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Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff
Great Question puts customer research on autopilot for product, design and marketing teams. Everything from surveys to customer interviews and prototype tests - then share what you learn with your team all in one place. Run by second time founders, backed by Y Combinator, loved by companies from Adidas Runtastic to Linktree and O’Reilly Media. We’re a small but mighty team on a mission to democratize research throughout the world’s most progressive product organizations.

About the role:

As Chief of Staff to the CEO you will wear many hats; your core responsibility lies in defining and executing strategic operational projects ranging from launching new products, to forging partnerships, establishing our sales playbook, and recruiting key positions. This role is for someone with a growth mindset and insatiable curiosity.

What you’ll bring to the table:
* Project Management experience: you’ll research, develop, and deliver special projects and strategic business initiatives under the guidance of senior leadership
* A never-ending curiosity that drives data analysis: you’ll help discover, synthesize, model and analyze data to drive decision-making
* Strong communication skills: you’ll prepare presentations and written memos for the CEO or COO on top company priorities
* Experience working at a startup or similar work environment with limited resources
* Strategic mindset: we’re looking to bring on a strategic partner who can be flexible in supporting and driving many projects and tasks to support and enable the CEO as a thought partner.

Qualifications:
* 3+ years professional experience in consulting, investment banking, or previous Chief of Staff experience
* Start-up experience in an operational capacity a plus
* Critical thinking and analytical/problem-solving skills, and the ability to combine and balance qualitative analysis with a proven understanding of strategy, operations, interpersonal and technical competencies
* Thrives in a fast-paced changing environment
* Low Ego and High EQ: no job should be too small, nor any problem too big to work through, particularly through collaboration with the team.

Apply via careers.greatquestion.co or email ned@greatquestion.co
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I think this is an overestimate because DAC is so inefficient when there are so many sources of higher grade CO2 emissions, both natural and man made that could be captured well before DAC makes any sense. Why would we bother doing DAC when you could capture streams of nearly pure CO2 from factories or even volcanic seeps etc?
Worse, the "upper management" will assume it was a talent / investment problem since "they sunk so much money into security". Oh that darn booming industry.
Because window backgrounds were gray in NeXT, because buttons used both white and black to create beveled "3d" borders, because beveled buttons were a fancy upgrade compared to simple borders in 1-bit graphics. Screen resolutions and drawing speed weren't good enough to waste on thicker borders, so 1px lines had to stand out on their own.
It's the window with the caption "Microsoft Help". (And it's actually Windows 2, not 1 as the article claims.) A help file was a bunch of hyperlinked rich-text documents in a single file. The hyperlinks could even span help files, though I don't know which Windows version introduced that.

(Edited for tone.)
The downvotes are because you are parroting a common misconception. There is no 'duty' (legal or otherwise) for a company to pursue producing profits for shareholders.

They have to act in the interest of the shareholders, which could mean all sorts of things other than producing profit. That could include things like "not paying huge amounts of money on lobbying and advertising campaigns to spread misinformation about renewable energy and try to cast doubt on climate change for decades while they knew it was real"...
I believe OS/2 1.2's help system used a different color for hyperlinks but it's hard to find a definitive screenshot.
I used Pydantic for a JSON API project recently and found it extremely useful.

Say your API accepts the following JSON POST:

POST /create-entry
{
"author_id": 123,
"title": "My new blog post",
"body": "<p>...</p>",
"tags": ["writing", "productivity"]
}

Your API needs some validation here: some of these fields may be required. The "author_id" field must provide the ID of a valid author (that the API caller has permission to create posts for). The "tags" field must be an array.

More importantly: if there is a validation error, you need to provide an error message explaining what was wrong. This can be quite tricky to do well, especially for complex nested JSON objects.

Pydantic solves this problem really well - including returning detailed error messages helping show what went wrong.
Apple is taking steps to move away from Yelp:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/22/apple-maps-ratings-plac...
That's not how I interpret that quotation from the article at all. "The trick to that is democracy" not "the trick to that is lobbying."

Instead of spending your time trying to reduce your own "carbon footprint" spend it convincing other people to support legislative action.

