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Very timely article, as I'm currently sitting in the doctors office waiting room to be seen for a sprained ankle.
The resulting vasoconstriction from cooling, not only reduces tissue oxygenation with necrosis if extreme, but inhibits the inflammatory response needed to initiate healing.
Wondering if this means applying heat would speed up healing due to increased blood flow.
The difference is that a traditional RWD car has a heavy engine in the front, but is being pushed from the back where none of the weight is. So lack of traction and fish tailing is the obvious result.
However, I think a RWD electric car would have less problems with traction (and thus, fish tailing), since the weight is distributed over the length of the car more evenly.
I think push vs pull is legit, but I don't think it would be as much of a problem when all the weight isn't in the front. I'd be interested to hear from some Tesla owners who drive RWD in the snow.
I mean no offence, but I think a few of these opinions are probably because of your skill level on both a snowboard and skis.
It works far more of your core muscles and your quads and hamstrings that skiing does, so it takes some time to figure out how to control all that with the precision.
If you're skiing hard, the core and quads are fully engaged. Especially in deep snow. In fact, I suspect that you need more engagement on skis.
The key for me was to really understand that the board itself wasn't something I rode on top of, but instead of was a living vessel I was part of, and that I could twist, rotate and otherwise manipulate using movements in my legs, subtle shifts in center of balance and core muscles. Once that started to make sense it became much easier and I found it far easier and more rewarding that skiing for me.
Everything you said here about snowboarding applies to skiing, however it takes longer for that to click on skis because there's more to coordinate.
Skiing is many moving parts you have to coordinate, snowboarding is one moving part with many subtle means of expression.
I definitely agree with the sentiment of one moving part with subtle means of expression, but when you get good at skiing, it starts to feel more like one moving part.
This is my experience as someone who snowboarded for 15ish years before switching to skiing a few years ago.
Not a fan of riding with headphones for one main reason. You won't hear other people yelling for help. This is especially important when you ski off piste at west coast resorts. I never want to accidentally miss something yelling for help or blowing their whistle in a tree well. If you're an east cost skier, this is probably less important.
Also, it's infrequent, but I have avoided a few collisions because people yelled out at me when I was popping out of the trees onto a piste.
I find most people are naive of the problem especially in the west coast states, unless they spend a lot of time outdoors either recreationally, or landscaping, gardening, ranching, farming, hunting, etc.
I find that most people who spend a lot of time outdoors are also naive about Lyme. I can't count the number of people here in BC who've told me that Lyme doesn't exist here (medical doctors included). The employees at REI asked me why I was buying permethrin just to use in BC. They said Lyme isn't a concern here.
I wonder why you can't sell it here. They even recommend it on the government's travel site:
Not legal to sell, but legal to possess. I go across the border and stock up at REI in Bellingham. No problems bringing it back across. Apparently this is quite common for lower mainland residents. When I brought 4 big bottles of the stuff up to the register, the first thing they asked was if I was Canadian.
Maybe, but it can easily be interpreted as mean spirited, and added nothing at all to the discussion.
A Microsoft MVP probably shouldn't be throwing shade at another company's marketing term.
Genius (and I'll be using that term sarcastically from here on in)
Slightly off topic, but it really bugs me when people ridicule these workers who are just doing what they've been instructed to do. Seems to happen all too often when discussing the Genius Bar.
Nobody pays a marginal rate > 50% in Canada. However, this will be counted as a capital gain, since Match almost certainly bought his shares in the company. That means 50% of the proceeds will be added to his taxable income. He'll pay around 25% of his total proceeds in tax.
His employees probably owned ~10% of the company, so let's say he sold his shares for $500M. He probably walked away with around $375M after tax.
Founders are committed and in for the long haul, and either make a lot of money or none.
This used to be true, but I don't believe it is any longer. It's become fairly common for founders to do secondary sales and cash out some of their equity early on. For example, the founders of Secret famously sold $6M of their stock 6 months after starting the company.
Sometimes employees have access to those sales, but in many cases they don't.
I think you're misinterpreting my original post. It's not a shot at the Pebble, or any other device. It's an argument that the Apple Watch is not a toy, and is actually quite useful day to day for many people. It was an argument against a generalization, not an argument for one.
I can, but it would probably be more efficient for you to just go look at the website.
You've mentioned four things that are part of the messaging app, and phone calls.
If you aren't aware of the other things Apple Watch does that Pebble doesn't, you should probably do some more research.
This is one of those features that has to be 100% perfect for it to work in this form factor
As an Apple Watch owner, I can state that this is not the case for me, and thus it clearly doesn't have to be 100% perfect. Might it frustrate some people? Sure.
The tradeoff is that my watch can do many more useful things than the Pebble. The additional features are significantly more valuable to me than multiple day battery life and an always-on screen.
This is a small feature but saying its not actually useful is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.
I think we have different definitions of "absolutely ridiculous".
