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I would have also thought this an insult, until joining a company where nobody was classifying the tickets.

She tried to defund the Special Olympics. Her brother, Erik Prince, founded Blackwater, the security contractor repeatedly accused of murder and other crimes in Iraq. She had no experience in education prior to her appointment. Her stated goal is to defund public education, and her own department, in favor of using public money to support private "faith-based" schools. She's taking advantage of the pandemic to try and steer stimulus money intended for public schools into the hands of wealthy private schools. Even by the low low standards of the Trump administration, she a notably horrible public servant, defiling the department she's supposed to be leading. There is an endless supply of well-sourced stories trashing her, but here's one more or less at random: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/betsy-devos-s...

I don't want to speak for anyone else, but the point might have been that there may be other ways to get energy which accomplish the goal without requiring that sacrifice.

Love that the meth ad has a picture of a kid eating a banana in the background.

Facts can't be copyrighted, so such things as whether or not a person worked for a certain company, or went to a certain school, are unprotected, and with this ruling can be scraped, at least in the U.S. Others things common on LinkedIn, as you rightly point out, are protected--but by copyright law, not the CFAA. So a scraper acting in good faith would have to be careful about what they used if they wanted to respect copyright, but it's a separate issue from this ruling.

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/works-not-covered-copyright

Compliance with robots.txt is and always has been voluntary, and many crawlers have long ignored it, including Archive.org.

Lincoln did criticize his generals, eventually removing McClellan from command for timidity. He was careful about how he did that though, and how he interacted with the rest of the general staff. But he proved to have a better grasp of strategy than most of them, which he was able to implement once he found Grant.

You're correct he was reluctant to overtly criticize, but the lesson to take away isn't to just not criticize. It's to be diplomatic and patient when trying to effect change. Being a natural leader, brilliant, and with great strategic intuition also helps :-)

Disagree. How do you suggest they operate their business? Does this extend to print magazines and newspapers--do you suggest they stop running ads and just give away their product? Do you think Facebook should start charging a subscription?

What users want, naturally, is everything awesome free forever. It's naive, though, to things that everyone should always get what they want.

As other have said, I agree there are hard limits and Facebook has violated them, in terms of selling data and collecting it without user's permission. That's different.

The solar resources in Kuwait are exceptional--this may be more about pragmatic cost optimization than anything else. With the falling cost of solar, if they can save the oil that would otherwise be used for operations and then sell it, I imagine they come out ahead.

The irony is that the same forces creating this profit opportunity for them will eventually lead their customers to seek new energy sources as well, and shrink their market.

This is a legit blockchain application.

And now Fargate.

It would be great if Twitter had a way of accepting community contributions to addressing their bot/troll/spam problem.

I see a lot more efforts like this coming from outside of Twitter than inside, and these kinds problems are rampant.

Wow--a crude implementation of Whuffie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie

The comments in this thread focus on senior engineers, but a lot of the big earners I know in the Bay Area aren't engineers--they may be in tech, but senior BD, marketing, product, finance, legal, and especially sales people can all make well north of $300k. At my last company the biggest W2's were all sales people.

I, too, am pro-nuclear-energy, but that's quite a bit different from being in favor of testing bombs. The kind of nuclear power that does not blow up is much safer.

When reddit first launched I remember thinking, what a pathetically derivative site, they're going to get crushed :-)

And this is what populists should be irate about. Not... other things.

He said "seeing if I could go without" medication, which I think is different than saying he's cured.

But your point about bipolar II is really important. Taking anti-depressants (SSRIs) when bipolar can induce rapid cycling--a speeding up and intensifying of the depressed-elated cycle, which can be very dangerous, as I learned the hard way after being misdiagnosed. Bipolar II is often treatable (I'm deeply grateful that mine is), but with different approaches and medications than depression.

I love you for writing this. I spent thirty years either trying and failing to fix myself, or being misdiagnosed (turns out treating bipolarity with antidepressants can do more harm than good). It wasn't until I had kids that I tried once again to get out of my hole, and got correct treatment. Luckily my kids were still little and the only dad they'll know is someone much better equipped to to be fully present and loving for them, in a way that was often buried before.

To anyone needing help, if it's easier to take action for someone else, do it for their sake. And hopefully you'll see that it's ok to have given yourself that kindness too.

Sometimes you need a therapist and/or meds to figure out that you need to (or even can) figure it out, and it's possible to overdo just about anything, certainly including exercise and sleep. Depression puts you at the bottom of a well, and by definition not thinking clearly. You're dangerously close to telling people to just deal with it on their own, which is harmful and cold.

Well, money, and the concomitant access to things like good health care it provides, certainly tilts the board in your favor.

AGW is happening now, so unfortunately we're getting the opportunity to test the models. And carbon levels, and climate, have both varied in the past, albeit a lot more slowly. Those variations can be used to tune some aspects of our current models.