"Big Oil" wants you to spend your time working just on yourself instead of spending your time sharing the information about why we need to reign them in. The private individual efforts of 5% of people will do less than the evangelical efforts of that same group.
Excellent? It works but Google are pretty obviously the top dog here
I read one of the linked articles in the article, the one that said men who take steroids and don’t exercise gain more muscle mass than men who don’t take steroids but do exercise. I should admit that I’m personally biased against the conclusion but I find the results interesting. I had a few nitpicks however:

1. I question how optimal the training stimulus was. They said it was controlled and they worked out 3 times a week and for the squat/bench press they started out at 4 sets of 6 reps varying between 70/80/90 % initial one rep max and then increased weights after 5 weeks and increased the number of sets to 5. I think it’s obvious that more exercise would result in more muscle mass gain up to a certain point and I think the amount of volume they’re doing is really suboptimal even for a more average weight lifter. I didn’t see them go into more detail about the workout routine which would’ve been nice.

2. With such a minimal routine, muscle mass gain is going to be limited to the areas that are being exercised. Taking steroids is going to increase all muscle mass throughout the body. The placebo + exercise group had a slightly higher increase in strength, very slight, but still higher than the steroid + no exercise group. If they wanted, a weight lifter could change the routine to maximize overall muscle mass gain. Presumably they weren’t really hitting some muscle groups (shoulders, hamstrings, calves, back, core). They weren’t doing deadlifts. So it makes sense that the steroid + no exercise group had higher muscle mass gain because they were experiencing a full body stimulus whereas the exercise + placebo were not (even if they were I question how optimal the routine was since as far as I could tell they didn’t release detailed workout routine).

3. This is even more nitpicky, but there is going to be a limited ceiling with no external stimulus (exercise). In the long run the steroid + no-ex group will plateau whereas the placebo + ex group will be able to increase muscle for much longer.

So I guess I disagree with the conclusion “men who take steroids but don’t exercise gain more muscle mass than no steroids + exercise” despite the results supporting it.
You are lucky that you had access to those services. In many poor countries the majority of citizens do not have a bank account.

Even if international banks created these services (why haven't they done more of this already if it's easy?) these people would not be able to access it.
100% agree.

But this does not go over well with the masses.
I honestly don't understand what great feats of technical debt removal or code simplification browser devs are hoping for after removing alert() etc. JS engines will still need the ability to stop-the-world, unless they want to get rid of breakpoints next.

I'm also of the opinion that chrome devs should first try to write a "javascript for absolute beginners" tutorial before giving sage advice what such a tutorial should teach and what it shouldn't.

... though I can sort of understand the viewpoint. From a browser developer's PoV, you could probably never be too early in teaching about the event loop, promises, callbacks and async/await. Except that this seems at odds with how programming and JS is actually learned by users.

This reminds me a bit of the Java language design, where you're in theory supposed to understand classes, objects and static methods before you can even write a "hello world" program.
Components for producing SDRs are impacted by the overall semiconductor shortage very significantly, too: keeping stock of what are fairly niche products is difficult when times are good, but with component lead times in the 52-80week ranges (and still increasing), there's absolutely no room to adapt to what customers might want a year from now. It really sucks for everyone.
Most housing discussions seems to avoid one of the main reason driving the prices up, their treatment as an investment vehicle.

Residential housing should not be used as an investment vehicle. Period. Its primary purpose is to allow families to own and live in the house. Mandating that can eliminate the rich landlords/foreign investors buying houses just for investment, stabilize the demand and drive down the prices.

One way to mandate that could be progressive property tax based on how many properties you already own with a max cap on number of allowed residential properties one can own. This might decrease incentive to build new housing for developers, but can be solved by temporary tax breaks for building new housing.

Am I missing some second order effects?
Durum wheat was likewise introduced to Italy in the 9th or 10th century AD, if I recall correctly as a consequence of the Muslim conquest of Sicily. Interesting to think that those iconic elements of their modern cuisine were introduced "recently" in the historical sense.
I agree with the sentiment that designing a product for mainstream appeal can make it seem bland, but I don't think that goes all the way to "Over time, everything converges into mediocrity."

There are so many things today that are better than in decades past. Computers are unbelievably faster. Electric guitars are much more consistently high quality. Cars don't break down as often.

Maybe the problem is that the word "mediocrity" is too big. It encompasses both quality (which I think is mostly improving) and uniqueness vs blandness.
The problem is, who gets to decide what is misinformation?

If you declare misinformation as a reason for banning something, you really just create an arms race to declare anything you don't like as misinformation in order to ban it.

Misinformation is fought in the market of free speech and ideas and critical thinking. Not by banning it. That's just might makes right.
> You might say that the infinite set of real numbers between 0 and 1 is ad big as [N]

No, I would say that it is much bigger, since [0, 1] is uncountable.

> there are not infinite frequencies between 0 and 1.

Personally I think time is continuous. It sounds like you believe it is discrete. But such a debate is entirely irrelevant to the set theory.
This reasoning doesn't make sense since every person or company using any public platform or any public cloud infrastructure can do bad. Person who does "bad" is liable for it not underlying platform.

