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Medical racism and sexism are very real.

One in four residents believe blacks have thicker skin than whites: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1516047113

I'm not sure about California, but the federal WARN act and many state laws have an exemption for "unforeseen business circumstances" – a hole big enough to drive a truck through.

To answer the title: no.

LinkedIn is a perfect containment zone as is. Leave it. Any alternative will die an unused death, or will gather a critical mass of recruiters blindly spamming their jobs/thought influencers shitting out their opinions to as many “connections” as they can.

Any place that tries to target LinkedIn will only replicate its terrible SNR.

“Fellow travelers” in this context is an old American term for socialists/communists who may or may not be a member of a socialist/communist party.

I think the filters used are designed to filter high volumes of air moving at a relatively low speed - think about how they fit in a home central air system, they’re at the very end of the system before the fan and they have an entire house of ductwork between the blower and them.

Having built one, I don’t see any way the filter stands up to a box fan at high from 12” away. The filters are just media reinforced by cardboard.

No worries – and ultimately, you are absolutely right, it's all down to what you want out of it.

The two things I wanted to flag were

1) watches can have surprising value fluctuations, so they're worth being appraised professionally: just because you have "a model X from company Y dating back to Z" doesn't mean you'll get the valuation right if you try. If Papa were a desk diver at COMEX instead of Arthur Andersen I'd have likely ended up with a 5514 instead, and my six figure watch would be in a safe somewhere, not on my wrist.

2) many companies, when repairing, will not hesitate to add modern components. Rolex is apparently notorious for this, but others do it as well. In the opinion of Rolex, a watch is a watch: your GMT-Master with a Bakelite bezel is no different from a GMT-Master from 2022, it's just out of spec and needs a refresh.

The combination of this has lead to horror stories where people send their watch in for what they expect to be a fairly routine service (cleaning, oiling, etc.) and end up with an entirely different watch.

Do be careful having your vintage watches serviced.

I was lucky enough to inherit my grandfather's pre-COMEX 5513 in very good condition - one or two tiny specks on the dial and a light scratch on the case. The appraiser gave me the warning that I should never send it to a Rolex repair center for servicing under any circumstance. If I did, I'd likely end up having the original acrylic bubble being replaced with crystal, the case polished high heaven, new tritium applied, and it'd probably be worth $15k less.

Collectors want a watch that shows signs of life; they value a nice patina. Many watch manufacturers service things to "modern spec" and try to make a watch look new. For a watch that old, I'd strongly suggest you find an independent watchmaker or two and get them to give you an estimate before you do anything.

That is great, and as someone just starting to dabble with Rust I'd love a resource like that.

But: no matter how well-curated your site is, and no matter how quality those libraries are, and how well maintained, "batteries-included, in the stdlib, backed by a compatibility promise that the dev team is willing to uphold" carries some serious weight.