It's a valid point of discussion, but unfortunately almost everyone opposed to climate action is anti-scientific and political in their motivations, and usually duplicitous about it. Which causes people to lose their cool.

Most actual climate scientists, on the other hand, are more than happy to entertain honest skepticism. It's integral to science.

I've been friends two former Navy UDT team members (precursor to the SEALs), both of whom were Korean war vets, and one former SEAL. One was an old girlfriend's dad and the kind of person you describe--unassuming, very decent family guy who I liked a lot. I had no idea he'd even been in the military, much less done insane things deep in North Korean territory, until I asked his daughter how he'd come to start a diving services company.

The other former UDT vet was my high school writing teacher, a sort of Yoda figure. He covered the clock in his classroom with a picture of the Buddha, so you got a little jolt of patience training every time you snuck a glance at the clock. Whatever small writing talent I have started with him.

Third was a friend's cousin who who'd left the service in his mid-thirties. For a while we were drinking buddies. We road bikes together for a while too, but that didn't last long--he was in such phenomenally better shape than me, despite training half as much, it was a mismatch. We were a mismatch in general--he was a bro's bro and I was like his token hippie friend. But we had fun boozing around for a while, and he was in no way damaged goods.

Speaking of booze, one amazing thing about Sadler was his ability to write so many potboilers while drinking so hard. I don't drink anymore, in large part because my productivity just went to shit when I was drunk all the time. Maybe it's more feasible to write purple prose than code when you're loaded.

I've run consistently for the past 30 years, most often in the spirit of the article: long, slow, meditative runs. What my cross country coach in high school called Long Slow Distance ("limber up gentlemen, we'll be doing LSD today!"). Tried a fitbit for a while, found that reducing it to numbers took the joy out of it. I'm back to where I started: no accelerometers or earphones, outdoors, ideally on a trail. I don't go all that fast or do big miles, but it's pretty much where I'm happiest.

About bum knees: I've often been warned that running will ruin them, but I stopped running for two years in my mid-thirties due to work, and then blew out my knee in a frickin' coffee shop, of all places--because the muscles holding it together had weakened from not running. Major surgery, took forever to recover. Limped for well over a year and thought I might never run again. Got a new job and started biking to work--about 4 miles each way. Within a month the limp was gone, a month or so after that I was running again. Been six years and my knee feel great. If you haven't tried gentle cycling and it's an option, you may want to consider it. I think maybe the low-impact nature of cycling let the knee strengthen without being stressed, and once the strength was back, it could handle the stress.

Cost saving measures can also result in better care. We use Kaiser Permanente, and they often use nurse practitioners and physicians assistants to initially screen patients. It may sound like that's a lower level of care than seeing an MD, but in practice, it's much easier to be seen by someone quickly, and every single one of the providers we've seen has been excellent.

Another point: health care outcomes are better in Canada. There may be more than just health care working there (ie, lower obesity), but it's worth noting.

I think you risk minimizing the problem. Yes sexism is near-universal, but there are other areas with housing shortages, and other hard-charging industries, that don't have the problem at this scale. Your third point, I think, is true--and we should look at the specific nature of the power imbalances in Silicon Valley.

Founders are often young and relatively inexperienced, which puts them at a social disadvantage relative to VCs and executives. They're often asking for investments of time and money, which leaves them open to requests for inappropriate quid pro quos. Because companies grow (and shrink) so fast here, a lot of them don't have institutional structures in place, like HR departments, to prevent or deal with these abuses. Because HR is seen as a bureaucratic, non-productive function, it's often disrespected as a necessary evil when present. And the prevailing belief that Silicon Valley is something like a pure meritocracy can be distorted into a sort of law of the jungle ethos, where everyone is responsible only to themselves, and out to get theirs--and lead those on the receiving end of abuse to feel like they have to deal with it on their own.

I don't disagree with what you say, but I think the above factors are more impactful than the isolation, which is certainly real.

You're giving people too much credit. A lot of people, and companies, totally ignore their software. There's no risk calculation; they're not thinking about it at all.

This is fantastically useful both as a side-of-the-barn estimator, and a teaching tool. Thanks!

Two things a lot of startup employees are unaware of that are worth highlighting: they actually have to buy their options, which eats into returns, and that if they leave the company they have a limited window (30 days, typically) in which to do so. In would behoove them to save/plan for this fact.

Agreed--many domain-specific searches are already much better done by Google competitors, especially Amazon. I go straight there for information on pretty much anything I might buy. Likewise Yelp for restaurant and other local services.

This is all the more true on mobile, where the search is meant to initiate an action: buy something, make a reservation. Being able to complete a circuit in one place gives competitors in some domains a powerful advantage over Google.

Yes. "When climate warms or cools, the changes are generally much more drastic at high latitudes than they are closer to equator. Temperatures measured in ice core bore holes in Greenland show, for instance, that central Greenland temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum were about 20 degrees lower than today while the tropics were only a couple of degrees cooler."

http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/climatechange/mo...