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Key paragraph (from the original FT article):

The issue has arisen from idle cash sitting in customer accounts at brokerage firms and large banks, which “sweep” otherwise uninvested funds into interest-bearing alternatives in order to generate income. The SEC is looking into whether the firms steered those clients into sweep accounts that paid little or no interest, and whether the financial advisers at those groups had a fiduciary duty to advise clients they could make higher returns if they moved their cash into other accounts.

My understanding is that most[1] other satellite devices use a centralized dispatch center who have experience with backcountry emergencies.

Speculating obviously, but that article makes it sound like Apple might have tried do something else and that whatever they came up with is more equipped to deal with frontcountry issues.

Sounds like I should keep packing my inReach.

[1] https://www.iercc.com/en-US/supported-devices/

The ban was postponed, as I understand it, as they work through ways to catch people cheating by still using the substances.

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news...

I’m not sure where you’re starting from, but this seems like a reasonable progression to start with:

(1) A video about how the immune system works: https://youtu.be/fSEFXl2XQpc

(2) An infographic from FDA explaining the EUA process: https://www.fda.gov/media/143890/download

(3) Reports from the Advisory Committee on Immunization describing evidence of effectiveness for the various vaccines. For example, Moderna’s: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm695152e1.htm

(Important caveats: I have family and friends who work in healthcare and drug discovery, so I’ve got a tiny bit of layperson background on this, but this is far from my field and I’m far from an expert)

If this caused anyone to be interested in what happens to snowflakes after they fall on the ground, The Snow Grain Photo Library[1] has a library of photos of snow in various states of decomposition and metamorphosis.

[1] http://www.snowcrystals.it/index.php

I think you may have just re-discovered Disruptive Innovation (sometimes also called Disruption Theory): incumbents over-serve their customers by adding lots of features, complexity, and cost. Upstarts can attack them by focusing on only a few core features and/or low price. The incumbents can't respond without annoying their existing customers who have grown accustomed to all the features the incumbent provides.

https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation

The author doesn’t spend much time on _why_ re-orgs “almost always make some people unhappy, cause employee departures, and stifle productivity,” but I’d claim it’s organizational politics. Every re-org has winners and losers, almost by definition: there can only be so many people in charge, and likewise not everyone can work on that cool new feature. This is particularly true in relatively stagnant organizations: your best chance to move up the hierarchy as a manager might be during the once-in-a-blue-moon re-org. _Of course_ zero-sum shifts in organizational status of a bunch of imperfect human beings are going to be political.

The central thesis seems to be that by “involving the team members that would be effected from the beginning and making it their decision,” the discomfort around re-orgs will be avoided.

I might be missing something obvious from the article, but I have a hard time believing that adding more imperfect humans (in fact, all of the imperfect humans the organization has!) into the mix and letting teams self-organize would reduce awkward politics rather than making them worse.

These (fairly specialized) ski boots have a boa lace system as part of their closure system, which uses a central dial to tighten a continuous metal lace. It's not automated, but it's close.

For what it's worth, though, I didn't find them that much faster to put on than normal three-buckle boots.

https://www.scarpa.net/en/f1.html

That does not match my experience (but n=1 and all).

In my case, the result of the sleep study where I didn't really sleep was, "hmm ... it looks like you might have insomnia." (No kidding). No drugs were offered -- or forced -- during the study.

The New York Times has a fairly detailed rent-vs-buy calculator that makes it easy to see the effects of changing some of the variables the author talks about in the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

// I'm making the assumption here that you're _relatively_ new to strength sports. If I've misjudged that, sorry!

My callouses are starting to become a bother and my hands are pretty raw for any other lifts later in my session.

Calluses hurting late into your training session but not the beginning is typically a sign that you're not taking very good care of the skin on your hands.

Donny Shankle, a very accomplished weightlifter, has a really good video on hand care here[1]. It's sport specific for weightlifting, but it applies pretty well to strength training in general.

In addition to what he says, I've had really good success with a combination of a corn/callus shaver[2] and a dremel tool. The goal is to take the peaks off the calluses such that they're more or less flat to the rest of your hands. My typical routine for palm callus care, performed every few days, is to shower so that my skin is relatively soft, shave off any parts of the calluses on my palm that are protruding above the plane of the rest of my palms, and then smooth it out with the dremel's grinder tip set to low speed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otorSGl3sG0

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CYC4BG

Indeed.

For further clarity: The retina is the thin layer of cells at the back of your eye that pick up light. The iris is the colorful ring on the front of your eye.

A retina scan is thing most people wouldn't experience outside of an eye doctor's office. It requires really close proximity with the scanner, and it's very clear that's it's happening.

Phones, including the Galaxy 8 that the author of the article mentions, use iris scanning.

I do the same thing - I make an email alias for nearly every organization that I do business with. It was surprisingly easy to set up with GSuite.

This has the side benefit of making it obvious who's responsible for selling my email address and makes it easy to ameliorate being signed up for unsolicited email lists by burning the email address. (A popular tech journalism outfit has been the worst offender in recent years.)

Generally, agents in legacy airline lounges (e.g. a United Club, Admirals Clubs, etc.) are willing to do things like this.