The bid difference that I think people are trying to state is that no one really uses any of those other features. Not really.
I'm curious which features you are referring to? I have no need for 5 day battery life on my watch. Would it be great? Hell yeah. However, I also have no problem tossing my watch on the charger when I get in bed, just as I do with my phone.
5-7 day battery life and always-on, e-paper-like color screen. This enables you to use Pebble as an actual watch
I'm not sure why the "always-on" aspect is an advantage. The Apple Watch display turns on when I raise my wrist to look at it. Always-on seems more like a vanity feature than actually useful. If you aren't looking at it, it serves no purpose to be on.
The battery life has never been a problem for me. I put the watch on it's charger when I get in bed, and take it off when I wake up. I don't think I've ever hit < 40% battery at the end of the day.
Apple's strategy of building an expensive toy.
I don't believe that is the intention at all. I think Apple is trying to create a truly useful device, with a much broader scope than Pebble. Personally, the Apple Watch has been very useful for me. I would be very unhappy if I had to give it up. My Apple Watch watch feels significantly more utilitarian than my phone.
I also think you're underselling the fitness aspect. I've been much more active since I got my Apple Watch. The importance of physical activity is hard to understate.
Also, I visited my doctor recently and she was a bit worried that my pulse was high. I showed her the graph of my pulse over the last week, and she was no longer worried. In the future, when we can measure thinks like blood pressure and blood glucose, it will significantly improve people's health. That's clearly where Apple is headed.
I love Pebble as a company and I think they make a really great product. However, it's wrong to say the Apple Watch is nothing more than a toy. It's already had a decent impact on my life, and I think that impact will be exponentially larger in a few short years.
What does Pebble do that Apple Watch or Android Wear doesn't? I know many more "geeks" with Apple Watch or Android Wear than Pebble.
Point #2 is technically correct, but I think it's perfectly legitimate to block people from recruiting your employees at your place of business, while they are working.
Lyft isn't trying to block Uber from contacting Lyft drivers at home, on Facebook, on LinkedIn, etc. They are trying to block them from abusing the Lyft service to recruit. It would be like Apple trying to block Google from waltzing into their HQ and walking from desk to desk trying to recruit their employees.
I think you've already made up your mind about PG, and there's nothing I can say that will change that. So I just won't say anything.
I think you misinterpreted that. PG said funding decisions aren't made based on similarity to the people making the funding decision.
John Doerr is saying that sometimes one of factors in making a funding decision is similarity to other massively successful founders, not the people making the funding decisions. PG has been pretty open about the fact that pattern matching to other successful founders is very common.
It was definitely a dig, but I don't think he was seriously implying the US isn't a first world country. I think the frustration stems from the fact that the US is the most obvious example of a first world country, and yet still hasn't figured out how to provide cost-effective and universally available healthcare to its citizens.
I think you're underestimating how entrenched the CC companies are in our society. I agree that they'll eventually be replaced, but I doubt it will be in the next year, let alone the next 5 years.
I think Coin is a nice intermediate step between 10 cards in your wallet, and no wallet at all. Intermediate steps are viable businesses. I think Square is an intermediate step, and they seem to be doing just fine. They're obviously going to be at the forefront of eliminating cards all together, but they knew that credit cards aren't going away anytime soon, and so they leveraged that to get their foot in the door with the merchants.
I don't think this means what the title might imply. Photo Stream will still only store photos for 30 days, so it still doesn't replace Everpix or Loom.
I'm sure you're right. I just don't understand how this is a problem that Blackberry could have. They've been doing high volume messaging for longer than anyone. This is a terrible analogy, but it would be like McDonalds having a waiting list for Big Macs at some random new low volume location because they don't know how to make them fast enough. I say low volume because the additional BBM users they're getting from Android and iOS (I would imagine low to mid single digit millions in the short term) can't possibly compare to the number of existing users they have on Blackberry devices.
It's interesting that they have a waiting list. I guess it could just be for marketing purposes, but you'd think that BB probably has the most experience of any company building scalable messaging infrastructure. I can't imagine their system would buckle under the load of a couple million users.
It would seem obvious why there might be a negative correlation between wealth and violent crime. Violent crime essentially has the lowest barrier to entry. I'd have to imagine that if poor people had the option to choose white collar crime over violent crime, they would.
He ran it for 7 years before being acquired, and is still working on it at Green Dot. I would consider that taking his own advice.
I don't really see this lasting for very long. All it will take is one drunk, out of control idiot with a pocket knife to ruin the whole thing. I think most of us remember those two RIM employees who were so drunk they tried to chew their way through their restraints. Now imagine if they had pocket knives...
While it may not have "inherent" value, it certainly has value. The attention of a user base can be extremely valuable if effective advertising is used. The majority of Google's revenue comes from advertising, and no one would claim they are not a viable business. Facebook is now making a non-trivial amount of money from advertising as well.