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I love little facts like these. Thanks for sharing (and sounding convincing enough for me to trust it lol).

Becoming another individual’s whole world changes your own, for better or worse.

I was a “such is life” type of person when experiencing tragedy, and fairly ho-hum during joyous moments. With kids, something changed, or “rewired”. I tear up at Bluey episodes and lose sleep due to irrational fears of an early death and not witnessing moments in my kids’ lives.

Having and raising kids is a trip.

If it wasn’t for the space before the question mark, I’d have assumed you were a bot.

I tried to use Wave to collaborate on a blog post with friends, rather than emailing each other critiques.

They thought it seemed to complicated and stuck with email.

I’m haphazarding a guess that maybe Google didn’t stick with it because, if I recall, most if not all of their services were free and this one probably cost a lot to run without a clear monetization strategy. If it didn’t increase the size of a captive audience, and they weren’t willing to show ads in the product itself, and they weren’t going to get better data from users to inform their ad services elsewhere…why run it?

Of course that’s all speculation.

The “just tell me what to build, I don’t need to understand why” trope exists for a reason.

I’ve worked with a range of engineers in terms of their curiosity. In my experience, the ones who cared enough to ask or push back on decisions were exceptions, not the rule.

This doesn’t mean they weren’t curious people. It just means they weren’t curious about The BusinessTM or The MarketTM.

A tale as told as time.

The opaqueness is exactly why

If you have T1d, you've been able to get the prescription-variant of this product for years with insurance, so there really is no reason to get this unless you're un-insured.

is dishonest at face value.

The OOP cost can wildly vary per insurer. As important is whether or not the insurance company covers it when you need it.

Typically insurance only covers 30 days at a time. That means on day 29, insurance will refuse to cover the cost at the pharmacy.

Real world schedules, flukey tech and devices, fluctuating pharmacy inventory, and occasionally needing an endo to confirm that you still aren’t the first person in human history to reverse Type 1 diabetes, etc. make “this was covered by prescription insurance” a flimsy-at-best argument against T1Ds considering this.

Non-fungible ones

Surely you’re not a US resident, because “covered by insurance” is definitely not a good enough reason on its own to not consider this here. 30 days of CGM device coverage from our insurance costs more than this.

That said, one actually legitimate reason a T1D may be better off with their prescribed device is if Dexcom doesn’t readily replace the OTC versions the way they do for prescriptions.

This happens way more often than I imagine most who are unfamiliar would think. Anecdotal from an internet stranger, but just last night, we had a third G7 in a row fail well before the 10 day timeline. And speaking of insurance..they wouldn’t cover the early refill we tried to get a week ago when we hadn’t yet received replacements from Dexcom.

"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where can I sell it."

I think this Jobs' quote is more applicable now than ever. Not to mention Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 was spearheaded by Jobs himself. He'd likely have plenty of opinions about today's AI advancements and user-friendly ways to integrate it.

VPN active, by chance?

I think this is great news.

Social media gets a lot of deserved blame for worsening our ability to connect meaningfully across interests and differences in beliefs.

But I have to imagine dating apps have been nearly as bad in terms of their impact on emotional development alongside another person.

They commoditized relationships, whether intentionally or not. They squarely fit the bill of “too much of a good thing”. Relationships are hard, and dating apps removed the incentive (i.e. avoiding the effort of having to find someone new) to work through the hard shit.

I’m sure there’s been a net positive effect for some demos or cohorts. My bet though is a significant number of people are facing an increasingly harder time finding meaningful, long-lasting relationships, either because they or their partner have too high of expectations for how “easy” they should be, and they know they only need a few swipes in an app to reset and try again.

This was me this past weekend. Wife was craving Subway for some reason. I didn’t object until I saw that a foot long was $12. I genuinely couldn’t believe it.

I got my food elsewhere.

To your own point, the reports serve little value aside from a fabricated narrative that some companies like to build feel-goods around.

Discuss the complexities and needs. Break the work into small chunks. Define what progress means. Set expectations for making progress. Regularly and honestly review why you/the team are or aren’t meeting expectations. Rinse and repeat.

Perhaps this is over simplifying it, but these are the tried-and-true high notes in my experience. If at any point one of those steps isn’t feasible, then it’s a larger issue that implementation process likely isn’t going to solve, so the “to measure velocity or not” point seems moot.

Did the majority opinions refute the dissent?

