kirillzubovsky

I am not sure what I love more, that this student took two engineering rings and compared them using his actual engineering skills, or the title of his video.

Sigh...

If you still want to upload your awesome shots to a community that might use them for their projects, I highly recommend Creative Market (https://creativemarket.com/kirill).

Started uploading photos there a few years ago, and I still get a payment every few months.

You don’t have to charge a lot for your photos, but this way it’s something to keep you/site going, while also sharing what you have with the world.

What kind of innovations do you plan to differentiate yourself from other search options: Google, Bing, Duck ... there are a lot of options. Why you?

Two things:

(1) Designing icons that work for a product that's used by billions is really hard. you have to deal not just with how it looks, but how people will see it across different languages, disciplines, experience, and so on. It's practically impossible to do it "right" and to satisfy everyone.

(2) I bet you given #1, the idea here isn't to design an icon that works, but to create a placeholder for a position in the UI, and then train you to click in that general direction. That's why two icons are on the opposite ends of the navigation bar. They know those two are confusing, but they just want you to remember (<- go this way to do X, and go -> that way to do Y).

This is bad for everyone involved. In the short term, media outlets may get some extra money, but in the long they are completely giving up their reach to the big four.

Most importantly, this is belong Googlafecebooks to build a bigger moat. If you are a tiny little startup, Australia can now demand that you too pay for content shared on your platform. Can’t pay? Too bad!

Googlafacebooks are publicly pushing against this, but privately well aware this is only in their interest.

House Democrats are trying to dictate what is allowed to air by wrapping it into a freedoom-fighting blanket. That's disgusting. If you want the standards to apply to someone else, apply them to yourself first.

This is just political theatre.

Could it bee they are just really good at hiding?

I hope they are at least using the “Beverly hills cop” theme song for that.

Correct. It sounds like “being able to persist at mundane tasks” is perceived as valuable, and people who don’t, try to accommodate that illusion. While your superpower is actually “easily ignores bulls8t”, and it should be celebrated! Just an opinion...

lol. I find it interesting that ADHD makes for such a vogue discussion. The first paragraph describes me since I could remember. Call it what you want tho, it is what it is, and most of the world doesn’t care what you cannot focus on.

Just because other people have easy time doing boring work tho, why do we call this “attention deficit?” Why not call it “boring works sucks, and distractions are awful,” or whatever.

The best most interesting people I know all (probably) have adhd. It’s kind of a good thing, or the world would be very boring.

That’s all. Just a thought.

ps. As I am reading other comments, many focus on how other people have perceived them as better/easier after medication. But my question is, why do you care? I mean, 9 people will think you are nuts. So, hang out with the one that doesn’t? Seem better than taking meds for something that is “normal,” for a small percentage of the population. Why not give meds to the other people? :p

From what I understand generic drugs are currently often made overseas, and then sold back to American market. Although he may not be a bad guy, he simply knows how to make money, and there are many billions left for the taking in this market. Definite not Mother Theresa, but better done locally, at the least.

At the end of the day, the people will get hired back by somebody who needs their groceries delivered. Meanwhile, this makes Insta more of a software company, and lets the stores deal with hiring.

The market is going to love this because it will de-risk Instacart. Grocery stores should love this because they will be able to increase utilization of their employees. And of course employees, despite the popular narrative, will actually gain more power because they would have more localized work, and less competition. It's a win-win-win.

I was just chatting to a very smart, ambitious and hard working friend (startup founder) who had a nervous breakdown because his routine got complete destroyed by the persistent lockdown. You are definitely not alone.

This is fantastic. I love how if you do it long enough, the results go way down, and after a while you can no longer tell, or be certain one way or another.

Great point. I think in the modern society it is customary to put on a mask and hide your feelings. Meanwhile, and this of course requires some research, it is possible that in small tribal societies it was perfectly okay to accept emotions as part of life.

"Hey guys, Bob's a bit down this week. Let's get him some mushrooms and get him some counseling with a local shaman." - was probably the way to go.

Kind of related - most people probably don’t know, but the first studies around “zombie apocalypse” were just that, simulations of a bad virus outbreak.

It's interesting to see that most comments look at Tesla based on their fundamentals, some kind of analysis of their currents financials vs. expected future financials. This is sound, if you are hoping to get 12% returns, but I think stock market today is more about expected returns measured in 100x multipliers.