Anecdotally, I've noticed that they tend to be more senior (so know what's possible / what they can get away with), less busy (so they're less frustrated and frazzled), and tend to deal with much more experienced travelers than a normal gate agent (so, again, they're less frustrated).

You can roll your own VPN on a cloud provider.

Still not perfect, but I'd argue Azure, AWS, and the like are less likely to try to inspect/monetize traffic than a consumer ISP.

The private labeling strategy is also getting to be a thing in the travel hacking crowd too.

See, for example, http://www.frugalhack.me/2017/02/23/private-labeling-101-int...

I use my iPad pro about as frequently as I use my Macbook Pro now.

As I've gotten further away from R&D and into business development and then a management-like role, most of my time is consumed reading and writing emails, using our internal messaging platform, and going to meetings.

The iPad keyboard works fine for writing short emails, it's much lighter to lug around between meetings than my laptop, and I feel less awkward using it in the back of an Uber to read/write emails when going to said meetings than I do my laptop.

You're not going to be in the $1B space selling services

There are lots and lots of companies in the government and huge enterprise services space that have more than a billion in revenue.

A few off the top of my head:

* https://newsroom.accenture.com/fact-sheet/

* http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ctsh/revenue-eps

* http://www.csc.com/about_us/ds/29505-company_profile

I made a quick little zsh alias for the wifi commands:

  wifi () {
  	local opt=$1
  	case "$opt" in
  		(on) networksetup -setairportpower en0 on ;;
  		(off) networksetup -setairportpower en0 off ;;
  		(toggle) networksetup -setairportpower en0 off
  			networksetup -setairportpower en0 on ;;
  		(scan) /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport en0 scan ;;
  		("" | -h | --help) echo "Usage: wifi <option>"
  			echo "option:"
  			echo "\ton\tSet Airport adapter on"
  			echo "\toff\tSetAirport adapter off"
  			echo "\ttoggle\tTurns wifi off and then on again"
  			echo "\tscan\tList available wifi networks"
  			return 0 ;;
  	esac
  }
  

> For whatever reason this seems to get motorists to drive more slowly and makes it safer for everyone.

That's actually a known phenomenon. When drivers experience unusual situations (like roads without stripes down the middle), they're forced to pay much more attention to the actual act of driving.

For more, see here: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/to-make-ro...

Other replies have done a good job describing the actual perks of status, but in terms of "cleaner cells in prison" ...

I'd be happy to go to prison if it meant I got free massages in a spa[1] or chauffeured around in a Porsche[2].

[1] http://travelsort.com/blog/thai-airways-first-class-lounge-a...

[2] http://upgrd.com/regionalfirst/the-best-lounge-in-the-world-...

The regulations you're thinking of are ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards or, alternatively, Engines Turn or Passengers Swim).

Context: I currently train weightlifting with a former US Olympic Team weightlifter and someone who has been to Olympic trials many times for swimming and has since switched to weightlifting. My wife is quite a good climber.

While pretty much all exercise is better than being sedentary, you didn't really pick the the sports without "bad parts" :)

Swimming has a pretty high shoulder injury rate, though as best I can recall, it's a much lower total injury rate than running. Weightlifting is safer still, but it's definitely not without injuries. And finger pulley tendon injuries in climbing happen _all the time_.

[edit for clarity]

The consumer one does have Boingo access, though, which can come in handy.

There's two ways to ensure that you aren't inadvertently running afoul of drinking and driving laws: you can either not drink, or wait a large amount of time after drinking before you drive.

Same with passing bicycles - you can give them so much more than three feet that there's no chance that you're within three feet of them, or not pass them until there is that much room.

Three feet is the minimum. The expectation isn't that drivers should try to get as close to three feet without going over.

Yes, though it's substantially more memory-efficient.

There's a fairly detailed description of the differences here:

https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/wiki/What-uBlock-can-...

I think you're absolutely right about not wanting to bog down your salespeople with old relationships. Here's why:

It seems to me that a lot of companies who are at the point where they'd hire a full-time sales staff struggle with their early clients and not-quite-clients. In hiring salespeople, companies are defining themselves as established players with an established product to sell, whereas the relationships with early customers centered much more around being the new guys on whom the buying company is taking a risk and often getting a say in feature development and a discount compared to the competition.

Re-framing those early relationships, especially "with middle managers from dinosaur companies," is a very long and frustrating process for all the parties involved.

I could absolutely see why you'd want to avoid your news sales staff getting sucked into those relationships and instead do what they're fantastic at: parachuting in, developing new relationships quickly, and pivoting those to closed deals.

(Background/assumptions: I do bizdev-ish things for a large tech company. From the tone of the article, I'm assuming that we're talking about B2B businesses with products priced such that the relationship with individual clients takes time to develop.)

Several pieces of evidence point to this not being true:

There's a fairly large government program specifically designed to award technology and R&D contracts to small businesses. http://www.sbir.gov/ There's even a good bit of hand-holding through the process to make sure the business knows how to sell the resulting product.

I've also seen many, many dozens of sole proprietorships awarded non-SBIR contracts.

I'm not about to try freediving without proper instruction, but some of those sound generally useful.

Can you share any good resources for training?

There's also a heavily modified backpack that carries a StreetView camera.

https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/streetview/trekke...