All I saw was that they were dismissed as “extreme hypotheticals”. All of that despite the publication of Project 2025 openly calling for the next conservative president to bend and break bureaucracy to carry out their desires.

We’re firmly in the Fuck Around stage of what exactly this ruling will and will not allow, and one way or another, we’re going to Find Out within the next 3-6 months. I know which candidate I hope to Find Out from.

You think a PM made this decision? Not at least someone at a VP or higher level?

What a strangely narrow way of looking at this.

Work isn’t the only responsibility.

What is the correlation between taking a week away from responsibilities - work, family, etc. - and job satisfaction?

“Welcome” doesn’t mean engage with, read and retain, or purchase / whatever it is the ad is pushing, which is what they ultimately want.

The most well organized, highly educated, and disciplined people tend to be either single (millennials) or married without kids (gen x) by choice.

Source? I’m interpreting this to mean either

1. Of all people who are those things, a majority are single or intentionally childless, and/or

2. There is a positive correlation between being single and/or intentionally childless, and the qualities you mentioned.

I’m equally surprised at how few people seem to understand supply and demand has influence on prices.

Whenever this comes up about athletes and musicians, I say the same thing. I’ve watched friends lament how much money quarterbacks get compared to “heroes” aka police officers, military, firefighters, etc… yet vote against tax increases and buy sports jerseys.

By no means am I defending it per se, but you’re grossly oversimplifying.

That’d be akin to saying “what is sales other than sending a bunch of emails, sharing benefits pamphlets, and taking commission cuts when necessary?”

My 4 year old son has an iPhone, and we’d sooner homeschool him than keep him enrolled if the only schools we could send afford would confiscate or ban it.

I recognize we’re an exception, but he has type 1 diabetes, and his iPhone is essentially a medical device that sends us updates on his glucose levels throughout the day.

I’d hope schools at least make exceptions for cases like this.

I’m gonna strike a guess that the more interesting part is also the most expensive part. Replacing that means saving money.

As my children repeatedly prove: one person’s “not a mess” is another person’s disorganized chaos.

It’ll never happen in the US. Neither political party with power will break away from the corporate interests that determine what laws and regulations will pass.

The last candidate who ran on small donors and wore a proud badge of being anti-corporate interests lost twice. Politicians are figuring out how much money can be made by both acquiring legislative influence and power and accepting donations to steer their platforms, as well as passing legislation and policy that helps siphon public funds into private companies that said politicians have a financial stake in.

Changing private equity power requires benevolence, and there’s very little of that left amongst those with political power in the US.

Define “need”.

I feel like I must be missing out on something or be very adaptable relative to the HN crowd. I’ve worked in my cloffice - barely big enough to stand in, ventless, and windowless - for nearly four years now. It’s not my daily workspace, as I occasionally work on the porch, at the dining table, by our bay windows, etc etc.

I’d say 60% of working full time at home is spent in the cloffice that, based on these comments, might be depriving my body of oxygen in a harmful way I must not be noticing. Am I oblivious?

I’ve not heard anyone call them irrational for voting to protect their job access.

The irrational takes regarding immigration IMO are the ones suggesting immigrants are a unique source of increased crime, despite data analysis suggesting otherwise.

This needs to be upvoted.

I’ve worked at a company with unlimited PTO since 2012.

It was the founder’s preference, as was allowing us all to work from home, because he didn’t want to babysit adults who all agreed to work towards a goal.

It’s never felt like a trap. Employees absolutely take a week+ off work, multiple times a year, and I’ve never heard of anyone ever being reprimanded.

The same founder also continued to pay an employee who was struggling with life in general, encouraging them to take off for a couple weeks and when they were ready, chat about whether they’d continue to work here.

There certainly can be scammy, predatory “unlimited PTO” policies, and maybe my experience is the exception, but I definitely prefer it over having to submit paperwork any time I have to miss working hours to take my kid to doctor, or just to take half a day to with the family on a Friday afternoon.

Just wanna note that having ADHD doesn’t mean you suffer from all of these things.

Tasks with no clear “done criteria”, non-linear steps, or undefined processes will be the worst.

This was a major revelation for me. Even now in my 30s, I have to write out my own “acceptance criteria” for vague and ambiguous objectives at work to make sure I accomplish it, else it gets forever delayed in favor of smaller, more discrete tasks.

You have the right to swing your fist where no one else notices it happen.

Beyond that, it’s up to debate.