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As an anecdote, the company I work for has a 90-day window, but when we were bought out the options were taxed as regular income (it was on our W2) -- there was no favorable tax treatment.

A worse variant of this is when people use a name that their listeners wouldn't, e.g. using "Mom"/"Dad" with a non-sibling instead of "my mom"/"my dad", as in: "Dad is in the hospital." Seems weirdly self-centered to use a name that your listener wouldn't use when addressing the same person.

I'm American and I wouldn't do this, unless I had just introduced them. I assume the OP is referring to situations where the introduction of the names, if it happened at all, was a long time ago. In that case, I would argue the etiquette should be the other way: it seems slightly inconsiderate to assume the listeners have committed your family tree to memory if they've never met them.

Not sure why his future share is capped. Is this part of a compromise of giving him a board seat?

These masks are made in the US (as mentioned in the listing) and they're on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/NIOSH-approved-anti-counterfeit-packa... I bought some and they're pretty good.

Yep, and the costs is good summary of where the compromises balance out on average. Since urban areas cost more, it's fair to say people prefer urban areas more.

That survey didn't ask respondents to ignore price, so it's not simply revealing what they want. Urban areas cost more and this was presumably considered in these responses.

Even if the responses were the same ignoring prices, I would probably put more weight on the market prices (i.e what people actually do and the resources they devote to it). Why do urban areas cost more and have a lot of people if people don't actually want it?

Couldn't an organism that ages more slowly keep reproducing longer?

I got two pair of AirPod Pros replaced twice too. I wonder if OP knows about the defect and program that Apple will replace them?

https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...

This happened to me on two separate pairs (!), and Apple replaced them both for free.

https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...

BTW, you mean AirPod Pro (not Plus).

When I read of someone dying prematurely, I actually find it reassuring if the person OD'd -- it's an identifiable cause that I can avoid in my life. Seeing people drop dead for no apparent reason causes me more anxiety!

I can see the flip side though, that it having been preventable makes it more tragic.

Yeah, the article is focused on what to do about it, not convincing you that it's true.

> Now it's true that they don't get into detail about the estimate

That's one way to put it. I would say they declare it and offer no basis or detail whatsoever!

I agree with your point that stating 70% vs some made up precision is a (small) sign of integrity in conveying uncertainty, as opposed to the parent's comment coming to the opposite conclusion.

Do you have a better estimate for the percentage?

I share your skepticism because there's no source, and indeed the burden should be on the author of such an article, but you seem to be making strong unfounded statements yourself.

Probably Piketty has some relevant data?

> You get good ideas from years of hard leisure.

The article seemed longer than it needed to be, but that's a good phrase, "hard leisure."

> Don’t assume anything about an autistic person.

But yet the author describes herself as an "autist," so presumably the author does believe we can make some reasonable assumptions about what being autistic means -- what would be the point of using that label otherwise?

I think the point here is that some of one's assumptions will be wrong and that you should flexibly adapt rather than stick with your initial assumptions? I would agree with that.

I wonder if what people get out of the general advice literature is more like a reminder or motivation, rather than actual insight.

Right, and won’t the fancy private school count for more comparatively now?

If some Congressperson went short the market and then tanked the market though some statement that would indeed be very bad! Has anything like that ever happened? That would presumably nuke that person's reputation with costs far greater than whatever financial gains could be had.

If they're long the market and then boosting the market... I mean, isn't that what we want? You'd have to go further than a blind trust even and ban owning equities at all.

Not simply "exempt", unless you're referring specifically to the trade window part. There is in fact a law making it illegal to trade on insider information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act Arguably it did not go far enough.

I just don't think Congress has much in the way of insider information most of the time. Antitrust litigation would be one example where they do, but what else? Company insiders by contrast almost by definition have insider information.

True, in advance would be better.

The "Congressional stock purchases index fund" would underperform though https://www.investopedia.com/tiktokers-track-lawmakers-perso...

> Academic research revealed that senators' stock purchases underperformed the benchmark during six-month intervals by 17 basis points between 2012 and March 2020

They do have to report their positions. Not sure if that's a "restriction" per se, but that is something that insiders have to do as well, and it's something retail traders do not have to do.

If they are using insider information so effectively, anyone is free to copy their moves, no?

EDIT: That they only report 45 days after the fact is indeed a significant difference from company insiders and severely limits how well someone could profit by following along.

Does refactoring down to nothing in F# make you a better programmer in other languages? That sounds like you just like programming in F#.

>I now constantly think about how to avoid side effects, how to minimize mutability, how to ensure my code flow is readable and not cluttered by irrelevancies (notice how the author keeps bringing up "noise"?)

Sure, but you would get that from pretty much any FP language. This article seems to be making claims for F# in particular.

It sounds like you did find work in F# (if you wanted it)? What language are you using?

> I like F# because it's the best programming training language I've found.... It still works great for making me think about and become a better programmer, no matter what language I use in everyday work.

I can understand how trying a range of language can make you a better programmer, by better appreciating the dimensions of language design and how it fits together, etc. but I have harder time accepting this stronger, more specific claim. There's not really any support for this claim in the article.

Right, but no one is claiming Python notebooks is the world's most productive way to work!

Right, but I mean it's a notebook-based language/environment so they seem hard to uncouple. Just looking at the link I posted it seems a little complicated. Have you used Mathematica in a team situation?