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It appears Google spared the MBAs while laying off engineers.

The FDA allows generics to be sold within much looser tolerances than the brand product (variances allowed of +/- 20% of active ingredient per dose.) If you've ever noticed a "brand medically necessary" checkbox on a prescription a doctor has given you, that's what it is there for.

I once received a 96kbps copy of a very old studio album that became one of my favorite albums ever. I listened to the 96kbps version countless times. It sounded dark and otherwise colored in a way that I felt added to the vibe of the album.

I was travelling and didn't have the album on me, but I wanted to show it to a friend. I downloaded a 256 or 384kbps version, and much to my surprise, I didn't like the way it sounded at a higher bit rate at all! The added clarity made some instruments stand out a bit more than others, and I found it distracting and too lively.

The delta in quality between 384kbps and FLAC (to my concern-worn ears) is narrow enough that I can't really tell a major difference.

The article doesn't really have anything to do with pharmaceutical sourced Methamphetamine.

The author contrasts contemporary street meth, which is reportedly created in vast quantities using a variety of toxic industrial chemicals, to illicitly produced meth from 15+ years ago, which was primarily made from naturally-occurring ephedrine.

The point of the article, I believe, is to outline how synthetic production has changed the end product and the way it affects the user. It is said that psychosis observed in users of the early 2000's type of ephedrine-sourced meth was typically due to the user being awake for several days, where as modernly produced meth can induce such psychosis within hours of use. This seems to indicate higher neurotoxicity, and the author questions whether it is due increased potency or contamination of product through production.

It looks like they were able to exploit the Last Level Cache of Intel and Apple processors, but failed to do so against an AMD processor using the Zen architecture. Instead of plainly saying as much, the authors simulate a theoretical leakage rate for AMD processors by way of making V8 expose clflush in absence of a practical LLC eviction mechanism.

In 2006 PayPal tried to deduct ~$500 dozens of times in a 48 hour period due to what was obviously a software bug. This resulted in me being overdrawn by around $900. No matter who I spoke to on the phone with Bank of America, nor which branch manager I met with in person, nobody could do anything to help me.

The most I accomplished was having a branch manager agree to waive 1 overdraft fee since I had never overdrafted my account before.

PayPal was even less helpful.

If I enable overdraft protection with my current bank (Wells Fargo) then they will charge me something like $17 to transfer money from my savings account to cover a charge that my primary account wouldn't have enough funds to cover.

This was a good reminder that I need to switch banks. Maybe I can find a good Credit Union in my area.