YuriNiyazov

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From https://www.mdpi.com/editors "MDPI is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The in-house staff consists of Managing Editors, Assistant Editors, Production Editors, English Editors, Copyeditors, Data Specialists, Software Engineers and Administrative Specialists. Except for most English Editors, all are employed by MDPI and its subsidiaries and work at the MDPI offices. Our collaborating editors on our Editorial Boards are typically employed at academic institutions or corporate research facilities located all over the world.

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In my view, the arguments are much weaker than the people making them believe they are. I don't mean to say they hold no water. I just mean that they are not made from people who stare at financial spreadsheets day in/day out trying to make a red number become black.

Let's reject 80% of them right off the bat from the editorial desk.

We now have twenty articles left to properly peer review. I had originally said 15, so let's make it 15.

In order to get three peer reviews in an article, you have to email thirty people, because the conversion from "request to peer review" to "get a review" is 10%. So, to get 3 peer reviews, you have to email 30 people, and then maintain a funnel (some people dont respond, some people say maybe, some people say yes, but in a month, etc. etc. then reminders, follow-ups, etc.) until the peer review is done.

$200. Let's say the total cost of an employee is $50 / hour (salary + insurance + taxes). Surely it's plausible that it takes a total of 4 hours, spread across multiple months, to maintain multiple (start at 30 and then drop) threads of communication that eventually get a review to completion.

And I did not include in that calculation anything that even remotely includes any other administrative costs, or, heaven forbid, "how much the CEO makes"

First thing to handle in this case: if you look around the studies, you will know that chronic pain is a precursor to proper, clinical depression. So, if you are not getting psychiatric/psychological treatment for depression, that's the very first thing to attack. A common response to this is "but I am in chronic pain, not somehow sick in my head!", and if that's an objection that seems to resonate with you, you should get over that objection, fast. Chronic pain causes depression. Your writings sure as shit sound like you are depressed (well, you know, it's not proper to diagnose people across a text forum, but I'll take an exception in this one case).

The combination of drugs and lifestyle changes that saved my life were Welbutrin for the chronic-pain-caused depression, and Lyrica for the actual pain, and private pilates workouts for the areas that were actually in pain in order to re-train the nerves and muscles around the area to send proper pain signals, and swimming to maintain general body health. I did nothing other than that for an entire year; sounds like you have a similar opportunity. Onboard yourself onto my cocktail across a period of four months, 1 item per month. Start with either lyrica or welbutrin.

Lyrica in low doses makes one drowsy, and in higher doses has a perking-up effect. If lyrica seems to fix your pain but makes you drowsy, the proper response is to go up in dose, not down.

Both lyrica and welbutrin are available as generics at this point, so you really just need to see a doctor that would be willing to give you these prescriptions.

The author would pay $12/year for 10 pages per year, without the cost of the cartridge. You need 20 years before you reach the cost of a $240 cartridge. The cartridge would’ve dried out before then.

This entire article is an exercise in “I can’t do math”

I think instant ink is a better product in terms of money saved, especially when you account for the risk of cartridges drying out.

Now, to be clear, when it first came out, I thought “evil capitalists” just like everyone else in this thread. But I think it’s wrong, there’s just a yuckiness factor associated with paying monthly for something you theoretically own.

I think we should just move on as a society from the idea that you somehow “own” cheap personal property like phones and printers and fridges, etc.

Everything is perpetually leased

The primary job of an executive is risk management. Let’s say I run an engineering team where people have good ideas 70% of the time, and bad ideas 30% of the time. Famously, it takes 10x the number of resources it originally took to develop and deploy, to remove a bad system from production and replace it.

.7 * 4 + .3 * 3 = 3.7

.3 * 11 + 0.7 = 4.0

An engineering team that doesn’t take 3x the time it takes to do something to verify it ahead of time is actually slightly less efficient overall ( assuming that 3x the time it takes reduces the error rate to 0)

Yea there are lots of simplifying assumptions here, these are all averages, plans don’t all take the same time, etc, etc, etc, and a more sophisticated system would take it all into account. But the results don’t usually change, unless in very special circumstances.

This is not secret knowledge

To put it more bluntly, there’s a lot of haters here.

The employment agreement (and therefore, the non-compete) says that it is governed by the laws of the state of New York. The employee, when signing such a letter, agrees that the employment is to be governed by the state of New York, and therefore the non-compete is enforceable. Especially since the other company, Bloomberg/Second Measure, is also a New York company.

This has no consequences for the tech industry in California - a company based in California with employees in California is not going to have an employment agreement that says the agreement is governed by the laws of the state of New York.

This only has consequences for remote workers that live in California and work for companies in states that allow non-competes and the employment agreement says that the employment is to obey the laws of the non-California state.

How essential are you to the operations of your customer?

The way I became a local Postgres expert - I skimmed through every chapter of the postgres manual, and read in great detail a great chunk of it.