ChrisBland

I miss heroku dearly. somewhere at Salesforce there is an exec who killed the product and shifted it to enterprise and is now looking at the vibe coding revolution seeing their opportunity missed.

Wilhoit Law; There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

There is no way you get Wilmette to change zoning. They've fought with Small Cheval about the size of their sign for like 9 months. I doubt you'd get any village in the NT district to rezone - the Optima project was pulling teeth, everyone is worried about overcrowding NT, which as a single HS is pretty packed now

The hardest part of this is actually grappling the satellite. Shuttle had the arm, how will spacex capture?

How much value are you providing to your customers? Thats how you figure out what you are worth.

It has lost contact before and come back online. Sometimes the communications signals can get blocked, expect the rover to more closer to get a visual and attempt to establish contact. If the helicopter lost signal it goes into an auto land mode similar to what drones do when they lose signal.

At some point we do need to look at the hedge funds that have a school attached as well. The endowments at some of these universities is astounding.

It is a plus to have them integrated, I believe the issue is m$ was basically giving it away for free for anyone who has the office suite. As a CTO faced with reducing spend on SaaS, do you cut slack for essentially a free clone of it? Not a hard call, but that becomes anticompetitive behavior. Similar to the shipping of IE with windows back in the day.

Sad that your town keeps electing the same leadership with no long term vision on how to improved the community. Sad to see towns stuck in their ways to move forward

NASA's budget peaked in 1964–66 when it consumed roughly 4% of all federal spending. I wish we were spending this much on science now

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Writing code is the basic 101 of our industry. Anyone can write a loop or an if statement. With todays computing power, for most applications even poorly written code will run and will execute quite fast. What makes someone a 10x (and i hate that term) is the ability to take requirements, or better yet, a vague idea given to them by the business and turn that into software that benefits the end user and makes the company money. The 10x engineer gets to the 'why' that you are building something, not the 'how'.

If you think about some of the really interesting architecture of San Francisco, do you think they could be built now? Imagine trying to get the golden gate bridge built today. At some point you have to accept that not everyone is going to like every aspect of your plan and tell them to go pound sound or nothing will ever get done.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard

This makes sense; as generations come of age in this country there has always been a shift in where people live based on the advancements in technology. From the early days of trains allowing living outside city centers, to the invention of the automobile and subsequent suburban sprawl with the interstate system, it would follow that the internet and remote work would change how we live. As demographics change, so does the politics based on who stays and who goes in each city.

Resort Diving is mostly safe, the dive profile helps keep you safe. At 30ft, a lot less can go wrong. You can easily survive a rapid ascent from 30ft, heck you likely don't need to actively blow bubbles unless you took a huge breath or are ascending super fast. OP who hasn't dove in a while shouldn't make their first dive on vacation a 120ft bottom. They will likely not remember how to breath, how to swim and will consume too much air and blow the dive for everyone. I refuse to dive with strangers on dive boats, I have never once had a dive buddy physically verify my secondary and some of them get weird when I ask them to verify their primary and secondary with me. The 'I know' eye rolls when i show them where my weight release is, where things are on my BC. Honestly thats what pushed me in to technical diving, everyone takes it serious. If we do our math wrong and the drop tanks aren't sufficient or if the trimix was off we were all dead. When we did cave dives, knowing each exit, knowing the routes we were going to navigate. Rehearsing the transitions between lines. Even with the best planning, things go wrong. Read up on the Diepolder II and III caves - scary stuff

I'm an avid diver; got certified as soon as I turned 12 years old and have had some great adventures and life lessons diving and continuing my training and education. After many many conversations and encounters on dive boats with others (some seasoned, most tourist / rec divers) - I believe that 90% of the industry sees diving akin to a roller coaster ride instead of Skydiving. The risks with scuba are there for you to see and the situation can get deadly very quickly, but most people don't see the inherit risk or shrug it off. I've watched countless divers who are renting their bc/reg/tank/computer not even go through the most basic safety checks prior to diving. They simply trust the operator and jump in. This is not a "batteries included" sport. It is that lack of preparedness that leads to fatal accidents, people who don't respect the sport for what it is and the dangers that come with it. If you don't plan your dives, understand the dive profile, then you are going to panic of make a stupid decision when you shouldn't. When I was younger, technical dives; cave and deep, where my two favorite things to do, the amount of planning it took to pull off the dives was enjoyable and I enjoyed pushing myself in to those situations and the focus it required. Now that I have kids, I won't do those dives anymore b/c I understand that when you plan them, there is a greater than 0 chance that you don't come back and its not worth it to me to take that chance.

