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Interesting that you picked one from the “B” words..

My kids watch streamers on YouTube and the common replacement is “frick”. It’s said so often that they started using it saying things like “what the frick!?” so I had to explain to them that’s essentially the same as using the real word.

This story reminds me of how the original owners of the Highland Mint (they make the coin for the Super Bowl coin toss) were swindled out of their company.

https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n06a31.html

Would you say the same thing if we're talking about caffeine? I know many productive members of society that spend all day drinking coffee. They would even suffer actual withdrawal symptoms if they tried to stop.

I found that with the pens/oil I have no self restraint. It's just too convenient and easy to take a quick puff anytime I would feel stressed, bored, etc. Whenever I get an oil cartridge I smoke it every day until it's gone.

Lately I switched to gummies only. It helps because I need to be more deliberate. For me they take an hour to kick in and last a few hours after that, so I know I'm making a conscience choice of whether or not I want to be stoned for the next few hour.

It looks like where you went wrong was replying with a screenshot of your calendar. That and the likely passive aggressive text accompanying it was probably a red flag for Jacob. The fact that you posted this drivel vindicates him.

I listened to an interesting podcast about how the first every Duty Free shop was started in Shannon airport.

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/18/612441091/a-look-at-where-tho...

I actually enjoy my commute. About 30-35 minutes each way. Gives me time to listen to a podcast and mentally separate my work and home lives.

This is an excellent analogy. I've been struggling to understand why I feel like I'm one of the minority that (like OP) isn't really in love with WFH. You just described my motivation in one simple sentence.

Why would you find it hard to believe Joe Rogan has an actual registered nurse RN working for him? Not like he can't afford one.

My wife currently works as a nurse at a hospital. She's tired of the poor working conditions at the hospital so she's applying to work at an infusion center for better hours and pay.

I learned this when I dated a law student while in college. They teach an entire class to the first year students dedicated to presenting the facts of the case, the way lawyers do in their opening statements. They actually had to create the set of facts for each side. It was really interesting how you could totally bias it by what you emphasized or left out and the different words used (i.e. word connotations).

Great reply. I agree that the writing in the post is excellent. While we're giving constructive feedback I'd add this sentence:

I cover tech here in Brazil for +10 years and run a +9 years old independent,

It should be past tense "I've covered", and in English we do everything backwards so 10+ and 9+ are more natural. So I'd change that to:

I've covered tech here in Brazil for 10+ years and run a 9+ years old independent,

Well you no longer have to pay the lamplighter, milkman, weekly blockbuster rentals, etc.

Post says "battery prices" so I assume that is for the material costs only. I expect labor costs to be a significant adder. It seems replacing an EV's battery would be similar in scope to replacing an ICE car's engine.

That is cute. Like a story I heard about a kid that thought WTF stood for "Wow, that's funny".

Commercial real estate. A lot of contracts will be up for renewal / renegotiation in the next 6-18 months. Many companies will take the opportunity to downsize their physical footprints due to WFH.

I don't believe they're saying that the nuclear plant can't provide the base load, it's that the California government won't commit to buying the base load from the nuclear plant.

Living "paycheck to paycheck" implies that if you miss a single paycheck (due to losing you job) then you'll no longer be able to make ends meet. If you have any savings or emergency fund built up, then you could conceivably quit/lose your job and continue paying your bills for some time, even if you had previously been spending your entire paycheck.

If you have an emergency fund then you aren't living paycheck to paycheck. You could miss a paycheck and pay rent / eat using savings.

The reason is that we don't know what the next rate will be. So if you bought in April you are guaranteed the 7.12% and then 9.6% return, versus buying in May you will get 9.6% for 6 months and then an unknown rate after that. It could be more, it could be less - most people are expecting it to be lower.

I'm guessing they mean the climate will be nicer due to global warming. I've actually been thinking of buying property there in case my current home in the southeast ends up under water sooner than expected.

I recently saw a good talk about this point.

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

This whole situation reminds me of the Spanish-American war. At the time Spain was thought to be a great world power, but in reality their ships were old and in disrepair, so much that a rag tag group of Americans defeated them in a few months. The whole Spanish empire collapsed afterwards.

This reminds me of how ignorant most adults & teachers were back then about the internet.

When I was in 10th grade (~1995) my high school had a new class called "U.S. History with Internet". Kudos to my school for trying to include the internet in the curriculum, but what it amounted to was 3 days a week of normal history class and 2 days spent in the computer lab. Ostensibly we were supposed to be doing history research on the internet, but of course we did anything but. The best part was they had the shop teacher teach for the internet days. He knew less about computers than most of us 15 year-olds. He'd slowly read directions off a paper - "Type in the U R L bar..." and we'd already be 5 steps ahead of him.

My friend got in trouble for looking at homemade bongs, but the hilarious part is that the teacher was convinced he was actually looking up bomb making instructions and that "bong" was some sort of obfuscation.

You are correct that IF works because you eat less calories, there's no real magic there. The key though is that it is mentally easier than other diets to actually eat less calories.

Most diets fail because people need to make a decision about what to eat at the worst possible time - when they're hungry. Whether ordering at a restaurant or looking into the fridge at home, a regular diet expects you to make the healthy choice when your body is craving the bad food. With IF hunger is easier to tolerate because you can simply look at the clock and remind yourself you can eat in X hours. I also feel that it turns hunger into a good feeling, like a sore muscle after a workout, it feels like progress.

An added side effect I noticed when pairing IF with weight lifting is that when it was time to eat, my body actually craved the healthy food like protein.

You should move to Florida. The pandemic has been over here for over a year.

In a four-month pilot study testing the EMADE program, the service got 14 heart attack alerts that would be eligible for drones. Drones took off in 12 of those cases, and 11 successfully delivered the defibrillators. Seven of those defibrillators were delivered before the ambulance arrived.

So if this is the first patient saved does that mean all 11 people that were delivered defibrillators in the pilot study died?

I don't think this is due to a perception of older developers not being as good as younger developers. I think most people would agree that a more experienced dev would have better skills and be more efficient.

I believe it all comes down to pay. The experienced developer commands a higher salary than a 20 year old, rightfully so. But employers fail to see the added value they bring, just as they have trouble identifying the 10x programmers out there.

I can echo OP - have given a lot of presentations over the past year to blank screens. I used to enjoy presenting and thought it was one of my strengths, now I end every presentation with that sinking feeling like I bombed. Maybe I just need the feedback, but I also feel like I can tailor the presentation to the audience better if I pick up on body language in person. For example I may quickly gloss over a slide or spend ten minutes explaining the background depending on how the audience is keeping up.

But once they've gained know-how and experience, they will look for a different company hoping to use their newly acquired commercial experience as leverage to get better compensation. And that's exactly what they should do!

I disagree here, and I think this is the main reason we're having this conversation. If someone has been trained up or learned on the job such that their skills are more valuable, then their employer should treat them as such and give them a raise. I've seen time and time again that good employees leave just to get compensated fairly. Alternatively people get disgruntled and leave when an experienced outside hire is brought in at a higher pay band to struggle to do the same work that they've spent years learning to do.