Money is cheap, so it makes all the sense to buy risky assets. What has the best chance at growth, Tesla or BWM, Airbnb or Hilton ...and so on. Tesla could be overvalued by 100x, and be still undervalued because its expected growth is still much higher than that of your other alternatives.

At the end of the day, Tesla futuristic, exciting, and keeps innovating. Every one else is just playing catch up. What is more likely, old school car companies learn to innovate, or Tesla learns to produce cars with less defects and for less? They seem like equally likely, but one is a much harder problem than the other as it is rooted in the very origins and goals of the company.

A few people have endorsed me for “time travel” on LinkedIn. A few more and I might be able to fix it for you ;)

Totally. For consumers who can afford cash, it simply inflates the cost of the bike. Consumers see 0% and think free, but in reality the cost of the loan has already been priced into the cost of the bike. There's no free lunch.

I am curious, did you end up paying the sticker price, or did it double by the time you checked out?

I'd sold my P already, but back in the day you'd go in, and it would cost 1800 or something, but then you add a (mandatory) subscription cost, (mandatory) delivery and assembly fee, and of course a pair of shoes and a matt, and now you've got yourself an indoor bike for 3k.

I wonder if it's still the same.

In my case it's been both. While it was just my wife and I, the adventure nature of Airbnb was fantastic. In fact, we preferred cheaper places in better location and didn't mind the occasional `wtf` because the upsides were greater. After having kids, we still prefer Airbnb because we can get bigger spaces (more bedrooms, big living rooms), but the lack of consistency is making it more difficult to choose Bnb over hotels now. Now I want less adventure and more comfort. Losing sleep because someone's bed is too soft, or the A/C is too noisy is no longer acceptable. The reality is that we could get all of that on Airbnb, but then it won't be a good deal, it will be as or more expensive than getting a hotel. So it's not so much that Airbnb has changed, but our needs have changed while our purchasing power has remained the same. Just thinking out loud...

Seems like companies that are not updating their apps is more common than those that do. I wonder why.

When you say `ASP.NET is quite fun`, what's your favorite part?

Oh yeah, I can relate. There is a ton of change between version and very often new plugins don't support old versions at all. Would sticking to one, say most progressive implementation (Net 5 at this point) help you feel more confident that the job can be done?

Although at this point Net 5 isn't going to be documented because it's so new, and next year they will release Net 6, which will be the actual long-term support version.... this is how their mess with docs happens in the first place.

It all depends on your point of view. You can look at the scale and cry wolf, or you can wander about all the possibilities it creates.

If Amazon can listen to my breathing through Alexa, forecast an imminent health issue, and then Prime some pills to me before I even need them, that's a pretty awesome future.

We need to find a way to keep them from becoming evil and shipping me pain meds on subscription if I don't actually need them, sure, but technology has always been making the world better, and Amazon has the power to make it better on steroids.

It is probably early to congratulate the founders and the team, but as someone who started using Airbnb before they were cool, and having watched the company grow, it is very joyful to see they are finally going public. Hopefully it's just up and to the right even more from here onwards. Good luck!

User `fb03` recommended this yesterday on another thread. What a wonderful book! Although it doesn't say anything you didn't already know - to lose weight, eat less - it is really well written, and puts the whole process into perspective. A lovely book for engineers who want to stop being overweight.

Similar here, but allergies instead of diabetes.

Went to a doctor, got a high blood pressure reading plus some cholesterol. Lucky the doc was reasonable and instead of giving me a bunch of pills, she just tested me for typical food allergies. Turns out I was allergic to 2/3 of my daily diet.

Once I've cut those foods out of my system, everything's back to normal. It really seems we can do quite a bit of good by just not harming our body to begin with.

A more accurate title would be "healthy lifestyle improvements leads to improved odds in type2 diabetes prevention in obese older women."

That's what the results section of that paper is saying. Unfortunately we can't really see more without paying $30 to read it.

What if friends of these fake review circles get themselves hired into Amazon to be on the teams that validate the reviews? It is possible that Amazon is so big, they would not detect this problem.

You could be a good corporate drone and do your job for 97% of the time, and in 3% of the cases delete bad reviews for your friends. Unless someone is doing really great statistical analysis, this could fly under the radar for a very long time.