For example politicians who don't like Bitcoin say something like "Bitcoin is used for drugs" yea but dollars and euros are used for drugs as well so it makes no sense to say Bitcoin is bad or declare any person using public service as good or bad.
The unmoral corporate and legal pressures and incentive structures they're in dictate that they do their best to earn short term profits. They are unconcerned whether their actions kill off humanity eventually, that's simply not a factor they're capable of caring about.
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I think it is correlated to the rise of free (as in $0) software.

People don't like to pay and developers want to make money. So the strategy is to make the initial cost low, preferably zero, and then make the user pay, directly or indirectly. It is not new, we had things like shareware in the past, but now, developers have more options, and they use them, because the most "user-hostile" thing is to ask for money, especially a large up-front payment.

I know some people prefer to pay, but they are a minority, and therefore, it is not the most profitable way to monetize.
The same space is used for the web colors, but I don't know if there's a causal connection there.
Carbon externality pricing is another attempt at market intervention that faceplants in practise. It doesn't get properly implemented, because it's politically unpopular, it gets fudged with highly speculative green-washing "offsets" that amount to planting a few trees and then counting your forests before they're grown (the trees subsequently die of neglect), and the costs get passed on to the little guy.

The correct approach is to outright ban gasoline.

There are cases where no alternative exists right now, such as flight. Those uses should be restricted away from casual use.

Yes, this means no flying on holiday, until they get hydrogen airplanes up and running.
That document (DA 18-980) talks about "importing two-way VHF/UHF radios... used primarily for short-distance, two-way voice communications."

In other words: cheap walkie-talkies that don't comply with FCC regulations.

Such radios typically max out at 5w.

The LimeSDR claims 10dBm - which I believe means about 10milliwatts.

In other words, that FCC memo is concerned with radios being sold that are something like five hundred times as powerful as a LimeSDR. And therefore much more likely to interfere with other transmissions.
> But I hate web development. How can I “jump ship”?

Hate is a strong word. Eventually you will at some point have to write boring HTML and CSS and maybe some Javascript.

I don't hate web development, but I have grown to dislike the rapid pace at which that industry changes. It seems the minute you think you have grasped it all, the whole ecosystem changes. New HTML elements come out. New build systems, libraries, even entire stacks come out (Think JAM stack etc).

However as an industry, web standards have matured to a degree that writing a SPA is an allowed thing to do. It used to be you'd have to cater for a bunch of browser quirks for different browsers. Now you can safely write something in Firefox and it will work in Chrome with no cross-compat coding on your part. I will give the webdev scene that, but it still changes too frequently for my liking. So you've just mastered React? Watch out, because gatekeeper recruiters will put 'Must have strong proficiency in Svelte' just to annoy you.
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Note that it's not just SSDs that can have completely different components on the same part. I've seen many USB wifi dongles with the same model number use completely different wifi chips internally.
So equating banning a user to the rights of a private organization might be a _little_ disingenuous? Some might say a straw man for the fact Twitter did so out of fear of liability pursuant of a government which deemed that user's opinions offensive? Would Twitter have removed the authors of the US constitution for fear of legal liability from the Crown? Isn't that, like, the reason the first amendment even exists? So does the government have constitutional ground to stand on for deciding what is misinformation or illegal speech, private platforms or not? Evidently so. Because... private company?
>But the byline of the article is "the media focus on Mike Richards' insensitive comments misses a deeper issue with the host search that "suggests the problem may not be just a bad branch, but a rotten root." So even without his comments, he did not approve of Richards.

Yes. And? Even without his comments, I don't approve of Richards either. Abdul-Jabbar goes on to describe why, and I endorse his straightfoward explication:

>"Admirably, the producers had rotated guest hosts that represented a cross-section of America: women, men, Black, white. Many were more than just entertainers, they were also doctors, journalists, people with demonstrable interests beyond the television industry. But when it came to choosing the permanent host, they defaulted to a white male with a background as a television producer and game show host. His credentials included stints behind the scenes at The Price Is Right and Let’s Make a Deal, shows featuring avarice more than advancement. The choice of Mike Richards was business as usual."

I don't know that you're justified in assuming that Abdul-Jabbar is engaging in a "'just another white guy' rant", given the rest of the sentence, the first of the article in which Abdul-Jabbar mentions Richards' race.

