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I eat muesli every morning for breakfast. It's the best way to get oats (raw).

Bravo. I never thought I'd live to see the day. The old pyramid was so outdated.

I had the same experience at Citibank. We started at a small branch in downtown LA with our Series Seed round check for $3M. Even then we barely got any attention, and dealt with just a local branch manager. Later we closed $7.5M, still no attention; except this time due to consolidation we were kicked to a regional team that handled our account as a team. In fact we never had a dedicated banker, we were just handled like so many SMB by calling a banking center. Over the years we asked for things like corporate credit cards and the like, but it always seemed we were just a little too small (I guess with Fortune 50 clients, we were small to them). Anyway we eventually moved to a smaller independent bank for different reasons.

anyone get the exploding star to work?

*had lots of fun playing!

you better run, you better take cover

need this in tokyo

His conclusion is sound while yours is not. Korean is not a dialect of Chinese, which seems to be your implication. Neither is it a "branch" of a tree of which Chinese is the trunk. In linguistic terms it is called a "language isolate". In the past, linguists tended to group Korean and Japanese together; I believe largely for political reasons they have been separated--but that's another topic.

Korean uses many Chinese loan words (in the same way that English uses Greek loan words) but the sentence structure, pronunciation and grammar are totally different. You would not say English is a dialect or branch of Greek for the same reason.

I speak both Korean, Japanese and am currently studying Chinese. Korean does not sound like Mandarin at all because it is not a tonal language. It does sound similar to Mongolian and Manchurian. That is not surprising because the roots of Koreans (and probably their current language) come from the area north of Korea near Manchuria.

The whole genesis of DST was to save energy costs (particularly during 70s oil crisis). I don't see that mentioned anywhere

You're not going to invite Yahoo? :(

Author fails to establish a solid correlation (let alone causal relationship) between "storytelling" and affinity. Furthermore, author fails to prove that Disney is better at storytelling than its competitors. He could have first defined "storytelling" and then provided data-driven proof that Disney focuses more on it than its competitors. This is simple enough to do by running such a definition on content (he could use conformity to a three act structure and run it on all movie scripts in the past 20 years, for example). Otherwise we are left with the tautology that Disney content performs better than others because people like it more ("affinity").

This article is laughably wrong (probably a puff piece to entice Korean students to work in Japan). The truth is exactly the opposite: there are fewer Koreans in Japan every year (as measured by foreign residents in Japan -- this includes work and student visas). The fastest rising immigrants to Japan from 2015-2018 are in descending order[1]:

Vietnam Cambodia Uzbekistan Myanmar Sri Lanka

South Korea comes in dead last, having DECLINED by 10% during the same period.

The truth is that as soon as Korea became a developed country, having joined the OECD in the 90s, immigration to Japan slowed to a trickle, precisely for the historical reasons that you might suspect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_...

"That's how the government works". Calm down. Huawei has been shut out of America (and many other allies) because of allegations of ties to the Chinese government. Amazon is on the cusp of winning a $10B contract for the Pentagon. So, same thing. America and China are now explicitly strategic competitors, both governments have been saying that for the past 2 years. It's about competition, not about totalitarian repression.

singapore is a city disguising itself as a country. there's your answer. for comparison, compare singapore to the richest urban areas of its peers and you will see that advantage go away most likely

uh version control (have u tried the version history?); live updates, arrayformula, importrange, the list goes on and keeps getting longer

I'm an expert at Excel but I switched to Google Sheets years ago and haven't looked back. Version control is probably the biggest improvement; but also ability to insert SQL queries, `arrayformula`, the list goes on.

or failing at their 1st/2nd/3rd tries. that's where i was.

This is not about cleanliness; any type of virtue is resisted by others before it becomes the norm, because of course people tend towards less effort than more.

The "rights" in this agreement are those granting Amazon the ability to share and monetize the screenplay itself. In other words it can publish it and monetize the screenplay as a literary work, which is essentially worthless (how much would you pay for the screenplay to Titanic?). It does NOT have the the ability to make a movie or TV show based on the screenplay.

My startup leases a big private office and we did it because it made really good economic sense. no deposit, major curb appeal that impresses potential clients for zero capex on our part, and flexible in a way in which traditional leases could never compete. There are now so many weworks in our city that whenever our team expands we just move to another office across the hall or to another wework building. Wework is happy to accommodate and roll over our lease. it's an easy move -- no furniture, just desktops computers and personal effects - 24 hours tops.

Meanwhile, potential clients walk into the common area, hear the indie rock and think we're this super high-end, hip, "urban" company filled with creative young people. The reality is that we only step out into the kitchen and ping pong tables when we get bored. We have the option to retreat to our sanctuary any time. It's incredible. Tell me a better solution! There is none!

But as this backlash indicates, the hot desks are the big scam -- essentially younger, non-salaried individuals who are essentially paying for the privilege of providing atmosphere and brand for us, the private suite tenants.

Wework gets the valuation, i'm guessing, because in addition to the typical rental income from the private offices (albeit, these aren't long term leases, but with scale, they don't have to worry about that), they are collecting $500/mo from the hot desks in the lobby area, an area that would normally sit empty. Wow! what a business model. Bravo Wework.

not uncoincidentally, these make for great transitions to a screenplay. Leonard's screen adaptations have been, in the aggregate, very successful.

Technology has always driven the financial markets--because better access to data is what allows new instruments and/or the active trading of new instruments.

Sanford Weill, while chairman of Citigroup, once remarked that their main asset was information, not money (I haven't been able to find the quote but i distinctly remember it from my b-school lectures).

Ho Chi Minh is very much recognized across Asia for precisely the strengths outlined in this essay: his brilliant intelligence, chess-play like negotiations and fierce dedication to the Vietnamese people. That was quite a lesson for me to learn coming from the American education system.

who downvoted this? can confirm, hawaii ultra localized.

I agree, in fact the article specifically states that he was not found guilty of defrauding investors in his pharma business.

I made one change that made a difference: Cancel all-you-can-eat subscriptions, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. When you must opt-in every time to consume content, it makes it easier to instead dedicate your time to creating content.

I'm reserving judgement until I know exactly how Soylent affects our microbiome. This study seems to just have gotten started: https://mycrobes.berkeley.edu/the-study/

uhhh, I disagree with your assessment of him/her as a snob. I go to San Gabriel Valley every weekend for dinner and lunch, and I've never seen any of those things on the menu anywhere. Chinese food in SF is abysmal. I'm not a snob, I'm not even Chinese.

same

When I first met my friend who had the last name "Arabian", as a naive 23 yr old I asked him if he was arab. and he said "no way man, I'm armenian, we're the first christians."

I was properly rebuked, we became life long friends, and that fact has become a fundamental part of how i view all armenians. I went on to learn about their incredible history of survival including the still unrecognized genocide at the hands of the turks. an ultimately triumphant struggle to remain independent and preserve their culture.