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Same. I would look at that every time I was in the bathroom and wonder how they died. Did they suffocate from toxic gasses while exploring a cave? Maybe it was more gruesome like falling into a hot spring and getting boiled to death...
It would bother me forever.
The feds doing this for airfare was the best thing to happen for consumers shopping for flights.
They need to redo it for airfare, because the airlines have figured out how to workaround it by splitting out things that used to be included (seat assignment, baggage, etc). Some airlines now have sliding rates for bags and so you have to know the exact flight to get the price for checked or carry-on bags. Even if it's split out from the total, all of those *potential* fees should be available up-front as well.
It's really a treatise on good leadership and management from the perspective of a showrunner.
There are a bunch of great quotes, but this bit from 4th Law (Make decisions early and often) really hit home for me:
But you know what "nice people" and "good bosses" actually do? They rip off the Band-Aid early, make the case for their decision, hear out any remaining arguments to a reasonable degree, then shut down the discussion and send everyone off to get on with their work.
Even worse than making the wrong decision is not making a decision at all, that's true in any leadership position.
Other sources I've seen are blaming the dramatic heat during the summer of 2019. It "scrambled the broader marine ecosystem" causing die-offs and migrations for many species of fish. Snow Crabs are primarily deep water scavengers so they had plenty of food that year, but have struggled since.
The senior architects and principle engineers at my company have started scheduling focus hours as well as office hours for people to drop in and ask questions.
They were getting stretched pretty thin by being invited to design meetings for multiple different teams, and the office hours have been a great way to combat that burden. People drop in, ask some design questions and leave. Since there are usually multiple people waiting to ask questions it keeps the discussion short and focused instead of filling up a 30-60 minute meeting just because that's what was scheduled. It also lets the architect decide to schedule a focused design session if it's needed instead of letting others fill their calendars.
The bipolar-level manic highs and depression/lows are very real.
I've had to be very careful about NOT using those terms when talking to doctors and psychiatrists. As a layperson that description seems to fit, but it causes huge red flags for medical professionals and they freak out, resulting unnecessary tests and evaluations for my kid.
The key term for the "manic" phase after the meds wear off is "Rebound Effect". Also when the dose is too high the generally accepted term is "zombie mode" or "zombie-like". Calling it an "overdose" will really cause people to freak the fuck out.
It's changed a few times over the years because of insurance, but right now it's Focalin XR and 5mg Ritalin as needed up to 2 times a day.
As the parent of a child with ADHD that is medicated, it seems completely plausible that it could cause depression. When my kid has had too high a dosage (or accidentally takes a double dose) she's like a zombie, completely flat affect, and very little motivation. It's like it drains her life away.
Part of the problem is that it's very difficult to get the right dosage for any given day because diet, metabolism, and hormones seem to have a big impact on how effective it is. We've found it's better to go with a lower-dose extended release, and then let her self-medicate with 5mg regular tablets as needed. This works great now because she's a fairly responsible teenager (when medicated), but it was really hard when she was younger.
According to a coworker that had worked at IBM for a couple decades it was a great place to work until sometime in the mid 2000s. It was like they suddenly noticed how shitty Oracle was and decided that was the business model they needed to follow. Labeling older employees as "dinobabies" is a perfect example.
Baseline demographic, lifestyle, and dietary data from the UK Biobank were used
This data is from the UK where coffee is still significantly less popular than tea. Would be interesting to see the mortality risk of coffee vs tea drinkers though.
you can break the trip up into "daytime travel", stay in a city like Chicago for a few days, and then "overnight" to the next city
My limited experience with Amtrak in the West or Midwest is that it's impossible to reliably plan like this. Amtrak is renting access to rails owned by freight carriers and constantly gets delayed or blocked by freight trains with higher priority.
Their "schedule" is an absolute best-case scenario that never actually happens. The trains usually arrive somewhere between 2-8 hours after the scheduled time, and occasionally it just doesn't show until the next day. They have an app that's supposed to give the "accurate" arrival time is often wildly off as well.
Data-journalism is actually a thing, and bigger organizations like the New York Times have done some pretty impressive work building tools and training programs for their reporters.
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-t...
It's not like there weren't issues then as well - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/steve-jobs-says...
Yeah, the headline could easily be flipped with the subheading and most people's reaction would be drastically different.
Overall I think a single-payer system is for the best. Having healthcare tied to your job creates another anchor to keep people tied to large, stable companies instead of taking risks with startups or small businesses.
The main downside is that companies have started doing tiered healthcare costs based on things like smoking or health indicators. Having income tax based on your weight or smoking status is probably a non-starter, so it removes some of the incentives for people to make good choices (and reduce healthcare costs).
LastPass was great for almost 10 years until LogMeIn bought them and they've been messing around with the business model and pricing ever since. I paid $12/year for several years to get mobile access. Then after they were bought I was somehow automatically upgraded to their premium plan for $36/yr. They had given notice but it went into my Promotions inbox and it was months before I realized it. Every year since they've tried different pricing models and it's been frustrating to keep up with.
I had been planning on switching over to Bitwarden in a couple months when my current LastPass subscription runs out, but I just found out that LogMeIn is spinning them off into a separate company again - https://www.zdnet.com/article/logmein-announces-plan-to-spin...
According to the article, education (particularly for women) seems to be the biggest factor:
The strikingly different fertility rates in different regions of India reflect the role of education, says EM Sreejit of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in South Asia. Kerala in the south, which has the country’s highest literacy rate, achieved replacement fertility back in 1988. Bihar in the east, with the lowest literacy rate, won’t get there until 2039
* lightweight AR glasses
It seems like AR is the key to making the Metaverse a thing. VR is neat, but the current experience reminds me of 3D TVs from a few years back - gimmicky and awkward. Even if parts of the physical and digital worlds bifurcate, I still think there's a lot more AR could do by linking them and making it possible to build a digital world on top of the physical.