If one actually reads the article, it's clear it's not about race at all, as much as it is not choosing some uncredentialed white guy who denigrates others based on their race, when they could be appointing, say, someone more emblematic of what Jeopardy represents in Western entertainment. Like someone from the diverse and intellectual guest host list. Anyone.

>So if the criticism were simply his comments (which I dont even know what they were, but let's just say they are disqualifying) there wouldn't be an issue

To be honest, I think that taking a position like the one you've taken without knowing at least this much about the situation is surprising. Could it be that Richards is familiar enough to you that you're defending him reflexively?

>So let's cut the crap: he thinks that conservative white men are holding back society from progress. They are anti-intellectual deadweight clinging to the past. They are deplorables. Richards is just another, factory-produced white man inseparable from a sea of others. We cannot possibly represent diversity--because we are all identical. Whereas choosing a ethnic minority is a breath of fresh air that we can all rattle our pom-poms over.

Uh. Abdul-Jabbar's stated criteria are not "a non-white guy". They are: having the appearance of a public intellectual and not-racist, and Richards is neither. I have no idea why you'd jump to such a startling conclusion. It's entirely unsupported. I'll excerpt it again:

>"The ideal host for Jeopardy! should embody what the show means to its viewership: a passion for knowledge and a respect for a diverse community. Maybe the host would also reflect that diversity in order to show that it’s not just white males who can be the gatekeepers to these values."
This is a bummer, but when I heard the news last night it inspired me to add this functionality to the bot I've made for the server I'm in with friends.

For anyone looking for a fun, quick project to do I recommend checkout out discord bots, discord.py is a great library that allows for some pretty cool stuff!

The most fun I've had is hooking it up to OpenAI so that typing "!ai some prompt" here will get the bot to respond back with OpenAI's response
This is not true. Using the U.S. as an example, there have been over 70,000 COVID deaths since April (previous 5 months). Yearly auto accident deaths typically are between 30,000 and 40,000. COVID has killed twice as many people in less than half the time, even during a period of widely available vaccines.
> Republicans could have promoted conservative solutions like nuclear energy and carbon pricing.

Arguably the two most important missed opportunities, imho.

We would still be left with transportation because battery tech advanced on the back of the consumer electronics revolution, but with cheap nuclear power and a functioning emissions market, we could accelerate the transition much faster.
This piece is a great idea, but I was disappointed at the execution.

New, but doesn’t mention Apple’s photo scanning. Forced Windows upgrades and telemetry mentioned but buried. Focuses on keyboard lights, which is fine but not exactly near the top of my list of concerns. Doesn’t mention ads in the OS.

Finally it blames “developers.” This phrase could include management from certain perspective. Honestly, I’m sure approximately zero engineers are pushing for this stuff.
They could certainly have been good for the world and also bad for the world going forward. We even have cliches about this, "too much of a good thing," etc. It's not a difficult concept.
No - the FBI didn't use the access controls correctly, that's the point. If they were used correctly, the unauthorized access wouldn't have happened.
That's anecdotal. I know many people that use bitcoin every day.

Bitcoin is much more useful (currently) to people that don't have access to traditional banking systems that many people take for granted.
They have their own chip designs, but the manufacturing is done by TSMC.
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> If the government abdicates its role, I agree you have the right to enforce your own personal justice. [...] I also find it a bit spurious to say that the government has abdicated their permission, but the laws are still in effect

You've conceded that in absence of a government, people have the right to enforce their own personal justice. If the right to pursue justice still exists in absence of a government, then some sort of law must also exist in absence of a government (from what else would you derive a right to seek personal justice?) The laws to which I appeal now do not come from governments, books, or gods; I believe they are encoded in our genes after eons as living as a social species. Social instincts which evolved to facilitate cooperation in groups are the root of all basic laws written down by governments. When somebody is wronged, in violation of these universal laws, they feel it in their bones.

If you don't believe any of that, believe this: when people feel wronged they will seek justice. Either a government can provide them with a safe framework to receive justice, or people will seek it themselves. You'll never succeed in scolding people away from desiring justice. When seeking vigilante justice is routine, that is categorically a failure of government to provide justice.
> Someone gets by effraction in an apartment/house, stay there for 48 hours and they are good to stay forever.

That's not true. No mention of 48h anywhere. Only place i found it is here: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F35254

"Le préfet rend sa décision dans un délai de 48 heures, à partir de la réception de la demande." which roughly translate to "The prefect renders his decision within 48 hours of receiving the request."

We have a family house that was squatted on the coast during last winter. We asked the squatters to leave (while redacting a letter to the prefect) and they too believed the "48 hour" stuff. The police did not however, and made them leave quite quickly (less than a week).