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Okay, I can see that interpretation and I apologize. I was going for a 'next stage of things' which for businesses of this form (single product / modest revenue / digital assets) have a small number of exit routes for the developer.

#1) (and most common in my experience) Is to sell the business to a larger aggregator which allows the acquirer to grow the surface area of what they do (in this case sell ads, but it could be anything like service dentist offices or market business services). This pays the founder some money and let's them move on to different things.

#2) The founder/key contributor takes on a senior role at a larger company and their product becomes either an open source project or briefly a product of the larger company.

#3) The founder moves on to something else and product support goes away, updates don't happen and eventually operating systems have moved on and the product just doesn't work any more.

In all cases the 'intent' is that the founder needs to grow or do something different or their needs have changes (like having a family) and so their priorities shift. Life goes on and things evolve.
Not true. Business changes quickly. One day they need you next day they reorganize or fill your position. Particularly true if business is not doing well or on the flip side moving too quickly.
High field magnets are superconducting alloys that must be kept under liquid helium to remain below their critical temperature. If their temperature rises above the critical temperature, they become Ohmic resistors and can melt -- or at least boil off all their cryogenic helium and nitrogen rapidly enough to be dangerous (so called quenching).

Low field magnets are usually just solenoid coils. There are a number of low-field magnetic resonance devices, including benchtop relaxometers, which use either permanent magnets or electromagnets. This one just uses an electromagnet, I believe, and it looks like it's in a Helmholtz configuration. This is a smaller version of a design used primarily in veterinary contexts, e.g. so you can walk an upright horse into it.

(Edit: Someone below says it's permanent magnets here. Can probably look up their patent or FDA application to be sure.)
A minor piece of anacdata, I had an MRI. Paid for it out of pocket because I can. Private company provided it. $200. Done. Don’t have cancer and I do have a DVD of my brain that I will never watch because I’m squeamish. The private market can bring down prices if given a chance. Yes we need to fix things, but look at the US track record on the VA.
I'm sorry if I came off an deceptive or disengenious. I don't mean to compare apples and oranges, I'm just making the best comparison I can.

This is where my question stems from I suppose. How well insured is the average American? How often do people get stuck at out-of-network care and how much does that cost?

The study you linked is very interesting. My main takeaway is that the average loss after 2 years is 92k, which is significant.

It doesn't seem like they control for employment status? Cancer and cancer treatment can often mean people are unable to work. So, medical bills or not, I could see keeping up with your mortgage and expenses getting near that figure.
No one ever actually pays that. With insurance a deductible is around $4,000. Or they have medicaid. Or they negotiate with the hospital. Or they just don't pay.

Those news stories about people being ruined, are in the news exactly BECAUSE they are unusual.
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Genuine question: how much easier is it to share files on Dropbox vs just doing it on GDrive? Is it the fact that the person accessing your files doesn’t need a google account?
Depends on the company. The Swedish company we run does.
That's interesting indeed. Any idea why Physics constants obey Benford's Law? Did the universe pick the physical constants from an exponential distribution?
You're wondering aloud why a VC firm doesn't just buy the S&P. I think you can figure that one out yourself.
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I had an MRI at the ER for a paralysis attack several years ago. I stabilized after IV fluids were given, they found extremely high neutrophils and thought sepsis, but I was lucid and had no fever. They gave me the option of waiting there for ~6 hours for the MRI shift to start, and I agreed. they found no sepsis or cauda equina, discharged me and told me to come back if it happened again. fortunately, it hasn't yet.

I think the combination of weird blood work + medical mystery + stabilized meant I got an MRI. wish they'd gotten to the bottom of it..
The DIAMETER of such an area is very roughly 12 percent of Earth's CIRCUMFERENCE. So you could (probably) lay 8 of these areas around the equator, give or take a a couple.
I was thinking in terms of virality velocity as well.

Using the postal reference, something may have taken a week to transmit to 100 people. Now, it takes 5 seconds.

That's a fundamentally different situation, and it requires different tradeoffs in society.
It is totally true. Source - I live in Stockholm, its hard but you can get somewhere in weeks not years
By control I mean how much do your actions and ability affect the final outcome. For instance a great chess player will win far more often than slightly worse player. The players have almost complete control over the game. Chance, other players, etc have very little control over the game. But in a hand of poker a very skilled player will only win slightly more often than a worse player, so he exerts far less influence over the outcome of the game.

So I think of being an individual contributor as playing chess for $100 and being a CEO as playing a hand of poker for $100,000.