The Daemon series by Daniel Suarez showed an impressive vision of what AR could do in a not-so-distant future where online information is linked to physical entities. The things to make it work like haptic suits or lightweight AR classes with overlays and a HUD are getting fairly close technology-wise.
Above a certain threshold, every veneer of civilization vanishes no matter what the country (some have a higher threshold than others).
At this level, only power matters. And the first rule of power is: Don't embarrass the powerful unless you can call on a lot of power to defend yourself.
Steven Donziger is another great example of this rule: https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-...
Chevron has decided to make an example of him by ruining his life in return for a $9.5 billion judgement he won against them in Ecuador.
If you want a better conspiracy...
Honestly, that's not very far out as far as conspiracies go. Zuckerberg has been asking for more direct regulation for at least a couple years [1]. Then listening to some of Frances Haugen's testimony I started to wonder if Facebook was consistently optimizing for engagement and profit because if they didn't, then some competitor eventually would. If Facebook decided to be more benevolent now, then that future competitor might go full evil and overtake Facebook
It's very Machiavellian, but by going full evil right now, Facebook might force the government to intervene and essentially prevent future competitors.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-chief-mark-zuckerberg-...
Microsoft flat-lined for over a decade after the antitrust lawsuit. They completely missed mobile and nearly missed cloud. They've had to do a 180 on open source and they've had to offer some tools free of charge for small or independent developers.
Lately they've actually done really well, especially as Google, Amazon, and Facebook have stumbled with privacy and reputation. There was a while though were M$ was the definition of EvilCorp
That's interesting. As a developer I've often felt outright hostility coming from Apple developer relations, and maybe it's this lack of a partnership mentality. They generally treat end users really well, but it's like they see external developers as some sort of parasite feeding on their products. In my experience it's difficult to get actual technical help unless you personally know someone internal to Apple.
We had this happen to our truck when I was a kid. The exhaust pipe was packed from the catalytic converter back through the muffler. It took a bit to figure out what was going on and then I had to get under and cut holes in the exhaust pipe in a couple places until I found clear pipe.
After that we started putting soup cans over the exhaust pipes if they were going to sit more than a day or two.
However I would argue that 1:1 is the one area you shouldn't try to minimise
It should also be a scheduling priority. A 1:1 may not seem super important, but it's often the only time an employee will have to talk with their boss. Repeatedly cancelling it (especially last-minute) is an indicator that your employees are not a priority and that can destroy trust and kill morale.
It definitely was until ~5 years ago. I think the 2016 election was the turning point. There has been a stream of negative PR for Facebook since then, and it seems like everything they've done for damage control only made things worse (especially anything from Zuckerberg).
In my experience the only concrete distinction between "Frontend" or "Backend" has been whether you touch CSS or not. Everything else has been a grey area.
There was also Lake Agassiz[1] in central North America. An ice sheet collapse in the northeast may have caused a sudden drainage of the lake leading to an estimated 0.8-2.8 meter rise in ocean levels worldwide. It's also believed this dramatic outpouring of freshwater altered the Atlantic ocean currents and caused a climate cooling event about 8,200 years ago[2].
Wages are a huge part of it, but right now these companies are trying to go from < 25% capacity to > 100% capacity in just a few weeks. Companies got used to being in an employers market for the last decade or more to an employee market overnight.
Plus there are a ton of other factors affecting employees that I really wish reporters would research more. Just a few the ones I've heard:
* Got a different (often better) job
* Went back to school full-time to get or finish a degree
* Lack of transportation - sold their car during COVID and can't afford to buy one now
* Lack of childcare - can't find or afford childcare now (demand is pushing up prices there too)
* Staying home with the kids - after being forced to do it some people decided staying home to raise the kids is a better life and they could afford to do it
* Unemployment is still paying better than any job they can find
* Retired - some people were putting it off and others decided to retire early rather than go back to work
* Long COVID - still sick or physically impaired months later
* Dead - COVID or other causes
Long-COVID is the one I would personally like to see statistics around. I know a couple people in their 30s and 40s that are still unable to function normally 6+ months after being seriously sick with COVID.
It's a combination of weak social safety net and people living paycheck-to-paycheck (or worse). Roughly 1/3 of US households have a hard time covering monthly expenses, and another ~1/3 are a paycheck away from disaster.
If you lose a job in the US, you lose your healthcare (COBRA is way to expensive to be an option). Minimal housing protections in most states means you're one missed payment away from homelessness. Food banks are critically short-staffed and under-stocked across the US. Jobless benefits can take weeks or months to receive and even then they're usually well below what a person needs to survive.
There was such a stigma against moochers and "welfare queens" in the 80s and 90s that politicians would rather cut funding to all benefits than let one person abuse the system. Florida even spent $178 million on drug tests to save from paying out $60k in welfare because addicts don't deserve to eat for some reason.
There was a piece about this on NPR (I think earlier this week, but I can't find it right now).
It sounded like they're making some assumptions because the mRNA vaccine causes most people to produce a higher level of antibodies for a longer period of time vs the real virus. However, antibodies are not the only part of immune system, so it's possible that other parts of the immune system may still be effective.
The real answer is we don't know that yet conclusively, but we do know the vaccine is effective, so until we have a better understanding it's a good idea to be vaccinated regardless (especially if you have any risk factors).