Higher Unemployment = More people chasing fewer jobs = salary should fall Lower Unemployment = More jobs chasing fewer people = salary should rise

If the cost of labor does not rise due as it absorbs the previously unemployed workers in to the labor force, it blunts the inflation effect for goods and services as those costs don't get passed on to the consumer

Of course; we just can't say that part out loud otherwise there would be a run on masks and the healthcare workers would be in such a shortage it would further exacerbate the strain on the healthcare system.

I think you're missing out on a few of the big SaaS players here and then some of the smaller ones you never see if you're not in that dept. Most companies will have some CRM (salesforce, dynamics...), an ERP system (Workday, NetSuite...) and some marketing system (Hubspot, Marketo...) each of those will cost you a few thousand. Then there are the smaller tools, HR / Recruiting, T&E, team planning (monday, pivotal...) and finally Email/Calendar - just look at what GSuite costs. All of those costs add up quickly for the rank and file employees.

Exactly, not all cartilage is the same. The good stuff doesn't come back unfortunately.

I wish this was true. I've had cartilage damage in my elbow from sports and have gone through major surgery over it. This technology has always been '10 years away'; from mesh or paste with stem cells, to other 'new' technology to regrow it. It simply is not there yet. I check every year, I reach out to any doctor starting a clinical trial. Hyaline cartilage does not regenerate naturally. The best they can do is get the body to reproduce Fibro cartilage which is essentially scar tissue. For those wondering about what treatments are available, check out Microfracture (breaks bone to release bone marrow cells to generate Fibro), OATs (osteochondral autograft transfer system) which pulls cartilage out of other areas and then places them in the damaged area. If this were to ever be true, it would be the biggest breakthrough in quality of life improvements for seniors as they are the most likely to experience breakdown in cartilage in joints. It severely limits their mobility.

An interesting thing happened a bit ago related to public companies and how they must account for leases in the accounting standards update 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). For lessees, any leases that are over 12 months in duration will need to be presented on the company’s balance sheet as a right-to-use asset and corresponding liability for the obligation to pay rent.

So if you are a public company; you can rent space from WeCompany at an 11mo period and you can magically reduce your liabilities vs signing your own office space. While this may seem like a small change, this change could allow execs to improve their financials with accounting gimmicks.

Correct - the fully baked cost of these employees is much higher than the extra $/hr increase. The bigger kicker is this location is fixed, they HAVE to pay their employees this amount. The consumer is NOT fixed and given an increase in prices, has the ability to conduct commerce in an area near Emeryville that was not impacted by the higher wages. So all things being equal, the same sandwich made a few miles away may be a few $ cheaper and for people on a limited budget, the consumer may make that choice. It is similar to when a city/county raise taxes within their limits on certain items, lets say cigarettes, then are surprised when instead of raising revenue, the amount of revenue overall collected falls after this increase. Consumers have the ability to purchase outside of the city's taxing authority when the marginal increase is more than the perceived cost to the consumer to travel to purchase them. This is basic econ 101, maybe 201. While these attempts are great, they fail to factor that in and should be coordinated at the state level to have any impact. Even with that, states deal with this all the time when people go across state lines to purchase booze, or leave high sales tax states when making large ticket purchases. It is no coincidence that just across the border from Illinois in Wisc/Indiana there are best buys / appliance stores that do huge volumes of business.

No one was shocked in Illinois after Pritzker ran for gov and one of the first proposals he and his family put forth was to get rid of the estate tax in Illinois.

This was an inevitable conclusion, I grew up in Hong Kong and we left in 1996 during the handover along with many other ex-pats. We saw the writing on the wall as did many others based on how horrible the handover was going. It is a true shame what is happening to Hong Kong now but I don't see China relenting to pressure as that would only embolden other cities to do similar protests. I worry for my friends who are still there as the only way this is going to end is in a continued escalation of violence. As someone who visited Tiananmen Square in the early 90s, it was amazing how quickly the country moved on and refused to discuss it. I worry that is what is going to happen in HK.

If you have access to a Parrot AR Drone or other programmable drone, you can have them script out how to make the drone fly. I'm dating myself here, but you can use the Logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) examples but in real life instead of a turtle drawing on the screen. Ask them what they want it to do, "do a flip" will be the most likely answer. Well, what do you need to do for that, we need to take off, then what do we need to do... and so on and so on.

The keyboards would work fine on the touch screen, but every 2 years you'd need to buy a new dongle to plug in your battery

Each person is different, honestly have a sit down with your trainee and ask how they have been successful in the past learning new skills. Some people like to read theory and understand it fully before ever putting pen to paper, others like to try and error out. If you put the wrong method in front of the person, neither of you will enjoy it.

How would you have handled taxing commercial/investment property (illiquid asset) from 2006-2012. Do you mark to market? If so, how? How can you do this at scale so the process is fairly applied in all regions, repeatable and trackable?