And to take this analogy further you gain a lot of information about a chess player's skill by whether he wins, but very little from a single hand of poker. Did the poker player lose because he got a band hand or because he's a bad player. There is a similar difference between CEOs versus developers. You can figure out if a developer is any good by seeing how successfully he completes a project or task. But it is very hard to figure out how well a CEO is doing by just looking at his performance.
Reminds me of an awesome map from a few years ago.

http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?human-hemispher...
I think you may have misunderstood: each “go build” incantation lets you produce a single OS/arch binary, not a “fat binary”. So you make a build per OS/arch pair and distribute it.
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Can I ask how did you found someone to apprentice for and what did you do?

I think its exactly what I need, I feel really lost on where to go with respect to electronics learning, and I think a mentor could help me a lot.
Because the weather in Seattle is just like the weather in Calgary... or even Toronto !
This may be slightly off-topic but I feel like these kinds of development make "dark forest" hypotheses a little problematic. One assumes that most alien societies began in a state where they'd give evidence of their existence long before they gained the ability to construct a dark Dyson sphere or whatever could conceal their existence.
Two things struck me as unusual about this story: the police can evidently issue subpoenas with involving a judge, and the police can order somebody to stop filming. Both of these seem totally wrong to me.
Is this somehow going to lead to the resurrection of scoped CSS?
I assume this was a researched and planned procedure on your part?

I am a much bigger believer in "the market" than most people. But the problem with the medical industry is that many / most things happen under serious time pressure.

The seriousness and imediatness of medical procedures means that competition and choice often do not get to play a role in your decision making. For many people in many circumstances, the MRI machine nearest them has a complete monopoly.

How do we bring the miraculous efficiency of the market to an industry where people often cannot make consenting and informed decisions? Its a very hard problem to solve.
A massive difference here is that TV ads don't come with ubiquitous invasions of privacy every time you see them, nor do they have a small but constant risk of malware infecting your TV.
I read this as sticking to what you know. Maybe you come from a C# background, it's not hot and sexy (sorry C# developers), but it's still a perfectly good technology to build a business on. Compare this to your team deciding to learn the JavaScript flevour of the month and using that - it will probably take you much longer than building with what you already know.
another screen saver was Johnny Castaway. Was an IT guy at a company in the late 90s and this screen saver was on many workstations where I worked. Was always intriguing to see what Johnny would be into next...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10WuRo7c50
I'm not sure I understand this comment. I have a simple script (under 100 lines) using the aws sdk that pushes my assets to an s3 bucket where my site is hosted. I'm able to trigger it with an npm script with a command `npm run deploy`.
a product manager generally does not manage people, they manage what people work on, and project manage.
I'm certain this was reposted because they talked about this law on today's Radiolab broadcast (a repeat of a previous episode): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91697...
That seems true for tech workers, but also seems likely you’d forfeit any unvested compensation (stock/option/retention bonus/etc)
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I see that this is supported in the various flavors of Chromium, but not Safari.

I wonder which will come first: Safari support for contain or Safari support for input type=date.
2500 mile radius is no joke though.

It's 10% of world's land area.

edit: The circle in the article has plenty of water. I'm not counting that. So maybe land area in that circle is 5% of world's total land area (not 10%).
The earth’s circumference is ~4E4 km; the diameter of this circle is ~8E3 km. That’s 20%, not 2%. 2% would be utter madness.
That's interesting. In Australia, if you happen to use Telstra 4G (the only provider that is reliable for most of the country) I've found that speed in remote towns can be a lot faster than in any of the capital cities. It's surprising as the remote towns can either on satellite link or at the end of 1000km of fibre.
How fast is an incremental rebuild with webpack though? That esbuild finishes from scratch in .5s (though probably with the code previously loaded from disk) means it’ll still likely be the fastest.

Posters up thread claim that minifying is the slowest part of webpack, so presumably that’s pretty consistently slow relative to input size.
If so, wouldn't the opposite be true too -- making less efficient images will reduce demand? If that sounds absurd, then I think the fear is unfounded.
20%, not 2%. So just under 5 would stretch around the equator.
Living in Belgium, the healthcare works for every Belgian if it's realistically possible, not the "80%" like in America ( source?).

When I see the costs of an operation in America, they just do unnecessary operations, because they can earn extra money. When your argument is "most people won't go broke", that is a really fucked up statement.

Medicare ( that the current administration is trying to slash) is a partial fix for a very expensive and failed system.
> If it doesn't have any absolutely positioned or floating child elements, wouldn't that imply contain: content?

Not just children, but descendants at arbitrary depth. Also no relative positioning, negative margins making anything stick out, no transforms, no shadow with a radius large enough to poke out of its parents...

