are you talking about a paperback?

Some of the worst books I have seen are the print-on-demand ones by Springer. It’s tragic that pretty much all of their math books from the past 10–15 years are only available in this format. Springer used to produce very nice books up through the 1990s.
Not making that point at all. Just making the point that related certificates and keys need to be looked up at run time from some secure place rather than be provisioned onto a file system at build time or via some hard to automate sysadmin ritualistic dance on the command line post startup. If in amazon, the secure parameter store is a good place for storing secrets. They also provision nice EC 2 credentials to hosts allowing you to access resources securely without having to rely on silly ssh keys baked into images or passwords passed around insecurely. And of course they allow you to centrally manage ssl certificates as well and manage provisioning those to things like load balancers. Kubernetes has nice infrastructure for this as well.

The point is that this stuff should never be baked into docker or ec2 images and having software expecting to find these things in some file on the filesystem actively makes it harder to configure it in a sane way.

I've seen quite a few docker images that require me to mount a volume with certificate files to work at all. The only way to beat some sense into that is to customize the Docker file and template these files (e.g. dockerize is great for this). Sane deployment automation seems to be an afterthought with many developers.

Since you brought up SSL, a nice innovation a few years ago was https://letsencrypt.org/ which uses short lived certificates that need to be renewed regularly. That sounds like a good practice to do anywhere you use any kind of ssl connections. That would require automation to refresh those certificates of course. Not just once on startup but also before they expire. However, if the software reads keys only once at startup from a file, part of that scripting is also becomes orchestrating a restart; which I imagine can get a bit hairy in the case of a clustered database product.
The biggest messaging platform on the planet uses phone numbers as user ids. It seems very unlikely a majority of users see this as a showstopper.
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> Is the amp in this article the same kind of amp that you could plug an electric guitar into?

I'm no expert, but as far as I understand, this is a power amp, which takes an input at line level (~1 volt) up to a level that can power a speaker. Guitar pickups produce a signal around 100 mV, and typically need a "pre-amp" stage before the power amp to amplify this signal to line level.
Either I was:
1) seriously underpaid at Google, 2) things have changed a lot in the past half year or
3) the stats do not reflect real averages.
Hi, thanks for making such a helpful site! My feedback would be:

* Would love to see the salary numbers without clicking for easy comparison

* I don't like how clicking around fills my browser history and adds back button clicks
I worked for Google in London and SF, the was a significant salary difference but also some personal growth. Still it could be at least 2-3x
This is not an argument for adding a Google Hub to the mix. It's an argument for not having devices on your network that will accept unauthenticated commands from any other device. Would you have your laptop or desktop computer on your home network allow unauthenticated telnet instead of SSH?
While you probably could use an amplifier like this for guitar, you usually wouldn't want to unless it's being used for acoustic guitar or vocals. The reason being, an electric guitar amplifier is going to add a lot of character to the guitar tone that you actually would want, where as an amplifier like this is going to strive for a perfect clean reproduction of the original audio. This is why a lot of guitar players prefer to use old tube-based amps, they add a lot of character to the sound through the preamps and power amps that match what you hear on the recordings of your favorite artists and sound great (though, some argue today solid-state modeling amps sound just as good). With that said, there are a lot of projects and schematics on the web which try to recreate some of the popular guitar amps like the Vox AC30 and Fender Twin Reverb, which would be fun to try and build.

Now if you wanted to make a PA system, I don't see why you couldn't use an amplifier like this with some modifications.
With cheese cloth and library tape? Many years. If there is just the gum on the binding (no tape or linen binding) then a couple of years with light use, less time with heavier use. One of the things that the binding class taught was that books would be rebound several times in their lifetime. I've rebound at least a half dozen paperbacks that eventually started dropping pages (became detached from the binding).
> every of app on your phone or pc or appletv or tablet could be hacking stuff on your local network

Not if the other devices on your network don't accept unauthenticated commands from anywhere. Which would seem like a pretty basic security feature.