> And if you add overflow: auto or hidden, wouldn't that infer to contain: strict?

No, you also need to make sure that the size of the parent element is not influenced (horizontally or vertically) by the size of any descendant.

Well, some of these are allowable if the effects don't poke out of the particular element you're interested in.

Effectively, this is all stuff the browser could check before turning on an optimization that depends on these conditions being verified, but due to the number of things you need to check on a tree of arbitrary depth, the verification would cost more than the saving you'd get by applying the optimization. So browsers don't do it.

css-contain gives you a mode where there's nothing to check, because the basic rules of layout/painting/sizing are changed so that things can never leak up if you've turned on the relevant type of containment.
Why did you quit after 3 months instead of leaving that formality until month 6?

Also did you have any unvested compensation (stock awards, bonuses, etc) and what happened to them when you paused your employment?
Australia has some very tough defamation laws. It’s often called the defamation capitol of the world.

I wonder if this incident has a knock on effect with other anonymous review sites in Australia if you will be tracked down and sued for a negative review.

I saw the review, the best thing the dentist could of done and they did do was reply along the lines of “we do not know who you are and do not have a record of your visit, please contact us to talk”. So not quite sure why they took it to the courts which will likely have caused far more negative publicity.
How is that non deterministic?
correct. This way we can capture create, update and delete events of individual rows. binlog_format must be set to ROW in order to make this work in MySQL. For Postgres we are using replication slots which provide row based events.

We use MySQL RDS and it has "mixed" as the default binlog_format. Mixed uses statement based logging for some event types (see MySQL docu for details). Hence statement based replication is part of the mix unless one explicitly switches to ROW based replication (which is required for DBLog).
Thanks for pointing that out. Its different now
Linters correctly highlight all the ASI-related that realistically happen. (Or eslint does anyway, can't speak for others.)
Sounds like this is... not what people are assuming it is?
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I honestly didn’t find anything of interest in this comment.
Literally why insurance exists
> This is a shallow definition of freedom, the sort of idea of freedom that children instinctively have when they're told to go to bed and start throwing a tantrum and it is largely what the internet was built on, maybe not accidentally by people who in many ways were juvenile adults.

You sound like a very silly child to me, with arguments such as this.
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This is a great question :) We may share details about that in a future blog post.
You're right, the insignificant digits were misleading.
How does this compare to Valhalla?
The FOSS community would be a lot safer if Oracle didn't exist.
Was reminded of this game while reading the article but was racking my brain to remember the name. Thanks for mentioning it, fond memories.
That is a flat lie, Eg. Omnium insurance in Belgium pays everything.

There is also full car insurance in Germany: https://www.howtogermany.com/pages/vehicle-insurance.html
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That is true. However urgent care is a small fraction of the US procedures. Cancer treatments, heart operations, etc are most often planned care. They also care touted as likely to bankrupt you. Can we try to optimize the majority of our system first before we rebuild it because of painful corner cases?
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If you're already in a lot of debt, getting a medical bill is just going to add to that debt. As a result, anyone who sees a doctor and declares bankruptcy can say that healthcare is at least partially to blame.
And I don't really understand the point of talking about scaling airports when the issue was about scaling the number of airplanes that can move between places, since that's an universal problem with it comes to any method of transportation.

If you want to move more buses, you need more bus terminals. If you want to move more planes, you need more airports. If you need to move more trains, you need more train stations.

The point about scaling air traffic and scaling trains is that you need far less infrastructure to get a plane from place to place. You don't actually even need a huge, expensive airport to do so, since there are much smaller ones and even just tiny airstrips. And unlike trains, once they leave, they have pretty much unlimited room. How many tracks would a train station need in order to accomodate the same number of passengers leaving from Heathrow?
MRI machines go up to 7T now.
This is baffling to me.

`contain: size` means that the element's size does not depend on its children. Isn't this already given by height, width, etc.? Why is this needed? If these properties disagree, who wins?

`contain: paint` means descendants cannot display outside the element's bounds. Isn't this already given by `overflow: hidden`? Why is this needed? If these properties disagree, who wins?

`contain: layout` means that its internal layout is not affected by anything outside. It's not clear to me what behavior they have in mind. Is it something `position: relative` would fix?
I reject the premise. It's such a broad subject that I'm not sure there's any meaningful answer to your question, but of all the ways I'd describe it, "hard to learn" isn't on the list.

Most web development involves gluing together existing components. It's cut-and-paste programming until you have to scale things up. All the problems have been solved. When I'm working on a web application (which has been about half my career), I rarely feel challenged. Usually I'm writing the same application for the tenth time, just in a different language or framework. There are hundreds of web frameworks, and it can be frustrating having to learn a new set of tools and libraries every time flavor of the month changes, but that's not hard; it's just tedious.

The primary challenge for most web systems is scaling. There's a huge difference between being able to handle thousands of visitors a day vs millions. Very few sites ever need to scale to millions, though. And scaling is a problem for any system; it's not a challenge unique to web development, and not something you even need to think about if you're still learning the basics.

Is there something specific that you're struggling with? I'd suggest picking a framework (arbitrarily) and going through the tutorials out there. Something like Node/Express is pretty easy to get started with by following online tutorials.
Browsers can do that, scrolling is cheap (unless you highjack it with JS, but that's another story).

However, if change the layout / content of some element in the page, making it bigger, or smaller, or positioned differently, etc, that has an impact on its parents, recursively. So browsers mark subtrees as dirty when something changes, and work their way back up.

In certain cases, there are changes that cannot have an effect on the parents, so you should be able to stop the recursion. And browsers typically are reasonably smart about that.

However, there are a surprisingly large number of cases where checking whether or not the parents could possibly be affected by the change is an expensive operation, so you're better off relaying out your parents (recursively) rather than checking if you could safely skip doing it.

Css-contain changes the rules of how css works, to eliminate these expensive to check cases. contain:content makes a few useful things impossible. contain:strict is even harsher, as parents' size cannot depend on children's size. But if you happen to have an element that can be set up to fit within these constraints, turning containment on on the right element lets the browser know that a whole bunch of optimizations are safe without checking for preconditions.
> They are superconductors, the resistance is 0.

So long as they stay under their critical temperature. If that changes… well, a lot of liquid helium is about to stop being liquid.

And that's one of the reasons why a permanent-magnet MRI is so interesting -- it doesn't depend on a constant supply of power (for the helium cooler) and gaseous helium (to replace lost gas), so the system is portable, and maintenance costs are likely to be much lower.
I don't work in medical devices per se, but I do work in hardware.

I see lots of immediate uses for this. Pro-sports will obviously want it, the military will too, field hospitals in e.g. Africa. Lots of possibilities here.

Can anyone tell me where this device will be manufactured?
I have some experience with NMR from a chemistry perspective. The magnetic field is generated through a super conductive coil. Cool it down with liquid nitrogen, generate the current and you have a superconducting magnetic field as long as you keep it cold.

If it warms up, it’s no longer superconducting and all that current starts generating heat which boils the liquid nitrogen off, which can be quite spectacular. Plenty of videos on YouTube.

So yes, turning the magnet on and off is not trivial at all, but as long as you keep it cold, you’re good.
Compared to the US, absolutely.

Compared to the rest of the UK, London salaries are significantly higher in general.

I cry when I see juniors in the US posting earnings 2-3x that of a senior developer in the UK. If I could work in the US I’d be there tomorrow just for the work.
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> you do need two kinds of things to make physics work

I'm not sure what two kinds of things you are referring to, but it doesn't seem like they are "geometric objects" and "coordinates". All I'm saying is that you don't need coordinates; they are a convenience, not a necessity. I am not saying you need only one kind of geometric object.

> If you have a displacement vector, and a potential gradient, they can't be the same "kind" of thing

Agreed. You need both vectors and covectors, or more generally "things with upper indexes" and "things with lower indexes". But you don't need coordinates to work with those things. The indexes do not have to represent components. They can represent "slots" (at least that's what Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler call them in their classic GR textbook), in which you can insert vectors (for lower index slots) or covectors (for upper index slots) in order to obtain other geometric objects (and ultimately numbers, which are what you compare with actual measurements).
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Not all A's have the same execution path...
That's a fair point, chronic / planned care is definitely a significant portion of the market.
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Lots of hospitals love to use MRI’s as a high margin business. I had a contrast MRI where my insurer was billed $20k and paid $16k.

Same MRI at a stand alone clinic is about $2k.

It’s ridiculous.
> In the entire time I was there I attempted to see a specialist for a condition that I had maybe two or three times, I ended up giving up every single time after I was told the wait time is between 3-4 months. I keep my American employer sponsored private insurance and employer determined time off policy, thank you very much.

I've waited 6 months to see a specialist here in the US. The fact is that countries with universal healthcare have shorter wait times than the US does[1], and they manage to cover all of their citizens.

[1] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
Also it may be difficult to annotate all of the descendants appropriately and to audit them to ensure performance.

I’m in favor of browsers inferring whatever they can, but when it comes to critical performance sections I want to be explicit.